Careful Words

Venus (?.)

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,

And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Wife of Bath. Her Prologue. Line 369.

The maid who modestly conceals

Her beauties, while she hides, reveals;

Give but a glimpse, and fancy draws

Whate'er the Grecian Venus was.

Edward Moore (1712-1757): The Spider and the Bee. Fable x.