Ovid is the surest guide You can name to show the way To any woman, maid, or bride, Who resolves to go astray.
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Author:Matthew Prior
"Ovid is the surest guide..." by Matthew Prior
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"The Text is taken from Percy's Reliques (1765), vol. i. p. 71, 'given from two MS. copies, transmitted from Scotland.' Herd had a very similar bal"
Matthew Prior (1664–1721) was an English poet and diplomat. His poem "Alma: or, The Progress of the Mind" and his epitaph "Nobles and heralds, by your leave" are witty Augustan verse.
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