Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.


"The Wife of Bath her Prologue, from Chaucer" (c.1704, published 1713), line 369.


Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.