William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.
Written on a White Fan Borrowed from Miss Osborne, Afterwards His WifeFrancis Atterbury (16621732)
F
Can with resistless art employ:
This fan in meaner hands would prove
An engine of small force in love;
Yet she with graceful air and mien,
Not to be told or safely seen,
Directs its wanton motions so
That it wounds more than Cupid’s bow;
Gives coolness to the matchless dame,
To every other breast—a flame.