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To Person Guilty

XXX. ? TO PERSON GUILTY.    GUILTY, be wise ; and though thou know'st the crimes  Be thine, I tax, yet do not own my rhymes ; 'Twere madness in thee, to betray thy fame,  And person to the world; ere I thy name.

Form: Heroic Couplet

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