When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late that men betray,
What charm can soothe her melancholy,
What art can wash he guilt away?

The Vicar of Wakefield.

Oliver Goldsmith 1728 - 1774.

In my time, the follies of the town crept slowly among us, but now they travel faster than a stage-coach.

She stoops to Conquer, 1. Oliver Goldsmith 1728-1774.

Goldsmith also wrote 'The History of Little Goody Two-Shoes' a children's story; source of the phrase 'goody two shoes'.