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TO CELIA.
AN EPIGRAM.
You need not thus so often pray,Or in devotion spend the day,
Since without half such toil and pain,
You surely Paradise will gain.
Your Husband's impotent and jealous,
And Celia that's enough to tell us
You must inhabit Heaven herea'ter,
Because you are a Virgin-Martyr.
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