The Works of Hildebrand Jacob ... Containing Poems on Various Subjects, and Occasions; With the Fatal Constancy, a Tragedy; and Several Pieces in Prose. The Greatest Part Never Before Publish'd |
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EPIGRAM XIV.
God knows, Prudilla, while you pray,Which Saint you chuse, what Words you say;
But what you wish, we shrewdly guess,
In your Devotion, and Distress,
And this beyond all Doubt we know,
None of your Vows to Heaven go;
For still your rich, old Aunt's alive,
And you're a Maid at Thirty Five,
In Love, despis'd; in Debt, and poor:
An Atheist scarce cou'd suffer more.
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