The Poetical Entertainer Or, Tales, Satyrs, Dialogues, And Intrigues, &c. Serious and Comical. All digested into such Verse as most agreeable to the several Subjects. To be publish'd as often as occasion shall offer [by Edward Ward] |
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In pious Days when brawny Monks
Turn'd Maids to Nuns, and Nuns to Punks,
And when Religion more than Law
Kept all the slavish Croud in awe,
At Norwich then there liv'd a Knight
Who did in Feats of Arms delight,
And in the Wars had born Command
When the Fifth Henry rul'd the Land:
This Valiant Knight, whose Fame and Glory
Will ever live and shine in Story,
Had chosen such a beauteous Wife
To grace his House and bless his Life,
That none could gaze upon her Charms,
And not desire her in his Arms;
For e'ery Feature in her Face
Invited to another Place,
And tempted all who look'd upon her,
To wish themselves more nigh her Honour.
But Madam being truly Chast,
Or thought so by the World at least,
Was much too Vertuous to be naught,
Or else too cunning to be caught;
For none were ever heard to say,
She step'd aside or run astray.
Turn'd Maids to Nuns, and Nuns to Punks,
And when Religion more than Law
Kept all the slavish Croud in awe,
At Norwich then there liv'd a Knight
Who did in Feats of Arms delight,
And in the Wars had born Command
When the Fifth Henry rul'd the Land:
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Will ever live and shine in Story,
Had chosen such a beauteous Wife
To grace his House and bless his Life,
That none could gaze upon her Charms,
And not desire her in his Arms;
For e'ery Feature in her Face
Invited to another Place,
And tempted all who look'd upon her,
To wish themselves more nigh her Honour.
But Madam being truly Chast,
Or thought so by the World at least,
Was much too Vertuous to be naught,
Or else too cunning to be caught;
For none were ever heard to say,
She step'd aside or run astray.
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