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Flosculum Poeticum

Poems Divine and Humane, Panegyrical, Satyrical, Ironical. By P. K. [i.e. Peter Ker]

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On the Memory of a Married Maid.
 
 
 
 
 

On the Memory of a Married Maid.

Within this Coffin here doth lye,
A Pattern of pure Chastity.
A Non such-sight (as it is said)
A Wife, a Widow, and a Maid.
Whose Modesty did her restrain,
A Marrie'd-Virgin to remain.
Who willingly, not by constraint,
Was pleas'd to live by Complement.
Her Youth and Beauty still did plead
Divorcement, from her Maiden-head.

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Yet Chastity did gain the cause:
The civil beat down Natur's Laws.
I could speak more here to her praise,
And force beholders all, to gaze.
But that I think her Ashes cry,
Hold Gentle Muse for Modesty.