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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The charming Lady of the Founder,
Whose Beauty merited such Wonder,
Being not only Fair without,
But, like her pious Sex, devout,
Kept close to Vespers, Mass, and Mattins,
To pray, and shew her Silks and Sattins.
Now, you must know, my Lady's way
To Church thro' the same Convent lay,
Where Am'rous John stood always ready
To view and bow unto my Lady,
Who, in return, would give a smile,
Not dreaming he could be so vile,
Who thus profess'd a Holy Life,
To Lust for's Benefactor's Wife;
And therefore was at all times civil,
Not thinking either Flesh or Devil
Could tempt a Frier to so much Evil.
Whose Beauty merited such Wonder,
Being not only Fair without,
But, like her pious Sex, devout,
Kept close to Vespers, Mass, and Mattins,
To pray, and shew her Silks and Sattins.
Now, you must know, my Lady's way
To Church thro' the same Convent lay,
Where Am'rous John stood always ready
To view and bow unto my Lady,
Who, in return, would give a smile,
Not dreaming he could be so vile,
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To Lust for's Benefactor's Wife;
And therefore was at all times civil,
Not thinking either Flesh or Devil
Could tempt a Frier to so much Evil.
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