The works of Mr. Thomas Brown Serious and Comical, In Prose and Verse; In four volumes. The Fourth Edition, Corrected, and much Enlarged from his Originals never before publish'd. With a key to all his Writings |
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The ANSWER of a young Vestal to the Queen.
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[Madam, I much rejoice to hear]
Madam, I much rejoice to hear,You'll take a Stone up in your Ear;
For I'm a frail Transgressor too,
And love the Sport as well as you.
But then I chuse to do the Work,
Within the Pale of holy Kirk:
For Absolution cures the Scars,
Contracted in venereal Wars,
And saves our Sex a world of Prayers.
Had you this ghostly Counsel taken,
You might till now have sav'd your Baron.
'Tis safe intriguing with a Flamin,
Who sanctifies their Work with Amen,
Then who would trust ungodly Lay-Men?
Do, Madam, as you please, but I,
None but with Priesthood will employ,
With them I'll live, with them I'll die.
Who like the Pelian Spear are sure,
With the same Ease they Wound to cure.
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