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Poems on Several Occasions

With Anne Boleyn to King Henry VIII. An Epistle. By Mrs. Elizabeth Tollet. The Second Edition
  

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To a Lady lending me Heliodorus just before her Marriage.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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To a Lady lending me Heliodorus just before her Marriage.

See! Love, by scornful Nymphs esteem'd a Fault,
Here by a venerable Prelate taught:
The good old Man, with rigid Zeal at Strife,
Devoutly preaches up a marry'd Life.
At this th' assembled Synod loud exclaims,
And dooms the am'rous Fiction to the Flames:
But he, such wond'rous Prevalence obtains
The fondling Offspring of an Author's Brains!
With mild Composure, and serene of Mind,
To save his Book, his Bishoprick resign'd.
He thought, perhaps, his Sermons might not bear
The nice Attention of a Lady's Ear,
These Lectures, he presum'd, might stand the Test,
Which all the World applies to Practice best.