The Modern World disrob'd or, both sexes Stript of their pretended vertue. In Two Parts. First, Of the Ladies. Secondly, Of the Gentlemen. With Familiar Descant upon every Character [by Edward Ward] |
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Miss Buxom:
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Miss Buxom:
OR, The Golden-lock'd Lady unmarry'd.
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'Tis
not ill Company alone
That draws us into Evil,
Some are to Vice by Nature prone,
Untempted by the Devil.
That draws us into Evil,
Some are to Vice by Nature prone,
Untempted by the Devil.
Some Female Looks too plainly shew
A whorish Inclination,
Nor can they hide it from our View,
By vertuous Education:
A whorish Inclination,
Nor can they hide it from our View,
By vertuous Education:
Their Eyes, the Index of the Mind,
Will still disclose their Failing,
And shew to all that are not blind,
How Nature is prevailing.
Will still disclose their Failing,
And shew to all that are not blind,
How Nature is prevailing.
The Phisnomist the Signs of Grace,
In vertuous Look discovers
The Gallows in a Villain's Face,
And Leach'ry in a Lover's.
In vertuous Look discovers
The Gallows in a Villain's Face,
And Leach'ry in a Lover's.
So does the sanguine Lass denote
Her Lust by her Complexion,
And that she's rank as Stable-Goat,
And full of fond Affection.
Her Lust by her Complexion,
And that she's rank as Stable-Goat,
And full of fond Affection.
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From Stars, Astrologers aver
We draw our Inclinations,
And that all Women subject are
To sublunar Mutations.
We draw our Inclinations,
And that all Women subject are
To sublunar Mutations.
If Stars have such a fatal Pow'r
On those, who are so naught here,
Then Venus is a greater Whore,
Than ever yet I thought her:
On those, who are so naught here,
Then Venus is a greater Whore,
Than ever yet I thought her:
She's painted too with Golden-Hair
Dishrevil'd down her Boddice,
To shew most yellow Ladies are
As lustful as their Goddess.
Dishrevil'd down her Boddice,
To shew most yellow Ladies are
As lustful as their Goddess.
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