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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The Temporizing Zealot:
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The Temporizing Zealot:
OR, The Religious Mammonist.
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We
rave against the Whore of Rome;
But let our own Religion,
To th'Scandal of our Church, become
The Villain's Enchiridion.
But let our own Religion,
To th'Scandal of our Church, become
The Villain's Enchiridion.
'Tis the Knave's Handle to each Fraud,
By which he wrongs his Neighbours:
Each Robber too, implores his God
To bless his wicked Labours.
By which he wrongs his Neighbours:
Each Robber too, implores his God
To bless his wicked Labours.
The very Bawd, that odious Beast,
The worst of Female Creatures,
I'th' Church must twice a-day, at least,
Expose her wither'd Features.
The worst of Female Creatures,
I'th' Church must twice a-day, at least,
Expose her wither'd Features.
She vainly strives to hide her Crimes
With a religious Vizard,
Altho' the Sow is fifty Times
More wicked than a Wizard.
With a religious Vizard,
Altho' the Sow is fifty Times
More wicked than a Wizard.
The very Dame that lives by Love,
And by her Buttock's Motion,
In Publick will dishonour Jove
With outward sham-Devotion:
And by her Buttock's Motion,
In Publick will dishonour Jove
With outward sham-Devotion:
She too has learn'd the pious Way,
Like wanton holy Sister,
To blush and sin; then cry and pray,
As soon as Man has kiss'd her.
Like wanton holy Sister,
To blush and sin; then cry and pray,
As soon as Man has kiss'd her.
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The Trader to his Interest bends
The Faith, that he inclines to,
And serves the Lord for private Ends;
And so do some Divines too.
The Faith, that he inclines to,
And serves the Lord for private Ends;
And so do some Divines too.
Vertue, in short, is so much sunk,
That by the Rich and Noble,
Down to the petty Knave and Punk,
Religion's made a Bubble.
That by the Rich and Noble,
Down to the petty Knave and Punk,
Religion's made a Bubble.
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