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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She muses as she uses:
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She muses as she uses:
OR, The Censorious Lady.
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Of
all the jealous Female-Race,
No Dame is so censorious
As she, who tho' she shuns Disgrace,
Deserves to be notorious.
No Dame is so censorious
As she, who tho' she shuns Disgrace,
Deserves to be notorious.
For as she sins without the Shame,
And saves her Reputation,
She thinks all Women do the same,
Tho' free from Defamation.
And saves her Reputation,
She thinks all Women do the same,
Tho' free from Defamation.
Meeting with neither Child or Clap,
All single Dames and Widows
She fancies by some Art escape
The same, yet kiss as she does.
All single Dames and Widows
She fancies by some Art escape
The same, yet kiss as she does.
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You therefore, who had rather wed,
Than live at large, and wander,
Ne'er join the Dame in Marriage-Bed,
That's given much to Slander.
Than live at large, and wander,
Ne'er join the Dame in Marriage-Bed,
That's given much to Slander.
For she that's forward to distrust,
On slender Grounds, another,
Has stood Love's penetrating Thrust,
As surely as her Mother.
On slender Grounds, another,
Has stood Love's penetrating Thrust,
As surely as her Mother.
She that has broke thro' Vertue's Laws,
And no Delight refuses,
Will think all others bad, because
She muses as she uses.
And no Delight refuses,
Will think all others bad, because
She muses as she uses.
The Mother ne'er had peep'd at Mouth
Of th'Oven for her Daughter,
Had not the Baker, in her Youth,
That Way of hiding taught her.
Of th'Oven for her Daughter,
Had not the Baker, in her Youth,
That Way of hiding taught her.
Therefore the Fool, that wou'd be curs'd
Above his horned Brothers,
Of Plagues I'd have him wed the worst,
The Jilt that censures others.
Above his horned Brothers,
Of Plagues I'd have him wed the worst,
The Jilt that censures others.
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