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But whew, in all this Choice, {hall I begin ? *

Where, but with the renowned Mazarine ?

For all the Bawds the Court’s rank Soil doth bear,

(And Bawds and Statesmen grow in Plenty there:)

To thee submit and yield, should we be justTo thy experienc’d and well-travell’d Lust :

Thy welbknown Merits claim that thou Ihoud’st beFirst in the glorious Roll of Infamy.

To thee they all give Place, and Homage pay,

Do all thy letcherous Degrees obey ; >■

Thou, Queen of Lust ; thy bawdy Subjects, They, 3While Suffex, Braughall, Betty Felton come,

Thy Whores of Honour, to attend thy Throne :

For what proud Strumpet e’er could merit more,

Than be anointed the Imperial Whore ?

For tell me, in all Euros e, where’s the PartThat is not conscious of thy lewd Desert }

The great Beelean Youth, * whose Conquests run iO'er all the World, and travell’d with the Sun,

Made not his Valour to more Nations known,

Than thou thy Lust, thy matchless Lust, hast shown,All Climes, all Countries do with Tribute come(Thou World of Lewdness) to thy boundless Womb,Thou Sea of Lust, that never Ebb dost know,

Whither the Rivers of all Nations flow.

Lewd Meffaline was but a Type of thee,

Thou highest, last Degree of Letchery :

For in all Ages except Her and You.

Who ever flnn’d so high, and stoop’d so low ?

She to th’ Imperial Bed each Night did useT\a brink the Stink of the exhausted Stews;

* Alexander the Great.

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