io 6 LOVE os FA M E, Sat. V.

The theme divine at cards lhe’11 not forget,

But takes in texts of scripture at fiquet ;

In those licentious meetings acts the prude,'

And thanks her maker that her cards are good.What Angels wou’d these be, who thus excellIn Theologicks, eou’d they few as well!

Yet why sliou’d not the fair her text pursue ?

Can slie more decently the Doctor woe ?

,’Tis hard too, she who makes no use but chatOf her Religion, sliou’d be barr’d in that.

Isaac , a brother of the canting strain,

When he has knockt at his own skull in vain, 'To beauteous Marcia often will repairWith a dark text, to light it at the fair.

O how his pious foul exults to findSuch love for holy men in womankind?

Charm’d with her learning, with what rapture, heHangs on her bloom , like an industrious bee y

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