'Tis charming reading in Ophelia's life,

So oft a Mother, and not once a Wife:

She could with just propriety behave,

Alive with Peers, with Monarchs in her grave:

Her lot how oft have envious harlots wept,

By Prebends bury'd and by Generals kept.

T'improve in Morals Mandevil I read,

And Tyndal's Scruples are my settled Creed.

I travell'd early, and I soon saw through

Religion all, e'er I was twenty-two.