That dancers teetotum themselves on the toe?
Was he seated, disguis’d, in the front of the stage,
To peep at what put his priestcraft in a rage?
No! his female observer went oft to the play,
And told him th’ effect of this am’rous display,
In language so glowing, that D⸺m, amaz’d,
Beheld from his belly the dead she had rais’d.
At his time of life, and grim death near at hand,
’Twas vicious enough, in his crozier to stand,
So thought the still husband, but not so the w—e,