‘But yielded up at Nature’s high command.

‘Long with a youth in dalliance pass’d her life,

‘Had all the joys of love—tho’ not a wife;

‘And when he left her for a real bride,

‘She did another for herself provide;

‘Another after that, when that was gone,

‘And so, for many years, in joy went on;

‘’Till tir’d of sporting in the am’rous way,

‘She turn’d a Nun, at last, to fast and pray.

‘By her example let me then proceed;