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 * Against the vicious manners of the age,
 * He goes on to expose, with heart and soul,
 * What vice in this or that year was the rage,
 * Backbiting all the world in ev'ry page;
 * With special strictures on the horrid crime,
 * (Section'd and subsection'd with learning sage,)
 * Of faeries stooping on their wings sublime

To kiss a mortal's lips, when such were in their prime.


 * Somewhere in the column, headed letter B,
 * The name of Bellanaine, if you're not blind;
 * Then pray refer to the text, and you will see
 * An article made up of calumny
 * Against this highland princess, rating her
 * For giving way, so over fashionably,
 * To this new-fangled vice, which seems a burr

Stuck in his moral throat, no coughing e'er could stix


 * That she around him flutter'd, flirted, toy'd,
 * Before her marriage with great Elfinan;
 * That after marriage too, she never joy'd
 * In husband's company, but still employ'd
 * Her wits to 'scape away to Angle-land;
 * Where liv'd the youth, who worried and annoy'd
 * Her tender heart, and its warm ardors fann'd

To such a dreadful blaze, her side would scorch her hand.