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 Then why was the reverend session

so hard on the injured lass?

Was his not the greatest transgression?

then why let him easiest pass?

And why was the custom detected

at last, and accounted a crime,

When it had so long been protected,

till now it prov'd useful in time?

Why was it not rather enacted,

that it should for ever take place,

That cheats might be always detected,

which are of such dangerous case?

Let maidens hereafter be wary,

and not rashly yoke with a man,

Lest they such a fumbler should marry,

Let them prove him first if they can.