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Rpheus, to fetch his Wife, did goe

A voyage to the Shades below

('Twas more then many a man would doe:)

The blood-lesse Ghosts did weepe (they say)

And Pluto groan'd, as He did play;

Yet She came back but Halfe the way.

Now we have seen a stranger sight;

Whether it was by Physick's might,

Or that (it seems) the Wench was Light.

But sure 'twill spoyle her Marriage-day,

For who so hardy to assay

Such an immortall Virbia?

Wives may deceive, and doe their beft

To counterfeit in all the rest;

Only let them not Dye in jest.