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 * 'When the unguarded maid alone repairs

To ease the burthens of her sins and cares; When youth in each, and privacy conspire To kindle wishes, and befriend desire; If she has practised in the trade before, (Few else of proselytes to us brought o’er) Little of force, or artifice will need. To make you in the victory succeed: But if some untaught innocent she be, Rude, and unknowing in the mystery, She'll cost more labour to be made comply. Make her by pumping understand the sport. And undermine with secret trains the fort, Sometimes, as if you'd blame her gaudy dress, Her naked pride, her jewels, point, and lace. Find opportunity her breasts to press; Oft feel her hand, and whisper in her ear. You find the secret marks of lewdness there; Sometimes with naughty sense her blushes raise, And make 'em guilt, she never knew, confess; 'Thus,' may you say, 'with such a leering smile, So languishing a look you hearts beguile; Thus with your foot, hand, eye, you tokens speak. These signs deny, these assignations make; Thus 'tis you clip, with such a fierce embrace You clasp your lover to your breast and face; Thus are your hungry lips with kisses cloyed, Thus is your hand, and thus your tongue employed.'
 * ’Ply her with talk like this; and, if she incline

To help devotion, give her Aretine Instead of the rosary. Never despair; She, that to such discourse will lend an ear, Though chaster than cold cloistered nuns she were,

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