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 Within an hour and eke a half, I preach'd three congregations deaf; Where thundering out, with lungs longwinded, I chopp d so fast, that few there minded. What mortal else could e'er go through it!

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Written at Windsor, 1713.

HE shepherds and the nymphs were seen Pleading before the Cyprian queen. The counsel for the fair began, Accusing the false creature Man. The brief with weighty crimes was charg'd, On which the pleader much enlarg'd; That Cupid now has lost his art, Or blunts the point of every dart; — His altar now no longer smokes, His mother's aid no youth invokes: This tempts freethinkers to refine, And bring in doubt their powers divine; Now love is dwindled to intrigue, And marriage grown a money league;