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Unstain'd, untouch'd, and yet in maiden sheets;^{[I. 1]}
230 While all your smutty sisters walk the streets.
Ye shall not beg, like gratis-given Bland,^{[R. 1]}
Sent with a Pass, and vagrant thro' the land;
Not sail, with Ward, to Ape-and-monkey climes,^{[R. 2]}
Where vile Mundungus trucks for viler rhymes;
235 Not sulphur-tipt, emblaze an Ale-house fire;
Not wrap up Oranges, to pelt your fire!
O! pass more innocent, in infant state,
To the mild Limbo of our Father Tate:^{[R. 3]}

Remarks

sort between us; of both which kinds some died in their Infancy," &c. Life of C. C. p. 217. 8vo edit.

1. Ver. 231. gratis-given Bland–Sent with a Pass,) lt was a practice so to give the Daily Gazetteer and ministerial pamphlets (in which this B. was a writer) and to send them Post-free to all the Towns in the kingdom.
2. Ver. 233.—with Ward, to Ape-and-monkey climes,) "Edward Ward, a very voluminous Poet in Hudibrastic verse, but best known by the London Spy, in prose. He has of late years kept a public house in the City, (but in a genteel way) and with his wit, humour, and good liquor (ale) afforded his guests a pleasurable entertainment, especially those of the high-church party." Jacob, Lives of Poets, vol. ii. p. 225. Great numbers of his works were yearly sold into the Plantations.— Ward, in a book called Apollo's Maggot, declared this account to be a great falsity, protesting that his public house was not in the City, but in Moorfields.
3. Ver. 238 & 240. Tate—Shadwell Two of his predecessors in the Laurel.

Imitations

1. Ver. 229. Unstain'd, untouch'd, &c.
   ———Felix Priamëia virgo!
   Jussa mori: quæ sortitus non pertulit ullos,
   Nec victoris heri tetigit captiva cubile!
   Nos, patria incensa, diversa per æquora vectæ, &c. Virg. Æn. iii.