SATYR.
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Fix all their Hopes of Merit, and Salvation,
Upon their Women's Supererogation,
105 With solemn Vows their Wives and Daughters bind,
Like Eve in Paradise, to all Mankind;
And those, that can produce the most Gallants,
Are held the pretiousest of all their Saints,
Wear Rosaries about their Necks to con
110 Their Exercise of Devotion on;
That serve them for Certificates to show,
With what vast Numbers they have had to do:
Before th'are marry'd, make a Conscience
T'omit no Duty of Incontinence;
115 And she, that has been oftenest prostituted,
Is worthy of the greatest Match reputed.
But, when the conqu'ring Tartar went about
To root this orthodox Religion out,
They stood for Conscience, and resolv'd to dye,
120 Rather than change the antient Purity
Of that Religion, which their Ancestors,
And they had prosper'd in so many Years;
Upon their Women's Supererogation,
105 With solemn Vows their Wives and Daughters bind,
Like Eve in Paradise, to all Mankind;
And those, that can produce the most Gallants,
Are held the pretiousest of all their Saints,
Wear Rosaries about their Necks to con
110 Their Exercise of Devotion on;
That serve them for Certificates to show,
With what vast Numbers they have had to do:
Before th'are marry'd, make a Conscience
T'omit no Duty of Incontinence;
115 And she, that has been oftenest prostituted,
Is worthy of the greatest Match reputed.
But, when the conqu'ring Tartar went about
To root this orthodox Religion out,
They stood for Conscience, and resolv'd to dye,
120 Rather than change the antient Purity
Of that Religion, which their Ancestors,
And they had prosper'd in so many Years;
