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MS-W.783.037
20 Nov 1783:41 (656)
CURIOUS ADVERTISEMENT, from the Massachusetts Gazette.
Let angel forms angelick truths maintain
Nature disjoins the beauteous and prophane
For what's true beauty, but fair virtue's face?
Virtue made visible in outward grace?
She then, that's haunted with an impious mind,
The more she charms, the more she shocks mankind.
. . . [22 lines of prose text on unfaithful wife]
Each recollecting pleasure makes me start
And every transport stabs me to the heart.
. . . [76 lines of prose]
A woman no redemption knows,
The wounds of honour never close.
. . . [59 lines of prose]
Without thin decency held up to view,
Naked she stalks o'er law and gospel too
Our matrons lead such exemplary lives
Men sigh in vain, for none, but for their wives;
Who marry to be free, to range the more,
And wed one man, to wanton with a score.
[signed] Aaron John Miller, Ludlow 3d November, 1783.
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