| Index Entry | Lyric, moral [beg] When pleasure is pursu'd in an unlawful way |
| Location | London |
| Citation | NEWJ.740.004 5 Feb 1740:11 (668) [Poem follows an essay on unlawful pleasures from the Spectator, vol. 2, no. 151] When pleasure is pursu'd in an unlawful way, It surfeits ever sense; but never does allay, The strong unwearied desire in the vile wretch Still to pursue the same he has an ardent itch; And mourns at nothing more, than having lost his gust To relish as he did his old forbidden lust. |
| Generic Title | New England Weekly Journal |
| Date | 1740.02.05 |
| Publisher | Kneeland, S. & T. Green |
| City, State | Boston, MA |
| Year | 1740 |
| Bibliography | B0023096 |