Nicholas Amhurst

1697-1742 / England

On The Same. (Catullus Imitated. Ep. .)

Cloe, as soon as she has plaid the Whore,
Repents the Deed, and vows to do't no more;
With the next Man she meets, to cure her Pain,
She breaks her Vow, repents, and vows again;
Breaks it again, so yielding is the Dame,
And does the next Day and the next the same;
Or keep thy Vows, frail Nymph, or vow no more,
Cease to repent, or cease to play the Whore.
Plain Fornication is a venial Evil,
But Perjury leads headlong to the Devil.
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