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Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of the English Stage (1704); Some Thoughts Concerning the Stage in a Letter to a Lady (1704)

In the Fickle Shepherdess.

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Pag. 17. ‘Bid Charon instantly prepare his Boat, I'd row to Hell.

Ibid. ‘O Ceres, can thy all-seeing Eye behold this Object, and yet restrain thy Pity?

Pag. 32. ‘Fly hence to Hell; there hide thy Head lower than Darkness. Wou'd thou hadst been acting Incest, Murder, Witchcraft, when thou cam'st to pray: Thou hadst in any thing sinn'd less than in this Devotion.

Pag. 36. ‘Where Love's blind, God sends forth continual Arrows.

Pag. 42. ‘Ceres, to whom we all things owe.

Pag. 46. ‘Almighty Ceres.

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