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EPIGRAM VIII.

On Mrs. PENELOPE.

1 THE gentle Pen with look demure,
2 Awhile was thought a virgin pure:
3 But Pen, as ancient poets say,
4 Undid by night the work of day.

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Title (in Source Edition): EPIGRAM VIII. On Mrs. PENELOPE.
Themes: sex; relations between the sexes; bawdy humour
Genres: epigram
References: DMI 22445

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Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. II. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758], p. 236. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.002) (Page images digitized by the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive from a copy in the archive's library.)

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