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The HEROINES,

or Modern Memoirs,

By the Same.
1 IN ancient times, some hundred winters past,
2 When British dames, for conscience sake, were chaste,
3 If some frail nymph, by youthful passion sway'd,
4 From virtue's paths unhappily had stray'd:
5 When banish'd reason re-assum'd her place,
6 The conscious wretch bewail'd her foul disgrace;
7 Fled from the world, and pass'd her joyless years
8 In decent solitude and pious tears;
9 Veil'd in some convent made her peace with heaven,
10 And almost hop'd — by Prudes to be forgiven.
11 Not so of modern wh—res th' illustrious train,
12 Renown'd Constantia, P—ton and V—ne;
13 Grown old in sin, and dead to amorous joy,
14 No acts of penance their great souls employ.
15 Without a blush behold each nymph advance,
16 The luscious Heroine of her own romance.
17 Each harlot triumphs in her loss of fame,
18 And boldly prints and publishes her shame.

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Title (in Source Edition): The HEROINES, or Modern Memoirs,
Author: Richard Graves
Themes: sex; relations between the sexes; women; female character
Genres: heroic couplet
References: DMI 26720

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Dodsley, Robert, 1703-1764. A Collection of Poems in Six Volumes. By Several Hands. Vol. IV. London: printed by J. Hughs, for R. and J. Dodsley, 1763 [1st ed. 1758], p. 328. 6v.: music; 8⁰. (ESTC T131163; OTA K104099.004) (Page images digitized by the Eighteenth-Century Poetry Archive from a copy in the archive's library.)

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