"Now deep in Taylor and the Book of Martyrs,
Now drinking citron with his Grace and Chartres:
65 Now Conscience chills her, and now Passion burns;
And Atheism and Religion take their turns;
A very Heathen in the carnal part,
Yet still a sad, good Christian at her heart."
- moral essays
Epistle II
TO A LADY
Of the characters of women (1735)
by Alexander Pope
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