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J. C. Squire, ed. A Book of Women’s Verse. 1921.

By Anne, Countess of Winchilsea (1660–1720)

The Sensual Man

WHEN to the Under-world despis’d he goes,

A pamper’d carcase on the worms bestows,

Who, rioting on the unusual chear,

As good a life enjoy, as he could boast of here.