JACK PRURIANCE, The smooth Enamoratto

Least private vices should the public taint, And rank hypocrisy assume the saint, 'Tis fit that anecdotes should be disclos'd, Nor moral virtue in the least oppos'd: Is it not laughable, as worthy blame, To see a man of modern public fame, Put on a face of moral seeming guise, And yet its principles in full despise?— But nothing now is half so common here, For half the city with such looks appear; ' A man may smile and smile and be a cheat, ' At least 'tis so in Pennsylvania state.'

Some little month, have circled round his head Since Johnny's wife was reckon'd with the dead; Her he forgot with all her winning charms, And finds a spouse in Kitty B—tl—s arms— Soft soothing faggot for a lustful turn, Whose joys are anguish and whose pleasures burn, Drest in the weeds which holy friendship wears, And not for doxy's full of wanton airs, John pays her daily visits at her place, In Cherry-alley, to his own disgrace.