The Diabo-lady: Or, a Match in Hell: A Poem. Dedicated to the Worst Woman in Her Majesty's Dominions"Combe, who also published a poem entitled "The Diabo-lad," is best known forhis Dr. Syntax books produced in collaboration with Rowlandson. This is asatirical poem."--Description from Second Life Books, Inc., bookseller. |
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Page 1 - And fo refolvcd to marry, if a wife, Fit confort, could be found, to match his life* ' Shall I, faid he, who ne'er obeyed a God, Obferve his precept! in my own abode $ Reftrain my acts within the Chriftian fcope, And whore in celibacy, like the Pope?
Page 3 - Masquerade ! Sweet Ranelagh ! Vauxhall's enchanting shade ! % Combe, in his satire, The Diobalady, 1777, thus severely castigates the licentiousness of the amusements : The ready ministers of hell's commands, Obedient fly, and take their several stands At Court, Cornelys', and the Coterie ; Where vice, more vicious by effrontery, Fearless, unblushing, braves the eternal laws Of God and man, to aid the devil's cause. After her bankruptcy, Mrs Cornelys attempted to retrieve her fortunes in various...