Silvia: An Epigram

HER time with equal prudence Silvia shares,
First writes her Billet-doux, then says her pray'rs.
Her mass and toilet ; vespers, and the play ;
Thus God and Ashtaroth divide the day :
Constant she keeps her Ember-week, and Lent,
At Easter calls all Israel to her tent :
Loose without band, and pious without zeal.
She still repeats the sins she would conceal ;
Envy her self from Silvia's life must grant,
An artful woman makes a modern saint.