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La Pucelle; Or the Maid of Orleans: a Poem in Xxi Cantos
La Pucelle Or the Maid of Orleans a Poem in Xxi Cantos Author:Voltaire General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1796 Original Publisher: s.n Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from... more » more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CANTO THE FIFTH. The Cordelier Grijbourdon, -who attempted to ravijb Joan, goes to Hell, and recounts his Adventure to the Devils ! O WORTHY friends! let us amend our lives ! 'Tis the beft fcheme, believe me, to purfue. For foon or late the heavy Hour arrives, When we with forrow, ill fpent Youth review. When I was young, I was an idle Urchin, With loofe Companions wand'ring up and down; Who oft at Revels, never once a Church in, Still fupp'd and flept with Women of the Town. Giv'n up to idle Lufts, thefe Sparks fo blithe, Made fport of honeft Folk, devout and holy ; What the refult ? Grim Death with fatal Scythe, Cut ftiort their Reparties fo gay and jolly. H 2 The The ardent Fever, ruthlefs Child of Styx, Handmaid of Atropos, afcendant gains ; Nor can the Leach her march unequal fix, Till mounting fhe diftra« less