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Excerpt from Blue Law Ballads: A Purge for Puritans Preface For Puritans Now would ye know what sinners think Of cursed customs puritanic, Our little book will tell - 'tis quite (Within the law of course) satanic. Although we know that all thy race Despises verse and is most thrifty, Here's chance to savor fruits unknown - The cost is but a dollar fifty. Soft nymphs, red wine, we'll offer thee, Thy hidden wishes freed by Bacchus, While we dance to pipes of Pan Join us, then can none attack us. The truth to tell, we love thee not, Confess too, of a surety. Our pagan pleasures we prefer. To sober lives - or purity. But charity within our souls Still lives, and so we hope perchance, Our muse may melt in thee the ice Of virtue - child of ignorance. So buy our book and we'll essay To cure thy musty soul's malaria, A modern miracle attempt, Thy close cramped minds t'increase in area About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.