<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457220" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Modern Saint</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her time with equal prudence Silvia shares,<br>First writes her billet-doux, then says her prayers,<br>Her mass and toilette, vespers, and the play;<br>Thus God and Ashtaroth divide the day:<br>Constant she keeps her Ember-week and Lent, <br>At Easter calls all Israel to her tent:<br>Loose without bawd, and pious without zeal, <br>She still repeats the sins she would conceal.<br>Envy herself from Silvia's life must grant,<br>An artful woman makes a modern saint.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Matthew+Prior">Matthew Prior</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=457220" data-title="The Modern Saint de Matthew Prior" data-description="Her time with equal prudence Silvia shares, First writes her billet-doux, then says her prayers, Her mass and toilette, vespers, and the play; Thus God and Ashtaroth divide the day: Constant she keeps her Ember-week and Lent, At Easter calls all ..."></div> </div> </div>

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