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.<br /><br />Matthew Prior<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-modern-saint/
