- various allegorical characters are mixed with court and town types (e.g. the Debauchee, the Postboy, the courtiers and pimps, "courtesans" and open prostitutes)
- mocks both Milton and the Genesis
"Nothing, thou elder brother even to shade,
THat hadst a being ere the world was made,
And (well fixed) art alone of ending not afraid.
Ere time and place were, time and place were not,
When primitive Nothing Something straight begot,
Then all proceeded from the great united -- What?
Something, the general attribute of all,
Severed from thee, its sole original,
Into thy boundless self must undistinguished fall...."
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