T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
Upon a Favour Offered
By William Walsh (1663–1708)(1692) CÆLIA, too late you would repent: | |
| The off’ring all your store, | |
| Is now but like a pardon sent | |
| To one that’s dead before. | |
| While at the first you cruel proved, | 5 |
| And grant the bliss too late, | |
| You hindered me of one I loved, | |
| To give me one I hate. | |
| I thought you innocent as fair, | |
| When first my court I made; | 10 |
| But when your falsehoods plain appear, | |
| My love no longer stayed. | |
| Your bounty of those favours shown, | |
| Whose worth you first deface, | |
| Is melting valued metals down, | 15 |
| And giving us the brass. | |
| Oh since the thing we beg’s a toy | |
| That’s prized by love alone, | |
| Why cannot women grant the joy | |
| Before our love is gone? | 20 |