T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
“Heaven First Created Woman to Be Kind”
Anonymous(From Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) HEAVEN first created Woman to be Kind, | |
| Both to be beloved, and for to Love; | |
| If you contradict what Heaven has designed, | |
| You’ll be contemned by all the Powers above: | |
| Then no more dispute me, for I am rashly bent, | 5 |
| To subject your Beauty | |
| To kind Nature’s Duty, | |
| Let me then salute you by Consent. | |
| Arguments and fair Intreats did I use, | |
| But with her Consent could not prevail; | 10 |
| She the Blessing modestly would still refuse, | |
| Seeming for to slight my amorous Tale: | |
| Sometimes she would cry Sir, prithee, Dear be good, | |
| Oh, Sir, pray, Sir, why, Sir? | |
| Pray now, nay now, fye, Sir, | 15 |
| I would sooner die, Sir, than be rude. | |
| I began to treat her then another way, | |
| Modestly I melted with a Kiss; | |
| She then blushing looked like the rising Day, | |
| Fitting for me to attempt the Bliss; | 20 |
| I gave her a fall, Sir, she began to tear, | |
| Crying she would call, Sir, | |
| As loud as she could bawl, Sir, | |
| But it prov’d as false, Sir, as she’s Fair. | |