T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
A Just Bargain
Anonymous(From Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) |
I AM a Lover, and ’tis true; | |
| Fair Daphne I’m in Love with you; | |
| Woman thou art, for ought I see, | |
| Yet more assured I wish to be: | |
| Such Trial then do not refuse, | 5 |
| As all Men in their Bargains use. | |
| Men fell the Pullen when they lay, | |
| If they be plump, and so would I, | |
| Men ride their Nags, and try their Pace, | |
| The like would I do in this case. | 10 |
| Who will buy Land, e’er they do know, | |
| What Fruit on it is apt to grow? | |
| Now if any of my Parts, or all, | |
| You will then to Trial call, | |
| You shall both see, and feel, and taste, | 15 |
| Lest you repent your Bargain past: | |
| Then Part with Part let us Compare, | |
| There’s no Deceit in open Ware. | |
| Your Legs and Feet are straight and fine, | |
| And look you here pray what are mine? | 20 |
| You have a round and lusty Thigh; | |
| And look you here, pray what have I? | |
| But yet that part that all must bind, | |
| O shew not, least you strike me Blind. | |