T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
A Puritan
Anonymous(From Merry Drollery, 1661. fol. 2) |
A PURITAN of late, | |
| And eke a holy Sister, | |
| A Catechizing sate, | |
| And fan he would have kist her | |
| For his Mate. | 5 |
| But she a Babe of grace, | |
| A Child of reformation | |
| Thought kissing a disgrace, | |
| A Limb of profanation | |
| In that place. | 10 |
| He swore by yea and nay | |
| He would have no denial, | |
| The spirit would it so, | |
| She should endure a trial | |
| Ere she go. | 15 |
| Why swear you so, quoth she? | |
| Indeed, my holy Brother, | |
| You might have forsworn be | |
| Had it been to another, | |
| Not to me. | 20 |
| He laid her on the ground, | |
| His Spirits fell a ferking, | |
| Her Zeal was in a sound, | |
| He edified her Merkin | |
| Upside down. | 25 |
| And when their leave they took, | |
| And parted were asunder | |
| My Muse did then awake, | |
| And I turn’d Ballad-monger. | |
| For their sake. | 30 |