T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
A Song: Phillis, the fairest of loves foes
By Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (16381706)(1704) PHILLIS, the fairest of love’s foes, | |
Yet fiercer than a dragon, | |
Phillis, that scorned the powdered beaux, | |
What has she now to brag on? | |
Since while she kept her legs so close | 5 |
Till she had scarce a rag on. | |
Compelled through want, this wretched maid, | |
Did sad complaints begin; | |
Which surly Strephon hearing said, | |
It was both shame and sin | 10 |
To pity such a lazy jade, | |
As will neither play nor spin. | |