T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
As I Was Walking, I Heard a Maid Talking
By Richard Estcourt (16681712)(A Broadside Song with music, c. 1720) AS I was walking, I heard a Maid talking, | |
Oh I could, how I could, oh I could, now I could, | |
As I was walking, I heard a Maid talking, | |
Oh I could do it with Pleasure: | |
Tall was her shape, she tripped like a Fairy, | 5 |
Up and down, ripe and Brown, | |
Sprightly and Airy: | |
Advancing I called her my life and my Treasure, | |
Pray Sir forbear, I don’t know what you mean. | |
Pretty lass I am afraid | 10 |
That thou wilt die a Maid. | |
Oh that’s a sad Case, said She, | |
Pray Sir how can that be | |
Now you and I are together? | |
Prithee, come into the Grove, | 15 |
The prettiest place for Love, | |
There we’ll Act between us Adonis and Venus, | |
No, no, Sir, not so hasty Neither. | |
Clasping her waist, I kissed her in haste, | |
I hugged her, I tugged her, I lugged her, I mou’d her, | 20 |
I made her Cheeks glow, and I Nuzzled her Breast, | |
I was for taking the Fort of Monjoy. | |
Leaning upon my Arms sighing and panting, | |
Oh my dear, nay my dear, fie my dear, pray my dear, | |
Nature did never disclose such pleasure. | 25 |
She looked like the Queen of Love, I like her Boy, | |
In this dear Confusion Blest, the pretty Rouge fell down, | |
Guess if you can the Sight, | |
’Twas such a dear delight, | |
I Blest the time that I met her, | 30 |
Watching like an Engineer, what Breach was in the town, | |
Rusled upon her, | |
And once or twice won her, | |
And both of us parted much better. | |