T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
My Mistress That’s Pretty
Anonymous(From Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) I’LL sing you a Song of my Mistress that’s pretty, | |
| A Lady so frolic and gay; | |
| It tickles my Fancy to tune her sweet Ditty, | |
| For Love was all her Play. | |
| She’s witty and pretty, and tunes like a Fiddle, | 5 |
| A Lady so frolic and gay; | |
| She begins at both Ends, and ends in the Middle, | |
| For Love was all her Play. | |
| She hugs and she Kisses without a Word speaking, | |
| A Lady so frolic and gay; | 10 |
| She falls on her Back without flinching and squeaking, | |
| For Love was all her Play. | |
| She’s laden with Graces of Virtue and Honour, | |
| A Lady so frolic and gay; | |
| ’Twixt a fair pair of Sheets with warm Love upon her, | 15 |
| For Love was all her Play. | |