T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
Susannah and the Elders
Anonymous(A Broadside Song with music, c. 1707) SUSANNAH the fair | |
With her Beauties all bare, | |
Was bathing her, was bathing herself in an Arbour: | |
The Elders stood peeping, and pleased | |
With the dipping, | 5 |
Would fain have steered into her Harbour. | |
But she in a rage, | |
Swore she’d never engage, | |
With monsters, with monsters, with monsters so old and so feeble. | |
This caused a great rout, | 10 |
Which had ne’er come about, | |
Had the Elders been sprightly and able. | |