T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
To Bassa
By Sir Charles Sedley (16391701)(Works, 1722) THAT I ne’er saw thee in a coach with man, | |
Nor thy chaste name in wanton satyr met; | |
That from thy sex thy liking never ran, | |
So as to suffer a male-servant yet. | |
I thought thee, the Lucretia of our time: | 5 |
But, Bassa, thou the while a Tribas wert, | |
And clashing ——, with a prodigious crime, | |
Didst act of man the inimitable part. | |
What Œdipus this riddle can untie? | |
Without a male, there was adultery. | 10 |