T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
When Flora Had on Her New Gown
Anonymous(From Bristol Drollery, c. 1674) WHEN Flora had on her new Gown a, | |
And each pretty flower was blown a, | |
E’re the Scythe cut the grass, | |
I met a pretty Lass, | |
And I gave her a dainty green Gown a. | 5 |
She got up again, and did frown a, | |
And call’d me both Coxcomb and Clown a, | |
’Cause I kiss’d lip and cheek, | |
T’other thing did not seek, | |
When I had her so featly there down a. | 10 |
’Twixt anger and shame then a blush a, | |
Came over my face with a flush a; | |
But what I lost on the grass, | |
Like a good natur’d Lass, | |
She afforded me under a Bush a. | 15 |