T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
Would Ye Have a Young Virgin of Fifteen Years
Anonymous(A Song in the last Act of The Modern Prophets, 1719) |
WOULD ye have a young Virgin of fifteen Years, | |
You must tickle her Fancy with sweets and dears, | |
Ever toying, and playing, and sweetly, sweetly, | |
Sing a Love Sonnet, and charm her Ears: | |
Wittily, prettily talk her down, | 5 |
Chase her, and praise her, if fair or brown, | |
Sooth her, and smooth her, | |
And teaze her, and please her, | |
And touch but her Smicket, and all’s your own. | |
Do ye fancy a Widow well known in a Man? | 10 |
With a front of Assurance come boldly on, | |
Let her rest not an Hour, but briskly, briskly, | |
Put her in mind how her Time steals on; | |
Rattle and prattle although she frown, | |
Rowse her, and towse her from Morn to Noon, | 15 |
Shew her some Hour y’are able to grapple, | |
Then get but her Writings, and all’s your own. | |
Do ye fancy a Punk of a Humour free, | |
That’s kept by a Fumbler of Quality, | |
You must rail at her Keeper, and tell her, tell her | 20 |
Pleasure’s best Charm is Variety, | |
Swear her much fairer than all the Town, | |
Try her, and ply her when Cully’s gone, | |
Dog her, and jog her, | |
And meet her, and treat her, | 25 |
And kiss with two Guinea’s, and all’s your own. | |