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-Volume INDEX -AUTHOR INDEX -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
The World’s Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia in 15 Volumes. 1906.
Jonathan Swift (16671745)
A Gentle Echo on Woman
Shepherd.
Echo, I ween, will in the woods reply, | And quaintly answer questions. Shall I try? Echo. | Try. Shepherd. | What must we do our passion to express? Echo. | Press. Shepherd. | How shall I please her, who ne’er loved before? Echo. | Before. Shepherd. | What most moves women when we them address? Echo. | A dress. Shepherd. | Say, what can keep her chaste whom I adore? Echo. | A door. Shepherd. | If music softens rocks, love tunes my lyre. Echo. | Liar. Shepherd. | Then teach me, Echo, how shall I come by her? Echo. | Buy her. Shepherd. | When bought, no question I shall be her dear? Echo. | Her deer. Shepherd. | But deer have horns: how must I keep her under? Echo. | Keep her under. Shepherd. | But what can glad me when she’s laid on bier? Echo. | Beer. Shepherd. | What must I do when women will be kind? Echo. | Be kind. Shepherd. | What must I do when women will be cross? Echo. | Be cross. Shepherd. | Lord, what is she that can so turn and wind? Echo. | Wind. Shepherd. | If she be wind, what stills her when she blows? Echo. | Blows. Shepherd. | But if she bang again, still should I bang her? Echo. | Bang her. Shepherd. | Is there no way to moderate her anger? Echo. | Hang her. Shepherd. | Thanks, gentle Echo! Right thy answers tell | What woman is, and how to guard her well. Echo. | Guard her well.
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