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John Dryden (1631–1700). The Poems of John Dryden. 1913.

Songs from the Plays

Song for a Girl, from Love Triumphant

1
YOUNG I am, and yet unskill’d

How to make a Lover yield:

How to keep, or how to gain,

When to love; and when to feign.

2
Take me, take me, some of you,

While I yet am Young and True;

E’re I can my Soul disguise;

Heave my Breasts, and roul my Eyes.

3
Stay not till I learn the way,

How to Lye, and to Betray:

He that has me first, is blest,

For I may deceive the rest.

4
Cou’d I find a blooming Youth,

Full of Love, and full of Truth,

Brisk, and of a janty mean

I shou’d long to be Fifteen.