| T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22. | | | | A Song: “Phillis, the fairest of love’s foes” | | By Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638–1706) |
| | (1704)
PHILLIS, the fairest of love’s foes, | |
| Yet fiercer than a dragon, | |
| Phillis, that scorned the powdered beaux, | |
| What has she now to brag on? | |
| Since while she kept her legs so close | 5 |
| Till she had scarce a rag on. | |
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| Compelled through want, this wretched maid, | |
| Did sad complaints begin; | |
| Which surly Strephon hearing said, | |
| It was both shame and sin | 10 |
| To pity such a lazy jade, | |
| As will neither play nor spin. | | | | |
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