T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
“As Jockey and Jenny Together Was Laid”
Anonymous(A Broadside Song with music, c. 1720) AS Jockey and Jenny together was laid, | |
| Jockey was happy, no less seemed the Maid, | |
| She often did Sigh, and cried, Jockey with thee | |
| My life tho’ in Bondage would seem to be free. | |
| Jockey for Jenny who often did Burn, | 5 |
| Did Sigh to her Sighs and kind Language return, | |
| There’s no Pair so happy so much of one Mind, | |
| As Jockey to Jenny to Jenny inclined. | |
| Content with each other in humble retreat, | |
| They court not new Beauties, nor envy the great; | 10 |
| He’ll not quit his Nymph, nor the Nymph quit her swain, | |
| For Pleasures yet thought of, or Riches to gain. | |
| Come all you gay Courtiers who greatness admire, | |
| And shine in gilt Coaches with pompous attire, | |
| Regard the true pleasure this couple enjoys, | 15 |
| For Jockey to Jenny to Jenny ne’er cloys. | |
| While you quit your Silvia for Cloe’s bright eyes, | |
| Amynta pursue, you fair Cloe despise, | |
| When one Nymph’s undone you another undo, | |
| And rambling the Fair does the same thing by you, | 20 |
| Till Nature grows weary, decrepit, and poor, | |
| Not aged, but quite has exhausted her store, | |
| ’Tis Jockey and Jenny the true taste, | |
| Be constant like us and your pleasures will last. | |