| T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22. | | | | To Bassa | | By Sir Charles Sedley (1639–1701) |
| | (Works, 1722)
THAT I ne’er saw thee in a coach with man, | |
| Nor thy chaste name in wanton satyr met; | |
| That from thy sex thy liking never ran, | |
| So as to suffer a male-servant yet. | |
| I thought thee, the Lucretia of our time: | 5 |
| But, Bassa, thou the while a Tribas wert, | |
| And clashing ——, with a prodigious crime, | |
| Didst act of man the inimitable part. | |
| What Œdipus this riddle can untie? | |
| Without a male, there was adultery. | 10 | | | |
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