T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
Heaven First Created Woman to Be Kind
Anonymous(From Pills to Purge Melancholy, 1707) HEAVEN first created Woman to be Kind, | |
Both to be beloved, and for to Love; | |
If you contradict what Heaven has designed, | |
You’ll be contemned by all the Powers above: | |
Then no more dispute me, for I am rashly bent, | 5 |
To subject your Beauty | |
To kind Nature’s Duty, | |
Let me then salute you by Consent. | |
Arguments and fair Intreats did I use, | |
But with her Consent could not prevail; | 10 |
She the Blessing modestly would still refuse, | |
Seeming for to slight my amorous Tale: | |
Sometimes she would cry Sir, prithee, Dear be good, | |
Oh, Sir, pray, Sir, why, Sir? | |
Pray now, nay now, fye, Sir, | 15 |
I would sooner die, Sir, than be rude. | |
I began to treat her then another way, | |
Modestly I melted with a Kiss; | |
She then blushing looked like the rising Day, | |
Fitting for me to attempt the Bliss; | 20 |
I gave her a fall, Sir, she began to tear, | |
Crying she would call, Sir, | |
As loud as she could bawl, Sir, | |
But it prov’d as false, Sir, as she’s Fair. | |