T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
“My Jockey Blyth for What Thou Hast Done”
Anonymous(From Orpheus Caledonius, ii., c. 1733) |
PEGGY MY Jocky blyth for what thou hast done, | |
| There is nae help nor mending; | |
| For thou hast jogg’d me out of Tune, | |
| For a’ thy fair pretending. | |
| My Mither sees a Change on me, | 5 |
| For my Complexion dashes, | |
| And this alas! has been with thee | |
| Sae late amang the Rashes. | |
JOCKY My Peggy, what I’ve said I’ll do, | |
| To free thee frae her Scouling; | 10 |
| Come then, and let us buckle to, | |
| Nae langer let’s be fooling: | |
| For her content I’ll instant wed, | |
| Since thy Complexion dashes; | |
| And then we’ll try a Feather-bed, | 15 |
| ’Tis faster than the Rashes. | |
PEGGY Then Jocky since thy Love’s so true, | |
| Let Mither scoul, I’m easy: | |
| Sae lang’s I live I ne’er shall rue | |
| For what I’ve done to please thee. | 20 |
| And there’s my hand I’ll ne’er complain: | |
| O! well’s me on the Rashes; | |
| When e’er thou likes I’ll do’t again | |
| And a Feg for a’ their Clashes. | |