| John Dryden (1631–1700). The Poems of John Dryden. 1913. | | | | Songs from the Plays | | Song for a Girl, from Love Triumphant |
| | 1 YOUNG I am, and yet unskill’d | |
| How to make a Lover yield: | |
| How to keep, or how to gain, | |
| When to love; and when to feign. | |
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2 Take me, take me, some of you, | 5 |
| While I yet am Young and True; | |
| E’re I can my Soul disguise; | |
| Heave my Breasts, and roul my Eyes. | |
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3 Stay not till I learn the way, | |
| How to Lye, and to Betray: | 10 |
| He that has me first, is blest, | |
| For I may deceive the rest. | |
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4 Cou’d I find a blooming Youth, | |
| Full of Love, and full of Truth, | |
| Brisk, and of a janty mean | 15 |
| I shou’d long to be Fifteen. | | | | |
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