| William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910. | | | | To a Lady Making Love | | By Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) |
| | | GOOD madam, when ladies are willing, | |
| A man must needs look like a fool; | |
| For me I would not give a shilling | |
| For one who would love out of rule. | |
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| You should leave us to guess by your blushing, | 5 |
| And not speak the matter so plain; | |
| ’Tis our’s to write and be pushing, | |
| ’Tis yours to affect disdain. | |
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| That you’re in a terrible taking, | |
| By all these sweet oglings I see, | 10 |
| But the fruit that can fall without shaking, | |
| Indeed is too mellow for me. | | | | |
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