T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
“When Flora Had on Her New Gown”
Anonymous(From Bristol Drollery, c. 1674) WHEN Flora had on her new Gown a, | |
| And each pretty flower was blown a, | |
| E’re the Scythe cut the grass, | |
| I met a pretty Lass, | |
| And I gave her a dainty green Gown a. | 5 |
| She got up again, and did frown a, | |
| And call’d me both Coxcomb and Clown a, | |
| ’Cause I kiss’d lip and cheek, | |
| T’other thing did not seek, | |
| When I had her so featly there down a. | 10 |
| ’Twixt anger and shame then a blush a, | |
| Came over my face with a flush a; | |
| But what I lost on the grass, | |
| Like a good natur’d Lass, | |
| She afforded me under a Bush a. | 15 |