| T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22. | | | | Susannah and the Elders | | Anonymous |
| | (A Broadside Song with music, c. 1707)
SUSANNAH the fair | |
| With her Beauties all bare, | |
| Was bathing her, was bathing herself in an Arbour: | |
| The Elders stood peeping, and pleased | |
| With the dipping, | 5 |
| Would fain have steered into her Harbour. | |
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| But she in a rage, | |
| Swore she’d never engage, | |
| With monsters, with monsters, with monsters so old and so feeble. | |
| This caused a great rout, | 10 |
| Which had ne’er come about, | |
| Had the Elders been sprightly and able. | | | | |
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