| T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22. | | | | Would Ye Have a Young Virgin of Fifteen Years | | Anonymous |
| | (A Song in the last Act of The Modern Prophets, 1719) |
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WOULD ye have a young Virgin of fifteen Years, | |
| You must tickle her Fancy with sweets and dears, | |
| Ever toying, and playing, and sweetly, sweetly, | |
| Sing a Love Sonnet, and charm her Ears: | |
| Wittily, prettily talk her down, | 5 |
| Chase her, and praise her, if fair or brown, | |
| Sooth her, and smooth her, | |
| And teaze her, and please her, | |
| And touch but her Smicket, and all’s your own. | |
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| Do ye fancy a Widow well known in a Man? | 10 |
| With a front of Assurance come boldly on, | |
| Let her rest not an Hour, but briskly, briskly, | |
| Put her in mind how her Time steals on; | |
| Rattle and prattle although she frown, | |
| Rowse her, and towse her from Morn to Noon, | 15 |
| Shew her some Hour y’are able to grapple, | |
| Then get but her Writings, and all’s your own. | |
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| Do ye fancy a Punk of a Humour free, | |
| That’s kept by a Fumbler of Quality, | |
| You must rail at her Keeper, and tell her, tell her | 20 |
| Pleasure’s best Charm is Variety, | |
| Swear her much fairer than all the Town, | |
| Try her, and ply her when Cully’s gone, | |
| Dog her, and jog her, | |
| And meet her, and treat her, | 25 |
| And kiss with two Guinea’s, and all’s your own. | | | |
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