| T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22. | | | | A Song: “Young I am and yet unskill’d” | | Anonymous |
| | (Late 18th Century)
YOUNG I am and yet unskill’d | |
| How to make a lover yield; | |
| How to keep, and how to gain, | |
| When to love, and when to feign. | |
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| 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 roll my eyes. | |
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| Stay not till I learn the way | |
| How to lie and to betray; | 10 |
| He that has me first is blest, | |
| For I may deceive the rest. | |
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| Could I find a blooming youth | |
| Full of love, and full of truth, | |
| Brisk, and of a jaunty mien, | 15 |
| I should long to be fifteen. | | | | |
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