The Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony: Responses From Women by Various
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While my wrapt Soul flew out in ev'ry Kiss!
Till breathless, faint, and softly sunk away, I all dissolv'd in reaking Pleasures lay. _The Twelfth Plague._ Happen what will, I'll make some Lovers know What Pains, what raging Pains I undergo, Till I am really Heart-sick, almost Dead, By keeping that damn'd thing a Maiden-head. Which makes me with Green Sickness almost lost, So pale, so wan, and looking like a Ghost, Eating Chalk, Cindars, or Tobacco-Pipes, Which with a Looseness scowers all my Tripes; But e'er I'll longer this great Pain endure, The Stews I'll search, but that I'll find a Cure. _The Thirteenth Plague._ Let doating Age debate of _Law_ and _Right_, And gravely state the Bounds of Just and Fit; Whose Wisdom's but their Envy, to destroy And bar those Pleasures which they can't enjoy. My blooming Years, more sprightly and more gay, By Nature were design'd for Love and Play: Youth knows no Check, but leaps weak Virtue's Fence, And briskly hunts the noble Chace of Sense! Without dull thinking I'll Enjoyment trace, |
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