The Ladies Delight by Anonymous
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Wit he had none, Beauty he had his share on,
A soft clear Skin, a dapper Neck and Waist, In all Things suited to the modern Taste; And most polite, like all our modish Brood, That is, a very Fool, who's very leud: He ogles Miss, she squints, and turns aside, Nor can her Mask her rising Blushes hide; At last (as Bargains here are quickly made) She yeilds to be Caress'd, tho' still afraid; She cries, a private Room's for them most fit, For Reputation is the Glory of a Cit; This only is the Place, where in a Trice, Some Angel steals the Wounds of friendly Vice; The Nymph finds a Relief for all her Pains, And the lost Maidenhead's restor'd again. But who is he in Bower close confin'd, With a kind Fair t' unbend his troubled Mind, Sure by his Air, his Beauty, and his Grace, It _Phoebus_ is, or some of heavenly Race. A petty Courtier, of small Estate and Sense, Stood hearkning by, and cry'd it was the P----ce. Your Pardon, Sir, I knew it not before, For my Mistake depended on his Whore, One had _Latona_ to'ther has _L----r_. Next to the _Grotto_ let us bend our Eye, The _Grotto_, Patron of Iniquity, |
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