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And yet another,

'O beauty's Union! love for thee's my creed, * Free choice of Faith and eke my best desire: Women I have forsworn for thee; so may * Deem me all men this day a shaveling friar.' [1]

And yet another,

Even not beardless one with girl, nor heed * The spy who saith to thee "'Tis an amiss!" Far different is the girl whose feet one kisses * And that gazelle whose feet the earth must kiss.

And yet another,

'A boy of twice ten is fit for a King!'

And yet another,

'The penis smooth and round was made with anus best to match it, * Had it been made for cunnus' sake it had been formed like hatchet!'

And yet another said,

'My soul thy sacrifice! I chose thee out * Who art not menstruous nor oviparous: Did I with woman mell, I should beget * Brats till the wide wide world grew strait for us.'

And yet another,

'She saith (sore hurt in sense the most acute * For she had proffered what did not besuit), 'Unless thou stroke as man should swive his wife * Blame not when horns thy brow shall incornùte! Thy wand seems waxen, to a limpo grown, * And more I palm it, softer grows the brute!'

And yet another,

'Quoth she (for I to lie with her forbore), * 'O folly-following fool, O fool to core:

  1. "Nihil usitatius apud monachos, cardinales, sacrificulos," says Johannes de la Casa Beneventius Episcopus, quoted by Burton Anat. of Mel. lib. iii. Sect. 2; and the famous epitaph on the Jesuit,
    Ci-git un Jesuite:
    Passant, serre les fesses et passe vite!