The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo — John Shaqi
The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His DildoNash, Thomas
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The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo
Nash, Thomas
Bawdy poetry
41 _hearing hir so ernest_, seeing her soe earnest.
42 _Gave hir hir_, I gaue her her; _and she the dore unlocks_, and she
the doare vnlockes.
43 _In am I entered_, Nowe I am entered; _venus_, sweet Venus.
44 _where's this female_, where's the female; _do this_, do the.
45 _By_, through; _meanders and by crankled_, meander and through
crooked.
46 _Shee leades_, Shee leads; _Aucthor saies_, author sayes.
47 _we came within_, I came vnto; _shadie_, shady.
48 _bounsing vestalls_, bouncing vestures; _skirmish_, skyrmish;
_oft_, omitted.
49 _shee_, she; _leather chaire_, Lether chayre.
50 _prettie Trulls_, wenches straight.
51 _To chuse of them_, And bad me choose; _myne_, my.
52 _hir_, she; _no where espie_, noe waye espye.
53 _them_, her; _them_ her.
54 _Yet_, But.
55 _Bawde_, baud; _as daintie_, soe dainty; _bee_, be.
56 _forth to_, vnto.
57 _Halliedame_, Holy Dame; _she_, shee; _Gods oune_, gods one.
58 _wylie_, wyly.
59 _more_, better.
60 _You'l smell_, youle find; _nare so_, now soe.
61 _hir_, her.
62 _think_, look; _purse-strings_, purse-stringes; _abye it deare_,
abide yt deere.
63 _that will eate quailes_, whoole feed on quayles; _crounes_,
crownes.
64 _Mistris Francis_, Mistres Fraunces; _veluett gounes_, velvett
gownes.
65 _And ruffs_, Her ruffe; _perwigs_, perriwigge; _as_, soe; _Maye_,
May.
66 _with half a croune_, for half a crowne.
67 _hostess_, hostes; _we_, wee.
68 _Though_, although.
69 _bonnie_, bonny.
70 _tenne_, tenn; _gobbs I will unto thee tell_, goblets vnto thee Ile
tell. "Gob, a portion" (H).
71 _lyke thee_, like you.
72 _doe I hir companie_, I doe her company.
73 _Awaie_, Awaye; _thing_, worde.
74 _That (mauger) will inuade_, it makes invasion in.
75 _Hey-ho_, Loe! here; _hearte_, harte; _keepe_, keeping.
76 _Lullabie_, lullaby; _and falle a sleepe_, fall a sleeping.
77 _coms_, comes; _ground_, ground.
78 _Hir_, her; _silkes_, silcke; _confound_, Confound.
79 _Oh_, Awaye; _rauisht_, ravisht; _voide_, voyd; _chamber_, Chamber;
_streight_, straight.
80 _For I must neede's be on hir_, I must be straight vppon her.
81 _smilde_, smiled.
82 _beguilde_, beguiled.
83 _With smiles, with flatt'ring wordes, and fained cheere_, With
sighes and flattering woordes and teares.
84 _their_, your; _their_, much; _doeth appeare_, still apeares.
85 _how_, How; _lambkin_, Tomalyn; _replide_, replied.
86 _dancing_, dauncing.
87 _it be_, be it; _this_, thy.
88 _camp_, campe.
89 _onelie_, only; _sweete heart_, sweete harte; _came_, cam.
90 _auoide_, avoyd; _troblous and stormie_, troublesome, stormye.
91 _But now_, And since; _coaste_, coast; _we wil_, I will.
92 _Since_, for; _louer_, louers.
93 _sprung_, sprunge; _lips_, lippes.
94 _And fast about the neck me colle's and clips_, and about my neck
she hugges, she calles, she clippes. "Coll" or "cull," to kiss, to
embrace; so also "clip."
95 _faints_, faynes; _vpon hir_, vppon the.
96 _tosseth_, tosses; _and fro hir_, and froe her.
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