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
97 _shutts hir eyes_, shakes her feete.
98 _who_, whoe; _abstaine_, forbeare; _long_, longe.
99 _I com, I com_, I come, I come; _lyning_, Ladye; _be_, by.
100 _Softlie my fingers up this curtaine heaue_, softly my curtaines
lett my fingers heaue.
101 _make_, send; _happie_, happye; _stealing_, sailing; _degreese_,
degrees.
102 _First bare hir leggs, then creepe up to hir kneese_, First vnto
the feete, and then vnto the kneese.
103 _From thence_, And soe; _unto_, vnto; _mannely_, manly.
104 _lingring_, lingering; _am so_, come soe.
105 _Smock_, Smocke; _climbe_, clime.
106 _Oh heaven and paradise are all_, all earthly pleasures seeme to
this.
107 _Compar'd with this sight I now_, Compard be these delightes which
I.
109 _prettie rysing_, prettye rising; _weame_, wenne. "Wem," spot or
blemish.
110 _shone_, shine(s); _anie siluer streame_, any christall gemme.
111 _bare_, beares; _bending_, riseing; _an_, a.
112 _a fountaine dwelleth still_, the(r) runnes a fountayne still.
113 _his_, her; _uglie bryers_, rugged briers.
114 _duskie_, duskye; _wyres_, wires.
115 _loftie_, lusty; _veines_, vaines.
116 _comelie_, comely; _distreines_, restraines. "Distreines," to
seize, to touch.
117 _wanton_, harmles; _harmlesse stype_, wanton gripe.
118 _fruites of loue oftsoone_, fruite thereof too soone
119 _And_, A; _too tymelie_, to tymely; _the stemme_, his springe.
120 _To dye ere it hath seene Jerusalem_, it is, dyes ere it can
enioye the vsed thinge.
121 _Gods_, Godes; _euer anie_, ever any; _so_, soe.
122 _So suddenlie_, soe suddenly; _awaie_, awaye.
123 _Hir_, Her; _are spread and I am all unarm'd_, and legges and all
were spredd, But I was all vnarmed.
124 _Lyke_, like; _with_, that; _charm'd_, charmd.
125 Omitted in Rawl. MS.
126 _spend their_, spent there; _hir_, your.
128 _It_, Yt; _beawtie cann_, beauty can.
129 _clap_, clipp; _I feele, I view_, I wincke, I feele.
130 _dead he lyes_, lyes he dead; _thinking_, feeling.
131 _Unhappie me_, By Holly dame; _stand_, staund.
132 _Com_, now; _rubb_, roule; _chafe_, rub; _with_, in.
133 _Perhaps_, perhapps; _sillie_, seely; _is labour'd_, hath
laboured.
134 _wearied that it can_, worked soe that it cann.
135 _If it be so_, Which if it be; _am greate a-dread_, doe greately
dread.
136 _tenne_, ten; _were_, weare.
137 _How ere it is_, What ere it be; _no_, noe; _want_, lacke.
138 _maie auaile to_, maye avayle for; _recouerie_, recoverye.
139 _saide_, said; _and rould_, & rowld; _hir thigh_, her thighe.
140 _And when she look't on't she would weepe and sighe_, and looking
downe on it, did groane and sighe.
141 _dandled_, haundled; _dancet_, daunced; _up_, vpp; _doune_, downe.
142 _she rais'd_, shee raisd; _his swoune_, her sound.
143 _he flue_, it flewe; _hir_, her; _he_, it.
144 _hir breeche did hack and fayne_, her breech laboured & foam'd.
145 _prickt, and pierst her_, peirct her euer.
146 _farre_, deepe; _might_, could digg; "eath," easy.
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