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
196 _As this sweet-streames_, as is the balme; _hir ioints imbaynes_,
her woombe destreynes.
197 _With Oh! and Oh! she itching moues hir hipps_, Now! oh now! she
trickling moues her lippes.
198 _And_, and often; _full lightlie starts and skips_, she lightly
startes and skippes.
199 _ierkes_, yerkes; _leggs_, legges; _sprauleth_, fresketh.
200 _No_, noe; _maie_, can; _solace_, pleasures.
201 _I faint! I yeald! Oh death, rock me_, I come! I come! sweete
death, rocke mee.
202 _entombed_, intombe me.
203 _my deare, my dearest saint_, my deare, and dearest she.
204 _For, from us yett, thy spirit maie_, from us two (yett) this
pleasure must.
205 _Untill_, Vntill; _channels_, Chambers.
206 _Without their source_, Withould themselues; _imprisoned_, newe
prisoned.
207 _will we_, we will; _com too_, come soe.
209 _whilst_, whilest; _speake_, speke; _is fleeting_, in stealing.
210 _fleshie_, earthly.
213 _but an houre_, but one houre; _an houre is_, one houre is; _so_,
soe
214 _But_, nay; _if that_, and if.
217 _Maie be alightned with a little pause_, Maye now be lengthened by
a litle pawse.
218 _awaie_, awaye; _sudden_, suddaine.
221 _riuers nere returne_, riuer nere returnes.
222 _springe_, spring; _must helpe me or_, must helpe, or elles.
223-34 Omitted in Rawl. MS.
235 _Hence-forth no more will I implore thine_, Hensforth I will noe
more implore thine.
236 _or man of cowardize upbrayde_, for ever of Cowardise shall
vpprayd.
237 _dilldo_, dildoe; _suply their_, supplye your.
238 _knaue_, youth; _moues_, is; _by_, in.
239 _That_, He; _anie_, any.
241-42 Omitted in Rawl. MS.
243 _For, by saint Runnion, he'le_, And when I will he doth.
244 _make_, makes; _bellie_, belly.
245 _whose triumph now_, thy kingdome needes; _falle_, fall.
246 _Except_, eccept; _walle_, wall.
247 _usurps_, vsurpes; _boure_, bower.
248 _undermines_, vndermines; _euerie howre_, euery hower.
249 _sly he_, slyly; _betwixt_, betwene.
250 _sucks_, suckes; _whilst_, while; _detaineth_, deteyneth.
251 _page_, lake; _stound_, sound. "Stound," a moment.
252 "tent," to search out.
253 _Courtlie Nimphs_, courtly nimphs; _be so_, are full.
254 _blynd-alluring_, blind-alluring.
255-6 Omitted in Rawl. MS.
257 _fortifies disdaine_, fortifyes disdayne; _forraine_, foraigne.
258 _And wanton-chaste deludes_, while wantons chast delude.
259 _anie_, any; _Mistris serue's_, Mistres serve.
260 _Or_, and; _(unhappie) pines and staru's_, full deeply pyne and
sterue.
261-64 Omitted in Rawl. MS.
265 _womans secretarie_, woemans secretary.
266 _Lett_, let.
267 _handfulls highe_, handfulles high.
268 _plumb_, plump; _yett hauing_, and having.
269 _rhewme so feruentlie doeth raigne_, rheume soe fervently doth
raine.
270 _That_, the; _gulph maie_, gulfe can; _containe_, conteyne. Here
follow, in the Rawl. MS., lines 290-93 of the Petyt; lines 292-3 being
also reversed in the Rawl. text.
271 _Attired_, attird; _veluet_, velvet.
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