The oeconomy of love: a poetical essay / [Anon].

  • Armstrong, John, 1709-1779
Date:
1736
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The oeconomy of love: a poetical essay / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AtChrift’nings oft difcufs’d: when warm’d with wine [ ' The mellow Matrons, by the midnight fire, 65 Lewd Orgies hold; while naked roams around. His Torch high-flaming from the fpicy bowl, Lufl full of Glee, and thro’ each lab’ring breaft His facred Fury pours. The Sybil folves Sagely the dubious Cafe.—The rifing Dowm 70 Then too begins to fkirt the hallow’d Bounds Of Venui bkft Domain. In either Sex This Sign obtains. For Nature provident. Now when both Sides ftand equal for the Fray, This graceful Armour Ipreads, and, but for this 75 Excoriate oft the tender parts would rue The clofe Encounter; now they fight fecure Thus harnefs’d, and fuftain the mutual Shock