Amanda A Sacrifice To an Unknown Goddesse, or, A Free-Will Offering Of a loving Heart to a Sweet-Heart. By N. H. [i.e. Nicholas Hookes] |
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To a Rivall.
Keep off presumption; horrid impudence,Bold monstrous traitor to my love, get hence,
Strange daring faith! venture to step between
A jealous Monarch, and a chaster Queen,
Go tempt a Kingdom kept by the magick spell
Of a Prince politick; I'm loves Machavel;
This is my Florence, and thou tempt'st from me
Not an Italians wife, but Italy;
Ransack the great Turks Seraglio, try
T' out-pimp the lustful Sultans jealousie;
Hug the coy lawrel, and expect to see
Daphne throw off her bark and follow thee:
Make old Endymion Pander, and conferre
With Luna, till thou get new moones on her;
Surprize an Abbesse and her Nunnerie,
Reconcile love to its antipathie;
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Make love to Mare-maids and their Conger-tailes;
Court some faire skillet-face, and swear she's neat,
For pricking skewers well and spitting meat;
Some greasie Cook-maid whose sweet dugs suck in,
Receive and mingle dripping with her chin,
Who nightly with her knife her smock put off,
Scrapes thence some pipkins full of kitchin-stuffe,
Or wooe some driv'ling Hag, whose pitfal skin
Makes lust mistake the wonted place of sinne.
On some thrum'd Baucis spend thy hopes and labour,
Where thou mayest bathe thy lips in slime and slabber
Cuckold the devil, get some Proserpine,
Some Succuba to be thy Concubine.
Engender with the night-mare, and beget
Dreams which may stang thy blood, and jellie it;
This once accomplish't, thou may'st freely ask
Amanda's love, but fore thou'st done thy task,
If thou dare once come near this sacred Court,
Wherein my Princesse love and beauty sport,
Ile stifle thy rebel heart in clotted gore
Of blood, with knives and daggers shroud thee o're,
And make thee bear i'th' face, throat, heart and back,
More signes then he in Swallows Almanack.
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