Basia Joannis Secundi Nicolai Hagensis or The Kisses of Joannes Secundus Nicolaius of the Hague. In Latin and English Verse. With the Life of Secundus, and a Critic upon his Basia. Adorn'd with a Cut of the Author, and another of his Mistress Julia, engrav'd by the famous Bernard Picart the Roman [by George Ogle] |
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EPIGRAM OF Joannes Secundus, UPON HIS Book
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EPIGRAM OF Joannes Secundus, UPON HIS Book of KISSES.
Lycinna scorns my Kisses; They are chaste!Enerv'd I seem in her experienc'd Taste.
And Ælia calls Me, “Bard with languid Strings,”
She that to Love in Streets her Off'rings brings.
Perhaps, my utmost Strength They seek to know!
And Vigor prove!—Go! hateful Wantons, go!
My Strength, my Vigor long despair to find.
For You these Kisses never were design'd.
Never for You were these soft Measures wrought;
Read Me, ye tender Brides of Boys un-taught!
Read Me, of Brides un-taught ye tender Boys!
Yet new to Venus' sweetly-varying Joys!
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