Young Cloe, frolicksome and gay,
Was reading, once upon a Day,
How Jove, as Ovid’s Lines record
(And Ladies will take Ovid’s Word)
Us’d to descend in borrow’d Shapes,
And sport in Cuckoldoms and Rapes.
Delightful Stories!–as she read,
A Maggot jump’d into her Head:
Thus to her self, “Does Jove then mind,
`Us mortal Girls? Extremely kind!
`Now I’ll be further, quoth the Dame,
“If this loose God be not the same,
“Dress’d in rich Velvet and Brocade,
“That won my Heart last Masquerade;
`Hold–let me think–it must be so,
`It could not be a common Beau.
“Lord! there was something so Divine–
“Well, hang it all, I’ll not repine;
“For if his Godship likes the Sport,
“He’ll never damn a Body for’t.
(Nicholas Amhurst)
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