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Rh And yet another:—

O beauty's Union! love for thee's my creed, ○ Free choice of Faith and eke my best desire: Women I have forsworn for thee; so may ○ Deem me all men this day a shaveling friar.

And yet another:—

Even not beardless one with girl, nor heed ○ The spy who saith to thee "'Tis an amiss!" Far different is the girl whose feet one kisses ○ And that gazelle whose feet the earth must kiss.

And yet another:—

And yet another:—

The penis smooth and round was made with anus best to match it, ○ Had it been made for cunnus' sake it had been formed like hatchet!

And yet another said:—

My soul thy sacrifice! I chose thee out ○ Who art not menstruous nor oviparous: Did I with woman mell, I should beget ○ Brats till the wide wide world grew strait for us.

And yet another:—

She saith (sore hurt in sense the most acute ○ For she had proffered what did not besuit), "Unless thou stroke as man should swive his wife ○ Blame not when horns thy brow shall incornùte! Thy wand seems waxen, to a limpo grown, ○ And more I palm it, softer grows the brute!"

And yet another:—

Quoth she (for I to lie with her forbore), ○ "O folly-following fool, O fool to core: