The Pearl/Volume 10/Pleasures Afar. Discovery of the Longitude.

A merchant of Genoa leaving wife at home; Kiss'd a little whore, in the town of Rome; "You, my dear;" said he, "tried full many a nation, Then say who had the longest tool of generation?"

Said the merry girl, "Oh, that's soon decided, You, who cross the sea, are the best provided; What a length of tail, though the seas you roam, Your spouses never fail, to bear you babes at home!"