"Joy to the Bridegroome and the Bride That lye by one anothers side! O fie upon the Virgin Bedds, No losse is gain but Maiden heads. Love quickly send the time may be When I shall deal my Rosemary!I long to simper at a feast, To dance, and kisse, and doe the rest. When I shall wed, and Bedded be O then the qualme comes over me, And tells the sweetnesse of a Theame That I ne’re knew but in a dreame.You Ladies have the blessed nights, I pine in hope of such delights. And silly Dam’sell only can Milk the cowes teats and think on man: And sigh and wish to tast and prove The wholesome Sillibub of Love.Make hast, at once twin-Brothers beare; And leave new matter for a starre. Woemen and ships are never shown So fair as when their sayles be blown. Then when the Midwife hears your moane, I’le sigh for grief that I have none.And you, deare Knight, whose every kisse Reapes the full crop of Cupids blisse, Now you have found, confesse and tell That single sheets doe make up hell. And then so charitable be To get a man to pitty me."
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Thomas Randolph (poet)
Thomas Randolph (bapt. 15 June 1605 – March 1635) was an English poet and dramatist.
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