For when I see you, (without joking)
Your eyes, lips, breasts, are so provoking;
They set my heart more cock-a-hoop,
Than could whole seas of cray-fish soupe.
from To A Young Lady, With Some Lampreys (c.1720) by John Gay
Hooting Yard
For when I see you, (without joking)
Your eyes, lips, breasts, are so provoking;
They set my heart more cock-a-hoop,
Than could whole seas of cray-fish soupe.
from To A Young Lady, With Some Lampreys (c.1720) by John Gay
What fair maid could fail to be wooed by having her beauty compared favourably to soup? And who wants flowers when you could receive a well-rhymed poem and a bunch of eels? Be still my heart…
Marvellous!