[Sala, George Augustus; Sellon, Edward; and others].
Theatre Royal, Olymprick.
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New and gorgeous pantomime,
entitled
Harlequin Prince Cherrytop
and the
Good Fairy Fairfuck ;
or,
The frig, the fuck and the fairy.
Oxford :
Printed at the University Press,
MDCCCLXXIX [1879]
Page 52, of the 1905 reprint:
CHORUS
Pity us courtiers, who, moanin' and groanin',
Are forced willy nilly to imitate Onan. . . .
Daily and monthly it's surely undoing us,
Seminal weakness will certainly ruin us.
Spermatorrhoea,
That's what we fear,
We shall all perish from Spermatorrhoea.
Our pallid complexions foreshadow death's doom in us.
And our water's remarkably thick and albuminous . . .
Nocturnal emissions o'erwhelm us in oceans.
And at stool our roe shoot, along with our motions.
Spermatorrhoea,
That's what we fear,
We shall all perish from Spermatorrhoea.
[General dance of all.]
[Sala, etc.,] Harlequin Prince Cherrytop: (1879)