A Maiden's Delight

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A lad of late, that lacked a mate,
Did courting come unto her,
With Cap, and Kiss, and sweet Mistress,
But little could he do her;
Quoth she, "My friend, let kissing end,
Wherewith you do me smother,
And run at Ring with t'other thing:
A little o' the one with t'other,"

"Too much of ought is good for nought,
Then leave this idle kissing;
Your barren suit will yield no fruit
If the other thing be missing:
As much as this a man may kiss
His sister or his mother:
He that will speed must give with need
A little o' the one with t'other."

"Who bids a Guest unto a feast,
To sit by divers dishes,
They please their mind until they find
Change, please each creature wishes;
With beak and bill I have my fill,
With measure running over;
The Lover's dish I now do wish,
A little o' the one with t'other."

"Sharp joined with flat, no mirth to that;
A low note and a higher,

Where Mean and Base keeps time and place,
Such music maids desire:
All of one string doth loathing bring,
Change is true Music's Mother,
Then leave my face, and sound the base,
A little o' the one with t^'other."

No smoke desire without a fire,
No wax without a Writing:
If right you deal give Deeds to Seal,
And straight fall to inditing;
Thus do I take these lines I make,
As to a faithful Lover,
In order he'll first write, then seal,
A little o' the one with t'other."

Thus while she stayed the young man played
Not high, but low defending;
Each stroke he struck so well she took,
She swore it was past mending;
Let swaggering boys that think by toys
Their Lovers to fetch over,
Lip-labour save for the maids must have
A little o' the one with t'other.

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