THE WOMEN'S COMPLAINT TO VENUS
[1698. Bodleian MS Rawl. poet 159, also MS Eng. poet e. 50

How happy were good English Faces
Till monseiur from France
Taught Pego a dance
To the tune of old Sodoms Embraces

But now we are quite out of fashion
Your whores may be Nuns
Since men turn their Guns
And vent on each other their passions

In the Reign of good Charles the Second
Full many a Jade
a Lady was made
And the Issue Right Noble was reckon'd

But now we find to our sorrow
We are overrun
By sparks of the Bum
And peers of the Land of Gommorah

The Beaus whom most we rely'd on
At Night makes a punk
of him that's first drunk
Tho' unfit for the Sport as John Dryden

The Souldiers, whom next we put trust in
No widdow can faine
Or virgin Reclaim
But at the wrong place will be a thrusting

Fair Venus, thou Goddess of Beauty
Receive our complaint
Make Rigby recant
And the Souldiers henceforth do their duty


Venus' Reply

Why Nymphs these pittiful storeys
But you are to blame
And have got a new game
Call'd Flatts with a swiving Clitoris

Besides I have heard of Wax Tapers
With which you get up
And each other Tup
To cure the Green sickness and vapours

I'm told with a delicate Seignior
Some Matrons do ease
Their Lust and so please
They have not been layn with these years

Your Frogmore Frolicks discover [Irish lord's residence
Some Reasons of Art
to play the Mans part
You are for no masculine Lover

At all which I am so offend'd
My son at Mens hearts
Will throw no more darts
'Till your lust and your lives are amended

Forsake but those odd ways of Sinning
And I'le undertake
The arrantest Rake
Shall swinge you as at the beginning

Some Songs from Bassus, 1530

@bawdy @homosexual
filename[ WOMCOMP
WBO
oct00
mudcat.org

---

PLEASE NOTE: Because of the volunteer nature of The Digital Tradition, it is difficult to ensure proper attribution and copyright information for every song included. Please assume that any song which lists a composer is copyrighted ©. You MUST aquire proper license before using these songs for ANY commercial purpose. If you have any additional information or corrections to the credit or copyright information included, please e-mail those additions or corrections to us (along with the song title as indexed) so that we can update the database as soon as possible. Thank You.