NASH HIS DILDO
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and vndermines thy kingdome euery hower:
And slyly creepes betwene the barke and tree,
and suckes the sap while sleepe deteyneth thee:
He is my Mistres lake at euery sound,[page—Petyt MS.]
and soone will tent a deepe intrenched wound;
He waytes on courtly nimphs that are full coye,
and bids them scorne the blind alluring boye;
[He giues yong guirls their gamesome sustenance,[Petyt MS.]
And euerie gaping mouth his full sufficiance.]
He fortifyes disdayne with foraigne artes,
while wantons chast delude all loving hartes.
If any wight a cruell Mistres serue,
And in dispaire full deeply pyne and sterue,
[Curse Eunicke dilldo, sencelesse counterfeit,[Petyt MS.]
Who sooth maie fill, but neuer can begett:
But if revenge enraged with dispaire,
That such a dwarf his wellfare should impaire,]
Would faine this woemans secretary knowe,
let him attend the markes that I shall showe:
He is a youth almost two handfulles high;
straight, round, and plump, and having but one eye,
Wherein the rheume soe fervently doth raine,
the Stigian gulfe can scarce his teares conteyne;
Running sometymes in thicke congealed glasse,
where he more like, downe into hell would passe:
An arme strong guider stedfastly him guides;
Vpon a chariot of fiue wheeles he rides,
And slyly creepes betwene the barke and tree,
and suckes the sap while sleepe deteyneth thee:
He is my Mistres lake at euery sound,[page—Petyt MS.]
and soone will tent a deepe intrenched wound;
He waytes on courtly nimphs that are full coye,
and bids them scorne the blind alluring boye;
[He giues yong guirls their gamesome sustenance,[Petyt MS.]
And euerie gaping mouth his full sufficiance.]
He fortifyes disdayne with foraigne artes,
while wantons chast delude all loving hartes.
If any wight a cruell Mistres serue,
And in dispaire full deeply pyne and sterue,
[Curse Eunicke dilldo, sencelesse counterfeit,[Petyt MS.]
Who sooth maie fill, but neuer can begett:
But if revenge enraged with dispaire,
That such a dwarf his wellfare should impaire,]
Would faine this woemans secretary knowe,
let him attend the markes that I shall showe:
He is a youth almost two handfulles high;
straight, round, and plump, and having but one eye,
Wherein the rheume soe fervently doth raine,
the Stigian gulfe can scarce his teares conteyne;
Running sometymes in thicke congealed glasse,
where he more like, downe into hell would passe:
An arme strong guider stedfastly him guides;
Vpon a chariot of fiue wheeles he rides,
