by John Dryden (1631 - 1700)
Young I am and yet unskilled
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Young I am and yet unskilled How to make a lover yield, How to keep, or how to gain, When to love, and when to feign. Take me, take me, some of you, While I yet am young and true; Ere I can my soul disguise, Heave my breasts, and roll my eyes. Stay not till I learn the way, How to lie, and to betray; He that has me first, is blest, For I may deceive the rest. Could I find a blooming youth, Full of love and full of truth, Brisk, and of a jaunty mien, I should long to be fifteen.
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- by John Dryden (1631 - 1700), "Song for a girl" [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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