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The Grief she suffer’d on her Bridal Night ;

The Charms, the Raptures, and the soft Delight,That make the larger Amends for all the Pain

Which narrow--Virgins do sustain.

‘Iullta consents, and thus the Tale began.

Tull.] When I came reeking from the Bridal Bed, jEas'd of that hateful Thing a Maidenhead,

Having just tasted Man, just newly->

Finding the Pleasure so sublime, I cry’d,

And said, How long have 1 supinely laid,

And dreamt, and langSifh’d in a lonely Bed ?

Till this last blissful Nigh't, I’ve liv'd in vain,

And ne’er enjoy’d that Godlike Creature, Man.

Had 1 but known the Bliss, or had I guess’dAt the Delights with which I’m now'possess’d,

I had not staid for Marriage, that State-Txick,

But lost my Reputation for a-.

Let not what I relate discourage you,

And all that happen’d, you shall truly know.

Callus the Bridegroom, and myself the Bride,

Dress'd and adorn’d in all the wanton PrideThat Art invents, Youth’s Beauty to improve,

And adds fresh Fire to our impatient Love,

Were fore'd, altho’ unwilling, to dispenseWith Kissing, and much more Impertinence.

But when our Friends and Wedding-Guests were gone,And in the Scene of Love we left alone,

Naked I lay, clasped in my Callus 's Arms,

Dreading, yet longing for his sweetning Charms;Two burning Tapers spread around their Light,

And chas’d away the Darkness of the Night,

When Callus from my panting Bosom flew,

And with him from the Bed, the Bed-Cloaths drew.

I to conceal my naked Body try’d,

And whatrhe wisti’d to fee, I strove to hide,

But what 1 held, with Force he pull'd away,

’ Till naked as a new born Babe I lay.

I blush’d