T. R. Smith, comp. Poetica Erotica: Rare and Curious Amatory Verse. 1921–22.
Too Cold to Lie Alone
Anonymous(From Ane Pleasant Garden [c. 1800]; edited by C. Kirkpatrick Sharpe) |
DEAREST Jenny, thou must love me, | |
| Troth, my bonny lad, I do; | |
| Since thou says so, come I’ll prove thee, | |
| Dearest thou must kiss me too. | |
| Take a kiss or two, my own dear Jockie, | 5 |
| For more I dare give none, I trow; | |
| Fush, quoth he, be not unlucky, | |
| Pray, wed me first and all will do. | |
| Not for all Fife and lands about it, | |
| I’ll ne’er wed for to be bound, | 10 |
| Neither can I live without thee | |
| For five hundred thousand pound. | |
| Then thou will die if I forsake thee, | |
| Better die as be undone; | |
| Since thou says so, come I’ll take thee, | 15 |
| It’s too cold to lie alone. | |