Love
Epigram 117. Of amorous Courtship
From A Chain of Golden Poems (1658)
Love
Men do solicite Women, they contemne,
(If they are bashful) to importune them:
Man was made first, and therefore should begin;
Do Women? They 'gainst Modesty do sin.
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Cokain, Aston. “Epigram 117. Of amorous Courtship.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cokain/285/.
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