Social Commentaries

Epigram (Fy, Delia, talk no more of Love)

by Charles Cotton 1630–1687

From Poems on Several Occasions (1689)

Social Commentaries

Fy, Delia, talk no more of Love,
It galls me to the Heart,
You Threescore are, I doubt above,
For all your plaist'ring Art.
And therefore spare your pains you may;
For though you press me Night and Day,
I can't do that my Soul abhors:
Or by your Art's assistance, though I might
Prevail upon my appetite,
I dur'st not couple, though I swear
With you, of all the World, for fear
Of Cuckolding my Ancestors.

MLA

Cotton, Charles. “Epigram (Fy, Delia, talk no more of Love).” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/cotton/96/.

Chicago

Cotton, Charles. “Epigram (Fy, Delia, talk no more of Love).” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/cotton/96/.

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