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