Social Commentaries

On Sir Voluptuous Beast

by Ben Jonson 1572-1637

From Epigrams (1616)

Social Commentaries

While Beast instructs his fair and innocent wife,
In the past pleasures of his sensual life,
Telling the motions of each petticoat,
And how his Ganymede mov'd, and how his goat,
And now her hourly her own cucquean makes,
In varied shapes, which for his lust she takes:
What doth he else, but say, Leave to be chaste,
Just wife, and to change me, make woman's haste!

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Epigrams, no. 25.

MLA

Jonson, Ben. “On Sir Voluptuous Beast.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/73/.

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Jonson, Ben. “On Sir Voluptuous Beast.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/73/.

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