THE ANCIENT MAIDEN’S LAMENT.
I have a mouth for kisses,
No one to give or to take;
I have a heart in my bosom
Beating for nobody’s sake.
THE STAKES.
The following playful lines of Strode first appeared in a little volume entitled “New Court Songs and Poems,” printed in 1672, and were reproduced in Dryden’s “Miscellany,” 1716:
My love and I for kisses played:
She would hold stakes; I was content;