Choyce Drollery: Songs and Sonnets / Being a Collection of Divers Excellent Pieces of Poetry, of Several Eminent Authors.

by Unknown

A Sonnet.

What ill luck had I, silly Maid that I am,

To be ty’d to a lasting vow;

Or ere to be laid by the side of a man,

That woo’d, and cannot tell how;

Down didle down, down didle me.

Oh that I had a Clown that he might down diddle me,

With a courage to take mine down.