Versos English Samuel Rowlands Besse

English poem

Besse

by (1598–1630)

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Monsters (forsoth) nere sleepe in maidens beds, But they are lodged with your married wiues, The knotty browes, and rugged butting heds, Concerne not vs, professing single liues,

Keepe monsters to your selues, we scorne the motion.