lewd

And doubt to which desire the palm to give. 40

Or less fair, or less lewd would thou might'st be:

Beauty with lewdness doth right ill agree.

She must be honest to thy servant's credit.

He is too clownish whom a lewd wife grieves,

And this town's well-known custom not believes;

For I confess, if that might merit favour,

Here I display my lewd and loose behaviour.

I loathe, yet after that I loathe I run:

But yet sometimes to chide thee let her fall

Counterfeit tears: and thee lewd hangman call.

Object thou then, what she may well excuse,

She sickened from the vases hued

In corals, yellows, greens, the lewd

Twined dragon shapes and figures nude,

And by their breathing ventilate the ill.

But words suffice not, where are lewd intentions:

My hands do join to finish the inventions.

From its old ruins brothel-houses rise,

Scenes of lewd loves, and of polluted joys.

Where their vast courts, the mother-strumpets keep,

Here comes the _dice_-horn, here comes the _vice_-horn,

Here comes the _snarl_-horn, _brawl_-horn, _lewd_-horn,

Followed by the _prude_-horn, bleak and squeaking:--