On Sir Voluptuous Beast
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On Sir Voluptuous Beast by Ben Jonson
XXV. ? ON SIR VOLUPTUOUS BEAST. 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. [AJ Notes:Ganymede, in Greek mythology, a beautiful shepherd boy with whom Zeus fell in love.Cucquean, n. [Cuckold + queen], a woman whose husband is unfaithful to her.]
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