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Swift: A Gentle Echo
A GENTLE ECHO ON WOMAN
{In the Doric Manner)
SHEPHERD: Echo, I ween, will in the wood reply,
And quaintly answer questions: shall I try?
ECHO: Try.
What must we do our passion to express?
Press.
How shall I please her, who ne'er loved before?
Be Fore.
What most moves women when we them address?
A dress.
Say, what can keep her chaste whom I adore?
A door.
If music softens rocks, love tunes my lyre.
Liar.
Then teach me, Echo, how shall I come by her?
Buy her.
When bought, no question I shall be her dear?
Her deer.
But deer have horns: how must I keep her under?
Keep her under.
But what can glad me when she's laid on bier?
Beer.
What must I do when women will be kind?
Be kind.
What must I do when women will be cross?
Be cross.
Lord, what is she that can so turn and wind?
Wind.
If she be wind, what stills her when she blows ?
Blows.
But if she bang again, still should I bang her?
Bang her.
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