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Charles Hanbury Williams
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“Dear Betty, come give me sweet kisses, For sweeter no girl ever gave: But why, in the midst of our blisses, Do you ask me how many I’d have? I’m not to be stinted in pleasure; Then, prithee, dear Betty, be kind, For, as I love thee beyond measure, To numbers I’ll not be confin’d.”
Charles Hanbury Williams (1708–1759) first seen 1740 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Ballad in Imitation of Martial, Lib. 6, Ep. 34. On Lady Ilchester asking Lord Ilchester how many Kisses he would have" (Written at Redlynch, August 1740), in Works (1822), vol. 1, p. 111. Cf. Catullus, 5 and 7
“A little vain we both may be, Since scarce another house can show, A poet, that can sing like me; A beauty, that can charm like you.”
Charles Hanbury Williams (1708–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: An Ode on Miss Harriet Hanbury, at Six Years Old", st. 6, in Odes (1775), p. 23