Kitap 2
Mankind alone enjoyed no certain place,
On rapine lived, a rude unpolish'd race;
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Caves were their houses, herbs their food and bed,
Whilst each a savage from the other fled.
Love first disarm'd the fierceness of their mind,
And in one bed the men and women join'd.
The youth was eager, but unskill'd in joy,
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Nor was the unexperienc'd virgin coy;
They knew no courtship, no instructor found,
Yet they enjoy'd, and bless'd the pleasing wound.
The birds with consorts propagate their kind,
And sporting fish their finny beauties find;
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In am'rous fold the wanton serpents twine,
And dogs with their salacious females join.
The lusty bull delights his frisking dames,
And more lascivious goat her male inflames.
Mares furious grow with love, their boundaries force,
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Plunging thro' waves to meet the neighing horse.
Go on, brave youth, thy gen'rous vigor try,
To the resenting maid this charm apply;
