HE THAT TASTES WOMAN

by: John Gay (1685-1732)

      AN may escape from rope and gun;
      Nay, some have out-liv'd the doctor's pill;
      Who takes a woman must be undone,
      That basilisk is sure to kill.
      The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets,
      So he that tastes woman, woman, woman,
      He that tastes woman, ruin meets.

"He that Tastes Woman" is reprinted from The Beggar's Opera. John Gay. New York: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1921.

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