Tragic (but Interesting & Very Short) History of Sodomites, Lesbians, & Sapphics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781541048560)

Tragic (but Interesting and Very Short) History of Sodomites, Lesbians, and Sapphics Daniel Dafoe; A True Collection of the Writings of the Author of The True Born English-man: Corrected by Himself; printed, and are to be sold by most booksellers in London and Westminster; 1703 Daniel Dafoe writes: "With what stupendous Impudence can he / Punish a Poor Man's Immorality? / How shou'd a Vicious Magistrate assent / To mend our Manners, or our Government? / How shall new Laws for Reformation pass, / If Vice the Legislation shou'd possess? / To fee Old S-y Blasphemy decry, / And S- e vote to punish Bribery; / Lying exploded by a Perjur'd Knight, / And Whoring punish'd by a Sodomite; / That he the Peoples Freedom shou'd defend, / Who had the King and People too trepan'd; / Soldiers seek Peace, Drunkards prohibit Wine, / And Fops and Beaus our Politicks refine; / These are Absurdities too gross to hide, / Which Wise Men wonder at, and Fools deride."

Author: Emily Stehr
ISBN-10: 1541048563
ISBN-13: 9781541048560
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 12/10/2016
Pages: 34
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.13lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.07d