A slightly late Valentine's eBook
Feb. 20th, 2006 05:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Sometimes I let myself fall into the habit of expecting all period literature to be terribly staid and respectable, because that's what one usually find transcribed. So I was slightly startled to come across The Choise of Valentines, or The Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo. It's exactly what you think it is, a delightfully ribald little poem by Thomas Nash. Not exactly deathless poetry, but fun and a tad over the top...