Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Paul Clayton
Here, three young men discover a sleeping woman in the woods and take advantage of the situation to have sex with her. Such sexual opportunism is a common theme in bawdy verse spanning the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
There was a lass and a bonnie lass
A-gathering nuts did gang
And she pulled them high and she pulled them low
And she pulled them where they hang
Till tired at length, she laid her down
And slept the woods among
When by there came three lusty lads
Three lusty lads and strong
Oh, the first did kiss her rosy lips
He thought it was no wrong
The second unloosened her bodice fair
That was sewed wi' silk along
And what the third did to the lass
Is no put in this song
But the lassie wakened in a fright
And she says, “I've slept too long”