Рут Гудман - Как жить в эпоху Тюдоров. Повседневная реальность в Англии ХVI века

When I was a Batchelour / I live’d a merry life; / But now I am a married man, / And troubled with a wife, / I cannot doe as I have done, / Because I live in feare; / If I goe to Islington, / My wife is watching there.

Softlie my fingers, up theis curtaine, heave / And make me happie stealing by degreese. / First bare hir legs, then creepe up to hir kneese. / From thence ascend unto her mannerly thigh. / (a pox on lingering when I am so nighe) / Smock climbe a-pace, that I may see my joyes. <���…> / I kisse, I clap, I feele, I view at will / Yet dead he lyes not thinking good or ill. / Unhappie me, quoth she, and wilt’ not stand? / Com, let me rub and chafe it with my hand. <���…> / Not ceasing till she rais’d it from his swoune. / And then he flue on hir as he were wood, / And on hir breech did thack, and foyne a-good; / He rubd’, and prickt, and pierst hir to the bones, / Digging as farre as eath he might for stones. <���…> With Oh, and Oh, she itching moves hir hipps / And to and fro, full lightlie starts and skips. / She jerks hir legs, and sprauleth with hir heeles…

Loe wanton Girles which so doth burne, / In venus pleasant games, / If that they may content their turns, / And eake the youthful flames, / They do desire their fathers bed, / The cankered flesh to please…

В русском переводе Г. Кружкова упоминание о мужской проституции пропадает. См.: «Помилуй! ведь не ленты и не рюшки / Ты ценишь в пышнотелой потаскушке; / Зачем, любитель срамной наготы, / Нагую честность презираешь ты?» Оригинал: But, in rank itchy lust, desire and love / The nakedness and bareness to enjoy / Of thy plump muddy whore or prostitute boy. — Прим. перев.