Verses After My Story About Shakespeare's Worktable

First came Discard from Shakespeare's Worktable.

Then, these rhyming responses:

I.

I'faith now Master Cooper you speak well

And fully do describe what did befall

That I and Cutie Cousin, as we say,

Did full enjoy the sweats of youth today

Beneath the bridge where sighs do often sound!

A pity that you were not there around.

We lacked your prick of fire that often smokes

It is so fast applied. Your steely weapon

Outward from its scabbard drawn withall

And readily applied with master’s skill.

Avaunt ye older men! I’m with the boys

Who rise up when they hear my clarion call!

They fall upon my sword in Anthony’s way

And cry with joy to do’t. Have your way

With them O master ploughman, share your share

When e’er you see them o'er the barrel there.

I’m for a softer bed where wild flowers grow

And rimming tongues make wider gates of love.

Come, cum with me and Cupid’s finger make

Then enter full since I’m for you to take.

II.

O poet mine, o poet dear,

Your lines of verse, do bring good cheer.

We must in life be young at heart

and hear love's call, whate’er our art.

Find we must a lover young

who with lips, and fingers, mouth and tongue,

will show us love of joyful state

but inexperienced love to date.

We of age shall return him love

in time, in place, from heav’n above.

And he will throb and he will sing

of ecstasy that makes walls ring.

III.

FORSOOTH MY LOVE

Forsooth my love, ’tis o’re a cooper’s barrel

I bend not thy buttocks but thy bollocks sure

For in thy taint mine tongue can sing a carol

’Til in thy faint and moan most pure

Pre-cum pre-cum at length will shine

So clear so silver fresh from the mine

That to mine lips so parched and dry

Grant sweets so tempting that I cry

And swallow up thy orbs and taste

That very sap of youth I cannot waste!