"Oh! lads, beware the month of May;--for you blest girls--nature decked out--as in a birth-day suit--courts you with all its sweets--where-e'er you tread--the grass and wanton flowerets fondly kiss your feet--and humbly bow their pretty heads--to the gentle sweepings of your under-petticoats--the soft and amorous southern breezes--toy with your curls--and uncontroul'd steal numberless kisses--the blackbirds and thrushes suspend their songs--and eye beauty and humanity with pleasure;--and could their hearts be read--thank most sincerely the generous fair hands that fed them in the winter;--the cuckoo sings--on every tree--the joys of married life--the shrubery throws out all its sweets to charm you--tho', alas! an unlucky parciplepliviaplemontis seizes my imagination--my brains are on the ferment."
Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African
Five entries in ESTC (1782, 1783, 1784). [Second edition in 1783, third in 1784.]<br>
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See <u>Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho, An African. In Two Volumes. To Which Are Prefixed, Memoirs of His Life</u> (London: Printed by J. Nichols, 1782). &lt;<a href="http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/sancho1/sancho1.html">Link to text from Documenting the American South at UNC</a>&gt;<br>
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Reading <u>Letters of the Late Ignatius Sancho</u>, ed. Vincent Carretta (New York: Penguin, 1998).