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choice of valentines, choise of valentines, nash belleau, nash his dildo, nash ovid, nash shakespeare, nash valentine, nashe belleau, nashe ovid, nashe shakespeare, tudor dildo, tudor erotic poem
The Sillie Worme – a phrase from Thomas Nash’s The Choise of Valentines (or, Nash his dildo), published as a manuscript in the early 1590s.
A long poem – bawdy, satirical, comic – probably composed for subscribers rather than a wide audience.
Rumpy-Pompeii
The story: Tomalin visits a brothel and, once “the coast is clear”, gets down to some Tudor rumpy-pumpy with the gentle mistress Francis. This passage (ll.93-156) gives the ins-and-outs, but then … impotence:
