Beneath a Cool Shade. 
By Behn, Aphra. 


Beneath a cool shade, where some here have been,
Convenient for lovers, most pleasant and green,
Alexis and Cloris lay pressing soft flowers,
She close in his arms with her head on his breast,
And fainting with pleasure, -you guess at the rest:
She blushed and she sighed with a joy beyond measure,
All ravished with billing and dying with pleasure.

But while thus in transports extended they lay,
A handsome young shepherd was passing that way;
She saw him and cried, "Oh, Alexis, betrayed!
Oh what have you done -you have ruined a maid."
But the shepherd, being modest, discreetly passed by,
And left 'em again at their leisure to die.
And often they languished with joy beyond measure,
All ravished with billing and dying with pleasure.