John Dryden on Human sexual activity

“’Tis unkind to your Love, and unfaithfully done, To leave me behind you, and die all alone. [...] Then often they died; but the more they did so, The Nymph died more quick, and the Shepherd more slow.”

“Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of Fifteen Felt an innocent warmth, as she lay on the green; She had heard of a pleasure, and something she guest By the towzing and tumbling and touching her Breast: She saw the men eager, but was at a loss, What they meant by their sighing and kissing so close;   By their praying and whining,   And clasping and twining,   And panting and wishing,   And sighing and kissing,   And sighing and kissing so close.”