Samuel Croxall

thumb| Samuel Croxall (c. 1688/9 – 13 February 1752) was an Anglican churchman, writer and translator, particularly noted for his edition of Aesop's Fables. Quotes The Fair Circassian, &c. (1721, '29, '45, '55, '65) thumb|The grave Pad of old Silenus bray’dAnd most unluckily his Plot betray’d. The Joints with Dimples smiling; and above,The Spring of Bliss, the bubbling Fount of Love.Plump is her Belly, but how smoothly plain!Like Fields of Wheat impregnated with Rain. The Fair Circassian (1721) Still lay the Nymph o’erwhelmed in downy Rest:O’erjoy’d the God her Vesture upward drew,And to the Goal with furious Vigour flew;When the grave Pad of old Silenus bray’d,And most unluckily his Plot betray’d.The Nymph awaken’d strove with all her MightTo stop the eager Dotard’s fond Delight,And, rolling sidelong from his hot Embrace,Scream’d out and fill’d with loud Alarms the Place.The Silver Moon, just breaking from a Cloud,Show’d where the God in strange Confusion stood,Too well provided for the Feats of Love,And quite expos’d to all the laughing Grove. Heathen Priestcraft (1729) Her hair bound backward in a spiral wreathHer upper beauties to my sight betray’d,The happy stream concealing those beneath. On Florinda, Seen while She was Bathing (1765) External links