In haste, I want to call renewed attention to my change of heart on the rhyme words and my presumptuous “edit” in post # 27. If I’m right, her poem was a bold statement of a possible type of adult feminine lust that she sought to redeem by calling it “pious” and framing it as a literary trope. Bold indeed. If I’m right. But it seems to have been a literary “lust in the heart” — and not visibly acted on. A type of extreme “sovranty”, and, as someone says, what man would refuse when a woman woos? Well, Joseph in the Biblical story in Egypt did, they say. Which brings up the matter of power relationships in intimate personal relationships. Even so, I’m going to retain “jape,” and let this thread slide down, if everyone else will.
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