William Shakespeare on Human sexual activity
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“Hymen hath brought the bride to bed, Where, by the loss of maidenhead, A babe is moulded.”
“He on her belly falls, she on her back. Now is she in the very lists of love, Her champion mounted for the hot encounter.”
“Nay, but to live In the rank sweat of an enseamèd bed, Stew’d in corruption, honeying and making love Over the nasty sty,—”
“Your brother and his lover have embraced; As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry.”
“By Gis and by Saint Charity, Alack, and fie for shame! Young men will do't, if they come to't; By cock, they are to blame. Quoth she, before you tumbled me, You promised me to wed. He answers: So would I ha' done, by yonder sun, An thou hadst not come to my bed.”