"Normality?" She cried, " 'Tis a rarity!" "First you powder your visage white And then dust eyes with 'Black as Night' Slather crimson on your lips and cheeks and the reincarnation is complete!"
"Left one, two, three, right one, two, three And spin around in your ill-stared gown! Blow kisses to the monsieurs and be free for the night is young and you are the clown!"
"Then what, oh, chaste priestess?" "Why, lead him to the velvet underground Perhaps lock those rouged lips of yours on his and unlock his garments with that wretched kiss!"
"Oh, my mistress, do not weep! For it is only right that you are his this week! Look, your masque is fading like a watercolour and speak to me, pitiful girl, a little slower!"
"I hear nothing, yet your mouth is moving. We may be weak but we are conjuring Love's handsome embrace, So let there be briars of joy on that face!"
"Rulers make good lovers! And will bring peace to the war-struck lands. Oh, excitement has filled my body Knowing that he will wed those delicate hands."
"Thanks be bestowed on you- Priestess of Utopia! You are right, I am the Clown and I shall conceive if needs be and for that, my soul shall drown!"
My take on Thomas Hardy's satire 'The Ruined Maid' and the role of medieval and perhaps unchaste women.