{"id":3551,"date":"2025-10-30T18:15:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/?p=3551"},"modified":"2025-10-30T18:15:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T18:15:19","slug":"fair-chloris-in-a-pigsty-lay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/30\/fair-chloris-in-a-pigsty-lay\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay,"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-body-6759330681225085620\" class=\"post-body entry-content\">Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay,<br \/>\nHer tender herd lay by her:<br \/>\nShe slept, in murmuring gruntlings they,<br \/>\nComplaining of the scorching day,<br \/>\nHer slumbers thus inspire.<\/p>\n<p>She dreamt, while she with careful pains,<br \/>\nHer snowy arms employed,<br \/>\nIn ivory pails to fill out grains,<br \/>\nOne of her love-convicted swains,<br \/>\nThus hastening to her cried:<\/p>\n<p>Fly, nymph, oh! fly, e\u2019re \u2019tis too late,<br \/>\nA dear-loved life to save:<br \/>\nRescue your bosom pig from fate,<br \/>\nWho now expires, hung in the gate<br \/>\nThat leads to yonder cave.<\/p>\n<p>My self had tried to set him free,<br \/>\nRather than brought the news:<br \/>\nBut I am so abhorred by thee,<br \/>\nThat even thy darling\u2019s life from me,<br \/>\nI know thou wouldst refuse.<\/p>\n<p>Struck with the news, as quick she flies<br \/>\nAs blushes to her face:<br \/>\nNot the bright lightning from the skies,<br \/>\nNor love, shot from her brighter eyes,<br \/>\nMove half so swift a pace.<\/p>\n<p>This plot, it seems, the lustful slave<br \/>\nHad laid against her honour:<br \/>\nWhich not one God took care to save,<br \/>\nFor he pursues her to the cave,<br \/>\nAnd throws himself upon her.<\/p>\n<p>Now pierced is her virgin zone,<br \/>\nShe feels the foe within it;<br \/>\nShe hears a broken amorous groan,<br \/>\nThe panting lover\u2019s fainting moan,<br \/>\nJust in the happy minute.<\/p>\n<p>Frighted she wakes, and waking frigs,<br \/>\nNature thus kindly eased,<br \/>\nIn dreams raised by her murmuring pigs,<br \/>\nAnd her own thumb between her legs,<br \/>\nShe\u2019s innocent and pleased.<\/p><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\n<pre class=\"post-title entry-title\">John Wilmot, Lord Rochester<\/pre>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay, Her tender herd lay by her: She slept, in murmuring gruntlings they, Complaining of the scorching day, Her slumbers thus inspire. She dreamt, while she with careful pains, Her snowy arms employed, In ivory pails to fill out grains, One of her love-convicted swains, Thus hastening to her cried:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1299,1131,1298,553],"class_list":["post-3551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily","tag-fair-chloris-in-a-pigsty-lay","tag-john-wilmot","tag-lord-rochester","tag-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3552,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3551\/revisions\/3552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.footstepsbooks.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}