The Nash, Thomas 1567-1601 creator Farmer, John Stephen 1854-1916 text utu 2006 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Choise of Valentines; Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo" by Thomas Nashe is an erotic poem composed around 1592 or 1593. The work recounts a sexual encounter between the narrator Tomalin and his lover Frances in a city brothel on Valentine's Day. When Tomalin proves inadequate to satisfy his partner, she turns to a dildo, prompting anxieties about masculine sexuality and female autonomy. The poem remained unpublished until 1899, likely due to its explicit content and frank treatment of desire. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Choise_of_Valentines Release date is 2006-02-16 Produced by Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries) Original publication data not identified Bawdy poetry PR Original publication data not identified 24008186 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17779 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/17779 UtSlPG 260607 20260610133420.0 17779