"I couldn't be certain but I suspected this was the first time Paradise Lost got someone laid."
It's the delivery! ++ the fact that women get very bored with lines like:
"you have great tits!"
"I have a wonderful key!"
"did you come?
Going for the mind is a wonderful and rare tactic if you believe it and mean it.
I still remember the night when, post coitum, a lover whispered Jonson's hymn in my ear
Queen, and huntress, chaste and fair, Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep :
Hesperus entreats thy light,
Goddess excellently bright.
Earth, let not thy envious shade Dare itself to interpose ; Cynthia's shining orb was made Heaven to clear when day did close :
Bless us then with wishèd sight,
Goddess excellently bright.
Lay thy bow of pearl apart, And thy crystal shining quiver ; Give unto the flying hart Space to breathe, how short soever :
Thou that mak'st a day of night,
Goddess excellently bright.
Got him big, big points. Not to mention round two.
Joanna