Eddie Pensier writes:

The girls today in society
Go for classical poetry.
So to win their hearts one must quote with ease
Aeschylus and Euripides.
One must know Homer, and believe me, Beau
Sophocles, also Sappho-ho.
Unless you know Shelley and Keats and Pope
Dainty debbies will call you a dope.

But the poet of them all
Who will start ’em simply ravin’
Is the poet people call
The Bard of Stratford on Avon

Brush up your Shakespeare
Start quoting him now
Brush up your Shakespeare
And the women you will wow

Just declaim a few lines from Othella
And they’ll think you’re a hell of a fella.
If your blonde won’t respond when you flatter’er
Tell her what Tony told Cleopatterer.
If she fights when her clothes you are mussing,
What are clothes? Much Ado About Nothing!
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they’ll all kow-tow.

With the wife of the British ambassada,
Try a crack out of Troilus and Cressida.
If she says she won’t buy it or “tike” it,
Make her “tike” it, what’s more As You Like It.
If she says your behavior is heinous,
Kick her right in the Coriolanus!
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they’ll all kow-tow.

If you can’t be a ham and do Hamlet,
They will not give a damn or a damlet.
Just recite an occasional sonnet
And your lap will have honey upon it

When your baby is pleading for pleasure,
Let her sample your Measure for Measure!
Brush up your Shakespeare
And they’ll all kow-tow.

Cole Porter, Kiss Me, Kate (1948)