The Other World: The Comical History of the States and Empires of the World of the Moon (Earliest Sci-Fi Collection)

by Cyrano de Bergerac

Did your Father consult your Will and Pleasure, when he Embraced your Mother? Did he ask you, if you thought fit to see that Age, or to wait for another; if you would be satisfied to be the Son of a Sot, or if you had the Ambition to spring from a Brave Man? Alas, you whom alone the business concerned, were the only Person not consulted in the case.

Awesome passage!