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017.043.0HE  %1On the praise of an ill-favourd /%XGentlewoman%2.  
017.043.001  MArry and love thy %1Flavia%2, for she  
017.043.002  Hath all things whereby others beautious \(be: 
017.043.003  For though her eyes be small, her mouth is great, 
017.043.004  Though her lips Ivory be, her teeth be jet: 
017.043.005  Though they be dark, yet she is light enough, 
017.043.006  And though her harsh hair fail, her skin is rough, 
017.043.007  And what if it be yellow, her haires red, 
017.043.008  Give her but thine she has a maidenhead. 
017.043.009  These things are beauties elements, where these 
017.043.010  Compounded are in one she needs must please: 
017.043.011  If red and white and each good quality 
017.043.012  Be in the wench, nere ask where it doth lye: 
017.043.013  In buying things perfumed we ask if there 
017.043.014  Be musk and amber in it, but not where. 
017.043.015  Though all her parts be not ith'usuall place, 
017.043.016  She hath the anagram of a good face. 
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017.043.019  When by the gam-ut some Musitians make 
017.043.020  A perfect song, others will undertake 
017.043.021  By the same gam-ut chang'd to equall it: 
017.043.022  Things simply good can never be unfit. 
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017.043.033  For one nights revells silk and gold we use, 
017.043.034  But in long journies cloth and leather chuse. 
017.043.035  Beauty is barren oft; and husbands say 
017.043.036  There's the best land where is the foulest way. 
017.043.037  And what a soveraigne medicine will she be 
017.043.038  If thy past sins have taught thee jealousie. 
017.043.039  Here needs no spies nor Eunuchs: her commit 
017.043.040  Safe to thy foes yea to thy Marmoset. 
017.043.041  When %1Belgias%2 Cities th'ruind country drown 
017.043.042  That durty foulness armes and guards the Town. 
017.043.043  So doth her face guard her, and so for thee, 
017.043.044  Which by occasion absent oft mayest be. 
017.043.045  She whose face like the clouds turns day to night, 
017.043.046  And mightier then the Sea makes Moors seem /(white, 
017.043.047  Who though seven years she in the street hath laid 
017.043.048  A Nunnery durst receive and think a maid. 
017.043.049  And though in child-bed labour she did lie 
017.043.050  Midwives would swear 'twere but a tympany. 
017.043.051  If she accuse her selfe, i'le credit lesse 
017.043.052  Then witches which impossibles confesse. 
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017.043.0$$  %1Last words of ll. 2 & 46 moved from the ll. where they actually 
appeared in EWS's files--last word of l.46 was on a line by itself; 1st l. of 
HE was aligned left, 2nd centered under it%2