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017.B32.001 Marry, and loue thy Flauia, for shee
017.B32.002 Hath all thinges, whereby Others beauteous bee,
017.B32.003 For though her eyes bee small, her mouth%Y*%Z is greate,
017.B32.004 Though they bee iuorye, yet her teeth bee iett.
017.B32.005 Though they be dimme, yet shee is light enough.
017.B32.006 And though her harsh heyre fall, her skin is rough.
017.B32.007 What though her cheekes be yellowe, her hayre is redd,
017.B32.008 Giue her thyne, and she hath a maydenheade.
017.B32.009 These thinges are beauteyes Elements, where these
017.B32.010 Meete in one, that one must as perfect please.
017.B32.011 If red and white, and each good qualitye,
017.B32.012 Bee in thy wench, nere aske, where it doth lye;
017.B32.013 In buyinge thinges perfum'd, wee aske if there
017.B32.014 Be muske, and Amber in yt, but not where.
017.B32.015 Though all her Parts bee not in th'vsuall Place, [f.97r
017.B32.016 She hath yett an Anagram of a good face.
017.B32.017 If wee might put the letters but one way,
017.B32.018 In the leane dearth of letters, what could wee say?
017.B32.019 When by the Gamut some Musitians make
017.B32.020 A Perfect song, Others will vndertake,
017.B32.021 By the same Gamut chang'd to equall yt.
017.B32.022 Thinges symplye good, can never be vnfitt.
017.B32.023 Shee ys as fayre as any, yf all be like her,
017.B32.024 And if none be, then shee is singularr.
017.B32.025 All love is wonder, yf wee iustlye doe
017.B32.026 Accompt her wonderfull, why not lovelye too?
017.B32.027 Love built on beautye, sone as Beautye dyes,
017.B32.028 Chuse this face, chang'd by no Deformityes.
017.B32.029 Women are all like Angells: the fayre bee
017.B32.030 Like those which fell to worse; but such as shee,
017.B32.031 Like to good Angells nothing can impayre:
017.B32.032 'Tis lesse Greife to be foule, then to haue bin fayre.
017.B32.033 For one nights Revells, silke, and gold wee chuse,
017.B32.034 But in long Iorneyes cloth, and leather vse.
017.B32.035 Beautye is barren ofte: Best husbands say,
017.B32.036 There is best land, where there is foulest way.
017.B32.037 Oh what a Soueraigne Playster will shee bee,
017.B32.038 If thy past sinnes haue taught thee Iealousye.
017.B32.039 Here needes noe spyes, nor Eunuckes; Her committ
017.B32.040 Safe to thy foes: yea to a Marmositt.
017.B32.041 When Belgiaes Cittyes, the round Cuntryes drowne,
017.B32.042 That durtye foulenes, guardes, and Armes the towne.
017.B32.043 So doth her face guard her; And so for thee,
017.B32.044 Which forc'd by busines absent oft must bee.
017.B32.045 Shee whose face, like Cloudes, turnes the day to night,
017.B32.046 Who mightier then the sea, make Moores seeme whight
017.B32.047 Who though seauen yeares, she in the stewes had layd,
017.B32.048 A nunnerye durst receiue, and thincke a Mayde,
017.B32.049 And though in Childbirths labor she did lye,
017.B32.050 Midwifes would sweare t'weare but a Tympanye,
017.B32.051 Whom, yf sh'accuse herselfe, I creditt lesse,
017.B32.052 Then witches, which Impossibles confesse.
017.B32.053 Whom Dildoes, Bedstaues, and her velvett glasse
017.B32.054 Would be as loth to touch, as Joseph was:
017.B32.055 One like none, and lik'd of none fittest weare,
017.B32.056 For thinges in fashion everye man will weare.
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