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017.F04.0HE  D%5r%6 Dunne. %1The praise of an old Woman.%2
017.F04.001  Marry and love thy Flavia, for shee
017.F04.002  Hath all things wherewith others beautuous bee
017.F04.003  What though her eies bee small, Her Mouth is Great, 
017.F04.004  Her Lipps though Ivory her->>yet< her Teeth are Iett:
017.F04.005  Though they bee dimme yet there is Light enough
017.F04.006  And though Her harsh Haire fall, her Skinne is Rough.
017.F04.007  Though yellow bee her cheek%Ye%Zs; her Haire is Redd;
017.F04.008  Give her thine, and shee hath a Maidenhead:
017.F04.009  These things are beauties Elements, Where these *
017.F04.010  Doe meete in one they must (as profitt) please.
017.F04.011  If White and Redd, and each good Quality
017.F04.012  Bee in thy wench, near'e aske where it doth ly;
017.F04.013  In buying things perfum'd, Wee aske if there [f.54v]
017.F04.014  Bee muske or Amber in itt, but not where:
017.F04.015  Though all her parts bee not i'th' vsuall place,
017.F04.016  Yet shee hath an %3Anagram%Me%4 of a good face.
017.F04.017  If wee might putt the letters but one way,
017.F04.018  In that leane dearth of words, What should wee say.
017.F04.019  When by the %3Gammut%4 some Musitians make
017.F04.020  A perfect song, others will undertake
017.F04.021  By the same %3Gam%Mut%4 chang'd to equall itt:
017.F04.022  Things simply good can never bee unfitt
017.F04.023  Shee is as faire as any, were all like her;
017.F04.024  And if none bee like, shee is singular.
017.F04.025  All Love is wonderfull; if we iustly doe [SYD CHANGED J TO I]
017.F04.026  Account her wonderful, Why not Lovely too?
017.F04.027  Love built on beauty, soone as (beauty) dies
017.F04.028om
017.F04.029  Women are all like Angells,
017.F04.030om
017.F04.031  Like to good Angells nothing can impaire,
017.F04.032  'Tis lesse greife to bee fowle than to have beene faire.
017.F04.033  Beauty is barren oft; Beast Husbands say,
017.F04.034  There is best land where is the fowlest way:
017.F04.035  For o%5r%6 Nights Revells, Silke and Gold wee chuse,
017.F04.036  But for long journies Cloth and Leather use.
017.F04.037  Oh what a Soveraigne plaister would shee bee,
017.F04.038  If thy part sinne had taught thee Iealousie->>Iealousy<;
017.F04.039  Here need no Spies, no Eunuchs: her com%Mitt
017.F04.040  Safe to thy Foe, I to a Marmusett.
017.F04.041  When Belgia Seas Low=Country Cittis drowne,
017.F04.042  That durty fowlnesse guards and armes and->>a< Towne;
017.F04.043  So doth her face guard Her: And so for thee,
017.F04.044  Who (first (by bussinesse) >%Vabsent< oft must bee.
017.F04.045  Shee in whose face the clouds turne day->>Day< to Night,
017.F04.046  Who mightier then seas makes Moores seeme White;
017.F04.047  Whom (though seven yeares she in the stewes hath layd)
017.F04.048  A Nunnery durst receive and thinke a Maide;
017.F04.049  And though in Child-Births labour she did ly,
017.F04.050  Midwives would sweare 'twere but a Timpany.
017.F04.051  Whom (if shee accuse her self) 'Ide creditt lesse,
017.F04.052  Then witches that impossible confesse;
017.F04.053  Whom Dildo, Bedstaffe, or a Velvett Glasse,
017.F04.054  Would be as loath to touch as Joseph was.
017.F04.055  One like none; and lik%Y*%Zt of none fitter we*re,
017.F04.056  For thinks in fashion every one will weare.
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