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[It seem'd a virgin full of liuing flame]

It seem'd a virgin full of liuing flame,
That would haue mou'd, if not with-held by shame
So Art it selfe conceald. His Art admires.
From th' Image drawes imaginarie fires,
And often feeles it with his hands to try,
If 'twere a Bodie or cold Iuorie.
Nor could resolue. Who kissing thought it kist.
He courts, embraces, wrings it by the wrist.
Master Sands in Oxids Metæ. lib. 10.