Parthenophil and Parthenophe Sonnettes, Madrigals, Elegies and Odes [by Barnabe Barnes] |
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MADRIGALL 15.
[Natures pride, loues pearle, vertues perfection]
Natures pride, loues pearle, vertues perfection,In sweetnesse, bewtie, grace,
Of body, face, affection,
Hath glorie, brightnesse, place,
In rosie cheekes, cleare eyes, and heauenly minde:
All which, with wonder, honour, prayse take race
To charme, to shine, to flye, with fames protection:
Mine hart the first, mine eyes next, third my thought,
Did wound, did blind, did binde,
Which greeu'd, obscur'd, and wrought,
Hart, eyes, and sences with such imperfection,
That in their former comfort, sight, and kinde,
The moued, gaz'd, and sought,
Yet found not, in what order, sort, and case,
Of teares, plaints, sighes, with seas, with murmure, winde,
To finde, to get, t'imbrace,
Natures pride, loues pearle, vertues perfection.
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