Pohetica Stromata or A Collection of Sundry Peices in Poetry: Drawne by the known and approued Hand of R. C. [i.e. Richard Corbett] |
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TO THE LADYES OF THE NEW DRESSE,
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TO THE LADYES OF THE NEW DRESSE,
That weare their Gorgets & Rayles downe to their wastes.
Ladyes, that weare black cipress-vailesTurn'd lately to white linnen-rayles,
And to your girdle weare your bands,
And Shew your armes instead of hands;
What can you doe in Lent so meet,
As fittest dress, to weare a sheet?
T'was once a band, 'tis now a cloake,
An acorne one day proues an oke:
Weare but your linnen to your feet,
And then your band will proue a sheet.
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You'l doe your penance in a dresse;
And none shall know, by what they see,
Which Lady's censur'd, & which free.
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