The poems of George Daniel ... From the original mss. in the British Museum: Hitherto unprinted. Edited, with introduction, notes, and illustrations, portrait, &c. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart: In four volumes |
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Woman Charactred.
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Woman Charactred.
Chast, as an aged Hermit, at his Death;ffaire, as the morning, sweeter then the Breath
Of Violets; and as the Turtle, true;
Where She affects, never enquiring new;
And (seing the world 'counts it an ornament)
She Shall be rich sufficient to Content;
Not starrs, but equall Sunns, are her faire Eyes,
Dressing the Sphere, where all perfection Lyes;
Soe sweetly modest, as in either Eye
(Without a gvide) men might read Chastitie;
The common Praise, of Lillie, and the Rose,
ffresh as in Iune, here in December growes;
Her necke, her brest, her wast; (for lower, I
Not dare to fall,) might ravish everie Eye;
To adorne these, Motion, which in soe faire state
Shee doth Expresse, Iuno might imitate;
Sober, to speake, but when her Accents come,
Minerva present, would be stricken dumbe;
A Mind beyond Expression; vertuous, more
Then Anchorites, even in their Dying Hower;
All these, in Woman; but which, which is Shee?
All women, are soe; or at least, should Bee.
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