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The First Fovre Bookes of Virgil his AEneis

Translated intoo English heroical verse by Richard Stanyhurst, wyth oother Pohetical diuises theretoo annexed
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AN ENDEVOVRED DESCRIPTION of his Mystresse.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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11 occurrences of Dames
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AN ENDEVOVRED DESCRIPTION of his Mystresse.

Nature in her woorcking soomtyme dooth pinche lyke a niggard,
Disfiguring creatures, lyms with deformitye dusking.
This man is vnioyncted, that swad lyke a monster abydeth;
Shee limps in the going, this slut with a cammoysed hancks nose,
And as a Cow wasted plods on, with an head lyke a lutecase.
Theese faultes fond Hodipecks impute too Nature, as yf she
Too frame were not habil gems with rare dignitye lustring.
Wherfor in aduis'ment laboring too cancel al old blots,

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And toe make a patterne of price, thee maystrye toe pubblish:
For toe shape a peerlesse paragon shee mynded, asembling
Her force and cunning: for a spirt lands sundrye refusing,
And with al her woorckmat's trauayling shee lighteth in Holland,
Round too the Hage posting, to the world Marye matchles auauncing.
In bodye fine fewterd, a braue Brownnetta; wel handed;
Her stature is coomly; not an ynch toe superfluus holding;
Gratius in visadge; with a quick eye prittelye glauncing;
Her lips lyke corral rudye, with teeth lillye whit eeuened.
Yoong in age, in manners and nurture sage she remayneth;
Bashful in her speaking; not rash, but watchful in aunswer;
Her look's, her simpring, her woords with curtesye sweetning;
Kynd and also modest; lyking with chastitye lyncking;
And in al her gesturs obseruing coomlye Decorum.
But toe what eend labor J, me toe presse with burden of Ætna:
Thee stars too number, poincts playnely vncounctabil opning.
Whust: not a woord: a silence such a task impossibil asketh.
Her vertu meriteth more prayse, than parlye can vtter.