Love's Dialect or; Poeticall Varieties; Digested Into a Miscelanie of various fancies. Composed by Tho. Iordan |
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A Gentleman desirous to have his Lady's Picture drawne, describes her thus.
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A Gentleman desirous to have his Lady's Picture drawne, describes her thus.
Ingenious Artist teach thy Pencill howTo paint a goddesse, I would let thee know
I have a Mistresse thy admired Art
Must limne like my description; doe no start
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And send thee once more to Parnassus hill
To heare Thalia's Lectures; have you seene
The lovely feature of the Cyprian Queene,
Her cheekes resemble somewhat; though each Rose
In her's seemes pluckt, and my Aurelia's growes;
Yet they may passe; the Lillyes that doe stand
Upon her breasts, tells you my Mistresse hand
Is patterne to their whitenesse; let her eyes
Not want that heavenly vertue to surprize
Onely my heart, let them be lov'd by none
Whose glories are to captive every one.
Tis onely my ambition for to be
Fit for my Mistresse, and shee fit for me.
But to my first description; for those haires
Adorne her head, paint them Diana weares;
And let her forehead not inferior be
To that which shewes great Iuno's majestie,
Let those two Rosy portalls, that I call
Her ruby lippes, be but so magicall
As his her owne, so sweet, so balmie made,
Sure I shall leave the substance for the shade.
If you thinke these Enigma's and that I
Strive but to pose you with my Poetry;
Making an argument you never saw
Such goddesses fayn'd by Poetick law:
I answer such divine powers you shall see
Get but a Mistresse, be in love (like me)
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