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Natures Picture Drawn by Fancies Pencil To the Life

Being several Feigned Stories, Comical, Tragical, Tragi-comical, Poetical, Romancical, Philosophical, Historical, and Moral: Some in Verse, some in Prose; some Mixt, and some by Dialogues. Written by the Thrice Noble, Illustrious, and most Excellent Princess, The Duchess of Newcastle [i.e. Margaret Cavendish]. The Second Edition

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[Here on this Figure Cast a Glance.]
 
 
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[Here on this Figure Cast a Glance.]

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This poem accompanies the frontispiece illustration.

Here on this Figure Cast a Glance.
But so as if it were by Chance.
Your eyes not fixt they must not stay.
Since this like Shadowes to the Day
It only represent's; for Still,
Her Beuty's found beyond the Skill
Of the best Paynter, to Imbrace,
Those lovely Lines within her face,
View her Soul's Picture. Judgment, witt,
Then read those Lines which Shee hath writt,
By Peancy's Pencill drawne alone
Which Peece but Shee, Can justly owne.