The Theater of Fine Devices containing an hundred morall Emblemes. First penned in french by Guillaume de la Perriere, and translated into English by Thomas Combe |
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EMBLEME XXXVII.
Herein the chiefest cause is taught,
For which the glasses first were wrought.
A woman should, and may well without pride,
For which the glasses first were wrought.
Looke in a looking glasse; and if she find
That she is faire, then must she so prouide
To sute that beautie with so faire a mind.
If she be blacke, then that default to hide
With inward beautie of another kind.
If women would do so, they were but asses
That should dislike the vse of looking-glasses.
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