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vi. De Porcheres, on the eies of Madame la Marquise de Monceaux,
Thus englished.
Wer these thine eies, or lightnings from aboue,Vhose glistring glances dazel'd so my sight?
I tooke them to be lightnings send from Joue
To threten that theer thunder bolt vald light.
But lightnings culd not lest so long so bright.
Thay rather semed for to be suns, vhose rayes
Promou'd to the Meridian of theer might,
Did change my noisome nights in joyful dayes.
But euen in that theer nomber them bevrayes
Suns ar thay not: the vorld endures but one.
Theer force, theer figure, & theer coulour sayes
That thay ar heuens; but heuens on earth ar none.
Be vhat thay vil, theer poure in force agrees:
The heauns, the sune, the lightnings, and her eies.
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