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The GIPSIE.
Upon Betty Boswel, Daughter to Captain Boswel, Leader of the Gipsies, to vindicate her.
1664.
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Gipsie! no such wonder, since tis known
How great Queen Cleopatra's self was one;
And that Mark Antony (whom old Rome saw
One of the three that to the World gave Law)
Wander'd abroad, leaving his Native home,
A Captain of the Gipsies to become.
We may as well that Empress Learning flout,
Who first from Egypt rang'd the World about.
How great Queen Cleopatra's self was one;
And that Mark Antony (whom old Rome saw
One of the three that to the World gave Law)
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A Captain of the Gipsies to become.
We may as well that Empress Learning flout,
Who first from Egypt rang'd the World about.
Because black-hair'd, and of a brownish hew,
Must Madam Betty be a Gypsie too?
The best complexion sure! and all men know,
That lines of Beauty nought to Colours owe.
What though her Cheeks be tann'd? it may be ghest
The shadow only that her Eye-beams cast.
Talk not what Silver drops in Pearls are found;
Black is the Water of a Diamond.
Her eyes (those sparkling Gems) hence shine more bright:
Jewels advance their lustre in the night.
There's none who sees her tho, but would be proud,
Ixion-like, to dally with this Cloud.
Must Madam Betty be a Gypsie too?
The best complexion sure! and all men know,
That lines of Beauty nought to Colours owe.
What though her Cheeks be tann'd? it may be ghest
The shadow only that her Eye-beams cast.
Talk not what Silver drops in Pearls are found;
Black is the Water of a Diamond.
Her eyes (those sparkling Gems) hence shine more bright:
Jewels advance their lustre in the night.
There's none who sees her tho, but would be proud,
Ixion-like, to dally with this Cloud.
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