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The Furies

With Vertues Encomium. Or, The Image of Honour. In two Bookes of Epigrammes, Satyricall and Encomiasticke. By R.N. [i.e. Richard Niccols]
  

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Epig. XXVII.

Some thinke, that naked vertue, which of yore
Was seene in women, is now seene no more.
I thinke not so: if vertue naked be,
In women, men, more vertue nere did see.
For doubtlesse vertue being naked rests
With much content in their all naked brests.