A nursery of novelties in Variety of Poetry Planted for the delightful leisures of Nobility and Ingenuity. Composed by Tho. Jordan |
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8. Epigram. On a Lady whose name was Mrs. Brown.
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8. Epigram. On a Lady whose name was Mrs. Brown.
We praise the fair, and our Inventions wrack,In pleasing Sonnets to applaud the Black;
We court this Ladies Eye, that Mistress Hair,
The fair love black, the black affect the fair;
Yet neither sort I court, I doat upon
Nor fair nor black, but a complexion
More rare then either, she that is the Crown
Of my intire affection is Brown.
And yet she's fair, 'tis strange, how can it be,
That two Complexions can in one agree;
Do I love Brown, my Love can please my eye,
And sate my narrowest Curiosity:
If I like fair, she hath so sweet a grace,
A man might leave an Angel for her face.
Let any judge then which Complexion's rarest,
In my opinion she is Brown that's fairest.
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