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LXXVII
LVLESIO'S SONNET.
Natura nihil frustra.
On women Nature did bestow two eyes,
Like Heauen's bright lamps, in matchles beauty shining,
Whose beames doe soonest captiuate the wise
And wary heads, made rare by arts refining.
But why did Nature in her choyce combining,
Plant two faire eyes within a beautious face,
That they might fauour two with equall grace?
Like Heauen's bright lamps, in matchles beauty shining,
Whose beames doe soonest captiuate the wise
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But why did Nature in her choyce combining,
Plant two faire eyes within a beautious face,
That they might fauour two with equall grace?
Venus did sooth vp Vulcan with one eye,
With th' other granted Mars his wished glee:
If she did so, who Hymen did defie,
Thinke loue no sinne, but grant an eye to me,
In vayne else Nature gaue two stars to thee:
If then two eyes may well two friends maintaine,
Allow of two, and proue not Nature vayne.
With th' other granted Mars his wished glee:
If she did so, who Hymen did defie,
Thinke loue no sinne, but grant an eye to me,
In vayne else Nature gaue two stars to thee:
If then two eyes may well two friends maintaine,
Allow of two, and proue not Nature vayne.
Natura repugnare belluinum.
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