Comedies, Tragi-comedies, With other Poems by Mr William Cartwright ... The Ayres and Songs set by Mr Henry Lawes |
To a Painters handsome Daughter.
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Comedies, Tragi-comedies, With other Poems | ||
To a Painters handsome Daughter.
Such are your Fathers Pictures, that we doBeleeve they are not Counterfeits, but true;
So lively, and so fresh, that we may swear
Instead of draughts, He hath plac'd Creatures there;
People, not shadows; which in time will be
Not a dead Number, but a Colony:
Nay, more yet, some think they have skill and Arts,
That th'are well-Bred, and Pictures of good Parts;
And you your Self, faire Julia, do disclose
Such Beauties, that you may seem one of those;
That having Motion gain'd at last, and sense,
Began to know it Self, and stole out thence.
Whiles thus his æmulous Art with Nature strives,
Some think H'hath none, Others he hath two Wives.
If you love none, fair Maid, but Look on all,
You then among his set of Pictures fall;
If that you look on all, and love all men,
The Pictures too will be your Sisters then,
For they as they have Life, so th' have this Fate
In the whole Lump either to Love or Hate;
Your Choice must shew you're of another Fleece,
And tell you are his Daughter, not his Piece:
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We two'l Embrace, and Love, and clear the doubt.
When you've brought forth your Like, the world will know
You are his Child; what Picture can do so.
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