 | Ostella Or the Faction of Love and Beauty Reconcil'd |  |
Ostella discribed.
Let others search for Metaphors to raiseunto their Mistress Pyramides of praise
If mine deserve it, shee in time may have it,
in the mean time 'tis labour and 'ile save it,
Onely without the help of Art as nature,
hath ornamented her behold her Feature.
Her hair is lovely brown, her Face is fair,
Her eyes are black, her cheeks such colours wear.
As Art may imitate, but not excell,
her forehead high, composed passing well;
Her nose of modest size, her mouth the like,
her lips are full and red, the veins do strike;
Into Meanders, down her Neck and Breast;
her Brest round, plump, and white; her skin the best
That Nature ever blanch'd; her fingers small;
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Her waste of just proportion for a span,
straight shap'd; her feet (for there's the last I can
Discover) slender, instep somewhat high:
you have the full of my discovery.
Each Painter thus may take her Outward part,
But he must needs have skill, can take her Heart.
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