Parthenophil and Parthenophe Sonnettes, Madrigals, Elegies and Odes [by Barnabe Barnes] |
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SONNET LXXII.
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SONNET LXXII.
[My mistresse bewtie matched with the graces]
My mistresse bewtie matched with the gracesTwix't Phoeb', and Iuno should be Iudged there,
Where she with maske had, vayl'd the louely places,
And graces in like sort I masked were:
But when their louely bewties were disclos'd
This Nymphe (quoth Iuno) all the graces passeth,
For bewteous fauours in her face dispos'd,
Loues goddesse, in loues graces she surpasseth:
She doth not passe the graces Phoebe sade
(Though in her cheekes the graces richly sitte)
For they be subiectes to her bewtie made,
The glorie for this fayre Nymphe is most fitte:
There in her cheekes the graces blush for shame,
That in her cheekes to striue, the subiectes came.
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