Flamma sine Fumo or, poems without fictions. Hereunto are annexed the Causes, Symptoms, or Signes of several Diseases with their Cures, and also the diversity of Urines, with their Causes in Poetical measure. By R. W. [i.e. Rowland Watkyns] |
Upon the fair and vertuous Gentlewoman Mrs. M. S. that can sing excellently.
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Upon the fair and vertuous Gentlewoman Mrs. M. S. that can sing excellently.
Gratior est virtus veniens è corpore pulchro.
When first I did this Virgin spie,
The object pleas'd my serious eye
But when I heard her sing, I swear,
The musick took both heart and ear.
Those inward vertues please us best,
Which are with outward beauty drest;
And 'tis a comely thing to find
In bodies fair, a fairer mind:
The Harp, the Viol hither bring,
And Birds, musitians of the Spring;
When she doth sing, those must be mute,
They are but Cymbals to the Lute:
She with her Notes doth rise, and fall,
More sweetly than the Nightingal:
God in her pious heart keeps place,
Seme Angel in her voice and face.
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