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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]

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Upon a Gentlewoman with a bad face but a good, and pious mind.

Here Uertue is eclipst: and I do find
Her face a mask unto her fairer mind:
Thus Diamonds in rocks, as story tells,
And precious pearls are found in oyster-shells.
In this dark Lanthorn burnes a lamp most bright,
Under this cloud there is a glorious light;
Sweet vertues sparkling from her soul divine,
Will break forth through the thickest clouds, and shine.

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Nature in framing her, her skill forgot,
When she should fairly write, shee did but blot.
Her outside she compos'd of sturdy buffe,
But grace hath lind her with more precious stuffe.
Nature, and Grace in her could not agree,
The one was sparing, and the other free.