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[You meaner Beauties of the night, that weakly satisfie our eyes]
You meaner Beauties of the night, that weakly satisfie our eyes,
More by your number than your light, like common people of the skies;
What are you when the Moon shall rise?
More by your number than your light, like common people of the skies;
What are you when the Moon shall rise?
You Violets that first appear, and by your purple mantles known,
Like the proud Virgins of the year, as if the Spring were all your own;
What are you when the Rose is blown?
Like the proud Virgins of the year, as if the Spring were all your own;
What are you when the Rose is blown?
You lusty Chanters of the Wood, that fill the Ayre with natures layes,
Thinking your passions understood by Accents weak, what is your praise,
When Philomell her voyce shall raise?
Thinking your passions understood by Accents weak, what is your praise,
When Philomell her voyce shall raise?
So when my Princes shall be seen, in sweetness of her looks and minde,
By Vertue first, then chuse a Queen, tell me if she were not design'd,
The Ecclipse and Glory of her kinde?
By Vertue first, then chuse a Queen, tell me if she were not design'd,
The Ecclipse and Glory of her kinde?
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