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017.C04.0HE  To a Louer.
017.C04.001  X Marry and loue thy fflauia: for shee
017.C04.002  Hath all things by which others beautous bee
017.C04.003  ffor what though her eyes be small, her mouth is greate,
017.C04.004  Though her lips be Ivory, yet her teeth be iet,
017.C04.005  Though her eye be dimme yet she is light enough,
017.C04.006  And though her harsh haire fall, her skinne is rough:
017.C04.007  What though her cheekes be yellow, her haire is red,
017.C04.008  And giue her thine shee hath a maiden head:
017.C04.009  These things are beauties elements; where these
017.C04.010  Met in one that must as perfect please,
017.C04.011  If redd, and white, and each good qualitie
017.C04.012  Bee in thy wench; neare aske where they >doe< ly,
017.C04.013  In buying things perfumd, wee aske if there
017.C04.014  Bee muske, and amber in it, but not where:
017.C04.015  Though all her parts be not in th'vsuall place,
017.C04.016  Shee has yet an angram of a good face,
017.C04.017  If wee might put the letters but one way
017.C04.018  In that dearth of words what could wee say.
017.C04.019  When by the gammoth some musitians make
017.C04.020  A perfect song, others will vndertake
017.C04.021  By the same Gammuth changd to equall it.
017.C04.022  Things simply good can neuer be vnfit. [CW:om]
017.C04.023  Shees faire as any%Yother%Z if all be like her, [4r]
017.C04.024  And if none be shee is then a singuler:
017.C04.025  All loue is wonderfull, if wee iustly doe
017,C04,026  Account her wonderfull, why not louely too,
017.C04.027  Loue built on beauty, soone as beauty dyes,
017.C04.028  Choose this face changd by noe deformities.
017.C04.029  Weomen are like to Angells that faire bee
017.C04.030  Like those that fell to worst, but such as shee
017.C04.031  Like to good angells nothing can impaire,
017.C04.032  Tis better to be foule, then t'haue bin faire;
017.C04.033  ffor one nights reuels silke, and gold wee vse,
017.C04.034  But in long iurneys cloth, and leather chuse,
017.C04.035  Beauty is barren oft, best husbands say,
017.C04.036  There is best land, where there is foulest way.
017.C04.037  O what soueraigne plaister will she bee
017.C04.038  If thy pastimes haue taught her iealousie,
017.C04.039  Heere neede noe spies, nor keepers, her committe
017.C04.040  Safe to thy foes, yea to a marmosite:
017.C04.041  When Belgias citties the >%Vfoule< cuntries drowne,
017.C04.042  That durty foulnesse guards, and arms the towne,
017.C04.043  Soe doeth her face guard her let that arme thee,
017.C04.044  Who forct by businesse must absent bee;
017.C04.045  Shee whose face like clouds makes day seeme night,
017.C04.046  Who mightier then the sea makes moores seeme white,
017.C04.047  Who though 2 yeares shee in the stwes had laid,
017.C04.048  A nunry durst receiue, and thinke a maid.
017.C04.049  And though in childbed labour shee did ly
017.C04.050  Midwiues would sweare t'were but a timpany,
017.C04.051  Wh'if shee confesse her selfe, Ile credit lesse
017.C04.052  Then witches who doe impossibilities confesse,
017.C04.053  Whome Dildoes Bestaues, and her veluet glasse,
017.C04.054  Would be as loth to touch as Ioseph was,
017.C04.055  One like none, and likd of none fittest were,
017.C04.056  ffor things in fashion, euery one would weare. 
017.C04.0SS  I.D.|
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