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FROM
ELIZABETHAN MISCELLANIES AND SONG-BOOKS
BY UNNAMED OR UNCERTAIN AUTHORS
��6 1 A Praise of His Lady
- IVE place, you ladies, and begone!
Boast not yourselves at all ' For here at hand appioacheth one Whose face will stain you all.
��The virtue of her lively looks Excels the precious stone;
I wish to have none other books To read or look upon.
In each of her two crystal eyes
Smilcth a naked boy; It would you all in heart suffice
To see that lamp of joy.
I think Nature hath lost the mould Where she her shape did take;
Or else I doubt if Nature could So fair a creature make.
She may be well compared
Unto the Phoenix kind, Whose like was never seen or heard,
That any man can find.
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