THE HONEST WHORE.
17391739Hath
from the cunning workemans pencill
flowne,
17401740The
se lippes looke
fre
sh and liuely as her owne,
17411741Seeming to mooue and
speake. Las! now I
see,
17421742The rea
son why fond women loue to buy
17431743Adulterate complexion
: here 'tis read,
17441744Fal
se coulours la
st after the true be dead.
17451745Of all the Ro
ses grafted on her cheekes,
17461746Of all the graces dauncing in her eyes,
17471747Of all the Mu
sick
set vpon her tongue,
17481748Of all that was pa
st womans excellence,
17491749In her white bo
some, looke! a painted board,
17501750Circum
scribes all: Earth can no bli
sse a
ffoord.
17511751Nothing of her, but this
? this cannot
speake,
17521752It has no lap for me to re
st vpon,
17531753No lip worth ta
sting: here the wormes will feed,
17541754As in her co
ffin: hence then idle Art,
17551755True loue's be
st pi
cturde in a true-loues heart.
17561756Here art thou drawne
sweet maid, till this be dead,
17571757So that thou liu'
st twice, twice art buried.
17581758Thou
figure of my
friend, lye there. Whats here?
17591759Perhaps this
shrewd pate was mine enimies:
17601760Las!
say it were
: I need not feare him now:
17611761For all his braues, his contumelious breath,
17621762His
frownes (tho dagger-pointed) all his plot,
17631763(Tho 'nere
so mi
schieuous) his Italian pilles,
17641764His quarrels, and (that common fence) his law,
17651765See,
see, they're all eaten out; here's not left one
? 17661766How cleane they're pickt away! to the bare bone!
17671767How mad are mortals then to reare great names
17681768On tops of
swelling hou
ses? or to weare out
17691769Their
fingers ends (in durt,) to
scrape vp gould!
17701770Not caring
so (that Sumpter-hor
se) the back
17711771Be hung with gawdy trappings, with what cour
se,
17721772Yea rags mo
st beggerly, they cloath the
soule:
17731773Yet (after all) their
Gay-nes lookes thus foule.
17741774What fooles are men to build a gari
sh tombe,
17751775Onely to
saue the carca
sse whil
st it rots,
17761776To maintein't long in
stincking, make good carion,
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