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CHERRY-RIPE

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CXXXI

CHERRY-RIPE

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CHERRY-RIPE, ripe, ripe, I cry,
Full and fair ones; come and buy.
If so be you ask me where
They do grow, I answer: There
Where my Julia's lips do smile;
There's the land, or cherry-isle,
Whose plantations fully show
where cherries grow.

All the

year

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2.

Herrick.

THERE is a garden in her face

Where roses and white lilies blow; A heavenly paradise is that place Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow: There cherries grow that none may buy Till Cherry-ripe' themselves do cry.

Those cherries fairly do enclose

Of orient pearl a double row,

Which when her lovely laughter shows,

They look like rose-buds fill'd with snow
Yet them nor peer nor prince may buy
TillCherry-ripe' themselves do cry.

;

Her eyes

like angels watch them still; Her brows like bended bows do stand, Threat'ning with piercing frowns to kill All that attempt with eye or hand Those sacred cherries to come nigh, Till Cherry-ripe' themselves do cry. T. Campion.

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DRESS AND UNDRESS

My Love in her attire doth show her wit,
It doth so well become her;

For every season she hath dressings fit,
For Winter, Spring, and Summer.
No beauty she doth miss

When all her robes are on:

But Beauty's self she is

When all her robes are gone.

Anon.

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SIMPLEX MUNDITIIS

STILL to be neat, still to be drest,

As you were going to a feast;

Still to be powder'd, still perfumed :
Lady, it is to be presumed,

Though art's hid causes are not found,
All is not sweet, all is not sound.

ART ABOVE NATURE: TO JULIA

Give me a look, give me a face

That makes simplicity a grace;
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free:

Such sweet neglect more taketh me
Than all th' adulteries of art;

They strike mine eyes, but not

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heart.

B. Jonson,

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ART ABOVE NATURE: TO JULIA

WHEN I behold a forest spread
With silken trees upon thy head,
And when I see that other dress
Of flowers set in comeliness;
When I behold another grace
In the ascent of curious lace,
Which like a pinnacle doth show
The top, and the top-gallant too;
Then, when I see thy tresses bound
Into an oval, square, or round,
And knit in knots far more than I
Can tell by tongue, or true-love tie ;
Next, when those lawny films I see
Play with a wild civility,
And all those airy silks to flow,
Alluring me, and tempting so :
I must confess mine eye and heart
Dotes less of Nature than on Art.

Herrick.

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DELIGHT IN DISORDER

A SWEET disorder in the dress
Kindles in clothes a wantonness :
A lawn about the shoulders thrown
Into a fine distraction:

An erring lace, which here and there
Enthrals the crimson stomacher:
A cuff neglectful, and thereby
Ribbons to flow confusedly:

A winning wave, deserving note,

In the tempestuous petticoat:
A careless shoe-string, in whose tie
I see a wild civility :

Do more bewitch me than when art
Is too precise in every part.

Herrick.

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UPON JULIA'S CLOTHES

WHENAS in silks my Julia goes,

Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows The liquefaction of her clothes!

and see

Next, when I cast mine eyes
That brave vibration each way free,
-O how that glittering taketh me!

Herrick.

THE COMPLETE LOVER

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THE COMPLETE LOVER

1. He

FOR her gait, if she be walking;
Be she sitting, I desire her

For her state's sake; and admire her
For her wit if she be talking;

Gait and state and wit approve her;
For which all and each I love her.

Be she sullen, I commend her
For a modest. Be she merry,
For a kind one her prefer I.
Briefly, everything doth lend her

So much grace, and so approve her,

That for everything I love her.

Wm. Browne.

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2. She

Love not me for comely grace,
For my pleasing eye or face,

Nor for any outward part,

No, nor for a constant heart:

For these may fail or turn to ill,
So thou and I shall sever:

Keep, therefore, a true woman's eye,
And love me still but know not why-

So hast thou the same reason still

To doat upon me ever!

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