Wits recreations. Selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses

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Wits recreations. Selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses
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London :: Printed by R[ichard] H[odgkinson and Thomas Paine] for Humphry Blunden at the Castle in Corn-hill,
1640.
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English wit and humor -- Early works to 1800.
Epigrams, English -- Early works to 1800.
Epitaphs -- England -- Early works to 1800.
Proverbs, English -- Early works to 1800.
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"Wits recreations. Selected from the finest fancies of moderne muses." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A15606.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.

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153 On a faire Gentlewoman whose name was Brown.

We praise the faire, and our inventions wrack, In pleasing numbers to applaud the black, We court this Ladies eye, that Ladyes haire, The faire love black, the black best like the faire Yet neither sort, I court, I doate upon Nor faire nor black, but a complexion More rare then either; she that is the crown Of my entire affection is brown,

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And yet shees faire, 'tis strange, how can it be, That two complexions should in one agree Do I love Brown, my love can please mine eye, And ate my narrow'st curiosity, If I like faire, she hath so sweet a grace, That I could leave an Angell for her face, Let any judge then, which complexion's rarest, In my opinion, she is Brown that's fairest.
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