Poems, with a maske by Thomas Carew ... ; the songs were set in musick by Mr. Henry Lawes ...

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Title: Poems, with a maske by Thomas Carew ... ; the songs were set in musick by Mr. Henry Lawes ...
Author: Carew, Thomas, 1595?-1639?
Publication: London :: Printed for H.M., and are to be sold by J. Martin ...,; 1651.
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SONG. To one, who when I prais'd my Mistris beauty, said I was blind.

VVOnder not though I am blind,
For you must be
Dark in your eyes, or in your mind,
If when you see
Her face, you prove not blind like me;
If the powerfull beams that fly
From her eye
And those amorous sweets that lye
Scatter'd in each neighbouring part,
Find a passage to your heart,
Then you'l confess your mortall sight
Too weak for such a glorious light:
For if her graces you discover,
You grow like me a dazel'd Lover;
But if those beauties you not spy,
Then are you blinder farre than I.