A Fancy.
MArk how this polisht Eastern sheet
Doth with our Northern tincture meet,
For though the paper seem to sink,
Yet it receives, and bears the Ink;
And on her smooth soft brow these spots
Seem rather ornaments than blots;
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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"Poems, with a maske by Thomas Carew ... ; the songs were set in musick by Mr. Henry Lawes ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A34171.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 16, 2024.
Pages
Page 170
Like those you Ladies use to place
Mysteriously about your face;
Not only to set off and break
Shaddowes and Eye beams, but to speak
To the skild Lover, and relate
Vnheard, his sad or happy Fate:
Nor doe their Characters delight,
As careless workes of black and white
But 'cause you underneath may find
A sense that can informe the mind;
Divine, or moral rules impart
Or Raptures of Poetick Art:
So what at first was only fit
To fold up silkes, may wrap up wit.