A collection of the choicest epigrams and characters of Richard Flecknoe being rather a new work, then [sic] a new impression of the old.
Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?
On a Ladies blushing, when the King looked upon her.
SO Roses blush, when look'd on by the Sun,
As she, when by the King she's look'd upon.
And so of all fair things, we nothing see,
More fair in Nature, than the Rose and she.
If things take name from their original,
We well her Blushes Royal ones may call;
And if we'ave lost the Royal Purples stain,
It in her Cheeks may well be found again.
Mean time as 'tis a sign the Sun draws near,
When fair Aurora blushing does appear,
To see her blushing, when the King does come,
You'd say she were Aurora, he the Sun.
