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WITH A PICTURE SENT TO A FRIEND by RICHARD CRASHAW

Poet Analysis

First Line: I PAINT SO ILL, MY PEECE HAD NEED TO BEE
Last Line: MY LOVE, OR FEIGN'D OR PAINTED SHOULD APPEARE.
Subject(s): PAINTINGS & PAINTERS;
I Paint so ill, my peece had need to bee
Painted againe by some good Poesie.
I write so ill, my slender Line is scarce
So much as th' Picture of a well-lim'd verse.
Yet may the love I send be true, though I
Send nor true Picture, nor true Poesie:
Both which away, I should not need to feare,
My Love, or Feign'd or painted should appeare.



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