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First Line: Martha is not so tall, nor yet so fair
Last Line: She's no more wit to ask than to deny.
Variant Title(s): Resolution In Four Sonnets, Of A Poetical Question Put To Me By A 4
Subject(s): Courtship


MARTHA is not so tall, nor yet so fair
As any of the other lovely three,
Her chiefest grace is poor simplicity,
Yet were the rest away, she were a star.

She's fair enough, only she wants the art
To set her beauties off as they can do,
And that's the cause she ne'er heard any woo,
Nor ever yet made conquest of a heart:

And yet her blood's as boiling as the best,
Which, pretty soul, does so disturb her rest,
And makes her languish so, she's fit to die.

Poor thing, I doubt she still must lie alone,
For being like to be attack'd by none,
She's no more wit to ask than to deny.





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