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THE FAREWELL TO FOLLY: DESCRIPTION OF THE LADY MAESIA, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her stature and her shape were passing tall
Last Line: To show what nature's cunning could afford.
Subject(s): Beauty; Goddesses & Gods; Mythology; Women


HER stature and her shape were passing tall,
Diana-like, when 'longst the lawns she goes;
A stately pace, like Juno when she brav'd
The Queen of Love 'fore Paris in the vale;
A front beset with love and majesty;
A face like lovely Venus when she blush'd
A seely shepherd should be beauty's judge;
A lip sweet ruby-red, grac'd with delight;
Her eyes two sparkling stars in winter-night
When chilling frost doth clear the azur'd sky;
Her hairs, in tresses twin'd with threads of silk,
Hung waving down like Phœbus' in his prime;
Her breasts as white as those two snowy swans
That draw to Paphos Cupid's smiling dame;
A foot like Thetis' when she tripp'd the sands
To steal Neptunus' favour with her steps;
In fine, a piece, despite of beauty, fram'd
To show what Nature's cunning could afford.





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