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TRITAMERON: THE DESCRIPTION OF SILVESTRO'S LADY, by                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Her stature like the tall straight cedar-trees
Last Line: To show what nature's lineage could afford.
Variant Title(s): Silvestro's Lady-love
Subject(s): Beauty; Facades; Man-woman Relationships; Women; Appearances; Male-female Relations


HER stature like the tall straight cedar-trees
Whose stately bulks do fame th' Arabian groves;
A pace like princely Juno when she brav'd
The Queen of Love 'fore Paris in the vale;
A front beset with love and courtesy;
A face like modest Pallas when she blush'd
A seely shepherd should be beauty's judge;
A lip sweet ruby-red, grac'd with delight;
A cheek wherein for interchange of hue
A wrangling strife 'twixt lily and the rose;
Her eyes two twinckling stars in winter-nights
When chilling frost doth clear the azur'd sky;
Her hair of golden hue doth dim the beams
That proud Apollo giveth from his coach;
The Gnidian doves, whose white and snowy pens
Do stain the silver-streaming ivory,
May not compare with those two moving hills
Which, topp'd with pretty teats, discover down a vale
Wherein the God of Love may deign to sleep;
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 lineage could afford.





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