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They dixfs'cl the bride from top to toe, .i^hcnt' ,vp-A
And brought her from the chamber^
Deck'd in her robes and garments gav.
More fumptuous than the Jive-long day^
Or ftars inflirin'd in amber.
The fparkling bulhes of her eyes, /
Like two eclipied funs, did rife
Beneath her chryflal brow ;
To fhew, like thofe ftrange accidents^
Some fudden changeable events
Were like to hap below.
Her cheeks beftreak'd with white and red.
Like pretty tell-tales of the bed,
;^ Prefig'd the bluftring night j
"With his incircling anus and fhade, ' s^sriW
Refoiv'd to fv^al low and. invade, , ■ ;^ jfjll;
And fcreen her virgin light, >m)l aaftO
Her lips, thofe threads of fcarlet dye, '^^
Whtrein love's charms and quivers ly;>
Legions cf fweets did crown,
Which fmilingly did feem to fay,
O crop me ! crop me ! whilft you may^
Anon they're not mine own.
Herbreafts, thofe melting ^^d-j of friow^
On wbofe fair hills, in open ihow,
The god of love lay napping ;
L"ke fwelling buts of li-zely wine.
Upon their ivory tilts did ihine.
To wait the lucky tapping.
Her waift, that tender type of m-an^
Was but a linall and fmgle fpan ;
Yet I dare fa&iy fwear, .
He, that whole; thoulaads has in fee,
Would forfeit all, fp he m.ight be
Lord of the manor there* Bu*
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