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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=391869" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Ad Comitissam Rutlandiæ</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Madam, so may my verses pleasing be,<br>So may you laugh at them and not at me,<br>'Tis something to you gladly I would say;<br>But how to do't I cannot find the way.<br>I would avoid the common beaten ways<br>To women used, which are love or praise:<br>As for the first, the little wit I have<br>Is not yet grown so near unto the grave,<br>But that I can, by that dim fading light,<br>Perceive of what, or unto whom I write.<br>Let such as in a hopeless, witless rage,<br>Can sigh a quire, and read it to a page;<br>Such is do backs of books and windows fill,<br>With their too furious diamond or quill;<br>Such as were well resolved to end their days<br>With a loud laughter blown beyond the seas;<br>Who are so mortified that they can live<br>Contemned of all the world, and yet forgive,<br>Write love to you: I would not willingly<br>Be pointed at in every company;<br>As was that little tailor, who till death<br>Was hot in love with Queen Elizabeth:<br>And, for the last, in all my idle days<br>I never yet did living woman praise<br>In prose or verse: and when I do begin<br>I'll pick some woman out as full of sin<br>As you are full of virtue; with a soul<br>As black as you are white; a face as foul<br>As you are beautiful: for it shall be<br>Out of the rules of physiognomy<br>So far, that I do fear I must displace<br>The art a little, to let in her face.<br>It shall att least four faces be below<br>The devil's; and her parched corpse shall show<br>In her loose skill as if some sprite she were<br>Kept in a bag by some great conjurer.<br>Her breath shall be as horrible and wild<br>As every word you speak is sweet and mild;<br>It shall be such a one as will not be<br>Covered with any art or policy:<br>But let her take all powders, fumes, and drink,<br>She shall make nothing but a dearer stink;<br>She shall have such a foot and such a nose,<br>She shall not stand in anything but prose;<br>If I bestow my praises upon such,<br>'Tis charity, and I shall merit much.<br>My praise will come to her like a full bowl,<br>Bestowed at most need on a thirsty soul;<br>Where, if I sing your praises in my rhyme,<br>I lose my ink, my paper, and my time;<br>And nothing add to your o'erflowing store,<br>And tell you nought, but what you knew before.<br>Nor do the virtuous-minded (which I swear,<br>Madam, I think you are) endure to hear<br>Their own perfections into questions brought,<br>But stop their ears at them; for if I thought<br>You took a pride to have your virtues known,<br>Pardon me, madam, I should think them none.<br> To what a length is this strange letter grown,<br>In seeking of a subject, yet finds none!<br>But your brave thoughts, which I so much respect<br>Above your glorious titles, shall accept<br>These harsh disordered lines. I shall ere long<br>Dress up your virtues new, in a new song;<br>Yet far from all base praise and flattery,<br>Although I know whate'er my verses be,<br>They will like the most servile flattery shew,<br>If I write truth, and make the subject you.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Beaumont">Francis Beaumont</a><div class=q>
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So may you laugh at them and not at me,
'Tis something to you gladly I would say;
But how to do't I cannot find the way.
I would avoid the common beaten ways
To women used, which are love or praise:
As for the ..."></div>
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