<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539452" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On A Gentlewoman's Blistred Lipp</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Hide not that sprouting lipp, nor kill<br>The juicy bloome with bashfull skill:<br>Know it is an amorous dewe<br>That swells to court thy corall hewe,<br>And what a blemish you esteeme<br>To other eyes a pearle may seeme<br>Whose watery growth is not above<br>The thrifty seize that pearles doe love,<br>And doth so well become that part<br>That chance may seeme a secret art.<br>Doth any judge that face lesse fayre<br>Whose tender silke a mole doth beare?<br>Or will a diamond shine less cleare<br>If in the midst a soil appeare?<br>Or else that eye a finer nett<br>Whose glasse is ring'd about with jett?<br>Or is an apple thought more sweete<br>When hony specks and redde doe meete?<br> Then is the lipp made fayrer by<br> Such sweetness of deformitie.<br>The nectar which men strive to sipp<br>Springs like a well upon your lipp,<br>Nor doth it shew immodesty,<br>But overflowing chastity.<br>O who will blame the fruitfull trees<br>When too much sapp and gumme hee sees?<br>Here nature from her store doth send<br>Only what other parts can lend;<br>The budde of love which here doth growe<br>Were too too sweete if pluckt belowe;<br>When lovely buddes ascend so high<br>The roote belowe cannot be drye.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=William+Strode">William Strode</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=539452" data-title="On A Gentlewoman's Blistred Lipp de William Strode" data-description="Hide not that sprouting lipp, nor kill The juicy bloome with bashfull skill: Know it is an amorous dewe That swells to court thy corall hewe, And what a blemish you esteeme To other eyes a pearle may seeme Whose watery growth is not above The thri..."></div> </div> </div>

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