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The maid (and thereby hangs a tale) For such a maid no Whitsun-ale Could ever yet produce: No grape, that’s kindly ripe, could be So round, so plump, so soft as she, Nor half so full of juice. Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear’d the light: But O, she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. Her cheeks so rare a white was on, No daisy makes comparison (Who sees them is undone); For streaks of red were mingled there, Such as are on a Catherine pear, The side that’s next the sun. Her lips were red, and one was thin Compar’d to that was next her chin, (Some bee had stung it newly), But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face I durst no more upon them gaze Than on the sun in July.
The maid (and thereby hangs a tale) For such a maid no Whitsun-ale Could ever yet produce: No grape, that’s kindly ripe, could be So round, so plump, so soft as she, Nor half so full of juice. Her feet beneath her petticoat Like little mice stole in and out, As if they fear’d the light: But O, she dances such a way! No sun upon an Easter-day Is half so fine a sight. Her cheeks so rare a white was on, No daisy makes comparison (Who sees them is undone); For streaks of red were mingled there, Such as are on a Catherine pear, The side that’s next the sun. Her lips were red, and one was thin Compar’d to that was next her chin, (Some bee had stung it newly), But, Dick, her eyes so guard her face I durst no more upon them gaze Than on the sun in July.
Approximate author period: c. 1625 AD · renaissance
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- Sir John Suckling
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- Approximate author period: c. 1625 AD · renaissance
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- My Commonplace Book (third English edition,1921) (1921 AD)
Page 362 · printed citation: Sir John Suckling (Ballad upon a Wedding). · compiler notes excluded
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