1And is thy love so wondrous fair?

2Hath she

Hersilia’s1

shining hair;

3

Juno’s count’nance; Pallas’s eye,2

,

4Full of

awful3

majesty?

5In love’s story dost thou find

6

Cupid4

with one glance struck blind?

7Doth her cheeks excel

Aurora’s,5

,

8And her fragrant breath sweet

Flora’s?6

?

9

Venus’s7

ruby lips and smile,

10

That8

a

Stoic9

would beguile?

11

Galatea’s10

neck and breast

12On which

Idalia’s boy11

doth rest?

13Doth her shoulders

Pelops’s12

pass?13

?

14Or

Pygmalion’s ivory lass?14

?

15Doth her elegant sweet speeches

16Most command when she beseeches?

17Like

Diana,15

, tall and chaste,

18And as slender when embraced?

19Doth her beauty

Phoebus16

darken?

20Do

the spheres17

stand still and hearken

21When she

quavers on the viol?18

?

22Like the sunbeams on the

dial,19

,

23Doth she govern fate and chance?

24To her music doth time dance?

25And when she doth touch a lute,

26Do the

Muses20

all stand mute?

27Is she of

Saturnian21

issue?

28Are her limbs wrapped up in

tissue?22

?

29Her hidden parts like

Aphrodite,23

,

30But

as coy as Amphitrite?24

?

31Why then,

Philanthropas bestride,25

,

32And after her a-wooing ride.