1And is thy love so wondrous fair?
2Hath she Hersilia’s
shining hair; 3Juno’s count’nance; Pallas’s eye
, 5In love’s story dost thou find
6Cupid
with one glance struck blind? 7Doth her cheeks excel Aurora’s
, 8And her fragrant breath sweet Flora’s
? 9Venus’s
ruby lips and smile, 10That
a Stoic
would beguile? 11Galatea’s
neck and breast 12On which Idalia’s boy
doth rest? 13Doth her shoulders Pelops’s
pass
? 14Or Pygmalion’s ivory lass
? 15Doth her elegant sweet speeches
16Most command when she beseeches?
17Like Diana
, tall and chaste, 18And as slender when embraced?
19Doth her beauty Phoebus
darken? 20Do the spheres
stand still and hearken 21When she quavers on the viol
? 22Like the sunbeams on the dial
, 23Doth she govern fate and chance?
24To her music doth time dance?
25And when she doth touch a lute,
26Do the Muses
all stand mute? 27Is she of Saturnian
issue? 28Are her limbs wrapped up in tissue
? 29Her hidden parts like Aphrodite
, 30But as coy as Amphitrite
? 31Why then, Philanthropas bestride
, 32And after her a-wooing ride.