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the view of them wholly and not severally, do make 

 so sweet a wonder, as I fear to divide them. Again, 

 nobility extracted out of the royal and victorious 

 line of the kings of England ; yea, both roses, white 

 and red, do as well flourish in her nobility as in her 

 beauty, as health, such as was like she should have 

 that was brought forth by two of the most goodly 

 princes of the world, in the strength of their years, 

 in the heat of their love ; that hath been injured 

 neither with an over-liberal nor over-curious diet, 

 that hath not been sustained by an umbratile life 

 still under the roof, but strengthened by the use 

 of the pure and open air, that still retaineth flower 

 and vigour of youth. For the beauty and many graces 

 of her presence, what colours are fine enough 

 for such a portraiture ? let no light poet be used 

 for such a description, but the chastest and the 

 royalest : 



Of her gait ; &quot; Et vera incessu patuit Dea.&quot; 

 Of her voice ; &quot; Nee vox hominem sonat.&quot; 

 Of her eye ; &quot; Et laetos oculis afflavit honores.&quot; 

 Of her colour ; &quot; Indum sanguineo veluti viola- 



verit ostro Si quis ebur.&quot; 

 Of her neck ; &quot; Et rosea cervice refulsit.&quot; 

 Of her breast ; &quot; Veste sinus collecta fluentes.&quot; 

 Of her hair ; &quot; Ambrosiaeque comae divinum ver- 



tice odorem 

 Spiravere.&quot; 



If this be presumption, let him bear the blame 

 that owneth the verses. What shall I speak of her 



