The P O E M. 



WHether White or Black be bejl 

 Call your Senfes to the queji', 

 And your touch Jliall quickly tell 

 The Black in foftnefs cloth excel, 

 And in fmoothuefs; but the Ear, 

 What, can that a Colour hear? 

 No, but His your Black ones Wit 

 That doth catch, and captive it. 

 And if Slut and Fair be one, 

 Sweet and Fair, there can be none: 

 Nor can ought fo pleafe the taji 

 As what's brown and lovely dreflt : 

 And who'll fay, that that is beft 

 To -pleafe ones Senfe, difpleafe the reft? 

 [102] Maugre then all that can be fed 

 In flattery of White and Red: 

 Thofe flatterers themf elves muji fay 

 That darknefs was befo7'e the Day: 

 Andfuch -perfection here appears 

 It neither Wind nor Sun-Jliine fears. 



