Men call you fayre
Edmund Spenser
c. 1552 to 1599
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Men call you fayre, and you doe credit it,
For that your seife ye dayly such doe see:
but the trew fayre, that is the gentle wit,
and vertuous mind, is much more praysd of me.
all the rest, how euer fayre it be,
turne to nought and loose that glorious hew:
onely that is permanent and free
from frayle corruption, that doth flesh ensew
That is true beautie: that argue you
to be diuine and borne of seed:
deriu’d from that fayre Spirit, from whom true
and perfect beauty did at first proceed.
onely fayre, and what he fayre hath made,
other fayre lyke flowers vntymely fade.
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