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