Reliques of ancient English poetry: consisting of old heroic ballads ...

i;o ANCIENT SONGS
And chiefe of his commanders
Thus were their forrowes put to flight. 220
XVIL
THE SWEET NEGLECT,
This little madrigal (extractedfrom Ben Jonfon's Silent
Woman, Ati 1. Sc. I. Firfi ailed in 1609. ) is in imitation
of a Latin pcem printed at the end of the Variorum
Edit, of Petrcnius, beginning % Semper munditias,
femper BafilifTa, decoras, &c." See Whalley's Ben
Jonfotty e ual. 2./»..420.
STILL
to be neat, ftill to be dreft,
As you were going to a feaft
Still to bepou'dred, fall perfum'd:
Lady, it is to be prefum'd,
Though art's hid caufes are not found, 5
All is not fweet, all is not found.
Give me a looke, give me a face,
That makes fimplicitie a grace ;
Robes loofely flowing, haire as free :
Such fweet neglecl more taketh me, 10
- Than all th' adulteries of art,
That firike mine eyes, but not my heart.
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