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English Songs and Ballads

by T. W. H. Crosland

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The Sweet Neglect

Still to be neat, still to be drest,
As you were going to a feast:
Still to be poud’red, still perfum’d:
Lady, it is to be presum’d,
Though art’s hid causes are not found,
All is not sweet, all is not sound.

Give me a looke, give me a face,
That makes simplicitie a grace;
Robes loosely flowing, haire as free:
Such sweet neglect more taketh me,
Than all th’ adulteries of art,
That strike mine eyes, but not my heart.

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