Madrigal

Madrigal

Original Text
A Poetical Rhapsody 1602-1621, ed. Hyder Edward Rollins (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1931): I, 230 (no. 169 in the 1602 edition). PR 1209 R6 Robarts Library.
2    It doth so well become her:
3For eu'ry season she hath dressings fitt,
4    For Winter, Spring, and Summer.
5No Beautie shee doth misse,
6    When all her Robes are on:
7But Beauties selfe shee is,
8    When all her Robes are gone.

Notes

1] For parallels in French, Greek, and Latin works, see Rollins, II: 187-88. Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1602
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
RPO 1999.
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