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...pretty pygsnye, For none I find so womanly As my sweet sweeting. ANONYMOUS. A VISION OF BEAUTY. IT was a beauty that I saw, — So pure, so perfect, as the frame Of all the universe were lame To that one figure, could I draw, Or give least line of it a law : A skein of silk without...

...that ' lame ' had then a much wider sense than the word has now. In Jonson's New Inn, iv. 3, we read : So pure, so perfect ; as the frame Of all the universe was lame : where ' lame ' seems to mean simply out of gear. For one thing ; it would have been much easier for...

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