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" STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed; Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. "
Proverbs, Chiefly Taken from the Adagia of Erasmus, with Explanations; and ... - Page 71
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The English Poets: Selections, Volume 2

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 pages
...have crimes accounted been. SONG1. [From Epicane; or, The Silent Woman, Act I, Sc. I; 1609.] Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed : Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all...
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Gems of national poetry. Compiled and ed. by mrs. Valentine

Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...To all the senses here, And fall like sleep upon their eyes, Or music on their ear. SONG. STILL to be neat, still to be drest As you were going to a feast, Still to be powdered, still perfumed, Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all...
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The English Poets, Volume 2

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 524 pages
...have crimes accounted been. SONG1. [From Eptcane; or, The Silent Woman, Act I, Sc. I; 1609.] Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powdered, still perfumed : Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all...
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The Practice of Criticism

D. H. Rawlinson - 1968 - 254 pages
...houses led, And beauty for a bit of bread. 30 Did Blake gain anything by the alteration? A SONG Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to bee powdred, still perfum'd: Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though Arts hid causes are not found, All...
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Pantomimes 102: Pantomime, Pantomimes, Pantomiming

James W. Gousseff - 1981 - 236 pages
...congratulation causing its eyes to cross, and poses proudly too. 68. SIMPLEX MUNDITHS by Ben Jonson Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed, Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all...
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Andrew Marvell

Robert Wilcher - 1985 - 212 pages
...by placing them beside the opening of a lyric from Epicoene: Still to be neat, still to be dressed, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all...
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English Renaissance Poetry: a Collection of Shorter Poems from Skelton To ...

460 pages
...drop, drop, Since nature's pride is now a withered daffodil. Song Still to be neat, still to be dressed As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all...
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The Social Relations of Jonson's Theater

Jonathan Haynes - 1992 - 172 pages
...sound, to adopt the terms of his lovely lyric, which is appropriately placed in this scene: Still to be neat, still to be drest, As, you were going to a feast; Still to be pou'dred, still perfum'd: Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though arts hid causes are not found, All is...
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To Make a Poem

Alberta Turner - 1992 - 228 pages
...Which cover lightly, gentle earth! BEN JONSON T Still to Be Neat Still to be neat, still to be dressed, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed; Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all...
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The Classic Hundred Poems: All-time Favorites

William Harmon - 1998 - 386 pages
...tetrameter and trimeter lines and rhyming abcbabcb. Still to Be Neat Still to be neat, still to be dressed, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed: Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all...
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