1
Some can flatter, some can faine,
Simple trueth shall pleade for mee,
Let not beautie trueth disdaine,
Trueth is euen as faire as shee.
2
But since Paires must equall proue,
Let my strength her youth oppose,
Loue her beautie, faith her loue,
On eu'n termes so may we close.
3
Corke or Leade, in equall waight,
Both one iust proportion yeeld,
So may breadth be pays'd with height,
Steepest mount with plainest field.
4
Vertues haue not all one kind,
Yet all vertues merits bee :
Diuers vertues are combind,
Diff'ring so Deserts agree.
5
Let then loue and beautie meete,
Making one diuine concent,
Constant as the sounds, and sweete,
That enchant the firmament.
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