greykit.poetry · #1610s

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1616 [ben-jonson] Simplex Munditiis
Epicoene, or The Silent Woman

Against the powdered, perfumed, endlessly adjusted face: where art hides its causes, nothing is sound — give him instead robes loosely flowing and hair as free, a sweet neglect that strikes the heart and not just the eye.

#song #dress #artifice #1610s
1616 [ben-jonson] Song: To Celia
The Forest

Drink to me only with thine eyes — a courtship conducted entirely in pledges and substitutions, ending with a rosy wreath sent back not withered but breathing, the poet insists, of her and not of itself.

#song #love #1610s

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