Simplex Munditiis
First published in Epicoene, or The Silent Woman (1616); text from The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900, ed. A. T. Quiller-Couch (Oxford, 1900; Clarendon Press impression of 1931).
Still to be neat, still to be drest,
As you were going to a feast;
Still to be powder’d, still perfumed:
Lady, it is to be presumed,
Though art’s hid causes are not found,
All is not sweet, all is not sound.
Give me a look, give me a face
That makes simplicity a grace;
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free:
Such sweet neglect more taketh me
Than all th’ adulteries of art;
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart.