" When my eyes did see her first me thought she purged the air of pestilence . . .her eye discourses, I will answer it. I am too bold, tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heavens having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing and think it were not night." (W.S.)
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me thought she purged the air of pestilence
. . .her eye discourses, I will answer it.
I am too bold, tis not to me she speaks:
Two of the fairest stars in all the heavens
having some business, do entreat her eyes
to twinkle in their spheres till they return.
What if her eyes were there,
they in her head? The brightness of her cheek
would shame those stars
as daylight doth a lamp;
her eyes in heaven
would through the airy region stream so bright
that birds would sing and think it were not night." (W.S.)
[sighs deeply and faints though smiling]