Matthew Prior (Мэтью Прайор)

Phyllis's Age

How old may Phyllis be, you ask,
Whose beauty thus all hearts engages?
To answer is no easy task;
For she has really two ages.

Stiff in brocard, and pinch'd in stays,
Her patches, paint, and jewels on;
All day let envy view her face;
And Phyllis is but twenty-one.

Paint, patches, jewels laid aside,
At night astronomers agree,
The evening has the day belied;
And Phyllis is some forty-three.

1. A Song (In vain you tell your parting lover)
2. An Ode - Inscribed to the Memory of the Hon. Colonel George Villiers
3. An Ode - Presented to the King, on His Majesty's Arrival in Holland, after the Queen's Death
4. An Extempore Invitation to the Earl of Oxford, Lord High Treasurer
5. To the Author of the Foregoing Pastoral - (Love and Friendship)

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