Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900.
Ben Jonson. 15731637186. Simplex Munditiis
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, | 5 |
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 | 10 |
Than all th’ adulteries of art; | |
They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. |