UPON A PAINTED GENTLEWOMAN.
by Robert Herrick


MEN say y'are fair, and fair ye are, 'tis true ;
But hark ! we praise the painter now, not you.



Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 122.


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