 | English poets - 1801 - 382 pages
...me ; Since when it grows and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee. THE SWEET NEGLECT. STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd ; Lady, it is to be presum'd, Tho' art's hid causes are not found, All is... | |
 | Lyre - Love poetry, English - 1806 - 208 pages
...Doth ask a drink divine: Put, might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine ! STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdred, still perfum'd ; Lady, it is to be presum'd— Though art's hid causes are not foundAll is... | |
 | Charles Snart - Poetry - 1808 - 506 pages
...bear? Oh ! let the sound be less divine, Or look the nymph less fair. Vucal Magazine, SONG. STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is... | |
 | British poets - English poetry - 1809 - 512 pages
...theft to reveal, To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been. THE SWEET NEGLECT. CTILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd ; Lady, it is to be presum'd, Tho' art's hid causes are not found, All ts... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 746 pages
...fires the vertue have To fright the frost out of the grave. FROM THE SIIENT WOMAN. XXXIX. [STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfum'd : li'ly, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not... | |
 | George Ellis - English poetry - 1811 - 482 pages
...when it grows and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee. SONG. [From " The Silent Woman."] STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - English drama - 1811 - 780 pages
...lips upon, like a sponge. I have made a song, 1 pr'ythee hear it, o' the subject. SONG. • Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ' ; Still tu be powdered, still perfum'd: Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found.... | |
 | Thomas Percy - Ballads, English - 1812 - 456 pages
...Semper ntunditias, semper Basilissa, decoras, &c." See Whalley's Ben. Jonson, vol. II. p. 420. OTILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast : Still to be poud'red, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, 5 All... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 624 pages
...The following pieces deserve, also, to be here transcribed. Song, in his ' Silent Woman' ' 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... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 518 pages
...upon, like a sponge. I have made a song (I pray thee hear it) on the subject, [Pag* sings. Still to be neat, still to be drest* As you were going to a feast ; 1 " This song," says Upton, " is very happily imitated from the following poem, which I found at... | |
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STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed; Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. 
