Apelles Enamour'd of Campaspe, Alexander's Mistresse
Poore painter, whilst I sought
To counterfaite by arte
The fairest frame that nature euer wrought,
And hauing limm'd each part,
Except her matchlesse eyes,
Scarce on those twinnes I gaz'd,
As lightning falles from skies,
When straight my hand benumm'd was, mind amaz'd;
And ere that pincell halfe them had exprest,
Loue all had drawne, no, grauen within my brest.
To counterfaite by arte
The fairest frame that nature euer wrought,
And hauing limm'd each part,
Except her matchlesse eyes,
Scarce on those twinnes I gaz'd,
As lightning falles from skies,
When straight my hand benumm'd was, mind amaz'd;
And ere that pincell halfe them had exprest,
Loue all had drawne, no, grauen within my brest.
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