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The Hesperides & Noble Numbers (1898)
by Robert Herrick, edited by Alfred Pollard
Hesperides
Clothes Do but Cheat and Cozen Us
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)2765330The Hesperides & Noble NumbersHesperides
Clothes Do but Cheat and Cozen Us
1898Alfred Pollard

402. CLOTHES DO BUT CHEAT AND COZEN US.

Away with silks, away with lawn,
I'll have no scenes or curtains drawn;
Give me my mistress as she is,
Dress'd in her nak'd simplicities;
For as my heart e'en so mine eye
Is won with flesh, not drapery.