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Robert Herrick
1591-1674

"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,
Dressed in her naked simplicities:
For as my heart, even so my eye
Is won with flesh, not drapery.

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