13581352Bass. So may the outward showes be least themselues,

13591353The world is still deceau'd with ornament

13601354In Law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,

13611355But being season'd with a gracious voyce,

13621356Obscures the show of euill. In religion

13631357What damned error but some sober brow

13641358will blesse it, and approue it with a text,

13651359Hiding the grosnes with faire ornament:

13661360There is no voyce so simple, but assumes

13671361Some marke of vertue on his outward parts;

13681362How many cowards whose harts are all as false

13691363As stayers of sand, weare yet vpon their chins

13701364The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars,

13711365who inward searcht, haue lyuers white as milke,

13721366And these assume but valours excrement

13731367To render them redoubted. Looke on beauty,

13741368And you shall see tis purchast by the weight,

13751369which therein works a miracle in nature,

13761370Making them lightest that weare most of it:

13771371So are those crisped snaky golden locks

13781372which maketh such wanton gambols with the wind

13791373Vpon supposed fairenes, often knowne

13801374To be the dowry of a second head,

13811375The scull that bred them in the Sepulcher.

13821376Thus ornament is but the guiled shore

13831377To a most dangerous sea: the beautious scarfe

13841378vailing an Indian beauty; In a word,

13851379The seeming truth which cunning times put on

13861380To intrap the wisest. Therefore then thou gaudy gold,

13871381Hard food for Midas, I will none of thee,