Seeing Thou Art Fair Poem Rhyme Scheme and Analysis
Rhyme Scheme: AABCDDEFGGHHIJIIKKLM FFNOPPQQRRIIBBSSIITT BBUUVVBWXX| SEEING thou art fair I bar not thy false playing | A |
| But let not me poor soul know of thy straying | A |
| Nor do I give thee counsel to live chaste | B |
| But that thou would'st dissemble when 'tis past | C |
| She hath not trod awry that doth deny it | D |
| Such as confess have lost their good names by it | D |
| What madness is't to tell night pranks by day | E |
| And hidden secrets openly to bewray | F |
| The strumpet with the stranger will not do | G |
| Before the room be clear and door put to | G |
| Will you make shipwreck of your honest name | H |
| And let the world be witness of the same | H |
| Be more advised walk as a puritan | I |
| And I shall think you chaste do what you can | J |
| Slip still only deny it when 'tis done | I |
| And before folk immodest speeches shun | I |
| The bed is for lascivious toyings meet | K |
| There use all tricks and tread shame under feet | K |
| When you are up and dressed be sage and grave | L |
| And in the bed hide all the faults you have | M |
| Be not ashamed to strip you being there | F |
| And mingle thighs yours ever mine to bear | F |
| There in your rosy lips my tongue entomb | N |
| Practise a thousand sports when there you come | O |
| Forbear no wanton words you there would speak | P |
| And with your pastime let the bedstead creak | P |
| But with your robes put on an honest face | Q |
| And blush and seem as you were full of grace | Q |
| Deceive all let me err and think I'm right | R |
| And like a wittol think thee void of slight | R |
| Why see I lines so oft received and given | I |
| This bed and that by tumbling made uneven | I |
| Like one start up your hair tost and displaced | B |
| And with a wanton's tooth your neck new rased | B |
| Grant this that what you do I may not see | S |
| If you weigh not ill speeches yet weigh me | S |
| My soul fleets when I think what you have done | I |
| And through every vein doth cold blood run | I |
| Then thee whom I must love I hate in vain | T |
| And would be dead but dead with thee remain | T |
| I'll not sift much but hold thee soon excused | B |
| Say but thou wert injuriously accused | B |
| Though while the deed be doing you be took | U |
| And I see when you ope the two leaved book | U |
| Swear I was blind deny if you be wise | V |
| And I will trust your words more than mine eyes | V |
| From him that yields the palm is quickly got | B |
| Teach but your tongue to say 'I did it not ' | W |
| And being justified by two words think | X |
| The cause acquits you not but I that wink | X |
Ovid
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