Monday, March 22, 2021

 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 nak’d simplicities:
For as my heart, e’er so mine eye
Is won with flesh, not drapery.

Robert Herrick




(via Stand Up and Spit)

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