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 that far-ſpread rumour of her beauty, by a retired life; but the more the thought to extinguiſh and quench the report, by ſequeſtering herſelf from the eyes of men, the more be was ſpoken of, the farther were her praiſes blown. At length her beauty reached the years of the king, through the igadvertance of her uncle, who hearing his Majeſty one day highly extol the features of a lady, ſaid, 'I have a neice, though but young, who in my frail judgement of beauty as far ſurpaſſes this lady, as ſhe excels the mearveſt beauty of your court; her eyes ſparkle like two twin ſtars, with ſuch piercing rays, that dazel thoſe who venture to gore on them; and her eye-brows ſhine like jet, and are arched like a rainbow a ſpring of roſes and lillies are in her cheeks, ſo mixed, that kind nature never before made ſo fair a mixture of the pureſt white and red; her noſe a little riſing exceeds that which Appelles painted Venus with as chief ornament of her beauty: her lips exceed the coral whenever ſo finely poliſhed, ſoft the crimſon Velvet, hiding two rows of orient pearl; her chin, which with a little dimple adds beauty to the reſt, and makes her face a perfect oval; her riſing breaſts are like two hills of ſnow, and her pretty hands excels in whiteneſs the alabaſte, and ſo ſpread and branched with various kinds of more that the motion of the blood in the may be ſeen thro' the ſoft tranſparent ſkin' to be brief ſhe is the maſter-piece of nature, who when ſhe made her cryd a lucky hit, and threw away the mould, that none ſo lovely, fair and charming