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 nakedness, they had nothing to reproach one another.

The young gentleman, by Phœbe's guess, was about two and twenty: tall and well limb'd. His body was finely form'd and of a most vigorous make, square-shoulder'd, and broad-chested. His face was not remarkable any way, but for a nose inclining to the Roman, eyes large, black, and sparkling, and a ruddiness in his cheeks that was the more a grace for his complexion was of the brownest, not of that dusky dun colour which excludes the idea of freshness, but of that clear, olive gloss, which glowing with life, dazzles perhaps less than fairness, and yet pleases more, when it pleases at all. His hair, being too short to tie, fell no lower than his neck, in short easy curls: and he had a few sprigs about his paps, that garnish'd his chest in a stile of strength and manliness. Then his grand movement, which seem'd to rise out of a thicket of curling hair that spread from the root, all round his thighs