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Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.
Pure friendship's well-feigned blush.
 From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks,
 Ten thousand little loves and graces spring
  To revel read more 
 From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks,
 Ten thousand little loves and graces spring
  To revel in the roses. 
 Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite,
 Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,
  That banish what read more 
 Fit thy consent to my sharp appetite,
 Lay by all nicety and prolixious blushes,
  That banish what they sue for: redeem thy brother
   By yielding up thy body to my will,
    Or else he must not only die the death,
     But thy unkindess shall his death draw out
      To ling'ring sufferance. 
 The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.
 [It., Bello e il rossore, ma e incommodo qualche volta.]  
 The blush is beautiful, but it is sometimes convenient.
 [It., Bello e il rossore, ma e incommodo qualche volta.] 
 Such a blush
 In the midst of brown was born,
  Like red poppies grown with corn.  
 Such a blush
 In the midst of brown was born,
  Like red poppies grown with corn. 
 Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
 [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.]  
 Innocence is not accustomed to blush.
 [Fr., L'innocence a rougir n'est point accoutumee.] 
 An Arab, by his earnest gaze,
 Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes;
  A smile within his read more 
 An Arab, by his earnest gaze,
 Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes;
  A smile within his eyelids plays
   And into words his longing gushes. 
Blushing is the colour of virtue.
Blushing is the colour of virtue.
 I have marked
 A thousand blushing apparitions
  To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames
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 I have marked
 A thousand blushing apparitions
  To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames
   In angel whiteness beat away those blushes,
    And in her eye there hath appeared a fire
     To burn the errors that these princes hold
      Against her maiden truth.