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 Yet will she blush, here be it said,
 To bear her secrets so bewrayed.  
 Yet will she blush, here be it said,
 To bear her secrets so bewrayed. 
 His kindled duty kindled her mistrust,
 That two red fires in both faces blazed.
  She thought he read more 
 His kindled duty kindled her mistrust,
 That two red fires in both faces blazed.
  She thought he blushed as knowing Tarquin's lust,
   And, blushing with him, wistly on him gazed;
    Her earnest eye did make him more amazed. 
 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. 
 Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and 
vanity.
 [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de read more 
 Men blush less for their crimes than for their weaknesses and 
vanity.
 [Fr., Les hommes rougissent moins de leur crimes que de leurs 
faiblesses et de leur vanite.] 
 Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my 
boy; that is the complexion of virtue."  
 Once he saw a youth blushing, and addressed him, "Courage, my 
boy; that is the complexion of virtue." 
Blushing is the colour of virtue.
Blushing is the colour of virtue.
 'Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so 
fast,
 But the tender bloom of read more 
 'Tis not on youth's smooth cheek the blush alone, which fades so 
fast,
 But the tender bloom of heart is gone, ere youth itself be past. 
 The rising blushes, which her cheek o'er-spread,
 Are opening roses in the lily's bed.  
 The rising blushes, which her cheek o'er-spread,
 Are opening roses in the lily's bed. 
 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.