 | English poets - 1801 - 382 str.
...me ; Since when it grows and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee. THE SWEET NEGLECT. STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd ; Lady, it is to be presum'd, Tho' art's hid causes are not found, All is... | |
 | Lyre - 1806 - 208 str.
...Doth ask a drink divine: Put, might I of Jove's nectar sup, I would not change for thine ! STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdred, still perfum'd ; Lady, it is to be presum'd— Though art's hid causes are not foundAll is... | |
 | Charles Snart - 1808 - 506 str.
...bear? Oh ! let the sound be less divine, Or look the nymph less fair. Vucal Magazine, SONG. STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is... | |
 | British poets - 1809 - 512 str.
...theft to reveal, To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been. THE SWEET NEGLECT. CTILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd ; Lady, it is to be presum'd, Tho' art's hid causes are not found, All ts... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1810 - 746 str.
...fires the vertue have To fright the frost out of the grave. FROM THE SIIENT WOMAN. XXXIX. [STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfum'd : li'ly, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not... | |
 | George Ellis - 1811 - 482 str.
...when it grows and smells, I swear, Not of itself, but thee. SONG. [From " The Silent Woman."] STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is... | |
 | Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont - 1811 - 780 str.
...lips upon, like a sponge. I have made a song, 1 pr'ythee hear it, o' the subject. SONG. • Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ' ; Still tu be powdered, still perfum'd: Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found.... | |
 | Thomas Percy - 1812 - 456 str.
...Semper ntunditias, semper Basilissa, decoras, &c." See Whalley's Ben. Jonson, vol. II. p. 420. OTILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast : Still to be poud'red, still perfum'd : Lady, it is to be presum'd, Though art's hid causes are not found, 5 All... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - 1816 - 624 str.
...The following pieces deserve, also, to be here transcribed. Song, in his ' Silent Woman' ' Still to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast ; Still to be powder'd, still perfumed — Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 518 str.
...upon, like a sponge. I have made a song (I pray thee hear it) on the subject, [Pag* sings. Still to be neat, still to be drest* As you were going to a feast ; 1 " This song," says Upton, " is very happily imitated from the following poem, which I found at... | |
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STILL to be neat, still to be drest, As you were going to a feast; Still to be powdered, still perfumed; Lady, it is to be presumed, Though art's hid causes are not found, All is not sweet, all is not sound. 
