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Anon. [1599], The passionate pilgrime. By W. Shakespeare (Printed for W. Iaggard, and are to be sold by W. Leake [etc.], London) [word count] [S20122].
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[Poem XIII]
Beauty is but a vaine and doubtfull good,
A shining glosse, that vadeth sodainly,
A flower that dies, when first it gins to bud,
A brittle glasse, that's broken presently.
  A doubtfull good, a glosse, a glasse, a flower,
  Lost, vaded, broken, dead within an houre.

And as goods lost, are seld or neuer found,
As vaded glosse no rubbing will refresh:
As flowers dead, lie withered on the ground,
As broken glasse no symant can redresse.
  So beauty blemisht once, for euer lost,
  In spite of phisicke, painting, paine and cost.

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Anon. [1599], The passionate pilgrime. By W. Shakespeare (Printed for W. Iaggard, and are to be sold by W. Leake [etc.], London) [word count] [S20122].
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