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On women Nature did bestow two eyes,
Like heaven's bright lamps, in matchless beauty shining,
Whose beams do soonest captivate the wise,
And wary heads, made rare by art's refining

— Robert Greene Philomela (1592)

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Heaven's] The 4to. "Hemians."

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