Upon The Curtain Of Lucasta's Picture, It Was Thus Wrought

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Title:     Upon The Curtain Of Lucasta's Picture, It Was Thus Wrought
Author: Richard Lovelace [More Titles by Lovelace]

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Oh, stay that covetous hand; first turn all eye,
All depth and minde; then mystically spye
Her soul's faire picture, her faire soul's, in all
So truely copied from th' originall,
That you will sweare her body by this law
Is but its shadow, as this, its;--now draw.

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<1> Pictures used formerly to have curtains before them. It is still done in some old houses. In WESTWARD HOE, 1607, act ii. scene 3, there is an allusion to this practice:--

"SIR GOSLING. So draw those curtains, and let's see the pictures under 'em."--Webster's WORKS, ed. Hazlitt, i. 133.

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