Thomas Carew Quote

But if the envious nymphs shall fear
Their beauties will be scorn'd,
And hire the ruder winds to tear
That face which you adorn'd; Then rage and foam amain, that we
Their malice may despise;
And from your froth we soon shall see
A second Venus rise.

"On Sight Of A Gentlewoman's Face In The Water". - Carew's Poems