A Complete Gentlewoman Described by her feature, Her person slender, her beauty admirable, her wit excellent, her carriage modest, her behaviour chaste, with her constancy in love.  
To the tune of Sabina.  

 
 

YOu Muse's all your aid to me assign  
To speak in praise of the true love of mine.  
Strike up with joy  
Strike up with joy  
Strike up with joy your instruments of mirth  
Till piercing Echoes ring 'twixt heaven and earth.   

Let Pan with speed prepare himself to play,  
And sweetly chant my love a roundelay  
While Satyrs peep  
While Satyr's peep  
While Satyrs peep to see her lovely face,  
Let Cittern, harp, and lute her meeting grace.   

Let all the Poet's company combine  
Their wits in one for my sweet Rosaline,  
And say that she  
And say that she  
And say that she Queen Venus doth excel,  
For beauty, love, and wit she bears the bell.   

And to recite the substance of her feature  
That all may say she is a comely creature,  
From head to foot  
From head to foot  
From head to foot I will unfold aright  
The shape of her which is my heart's delight.   

First is her hair like threads of golden wire  
Upon her head is set a seemly tire,  
Which doth protect  
Which doth protect  
Which doth protect her crimson cheeks from wind  
From Titan's heat and Boreas blasts unkind.   

Her glistering eyes excel the diamond light,  
When I behold her countenance by night,  
I do admire  
I do admire  
I do admire to see her beauteous brow  
In whom Diana chasteness doth allow.    

The second part,  
To the same tune.  
 
 

HEr ruby lips which doth enclose the tongue  
From whence rare elegies are sweetly sung,  
That may amaze  
That may amaze  
That may amaze each rural swain to hear  
Her Siren songs with voice so shrill and clear.   

Her ivory neck with golden gems complete,  
Her arms and shoulders framed fine and neat,  
Her lily hand  
Her lily hand  
Her lily hand and fingers long and small  
With slender waist and person somewhat tall.   

And farther to divulge some other parts  
Wherein dame nature shows her chiefest arts,  
I purpose to  
I purpose to  
I purpose to stoop down unto the toe,  
And so speak of the rest as up I go.   

Her pretty foot and nimble dapper heel  
Her shaking leg have shown such active skill,  
Both Coridon  
Both Coridon  
Both Coridon and Phillis blushed to see  
Her amorous carriage when she bends the knee.   

Not only this which nature in her placed,  
But Lady virtue hath her further graced  
In all respects  
In all respects  
In all respects each creature doth her find  
To pass the Pelican she is to kind.   

So constant in her actions still is she  
She may compare with chaste Penelope,  
Her mind once fixed  
Her mind once fixed  
Her mind once fixed it never will remove,  
she'll rather die like to the Turtle dove.   

Her will to chastity is so applied,  
She scorns ambition, lust, and hateful pride,  
Whereby she gains  
Whereby she gains  
Whereby she gains good will of great and small  
Strong weak, high low, rich poor, they love her all skill   

But since my trembling hand and pen wants  
To write her fame complete unto my will,  
I here conclude  
I here conclude  
I here conclude wishing each honest lad  
May have so true a choice as I have had.    
L. P:  
FINIS.