Yon effeminate sanguine Ganymede Is but a beaver,[538] hunted for the bed. Peace, Cynic; see, what yonder doth approach; 160 A cart? a tumbrel? No, a badged[539] coach. What's in't? Some man. No, nor yet womankind, But a celestial angel, fair, refined. The devil as soon! Her mask so hinders me, I cannot see her beauty's deity. Now that is off, she is so vizarded, So steep'd in lemon's[540] juice, so surphulèd, I cannot see her face. Under one hood Two faces; but I never understood Or saw one face under two hoods till now: 170 'Tis the right resemblance of old Janus' brow. Her mask, her vizard, her loose-hanging gown (For her loose-lying body), her bright-spangled crown, Her long slit sleeve,[541] stiff busk, puff verdingal, Is all that makes her thus angelical. Alas! her soul struts round about her neck; Her seat of sense is her rebato[542] set; Her intellectual is a feignèd niceness, Nothing but clothes and simpering preciseness. Out on these puppets, painted images, 180 Haberdashers' shops, torchlight maskeries, Perfuming-pans, Dutch ancients,[543] glow-worms bright, That soil our souls, and damp our reason's light! Away, away, hence, coachman, go enshrine Thy new-glazed puppet in port Esquiline![544] Blush, Martia, fear not, or look pale, all's one; Margara keeps thy set complexion. Sure I ne'er think those axioms to be true, That souls of men from that great soul ensue, And of his essence do participate 190 As 'twere by pipes; when so degenerate, So adverse is our nature's motion To his immaculate condition, That such foul filth from such fair purity, Such sensual acts from such a Deity, Can ne'er proceed. But if that dream were so, Then sure the slime, that from our souls do flow, Have stopp'd those pipes by which it was convey'd, And now no human creatures, once disray'd Of that fair gem. 200 Beasts' sense, plants' growth, like being as a stone; But out, alas! our cognisance is gone. [511] See note 2, vol. ii. p. 349. [512] Omitted in ed. 1598. [513] Samos--the birthplace of Pythagoras. [514] "Fictions ... rats of Nilus."--Cf. Shirley's _School of Compliment_, ii. 1:--"Sirrah clothes, _rat of Nilus, fiction_, monster, golden calf." [515] The name of a particular kind of stitch. [516] See note, vol. ii. p. 391. [517] See note 1, p. 308. [Transcriber's Note: Footnote [429]] [518] Dung-cart. [519] Ed. 1599, "eminent." [520] Lose. [521] Omitted in ed. 1599. [522] _i.e._, whose garments are ornamented with _gards_ or fringes. [523] Lamb's fur.