My love in her attire doth show her wit,
it doth so well become her:
for every season she hath dressings fit,
for winter, spring, and summer.
No beauty she doth miss,
when all her robes are on:
but beauty's self she is,
when all her robes are gone.
--Anonymous, published in Poetical Rhapsody, 1602 (ed Francis Davison)
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