FAIR WORDS ABOUT

FAIR WOMAN.

GATHERED FROM THE POETS

BY

O. B. BUNCE.

“ A Gorgious Gallery of Gallant Inventions, garnished and
decked with divers dayntie devices, right delicate and delightfull,
to recreate eche modest minde withall.”

TITLE OF AN OLD ENGLISH MISCELLANY.

NEW YORK:

D. APPLETONCALAR. COMPANY,

From women's eyes this doctrine I derive:
They sparkle still the right Promethean fire;
They are the books, the arts, the academes
That show, contain, and nourish all the world.

SHAKESPEARE.

A woman of sense and manners is the finest and most delicate part of God's creation ; the glory of her Maker, and the great instance of His singular regard to man; His darling creature to whom He gave the best gift either God could bestow or man receive.

DEFOE.

Auld Nature swears, the lovely dears

Her noblest work she classes 0;
Her 'prentice han she tried on man,

An' then she made the lasses O.

BURNS.

Oh! if the loving, closed heart of a good woman should open before a man, how much controlled tenderness, how many veiled sacrifices and dumb virtues would he see reposing therein!

RICHTER.