Else how should mortals Flavia’s chain escape?
Your radiant aspect, and your rosy bloom,
Without this form would bring a general doom:
At once our ruin and relief we see,
At sight are captives, and at sight are free.
Phillis’s Age.
How old may Phillis be, you ask,
Whose beauty thus all hearts engages?
To answer is no easy task;
For she really has two ages.