Tears can no more affection win
30Than wash thy Ethiopian skin.
A Fair Nymph, &c. (1647.)
2 An odd fancy included by Browne among the Vulgar Errors.
5 'Thy flaming love' 1677 &c.
10 'face will clear' 1677 &c.
14 1677 'Take me for a new-fashioned mask': 1647, 1651 'Buy me for a new false mask', varied in 1653 'Buy for me'—apparently a misprint, as the boy does not seem to wish to disguise himself.
15 Yes] Done 1677.
20 1647, 1651, 1653, 'make a press', ill repeated from above.
24 'the ware' 1677: 1647, 1651, 1653, not so well, 'thy ware'.