But when on women's colours they do light.

Then (bribed) they look as through a painted glass,

So that what women are we never see

But what we wish and fancy them to be.

'Mongst thousand virgins which do suck this air,

I never knew but one, but one—one good;

[1700]Whom I supposèd full as good as fair,

And she was making e'er Deucalion's flood:

But she—alas! what should I say?—but she

Is woe to man, a woman unto me.'