[251] The hue of dungeons and the school of night;

[252] And beauty’s crest becomes the heavens well.

Biron. Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light.

[254] O, if in black my lady’s brows be deck’d,

[255] It mourns that painting and usurping hair

Should ravish doters with a false aspect;

And therefore is she born to make black fair.

[258] Her favour turns the fashion of the days,

For native blood is counted painting now;

260 And therefore red, that would avoid dispraise,