{"id":1784,"date":"2019-04-30T03:33:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T03:33:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/142.150.46.75\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1784"},"modified":"2019-04-30T03:34:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-30T03:34:13","slug":"a-woman-dressed-by-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"A Woman Dressed by Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A milk-white hair-lace wound up all her hairs,<br \/>\nAnd a deaf coif did cover both her ears.<br \/>\nA sober look<span id='easy-footnote-1-1784' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1784#easy-footnote-bottom-1-1784' title='look] &lt;em&gt;Countenance &lt;\/em&gt;1653 '><sup>1<\/sup><\/a><\/span> about her face she ties,<br \/>\nAnd a dim sight doth cover half her eyes.<br \/>\nAbout her neck a kercher of coarse skin,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5<br \/>\nWhich time had crumpled and worn creases in.<br \/>\nHer gown was turned to melancholy black,<br \/>\nWhich loose did hang upon her sides and back.<br \/>\nHer stockings cramps had knit, red worsted gout,<br \/>\nAnd pains, as garters, tied her legs about.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 10<br \/>\nA pair of palsy gloves her hands did cover,<span id='easy-footnote-2-1784' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1784#easy-footnote-bottom-2-1784' title='did cover,] draw on, 1653 '><sup>2<\/sup><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nWith weakness stitched, and numbness trimmed all over.<span id='easy-footnote-3-1784' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1784#easy-footnote-bottom-3-1784' title='all over.] upon. 1653 '><sup>3<\/sup><\/a><\/span><br \/>\nHer shoes were corns, and hard skin sewed together;<br \/>\nHard skin was<span id='easy-footnote-4-1784' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1784#easy-footnote-bottom-4-1784' title='was] were 1653 '><sup>4<\/sup><\/a><\/span> soles, and corns the upper leather.<br \/>\nA mantle of diseases laps her round,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 15<br \/>\nAnd thus she\u2019s dressed, till Death lays her in<span id='easy-footnote-5-1784' class='easy-footnote-margin-adjust'><\/span><span class='easy-footnote'><a href='https:\/\/library2.utm.utoronto.ca\/poemsandfancies\/?p=1784#easy-footnote-bottom-5-1784' title='lays her in] her lays i\u2019th\u2019 1664, 1668 '><sup>5<\/sup><\/a><\/span> ground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A milk-white hair-lace wound up all her hairs, And a deaf coif did cover both her ears. A sober look about her face she ties, And a dim sight doth cover half her eyes. About her neck a kercher of coarse skin,\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 5 Which time had crumpled and worn creases in. 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