Th' adorning thee with so much art
Is but a barb'rous skill;
'T is like the pois'ning of a dart,
Too apt before to kill.
--
The Waiting Maid; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).Abraham Cowley
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