' The edition
of 1669 substitutes 'theirs' for 'they', referring back to 'others'.
of 1669 substitutes 'theirs' for 'they', referring back to 'others'.
John Donne
ll. 21 f. _Nor when he, swoln and pamper'd with great fare
Sits down and snorts, cag'd in his basket chair, &c. _
Vir bibat usque roga: precibus tamen oscula desint;
Dumque bibit, furtim, si potes, adde merum.
Si bene compositus somno vinoque iacebit;
Consilium nobis resque locusque dabunt.
Ovid, _Amores_, I. iv. 51-4.
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l. 4. _Though they be Ivory, yet her teeth be jeat_: i. e. 'Though her
eyes be yellow as ivory, her teeth are black as jet.
' The edition
of 1669 substitutes 'theirs' for 'they', referring back to 'others'.
Grosart follows.
l. 6. _rough_ is the reading of _1633_, _1669_, and all the best MSS.
Chambers and Grosart prefer the 'tough' of _1635-54_, but 'rough'
means probably 'hairy, shaggy, hirsute'. O. E. D. , _Rough_, B. I. 2. Her
hair is in the wrong place. To have hair on her face and none on her
head are alike disadvantageous to a woman's beauty.
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