ON A PERFUMED LADY.
by Robert Herrick


YOU say you're sweet ; how should we know
Whether that you be sweet or no ?
From powders and perfumes keep free,
Then we shall smell how sweet you be.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 139.
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