"Give me a look, give me a face, That makes simplicity a grace: Robes loosely flowing, hair as free; Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art; They strike mine eyes, but not my heart."
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Ben Jonson, The Silent Woman (1609), Act I, scene 1.
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