louely

Whereas "louely" demonstrates Moulsworth's complex appreciation of her husbands 'attractions, both of body and of character, "lovinge" suggests in turn the affection they displayed.

My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993

However, by calling her third husband "louely," she also prepares for the immediately ensuing line: "such comlines in age we seldome ffind" (l.

My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993

The women of the place are courteous, iocund, and louely, faire, with alluring eyes, being hote and libidinous, and the most of them naughtie packes.

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And now the sunne was past his middle way, Leaning more louely to his Lemans bed, And the noones third hower had attacht the day,

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The third I tooke a louely man, & kind such comlines in age we seldome ffind +

My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993

The first line describes Moulsworth's three husbands as "all louely, lovinge all, some more, some lesse."

My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993

By describing his traits as she does, she echoes the distinction first asserted in l. 47 between character and behavior, between the sort of persons her husbands were and the ways they treated her ( "louely, lovinge").

My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993

Nor I by them, nor they by me annoyde all louely, lovinge all, some more, some lesse though gonn their loue, & memorie I blesse.

My Name Was Martha: A Renaissance Woman's Autobiographical Poem 1993

And my vnbridled eyes, the more they were vnarmed to resist her power, the more they were inflamed with the insolent desire and liking of her wonderfull and heauenly beautie; Still seeming more faire, more excellent, more louely, more to be desired, extreamly apt and præpared for loue: euedently shewing foorth in her selfe, a wonderfull increase of sweete pleasure.

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The delightfull presence of the Nymphes, both attending abroad in the presence and chambers, her baser sort, their honourable and gracious behauiours, their diuersitie of apparrel, attire and dressings set with Pearle and stone, in an allowed, pleasant & louely sort, as any can imagine or expresse.

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