• First bring me Raffael, who alone hath seen
    In all her purity heaven’s virgin queen,
    Alone hath felt true beauty; bring me then
    Titian, ennobler of the noblest men;
    And next the sweet Correggio, nor chastise
    His little Cupids for those wicked eyes.
    I want not Rubens’s pink puffy bloom,
    Nor Rembrandt’s glimmer in a dusty room.
    With...