Note 171 — Chapter III · THE MISSION OF BEAUTY
George Herbert Ely translation
Son âge estoit d’envyron les quinze ans, Qui est le temps que désirent amans. La taille en fut longue, menue et droicte, Espaulle platte, et par les flancs estroicte. (Anne de Graville.)
Toutes les nuyctz, je ne pense qu’en celle Qui a le corps plus gent qu’une pucelle. (Marot.)
[Her age was fifteen, as I guessed, The age that pleases lovers best; Her figure long, slim, straight as arrow, Her shoulders broad, her haunches narrow.]
[I lie awake o’ nights, and my thoughts are sure to go To the maid whose body’s comelier than any maid’s I know.]