Mythology & Folklore
Of Venus in Armour
From Epitaphes, Epigrams, Songs and Sonets (1567)
Mythology & Folklore
IN complete Pallas saw
the Ladie Venus stande:
Who said, let Paris now be iudge
encounter we with hande.
Replide the Goddesse: what?
scornste thou in Armour mée,
That naked earst in Ida Mount
so foylde and conquerde thée?
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MLA
Turberville, George. “Of Venus in Armour.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/turberville/104/.
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Turberville, George. “Of Venus in Armour.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/turberville/104/.
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