How old may Phyllis be, you ask, <br />Whose beauty thus all hearts engages? <br />To answer is no easy task; <br />For she has really two ages. <br /> <br />Stiff in brocard, and pinch'd in stays, <br />Her patches, paint, and jewels on; <br />All day let envy view her face; <br />And Phyllis is but twenty-one. <br /> <br />Paint, patches, jewels laid aside, <br />At night astronomers agree, <br />The evening has the day belied; <br />And Phyllis is some forty-three.<br /><br />Matthew Prior<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/phyllis-s-age/
