Clerimont's song

Still to be neat, still to be drest,
As you were going to a feast;
Still to be power'd, still perfum'd:
Lady, it is to bre presum'd,
Though Art's hid causes are not found,
All is not sweet, all is not sound.

meaning:
The two people in this poem are husband and wife. She is still dressed up like she came from something and obviously something is wrong because he is ticked off. He doesn't know why she is still dressed up but it is like a facade (false front) that she is keeping on even when she is at home. This goes with how everyone is someone different when they are out but when you get back home, you become yourself again. For her that is not true.

Give me a look, give me a face,
That makes simplicity a grace;
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free:
Such sweet neglect more taketh me,
Than all the adulteries of Art;
They strike mine eyes, but my heart.

meaning:
This stanza is about the difference between complexity and simplicity. he continues to talk about how she should be natural and real when she is at home. In this time, the gowns worn by the noble women were very elaborate and he talks about making something simple and pure as graceful as she feels in the fancy things. He then talks about how her negelecting him makes him want her even more but her fancy clothes are only pretty to look at and what he really wants to see is her heart but she wont let him see that.

Caitlyn