For
Lise, who requested to be portrayed as a nun
I thought you’d be content, as
you’re full grown, to be
A dazzling Venus in my picture;
But since you now request of me
That as a nun I shall depict you,
This thereby halves the difficulties
I foresee,
For, lovely Lise, since I’d not
offend good taste,
Your portrait as a nun should reach
but to the waist.
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