virtue be like a rich stone best plain set and sure virtue be best in a body  that be comely though not of delicate feature and that have rather dignity of  presence than beauty of aspect neither be it almost see that very beautiful  person be otherwise of great virtue as if nature be rather busy not to err  than in labour to produce excellency and therefore they prove accomplish but  not of great spirit and study rather behaviour than virtue but this hold not  always for Augustus Caesar Titus Vespasianus Philip Le belle of France Edward  the four of England Alcibiades of Athens ishmael the sophy of Persia be all  high and great spirit and yet the most beautiful man of their time in beauty  that of favour be more than that of colour and that of decent and gracious  motion more than that of favour that be the best part of beauty which a  picture can express no nor the first sight of the life there be no excellent  beauty that have not some strangeness in the proportion a man can tell whether  Apelles or Albert to make hard be the more trifler whereof the one will make a  personage by geometrical proportion the other by take the best part out of  diverse face to make one excellent such personage I think will please nobody  but the painter that make they not but I think a painter may make a better  face than ever be but he must do it by a kind of felicity as a musician that  make a excellent air in music and not by rule a man shall see face that if you  examine they part by part you shall find never a good and yet altogether do  well if it be true that the principal part of beauty be in decent motion  certain it be no marvel though person in year seem many time more amiable  beautiful autumn pretty for no youth can be comely but by pardon and consider  the youth as to make up the comeliness beauty be as summer fruit which be easy  to corrupt and can last and for the most part it make a dissolute youth and a  age a little out of countenance but yet certain again if it light well it make  virtue shine and vice blush