A sweet attractive kind of grace,
A full assurance given by looks,
Continual comfort in a face,
The lineaments of Gospel books;
I trow that countenance cannot lie.
Whose thoughts are legible in the eye.

In these lines the speaker praises a kind of “grace” that is not merely theological but visibly embodied: assurance, comfort, and moral clarity are read in the beloved’s face. The conceit treats the countenance as a devotional text—“Gospel books”—whose “lineaments” (features) can be read like scripture. The closing couplet asserts a Renaissance faith in physiognomy and in the eye as a transparent medium of inward truth: the face “cannot lie” because thought is “legible” there. At the same time, the language of piety elevates attraction into a quasi-religious experience, suggesting that beauty and virtue coincide and that love’s perception becomes a form of interpretation or reading.