It is for homely features to keep home,—

They had their name thence; coarse complexions

And cheeks of sorry grain will serve to ply

The sampler and to tease the huswife's wool.

What need a vermeil-tinctur'd lip for that,

Love-darting eyes, or tresses like the morn?

John Milton (1608-1674): Comus. Line 748.

If you can look into the seeds of time,

And say which grain will grow and which will not.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 3.