Have ye beheld, with much delight,

A red-Rose peeping through a white?

Or else a Cherrie, double grac’t,

Within a Lillie? Center plac’t?

Or ever mark’t the pretty beam,

A Strawberry shows halfe drown’d in Creame?

Or seen rich Rubies blushing through

A pure smooth Pearle, and Orient too?

So like to this, nay all the rest,

Is each neate Niplet of her breast.

[Hesperides: or, The works both humane and divine of Robert Herrick, Volume 1]

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