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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed.  The Book of Restoration Verse.  1910.
 
Mounting Hyperboles
By Richard Brathwaite (1588?–1673)
 
SKIN 1 more pure than Ida’s snow,
Whiter far than Moorish milk,
Sweeter than ambrosia too,
Softer than the Paphian silk,
Indian plumes or thistle-down,        5
Or May-blossoms newly blown,
Is my mistress rosy-pale,
Adding beauty to her veil.
 
Note 1. From the English Gentlewoman, 1631. [back]
 
 
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