“Whenas in silks my Julia goes,
Then, then (methinks) how sweetly flows
That liquefaction of her clothes.
Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
That brave vibration each way free;
Oh how that glittering taketh me!”

—  Robert Herrick, book Hesperides

"Upon Julia's Clothes".
Hesperides (1648)

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