“Like an ambassador that beds a queen
With the nice caution of a sword between.”
John Cleveland (1613–1658) English poet
The Antiplatonic (1653).
“The queen was settling on the edge of the bed, ungainly with hesitation and at the same time exquisite in her grace, like a heron landing in a treetop.”
Source: The King of Attolia
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