Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

William Browne

Lovely as all excellence.

Pure as blossoms, which are newly blowne.

Shone
Like yealow flowres and grasse farre off, in one;
Or like the mixture nature doth display
Upon the quaint wings of the popinjay.

Softly like a stream of oil.

Thick as starlings in a fen.

The rose, like ready youth, enticing stands,
And would be cropt if it might choose the hands.