Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Restoration Verse. 1910.

Mounting Hyperboles

Richard Brathwaite (1588?–1673)

SKIN 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,

Or May-blossoms newly blown,

Is my mistress rosy-pale,

Adding beauty to her veil.