Edmund Spenser on Breast
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“Her brest like to a bowle of creame uncrudded, Her paps lyke lyllies budded.”
“Of her there bred A thousand yong ones, which she dayly fed, Sucking upon her poisonous dugs.”
“Some were so from their source endu’d, By great dame nature, from whose fruitful pap, Their well-heads spring.”
“The wanton Maidens him espying, stood Gazing a while at his unwonted guise; Then th’one her selfe low duckèd in the flood, Abasht, that her a straunger did avise: But th’other rather higher did arise, And her two lilly paps aloft displayd, And all, that might his melting hart entise To her delights, she unto him bewrayd: The rest hid underneath, him more desirous made.”
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