Edmund Spenser on Breast

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“Her brest like to a bowle of creame uncrudded, Her paps lyke lyllies budded.”
Edmund Spenser
“Of her there bred A thousand yong ones, which she dayly fed, Sucking upon her poisonous dugs.”
Edmund Spenser
“Some were so from their source endu’d, By great dame nature, from whose fruitful pap, Their well-heads spring.”
Edmund Spenser
“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.”
Edmund Spenser
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