| Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. 1919. The Oxford Book of English Verse: 1250–1900. |
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| Robert Greene. 1560–92 |
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| 103. Samela |
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| LIKE to Diana in her summer weed, | |
| Girt with a crimson robe of brightest dye, | |
| Goes fair Samela. | |
| Whiter than be the flocks that straggling feed | |
| When wash'd by Arethusa faint they lie, | 5 |
| Is fair Samela. | |
| As fair Aurora in her morning grey, | |
| Deck'd with the ruddy glister of her love | |
| Is fair Samela; | |
| Like lovely Thetis on a calmèd day | 10 |
| Whenas her brightness Neptune's fancy move, | |
| Shines fair Samela. | |
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| Her tresses gold, her eyes like glassy streams, | |
| Her teeth are pearl, the breasts are ivory | |
| Of fair Samela; | 15 |
| Her cheeks like rose and lily yield forth gleams; | |
| Her brows bright arches framed of ebony. | |
| Thus fair Samela | |
| Passeth fair Venus in her bravest hue, | |
| And Juno in the show of majesty | 20 |
| (For she 's Samela!), | |
| Pallas in wit,—all three, if you well view, | |
| For beauty, wit, and matchless dignity, | |
| Yield to Samela. | |
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