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| Beauteous as a summer’s morn. | 1 |
| Browne as the fylberte droppyng from the shelle. | 2 |
| Browne as the nappy ale at Hock tyde game. | 3 |
| Fair as Ambition’s dream, or Beauty’s face. | 4 |
| Fast as the streaming rain. | 5 |
| Fierce as the blast that tears the northern sky. | 6 |
| Fierce as the fallynge thunderbolte. | 7 |
| Flete as fleaynge cloudes that swymme before the syghte. | 8 |
| Free as the wind. | 9 |
| Gaie as all nature at the mornyng’s smile. | 10 |
| Red as the highest colour’d Gallic wine. | 11 |
Charming smiles thy beauteous face adorn,
As May’s white blossoms gaily deck the thorn. | 12 |
| Smiles … sweet as the flow’rs in bloom of spring array’d. | 13 |
| Soft as the breath of morn in bloom of spring. | 14 |
| Soft as the cooing of the turtle dove. | 15 |
| Soft as the moss where hissing adders dwell. | 16 |
| Softe as the sommer flowrets. | 17 |
| Sweet as the voice of thraslarks [Thrushes] in the spring. | 18 |
| Swellynge like bubbles in a boillynge welle. | 19 |
| Swefte as descendeynge lemes [rays] of roddie lyghte plonged to the hulstred [secret] bedde of loveynge [washing] seas. | 20 |
| Swefte as a feether’d takel [Arrow]. | 21 |
| Swefte as my wyshe. | 22 |
| Swift as the flying clouds distilling rain. | 23 |
| Swefte as the rayne-storme toe the erthe alyghtes. | 24 |
| Swefte, as the rayne uponne an Aprylle daie. | 25 |
| Swefte as the roareynge wyndes. | 26 |
| White as the chaulkie clyffes of Brittaines isle. | 27 |
| Whyte hys rade [neck] as the sommer snowe. | 28 |
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