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William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Elizabethan Verse. 1907.

Upon Julia’s Clothes

Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

WHENAS in silks my Julia goes,

Then, then, methinks, how sweetly flows

The liquefaction of her clothes!

Next, when I cast mine eyes and see

That brave vibration each way free,

—O how that glittering taketh me!