UPON THE NIPPLES OF JULIA'S BREAST HAVE ye beheld (with much delight) A red rose peeping through a white ? Or else a cherry, double grac'd, Within a lily centre plac'd ? Or ever mark'd the pretty beam A strawberry shows half-drown'd in cream ? Or seen rich rubies blushing through A pure smooth pearl and orient too ? So like to this, nay all the rest, Is each neat niplet of her breast. Source: Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I. Alfred Pollard, ed. London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 203.

Portrait  of  a  Woman  Revealing  Her  Breasts. Tintoretto, c.1570.   Museo del Prado, Madrid.

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