UPON JULIA'S UNLACING HERSELF. by Robert Herrick TELL if thou canst, and truly, whence doth come This camphor, storax, spikenard, galbanum ; These musks, these ambers, and those other smells (Sweet as the vestry of the oracles). I'll tell thee :  while my Julia did unlace Her silken bodice but a breathing space, The passive air such odour then assum'd, As when to Jove great Juno goes perfum'd, Whose pure immortal body doth transmit A scent that fills both heaven and earth with it.

Titian. Vanity (aka Profane Love), c1515.

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