The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/The Silken Snake
284. THE SILKEN SNAKE.
For sport my Julia threw a lace
Of silk and silver at my face:
Watchet the silk was, and did make
A show as if't had been a snake:
The suddenness did me afright,
But though it scar'd, it did not bite.
Lace, a girdle.
Watchet, pale blue.