The Carkanet

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The Carkanet
by Robert Herrick
See: Hesperides Published 1648.



(34.) The Carkanet

Instead of Orient Pearls of Jet,
I sent my Love a Karkanet:
About her spotlesse neck she knit
The lace, to honour me, or it:
Then think how wrapt was I to see
My Jet t'enthrall such Ivorie.


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