The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/The Carcanet

by Robert Herrick

For works with similar titles, see The Carcanet.

34. THE CARCANET.

Instead of orient pearls of jet
I sent my love a carcanet;
About her spotless neck she knit
The lace, to honour me or it:
Then think how rapt was I to see
My jet t'enthral such ivory.

Carcanet, necklace.
Lace, any kind of girdle; used here for the necklace.