The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/The Silken Snake

by Robert Herrick

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.