And cast itself at full breadth down her back:

There, since the first breath that begun the wrack

Of her free quiet from Leander's lips,

She wrought a sea, in one flame, full of ships;

But that one ship where all her wealth did pass,50

Like simple merchants' goods, Leander was;

For in that sea she naked figured him;

Her diving needle taught him how to swim,

And to each thread did such resemblance give,

For joy to be so like him it did live: