Do more bewitch me, than when art
Is too precise in every part.”
Herrick was exquisitely taken by the “liquefaction,” as he calls it, of his Julia’s robes, and his very heart was rumpled by their “glittering vibration.” He dresses her in the airy fashion which Moore followed when called upon to deck his Nora Creina:—
“The airy robe I did behold,
As airy as the leaves of gold,
Which erring here and wandering there,
Pleased with transgression ev’rywhere:
Sometimes ’twould pant, and sigh, and heave,
As if to stir it scarce had leave;
But having got it, thereupon