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From either ear, ring’d to its piercèd lobe

A triple jewel hung, with gold enchas’t;

And o’er her breasts her wide ambrosial robe

With many a shining golden clasp was brac’t;

The flowering on its smooth embroider’d lawn

Gather’d to colour where the zone was drawn

In fringe of golden tassels at her waist.

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Her curling hair with plaited braid and brail,