Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Full and fair ones,—come and buy!

If so be you ask me where

They do grow, I answer, there,

Where my Julia's lips do smile,—

There 's the land, or cherry-isle.

Cherry Ripe.

Some asked me where the rubies grew,

And nothing I did say;

But with my finger pointed to

The lips of Julia.