To bear the message of her gentle spright.
In another place he expresses the worship of his love in this fashion:
For loe, my love doth in her selfe containe
All this worlds riches that may farre be found;
If Pearles, her teeth be Pearles, both pure and round.
Several of his poems show the fashion of pearls in his day as for instance where he describes the Scarlet Lady in "The Faerie Queene" as—
A goodly Lady clad in scarlet red,
Purfled with gold and pearle of rich assay.
and Hymen in "Epithalamion"—
Her long loose yellow locks lyke golden wyre,