A white and round neck, that via lactea, dimple in the chin, black eyebrows, Cupidinis arcus, sweet breath, white and even teeth, which some call the salepiece, a fine soft round pap, gives an excellent grace, [4916]_Quale decus tumidis Pario de marmore mammis!_ [4917]and make a pleasant valley lacteum sinum, between two chalky hills, Sororiantes papillulas, et ad pruritum frigidos amatores solo aspectu excitantes.  Unde is, [4918]Forma papillarum quam fuit apta premi!—­Again Urebant oculos durae stantesque mamillae.  A flaxen hair; golden hair was even in great account, for which Virgil commends Dido, Nondum sustulerat flavum Proserpinina crinem, Et crines nodantur in aurum.  Apollonius (Argonaut. lib. 4. Jasonis flava coma incendit cor Medeae) will have Jason’s golden hair to be the main cause of Medea’s dotage on him.  Castor and Pollux were both yellow haired.  Paris, Menelaus, and most amorous young men, have been such in all ages, molles ac suaves, as Baptista Porta infers, [4919] Physiog. lib. 2. lovely to behold.  Homer so commends Helen, makes Patroclus and Achilles both yellow haired:  Pulchricoma Venus, and Cupid himself was yellow haired, in aurum coruscante et crispante capillo, like that neat picture of Narcissus in Callistratus; for so [4920]Psyche spied him asleep, Briseis, Polixena, &c. flavicomae omnes,

------“and Hero the fair,
Whom young Apollo courted for her hair.”

Leland commends Guithera, king Arthur’s wife, for a flaxen hair:  so Paulus Aemilius sets out Clodeveus, that lovely king of France. [4921]Synesius holds every effeminate fellow or adulterer is fair haired:  and Apuleius adds that Venus herself, goddess of love, cannot delight, [4922]"though she come accompanied with the graces, and all Cupid’s train to attend upon her, girt with her own girdle, and smell of cinnamon and balm, yet if she be bald or badhaired, she cannot please her Vulcan.”  Which belike makes our Venetian ladies at this day to counterfeit yellow hair so much, great women to calamistrate and curl it up, vibrantes ad gratiam crines, et tot orbibus in captivitatem flexos, to adorn their heads with spangles, pearls, and made-flowers; and all courtiers to effect a pleasing grace in this kind.  In a word, [4923]"the hairs are Cupid’s nets, to catch all comers, a brushy wood, in which Cupid builds his nest, and under whose shadow all loves a thousand several ways sport themselves.”

A little soft hand, pretty little mouth, small, fine, long fingers, Gratiae quae digitis —­’tis that which Apollo did admire in Daphne,—­laudat digitosque manusque; a straight and slender body, a small foot, and well-proportioned leg, hath an excellent lustre, [4924]_Cui totum incumbit corpus uti fundamento aedes_.  Clearchus vowed to his friend Amyander in [4925]Aristaenetus, that the most attractive part in his mistress, to make him love and like her first,