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Some asked me where the rubies grew, And nothing I did say, But with my finger pointed to The lips of Julia. - Robert Herrick, The Rock of Rubies, and the Quarrie of Pearls Lips are no part of the head, only made for a double-leaf door for the mouth. - John Lyly (Lylie or Lyllie), Midas Let us command to know that of your mouth, or of your lips--for divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth. - William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Evans at I, i) He lips were red, and one was thin, Compared to that was next her chin. (Some bee had stung it newly.) - Sir John Suckling, A Ballad Upon a Wedding (st. 11) With that she dasht her on the lippes, So dyed double red; Hard was the heart that gave the blow, Soft were those lippes that bled. - William Warner, Albion's England (bk. VIII, ch. XLI, st. 53) As a pomegranate, cut in twain, White-seeded is her crimson mouth. - Oscar Wilde (Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde), La Bella Donna della Mia Mente
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