"[H]is belly is as bright ivory overlaid with sapphires."

"The Indy saphyre blew Her vaynès doth ennew;"

"The heaven-hued sapphire"

"Between thy breasts (than down of swans more white) There plays the sapphire with the chrysolite."

"Whilst the fond people offer’d Sacrifice To Saphyrs, ’stead of Veins and Arteries, And bow’d unto the Diamonds, not h…"

"A sapphire shines as blue as heaven;"

"I have sapphires and rare gems On my mantle’s sacred hems,"

"Polycrates considered which of his treasures it would most grieve his soul to lose, and came to this conclusion: he w…"

"This gem of chastity, this emeraud."

"But for all that, Sancho, I have falne upon one thing, which is, that thou didst ill describe her beautie to me: for …"