Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Phineas Fletcher

Black as starless night.

Look as it is with some true April day,
Whose various weather stores the world with flowers;
The sun his glorious beams doth fair display,
Then rains and shines again, and straight it lowers,
And twenty changes in one hour doth prove;
So, and more changing is a woman’s love.

Moving like heaven still in the self-same moving.

Vanished like an empty shade.

White as molten glass.

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