O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein,

But every flowing limb in pleasure drowns,

And heightens ease with grace.

James Thomson (1700-1748): The Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 26.

Her gentle limbs did she undress,

And lay down in her loveliness.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Christabel. Part i.