...thought and wrote . . . The black man who walked ofl'in front of me reminded me that Juliet's face 'hangs upon the cheek of night / Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear'. His way of looking transformed the world, and me too. All his similes and figures still...

...express the Feel of a Lover" (FSS, 11:2, 279). She quotes an example: "Oh — tis my Love! / See how she hangs upon the Cheek of Night / Like a rich Jewel in an Ethiop's Ear" (FSS, 11:2, 279). The clumsiness of the simile is all the more apparent as Haywood misquotes...

...kind of perpetuity. 7. Roxane, The Starlet 0, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear; beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows,...

...in ghastly night." This remembers or looks forward to Romeo's first glimpse of Juliet: It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear. Caveat lector, though. Shakespeare's beginning is in his ending, and the sonnets, looking...

...get as Romeo first sees Juliet is this: Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear: Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear! She shows a snowy dove trooping with crows....

...doth enrich the hand Of yonder knight? 05 O, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear, Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shines a snow-white swan trouping with...

...actually mentioned. During the Capulet ball, Romeo, dazzled by Juliet's beauty, exclaims: 'It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night/ Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope's ear' (1.5.44-5). Shakespeare's 'Ethiope', translated by Carcano as a male Ethiopian ('un...