'Her skin was like congealed ointment;
Her neck was like the tree-grub;
Her teeth were like melon seeds;
Her forehead cicada-like; her eyebrows like [the antenne of] the silkworm moth;
What dimples, as she artfully smiled!
How lovely her eyes, with the black and white so well defined!'

this is such an unusual description of someone being attractive, like--what? ??

'Early retire, ye great officers,
And do not make the marquis fatigued!' bc he's gonna need that energy for wife-fucking, or?

What's up with this reverse end xing?