When Pulter compares Jane’s body to lilies and roses, she draws on a familiar convention from contemporary love poetry. Early modern English authors who modeled their poetry after the fourteenth-century Italian poet Petrarch often used the colors red and white to mark feminine virtue and beauty, and lilies and roses appear frequently in blazons, or verses that catalog a woman’s body parts by comparing them to other physical objects. The following three poems analogize a beloved’s body parts to these flowers, but they do so from the perspective of a male speaker describing a female love interest.