hold the handkerchief a little higher, dear
you're very nearly touching me

C'MERE YOU GRUMPY OLD SAINT
no
C'MERE AND LEMME CUDDLE YOUR FACE
no i came to the desert to be alone
IF I DON'T GET TO CUDDLE YOUR SCRUMPED-UP LITTLE OLD MAD FACE IN THE NEXT FOURTEEN SECONDS I MIGHT DIE

no, Elizabeth 
I cannot let you play with the hoop 
it is so great a diversion you would be overcome with delight and swoon dead away

doesn't Terpsichore mean "delight in dancing" 
you don't seem very delighted
it means a lot of things

I've got a CRUSH on you

"I am the noblest lady of this court, second only to the Queen. Yet I am the saddest of mortals in France."

"Heterosexuality? Never heard of it."

ah lads
I fear this is the end for your old pal Handsome Pete
I am undone by my own babeliness

I HAVE NOTHING LEFT TO GIVE
PLEASE UNDERSTAND

"You, there. And you two. All of you. Put that chest of jewels down at once, you...you dampish gambollers. Stop enjoying yourselves."

Let this young gentleman, who clearly knows what his best life looks like, guide your choices over the next few days. I have loved you all.

"I never got any handouts. No one pushed me out of the sea and covered me with jewels. I made myself."

CAST ASIDE YOUR WIG-HAIRS AND CUFF-CANES, GENTLEMEN, AND ASSEMBLE UP FOR ME THIS PUDDLE OF DOG-RIBBONS POSTE OF HASTEWARDLY

Previously: The many abductions of Ganymede.

Right-ho, so the abduction of Andromeda was a majorly popular artistic motif during the early modern era for reasons of "babes in chains are fun to draw," but there's a really wonderful sliding scale of what Perseus' rescue looked like.

It was not until I found the "Waves in art" and "Paintings of nude females in the sea" categories on Wikimedia Commons that I realized how big a part of art was just women seeming sexually aroused by the ocean? Not even mermaids, it's a whole different thing.