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Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.

Robert Herrick

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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
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London
England
Kissing
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Score
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Twenty
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