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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
Poet
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London
England
Funny
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Score
Giving
Kiss
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Twenty
Twenties
Kissing
Hundred

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But here's the sunset of a tedious day, These two asleep are I'll but be undrest, And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.
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Here a little child I stand, Heaving up my either hand Cold as paddocks though they be, Here I lift them up to Thee, for a benison to fall on our meat, and on us all. Amen.
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Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.
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Humble we must be, if to heaven we go High is the roof there, but the gate is low.
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