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Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.

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
Protestant
Protestants
Thee
Loving
Live
Heart
Love

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Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may.
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Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall, Short lot, or not, to be content with all.
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When the artless doctor sees No one hope, but of his fees, And his skill runs on the lees Sweet Spirit, comfort me! When his potion and his pill, Has, or none, or little skill, Meet for nothing, but to kill Sweet Spirit, comfort me!
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No, not Jove Himselfe, at one time, can be wise and love.
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A winning wave, (deserving note.) In the tempestuous petticote, A careless shoe-string, in whose tye I see a wilde civility,-- Doe more bewitch me than when art Is too precise in every part.
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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
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Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
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Who covets more is evermore a slave.
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Conquer we shall, but, we must first contend! It's not the fight that crowns us, but the end.
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What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve: the sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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Give me a kiss, and to that kiss a score: Then to that twenty, add a hundred more.
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Things are evermore sincere / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
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You say to me-wards your affection's strong Pray love me little, so you love me long.
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Give house-room to the best 'tis never known Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.
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And as this round (ring) is nowhere found to flaw, or else to sever. So let our love as endless prove and pure as gold forever.
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Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
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Next, when I cast mine eyes and see That brave vibration each way free, O how that glittering taketh me!
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