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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
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London
England
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Protestant
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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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Feed him ye must, whose food fills you. And that this pleasure is like raine, Not sent ye for to drowne your paine, But for to make it spring againe.
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