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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
Live
Heart
Love
Protestant
Protestants
Thee
Loving

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Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
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A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction.
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Drink wine, and live here blitheful while ye may The morrow's life too late is live to-day.
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Well I sup and well I dine, When I drink my frolic wine.
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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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Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold New things succeed, as former things grow old.
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The May-pole is up, Now give me the cup I'll drink to the garlands around it But first unto those Whose hands did compose The glory of flowers that crown'd it.
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Let wealth come in by comely thrift, And not by any sordid shift 'T is haste Makes waste Extremes have still their fault. Who gripes too hard the dry and slipp'ry sand, Holds none at all, or little, in his hand.
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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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Cherry-ripe, ripe, ripe, I cry, Full and fair ones come and buy. If so be you ask me where They do grow, I answer: There, Where my Julia's lips do smile There's the land, or cherry-isle, Whose plantations fully show All the year where cherries grow.
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Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds chuse their mates and couple too this day: But by their flight I never can devine When I shall couple with my valentine.
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In ways to greatness think on this, That slippery all ambition is
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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.
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Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
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Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
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When one is past, another care we have Thus woe succeeds a woe, as wave a wave.
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Who covets more is evermore a slave.
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Then be not coy, but use your time And while ye may, go marry: For having lost but once your prime, You may for ever tarry.
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