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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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Give house-room to the best 'tis never known Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.
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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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Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.
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Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
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Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
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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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Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
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Against diseases here the strongest fence is the defensive vertue, Abstinence.
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When words we want, love teacheth to indite And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
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He who has suffered shipwreck, fears to sail Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.
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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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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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You say to me-wards your affection's strong Pray love me little, so you love me long.
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Hast thou attempted greatnesse? Then go on Back-turning slackens resolution.
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In the hour of my distress, When temptations me oppress, And when I my sins confess, Sweet Spirit, comfort me.
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