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Give house-room to the best 'tis never known Verture and pleasure both to dwell in one.
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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House
Give
Best
Giving
Dwell
Never
Room
Rooms
Pleasure
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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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Bid me to live, and I will liveThy Protestant to be,Or bid me love, and I will giveA loving heart to thee.
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What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.
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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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You say to me-wards your affection's strong Pray love me little, so you love me long.
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So when or you or I are made A fable, song, or fleeting shade All love, all liking, all delight Lies drowned with us in endless night. Then while time serves, and we are but decaying Come, my Corinna, come, let's go a Maying.
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Things are evermore sincere / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
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Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
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Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.
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Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
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Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
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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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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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When words we want, love teacheth to indite And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.
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Gather ye rosebuds, while ye may.
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