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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.
Robert Herrick
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Robert Herrick
Age: 83 †
Born: 1591
Born: August 24
Died: 1674
Died: October 12
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England
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Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.
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A little saint best fits a little shrine, A little prop best fits a little vine, As my small cruse best fits my little wine.
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Things are evermore sincere / Candor here, and lustre there / Delighting.
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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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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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Men are suspicious prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.
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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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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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Humble we must be, if to heaven we go High is the roof there, but the gate is low.
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Seldom comes Glory till a man be dead.
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Whatever comes, let's be content withal: Among God's blessings there is no one small.
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Those Saints, which God loves best, The Devil tempts not least.
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