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In sober mornings do not thou rehearse The holy incantation of a verse
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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T is the will that makes the action good or ill.
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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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O thou, the drink of gods and angels! Wine
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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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None pities him that is in the snare, who warned before, would not beware.
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Who covets more is evermore a slave.
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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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Tis not the food, but the content, That makes the table's merriment.
Robert Herrick
Each must in virtue strive for to excel That man lives twice that lives the first life well.
Robert Herrick
Know when to speak - for many times it brings danger, to give the best advice to kings.
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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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Tis hard to find God, but to comprehend Him, as He is, is labour without end.
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Men are suspicious prone to discontent: Subjects still loathe the present Government.
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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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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.
Robert Herrick
Praise they that will times past, I joy to see My selfe now live: this age best pleaseth mee.
Robert Herrick
I dare not ask a kiss I dare not beg a smile Lest having that or this, I might grow proud the while. No, no, the utmost share Of my desire shall be Only to kiss that air, That lately kissed thee.
Robert Herrick
Like will to like, each creature loves his kind.
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The person lives twice who lives the first life well
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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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