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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.

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
Rosebuds
Ever
Tarry
Time
Virginity
Marry
Prime
Use
Lost
May

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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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Well I sup and well I dine, When I drink my frolic wine.
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Go to your banquet then, but use delight So as to rise still with an appetite.
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