Maxioms by Robert Herrick
What is a kisse? Why this, as some approve:
The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
What is a kisse? Why this, as some approve:
The sure sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.
Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
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Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;
Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more;
A thousand to that hundred; so kiss on,
To make that thousand up a million;
Treble that million, and when that is done,
Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun.
A sweet disorder in the dresse
Kindles in cloathes a wantonnesse.
A sweet disorder in the dresse
Kindles in cloathes a wantonnesse.
Who after his transgression doth repent,
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
Who after his transgression doth repent,
Is halfe, or altogether, innocent.
Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse;
Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
Temptations hurt not, though they have accesse;
Satan o'ercomes none but by willingnesse.
