Robert Herrick ( 10 of 34 )
Her pretty feet
Like snails did creep
A little out, and then,
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Her pretty feet
Like snails did creep
A little out, and then,
As if they played at bo-peep
Did soon draw in agen.
He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke
He loves his bonds who, when the first are broke, Submits his neck into a second yoke
Against diseases here the strongest fence,
Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.
Against diseases here the strongest fence,
Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.
Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment.
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
It is the end that crowns us, not the fight.
I saw a flie within a beade
Of amber cleanly buried.
I saw a flie within a beade
Of amber cleanly buried.
Let's live with that small pittance which we have;
Who covets more is evermore a slave.
Let's live with that small pittance which we have;
Who covets more is evermore a slave.
Welcome, maids of honor,
You doe bring
In the spring,
And wait upon her.
Welcome, maids of honor,
You doe bring
In the spring,
And wait upon her.
A winning wave, (deserving note.)
In the tempestuous petticote,
A careless shoe-string, in whose tye
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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.
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.
