Hesperides, or, The works both humane & divine of Robert Herrick, Esq.

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Title
Hesperides, or, The works both humane & divine of Robert Herrick, Esq.
Author
Herrick, Robert, 1591-1674.
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London :: Printed for John Williams and Francis Eglesfield ...,
1648.
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To Musique, to becalme his Fever.

1.
CHarm me asleep, and melt me so With thy Delicious Numbers; That being ravisht, hence I goe Away in easie slumbers. Ease my sick head, And make my bed, Thou Power that canst sever From me this ill: And quickly still: Though thou not kill My Fever.
2.
Thou sweetly canst convert the same From a consuming fire, Into a gentle-licking flame, And make it thus expire.

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Then make me weep My paines asleep; And give me such reposes, That I, poore I, May think, thereby, I live and die 'Mongst Roses,
2.
Fall on me like a silent dew, Or like those Maiden showrs, Which, by the peepe of day, doe strew A Baptime o're the flowers. Melt, melt my paines, With thy soft straines; That having ease me given, With full delight, I leave this light; And take my flight For Heaven.
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