Hesperides, or, The works both humane & divine of Robert Herrick, Esq.
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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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"Hesperides, or, The works both humane & divine of Robert Herrick, Esq." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A43441.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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To Daisies, not to shut so soone.
1.
SHut not so soon; the dull-ey'd nightHa's not as yet begunneTo make a seisure on the light,Or to seale up the Sun.
2.
No Marigolds yet closed are;No shadowes great appeare;Nor doth the early Shepheards StarreShine like a spangle here.
3.
Stay but till my Julia closeHer life-begetting eye;And let the whole world then disposeIt selfe to live or dye.
To the little Spinners.
YEE pretty Huswives, wo'd ye knowThe worke that I wo'd putye to?
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This, this it sho'd be, for to spin,A Lawn for me, so fine and thin,As it might serve me for my skin.For cruell Love ha's me so whipt,That of my skin, I all am stript;And shall dispaire, that any artCan ease the rawnesse, or the smart;Unlesse you skin again each part.Which mercy if you will but do,I call all Maids to witnesse tooWhat here I promise, that no BroomShall now, or ever after comeTo wrong a Spinner or her Loome.
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