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 Anthea.
AH my Anthea! Must my heart still break?(Love makes me write, what shame forbids to speak.)Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score;Then to that twenty, adde an hundred more:A thousand to that hundred: so kisse 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.But yet, though Love likes well such Scenes as these,There is an Act that will more fully please:Kissing and glancing, soothing, all make wayBut to the acting of this private Play:
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Name it I would; but being blushing red,The rest Ile speak, when we meet both in bed.
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