Living
Upon Fone a School-master. Epig.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
FOne sayes, those mighty whiskers he do's weare,
Are twigs of Birch, and willow, growing there:
If so, we'll think too, (when he do's condemne
Boyes to the lash) that he do's whip with them.
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Herrick, Robert. “Upon Fone a School-master. Epig.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/108/.
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Herrick, Robert. “Upon Fone a School-master. Epig.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/108/.
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