Living

The Hagg.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Living

THe staffe is now greas'd,
And very well pleas'd,
She cockes out her Arse at the parting,
To an old Ram Goat,
That rattles i'th'throat,
Halfe choakt with the stink of her farting.

In a dirtie Haire-lace
She leads on a brace
Of black-bore-cats to attend her;
Who scratch at the Moone,
And threaten at noone
Of night from Heaven for to rend her.

A hunting she goes;
A crackt horne she blowes;
At which the hounds fall a bounding;
While th'Moone in her sphere
Peepes trembling for feare,
And night's afraid of the sounding.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “The Hagg.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/1131/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “The Hagg.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/1131/.

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