Love
Upon Julia's Fall.
From Hesperides (1648)
Love
IVLIA was carelesse, and withall,
She rather took, then got a fall:
The wanton Ambler chanc'd to see
Part of her leggs sinceritie:
And ravish'd thus, It came to passe,
The Nagge (like to the Prophets Asse)
Began to speak, and would have been
A telling what rare sights h'ad seen:
And had told all; but did refraine,
Because his Tongue was ty'd againe.
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Herrick, Robert. “Upon Julia's Fall.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/25/.
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Herrick, Robert. “Upon Julia's Fall.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/25/.
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