Living
Upon Brock. Epig.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
TO clense his eyes, Tom Brock makes much adoe,
But not his mouth (the fouler of the two.)
A clammie Reume makes loathsome both his eyes:
His mouth worse furr'd with oathes and blasphemies.
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Herrick, Robert. “Upon Brock. Epig.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/275/.
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