Living
Upon Bungie.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
BUngie do's fast; looks pale; puts Sack-cloth on;
Not out of Conscience, or Religion:
Or that this Yonker keeps so strict a Lent,
Fearing to break the Kings Commandement:
But being poore, and knowing Flesh is deare,
He keeps not one, but many Lents i'th'yeare.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “Upon Bungie.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/307/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “Upon Bungie.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/307/.
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