Living
Upon Leech.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
LEech boasts, he has a Pill, that can alone,
With speed give sick men their salvation:
'Tis strange, his Father long time has been ill,
And credits Physick, yet not trusts his Pill:
And why? he knowes he must of Cure despaire,
Who makes the slie Physitian his Heire.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “Upon Leech.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/317/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “Upon Leech.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/317/.
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