Living
To the soure Reader.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
IF thou dislik'st the Piece thou light'st on first;
Thinke that of All, that I have writ, the worst:
But if thou read'st my Booke unto the end,
And still do'st this, and that verse, reprehend:
O Perverse man! If All disgustfull be,
The Extreame Scabbe take thee, and thine, for me.
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Herrick, Robert. “To the soure Reader.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/4/.
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Herrick, Robert. “To the soure Reader.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/4/.
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