Living
Upon Center a Spectacle-maker with a flat nose.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
CEnter is known weak sighted, and he sells
To others store of helpfull spectacles.
Why were she none? Because we may suppose,
Where Leaven wants, there Levill lies the nose.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “Upon Center a Spectacle-maker with a flat nose.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/403/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “Upon Center a Spectacle-maker with a flat nose.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/403/.
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