Living
Upon a cheap Laundresse. Epig.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
FEacie (some say) doth wash her clothes i'th' Lie
That sharply trickles from her either eye.
The Laundresses, They envie her good-luck,
Who can with so small charges drive the buck.
What needs she fire and ashes to consume,
Who can scoure Linnens with her own salt reeume?
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Herrick, Robert. “Upon a cheap Laundresse. Epig.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/475/.
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