Living

Upon Jack and Jill. Epig.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Living

WHen Jill complaines to Jack for want of meate;
Jack kisses Jill, and bids her freely eate:
Jill sayes, of what? sayes Jack, on that sweet kisse,
Which full of Nectar and Ambrosia is,
The food of Poets; so I thought sayes Jill,
That makes them looke so lanke, so Ghost-like still.
Let Poets feed on aire, or what they will;
Let me feed sull, till that I fart, sayes Jill.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “Upon Jack and Jill. Epig.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/499/.

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Herrick, Robert. “Upon Jack and Jill. Epig.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/499/.

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