Living
Upon Magot a frequenter of Ordinaries.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
MAgot frequents those houses of good-cheere,
Talkes most, eates most, of all the Feeders there.
He raves through leane, he rages through the fat;
(What gets the master of the Meal by that?)
He who with talking can devoure so much,
How wo'd he eate, were nor his hindrance such?
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “Upon Magot a frequenter of Ordinaries.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/519/.
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Herrick, Robert. “Upon Magot a frequenter of Ordinaries.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/519/.
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