Living
To Sir Cilpseby Crew.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
GIve me wine, and give me meate,
To create in me a heate,
That my Pulses high may beate.
Cold and hunger never yet
Co'd a noble Verse beget;
But your Boules with Sack repleat.
Give me these (my Knight) and try
In a Minutes space how I
Can runne mad, and Prophesie.
Then if any Peece proves new,
And rare, Ile say (my dearest Crew)
It was full enspir'd by you.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “To Sir Cilpseby Crew.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/621/.
Chicago
Herrick, Robert. “To Sir Cilpseby Crew.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/621/.
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