Living

To Sir Cilpseby Crew.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

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.

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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