Living
Chorus Pastorum.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
HEre we present a fleece
To make a peece
Of cloth;
Nor Faire, must you be loth
Your Finger to apply
To huswiferie.
Then, then begin
To spin:
And (Sweetling) marke you, what a Web will come
Into your Chests, drawn by your painfull Thumb.
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Herrick, Robert. “Chorus Pastorum.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/638/.
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Herrick, Robert. “Chorus Pastorum.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/638/.
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