Living

Upon Jone and Jane.

by Robert Herrick 1591–1674

From Hesperides (1648)

Living

I One is a wench that's painted;
June is a Girle that's tainted;
Yet Jone she goes
Like one of those
Whom purity had Sainted..

Jane is a Girle that's prittie;
Jane is a wench that's wittie;
Yet, who wo'd think,
Her breath do's stinke,
As so it doth? that's pittie.

MLA

Herrick, Robert. “Upon Jone and Jane.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/669/.

Chicago

Herrick, Robert. “Upon Jone and Jane.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/669/.

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