Living
To women, to hide their teeth, if they be rotten or rusty.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
CLose keep your lips, if that you meane
To be accounted inside cleane:
For if you cleave them, we shall see
There in your teeth much Leprosie.
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MLA
Herrick, Robert. “To women, to hide their teeth, if they be rotten or rusty.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/747/.
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Herrick, Robert. “To women, to hide their teeth, if they be rotten or rusty.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/747/.
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