Living
Upon Blinks. Epig.
From Hesperides (1648)
Living
TOm Blinks his Nose is full of wheales, and these
Tom calls not pimples, but Pimpleides:
Sometimes (in mirth) he sayes each whelk's a sparke
(When drunke with Beere) to light him home, i'th' dark.
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Herrick, Robert. “Upon Blinks. Epig.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/843/.
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Herrick, Robert. “Upon Blinks. Epig.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/herrick/843/.
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