Mythology & Folklore
Song: Wake, Hercules, Awake
From Pleasure Reconciled to Virtue
Mythology & Folklore
Wake, Hercules, awake; but heave up thy black eye,
'Tis only ask'd from thee to look, and these will die,
Or fly:
Already they are fled,
Whom scorn had else left dead.
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Codex Note
Headed Song in the masque.
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MLA
Jonson, Ben. “Song: Wake, Hercules, Awake.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/296/.
Chicago
Jonson, Ben. “Song: Wake, Hercules, Awake.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/jonson/296/.
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