The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2

by Robert Herrick

INDEX OF FIRST LINES.

• An old, old widow, Greedy needs would wed, [383].

• Bad are all surfeits; but physicians call, [403].
• Bar close as you can, and bolt fast too your door, [380].
• Batt he gets children, not for love to rear 'em, [379].
• Bice laughs, when no man speaks; and doth protest, [399].
• Blanch swears her husband's lovely; when a scald, [376].
• Blisse, last night drunk, did kiss his mother's knee, [404].
• Boreman takes toll, cheats, flatters, lies! yet Boreman, [406].
• Broomsted a lameness got by cold and beer, [392].
• Brown bread Tom Pennie eats, and must of right, [406].
• Buggins is drunk all night, all day he sleeps, [406].
• Bungy does fast; looks pale; puts sackcloth on, [382].
• Burr is a smell-feast, and a man alone, [404].

• Center is known weak sighted, and he sells, [386].
• Cob clouts his shoes, and as the story tells, [396].
• Cock calls his wife his hen; when cock goes to 't, [395].
• Comely acts well; and when he speaks his part, [399].
• Craw cracks in sirrop; and does stinking say, [388].
• Crooked you are, but that dislikes not me, [381].
• Cuffe comes to church much; but he keeps his bed, [377].
• Curse not the mice, no grist of thine they eat, [384].

• Dunridge his issue hath; but is not styl'd, [392].
• Doll, she so soon began the wanton trade, [385].

• E'en all religious courses to be rich, [399].
• Eeles winds and turns, and cheats and steals; yet Eeles, [386].

• Feacie, some say, doth wash her clothes i' th' lie, [390].
• Fie, quoth my lady, what a stink is here, [395].
• First, Jolly's wife is lame; then next loose-hip'd, [378].
• Flood, if he has for him and his a bit, [409].
• Fone says, those mighty whiskers he does wear, [377].
• For ropes of pearl, first Madam Ursly shows, [397].
• For second course, last night a custard came, [378].
• For thirty years Tubbs has been proud and poor, [405].
• Franck ne'er wore silk she swears; but I reply, [394].
• Franck would go scour her teeth; and setting to 't, [398].

• Give me a reason why men call, [401].
• Goes the world now, it will with thee go hard, [376].
• Glasco had none, but now some teeth has got, [377].
• Glass, out of deep, and out of desp'rate want, [386].
• Groynes, for his fleshly burglary of late, [381].
• Grubs loves his wife and children, while that they, [407].
• Grudgings turns bread to stones, when to the poor, [395].
• Gryll eats, but ne'er says grace: to speak the truth, [378].
• Gubbs calls his children kitlings: and would bound, [380].
• Guess cuts his shoes, and limping, goes about, [381].

• Hanch, since he lately did inter his wife, [402].
• Hog has a place i' th' kitchen, and his share, [407].
• Horne sells to others teeth; but has not one, [394].
• How could Luke Smeaton wear a shoe or boot, [398].
• Huncks has no money, he does swear or say, [390].