The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 - Robert Herrick - Page №477
The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2
Robert Herrick
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  • I abhor the slimy kiss, [402].
  • I dream't this mortal part of mine, [375].
  • If felt and heard, unseen, thou dost me please, [408].
  • If thou dislik'st the piece thou light'st on first, [375].
  • If wounds in clothes, Cuts calls his rags, 'tis clear, [385].
  • I have seen many maidens to have hair, [393].
  • In Den'shire Kersey Lusk when he was dead, [409].
  • In's Tusc'lans, Tully doth confess, [409].
  • Is Zelot pure? he is: yet, see he wears, [397].
  • Jone is a wench that's painted, [396].
  • Joan would go tell her hairs; and well she might, [392].
  • Jolly and Jilly bite and scratch all day, [387].
  • Kissing and bussing differ both in this, [391].
  • Last night thou didst invite me home to eat, [388].
  • Letcher was carted first about the streets, [392].
  • Linnet plays rarely on the lute, we know, [385].
  • Long locks of late our zealot Peason wears, [402].
  • Leech boasts he has a pill, that can alone, [383].
  • Luggs, by the condemnation of the bench, [378].
  • Lulls swears he is all heart; but you'll suppose, [403].
  • Lungs, as some say, ne'er sets him down to eat, [396].
  • Lupes for the outside of his suit has paid, [405].
  • Maggot frequents those houses of good cheer, [391].
  • Mease brags of pullets which he eats; but Mease, [384].
  • Meg yesterday was troubled with a pose, [404].
  • Money thou ow'st me; prethee fix a day, [380].
  • Moon is a usurer, whose gain, [384].
  • Much-more provides and hoards up like an ant, [379].
  • Mudge every morning to the postern comes, [405].
  • Nis he makes verses; but the lines he writes, [403].
  • No question but Doll's cheeks would soon roast dry, [407].
  • Now Patrick with his footmanship has done, [387].
  • Of flanks and chines of beef doth Gorrell boast, [380].
  • Of four teeth only Bridget was possest, [387].
  • Of pushes Spalt has such a knotty race, [394].
  • Old Parson Beanes hunts six days of the week, [389].
  • Old Widow Prouse, to do her neighbours evil, [400].
  • Old Widow Shopter, whensoe'er she cries, [408].
  • Once on a Lord Mayor's day, in Cheapside, when, [392].
  • One silver spoon shines in the house of Croot, [408].
  • Pagget, a schoolboy, got a sword, and then, [378].
  • Parrat protests, 'tis he, and only he, [401].
  • Paske, though his debt be one upon the day, [384].
  • Paul's hands do give; what give they, bread or meat, [398].
  • Peapes, he does strut, and pick his teeth, as if, [401].
  • Pievish doth boast that he's the very first, [387].
  • Prickles is waspish, and puts forth his sting, [404].
  • Prigg, when he comes to houses oft doth use, [384].
  • Prig now drinks water, who before drank beer, [379].
  • Putrefaction is the end, [388].
  • Ralph pares his nails, his warts, his corns, and Ralph, [404].
  • Rasp plays at nine-holes; and 'tis known he gets, [386].
  • Reape's eyes so raw are that, it seems, the flies, [402].
  • Rook he sells feathers, yet he still doth cry, [389].
  • Root's had no money; yet he went o' the score, [388].
  • Rump is a turn-broach, yet he seldom can, [408].
  • Rush saves his shoes in wet and snowy weather, [409].
  • Science puffs up, says Gut, when either pease, [407].
  • Scobble for whoredom whips his wife and cries, [377].
  • Seal'd up with night-gum Loach, each morning lies, [400].
  • Shark when he goes to any public feast, [382].
  • Shift now has cast his clothes: got all things new, [385].
  • Sibb, when she saw her face how hard it was, [398].
  • Since Gander did his pretty youngling wed, [396].
  • Since Jack and Jill both wicked be, [389].
  • Skinns, he dined well to-day; how do you think, [386].
  • Skoles stinks so deadly, that his breeches loath, [396].
  • Skrew lives by shifts; yet swears by no small oaths, [385].
  • Skurf by his nine-bones swears, and well he may, [390].
  • Slouch he packs up, and goes to several fairs, [399].
  • Snare, ten i' th' hundred calls his wife; and why? [395].
  • Sneape has a face so brittle that it breaks, [383].
  • Spenke has a strong breath, yet short prayers saith, [403].
  • Spokes, when he sees a roasted pig, he swears, [405].
  • Spunge makes his boasts that he's the only man, [389].
  • Spur jingles now, and swears by no mean oaths, [408].
  • Strutt, once a foreman of a shop we knew, [378].
  • Sudds launders bands in piss, and starches them, [381].