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Lasciviousness is known to beThe sister to saturity.
Robert Herrick
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Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is known for his book of poems, "Hesperides," which includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." His works are noted for their clarity, simplicity, and musical quality. Herrick was also a vicar of Dean Prior in Devon, despite being ejected during the English Civil War and later reinstated.
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Policy In Princes.
Discontents In Devon
The Eye.
A wanton and lascivious eyeBetrays the heart's adultery.
Long And Lazy.
That was the proverb. Let my mistress beLazy to others, but be long to me.
Upon Luggs. Epig.
Luggs, by the condemnation of the Bench,Was lately whipt for lying with a wench.Thus pains and pleasures turn by turn succeed:He smarts at last who does not first take heed.
Pleasures Pernicious.
Where pleasures rule a kingdom, never thereIs sober virtue seen to move her sphere.
Leprosy In Houses.
When to a house I come, and seeThe Genius wasteful, more than free:The servants thumbless, yet to eatWith lawless tooth the flour of wheat:The sons to suck the milk of kine,More than the teats of discipline:The daughters wild and loose in dress,Their cheeks unstained with shamefac'dness:The husband drunk, the wife to beA bawd to incivility;I must confess, I there descry,A house spread through with leprosy.
Evil no nature hath; the loss of goodIs that which gives to sin a livelihood.