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Wash clean the vessel, lest ye sourWhatever liquor in ye pour.
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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How He Would Drink His Wine.
Fill me my wine in crystal; thus, and thusI see't in's puris naturalibus:Unmix'd. I love to have it smirk and shine;'Tis sin I know, 'tis sin to throttle wine.What madman's he, that when it sparkles so,Will cool his flames or quench his fires with snow?
To A Gentlewoman On Just Dealing.
True to yourself and sheets, you'll have me swear;You shall, if righteous dealing I find there.Do not you fall through frailty; I'll be sureTo keep my bond still free from forfeiture.
To His Saviour.
Lord, I confess, that Thou alone art ableTo purify this my Augean stable:Be the seas water, and the land all soap,Yet if Thy blood not wash me, there's no hope.
Upon Vinegar.
Vinegar is no other, I define,Than the dead corps, or carcase of the wine.
Upon Himself.
I am sieve-like, and can holdNothing hot or nothing cold.Put in love, and put in tooJealousy, and both will through:Put in fear, and hope, and doubt;What comes in runs quickly out:Put in secrecies withal,Whate'er enters, out it shall:But if you can stop the sieve,For mine own part, I'd as liefMaids should say or virgins sing,Herrick keeps, as holds nothing.
A Bacchanalian Verse.
Drink upYour cup,But not spill wine;For if you Do,'Tis an ill sign;That weForeseeYou are cloy'd here,If so, no Ho,But avoid here.