The Crowd And Company.

In holy meetings there a man may be
One of the crowd, not of the company.

Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

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.

Robert Herrick

English

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Once on a Lord Mayor's Day, in Cheapside, when
Skulls could not well pass through that scum of men,
For quick despatch Skulls made no longer stay
Than but to breathe, and everyone gave way;
For, as he breathed, the people swore from thence
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Factions.

The factions of the great ones call,
To side with them, the commons all.

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Upon Man

Man is composed here of a twofold part;
The first of nature, and the next of art;
Art presupposes nature; nature, she
Prepares the way for man's docility.

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Society.

Two things do make society to stand:
The first commerce is, and the next command.

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Multitude.

We trust not to the multitude in war,
But to the stout, and those that skilful are.

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God And The King.

How am I bound to Two! God, who doth give
The mind; the king, the means whereby I live.

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