Upon Buggins.

Buggins is drunk all night, all day he sleeps;
This is the level-coil that Buggins keeps.

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

Upon Spur.

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

Once Seen And No More.

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

The Present; Or, The Bag Of The Bees

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

The Good-Night Or Blessing

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

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Upon Truggin.

Truggin a footman was; but now, grown lame,
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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.

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Upon Himself Being Buried.

Let me sleep this night away,
Till the dawning of the day;
Then at th' opening of mine eyes
I, and all the world, shall rise.

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Upon Gubbs. Epig.

Gubbs calls his children kitlings: and would bound,
Some say, for joy, to see those kitlings drown'd.

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Upon Bice.

Bice laughs, when no man speaks; and doth protest.
It is his own breech there that breaks the jest.

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Upon Tubbs.

For thirty years Tubbs has been proud and poor;
'Tis now his habit, which he can't give o'er.

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