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Upon Smeaton.

How could Luke Smeaton wear a shoe, or boot,
Who two-and-thirty corns had on a foot.

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

Upon His Kinswoman, Mistress Elizabeth Herrick.

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Ambition.

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Upon Prigg.

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To Anthea

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Upon Cob. Epig.

Cob clouts his shoes, and, as the story tells,
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The Shoe-Tying.

Anthea bade me tie her shoe;
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And would have kissed unto her knee,
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Upon Patrick, A Footman. Epig.

Now Patrick with his footmanship has done,
His eyes and ears strive which should fastest run.

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Upon Pimp.

When Pimp's feet sweat, as they do often use,
There springs a soap-like lather in his shoes.

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Upon One-Ey'd Broomsted. Epig.

Broomsted a lameness got by cold and beer:
And to the bath went, to be cured there:
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