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Need is no vice at all, though here it beWith men a loathed inconveniency.
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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Salutation.
Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry
Upon Doll.
Blame.
Rest.
Want
Want is a softer wax, that takes thereon,This, that, and every base impression,
His Desire
Give me a man that is not dull,When all the world with rifts is full;But unamazed dares clearly sing,When as the roof's a-tottering;And though it falls, continues stillTickling the Cittern with his quill.
Man
Need.
Who begs to die for fear of human need,Wisheth his body, not his soul, good speed.
No Want Where There's Little.
To bread and water none is poor;And having these, what need of more?Though much from out the cess be spent,Nature with little is content.
Evil.
Evil no nature hath; the loss of goodIs that which gives to sin a livelihood.