No Spouse but a Sister

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No Spouse but a Sister
by Robert Herrick
See: Hesperides Published 1648.


(31.) No Spouse but a Sister

A bachelour I will
Live as I have liv'd still,
And never take a wife
To crucifie my life:
But this I'le tell ye too,
What now I meane to doe;
A Sister (in the stead
Of Wife) about I'le lead;
Which I will keep embrac'd,
And kisse, but yet be chaste.