The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/On a Perfumed Lady

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The Hesperides & Noble Numbers (1898)
by Robert Herrick, edited by Alfred Pollard
Hesperides
On a Perfumed Lady
A Nuptial Song or Epithalamy on Sir Clipseby Crew and His Lady
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On a Perfumed Lady1898Robert Herrick
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282. ON A PERFUMED LADY.

You say you're sweet; how should we know
Whether that you be sweet or no?
From powders and perfumes keep free,
Then we shall smell how sweet you be.

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