The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/To the High and Noble Prince George, Duke, Marquis, and Earl of Buckingham

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To Music, to Becalm a Sweet-sick Youth
The Hesperides & Noble Numbers (1898)
by Robert Herrick, edited by Alfred Pollard
Hesperides
To the High and Noble Prince George, Duke, Marquis, and Earl of Buckingham
His Recantation
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To the High and Noble Prince George, Duke, Marquis, and Earl of Buckingham1898Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
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245. TO THE HIGH AND NOBLE PRINCE GEORGE, DUKE, MARQUIS, AND EARL OF BUCKINGHAM.

Never my book's perfection did appear
Till I had got the name of Villars here:
Now 'tis so full that when therein I look
I see a cloud of glory fills my book.
Here stand it still to dignify our Muse,
Your sober handmaid, who doth wisely choose
Your name to be a laureate wreath to her
Who doth both love and fear you, honoured sir.

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