by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)

Upon Cupid (II)
Language: English 
Love like a gipsy lately came,
    And did me much importune
To see my hand, that by the same
   He might foretell my fortune.

He saw my palm, and then, said he,
   I tell thee by this score here,
That thou within few months shalt be
   The youthful Prince d'Amour here.

I smil'd, and bade him once more prove,
   And by some cross-line show it,
That I could ne'er be prince of love,
   Though here the princely poet.

Confirmed with Works of Robert Herrick, Vol I, ed. by Alfred Pollard, London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891, pages 76-77.


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