by Robert Herrick (1591 - 1674)

To Dianeme (IV)
Language: English 
Give me one kiss
    And no more :
If, so be, this
    Makes you poor,
To enrich you,
    I'll restore
For that one two
    Thousand score.

Confirmed with Works of Robert Herrick, Vol I, ed. by Alfred Pollard, London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891, page 246.


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