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NO SPOUSE BUT A SISTER by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: A BACHELOUR I WILL
Last Line: AND KISSE, BUT YET BE CHASTE.
Subject(s): SINGLE PEOPLE; WOMEN; BACHELORS; UNMARRIED PEOPLE;
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.



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