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TO JOS: LO: BISHOP OF EXETER by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: WHOM SHO'D I FEARE TO WRITE TO, IF I CAN
Last Line: TIS GOOD CONFIRM'D; FOR YOU HAVE BISHOP'T IT.

Whom sho'd I feare to write to, if I can
Stand before you, my learn'd Diocesan?
And never shew blood-guiltinesse, or feare
To see my Lines Excathedrated here.
Since none so good are, but you may condemne
Or here so bad, but you may pardon them.
If then, (my Lord) to sanctifie my Muse
One onely Poem out of all you'l chuse;
And mark it for a Rapture nobly writ,
'Tis Good Confirm'd; for you have Bishop't it.



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