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TO SIR CLISEBIE CREW by ROBERT HERRICK

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First Line: SINCE TO TH' COUNTRY FIRST I CAME
Last Line: BE IN PROSE A GRATEFULL MAN.

Since to th' Country first I came,
I have lost my former flame:
And, methinks, I not inherit,
As I did, my ravisht spirit.
If I write a Verse, or two,
'Tis with very much ado;
In regard I want that Wine,
Which sho'd conjure up a line.
Yet, though now of Muse bereft
I have still the manners left
For to thanke you (Noble Sir)
For those gifts you do conferre
Upon him, who only can
Be in Prose a gratefull man.



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