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To Women, To Hide Their Teeth If They Be Rotten or Rusty

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Close keep your lips, if that you mean
To be accounted inside clean:
For if you cleave them we shall see
There in your teeth much leprosy.

Published in Hesperides
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