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A Good Husband

by Robert Herrick, 1648

A Master of a house, as I have read,
Must be the first man up, and last in bed.
With the sun rising he must walk his grounds;
See this, view that, and all the other bounds:
Shut every gate; mend every hedge that’s torn,
Either with old, or plant therein new thorn;
Tread o’er his glebe, but with such care, that where
He sets his foot, he leaves rich compost there.

Published in Hesperides
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