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The Honeycomb

by Robert Herrick, 1648

If thou hast found an honeycomb,
Eat thou not all, but taste on some:
For if thou eat’st it to excess,
That sweetness turns to loathsomeness.
Taste it to temper, then ’twill be
Marrow and manna unto thee.

Published in Hesperides
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