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Anthea’s Retractation

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Anthea laugh’d, and fearing lest excess
Might stretch the cords of civil comeliness,
She with a dainty blush rebuk’d her face,
And call’d each line back to his rule and space.

Published in Hesperides
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