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Upon Chub

by Robert Herrick, 1648

When Chub brings in his harvest, still he cries,
“Aha, my boys! here’s meat for Christmas pies!”
Soon after he for beer so scores his wheat,
That at the tide he has not bread to eat.

Published in Hesperides
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