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To M. Laurence Swetnaham

by Robert Herrick, 1648

Read thou my lines, my Swetnaham; if there be
A fault, ’tis hid if it be voic’d by thee.
Thy mouth will make the sourest numbers please:
How will it drop pure honey speaking these!

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