Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, "FAREWELL, MY MISTRESS! I'LL BE GONE!", by ANONYMOUS


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"FAREWELL, MY MISTRESS! I'LL BE GONE!", by                    
Last Line: "and they call her 'sack,' my dear!"
Subject(s): Women


Farewell, my Mistress! I'll be gone!
I have friends to wait upon!
Think you, I'll myself confine
To your humours, Lady mine?
No! Your lowering looks do say,
"'Twill be a rainy drinking day;
To the Tavern let's away!"

There have I a mistress got
Cloistered in a Pottle Pot!
Plump and bounding, soft and fair,
Buxom, sweet and debonair;
And they call her "Sack," my Dear! ...





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