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A HYME, TO THE LARES PROSPECTIVE POEM by ROBERT HERRICK

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First Line: IT WAS, AND STILL MY CARE IS
Last Line: I'LE EAT AND DRINK UP ALL HERE.
Subject(s): FOOD & EATING;
It was, and still my care is,
To worship ye, the Lares,
With crowns of greenest Parsley,
And Garlick chives not scarcely:
For favours here to warme me,
And not by fire to harme me.
For gladding so my hearth here,
With inoffensive mirth here;
That while the Wassaile Bowle here
With North-down Ale doth troule here,
No sillable doth fall here,
To marre the mirth at all here.
For which, o Chimney-keepers!
(I dare not call ye Sweepers)
So long as I am able
To keep a countrey-table,
Great be my fare, or small cheere,
I'le eat and drink up all here.



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