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GOOD PRECEPTS, OR COUNSELL by ROBERT HERRICK

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First Line: IN ALL THY NEED, BE THOU POSSEST
Last Line: THEN LUTES AND HARPES SHALL STROKE THE EARE.

In all thy need, be thou possest
Still with a well-prepared brest:
Nor let the shackles make thee sad;
Thou canst but have, what others had.
And this for comfort thou must know,
Times that are ill wo'nt still be so.
Clouds will not ever powre down raine;
A sullen day will cleere againe.
First, peales of Thunder we must heare,
Then Lutes and Harpes shall stroke the eare.



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