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LEPROSIE IN HOUSES by ROBERT HERRICK

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First Line: WHEN TO A HOUSE I COME, AND SEE
Last Line: A HOUSE SPRED THROUGH WITH LEPROSIE.
Subject(s): LEPROSY; LEPERS;
When to a House I come, and see
The Genius wastefull, more then free:
The servants thumblesse, yet to eat,
With lawlesse tooth the floure of wheate:
The Sonnes to suck the milke of Kine,
More then the teats of Discipline:
The Daughters wild and loose in dresse;
Their cheekes unstain'd with shamefac'tnesse:
The Husband drunke, the Wife to be
A Baud to incivility:
I must confesse, I there descrie,
A House spred through with Leprosie.



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