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LITTLENESSE NO CAUSE OF LEANNESSE by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: ONE FEEDS ON LARD, AND YET IS LEANE
Last Line: JOVE PROSPERS MY MEAT, MORE THEN HIS.
Subject(s): FOOD & EATING;
One feeds on lard, and yet is leane;
And I but feasting with a Beane,
Grow fat and smooth: The reason is,
Jove prospers my meat, more then his.



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