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THE MEDDOW VERSE OR ANNIVERSARY TO MISTRIS BRIDGET LOWMAN by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: COME WITH THE SPRING-TIME, FORTH FAIR MAID, AND BE
Last Line: CHERRISH THE CHEEK, BUT MAKE NONE BLUSH AT ALL.

Come with the Spring-time, forth Fair Maid, and be
This year again, the medows Deity.
Yet ere ye enter, give us leave to set
Upon your Head this flowry Coronet:
To make this neat distinction from the rest:
You are the Prime, and Princesse of the Feast:
To which, with silver feet lead you the way,
While sweet-breath Nimphs, attend on you this Day.
This is your houre; and best you may command,
Since you are Lady of this Fairie land.
Full mirth wait on you; and such mirth as shall
Cherrish the cheek, but make none blush at all.



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