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TO HIS FRIEND TO AVOID CONTENTION OF WORDS by ROBERT HERRICK

Poet Analysis

First Line: WORDS BEGET ANGER: ANGER BRINGS FORTH BLOWES
Last Line: THEN FOR TO MURDER FRIENDSHIP, BY DISPUTE.
Subject(s): LANGUAGE; WORDS; VOCABULARY;
Words beget Anger: Anger brings forth blowes:
Blowes make of dearest friends immortall Foes.
For which prevention (Sociate) let there be
Betwixt us two no more Logomachie.
Farre better 'twere for either to be mute,
Then for to murder friendship, by dispute.



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