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TO SIR CLIPSEBY CREW by ROBERT HERRICK

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First Line: GIVE ME WINE, AND GIVE ME MEATE
Last Line: IT WAS FULL ENSPIR'D BY YOU.
1. Give me wine, and give me meate,
To create in me a heate,
That my pulses high may beate.

2. Cold and hunger never yet
Co'd a noble Verse beget;
But your Boules with Sack repleat.

3. Give me these (my Knight) and try
In a Minutes space how I
Can runne mad, and Prophesie.

4. Then if any Peece proves new,
And rare, Ile say (my dearest Crew)
It was full enspir'd by you.



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