Jump to content

The Hesperides & Noble Numbers/Hesperides/Merits Make the Man

Add links
From Wikisource
←
Upon Her Blush
The Hesperides & Noble Numbers (1898)
by Robert Herrick, edited by Alfred Pollard
Hesperides
Merits Make the Man
To Virgins
→
Robert Herrick (1591-1674)2677414The Hesperides & Noble Numbers — Hesperides
Merits Make the Man1898Alfred Pollard
​

296. MERITS MAKE THE MAN.

Our honours and our commendations be
Due to the merits, not authority.

Retrieved from "https://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?title=The_Hesperides_%26_Noble_Numbers/Hesperides/Merits_Make_the_Man&oldid=14327026"