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Robert Herrick (1591-1674)2763203The Hesperides & Noble NumbersHesperides
To My Ill Reader
1898Alfred Pollard

344. TO MY ILL READER.

Thou say'st my lines are hard,
And I the truth will tell—
They are both hard and marr'd
If thou not read'st them well.