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A Dirge Upon the Death of the Right Valiant Lord, Bernard Stuart
The Hesperides & Noble Numbers (1898)
by Robert Herrick, edited by Alfred Pollard
Hesperides
To Perenna, a Mistress
The Fairy Temple; or, Oberon's Chapel Dedicated to Mr. John Merrifield, Counsellor-at-law
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Robert Herrick (1591-1674)2654237The Hesperides & Noble Numbers — Hesperides
To Perenna, a Mistress1898Alfred Pollard
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220. TO PERENNA, A MISTRESS.

Dear Perenna, prithee come
And with smallage dress my tomb:
Add a cypress sprig thereto,
With a tear, and so Adieu.

Smallage, water-parsley.

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