“Bid me to live, and I will live
Thy Protestant to be,
Or bid me love, and I will give
A loving heart to thee.”

—  Robert Herrick , book Hesperides

" To Anthea, st. 1 http://www.bartleby.com/106/96.html".
Hesperides (1648)

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17th-century English poet and cleric 1591–1674

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