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Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Upon Parson Beanes


              1Old Parson Beanes hunts six days of the week,
              2And on the seventh, he has his notes to seek.
              3Six days he hollows so much breath away
              4That on the seventh he can nor preach or pray.


Online text copyright © 2009, Ian Lancashire (the Department of English) and the University of Toronto.
Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries.

Original text: Robert Herrick, Hesperides (London: for John Williams and F. Eglesfield to be sold by Thomas Hunt, 1648). Facs. edn. (Menston: Scolar, 1969). PR 3512 H4 1648A Robarts Library.
First publication date: 1648
RPO poem editor: N. J. Endicott
RP edition: 2RP 1.309.
Recent editing: 4:2002/2/6

Rhyme: aabb


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