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John Donne (1572-1631)

A Licentious Person


              1Thy sins and hairs may no man equal call,
              2For, as thy sins increase, thy hairs do fall.


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: Donne, John. The Satires, Epigrams and Verse Letters of John Donne. Edited by W. Milgate. London: Oxford University Press, 1967: 52.
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire, assisted by Ana Berdinskikh
RP edition: 2009
Recent editing: 1:2009/7/20

Form: heroic couplet
Rhyme: aa


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