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Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

Discontents in Devon


              1More discontents I never had
              2      Since I was born, than here;
              3Where I have been, and still am, sad,
              4      In this dull Devonshire.
              5Yet justly too I must confess,
              6      I ne'er invented such
              7Ennobled numbers for the press,
              8      Than where I loath'd so much.

Notes

1] For some years, until he was ejected by the Puritans in 1647, Herrick was vicar of Dean Prior in Devonshire.

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), of which a section called "His Noble Numbers: or, his Pious Pieces" has a separate title-page dated 1647. Facs. edn. Menston: Scolar, 1969. PR 3512 H4 1648A ROBA
First publication date: 1648
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: 3RP 1.197.
Recent editing: 4:2002/2/6

Rhyme: ababcdcd

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