Discontents in Devon
Discontents in Devon
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
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. Back to Line
Publication Start Year
1648
RPO poem Editors
Ian Lancashire
RPO Edition
3RP 1.197.
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