Upon Pimp.

When Pimp's feet sweat, as they do often use,
There springs a soap-like lather in his shoes.

Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick was a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is known for his book of poems, "Hesperides," which includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time." His works are noted for their clarity, simplicity, and musical quality. Herrick was also a vicar of Dean Prior in Devon, despite being ejected during the English Civil War and later reinstated.

Robert Herrick

Thanksgiving.

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

To The Handsome Mistress Grace Potter

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Roaring.

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

To His Worthy Friend, M. Thos. Falconbirge.

Robert Herrick, Simple Poetry

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Did soon draw in again.

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Upon Patrick, A Footman. Epig.

Now Patrick with his footmanship has done,
His eyes and ears strive which should fastest run.

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Upon A Cheap Laundress. Epig.

Feacie, some say, doth wash her clothes i' th' lie
That sharply trickles from her either eye.
The laundresses, they envy her good-luck,
Who can with so small charges drive the buck.
What needs she fire and ashes to consume,
Who can scour linens with her own salt rheum?

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Upon Prigg.

Prigg, when he comes to houses, oft doth use,
Rather than fail, to steal from thence old shoes:
Sound or unsound be they, or rent or whole,
Prigg bears away the body and the sole.

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Upon Smeaton.

How could Luke Smeaton wear a shoe, or boot,
Who two-and-thirty corns had on a foot.

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Upon Sudds, A Laundress.

Sudds launders bands in piss, and starches them
Both with her husband's and her own tough fleam.

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