FIRST WORK, AND THEN WAGES.
by Robert Herrick


PREPOSTEROUS is that order, when we run
To ask our wages ere our work be done.



Preposterous, lit. hind part before.

Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol II.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 49.


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