Robert Herrick. On Himself. (IX)

ON HIMSELF. (IX)
by Robert Herrick

I'LL sing no more, nor will I longer write
Of that sweet lady, or that gallant knight.
I'll sing no more of frosts, snows, dews and showers ;
No more of groves, meads, springs, and wreaths of flowers.
I'll write no more, nor will I tell or sing
Of Cupid and his witty cozening :
I'll sing no more of death, or shall the grave
No more my dirges and my trentalls have.

Cozening, cheating.
Trentalls, service for the dead.

Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol II.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 32.

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