Robert Herrick


TO WOMEN, TO HIDE THEIR TEETH IF THEY
BE ROTTEN OR RUSTY.

CLOSE keep your lips, if that you mean
To be accounted inside clean :
For if you cleave them we shall see
There in your teeth much leprosy.



Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol II.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 61.


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