<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507523" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>To The Maids, To Walk Abroad</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Come, sit we under yonder tree,<br>Where merry as the maids we'll be;<br>And as on primroses we sit,<br>We'll venture, if we can, at wit;<br>If not, at draw-gloves we will play,<br>So spend some minutes of the day;<br>Or else spin out the thread of sands,<br>Playing at questions and commands:<br>Or tell what strange tricks Love can do,<br>By quickly making one of two.<br>Thus we will sit and talk, but tell<br>No cruel truths of Philomel,<br>Or Phillis, whom hard fate forced on<br>To kill herself for Demophon;<br>But fables we'll relate; how Jove<br>Put on all shapes to get a Love;<br>As now a satyr, then a swan,<br>A bull but then, and now a man.<br>Next, we will act how young men woo,<br>And sigh and kiss as lovers do;<br>And talk of brides; and who shall make<br>That wedding-smock, this bridal-cake,<br>That dress, this sprig, that leaf, this vine,<br>That smooth and silken columbine.<br>This done, we'll draw lots who shall buy<br>And gild the bays and rosemary;<br>What posies for our wedding rings;<br>What gloves we'll give, and ribbonings;<br>And smiling at our selves, decree<br>Who then the joining priest shall be;<br>What short sweet prayers shall be said,<br>And how the posset shall be made<br>With cream of lilies, not of kine,<br>And maiden's-blush for spiced wine.<br>Thus having talk'd, we'll next commend<br>A kiss to each, and so we'll end.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Robert+Herrick">Robert Herrick</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=507523" data-title="To The Maids, To Walk Abroad de Robert Herrick" data-description="Come, sit we under yonder tree, Where merry as the maids we'll be; And as on primroses we sit, We'll venture, if we can, at wit; If not, at draw-gloves we will play, So spend some minutes of the day; Or else spin out the thread of sands, Playing a..."></div> </div> </div>

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