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 the earlier version is read as a whole that Herrick's taste in omitting is vindicated. Each stanza is good in itself, but in the MSS. the poem drags from excessive length, and the reduction of its twenty-three stanzas to sixteen greatly improves it.


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Qui fingit sacros auro vel marmore vultus Non facit ille deos: qui rogat, ille facit.


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"A little mushroom table spread After the dance, they set on bread, A yellow corn of hecky wheat With some small sandy grit to eat