TO THE

MOST ILLVSTRIOVS

AND

MOST HOPEFULL PRINCE,

CHARLES,

PRINCE OF WALES.

WELL may my book come forth like publique day,
When such a light as you are leads the way;
Who are my works' creator, and alone

The flame of it, and the expansion.

And look how all those heavenly lamps acquire
Light from the sun, that inexhausted fire;
So all my morne and evening stars from you
Have their existence, and their influence too.
Full is my book of glories; but all these
By you become immortall substances,

THE

POETICAL WORKS

OF

ROBERT HERRICK,

CONTAINING HIS

"HESPERIDES," AND "NOBLE NUMBERS."

WITH A BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIR

BY E. WALFORD.

LATE SCHOLAR OF BALIOL COLL., OXFORD.

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