A FROLIC.
by Robert Herrick


BRING me my rosebuds, drawer, come ;
    So, while I thus sit crown'd,
I'll drink the aged Cæcubum,
    Until the roof turn round.


Drawer, waiter.
Cæcubum, Cæcuban, an old Roman wine.
Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol II.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 6.


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