by Robert Herrick
Jone is a wench that's painted ;
Jone is a Girle that's tainted ;
Yet Jone she goes
Like one of those
Whom purity had Sainted.
Jane is a Girle that's prittie ;
Jane is a wench that's wittie ;
Yet, who wo'd think,
Her breath do's stinke,
And so it doth? that's pittie.
Source:
Herrick, Robert. The Poems of Robert Herrick.
London: Oxford University Press, (1933?). 243.
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Created by Anniina Jokinen on January 14, 1998.