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THE PRESENT TIME BEST PLEASETH

by Robert Herrick

Robert Herrick

Praise, they that will, times past: I joy to see
Myself now live; this age best pleaseth me!




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I have no interest in Shakespeare and all that British nonsense... I just wanted to get famous and all the rest is hogwash

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