Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden
Robert Herrick (15911674)His Prayer to Ben Jonson
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Know I have pray’d thee,
For old religion’s sake,
Saint Ben, to aid me.
When, I, thy Herrick,
Honouring thee on my knee
Offer my Lyric.
And a new altar;
And thou, Saint Ben, shalt be
Writ in my psalter.