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Thomas Humphry Ward, ed. The English Poets. 1880–1918.rnVol. II. The Seventeenth Century: Ben Jonson to Dryden

Robert Herrick (1591–1674)

The Bride-Cake

THIS day, my Julia, thou must make

For Mistress Bride the wedding-cake:

Knead but the dough, and it will be

To paste of almonds turn’d by thee;

Or kiss it thou but once or twice,

And for the bride-cake there’ll be spice.