DRAW-GLOVES.
by Robert Herrick


       AT draw-gloves we'll play,
       And prithee let's lay
A wager, and let it be this :
       Who first to the sum
       Of twenty shall come,
Shall have for his winning a kiss.


Draw-gloves, a game of talking by the fingers.



Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol I.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 122.


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