PRINCES AND FAVOURITES.
by Robert Herrick


PRINCES and fav'rites are most dear, while they
By giving and receiving hold the play ;
But the relation then of both grows poor,
When these can ask, and kings can give no more.


Source:
Herrick, Robert. Works of Robert Herrick. vol II.
Alfred Pollard, ed.
London, Lawrence & Bullen, 1891. 67.


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