WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Sat, 04 Jul 2026 07:19:15 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg racy – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Herrick, Robert -- “Another [To His Booke],” Hesperides, # 4 (1648) https://wist.info/herrick-robert/69418/ https://wist.info/herrick-robert/69418/#respond Fri, 17 May 2024 14:48:25 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=69418 To read my book the virgin shy
May blush while Brutus standeth by,
But when he’s gone, read through what’s writ,
And never stain a cheek for it.


Robert Herrick (1591-1674) English poet
“Another [To His Booke],” Hesperides, # 4 (1648)
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A translation (if not so labeled) of the concluding lines of Martial ep. 11.6. Brutus stands as a paragon of moral rectitude. ]]> https://wist.info/herrick-robert/69418/feed/ 0 69418