HESPERIDES

OF

ROBERT HERRICK.

Printed for John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be sold at the Crown and Marygold, in Saint Paul's Church-yard. 1648.

TO THE

MOST ILLVSTRIOVS

AND

MOST HOPEFULL PRINCE,

CHARLES,

PRINCE OF WALES.

WELL may my book come forth like publique day,
When such a light as you are leads the way;
Who are my works' creator, and alone
The flame of it, and the expansion.

And look how all those heavenly lamps acquire
Light from the sun, that inexhausted fire;
So all my morne and evening stars from you
Have their existence, and their influence too.
Full is my book of glories; but all these
By you become immortall substances.