"'Yet let him keep the rest,
But keep them with repining restlessness;
Let him be rich and weary, that at least,
If goodness lead him not, yet weariness
May toss him to my breast.'"
Chapter LVI HERRICK AND MARVELL--OF BLOSSOMS AND BOWERS
ANOTHER poet of this age, Robert Herrick, in himself joined the
two styles of poetry of which we have been speaking, for he was
both a love poet and a religious poet.
He was born in 1591 and was the son of an old, well-to-do family,
his father being a London goldsmith. But, like Herbert, he lost
his father when he was but a tiny child. Like Herbert again he
went to Westminster School and later Cambridge. But before he
went to Cambridge he was apprenticed to his uncle, who was a
goldsmith, as his brother, Herrick's father, had been. Robert,
however, never finished his apprenticeship. He found out, we may
suppose, that he had no liking for the jeweler's craft, that his
hand was meant to create jewels of another kind.
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