The Parasceve, Or Preparation

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Title:     The Parasceve, Or Preparation
Author: (Poet) Robert Herrick [More Titles by Herrick]

To a love-feast we both invited are:
The figur'd damask, or pure diaper,
Over the golden altar now is spread,
With bread, and wine, and vessels furnished;
The sacred towel and the holy ewer
Are ready by, to make the guests all pure:
Let's go, my Alma; yet, ere we receive,
Fit, fit it is we have our parasceve.
Who to that sweet bread unprepar'd doth come,
Better be starv'd, than but to taste one crumb.

_Parasceve_, preparation.

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(Poet) Robert Herrick's poem: Parasceve, Or Preparation

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