Herrick's Hesperides and Noble Numbers (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Herrick's Hesperides and Noble Numbers IN the natural order of the English poets, Herrick is to be counted, for all ordinary ends and purposes, among the redoubtable Sons of Ben. His five poems addressed to Ben Jonson, especially his brief ode and the lyric feasts of which it speaks. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.