< The Hesperides & Noble Numbers < Hesperides
59. HIS REQUEST TO JULIA.
Julia, if I chance to die
Ere I print my poetry,
I most humbly thee desire
To commit it to the fire:
Better 'twere my book were dead
Than to live not perfected.
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