The Sun, the Dog, the Triple Tun. Robert Herrick (1591-1674). London Taverns. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. 1876-79. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes. England: Vols. I-IV

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, ed. Poems of Places: An Anthology in 31 Volumes.
England: Vols. I–IV. 1876–79.

London Taverns

The Sun, the Dog, the Triple Tun

Robert Herrick (1591–1674)


Ode to Ben Jonson AH Ben!
Say how or when
Shall we, thy guests,
Meet at those lyric feasts,
Made at the Sun,	5
The Dog, the Triple Tun:
Where we such clusters had
As made us nobly wild, not mad;
And yet each verse of thine
Outdid the meat, outdid the frolic wine.	10

My Ben!
Or come again,
Or send to us
Thy wit’s great overplus;
But teach us yet	15
Wisely to husband it,
Lest we that talent spend:
And having once brought to an end
That precious stock, the store
Of such a wit the world should have no more.	20