Why do you walk through the fields in gloves?

Gloves lost and given and kept on

In the British Library there’s a manuscript collection containing many of George Herbert’s Latin poems, including a little occasional epigram which is very probably also by Herbert, but for no obvious reason has been left out of previous editions of his work.¹ The poem is about a gift of gloves.

Here is a transcription of the poem and my own translation:

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