Wheeler_
(Among the Myrtles as I walked), _The Kiss_, _The
Primrose_, _To a Gentlewoman objecting to him his Grey Hairs_, and
doubtless others.
Primrose_, _To a Gentlewoman objecting to him his Grey Hairs_, and
doubtless others.
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756. _To Prince Charles upon his coming to Exeter. _ In August, 1645.
761. _The Wake. _ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1650, under the title:
_Alvar and Anthea_.
763. _To Doctor Alabaster. _ William Alabaster, or Alablaster, born at
Hadleigh, Suffolk (1567); educated at Westminster and Trinity College,
Cambridge; a friend of Spencer; was converted to Roman Catholicism while
chaplain to the Earl of Essex in Spain, 1596. In 1607 he began his
series of apocalyptic writings by an _Apparatus in Revelationem Jesu
Christi_. On visiting Rome he was imprisoned by the Inquisition,
escaped, and returned to Protestantism. Besides his theological works,
he published (in 1637) a Lexicon Pentaglotton. Died April, 1640.
766. _Time is the bound of things_, etc. From Seneca, _Consol. ad Marc. _
xix. : Excessit filius tuus terminos intra quos servitur . . . mors omnium
dolorum solutio est et finis.
771. _As I have read must be the first man up_, etc. Hor. I. _Ep. _ vi.
48: Hoc primus repetas opus, hoc postremus omittas.
_Rich compost. _ Cp. the same thought in 662.
772. _A Hymn to Bacchus. _ Printed, with the misprint _Bacchus for
Iacchus_ in l. 1, in _Witts Recreations_, 1650.
_Brutus . . . Cato. _ Cp. Note to 4 and 8.
774. _If wars go well_, etc. Tacitus, _Ann. _ iii. 53: cum recte factorum
sibi quisque gratiam trahant, unius [Principis scil. ] invidia ab omnibus
peccatur.
775. _Niggards of the meanest blood. _ Seneca, _de Clem. _ i. 1: Summa
parsimonia etiam vilissimi sanguinis.
776. _Wrongs, if neglected_, etc. Tacit. _Ann. _ iv. 34: [Probra] spreta
exolescunt, si irascare agnita videntur.
780. _Kings ought to shear_, etc. A saying of Tiberius quoted by
Suetonius: Boni pastoris est tondere oves, non deglubere. Herrick
probably took it from Ben Jonson's _Discoveries_.
784-7. _Ceremonies for Christmas. _ More will be found about the Yule-log
in _Ceremonies for Candlemas Day_ (893); cp. also _The Wassail_ (476).
788. _Power and Peace. _ From Tacitus, _Ann. _ iv. 4: Quanquam arduum sit
eodem loci potentiam et concordiam esse.
789. _Mistress Margaret Falconbridge. _ A daughter, probably, of the
Thomas Falconbridge of number 483.
797. _Kisses. _ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1650, with omission of me
in l. 1.
804. _John Crofts, Cup-bearer to the King. _ Third son of Sir John
Crofts, of Saxham, Suffolk. We hear of him in the king's service as
early as 1628, and two years later Lord Conway, in thanking Wm. Weld for
some verses sent him, hopes "the lines are strong enough to bind Robert
Maule and Jack Crofts from ever more using the phrase". So Jack was
probably a bit of a poet himself. He may be the Mr. Crofts for
assaulting whom George, Lord Digby, was imprisoned a month and more, in
1634.
807. _Man may want land to live in. _ Tacitus, _Ann. _ xiii. 56: Addidit
[Boiocalus] Deesse nobis terra in qua vivamus, in qua moriamur non
potest, quoted by Montaigne, II. 3.
809. _Who after his transgression doth repent. _ Seneca, _Agam. _ 243:
Quem poenitet peccasse paene est innocens.
810. _Grief, if't be great 'tis short. _ Seneca, quoted by Burton (II.
iii. 1, ? 1): "Si longa est, levis est; si gravis est, brevis est. If it
be long, 'tis light; if grievous, it cannot last. "
817. _The Amber Bead. _ Cp. Martial's epigram quoted in Note to 497. The
comparison to Cleopatra is from Mart. IV. xxxii.
818. _To my dearest sister, M. Mercy Herrick. _ Not quite five years his
senior. She married John Wingfield, of Brantham, Suffolk, to whom also
Herrick addresses a poem.
820. _Suffer that thou canst not shift. _ From Seneca; the title from
_Ep. _ cvii. : Optimum est pati quod emendare non possis, the epigram from
_De Provid. _ 4, as translated by Thomas Lodge, 1614, "Vertuous
instructions are never delicate. Doth fortune beat and rend us? Let us
suffer it"--whence Herrick reproduces the printer's error, _Vertuous_
for Vertues (Virtue's).
821. _For a stone has Heaven his tomb. _ Cp. Sir T. Browne, _Relig. Med. _
? 40: "Nor doe I altogether follow that rodomontado of Lucan (_Phars. _
vii. 819): Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam,
He that unburied lies wants not his hearse,
For unto him a tomb's the universe".
823. _To the King upon his taking of Leicester. _ May 31, 1645, a brief
success before Naseby.
825. _'Twas Caesar's saying. _ Tiberius ap. Tacit. _Ann. _ ii. 26: Se
novies a divo Augusto in Germaniam missum plura consilio quam vi
perfecisse.
830. _His Loss. _ A reference to his ejection from Dean Prior.
837. _Mistress Amy Potter. _ Daughter of Barnabas Potter, Bishop of
Carlisle, Herrick's predecessor at Dean Prior.
839. _Love is a circle . . . from good to good. _ So Burton, III. i. 1, ?
2: Circulus a bono in bonum.
844. TO HIS BOOK. _Make haste away. _ Martial, III. ii. Ad Librum
suum--Festina tibi vindicem parare, Ne nigram cito raptus in culinam
Cordyllas madida tegas papyro, Vel thuris piperisque sis cucullus. _To
make loose gowns for mackerel. _ From Catullus, xcv. 1:--
At Volusi annales Paduam morientur ad ipsam,
Et laxas scombris saepe dabunt tunicas.
846. _And what we blush to speak_, etc. Ovid, _Phaedra to Hipp. _ 10:
Dicere quae puduit scribere jussit amor.
849. _'Tis sweet to think_, etc. Seneca, _Herc. Fur. _ 657-58: Quae fuit
durum pati Meminisse dulce est.
851. _To Mr. Henry Lawes, the excellent composer of his lyrics. _ Henry
Lawes (1595-1662), the friend of Milton, admitted a Gentleman of the
Chapel Royal, 1625. In the _Noble Numbers_ he is mentioned as the
composer of Herrick's _Christmas Carol_ and the first of his two
_New-Year's Gifts_. Lawes also set to music Herrick's _Not to Love_, _To
Mrs. Eliz.
Wheeler_ (Among the Myrtles as I walked), _The Kiss_, _The
Primrose_, _To a Gentlewoman objecting to him his Grey Hairs_, and
doubtless others.
852. _Maidens tell me I am old. _ From Anacreon:
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? . ? . ? .
With a significant variation--"Ill it fits"--for ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? .
859. _Master J. Jincks. _ Not identified.
861. _Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their own. _ Aristot.
_Politics_, iii. 7: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? . . . ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? .
869. _Sir Thomas Heale. _ Probably a son of the Sir Thomas Hele, of
Fleet, Co. Devon, who died in 1624. This Sir Thomas was created a
baronet in 1627, and according to Dr. Grosart was one of the Royalist
commanders at the siege of Plymouth. He died 1670.
872. _Love is a kind of war.
756. _To Prince Charles upon his coming to Exeter. _ In August, 1645.
761. _The Wake. _ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1650, under the title:
_Alvar and Anthea_.
763. _To Doctor Alabaster. _ William Alabaster, or Alablaster, born at
Hadleigh, Suffolk (1567); educated at Westminster and Trinity College,
Cambridge; a friend of Spencer; was converted to Roman Catholicism while
chaplain to the Earl of Essex in Spain, 1596. In 1607 he began his
series of apocalyptic writings by an _Apparatus in Revelationem Jesu
Christi_. On visiting Rome he was imprisoned by the Inquisition,
escaped, and returned to Protestantism. Besides his theological works,
he published (in 1637) a Lexicon Pentaglotton. Died April, 1640.
766. _Time is the bound of things_, etc. From Seneca, _Consol. ad Marc. _
xix. : Excessit filius tuus terminos intra quos servitur . . . mors omnium
dolorum solutio est et finis.
771. _As I have read must be the first man up_, etc. Hor. I. _Ep. _ vi.
48: Hoc primus repetas opus, hoc postremus omittas.
_Rich compost. _ Cp. the same thought in 662.
772. _A Hymn to Bacchus. _ Printed, with the misprint _Bacchus for
Iacchus_ in l. 1, in _Witts Recreations_, 1650.
_Brutus . . . Cato. _ Cp. Note to 4 and 8.
774. _If wars go well_, etc. Tacitus, _Ann. _ iii. 53: cum recte factorum
sibi quisque gratiam trahant, unius [Principis scil. ] invidia ab omnibus
peccatur.
775. _Niggards of the meanest blood. _ Seneca, _de Clem. _ i. 1: Summa
parsimonia etiam vilissimi sanguinis.
776. _Wrongs, if neglected_, etc. Tacit. _Ann. _ iv. 34: [Probra] spreta
exolescunt, si irascare agnita videntur.
780. _Kings ought to shear_, etc. A saying of Tiberius quoted by
Suetonius: Boni pastoris est tondere oves, non deglubere. Herrick
probably took it from Ben Jonson's _Discoveries_.
784-7. _Ceremonies for Christmas. _ More will be found about the Yule-log
in _Ceremonies for Candlemas Day_ (893); cp. also _The Wassail_ (476).
788. _Power and Peace. _ From Tacitus, _Ann. _ iv. 4: Quanquam arduum sit
eodem loci potentiam et concordiam esse.
789. _Mistress Margaret Falconbridge. _ A daughter, probably, of the
Thomas Falconbridge of number 483.
797. _Kisses. _ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1650, with omission of me
in l. 1.
804. _John Crofts, Cup-bearer to the King. _ Third son of Sir John
Crofts, of Saxham, Suffolk. We hear of him in the king's service as
early as 1628, and two years later Lord Conway, in thanking Wm. Weld for
some verses sent him, hopes "the lines are strong enough to bind Robert
Maule and Jack Crofts from ever more using the phrase". So Jack was
probably a bit of a poet himself. He may be the Mr. Crofts for
assaulting whom George, Lord Digby, was imprisoned a month and more, in
1634.
807. _Man may want land to live in. _ Tacitus, _Ann. _ xiii. 56: Addidit
[Boiocalus] Deesse nobis terra in qua vivamus, in qua moriamur non
potest, quoted by Montaigne, II. 3.
809. _Who after his transgression doth repent. _ Seneca, _Agam. _ 243:
Quem poenitet peccasse paene est innocens.
810. _Grief, if't be great 'tis short. _ Seneca, quoted by Burton (II.
iii. 1, ? 1): "Si longa est, levis est; si gravis est, brevis est. If it
be long, 'tis light; if grievous, it cannot last. "
817. _The Amber Bead. _ Cp. Martial's epigram quoted in Note to 497. The
comparison to Cleopatra is from Mart. IV. xxxii.
818. _To my dearest sister, M. Mercy Herrick. _ Not quite five years his
senior. She married John Wingfield, of Brantham, Suffolk, to whom also
Herrick addresses a poem.
820. _Suffer that thou canst not shift. _ From Seneca; the title from
_Ep. _ cvii. : Optimum est pati quod emendare non possis, the epigram from
_De Provid. _ 4, as translated by Thomas Lodge, 1614, "Vertuous
instructions are never delicate. Doth fortune beat and rend us? Let us
suffer it"--whence Herrick reproduces the printer's error, _Vertuous_
for Vertues (Virtue's).
821. _For a stone has Heaven his tomb. _ Cp. Sir T. Browne, _Relig. Med. _
? 40: "Nor doe I altogether follow that rodomontado of Lucan (_Phars. _
vii. 819): Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam,
He that unburied lies wants not his hearse,
For unto him a tomb's the universe".
823. _To the King upon his taking of Leicester. _ May 31, 1645, a brief
success before Naseby.
825. _'Twas Caesar's saying. _ Tiberius ap. Tacit. _Ann. _ ii. 26: Se
novies a divo Augusto in Germaniam missum plura consilio quam vi
perfecisse.
830. _His Loss. _ A reference to his ejection from Dean Prior.
837. _Mistress Amy Potter. _ Daughter of Barnabas Potter, Bishop of
Carlisle, Herrick's predecessor at Dean Prior.
839. _Love is a circle . . . from good to good. _ So Burton, III. i. 1, ?
2: Circulus a bono in bonum.
844. TO HIS BOOK. _Make haste away. _ Martial, III. ii. Ad Librum
suum--Festina tibi vindicem parare, Ne nigram cito raptus in culinam
Cordyllas madida tegas papyro, Vel thuris piperisque sis cucullus. _To
make loose gowns for mackerel. _ From Catullus, xcv. 1:--
At Volusi annales Paduam morientur ad ipsam,
Et laxas scombris saepe dabunt tunicas.
846. _And what we blush to speak_, etc. Ovid, _Phaedra to Hipp. _ 10:
Dicere quae puduit scribere jussit amor.
849. _'Tis sweet to think_, etc. Seneca, _Herc. Fur. _ 657-58: Quae fuit
durum pati Meminisse dulce est.
851. _To Mr. Henry Lawes, the excellent composer of his lyrics. _ Henry
Lawes (1595-1662), the friend of Milton, admitted a Gentleman of the
Chapel Royal, 1625. In the _Noble Numbers_ he is mentioned as the
composer of Herrick's _Christmas Carol_ and the first of his two
_New-Year's Gifts_. Lawes also set to music Herrick's _Not to Love_, _To
Mrs. Eliz.
Wheeler_ (Among the Myrtles as I walked), _The Kiss_, _The
Primrose_, _To a Gentlewoman objecting to him his Grey Hairs_, and
doubtless others.
852. _Maidens tell me I am old. _ From Anacreon:
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? . ? . ? .
With a significant variation--"Ill it fits"--for ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? .
859. _Master J. Jincks. _ Not identified.
861. _Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their own. _ Aristot.
_Politics_, iii. 7: ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? . . . ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? .
869. _Sir Thomas Heale. _ Probably a son of the Sir Thomas Hele, of
Fleet, Co. Devon, who died in 1624. This Sir Thomas was created a
baronet in 1627, and according to Dr. Grosart was one of the Royalist
commanders at the siege of Plymouth. He died 1670.
872. _Love is a kind of war.
