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743. _Another upon her Weeping._ Printed in Witts _Recreations_, 1650, under the t.i.tle: _On Julia's Weeping_.

745. _To Sir John Berkeley, Governour of Exeter._ Youngest son of Sir Maurice Berkeley, of Bruton, in Somersets.h.i.+re; knighted in Berwick in 1638; commander-in-chief of all the Royalist forces in Devons.h.i.+re, 1643; captured Exeter Sept. 4 of that year, and held it till April 13, 1646.

Created Baron Berkeley of Stratton, in Cornwall, 1658; died 1678.

749. _Consultation._ As noted in the text, this is from Sall.u.s.t, _Cat._ i.

751. _None sees the fardell of his faults behind._ Cp. Catullus, xxii.

20, 21:--

Suus cuique attributus est error, Sed non videmus manticae quod in tergo est,

or, perhaps more probably from Seneca, _de Ira_, ii. 28: Aliena vitia in oculis habemus; a tergo nostra sunt.

755. _The Eye._ aeschyl. _Fragm._ in Plutarch, _Amat._ 21: ??a? ???a????

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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 t.i.tle: _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 Ess.e.x 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: c.u.m recte factorum sibi quisque gratiam trahant, unius [Principis scil.] invidia ab omnibus peccatur.

775. _n.i.g.g.ards 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 exolesc.u.n.t, 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 Wa.s.sail_ (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.