Part 108 (1/2)

_Politics_, iii. 7: ?a?e?? e???ae? t?? ?? ??a????? t?? p??? t? ??????

?p???p??sa? s?f???? as??e?a? ... ? t??a???? ?st? ??a???a p??? t?

s?f???? t? t?? ??a?????t??.

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._ Ovid, _Ars Am._ II. 233, 34:--

Militiae species amor est: discedite segnes!

Non sunt haec timidis signa tuenda viris.

873. _A spark neglected_, etc. Ovid, _Rem. Am._ 732-34:--

E minimo maximus ignis erit.

Sic nisi vitaris quicquid renovabit amorem, Flamma redardescet quae modo nulla fuit.

874. _An Hymn to Cupid._ From Anacreon:--

??a?, ? da???? ????

?a? ??fa? ??a??p?de?

p??f???? t' ?f??d?t?

s?pa????s?? ... ??????a? se, ?.t.?.

885. _Naught are all women._ Burton, III. ii. 5. -- 5.

907. _Upon Mr. William Lawes, the rare musician._ Elder brother of the more famous Henry Lawes; appointed a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, 1602, and also one of Charles I.'s musicians-in-ordinary. When the Civil War broke out he joined the king's army and was killed by a stray shot during the siege of Chester, 1645. He set Herrick's _Gather ye rosebuds_ to music.

914. _Numbers ne'er tickle_, etc. Martial, I. x.x.xvi.:--

Lex haec carminibus data est jocosis, Ne possint, nisi pruriant, juvare.

918. _M. Kellam._ As yet unidentified. Dr. Grosart suggests that he may have been one of Herrick's paris.h.i.+oners, and the name sounds as of the west country.

920. _Cunctation in correction._ Is Herrick translating? According to a relief at Rome the lictors' rods were bound together not only by a red thong twisted from top to bottom, but by six straps as well.

922. _Continual reaping makes a land wax old._ Ovid, _Ars Am._ iii. 82: Continua messe senescit ager.

923. _Revenge._ Tacitus, _Hist._ iv. 3: Tanto proclivius est injuriae quam beneficio vicem exsolvere; quia gratia oneri, ultio in quaestu habetur.

927. _Praise they that will times past._ Ovid, _Ars Am._ iii. 121:--

Prisca juvent alios: ego me nunc denique natum Gratulor; haec aetas moribus apta meis.

928. _Clothes are conspirators._ I can suggest no better explanation of this oracular epigram than that the tailor's bill is an enemy of a slender purse.

929. _Cruelty_. Seneca _de Clem._ i. 24: Ferina ista rabies est, sanguine gaudere et vulneribus; (i. 8), Quemadmodum praecisae arbores plurimis ramis repullulant [H. uses repullulate, -tion, 336, 794], et multa satorum genera, ut densiora surgant, reciduntur; ita regia crudelitas auget inimicorum numerum tollendo. Ben Jonson, _Discoveries_ (_Clementia_): ”The lopping of trees makes the boughs shoot out quicker; and the taking away of some kind of enemies increaseth the number”.

931. _A fierce desire of hot and dry._ Cp. note on 683.

932. _To hear the worst_, etc. Antisthenes ap. _Diog. Laert._ VI. i. 4, -- 3: ????sa? p?t? ?t? ???t?? a?t?? ?a??? ???e? ?as?????? ?f? ?a???