unds":

where compare Tibull. II. v. 81-84. It was also used by maids as a love
omen.

_Thyrse ... sacred Orgies._ Herrick's glosses show that the passage he
had in mind was Catullus, lxiv. 256-269:--

Harum pars tecta quatiebant cuspide thyrsos
... ... ... ...
Pars obscura cavis celebrabant orgia cistis,
Orgia, quae frustra cupiunt audire profani.

10. _No man at one time can be wise and love._ Amare et sapere vix deo
conceditur. (Publius Syrus.) The quotation is found in both Burton and
Montaigne.

12. _Who fears to ask_, etc. From Seneca, _Hippol._ 594-95. Qui timide
rogat ... docet negare.

15. _Goddess Isis ... with her scent._ Cp. Plutarch, _De Iside et
Osiride_, 15.

17. _He acts the crime._ Seneca: Nil interest faveas sceleri an illud
facias.

18. _Two things odious._ From Ecclus. xxv. 2.

31. _A Sister ... about I'll lead._ "Have we not power to lead about a
sister, a wife?" 1 Cor. ix. 5.

35. _Mercy and Truth live with thee._ 2 Sam. xv. 20.

38. _To please those babies in your eyes._ The phrase "babies [_i.e._,
dolls] in the eyes" is probably only a translation of its metaphor,
involved in the use of the Latin _pupilla_ (a little girl), or "pupil,"
for the central spot of the eye. The metaphor doubtless arose from the
small reflections of the inlooker, which appear in the eyes of the
person gazed at; but we meet with it both intensified, as in the phrase
"to look babies in the eyes" (= to peer amorously), and with its origin
disregarded, as in Herrick, where the "babies" are the pupils, and have
an existence independent of any inlooker.

_Small griefs find tongue._ Seneca, _Hippol._ 608:

Curae leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.

_Full casks._ So G. Herbert, _Jacula Prudentum_ (1640): Empty vessels
sound most.

48. _Thus woe succeeds a woe as wave a wave._ Horace, Ep. II. ii. 176:
Velut unda supervenit unda. {Kymata kakon} and {kakon trikymia} are
common phrases in Greek tragedy.

49. _Cherry-pit._ Printed in the 1654 edition of _Witts Recreations_,
where it appears as:--

"_Nicholas_ and _Nell_ did lately sit
Playing for sport at cherry-pit;
They both did throw, and, having thrown,
He got the pit and she the stone".

51. _Ennobled numbers._ This poem is often quoted to prove that
Herrick's country incumbency was good for his verse; but if the
reference be only to his sacred poems or _Noble Numbers_ these would
rather prove th