e opposite.

52. _O earth, earth, earth, hear thou my voice._ Jerem. xxii. 29: O
earth, earth, earth, hear the word of the Lord.

56. _Love give me more such nights as these._ A reminiscence of
Marlowe's version of Ovid, _Amor_. I. v. 26: "Jove send me more such
afternoons as this".

72. _Upon his Sister-in-law, Mistress Elizabeth Herrick_, wife to his
brother Thomas (see _infra_, 106).

74. _Love makes me write what shame forbids to speak._ Ovid, _Phaedra to
Hippol._: Dicere quae puduit scribere jussit amor.

_Give me a kiss._ Herrick is here imitating the well-known lines of
Catullus to Lesbia (_Carm._ v.):--

Da mi basia mille, deinde centum,
Dein mille altera, dein secunda centum,
Deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum,
Dein, cum millia multa fecerimus,
Conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus, etc.

77. _To the King, upon his coming with his army into the west._ Essex
had marched into the west in June, 1644, relieved Lyme, and captured
royal fortresses in Dorset and Devon. Charles followed him into "the
drooping west," and, in September, the Parliamentary infantry were
forced to surrender, while Essex himself escaped by sea. Herrick's
"white omens" were thus fulfilled.

79. _To the King and Queen upon their unhappy distances._ Henrietta
Maria escaped abroad with the crown jewels in 1642, returned the next
year and rejoined Charles in the west in 1644, whence she escaped again
to France. This poem has been supposed to refer to domestic dissensions;
but the "ball of strife" is surely the Civil War in general, and the
reference to the parting of 1644.

81. _The Cheat of Cupid._ Herrick is here translating "Anacreon," 31
[3]:--

{Mesonyktiois poth' horais
strepheth' henik' Arktos ede
kata cheira ten Bootou,
meropon de phyla panta
keatai kopo damenta, 5
tot' Eros epistatheis meu
thyreon ekopt' ocheas.
tis, ephen, thyras arassei?
kata meu schizeis oneirous.
ho d' Eros, anoige, phesin; 10
brephos eimi, me phobesai;
brechomai de kaselenon
kata nykta peplanemai.
eleesa taut' akousas,
ana d' euthy lychnon hapsas 15
aneoxa, kai brephos men
esoro pheronta toxon
pterygas te kai pharetren.
para d' histien kathisa,
palamais te cheiras autou 20