mi animum ipse parabo:

where Herrick seems to have read _qui_ for _quae_.

157. _No Herbs have power to cure Love._ Ovid, _Met._ i. 523; id. _Her._
v. 149: Nullis amor est medicabilis herbis. For the 'only one sovereign
salve' cp. Seneca, _Hippol._ 1189: Mors amoris una sedamen.

159. _The Cruel Maid._ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1650, with no
other variant than the mistaken omission of "how" in l. 7. I do not
think that it has been yet pointed out that the whole poem is a close
imitation of Theocritus, xxiii. 19-47:--

{Agrie pai kai stygne, k.t.l.}

Possibly Herrick meant to translate the whole poem, which would explain
his initial _And_. But cp. Ben Jonson's _Engl. Gram._ ch. viii.: "'And'
in the beginning of a sentence serveth instead of an admiration".

164. _To a Gentlewoman objecting to him his gray hairs._ Mr. Hazlitt
quotes an early MS. copy headed: "An old man to his younge Mrs.". The
variants, as he observes, are mostly for the worse. The poem may have
been suggested to Herrick by Anacreon, 6 [11]:--

{Legousin hai gynaikes,
Anakreon, geron ei;
labon esoptron athrei
komas men ouket' ousas k.t.l.}

168. _Jos. Lo. Bishop of Exeter._ Joseph Hall, 1574-1656, author of the
satires.

169. _The Countess of Carlisle._ Lucy, the second wife of James, first
Earl of Carlisle, the Lady Carlisle of Browning's _Strafford_.

170. _I fear no earthly powers._ Probably suggested by Anacreon [36],
beginning: {ti me tous nomous didaskeis}; Cp. also 7 [15]: {Ou moi melei
ta Gygeo}.

172. _A Ring presented to Julia._ Printed without variation in _Witts
Recreations_, 1650, under the title: "With a O to Julia".

174. _Still thou reply'st: The Dead._ Cp. Martial, VIII. lxix. 1, 2:--

Miraris veteres, Vacerra, solos
Nec laudas nisi mortuos poetas.

178. _Corinna's going a-Maying._ Herrick's poem is a charming expansion
of Chaucer's theme: "For May wol have no slogardye a night". The account
of May-day customs in Brand (vol. i. pp. 212-234) is unusually full, and
all Herrick's allusions can be illustrated from it. Dr. Nott compares
the last stanza to Catullus, _Carm._ v.; but parallels from the classic
poets could be multiplied indefinitely.

_The God unshorn_ of l. 2 is from Hor. I. _Od_. xxi. 2: Intonsum pueri
dicite Cynthium.

181. _A dialogue between Horace and Lydia._ Hor. III. _Od._ ix.

_Ramsey._ Organist of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1628-1634. Some of his
music still exist