from the garlick, onion and the leek._
Cp. Numbers xi. 5, and Juv., xi. 9-11.

_Cassius, that weak water-drinker._ Not, as Dr. Grosart queries:
"Cassius Iatrosophista, or Cassius Felix?" but C. Cassius Longinus, the
murderer of Caesar. Cp. Montaigne, II. 2, and Seneca, _Ep._ 83: "Cassius
tota vita aquam bibit" there quoted.

201. _To trust to good verses._ Carminibus confide bonis. Ovid, _Am._
III. ix. 39.

_The Golden Pomp is come._ Aurea pompa venit, Ovid, _Am._ III. ii. 44.
"Now reigns the rose" (nunc regnat rosa) is a common phrase in Martial
and elsewhere. For the "Arabian dew," cp. Ovid, _Sappho to Phaon_, 98:
Arabo noster rore capillus olet.

_A text ... Behold Tibullus lies._ Jacet ecce Tibullus: Vix manet e
tanto parva quod urna capit. Ovid, _Am._ III. ix. 39.

203. _Lips Tongueless._ Dr. Nott parallels Catullus, _Carm._ lii.
(lv.):--

Si linguam clauso tenes in ore,
Fructus projicies amoris omnes:
Verbosa gaudet Venus loquela.

208. _Gather ye rosebuds while ye may._ Set to music by William Lawes in
Playford's second book of "Ayres," 1652. Printed in _Witts Recreations_,
1654, with the variants: "Gather _your_ Rosebuds" in l. 1; l. 4, _may_
for _will_; l. 6, _he is getting_ for _he's a-getting_; l. 8, _nearer to
his setting_ for _nearer he's to setting_. The opening lines are from
Ausonius, ccclxi. 49, 50 (quoted by Burton, _Anat. Mel._ III. 2, 5 Sec.
5):--

Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus, et nova pubes,
Et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum:

cp. also l. 43:--

Quam longa una dies, aetas tam longa rosarum.

209. _Has not whence to sink at all._ Seneca, _Ep._ xx.: Redige te ad
parva ex quibus cadere non possis. Cp. Alain Delisle: Qui decumbit humi
non habet unde cadat.

211. _His poetry his pillar._ A variation upon the Horatian theme:--

"Exegi monumentum aere perennius
Regalique situ pyramidum altius".
(III. _Od._ xxx.)

212. _What though the sea be calm._ Almost literally translated from
Seneca, _Ep._ iv.: Noli huic tranquillitati confidere: momento mare
evertitur: eodem die ubi luserunt navigia sorbentur.

213. _At noon of day was seen a silver star._ "King Charles the First
went to St. Paul's Church the 30th day of May, 1630, to give praise for
the birth of his son, attended with all his Peers and a most royal
Train, where a bright star appeared at High Noon in the sight of all."
(_Stella Meridiana_, 1661.)

213.