death of her child._ This must be the
child buried in Westminster Abbey, according to the entry in the
register "1637/8, Feb. 6. Sir Clipsy Crewe's daughter, in the North
aisle of the monuments." Colonel Chester annotates: "She was a younger
daughter, and was born at Crewe, 27th July, 1631. She died on the 4th of
February, and must have been an independent heiress, as her father
administered to her estate on the 24th May following."

515. _Here needs no Court for our Request._ An allusion to the Court of
Requests, established in the time of Richard II. as a lesser Court of
Equity for the hearing of "all poor men's suits". It was abolished in
1641, at the same time as the Star Chamber.

517. _The new successor drives away old love._ From Ovid, _Rem. Am._
462: Successore novo vincitur omnis amor.

519. _Born I was to meet with age._ Cp. 540. From Anacreon, 38 [24]:--

{Epeide brotos etechthen,
Biotou tribon hodeuein,
Chronon egnon hon parelthon,
Hon d' echo dramein ouk oida;
Methete me, phrontides;
Meden moi kai hymin esto.
Prin eme phthase to terma,
Paixo, gelaso, choreuso,
Meta tou kalou Lyaiou.}

520. _Fortune did never favour one._ From Dionys. Halicarn. as quoted by
Burton, II. iii. 1, Sec. 1.

521. _To Phillis to love and live with him._ A variant on Marlowe's
theme: "Come live with me and be my love". Donne's _The Bait_ (printed
in Grosart's edition, vol. ii. p. 206) is another.

522. _To his Kinswoman, Mistress Susanna Herrick_, wife of his elder
brother Nicholas.

523. _Susanna Southwell._ Probably a daughter of Sir Thomas Southwell,
for whom Herrick wrote the Epithalamium (No. 149).

525. _Her pretty feet_, etc. Cp. Suckling's "Ballad upon a Wedding":--

"Her feet beneath her petticoat,
Like little mice stole in and out,
As if they feared the light".

526. _To his Honoured Friend, Sir John Mynts._ John Mennis, a
Vice-Admiral of the fleet and knighted in 1641, refused to join in the
desertion of the fleet to the Parliament. After the Restoration he was
made Governor of Dover and Chief Comptroller of the Navy. He was one of
the editors of the collection called _Musarum Deliciae_ (1656), in the
first poem of which there is an allusion to--

"That old sack
Young Herrick took to entertain
The Muses in a sprightly vein".

527. _Fly me not_, etc. From Anacreon, 49 [34]:--

{Me me phyges, horosa
Tan polian etheiran; ...