Hora kan stephanoisin
Hopos prepei ta leuka
Rhodois krin' emplakenta.}
529. _As thou deserv'st be proud._ Cp. Hor. III. _Od._ xxx. 14:--
Sume superbiam
Quaesitam meritis et mihi Delphica
Lauro cinge volens, Melpomene, comam.
534. _To Electra._ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1650, where it is
entitled _To Julia_.
536. _Ill Government.... When kings obey_, etc. From Seneca, _Octav._
581:--
Male imperatur, cum regit vulgus duces.
545. _To his Worthy Kinsman, Mr. Stephen Soame_ (the son or, less
probably, the brother of Sir Thomas Soame): _One of my righteous tribe_.
Cp. Note to 496.
547. _Great spirits never with their bodies die._ Tacit. _Agric._
46:--"Si quis piorum manibus locus, si, ut sapientibus placet, non cum
corpore extinguuntur magnae animae".
554. _Die thou canst not all._ Hor. IV. _Od._ xxx. 6,7.
556. _The Fairies._ Cp. the old ballad of _Robin Goodfellow_:--
"When house or hearth doth sluttish lie,
I pinch the maids both black and blue";
and Ben Jonson's _Entertainment at Althorpe_, etc.
557. _M. John Weare, Councellour._ Probably the same as "the
much-lamented Mr. J. Warr" of 134.
_Law is to give to every one his own._ Cicero, _De Fin._ v.: Animi
affectio suum cuique tribuens Justitia dicitur.
564. _His Kinswoman, Bridget Herrick_, eldest daughter of his brother
Nicholas.
565. _The Wanton Satyr._ See Sir E. Dyer's _The Shepherd's Conceit of
Prometheus_:--
"Prometheus, when first from heaven high
He brought down fire, ere then on earth not seen,
Fond of delight, a Satyr standing by
Gave it a kiss, as it like sweet had been.
... ... ... ...
The difference is--the Satyr's lips, my heart,
He for a time, I evermore, have smart."
So _Euphues_: "Satirus not knowing what fire was would needs embrace it
and was burnt;" and Sir John Davies, _False and True Knowledge_.
Transcriber's Endnotes
Numeration Errors in the Hesperides:
Errors in the numbering system, despite the corrections mentioned in
the NOTE TO SECOND EDITION, still exist in the text. A clear example
is shown by _569. UPON ELECTRA'S TEARS_ ending Vol. I, whilst Vol. II
begins with _569. A HYMN TO THE GRACES_. When the poems within the
APPENDIX OF EPIGRAMS are considered, more errors in the numeration
system become apparent.
Without an obvious solution to a discrepan
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