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l. 23, _to_ for _too unto_; l. 24, _their_ for _our_; ll. 29, 30:-- "Unto the Prince of Shades, whom once his Pen Entituled the Grecian Prince of Men"; l. 31, _thereupon_ for _and that done_; l. 36, _render him true_ for _show him truly_; l. 37, _will_ for _shall_; l. 38, "Where both may _laugh_, both drink, _both_ rage together"; l. 48, _Amphitheatre_ for _spacious theatre_; l. 49, _synod_ for _glories_, followed by:-- "crown'd with sacred Bays And flatt'ring _joy, we'll have to_ recite their plays, _Shakespeare and Beamond_, Swans to whom _the Spheres_ Listen while they _call back the former year[s] To teach the truth of scenes_, and more for thee, There yet remains, _brave soul_, than thou can'st see," etc.; l. 56, _illustrious for capacious_; l. 57, _shall be_ for _now is_ [Jonson died 1637]; ll. 59-61:-- "To be of that high Hierarchy where none But brave souls take illumination Immediately from heaven; but hark the cock," etc.; l. 62, _feel_ for _see_; l. 63, _through_ for _from_. 579. _My love will fit each history._ Cp. Ovid, _Amor._ II. iv. 44: Omnibus historiis se meus aptat amor. 580. _The sweets of love are mixed with tears._ Cp. Propert. I. xii. 16: Nonnihil adspersis gaudet Amor lacrimis. 583. _Whom this morn sees most fortunate_, etc. Seneca, _Thyest._ 613: Quem dies vidit veniens superbum Hunc dies vidit fugiens jacentem. 586. _Night hides our thefts_, etc. Ovid, _Ars Am._ i. 249:-- Nocte latent mendae vitioque ignoscitur omni, Horaque formosam quamlibet illa facit. 590. _To his brother-in-law, Master John Wingfield._ Of Brantham, Suffolk, husband of the poet's sister, Mercy. See 818, and Sketch of Herrick's Life in vol. i. 599. _Upon Lucia._ Cp. "The Resolution" in _Speculum Amantis_, ed. A. H. Bullen. 604. _Old Religion._ Certainly not Roman Catholicism, though Jonson was a Catholic. Herrick uses the noun and its adjective rather curiously of the dead: cp. 82, "To the reverend shade of his religious Father," and 138, "When thou shalt laugh at my religious dust". There may be something of this use here, or we may refer to his ancient cult of Jonson. But the use of the phrase in 870 makes the exact shade of meaning difficult to fix. 605. _Riches to be but burdens to the mind._ Seneca _De Provid._ 6: Democritus divitias projecit, onus illas bonae mentis existimans. 607. _Who covets
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