gh to bind Robert
Maule and Jack Crofts from ever more using the phrase". So Jack was
probably a bit of a poet himself. He may be the Mr. Crofts for
assaulting whom George, Lord Digby, was imprisoned a month and more, in
1634.

807. _Man may want land to live in._ Tacitus, _Ann._ xiii. 56: Addidit
[Boiocalus] Deesse nobis terra in qua vivamus, in qua moriamur non
potest, quoted by Montaigne, II. 3.

809. _Who after his transgression doth repent._ Seneca, _Agam._ 243:
Quem poenitet peccasse paene est innocens.

810. _Grief, if't be great 'tis short._ Seneca, quoted by Burton (II.
iii. 1, Sec. 1): "Si longa est, levis est; si gravis est, brevis est. If it
be long, 'tis light; if grievous, it cannot last."

817. _The Amber Bead._ Cp. Martial's epigram quoted in Note to 497. The
comparison to Cleopatra is from Mart. IV. xxxii.

818. _To my dearest sister, M. Mercy Herrick._ Not quite five years his
senior. She married John Wingfield, of Brantham, Suffolk, to whom also
Herrick addresses a poem.

820. _Suffer that thou canst not shift._ From Seneca; the title from
_Ep._ cvii.: Optimum est pati quod emendare non possis, the epigram from
_De Provid._ 4, as translated by Thomas Lodge, 1614, "Vertuous
instructions are never delicate. Doth fortune beat and rend us? Let us
suffer it"--whence Herrick reproduces the printer's error, _Vertuous_
for Vertues (Virtue's).

821. _For a stone has Heaven his tomb._ Cp. Sir T. Browne, _Relig. Med._
Sec. 40: "Nor doe I altogether follow that rodomontado of Lucan (_Phars._
vii. 819): Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam,

He that unburied lies wants not his hearse,
For unto him a tomb's the universe".

823. _To the King upon his taking of Leicester._ May 31, 1645, a brief
success before Naseby.

825. _'Twas Caesar's saying._ Tiberius ap. Tacit. _Ann._ ii. 26: Se
novies a divo Augusto in Germaniam missum plura consilio quam vi
perfecisse.

830. _His Loss._ A reference to his ejection from Dean Prior.

837. _Mistress Amy Potter._ Daughter of Barnabas Potter, Bishop of
Carlisle, Herrick's predecessor at Dean Prior.

839. _Love is a circle ... from good to good._ So Burton, III. i. 1, Sec.
2: Circulus a bono in bonum.

844. TO HIS BOOK. _Make haste away._ Martial, III. ii. Ad Librum
suum--Festina tibi vindicem parare, Ne nigram cito raptus in culinam
Cordyllas madida tegas papyro, Vel thuris piperisque sis cucullus. _To
make loose gowns for mackerel._ From Catullus, xcv. 1:-