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At Volusi annales Paduam morientur ad ipsam,
Et laxas scombris saepe dabunt tunicas.

846. _And what we blush to speak_, etc. Ovid, _Phaedra to Hipp._ 10:
Dicere quae puduit scribere jussit amor.

849. _'Tis sweet to think_, etc. Seneca, _Herc. Fur._ 657-58: Quae fuit
durum pati Meminisse dulce est.

851. _To Mr. Henry Lawes, the excellent composer of his lyrics._ Henry
Lawes (1595-1662), the friend of Milton, admitted a Gentleman of the
Chapel Royal, 1625. In the _Noble Numbers_ he is mentioned as the
composer of Herrick's _Christmas Carol_ and the first of his two
_New-Year's Gifts_. Lawes also set to music Herrick's _Not to Love_, _To
Mrs. Eliz. Wheeler_ (Among the Myrtles as I walked), _The Kiss_, _The
Primrose_, _To a Gentlewoman objecting to him his Grey Hairs_, and
doubtless others.

852. _Maidens tell me I am old._ From Anacreon:

{Legousin hai gynaikes
Anakreon geron ei k.t.l.}

With a significant variation--"Ill it fits"--for {mallon prepei}.

859. _Master J. Jincks._ Not identified.

861. _Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their own._ Aristot.
_Politics_, iii. 7: {kalein eiothamen ton men monarchion ten pros to
koinon apoblepousan sympheron basileian ... he tyrannis esti monarchia
pros to sympheron to tou monarchountos}.

869. _Sir Thomas Heale._ Probably a son of the Sir Thomas Hele, of
Fleet, Co. Devon, who died in 1624. This Sir Thomas was created a
baronet in 1627, and according to Dr. Grosart was one of the Royalist
commanders at the siege of Plymouth. He died 1670.

872. _Love is a kind of war._ Ovid, _Ars Am._ II. 233, 34:--

Militiae species amor est: discedite segnes!
Non sunt haec timidis signa tuenda viris.

873. _A spark neglected_, etc. Ovid, _Rem. Am._ 732-34:--

E minimo maximus ignis erit.
Sic nisi vitaris quicquid renovabit amorem,
Flamma redardescet quae modo nulla fuit.

874. _An Hymn to Cupid._ From Anacreon:--

{Onax, ho damales Eros
kai Nymphai kyanopides
porphyree t' Aphrodite
sympaizousin ... gounoumai se, k.t.l.}

885. _Naught are all women._ Burton, III. ii. 5. Sec. 5.

907. _Upon Mr. William Lawes, the rare musician._ Elder brother of the
more famous Henry Lawes; appointed a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal,
1602, and also one of Charles I.'s musicians-in-ordinary. When the Civil
War broke out he joined the king's army and was killed by a stray shot
during the siege of Chester, 1