uid.

977. _To his sister-in-law, M. Susanna Herrick._ Cp. _supra_, 522. The
subject is again the making up of the book of the poet's elect.

978. _Upon the Lady Crew._ Cp. Herrick's Epithalamium for her marriage
with Sir Clipsby Crew, 283. She died 1639, and was buried in Westminster
Abbey.

979. _On Tomasin Parsons._ Daughter of the organist of Westminster
Abbey: cp. 500 and Note.

983. _To his kinsman, M. Thomas Herrick, who desired to be in his book._
Cp. 106 and Note.

989. _Care keeps the conquest._ Perhaps jotted down with reference to
the Governorship of Exeter by Sir John Berkeley: see Note to 745.

992. _To the handsome Mistress Grace Potter._ Probably sister to the
Mistress Amy Potter celebrated in 837, where see Note.

995. _We've more to bear our charge than way to go._ Seneca, Ep. 77:
quantulumcunque haberem, tamen plus superesset viatici quam viae, quoted
by Montaigne, II. xxviii.

1000. _The Gods, pillars, and men._ Horace's Mediocribus esse poetis
Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae (_Ars Poet._ 373). Latin
poets hung up their epigrams in public places.

1002. _To the Lord Hopton on his fight in Cornwall._ Sir Ralph Hopton
won two brilliant victories for the Royalists, at Bradock Down and
Stratton, January and May, 1643, and was created Baron Hopton in the
following September. Originally a Parliamentarian, he was one of the
king's ablest and most loyal servants.

1008. _Nothing's so hard but search will find it out._ Terence, _Haut._
IV. ii. 8: Nihil tam difficile est quin quaerendo investigari posset.

1009. _Labour is held up by the hope of rest._ Ps. Sallust, _Epist. ad
C. Caes._: Sapientes laborem spe otii sustentant.

1022. _Posting to Printing._ Mart. V. x. 11, 12:--

Vos, tamen, o nostri, ne festinate, libelli:
Si post fata venit gloria, non propero.

1023. _No kingdoms got by rapine long endure._ Seneca, _Troad._ 264:
Violenta nemo imperia continuit dies.

1026. _Saint Distaff's Day._ "Saint Distaff is perhaps only a coinage of
our poet's to designate the day when, the Christmas vacation being over,
good housewives, with others, resumed their usual employment." (Nott.)
The phrase is explained in dictionaries and handbooks, but no other use
of it is quoted than this. Herrick's poem was pilfered by Henry Bold (a
notorious plagiarist) in _Wit a-sporting in a pleasant Grove of New
Fancies_, 1657.

1028. _My beloved Westminster._ As mentioned in the brief "Life"