s known, never saw the light.
It was probably, however, to this book that Herrick addressed the poem
(405) beginning:--

"Have I not blest thee? Then go forth, nor fear
Or spice, or fish, or fire, or close-stools here";

and we may fairly regard the first five hundred poems of _Hesperides_
as representing the intended collection of 1640, with a few additions,
and the last six hundred as for the most part later, and I must add,
inferior work. This is borne out by the absence of any manuscript
versions of poems in the second half of the book. Herrick's verses would
only be passed from hand to hand when he was living among the wits in
London.

1046. _Twilight._ Ovid, _Amores_, I. v. 5, 6: Crepuscula ... ubi nox
abiit, nec tamen orta dies.

1048. _Consent makes the cure._ Seneca, _Hippol._ 250: Pars sanitatis
velle sanari fuit.

1050. _Causeless whipping._ Ovid, _Heroid._ v. 7, 8: Leniter ex merito
quicquid patiare, ferendum est; Quae venit indignae poena, dolenda
venit. Quoted by Montaigne, III. xiii.

1052. _His comfort._ Terence, _Adelph._ I. i. 18: Ego ... quod
fortunatum isti putant, Uxorem nunquam habui.

1053. _Sincerity._ From Hor. _Ep._ I. ii. 54: Sincerum est nisi vas,
quodcunque infundis acescit. Quoted by Montaigne, III. xiii.

1056. _To his peculiar friend, M. Jo. Wicks._ See 336 and Note. Written
after Herrick's ejection. We know that the poet's uncle, Sir William
Herrick, suffered greatly in estate during the Civil War, and it may
have been the same with other friends and relatives. But there can be
little doubt that the poet found abundant hospitality on his return to
London.

1059. _A good Death._ August. _de Disciplin. Christ._ 13: Non potest
male mori, qui bene vixerit.

1061. _On Fortune._ Seneca, _Medea_, 176: Fortuna opes auferre non
animum potest.

1062. _To Sir George Parry, Doctor of the Civil Law._ According to Dr.
Grosart, Parry "was admitted to the College of Advocates, London, 3rd
Nov., 1628; but almost nothing has been transmitted concerning him save
that he married the daughter and heir of Sir Giles Sweet, Dean of
Arches". I can hardly doubt that he must be identified with the Dr.
George Parry, Chancellor to the Bishop of Exeter, who in 1630 was
accused of excommunicating persons for the sake of fees, but was highly
praised in 1635 and soon after appointed a Judge Marshal. If so, his
wife was a widow when she came to him, as she is spoken of in 1638 as
"Lady Dorothy Smi