[238]. To the Rose. Printed in Witts Recreations, 1654, with the variants peevish for flowing in l. 4, say, if she frets, that I have bonds in l. 6, that can tame although not kill in l. 10, and now for thus in l. 11. The opening couplet is from Martial, VII. lxxxix.:—
I, felix rosa, mollibusque sertis
Nostri cinge comas Apollinaris.
[241]. Upon a painted Gentlewoman. Printed in Witts Recreations, 1650, under the title, On a painted madame.
[250]. Mildmay, Earl of Westmoreland. See Note to [112]. According to the date of the earl's succession, this poem must have been written after 1628.
[253]. He that will not love, etc. Ovid, Rem. Am. 15, 16:—
Si quis male fert indignae regna puellae,
Ne pereat nostrae sentiat artis opem.
How she is her own least part. Ib. 344: Pars minima est ipsa puella sui, quoted by Bacon, Burton, Lyly, and Montaigne.
Printed in Witts Recreations, 1654, with the variants, 'freezing colds and fiery heats,' and 'and how she is in every part'.
[256]. Had Lesbia, etc. See Catullus, Carm. iii.
[260]. How violets came blue. Printed in Witts Recreations, 1654, as How the violets came blue. The first two lines read:—