[579]. My love will fit each history. Cp. Ovid, Amor. II. iv. 44: Omnibus historiis se meus aptat amor.
[580]. The sweets of love are mixed with tears. Cp. Propert. I. xii. 16: Nonnihil adspersis gaudet Amor lacrimis.
[583]. Whom this morn sees most fortunate, etc. Seneca, Thyest. 613: Quem dies vidit veniens superbum Hunc dies vidit fugiens jacentem.
[586]. Night hides our thefts, etc. Ovid, Ars Am. i. 249:—
Nocte latent mendæ vitioque ignoscitur omni,
Horaque formosam quamlibet illa facit.
[590]. To his brother-in-law, Master John Wingfield. Of Brantham, Suffolk, husband of the poet's sister, Mercy. See [818], and [Sketch of Herrick's Life] in vol. i.
[599]. Upon Lucia. Cp. "The Resolution" in Speculum Amantis, ed. A. H. Bullen.
[604]. Old Religion. Certainly not Roman Catholicism, though Jonson was a Catholic. Herrick uses the noun and its adjective rather curiously of the dead: cp. [82], "To the reverend shade of his religious Father," and [138], "When thou shalt laugh at my religious dust". There may be something of this use here, or we may refer to his ancient cult of Jonson. But the use of the phrase in [870] makes the exact shade of meaning difficult to fix.
[605]. Riches to be but burdens to the mind. Seneca De Provid. 6: Democritus divitias projecit, onus illas bonae mentis existimans.