[607]. Who covets more is evermore a slave. Hor. I. Ep. x. 41: Serviet aeternum qui parvo nesciet uti.
[615]. No Wrath of Men. Cp. Hor. Od. III. iii. 1-8.
[616]. To the Maids to walk abroad. Printed in Witts Recreations, 1650, under the title: Abroad with the Maids.
[618]. Mistress Elizabeth Lee, now Lady Tracy. Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas, first Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh, in Warwickshire, married John, third Viscount Tracy. She survived her husband two years, and died in 1688.
[624]. Poets. Wantons we are, etc. From Ovid, Trist. ii. 353-4:—
Crede mihi, mores distant a carmine nostri:
Vita verecunda est, Musa jocosa, mihi.
[625]. 'Tis cowardice to bite the buried. Cp. Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, I. 1: "Envy the living, not the dead, doth bite"; perhaps from Ovid, Am. I. xv. 39: Pascitur in vivis livor; post fata quiescit.
[626]. Noble Westmoreland. See Note to [112].
Gallant Newark. Robert Pierrepoint was created Viscount Newark in 1627 and Earl of Kingston in the following year. But Herrick is perhaps addressing his son, Henry Pierrepoint, afterwards Marquis of Dorchester (see [962] and [Note]), who during the first Earl of Kingston's life would presumably have borne his second title.
[633]. Sweet words must nourish soft and gentle love. Ovid, Ars Am. ii. 152: Dulcibus est verbis mollis alendus amor.