[885]. Naught are all women. Burton, III. ii. 5. § 5.
[907]. Upon Mr. William Lawes, the rare musician. Elder brother of the more famous Henry Lawes; appointed a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, 1602, and also one of Charles I.'s musicians-in-ordinary. When the Civil War broke out he joined the king's army and was killed by a stray shot during the siege of Chester, 1645. He set Herrick's Gather ye rosebuds to music.
[914]. Numbers ne'er tickle, etc. Martial, I. xxxvi.:—
Lex haec carminibus data est jocosis,
Ne possint, nisi pruriant, juvare.
[918]. M. Kellam. As yet unidentified. Dr. Grosart suggests that he may have been one of Herrick's parishioners, and the name sounds as of the west country.
[920]. Cunctation in correction. Is Herrick translating? According to a relief at Rome the lictors' rods were bound together not only by a red thong twisted from top to bottom, but by six straps as well.
[922]. Continual reaping makes a land wax old. Ovid, Ars Am. iii. 82: Continua messe senescit ager.
[923]. Revenge. Tacitus, Hist. iv. 3: Tanto proclivius est injuriae quàm beneficio vicem exsolvere; quia gratia oneri, ultio in quaestu habetur.
[927]. Praise they that will times past. Ovid, Ars Am. iii. 121:—
Prisca juvent alios: ego me nunc denique natum
Gratulor; haec aetas moribus apta meis.