[979]. On Tomasin Parsons. Daughter of the organist of Westminster Abbey: cp. [500] and [Note].
[983]. To his kinsman, M. Thomas Herrick, who desired to be in his book. Cp. [106] and [Note].
[989]. Care keeps the conquest. Perhaps jotted down with reference to the Governorship of Exeter by Sir John Berkeley: see [Note] to [745].
[992]. To the handsome Mistress Grace Potter. Probably sister to the Mistress Amy Potter celebrated in [837], where see [Note].
[995]. We've more to bear our charge than way to go. Seneca, Ep. 77: quantulumcunque haberem, tamen plus superesset viatici quam viae, quoted by Montaigne, II. xxviii.
[1000]. The Gods, pillars, and men. Horace's Mediocribus esse poetis Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae (Ars Poet. 373). Latin poets hung up their epigrams in public places.
[1002]. To the Lord Hopton on his fight in Cornwall. Sir Ralph Hopton won two brilliant victories for the Royalists, at Bradock Down and Stratton, January and May, 1643, and was created Baron Hopton in the following September. Originally a Parliamentarian, he was one of the king's ablest and most loyal servants.
[1008]. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out. Terence, Haut. IV. ii. 8: Nihil tam difficile est quin quaerendo investigari posset.
[1009]. Labour is held up by the hope of rest. Ps. Sallust, Epist. ad C. Caes.: Sapientes laborem spe otii sustentant.
[1022]. Posting to Printing. Mart. V. x. 11, 12:—