[68] Old ed. "leasure."
[69] I ought perhaps to omit this poem, for it is fairly well known. The writer was George Wither, in whose Fair Virtue, 1622, it first appeared. There are other versions in the Marrow of Compliments, 1655, and similar collections.
[70] This song is by Tom D'Urfey, and is printed in the first volume of his Pills to Purge Melancholy. In Comes Amoris the reading is "Aminta."
[71] "With music by Pelham Humphrey, in Playford's Choice Ayres, i. 34. Twice given in Windsor Drollery. Believed to be by Charles, Earl of Dorset."—J. W. Ebsworth.
[72] From the section containing Poems Collected by the Right Honourable Lady Aston (p. 136).
[73] Old ed. "enough."
[74] From the section containing Poems Collected by the Honourable Herbert Aston (pp. 307, 308).
[75] "This was a song of 1683, set to music by Captain Pack, and not improbably to his own words. It was printed in 1684 in Playford's Choice Ayres, v. 14, and parodies soon followed. Cf. Roxburghe Ballads, iv. 350."—J. W. Ebsworth.
[76] "This appeared twenty-four years earlier, being by Robert Baron, among his Poems, 1650, p. 65."—J. W. Ebsworth.
[77] Dr. Lancelot Andrewes, Bishop of Winchester, a prelate of rare virtue and high ability. This is the best of his poems.