EDWARD F. RIMBAULT.
MINOR NOTES
Shakspeare and George Herbert.—Your correspondent D.S. (Vol. ii., p. 263.) has pointed out two illustrations to Shakspeare in George Herbert's poems. The parallel passages between the two poets are exceedingly numerous. There are one or two which occur to me on the instant:—
The Church Porch:
"In time of service, seal up both thine eyes,
And send them to thy heart; that, spying sin,
They may weep out the stains, by them did rise."
Cf. Hamlet, III. 4.:
"O Hamlet, speak no more;