s: Run through my veins like to a hasty flood.


s: Fill each part full of fire, active to do


s: What thy commanding soul shall put it to;


s: Which here I vow to serve, do not remove


s: Blast these-like actions, or a thing that's worse.


s: When these circumstants shall but live to see


s: Call me the son of beer, and then confine


s: Me to the tap, the toast, the turf; let wine


s: And last, when thee, dear spouse, I disavow,


s: Ne'er may prophetic Daphne crown my brow.


s: _Ithaca_, the home of the wanderer Ulysses.


s: _Iphiclus_ won the foot-race at the funeral games of Pelias.


s: _Retorted_, bound back, "retorto crine," _Martial_.


s: Fair was the dawn, and but e'en now the skies


s: Show'd like to cream inspir'd with strawberries,


s: But on a sudden all was chang'd and gone


s: That smil'd in that first sweet complexion.


s: Then thunder-claps and lightning did conspire


s: To tear the world, or set it all on fire.


s: What trust to things below, whenas we see,


s: As men, the heavens have their hypocrisy?


s: Thou'st dar'd too far; but, fury, now forbear


s: To give the least disturbance to her hair:


s: Her skin's most smooth and clear expansion.


s: Quite dispossess'd of either fray or fret.


s: Come thou not near that film so finely spread,


s: This if thou dost, woe to thee, fury, woe,


s: I'll send such frost, such hail, such sleet, and snow,


s: Such flesh-quakes, palsies, and such fears as shall


s: Dead thee to th' most, if not destroy thee all.


s: And thou a thousand thousand times shalt be


s: More shak'd thyself than she is scorch'd by thee.


s: Play I could once; but, gentle friend, you see


s: My harp hung up here on the willow tree.


s: Sing I could once; and bravely, too, inspire


s: With luscious numbers my melodious lyre.


s: Draw I could once, although not stocks or stones,


s: Amphion-like, men made of flesh and bones,


s: Whither I would; but ah! I know not how,


s: Grief, my dear friend, has first my harp unstrung,


s: Wither'd my hand, and palsy-struck my tongue.


s: What though the sea be calm? Trust to the shore,


s: Ships have been drown'd where late they danc'd before.


s: _The Speakers_, Mirtillo, Amintas _and_ Amarillis.


s: _Amin._ Good-day, Mirtillo.  _Mirt._ And to you no less,


s: And all fair signs lead on our shepherdess.


s: _Amar._ With all white luck to you.  _Mirt._ But say, what news


s: Stirs in our sheep-walk?  _Amin._ None, save that my ewes,


s: My wethers, lambs, and wanton kids are well,


s: Smooth, fair and fat! none better I can tell:


s: For his sheep-shearers.  _Mirt._ True, these are the least;


s: Rest but a while here, by this bank of lilies,


s: The country has.  _Amin._ From whence?  _Amar._ From whence?


s: Three days before the shutting in of May


s: (With whitest wool be ever crown'd that day!)


s: To all our joy a sweet-fac'd child was born,


s: More tender than the childhood of the morn.


s: _Chor._ Pan pipe to him, and bleats of lambs and sheep


s: _Mirt._ And that his birth should be more singular


s: Bright as the wise men's torch which guided them


s: To God's sweet babe, when born at Bethlehem;


s: While golden angels (some have told to me)


s: Sung out his birth with heavenly minstrelsy.


s: _Amin._ O rare! But is't a trespass if we three


s: At most a fault, 'tis but a fault of love.


s: _Amar._ But, dear Mirtillo, I have heard it told


s: Those learned men brought incense, myrrh and gold


s: From countries far, with store of spices sweet,


s: And laid them down for offerings at his feet.


s: _Mirt._ 'Tis true, indeed; and each of us will bring


s: A neat, though not so great an offering.


s: Of flowers ne'er suck'd by th' thieving bee;


s: And all most sweet; yet all less sweet than he.


s: _Amin._ And I will bear, along with you,


s: _Chor._ Come, let's away, and quickly let's be dress'd,


s: And quickly give--_the swiftest grace is best_.


s: And when before him we have laid our treasures,


s: We'll bless the babe, then back to country pleasures.


s: To my revenge and to her desperate fears


s: Fly, thou made bubble of my sighs and tears.


s: In the wild air when thou hast rolled about,


s: And, like a blasting planet, found her out.


s: Stoop, mount, pass by to take her eye, then glare


s: Next, when thou dost perceive her fixed sight


s: Then, like a globe or ball of wild-fire, fly,


s: And break thyself in shivers on her eye.


s: Yet lost ere that chaste flesh and blood


s: Hence, hence, profane! soft silence let us have


s: While we this trental sing about thy grave.


s: Washed those thy purple wounds with tears.


s: But since thou'rt slain, and in thy fall


s: _Chor._ This we will do, we'll daily come


s: Sleep in thy peace, while we with spice perfume thee,


s: And cedar wash thee, that no times consume thee.


s: Live, live thou dost, and shall; for why?


s: _Chor._ And times to come shall, weeping, read thy glory


s: Less in these marble stones than in thy story.


s: Than this, the fairies' once, now thine.


s: I could not speak the saints here painted.


s: Who 'gainst Mab's-state placed here right is;


s: Saint Will o' th' Wisp, of no great bigness,


s: Pure hands bring hither without stain._"


s: A second pules: "_Hence, hence, profane!_"


s: Grac'd with the trout-flies' curious wings,


s: Hatch'd with the silver-light of snails,


s: They have their ash-pans and their brooms


s: And since the last is dead, there's hope


s: Their beads of nits, bells, books, and wax


s: Dry chips, old shoes, rags, grease and bones;


s: And for what use, scarce man would think it.


s: Whose foot-pace he doth stroke and kiss;


s: And by the glow-worm's light well guided,


s: _Cockal_, a game played with four huckle-bones.


s: My muse in meads has spent her many hours,


s: Sitting, and sorting several sorts of flowers


s: But, amongst all encircled here, not one


s: Till you, sweet mistress, came and interwove


s: You first of all crown'd her: she must of due


s: Gild still with flames this firmament, and be


s: Which, if it now or shall hereafter shine,


s: 'Twas by your splendour, lady, not by mine.


s: The oil was yours; and that I owe for yet:


s: _He pays the half who does confess the debt_.


s: So long you did not sing or touch your lute,


s: We knew 'twas flesh and blood that there sat mute.


s: But when your playing and your voice came in,


s: Display thy breasts, my Julia--there let me


s: Between whose glories there my lips I'll lay,


s: _Art quickens nature; care will make a face;


s: Thou cam'st to cure me, doctor, of my cold,


s: And caught'st thyself the more by twenty fold:


s: First cured thyself, then come and cure me.


s: Thou art a plant sprung up to wither never,


s: But like a laurel to grow green for ever.


s: Men say y'are fair, and fair ye are, 'tis true;


s: But, hark! we praise the painter now, not you.


s: _Draw-gloves_, a game of talking by the fingers.


s: Charms, that call down the moon from out her sphere,


s: On this sick youth work your enchantments here:


s: As to entrance his pain, or cure his woe.


s: Fall gently, gently, and a while him keep


s: That done, then let him, dispossessed of pain,


s: Like to a slumb'ring bride, awake again.


s: Till I had got the name of Villars here:


s: Now 'tis so full that when therein I look


s: Here stand it still to dignify our Muse,


s: Your sober handmaid, who doth wisely choose


s: Your name to be a laureate wreath to her


s: Who doth both love and fear you, honoured sir.


s: So good luck came, and on my roof did light,


s: Like noiseless snow, or as the dew of night:


s: Not all at once, but gently, as the trees


s: Fly to my mistress, pretty pilfering bee,


s: And say thou bring'st this honey bag from me:


s: When on her lip thou hast thy sweet dew placed,


s: Mark if her tongue but slyly steal a taste.


s: If so, we live; if not, with mournful hum


s: Toll forth my death; next, to my burial come.


s: Crowned with the ears of corn, now come,


s: The horses, mares, and frisking fillies,


s: Those with a shout, and these with laughter.


s: Some bless the cart, some kiss the sheaves,


s: Some cross the fill-horse, some with great


s: Well, on, brave boys, to your lord's hearth,


s: Glitt'ring with fire, where, for your mirth,


s: There's that which drowns all care, stout beer;


s: Which freely drink to your lord's health,


s: Next to your flails, your fans, your fats,


s: To the rough sickle, and crook'd scythe,


s: And harrow, though they're hanged up now.


s: And, you must know, your lord's word's true,


s: For some small fault to offer sacrifice:


s: The fat; breathe thou, and there's the rich perfume.


s: Let but thy voice engender with the string,


s: And angels will be born while thou dost sing.


s: How high she's priz'd, and worth but small;


s: Music, thou queen of heaven, care-charming spell,


s: Thou that tam'st tigers, and fierce storms that rise,


s: Fall down, down, down from those thy chiming spheres,


s: To charm our souls, as thou enchant'st our ears.


s: Where spring-time smiles throughout the year?


s: Are not here rosebuds, pinks, all flowers


s: Phil, the late dead, the late dead dear,


s: _Phil_, otherwise Philip or Phip, was a pet name for a sparrow.


s: _Virgil's gnat_, the _Culex_ attributed to Virgil.


s: Such pretty flowers, like to orphans young,


s: To speak by tears before ye have a tongue.


s: Speak, whimp'ring younglings, and make known


s: That things of greatest, so of meanest worth,


s: Conceiv'd with grief are, and with tears brought forth.


s: Dry your sweet cheek, long drown'd with sorrow's rain,


s: Since, clouds dispers'd, suns gild the air again.


s: Seas chafe and fret, and beat, and overboil,


s: But turn soon after calm as balm or oil.


s: Winds have their time to rage; but when they cease


s: The leafy trees nod in a still-born peace.


s: Like to the peeping springtime of the year.


s: Off then with grave clothes; put fresh colours on,


s: Now let the rose reign like a queen, and smile.


s: Wherewith young men and maids distres't,


s: Thou fool, said Love, know'st thou not this?


s: There thou shalt find her lip and cheek:


s: For, as these flowers, thy joys must die,


s: Like those short sweets, ere knit together.


s: If when these lyrics, Cæsar, you shall hear,


s: That verse, of all the verses here, shall be


s: The heir to this _great realm of poetry_.


s: _Goddess of youth, and lady of the spring,


s: Be pleas'd to rest you in this sacred grove


s: Beset with myrtles, whose each leaf drops love.


s: Many a sweet-fac'd wood-nymph here is seen,


s: Of which chaste order you are now the queen:


s: Witness their homage when they come and strew


s: Your walks with flowers, and give their crowns to you.


s: Your leafy throne, with lily-work possess,


s: _That prince takes soon enough the victor's room


s: _The gods to kings the judgment give to sway:


s: _He that may sin, sins least: leave to transgress


s: Enfeebles much the seeds of wickedness._


s: Though good things answer many good intents,


s: _Crosses do still bring forth the best events_.


s: Though hourly comforts from the gods we see,


s: _No life is yet life-proof from misery_.


s: And when I'm laid out for a corse, then be


s: Thou sexton, redbreast, for to cover me.


s: The funeral-trump sounds, you are there,


s: Troth, leave the flowers, and, maids, take me.


s: You say you're sweet; how should we know


s: What's that we see from far? the spring of day


s: 'Tis she! 'tis she! or else some more divine


s: Enlightened substance; mark how from the shrine


s: ing the chaft air with fumes of Paradise.


s: See where she comes; and smell how all the street


s: Breathes vineyards and pomegranates: O how sweet!


s: Built up of odours, burneth in her breast.


s: His soul to ash-heaps in that rich perfume?


s: Hymen, O Hymen! tread the sacred ground;


s: Show thy white feet and head with marjoram crown'd:


s: More towering, more disparkling than thy fires:


s: And roll about, and in their motions burn


s: Glide by the banks of virgins, then, and pass


s: The showers of roses, lucky four-leav'd grass:


s: Your praise and bless you, sprinkling you with wheat;


s: _Bless'd is the bride on whom the sun doth shine_;


s: And, beauteous bride, we do confess y'are wise


s: In dealing forth these bashful jealousies:


s: What now you seem be not the same indeed,


s: Part of the way be met or sit stone-still.


s: And now y'are entered; see the coddled cook


s: Runs from his torrid zone to pry and look


s: The house (love shield her) with her yea and nay":


s: To bed, to bed, kind turtles, now, and write


s: This the short'st day, and this the longest night;


s: Telling the clock strike ten, eleven, twelve, one.


s: And let the young men and the bride-maids share


s: By the bride's eyes, and by the teeming life


s: Of her green hopes, we charge ye that no strife


s: (Farther than gentleness tends) gets place


s: Foul in these noble pastimes, lest ye call


s: The youthful bridegroom and the fragrant bride:


s: Be't to your praise, no peace was broken.


s: Strip her of springtime, tender-whimpering maids,


s: Now autumn's come, when all these flowery aids


s: That lady-smock, that pansy, and that rose


s: But for prick-madam and for gentle-heart,


s: The soul of nature melts in numbers: now


s: To light their tapers at the bride's bright eye.


s: And to your more bewitching, see, the proud


s: Plump bed bear up, and swelling like a cloud,


s: To meet it when it woos and seems to fold


s: Looks for the treaders; everywhere is wove


s: High in your own conceit, and some way teach


s: Bless a sack-posset, luck go with it, take


s: The night-charm quickly, you have spells


s: And of such torture as no one would grutch


s: But since it must be done, despatch, and sew


s: Up in a sheet your bride, and what if so


s: Bold bolt of thunder he will make his way,


s: All now is hushed in silence: midwife-moon


s: With all her owl-eyed issue begs a boon,


s: Which you must grant; that's entrance; with


s: _Man's fortune must be had in reverence_.


s: _Who forms a godhead out of gold or stone


s: Makes not a god, but he that prays to one._


s: Take first the feast; these dishes gone,


s: The elves present, to quench his thirst,


s: But beards of mice, a newt's stewed thigh,


s: With withered cherries, mandrakes' ears,


s: Moles' eyes; to these the slain stag's tears


s: Ne'er ravish'd from the flattering vine,


s: His blood to height; this done, commended


s: Grace by his priest; _the feast is ended_.


s: _Babies in your eyes_, see Note to p. 17.


s: Each must in virtue strive for to excel;


s: _That man lives twice that lives the first life well_.


s: For one so rarely tun'd to fit all parts,


s: For one to whom espous'd are all the arts,


s: Long have I sought for, but could never see


s: Them all concentr'd in one man, but thee.


s: Thus, thou that man art whom the fates conspir'd


s: To make but one, and that's thyself, admir'd.


s: Good things that come of course, far less do please


s: Than those which come by sweet contingencies.


s: Dead falls the cause if once the hand be mute;


s: But let that speak, the client gets the suit.


s: If well thou hast begun, go on fore-right;


s: _It is the end that crowns us, not the fight_.


s: Welcome! but yet no entrance, till we bless


s: First you, then you, and both for white success.


s: Profane no porch, young man and maid, for fear


s: Ye wrong the Threshold-god that keeps peace here:


s: Please him, and then all good-luck will betide


s: You, the brisk bridegroom, you, the dainty bride.


s: Do all things sweetly, and in comely wise;


s: Put on your garlands first, then sacrifice:


s: That done, when both of you have seemly fed,


s: We'll call on Night, to bring ye both to bed:


s: Where, being laid, all fair signs looking on,


s: And millions of spring-times may ye have,


s: Which spent, one death bring to ye both one grave.


s: To read by the stars the kingdom's sick;


s: Of Twelfth-tide cakes, of peas and beans,


s: Husbands and wives by streaks to choose;


s: Of these and such-like things for shift,


s: Quite through the young maids and the men,


s: The year your cares that's fled and gone.


s: And thus, throughout, with Christmas plays


s: _To shoe the mare_, or, shoe the wild mare, a Christmas game.


s: When with the virgin morning thou dost rise,


s: Crossing thyself, come thus to sacrifice;


s: First wash thy heart in innocence, then bring


s: Pure hands, pure habits, pure, pure everything.


s: Next to the altar humbly kneel, and thence


s: Give up thy soul in clouds of frankincense.


s: Thy golden censers, fill'd with odours sweet,


s: Shall make thy actions with their ends to meet.


s: Begin with Jove; then is the work half done,


s: And runs most smoothly when 'tis well begun.


s: Jove's is the first and last: the morn's his due,


s: The midst is thine; but Jove's the evening too;


s: A man prepar'd against all ills to come,


s: That dares to dead the fire of martyrdom;


s: That sleeps at home, and sailing there at ease,


s: Fears not the fierce sedition of the seas;


s: That's counter-proof against the farm's mishaps,


s: That wears one face, like heaven, and never shows


s: A change when fortune either comes or goes;


s: That keeps his own strong guard in the despite


s: Of what can hurt by day or harm by night;


s: Of chance (as made up all of rock and oak);


s: That sighs at others' death, smiles at his own


s: Who for true glory suffers thus, we grant


s: Give thou my lips but their supremest kiss,


s: Or else transfuse thy breath into the chest


s: Where my small relics must for ever rest;


s: That breath the balm, the myrrh, the nard shall be,


s: _Chor._ And makes more soft the bridal bed.


s: _Chor._ And stills the bride, too, when she cries.


s: It frisks and flies, now here, now there,


s: _Chor._ And here and there and everywhere.


s: Part your joined lips, then speaks your kiss


s: _Chor._ And this love's sweetest language is.


s: _Chor._ Love honey yields, but never stings.


s: Seest thou those diamonds which she wears


s: Believe, young man, all those were tears


s: Ah then, consider, what all this implies:


s: She that will wear thy tears would wear thine eyes.


s: I can but name thee, and methinks I call


s: For love and bounty to come near, and see


s: In thee, brave man! whose incorrupted fame


s: Casts forth a light like to a virgin flame;


s: And as it shines it throws a scent about,


s: So vanish hence, but leave a name as sweet


s: _Storax_ or _Styrax_, another resinous gum.


s: No more shall I, since I am driven hence,


s: Devote to thee my grains of frankincense;


s: No more shall I from mantle-trees hang down,


s: To honour thee, my little parsley crown;


s: No more shall I (I fear me) to thee bring


s: No more shall I from henceforth hear a choir


s: Go where I will, thou lucky Lar stay here,


s: Warm by a glitt'ring chimney all the year.


s: If the chief author of the faction dies;


s: Let but few smart, but strike a fear through all;


s: Where the fault springs there let the judgment fall.


s: The pleasing wife, the house, the ground,


s: Looks forward, scorns what's left behind;


s: Let's live, my Wickes, then, while we may,


s: W'ave seen the past best times, and these


s: By th' fire, foretelling snow and sleet,


s: Washed o'er's, to tell what change is near:


s: Which sweetly spic'd, we'll first carouse


s: Then the next health to friends of mine,


s: From th' embers than the kitling's eyne,


s: _Bawdery_, dirt (with no moral meaning).


s: True to yourself and sheets, you'll have me swear;


s: You shall, if righteous dealing I find there.


s: Do not you fall through frailty; I'll be sure


s: To keep my bond still free from forfeiture.


s: The tongue in peace; but then in war the hand.


s: It calls to mind that mighty Buckingham,


s: Binding the wheel of fortune to his sphere,


s: Who spurned at envy, and could bring with ease


s: For his love then, whose sacred relics show


s: Their resurrection and their growth in you;


s: You above all those sweets of Westminster;


s: To kiss your hand, most dainty governess.


s: In time of life I graced ye with my verse;


s: Do now your flowery honours to my hearse.


s: You shall not languish, trust me; virgins here


s: Weeping shall make ye flourish all the year.


s: Let kings command and do the best they may,


s: The saucy subjects still will bear the sway.


s: If so, how much more shall I dote thereon


s: _Sciography_, the profile or section of a building.


s: Fain would I kiss my Julia's dainty leg,


s: Which is as white and hairless as an egg.


s: Still to our gains our chief respect is had;


s: Nothing is new; we walk where others went;


s: There's no vice now but has his precedent.


s: Come with the spring-time forth, fair maid, and be


s: To make this neat distinction from the rest,


s: You are the prime and princess of the feast;


s: To which with silver feet lead you the way,


s: While sweet-breath nymphs attend on you this day.


s: This is your hour, and best you may command,


s: Full mirth wait on you, and such mirth as shall


s: Cherish the cheek but make none blush at all.


s: _Meadow-verse_, to be recited at a rustic feast.


s: Loth to depart, but yet at last each one


s: Not knowing thus much when we once do sever,


s: Whether or no that we shall meet here ever.


s: As for myself, since time a thousand cares


s: And griefs hath filed upon my silver hairs,


s: If die I must, then my last vow shall be,


s: Your sometime poet; but if fates do give


s: Me longer date and more fresh springs to live,


s: Oft as your field shall her old age renew,


s: Herrick shall make the meadow-verse for you.


s: Judith has cast her old skin and got new,


s: And walks fresh varnish'd to the public view;


s: Foul Judith was and foul she will be known


s: How dull and dead are books that cannot show


s: A prince of Pembroke, and that Pembroke you!


s: You who are high born, and a lord no less


s: Free by your fate than fortune's mightiness,


s: Who hug our poems, honour'd sir, and then


s: But warm their wits and turn their lines to gold.


s: Others there be who righteously will swear


s: Those smooth-paced numbers amble everywhere,


s: And these brave measures go a stately trot;


s: Love those, like these, regard, reward them not.


s: But you, my lord, are one whose hand along


s: Goes with your mouth or does outrun your tongue;


s: Paying before you praise, and, cockering wit,


s: _Chop-cherry_, another name of cherry-bob.


s: Grac'd now, at last, or glorified by thee,


s: My wreaths on those who little gave or lent.


s: Give me the daphne, that the world may know it,


s: Whom they neglected thou hast crown'd a poet.


s: Upon the rock whose firm foundation laid,


s: Shall never shrink; where, making thine abode,


s: Thou shalt not all die; for, while love's fire shines


s: Upon his altar, men shall read thy lines,


s: And learn'd musicians shall, to honour Herrick's


s: Fame and his name, both set and sing his lyrics.


s: First offer incense, then thy field and meads


s: Shall smile and smell the better by thy beads.


s: The spangling dew, dredg'd o'er the grass, shall be


s: Turn'd all to mell and manna there for thee.


s: Butter of amber, cream, and wine, and oil


s: Shall run, as rivers, all throughout thy soil.


s: Would'st thou to sincere silver turn thy mould?


s: Pray once, twice pray, and turn thy ground to gold.


s: So smell those bracelets and those bands


s: Shall come to strew thy earth with flowers.


s: No; know, bless'd maid, when there's not one


s: Sleep while we hide thee from the light,


s: Till I shall come again let this suffice,


s: To thee, thy lady, younglings, and as far


s: To the worn threshold, porch, hall, parlour, kitchen,


s: The wholesome savour of thy mighty chines


s: Where laden spits, warp'd with large ribs of beef,


s: To the lank stranger and the sour swain,


s: For no black-bearded vigil from thy door


s: But from thy warm love-hatching gates each may


s: To sun his thin-clad members if he likes,


s: No comer to thy roof his guest-rite wants,


s: Or staying there is scourg'd with taunts


s: Of some rough groom, who, yirkt with corns, says: "Sir,


s: And with our broth, and bread, and bits, sir friend,


s: Two days y'ave larded here; a third, ye know,


s: Makes guests and fish smell strong; pray go


s: You to some other chimney, and there take


s: No such crabb'd vizard: thou hast learnt thy train


s: And by the armsful, with a breast unhid,


s: When either's heart and either's hand did strive


s: Thou dost redeem those times, and what was lost


s: It keeps a growth in thee, and so will run


s: Thus, like a Roman tribune, thou thy gate


s: Which fain would waste upon thy cates, but that


s: Best and more suppling piece he cuts, and by


s: A hand too desp'rate, or a knife that bites


s: No, no; thy bread, thy wine, thy jocund beer


s: Jove, joy'st when guests make their abode


s: To eat thy bullock's thighs, thy veals, thy fat


s: The _cock_, the _curlew_ and the _quail_,


s: Of thy glad table: not a dish more known


s: And spring fresh rosebuds, while the salt, the wit,


s: While reverence, waiting at the bashful board,


s: But temperate mirth dealt forth, and so discreet-


s: And adds perfumes unto the wine, which thou


s: By cruse and measure; thus devoting wine


s: But with that wisdom and that method, as


s: Drinks of distemper, or has cause to cry


s: No, thou knowest order, ethics, and has read


s: A house-dance neatly, and canst truly show


s: Forward or backward, sideward, and what pace


s: What gesture, courtship, comeliness agrees


s: To give subsistence to thy house, and proof


s: Goodness and Greatness; not the oaken piles;


s: _For these and marbles have their whiles


s: To last, but not their ever_; virtue's hand


s: It is which builds 'gainst fate to stand.


s: Such is thy house, whose firm foundation's trust


s: Or depth; these last may yield and yearly shrink


s: And well-laid bottom, on the iron and rock


s: Which tries and counter-stands the shock


s: And large she spreads by dust and sweat_.


s: Safe stand thy walls and thee, and so both will,


s: Since neither's height was rais'd by th' ill


s: Of others; since no stud, no stone, no piece


s: No orphan's pittance left him serv'd to set


s: For which their cries might beat against thine ears,


s: No plank from hallowed altar does appeal


s: A curse to thee or thine; but all things even


s: And when wise poets shall search out to see


s: _Button'd-staff_, staff with a knob at its end.


s: _Trebius_, friend of the epicure Lucullus; cp. Juv. v. 19.


s: Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say


s: Birds choose their mates, and couple too this day;


s: The sock grew loathsome, and the buskin's pride,


s: The cirque profan'd was, and all postures rack'd;


s: For men did strut, and stride, and stare, not act.


s: Then temper flew from words, and men did squeak,


s: Look red, and blow, and bluster, but not speak;


s: No clap of hands, or shout, or praise's proof


s: Did crack the play-house sides, or cleave her roof.


s: Artless the scene was, and that monstrous sin


s: Such ignorance as theirs was who once hiss'd


s: At thy unequall'd play, the _Alchemist_;


s: In utter darkness did, and still will sit,


s: Sleeping the luckless age out, till that she


s: Thou had'st the wreath before, now take the tree,


s: That henceforth none be laurel-crown'd but thee.


s: On, as thou hast begun, brave youth, and get


s: So draw and paint as none may do the like,


s: These summer-birds did with thy master stay


s: The times of warmth, but then they flew away,


s: Leaving their poet, being now grown old,


s: Expos'd to all the coming winter's cold.


s: But thou, kind Prew, did'st with my fates abide


s: As well the winter's as the summer's tide;


s: For which thy love, live with thy master here,


s: Not one, but all the seasons of the year.


s: A just man's like a rock that turns the wrath


s: Sing me to death; for till thy voice be clear,


s: 'Twill never please the palate of mine ear.


s: Gave them heart's-ease turn'd to flowers.


s: Since, for thy full deserts, with all the rest


s: Of these chaste spirits that are here possest


s: Live here; but know 'twas virtue, and not chance,


s: That gave thee this so high inheritance.


s: Keep it for ever, grounded with the good,


s: Who hold fast here an endless livelihood.


s: The first of nature, and the next of art:


s: But, that denied, a grief, though small,


s: Learn this of me, where'er thy lot doth fall,


s: Short lot or not, to be content with all.


s: Jove may afford us thousands of reliefs,


s: Since man expos'd is to a world of griefs.


s: Show me thy feet; show me thy legs, thy thighs;


s: Show me that hill where smiling love doth sit.


s: Show me thy waist, then let me therewithal,


s: 'Tis then broad day throughout the east.


s: Have I not blest thee? Then go forth, nor fear


s: Or spice, or fish, or fire, or close-stools here.


s: But with thy fair fates leading thee, go on


s: Nor think these ages that do hoarsely sing


s: The dancing friar, tatter'd in the bush;


s: Those monstrous lies of little Robin Rush,


s: Tom Chipperfeild, and pretty lisping Ned,


s: The flying pilchard and the frisking dace,


s: With all the rabble of Tim Trundell's race


s: (Bred from the dunghills and adulterous rhymes),


s: Shall live, and thou not superlast all times.


s: No, no; thy stars have destin'd thee to see


s: The whole world die and turn to dust with thee.


s: _He's greedy of his life who will not fall


s: Tell if thou canst, and truly, whence doth come


s: This camphor, storax, spikenard, galbanum;


s: These musks, these ambers, and those other smells,


s: I'll tell thee: while my Julia did unlace


s: Her silken bodice but a breathing space,


s: The passive air such odour then assum'd,


s: As when to Jove great Juno goes perfum'd,


s: A scent that fills both heaven and earth with it.


s: Would I see lawn, clear as the heaven, and thin?


s: Which so betrays her blood as we discover


s: The blush of cherries when a lawn's cast over.


s: _Mon._ Bad are the times. _Sil._ And worse than they are we.


s: _Mon._ Troth, bad are both; worse fruit and ill the tree:


s: The feast of shepherds fail. _Sil._ None crowns the cup


s: And he who us'd to lead the country-round,


s: Youthful Mirtillo, here he comes grief-drown'd.


s: _Ambo._ Let's cheer him up. _Sil._ Behold him weeping-ripe.


s: _Mir._ Ah! Amaryllis, farewell mirth and pipe;


s: Since thou art gone, no more I mean to play


s: To these smooth lawns my mirthful roundelay.


s: _Ambo._ Poor pitied youth! _Mir._ And here the breath of kine


s: And sheep grew more sweet by that breath of thine.


s: This flock of wool and this rich lock of hair,


s: This ball of cowslips, these she gave me here.


s: _Sil._ Words sweet as love itself. Montano, hark!


s: _Mir._ This way she came, and this way too she went;


s: How each thing smells divinely redolent!


s: Like to a field of beans when newly blown,


s: _Mir._ In dewy mornings when she came this way


s: Sweet bents would bow to give my love the day;


s: And when at night she folded had her sheep,


s: Daisies would shut, and, closing, sigh and weep.


s: Besides (ay me!) since she went hence to dwell,


s: The voices' daughter ne'er spake syllable.


s: But she is gone. _Sil._ Mirtillo, tell us whither.


s: _Mir._ Where she and I shall never meet together.


s: _Mon._ Forfend it Pan, and, Pales, do thou please


s: To give an end. _Mir._ To what? _Sil._ Such griefs as these.


s: _Mir._ Never, O never! Still I may endure


s: _Mon._ Love for thy sake will bring her to these hills


s: And dales again. _Mir._ No, I will languish still;


s: And all the while my part shall be to weep,


s: And with my sighs, call home my bleating sheep:


s: I'll carve thy name, and in that name kiss thee.


s: _Mon._ Set with the sun thy woes. _Sil._ The day grows old,


s: And time it is our full-fed flocks to fold.


s: _Chor._ The shades grow great, but greater grows our sorrow;


s: Empires of kings are now, and ever were,


s: 'Tis fit they make no one with them too great.


s: A strawberry shows half-drown'd in cream?


s: Which done, and thence remov'd the light,


s: We'll wish both them and thee good-night.


s: _Kings, though they're hated, will be fear'd_.


s: Beat with their num'rous feet, which, by


s: The four-leaved grass or moss like silk.


s: Which 'cense this arch; and here and there


s: Squirrels' and children's teeth late shed


s: The nails fallen off by whitflaws: art's


s: With eyes of peacocks' trains and trout-


s: The glow-worm's eyes; the shining scales


s: Of silv'ry fish; wheat straws, the snail's


s: And, all behung with these, pure pearls,


s: The gnat's watchword the elves are gone.


s: _Carries hay in's horn_ (fœnum habet in cornu), is dangerous.


s: _Winds his errors up_, brings his wanderings to an end.


s: I've paid thee what I promis'd; that's not all;


s: Besides I give thee here a verse that shall


s: (When hence thy circummortal part is gone),


s: Arch-like, hold up thy name's inscription.


s: Brave men can't die, whose candid actions are


s: Whose vellum and whose volume is the sky,


s: Besides us two, i' th' temple here's not one


s: And say short prayers; and when we have done so,


s: Then we shall see, how in a little space


s: Saints will come in to fill each pew and place.


s: Of patience wants. _Grief breaks the stoutest heart._


s: To print our poems, the propulsive cause


s: Is fame--the breath of popular applause.


s: Who, for some sweetheart's sake, did prove


s: That died for love, and their complaints:


s: (Here honour'd still with frankincense);


s: _Phyllis_, the Thracian princess who hanged herself for love of


s: Of all those three brave brothers fall'n i' th' war


s: (Not without glory), noble sir, you are,


s: Despite of all concussions, left the stem


s: To shoot forth generations like to them.


s: Which may be done, if, sir, you can beget


s: Men in their substance, not in counterfeit,


s: Such essences as those three brothers; known


s: Of whom, from fame's white trumpet, this I'll tell,


s: Never since first Bellona us'd a shield,


s: _Such three brave brothers fell in Mars his field_.


s: These were those three Horatii Rome did boast,


s: Rome's were these three Horatii we have lost.


s: One Cœur-de-Lion had that age long since;


s: This, three; which three, you make up four, brave prince.


s: Let's live in haste; use pleasures while we may;


s: Could life return, 'twould never lose a day.


s: Come, leave this loathed country life, and then


s: Those mites of time, which yet remain unspent,


s: Waste thou in that most civil government.


s: Get their comportment and the gliding tongue


s: Of those mild men thou art to live among;


s: Then, being seated in that smoother sphere,


s: And to the farm-house ne'er return at all:


s: Though granges do not love thee, cities shall.


s: You are a lord, an earl, nay more, a man


s: Who writes sweet numbers well as any can;


s: If so, why then are not these verses hurled,


s: Like Sybil's leaves, throughout the ample world?


s: Then public praise does run upon the stone,


s: For a most rich, a rare, a precious one.


s: That we may praise them, or themselves prize you.


s: _Virtue concealed_, with Horace you'll confess,


s: _Differs not much from drowsy slothfulness_.


s: Thou sent'st to me a true love-knot, but I


s: Thy love had one knot, mine a triple tie.


s: _Jimmal_ or _gimmal_, double or triple ring.


s: Though thou be'st young, kind, soft, and fair


s: Thou set their hearts, let chaste desire


s: And think, as thou do'st walk the street,


s: Fashion'd like thee, which, though 't have ears


s: For, that once lost, thou't fall to one,


s: Though thou art young, thou canst say no,


s: _Medullina_, a Roman virgin who endured a like fate.


s: Next to which two, among the city powers


s: And thrones, thyself one of those senators;


s: But for true service, worthy of that gown,


s: The golden chain, too, and the civic crown.


s: _Conscripts_, "patres conscripti," aldermen.


s: Man knows where first he ships himself, but he


s: Never can tell where shall his landing be.


s: Nothing comes free-cost here; Jove will not let


s: His gifts go from him, if not bought with sweat.


s: Their silv'ry spheres, there's none may doubt


s: Then, may your plants be prest with fruit,


s: Last, may your harrows, shears, and ploughs,


s: Your stacks, your stocks, your sweetest mows,


s: With noise, the servants' eyes from sleep.


s: Two youths she's known thrice two, and twice three years;


s: Nor will; for why, Pudica this may know,


s: _Trees never bear unless they first do blow_.


s: These springs were maidens once that lov'd,


s: Turn'd to these springs which we see here;


s: When of the banks their leave they take,


s: My wooing's ended: now my wedding's near


s: When gloves are giving, gilded be you there.


s: That scar's no schism, but the sign of grace.


s: Stand with thy graces forth, brave man, and rise


s: High with thine own auspicious destinies:


s: Nor leave the search, and proof, till thou canst find


s: These, or those ends, to which thou wast design'd.


s: Have made thee prosperous in thy ways thus far:


s: Nor will they leave thee till they both have shown


s: Thee to the world a prime and public one.


s: Then, when thou see'st thine age all turn'd to gold,


s: Remember what thy Herrick thee foretold,


s: When at the holy threshold of thine house


s: _He boded good luck to thy self and spouse_.


s: Lastly, be mindful, when thou art grown great,


s: _That towers high rear'd dread most the lightning's threat:


s: The cleaving bolt of Jove the thunderer_.


s: How can I choose but love and follow her


s: Whose shadow smells like milder pomander?


s: How can I choose but kiss her, whence does come


s: The storax, spikenard, myrrh, and laudanum?


s: Great men by small means oft are overthrown;


s: _He's lord of thy life who contemns his own_.


s: All things are open to these two events,


s: _He rents his crown that fears the people's hate_.


s: I prithee speak. _Lyc._ I will. _End._ Say on.


s: _Lyc._  In this regard: that thou do'st play


s: Thou leav'st our hills, our dales, our bowers,


s: _End._  But I the courtly state would see.


s: And, my most lucky swain, when I shall live to see


s: Endymion's moon to fill up full, remember me:


s: Meantime, let Lycidas have leave to pipe to thee.


s: That love last long, let it thy first care be


s: To find a wife that is most fit for thee.


s: _Love in extremes can never long endure_.


s: Of such rare saintships, who did here consume


s: Their lives in sweets, and left in death perfume,


s: Come, thou brave man! And bring with thee a stone


s: High are these statues here, besides no less


s: Strong than the heavens for everlastingness:


s: Where build aloft; and, being fix'd by these,


s: Where both seem'd proud: the fly to have


s: Fill me my wine in crystal; thus, and thus


s: Unmix'd. I love to have it smirk and shine;


s: _'Tis sin I know, 'tis sin to throttle wine_.


s: What madman's he, that when it sparkles so,


s: Will cool his flames or quench his fires with snow?


s: Then smil'd, and sweetly chid her speed;


s: If I dare write to you, my lord, who are


s: And, sitting, see the wiles, ways, walks of wit,


s: What need I care, though some dislike me should,


s: If Dorset say what Herrick writes is good?


s: We know y'are learn'd i' th' Muses, and no less


s: In our state-sanctions, deep or bottomless.


s: Whose smile can make a poet, and your glance


s: And no one mischief greater than your frown


s: To null his numbers, and to blast his crown.


s: His fame's long life who strives to set up yours._


s: Thou'rt hence removing (like a shepherd's tent),


s: And walk thou must the way that others went:


s: Fall thou must first, then rise to life with these,


s: Mark'd in thy book for faithful witnesses.


s: Next is your lot, fair, to be number'd one,


s: Late you come in; but you a saint shall be,


s: First, for your shape, the curious cannot show


s: And 'gainst your chaste behaviour there's no plea,


s: Thus fair and clean you are, although there be


s: _A mighty strife 'twixt form and chastity_.


s: Fair and foul days trip cross and pile; the fair


s: Far less in number than our foul days are.


s: _Where fortune bears no sway o'er things,


s: One more by thee, love, and desert have sent,


s: _The new successor drives away old love_.


s: Though free she be, there's something yet


s: Shall bless thy bed and bless thy board.


s: Their milk thy drink; and thou shalt eat


s: Where thou shalt sit, and red-breast by,


s: And shame-fac'd plum, all simp'ring there.


s: Where kissing that, I'll twice kiss thee.


s: Gloves, garters, stockings, shoes, and strings


s: These, nay, and more, thine own shall be


s: _Wakes_, village feasts on the dedication day of the church.


s: When I consider, dearest, thou dost stay


s: But here a-while, to languish and decay,


s: Like to these garden-glories, which here be


s: With grief of heart, methinks, I thus do cry:


s: Would thou hadst ne'er been born, or might'st not die.


s: Rare are thy cheeks, Susanna, which do show


s: Ripe cherries smiling, while that others blow.


s: Thou art the man, the only man best known,


s: From whom we'll reckon. Wit came in but since


s: The calculation of thy birth, brave Mince.


s: None shall be guiltless, be he ne'er so good.


s: As thou deserv'st, be proud; then gladly let


s: _Owl_, the bird sacred to Athene or Minerva.


s: Than to sow discord 'mongst the enemies.


s: Preposterous is that government, and rude,


s: Give way, and be ye ravish'd by the sun,


s: And hang the head whenas the act is done,


s: Spread as he spreads, wax less as he does wane;


s: And as he shuts, close up to maids again.


s: Thou know'st, my Julia, that it is thy turn


s: This morning's incense to prepare and burn.


s: With the white vestures, all attending thee.


s: This day the queen-priest thou art made, t' appease


s: One chief transgression is, among the rest,


s: Because with flowers her temple was not dressed;


s: The next, because her altars did not shine


s: With daily fires; the last, neglect of wine;


s: For which her wrath is gone forth to consume


s: Us all, unless preserved by thy perfume.


s: Take then thy censer, put in fire, and thus,


s: For our neglect Love did our death decree;


s: That we escape. _Redemption comes by thee_.


s: Eaten I have; and though I had good cheer,


s: I did not sup, because no friends were there.


s: Where mirth and friends are absent when we dine


s: Or sup, there wants the incense and the wine.


s: All things o'er-ruled are here by chance:


s: Ursley, she thinks those velvet patches grace


s: But he will say, whoe'er those circlets seeth,


s: They be but signs of Ursley's hollow teeth.


s: Of lyric wine, both swell'd and crown'd,


s: Come then, brave knight, and see the cell


s: Thee, sprightly Soame, one of my righteous tribe;


s: A stock of saints, where ev'ry one doth wear


s: Brave kinsman, mark'd out with the whiter stone


s: Which seals thy glory, since I do prefer


s: Our mortal parts may wrapp'd in sear-cloths lie:


s: _Great spirits never with their bodies die_.


s: Out of the world he must, who once comes in.


s: _No man exempted is from death, or sin._


s: 'Tis worse than barbarous cruelty to show


s: _Prew_, _i.e._, his servant, Prudence Baldwin.


s: He who commends the vanquished, speaks the power


s: Some parts may perish, die thou canst not all:


s: The most of thee shall 'scape the funeral.


s: Wash your pails, and cleanse your dairies;


s: The first foundation of that zeal should be


s: Nor courts[t] thou her because she's well attended


s: With wealth, but for those ends she was intended:


s: Which were,--and still her offices are known,--


s: To shore the feeble up against the strong,


s: To shield the stranger and the poor from wrong.


s: This was the founder's grave and good intent:


s: To free the orphan from that wolf-like man,


s: To dry the widow's tears, and stop her swoons,


s: By pouring balm and oil into her wounds.


s: This was the old way; and 'tis yet thy course


s: To keep those pious principles in force.


s: Modest I will be; but one word I'll say,


s: Sooner the inside of thy hand shall grow


s: Hisped and hairy, ere thy palm shall know


s: To fetter Justice, when she might be free.


s: _Eggs I'll not shave_; but yet, brave man, if I


s: Was destin'd forth to golden sovereignty,


s: A prince I'd be, that I might thee prefer


s: _Hisped_ (_hispidus_), rough with hairs.


s: _Forked fee_, a fee from both sides in a case; cp. Ben Jonson's


s: Man is a watch, wound up at first, but never


s: Wound up again: once down, he's down for ever.


s: The watch once down, all motions then do cease;


s: And man's pulse stop'd, all passions sleep in peace.


s: As in our clothes, so likewise he who looks,


s: Shall find much farcing buckram in our books.


s: Fresh blossoms from her cheeks did fall.


s: One of the five straight branches of my hand


s: Is lop'd already, and the rest but stand


s: Expecting when to fall, which soon will be;


s: First dies the leaf, the bough next, next the tree.


s: Upon her cheeks she wept, and from those showers


s: Aetherias, lascive, cupis volitare per auras:


s: Harum pars tecta quatiebant cuspide thyrsos


s: Pars obscura cavis celebrabant orgia cistis,


s: Orgia, quæ frustra cupiunt audire profani.


s: _Small griefs find tongue._ Seneca, _Hippol._ 608:


s: They both did throw, and, having thrown,


s: Herrick's country incumbency was good for his verse; but if the


s: Deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum,


s: Μεσονυκτίοις ποθ' ὥραις


s: στρέφεθ' ἡνίκ' Ἄρκτος ἤδη


s: κατὰ χεῖρα τὴν Βοώτου,


s: μερόπων δὲ φῦλα πάντα


s: κέαται κόπῳ δαμέντα,


s: τότ' Ἔρως ἐπισταθείς μευ


s: θυρέων ἔκοπτ' ὀχῆας.


s: τίς, ἔφην, θύρας ἀράσσει;


s: κατά μευ σχίζεις ὀνείρους.


s: ὁ δ' Ἔρως, ἄνοιγε, φησίν·


s: βρέφος εἰμί, μὴ φόβησαι·


s: βρέχομαι δὲ κἀσέληνον


s: κατὰ νύκτα πεπλάνημαι.


s: ἐλέησα ταῦτ' ἀκούσας,


s: ἀνὰ δ' εὐθὺ λύχνον ἅψας


s: ἀνέῳξα, καὶ βρέφος μέν


s: ἐσορῶ φἐροντα τόξον


s: πτέρυγάς τε καὶ φαρέτρην.


s: παρὰ δ' ἱστίην καθῖσα,


s: παλάμαις τε χεῖρας αὐτοῦ


s: ἀνέθαλπον, ἐκ δὲ χαίτης


s: ἀπέθλιβον ὑγρὸν ὕδωρ.


s: ὁ δ', ἐπεὶ κρύος μεθῆκεν,


s: φέρε, φησί, πειράσωμεν


s: τόδε τόξον, εἴ τι μοι νῦν


s: βλάβεται βραχεῖσα νευρή.


s: τανύει δὲ καί με τύπτει


s: μέσον ἡπαρ, ὥσπερ οἶστρος·


s: ἀνὰ δ' ἅλλεται καχάζων,


s: ξένε δ', εἶπε, συγχάρηθι·


s: κέρας ἀβλαβὲς μὲν ἡμῖν,


s: σὺ δὲ καρδίην πονήσεις.


s: Some of his phrases, however, prove that he was occasionally more


s: Or fortune too; for what the first secures,


s: The two last fail, and by experience make


s: _Jove for our labour all things sells us._ Epicharm. apud Xenoph.


s: Ecce puer Veneris fert eversamque pharetram


s: Ὑγιαίνειν μὲν ἄριστον ἀνδρὶ θνατῷ·


s: δεύτερον δὲ φυὰν καλὸν γενέσθαι·


s: τὸ τρίτον δὲ πλουτεῖν αδόλως·


s: καὶ τὸ τέταρτον, ἡβᾶν μετὰ τῶν φίλων.


s: Or smile more inly, lest thy looks beguile,"


s: Thy gazing fires, lest at their sight the sin


s: Of nature; bid me now farewell, or smile


s: More ugly, lest thy tempting looks beguile".


s: Ἔρως ποτ' ἐν ῥόδοισιν


s: κοιμωμένην μέλιτταν


s: οὐκ εἶδεν, ἀλλ' ἐτοώθη


s: τὸν δάκτυλον· παταχθείς


s: τὰς χεῖρας ὠλόλυξεν·


s: δραμὼν δὲ καὶ πετασθεις


s: πρὸς τὴν καλὴν Κυθήρην


s: ὄλωλα, μᾶτερ, εἶπεν,


s: ὄλωλα κἀποθνήσκω·


s: ὄφις μ' ἔτυψε μικρός


s: πτερωτός, ὃν καλοῦσιν


s: μέλιτταν οἱ γεωργοί.


s: ἁ δ' εἶπεν· εἰ τὸ κέντρον


s: πονεῖ τὸ τᾶς μελίττας,


s: πόσον δοκεῖς πονοῦσιν,


s: Ἔρως, ὅσους σὺ βάλλεις;


s: Virginis os habitumque gerens et virginis arma,


s: Spartanae vel qualis equos Threissa fatigat


s: Harpalyce volucremque fuga praevertitur Eurum.


s: Namque umeris de more habilem suspenderat arcum


s: Venatrix, dederatque comam diffundere ventis,


s: Nuda genu nodoque sinus collecta fluentis.


s: _With a wand of myrtle_, etc. Cp. Anacreon, 7 :--


s: Ὑακινθίνῃ με ῥάβδῳ


s: χαλέπως, Ἔρως ῥαπίζων ... εἶπε·


s: Σὺ γὰρ οὐ δύνῃ φιλῆσαι.


s: _Two ripe shocks of corn._ Cp. Job v. 26.


s: Sed satis est orare Jovem quæ donat et aufert;


s: Det vitam, det opes; æquum mî animum ipse parabo:


s: where Herrick seems to have read _qui_ for _quæ_.


s: Ἄγριε παῖ καὶ στυγνέ, κ.τ.λ.


s: Λέγουσιν αἱ γυναῖκες,


s: Ἀνακρέων, γέρων εἶ·


s: λαβὼν ἔσοπτρον ἄθρει


s: κόμας μὲν οὐκέτ' οὔσας κ.τ.λ.


s: Femineum lucet sic per bombycina corpus,


s: "So _swift_ streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles


s: Meet after long divorcement _made by_ isles:


s: When love (the child of likeness) urgeth on


s: So meet stol'n kisses when the moonie _night_


s: Calls forth fierce lovers to their wisht _delight_:


s: So kings and queens meet, when desire convinces


s: All thoughts, _save those that tend to_ getting princes.


s: As I meet thee, Soul of my life and fame!


s: Eternal Lamp of Love, whose radiant flame


s: Out-_darts_ the heaven's Osiris; and thy _gems


s: Darken_ the splendour of his mid-day beams.


s: Welcome, O welcome, my illustrious spouse!


s: _Nay_, far more welcome than the happy soil


s: The sea-scourged merchant, after all his toil,


s: Salutes with tears of joy, when fires _display_


s: Where hast thou been so long from my embraces,


s: Poor pitied exile? Tell me, did thy Graces


s: _Choose rather for_ to bless _some_ other clime?


s: †*_Oh, then, not longer let my sweet defer


s: *Her buxom smiles from me, her worshipper!_


s: Why _have those amber_ looks, the which have been


s: Time-past so fragrant, sickly now _call'd_ in


s: Like a dull twilight? Tell me, *_hath my soul


s: *Prophaned in speech or done an act that is foul


s: *Against thy purer essence?_ _For that_ fault


s: I'll expiate with sulphur, hair and salt:


s: And with the crystal humour of the spring


s: Purge hence the guilt, and kill _the_ quarrelling.


s: _Wilt_ thou not smile, _nor_ tell me what's amiss?


s: Have I been cold to hug thee, too remiss,


s: Too temperate in embracing? Tell me, has desire


s: To-thee-ward died in the embers, and no fire


s: Left in _the_ raked-up _ashes_, as a mark


s: †_I must_ confess I left thee, and appeal


s: 'Twas done by me more to _increase_ my zeal,


s: Whose love grows more inflamed by being _froze_.


s: But to forsake thee, [†] could there _ever_ be


s: When _all the world may know that vines_ shall lack


s: Grapes, before Herrick _leave_ Canary sack.


s: *_Sack is my life, my leaven, salt to all


s: *My dearest dainties, nay, 'tis the principal


s: *Fire unto all my functions, gives me blood,


s: *An active spirit, full marrow, and, what is good,_


s: _Sack makes_ me _sprightful, airy_ to be borne,


s: _Sack makes_ me nimble, as the wingèd hours,


s: To dance and caper _o'er the tops_ of flowers,


s: And ride the sunbeams. Can there be a thing


s: Under the _cope of heaven_ that can bring


s: More _joy_ unto my _soul_, or can present


s: Help from the garlick, onion and the leek,


s: And pay no vows to thee, who _art the_ best


s: God, and far more _transcending_ than the rest?


s: Had Cassius, that weak water-drinker, known


s: Thee in _the_ Vine, or had but tasted one


s: Small chalice of thy _nectar, he, even_ he


s: Had not Jove's son, the _rash_ Tyrinthian swain


s: (Invited to the Thesbian banquet), ta'ne


s: Full goblets of thy [†] blood; his *_lustful_ sprite


s: _Had not_ kept heat for fifty maids that night.


s: †As Queens meet Queens, _so let sack come to_ me


s: When her high _visage_ did at once present


s: Swell up my _feeble sinews_, let my blood


s: †Fill each part full of fire,* _let all my good_


s: What thy commanding soul shall put _me_ to,


s: Which here I vow to serve, _never_ remove


s: Thy _blessing_ from me; but Apollo's curse


s: Blast _all mine_ actions; or, a thing that's worse,


s: When these circumstants _have the fate_ to see


s: The time _when_ I prevaricate from thee,


s: Call me the Son of Beer, and then confine


s: Me to the tap, the toast, the turf; let wine


s: Ne'er shine upon me; _let_ my _verses_ all


s: And last, _dear Spouse, when I thee_ disavow,


s: _May ne'er_ prophetic Daphne crown my brow."


s: Non dubia est Ithaci prudentia sed tamen optat


s: _Upon the tops of corn._ Virgil (_Æn._ vii. 808-9) uses the same


s: _Cassius, that weak water-drinker._ Not, as Dr. Grosart queries:


s: Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus, et nova pubes,


s: Quam longa una dies, ætas tam longa rosarum.


s: Somersetshire. John (son of Richard) Merrifield, the father, was


s: Στέφος πλέκων ποθ' εὗρον


s: ἐν τοῖς ῥόδοις Ἔρωτα·


s: καὶ τῶν πτερῶν κατασχών


s: ἐβάπτισ' εἰς τὸν οἶνον·


s: λαβὼν δ' ἔπινον αὐτόν,


s: καὶ νῦν ἔσω μελῶν μου


s: πτεροῖσι γαργαλίζει.


s: Si quis male fert indignae regna puellae,


s: Cui peccare licet, peccat minus: ipsa potestas


s: Οὐ γάμον ἀλλ' Ἀίδαν ἐπινυμφίδιον Κλεαρίστα


s: δέξατο παρθενίας ἅμματα λυομένα·


s: Ἄρτι γὰρ ἑσπέριοι νύμφας ἐπὶ δικλίσιν ἄχευν


s: λωτοί, καὶ θαλάμων ἐπλαταγεῦντο θύραι·


s: Ἠῷοι δ' ὀλολυγμὸν ἀνέκραγον, ἐκ δ' Ὑμέναιος


s: σιγαθεὶς γοερὸν φθέγμα μεθαρμόσατο,


s: Αἱ δ' αὐταὶ καὶ φέγγος ἐδᾳδούχουν παρὰ παστῷ


s: πεῦκαι καὶ φθιμένᾳ νέρθεν ἔφαινον ὁδόν.


s: Pulteney), two manuscript versions, substantially agreeing, are


s: "What's that we see from far? the spring of Day


s: Bloom'd from the East, or fair _enamell'd_ May


s: "'Tis she! 'tis she! or else some more Divine


s: Enlightened substance; mark how from the shrine


s: ing the chafte-air with fumes of Paradise.


s: "_Lead on fair paranymphs, the while her eyes,


s: Guilty of somewhat, ripe the strawberries


s: And cherries in her cheeks, there's cream


s: Help on her pace; and, though she lag, yet stir


s: "See where she comes; and smell how all the street


s: Breathes Vine-yards and Pomegranates: O how sweet,


s: Built up of odours, burneth in her breast.


s: And roll about, and in their motions burn


s: "_See how he waves his hand, and through his eyes


s: Shoots forth his jealous soul, for to surprise


s: Not now perceive the soul of C[lipseby] C[rew],


s: "_If so, glide through the ranks of Virgins_, pass


s: The Showers of Roses, lucky four-leaved grass:


s: Your praise, and bless you, sprinkling you with Wheat,


s: 'Blest is the Bride on whom the Sun doth shine';


s: "_Why then go forward, sweet Auspicious Bride,


s: And come upon your Bridegroom like a Tide


s: Encurled together, and no difference show


s: Into your selves like wool together spun.


s: "And, beauteous Bride, we do confess _you_ are wise


s: What now you seem be not the same indeed,


s: Part of the way be met, or sit stone still;


s: "_How long, soft Bride, shall your dear C[lipseby] make


s: Love to your welcome with the mystic cake,


s: For your approach, yet see their Altars pine?


s: "_Welcome at last unto the Threshold, Time


s: Throned in a saffron evening, seems to chime


s: Not more, mild Nymph, than they would have you do;


s: "And now y'are entered, see the coddled cook


s: Runs from his Torrid Zone to pry and look


s: _Us_ (_and God_ shield her) with her yea and nay,'


s: Sin in _his_ nap'ry not t' express his wit;


s: "_What though your laden Altar now has won


s: Not on the flesh of beasts, but on the seed


s: Your eyes are they, wherewith you draw the pure


s: "If _you must needs_ for ceremonie's sake


s: Bless a sack posset, Luck go with _you_, take


s: The night charm quickly; you have spells


s: And of such torture as no _God_ would grutch


s: _Aye_ and consume, and grow again to die,


s: Love the _damnation_ of _that_ place.                       [the


s: "To Bed, to Bed, _sweet_ Turtles now, and write


s: This the shortest day,† this the longest night


s: _Hearing_ the clock _go_ Ten, Eleven, Twelve, One:


s: And let the young men and the Bridemaids share


s: "By the Bride's eyes, and by the teeming life


s: Of her green hopes, we charge you that no strife,


s: _Further_ than _virtue lends_, gets place


s: Foul in these noble pastimes, lest you call


s: The _gentle_ Bridegroom and the _fragrous_ Bride,


s: Be't to your praise: 'No peace was broken'.


s: "Strip her of spring-time, tender whimpering maids,


s: Now Autumn's come, when all _those_ flowery aids


s: That Lady-smock, that pansy and that Rose


s: But for prick-madam, and for gentle-heart,


s: To light their Tapers at the Bride's bright eye;


s: "And to your more bewitching, see the proud


s: Plump bed bear up, and _rising_ like a cloud,


s: To meet it, when it woos and seems to fold


s: Yourselves into _that main, in the full_ flow


s: "_You see 'tis_ ready, and the maze of love


s: Looks for the treaders; everywhere is wove


s: High in your own conceipts, and _rather_ teach


s: Fight bravely for the flame of mankind, yield


s: For that would prove more Heresy than fault


s: 'Fore this or that hath got the victory._


s: "But since it must be done, despatch and sew


s: Up in a sheet your Bride, and what if so


s: _Yea_ tower her up, as Danae was,                            [ye


s: I tell _you_ no; but like a                                  [ye


s: Bold bolt of thunder he will make his way,


s: "All now is hushed in silence: Midwife-moon


s: Which you must grant; that's entrance with


s: Qui fingit sacros auro vel marmore vultus


s: Non facit ille deos: qui rogat, ille facit.


s: His choice bits; with _which_ in a trice


s: But all _the_ while his eye _was_ served


s: We _dare_ not think his ear was sterved:


s: But Beards of Mice, _an Ewt's_ stew'd thigh,


s: Mole's eyes; to these the slain stag's tears;


s: Ne'er ravished from the flattering Vine,


s: His blood _too high_. This done, commended


s: Grace by his Priest, the feast is ended."


s: Ampliat aetatis spatium sibi vir bonus: hoc est


s: "The council, which is thought most wise,


s: _As benjamin and storax when they meet._ Instances of the use of


s: "Benjamin" for gum benzoin will be found in the Dictionaries. Dr.


s: _With her lean lips_ shall kiss _them dry


s: (_Blind though as midnight in my eyes_),


s: _Sigh out_ the Times that _we_ have seen!


s: Which, neatly spiced, we'll first carouse


s: "Then the next health to friends of mine


s: And Nansagge_, sons of _clune[M] and_ pith,


s: Where Tullus and rich Ancus blend," etc.,


s: "What all the minutes, hours, weeks, months, and years


s: That hang in file upon these silver hairs


s: Herrick's poem is modelled on Mart. III. lxv.


s: Postquam est mortem aptus Plautus, comoedia luget;


s: Scena deserta, dein risus, ludu' jocusque,


s: Et numeri innumeri simul omnes collacrumarunt.


s: Et mihi dulce magis resoluto vivere collo.


s: Τοῖσι μὲν εὖ πράττουσιν ἅπας ὁ βίος βραχύς ἐστιν·


s: Τοῖς δὲ κακῶς, μία νὺξ ἄπλετός ἐστι χρόνος.


s: Chippings, the mice filched from the bin


s: Are trinkets fal'n from the kite's nest,


s: Bird snatched away from the crying child,


s: Blue pins, tags, fesenes, beads and things


s: Squirrels and children's teeth late shed_,


s: Brown _toadstones_, ferrets' eyes, _the gum


s: reflected"; "Candlemas" for "taper-light"; "moon-tane" for


s: Vive velut rapto: fugitivaque gaudia carpe:


s: "For that once lost thou _needst must fall


s: And we then have the transposed passage:--


s: And think _each man thou seest doth doom


s: Farther on we have the rather pretty variant:--


s: Waking findst [shall find] me sleeping there.


s: _'Gainst thee and_ force a passage in," etc.


s: Jonson's _Silent Woman_; "We see no ensigns of a wedding here, no


s: Upon the rock whose firm foundation laid


s: Shall never shrink; where, making thine abode,


s: Et latet et lucet Phaethontide condita gutta,


s: Dignum tantorum pretium tulit illa laborum.


s: describes a duel which he fought with Lord Bruce in Flanders.


s: Ἐπείδη βρότος ἐτέχθην,


s: Βιότου τρίβον ὁδεύειν,


s: Χρόνον ἔγνων ὃν παρῆλθον,


s: Ὅν δ' ἔχω δραμεῖν οὐκ οἶδα·


s: Μέθετέ με, φρονίιδες·


s: Μηδέν μοι καὶ ὑμῖν ἔστω.


s: Πρὶν ἐμὲ φθάσῃ τὸ τέρμα,


s: Παίξω, γελάσω, χορεύσω,


s: Μετὰ τοῦ καλοῦ Λυαίου.


s: Μή με φύγῃς, ὁρῶσα


s: Τὰν πολιὰν ἔθειραν· ...


s: Ὅρα κἀν στεφάνοισιν


s: Ὅπως πρέπει τὰ λευκὰ


s: Ῥόδοις κρίν' ἐμπλακέντα.


s: and Ben Jonson's _Entertainment at Althorpe_, etc.


s: "Prometheus, when first from heaven high


s: He brought down fire, ere then on earth not seen,


s: Gave it a kiss, as it like sweet had been.


s: The difference is--the Satyr's lips, my heart,


s: "And chose their priest, ere we can cast off sloth:"


s: "Though good things answer many good intents,"


s: Page 316. Note to 479. "  owers" corrected to _flowers_.


s: "Smell sweet, O ye flowers, in your native sweetness:"


s: In 405. TO HIS BOOK., _Chipperfeild_, has been retained as it is


s: unclear whether this is a misprint, or intentional.


s: In 101. BARLEY-BREAK; OR, LAST IN HELL. No corresponding note can


s: _Mercury_, god of eloquence and inventor of the lyre.


s: For those good days that ne'er will come away.


s: The patient saint, and send up vows for me.


s: Broke is my reed, hoarse is my singing, too;


s: Come then, and like two doves with silv'ry wings,


s: Let our souls fly to th' shades where ever springs


s: Sit smiling in the meads; where balm and oil,


s: Roses and cassia crown the untill'd soil.


s: Where no disease reigns, or infection comes


s: To blast the air, but ambergris and gums


s: This, that, and ev'ry thicket doth transpire,


s: More sweet than storax from the hallowed fire,


s: Of fragrant apples, blushing plums, or pears;


s: And all the shrubs, with sparkling spangles, shew


s: Like morning sunshine tinselling the dew.


s: Purfling the margents, while perpetual day


s: So double gilds the air, as that no night


s: Here, naked younglings, handsome striplings, run


s: Their goals for virgins' kisses; which when done,


s: Then unto dancing forth the learned round


s: Commixed they meet, with endless roses crown'd.


s: And here we'll sit on primrose-banks, and see


s: Love's chorus led by Cupid; and we'll be


s: Two loving followers, too, unto the grove


s: Where poets sing the stories of our love.


s: There thou shalt hear divine Musæus sing


s: Thee to the stand, where honour'd Homer reads


s: About whose throne the crowd of poets throng


s: To Linus, then to Pindar; and that done,


s: Quaffing his full-crown'd bowls of burning wine,


s: And in his raptures speaking lines of thine,


s: Besmear'd with grapes, welcome he shall thee thither,


s: Where both may rage, both drink and dance together.


s: With ivory wrists his laureate head, and steeps


s: His eye in dew of kisses while he sleeps;


s: Then soft Catullus, sharp-fang'd Martial,


s: And snaky Persius, these, and those, whom rage


s: (Dropt for the jars of heaven) fill'd t' engage


s: All times unto their frenzies,--thou shalt there


s: Among which glories, crowned with sacred bays


s: And flatt'ring ivy, two recite their plays--


s: Beaumont and Fletcher, swans to whom all ears


s: Listen, while they, like syrens in their spheres,


s: Sing their Evadne; and still more for thee


s: There yet remains to know than thou can'st see


s: And there I'll show thee that capacious room


s: In which thy father Jonson now is plac'd,


s: As in a globe of radiant fire, and grac'd


s: To be in that orb crown'd, that doth include


s: And he one chief; but hark, I hear the cock


s: (The bellman of the night) proclaim the clock


s: Of late struck one, and now I see the prime


s: Of day break from the pregnant east: 'tis time


s: _Their Evadne_, the sister of Melantius in their play "The Maid's


s: Life is the body's light, which once declining,


s: Those crimson clouds i' th' cheek and lips leave shining.


s: Those counter-changed tabbies in the air


s: (The sun once set) all of one colour are.


s: So, when Death comes, fresh tinctures lose their place,


s: And dismal darkness then doth smutch the face.


s: The sweets of love are mix'd with tears.


s: The saints'-bell calls, and, Julia, I must read


s: The proper lessons for the saints now dead:


s: To grace which service, Julia, there shall be


s: Dead when thou art, dear Julia, thou shalt have


s: A trentall sung by virgins o'er thy grave:


s: Meantime we two will sing the dirge of these,


s: Who dead, deserve our best remembrances.


s: Night hides our thefts, all faults then pardon'd be;


s: All are alike fair when no spots we see.


s: One and the self-same priz'd complexion:


s: Then please alike the pewter and the plate,


s: For so decreeing that thy clothes' expense


s: Keeps still within a just circumference;


s: Then for contriving so to load thy board


s: As that the messes ne'er o'erlade the lord;


s: Next for ordaining that thy words not swell


s: These I could praise thee for beyond another,


s: Wert thou a Winstfield only, not a brother.


s: Live by thy muse thou shalt, when others die


s: When monarchies trans-shifted are, and gone,


s: Nothing can be more loathsome than to see


s: Little you are, for woman's sake be proud;


s: For my sake next, though little, be not loud.


s: He who has suffered shipwreck fears to sail


s: Upon the seas, though with a gentle gale.


s: Be bold, my book, nor be abash'd, or fear


s: The cutting thumb-nail or the brow severe;


s: If but well read, or, ill read, understood.


s: Give Want her welcome if she comes; we find


s: Let's live with that small pittance that we have;


s: When laws full power have to sway, we see


s: The star-led birth of Charles the Prince.


s: _Long since_, _i.e._, in the "Pastoral upon the Birth of Prince


s: Dull to myself, and almost dead to these


s: Puts on the semblance here of sorrowing.


s: Sick is the land to the heart, and doth endure


s: More dangerous faintings by her desp'rate cure.


s: But if that golden age would come again,


s: And Charles here rule, as he before did reign;


s: If smooth and unperplexed the seasons were,


s: I should delight to have my curls half drown'd


s: In Tyrian dews, and head with roses crown'd;


s: And once more yet, ere I am laid out dead,


s: _This is the height of justice: that to do


s: Thyself which thou put'st other men unto.


s: As great men lead, the meaner follow on,


s: Or tell what strange tricks love can do,


s: That dress, this sprig, that leaf, this vine,


s: This done, we'll draw lots who shall buy


s: What short, sweet prayers shall be said;


s: _Philomela_, daughter of Pandion, changed into a nightingale.


s: _Phyllis_, the S. Phyllis of a former lyric (To Groves).


s: Spring with the lark, most comely bride, and meet


s: Your eager bridegroom with auspicious feet.


s: The morn's far spent, and the immortal sun


s: Corals his cheek to see those rites not done.


s: Fie, lovely maid! indeed you are too slow,


s: When to the temple Love should run, not go.


s: Dispatch your dressing then, and quickly wed;


s: Then feast, and coy't a little, then to bed.


s: This day is Love's day, and this busy night


s: Is yours, in which you challenged are to fight


s: With such an arm'd, but such an easy foe,


s: As will, if you yield, lie down conquer'd too.


s: The field is pitch'd, but such must be your wars,


s: As that your kisses must outvie the stars.


s: Fall down together vanquished both, and lie


s: Drown'd in the blood of rubies there, not die.


s: Since ghost there's none to affright thee.


s: If well the dice run, let's applaud the cast:


s: _The happy fortune will not always last_.


s: What is a kiss? Why this, as some approve:


s: The sure, sweet cement, glue, and lime of love.


s: I make no haste to have my numbers read:


s: _Seldom comes glory till a man be dead_.


s: Wantons we are, and though our words be such,


s: Our lives do differ from our lines by much.


s: Reproach we may the living, not the dead:


s: Dearest of thousands, now the time draws near


s: That with my lines my life must full-stop here.


s: Cut off thy hairs, and let thy tears be shed


s: Then for effusions, let none wanting be,


s: As love shall help thee, when thou dost go hence


s: _Chorus Sacerdotum._ From the temple to your home


s: _Chorus Senum._ Go to your banquet then, but use delight,


s: Love is a thing most nice, and must be fed


s: _'Tis best to feed Love, but not overfill_;


s: Go then discreetly to the bed of pleasure,


s: And this remember, _virtue keeps the measure_.


s: _Chorus Virginum._ Lucky signs we have descri'd


s: _Chorus Pastorum._ Here we present a fleece


s: And, sweetling, mark you, what a web will come


s: Into your chests, drawn by your painful thumb.


s: _Chorus Matronarum._ Set you to your wheel, and wax


s: Yarn is an income, and the housewives' thread


s: The larder fills with meat, the bin with bread.


s: _Chorus Senum._ Let wealth come in by comely thrift


s: _The softest fire makes the sweetest malt:


s: Who grips too hard the dry and slippery sand


s: Holds none at all, or little in his hand._


s: _Chorus Virginum._ Goddess of pleasure, youth and peace,


s: _Chorus Juvenum._ Far hence be all speech that may anger move:


s: _Sweet words must nourish soft and gentle love_.


s: _Chorus Omnium._ Live in the love of doves, and having told


s: The raven's years, go hence more ripe than old.


s: One night i' th' year, my dearest beauties, come


s: And bring those due drink-offerings to my tomb.


s: When thence ye see my reverend ghost to rise,


s: And there to lick th' effused sacrifice:


s: Though paleness be the livery that I wear,


s: Trust me, I will not hurt ye, or once show


s: The least grim look, or cast a frown on you:


s: Nor shall the tapers when I'm there burn blue.


s: Cast on my girls a glance and loving eye,


s: Or fold mine arms and sigh, because I've lost


s: The world so soon, and in it you the most.


s: Than these, no fears more on your fancies fall,


s: Though then I smile and speak no words at all.


s: _Fold mine arms_, cp. "crossing his arms in this sad knot"


s: Which, though enchas'd with pearls, contain


s: Fled are the frosts, and now the fields appear


s: Thaw'd are the snows, and now the lusty spring


s: The palms put forth their gems, and every tree


s: The while the Daulian minstrel sweetly sings,


s: With warbling notes, her Terean sufferings.


s: To strip the trees and fields, to their distress,


s: And look how when a frantic storm doth tear


s: A stubborn oak, or holm, long growing there,


s: But lull'd to calmness, then succeeds a breeze


s: That scarcely stirs the nodding leaves of trees:


s: So when this war, which tempest-like doth spoil


s: Our salt, our corn, our honey, wine and oil,


s: The gentle dove may, when these turmoils cease,


s: Bring in her bill, once more, the branch of peace.


s: _Daulian minstrel_, the nightingale Philomela.


s: _Terean sufferings_, _i.e._, at the hands of Tereus.


s: Tears, though they're here below the sinner's brine,


s: Physicians fight not against men; but these


s: Combat for men by conquering the disease.


s: Sound teeth has Lucy, pure as pearl, and small,


s: With mellow lips, and luscious therewithal.


s: _Circum-crost_, marked round with a cross.


s: Where I have had whatever thing could be


s: Pleasant and precious to my muse and me.


s: Besides rare sweets, I had a book which none


s: And, in the midst, to grace it more, was set


s: But now 'tis closed; and being shut and seal'd,


s: Keep here still, Closet-Gods, 'fore whom I've set


s: Though long it be, years may repay the debt;


s: _None loseth that which he in time may get_.


s: Drink wine, and live here blitheful, while ye may:


s: _The morrow's life too late is; live to-day_.


s: No man comes late unto that place from whence


s: I'll sing no more, nor will I longer write


s: Of that sweet lady, or that gallant knight.


s: I'll sing no more of frosts, snows, dews and showers;


s: No more of groves, meads, springs and wreaths of flowers.


s: I'll write no more, nor will I tell or sing


s: I'll sing no more of death, or shall the grave


s: No more my dirges and my trentalls have.


s: To bring from thence the scorched clove;


s: But walk'st about thine own dear bounds,


s: For well thou know'st _'tis not th' extent


s: When now the cock (the ploughman's horn)


s: Which though well soil'd, yet thou dost know


s: There at the plough thou find'st thy team


s: Thou go'st, and as thy foot there treads,


s: And smell'st the breath of great-ey'd kine,


s: Here thou behold'st thy large sleek neat


s: These seen, thou go'st to view thy flocks


s: Of short sweet grass as backs with wool,


s: And leav'st them, as they feed and fill,


s: Thy May-poles, too, with garlands grac'd;


s: And trace the hare i' th' treacherous snow;


s: Thy lime-twigs, snares and pit-falls then


s: And younglings, with such sports as these,


s: Sweet sleep, that makes more short the night.


s: _Cockrood_, a run for snaring woodcocks.


s: Wrapt up in sear-cloth with thine ancestry;


s: When of thy ragg'd escutcheons shall be seen


s: So little left, as if they ne'er had been;


s: Thou shalt thy name have, and thy fame's best trust,


s: Grow for two ends, it matters not at all,


s: Crab faces gowns with sundry furs; 'tis known


s: He keeps the fox fur for to face his own.


s: Thy faithful fields to yield thee grain,


s: Then, while fates suffer, live thou free


s: To strut thy barns with sheafs of wheat.


s: Let's feast, and frolic, sing, and play,


s: _Kings ought to be more lov'd than fear'd_.


s: Or look'd I back unto the times hence flown


s: To praise those Muses and dislike our own--


s: Or did I walk those Pæan-gardens through,


s: To kick the flowers and scorn their odours too--


s: Where I have cause to burn perfumes to it;


s: In our high art, although we can't excel


s: Like thee, or dare the buskins to unloose


s: Of thy brave, bold, and sweet Maronian muse.


s: But since I'm call'd, rare Denham, to be gone,


s: Crown'd poets, yet live princes under thee;


s: The while their wreaths and purple robes do shine


s: Less by their own gems than those beams of thine.


s: _Pæan-gardens_, gardens sacred to Apollo.


s: Women, although they ne'er so goodly make it,


s: Their fashion is, but to say no, to take it.


s: _Love is maintain'd by wealth_; when all is spent,


s: Hast thou begun an act? ne'er then give o'er:


s: _No man despairs to do what's done before_.


s: Kings must not oft be seen by public eyes:


s: _State at a distance adds to dignities_.


s: Health is no other, as the learned hold,


s: But a just measure both of heat and cold.


s: Give way, give way! now, now my Charles shines here


s: A public light, in this immensive sphere;


s: Some stars were fix'd before, but these are dim


s: Draw in your feeble fires, while that he


s: Where, if such glory flashes from his name,


s: Which is his shade, who can abide his flame!


s: _Princes, and such like public lights as these,


s: For, if we gaze on these brave lamps too near,


s: Our eyes they'll blind, or if not blind, they'll blear._


s: Some hung the head, while some did bring,


s: Mine eyes, like clouds, were drizzling rain;


s: Though by well warding many blows we've pass'd,


s: _That stroke most fear'd is which is struck the last_.


s: Too much she gives to some, enough to none.


s: _Stool-ball_, a game of ball played by girls.


s: _Tansy_, a cake made of eggs, cream, and herbs.


s: Prat he writes satires, but herein's the fault,


s: In no one satire there's a mite of salt.


s: At post and pair, or slam, Tom Tuck would play


s: This Christmas, but his want wherewith says nay.


s: Who, railing, drives the lazar from his door,


s: Instead of alms, sets dogs upon the poor.


s: Those strong-hoof'd mules which we behold


s: Whom whitest fortune dandled has too much.


s: Need is no vice at all, though here it be


s: I press'd my Julia's lips, and in the kiss


s: Her soul and love were palpable in this.


s: By the weak'st means things mighty are o'erthrown.


s: _He's lord of thy life who contemns his own_.


s: Men are not born kings, but are men renown'd;


s: Chose first, confirm'd next, and at last are crown'd.


s: Knew'st thou one month would take thy life away,


s: Thou'dst weep; but laugh, should it not last a day.


s: Than a man's frequent fame spoke out with praise.


s: From the dull confines of the drooping West


s: To see the day spring from the pregnant East,


s: Ravish'd in spirit I come, nay, more, I fly


s: Thus, thus with hallowed foot I touch the ground,


s: With thousand blessings by thy fortune crown'd.


s: O place! O people! Manners! fram'd to please


s: All nations, customs, kindreds, languages!


s: London my home is: though by hard fate sent


s: Yet since call'd back; henceforward let me be,


s: For, rather than I'll to the West return,


s: I'll beg of thee first here to have mine urn.


s: Weak I am grown, and must in short time fall;


s: _Fantastic pannicles_, brain cells of the imagination.


s: _But of all packs, no pack like poverty_.


s: _Chor._ Why, then, begin, and let us hear


s: _Chor._ Much time is spent in prate; begin,


s: My love unto my neatherdess.      [_He sings_


s: _Chor._ A sugar'd note! and sound as sweet


s: _Chor._ Lay by a while your pipes, and rest,


s: That thou shalt swear my pipe does reign


s: Over thine oat as sovereign.      [_He sings_


s: They were mine own. _Lal._ In love combine.


s: _Chor._ And lay ye down your pipes together,


s: 'Tis not the walls or purple that defends


s: A prince from foes, but 'tis his fort of friends.


s: Nought but a kingdom's ill-affectedness;


s: Even so, those streets and houses do but show


s: Store of diseases where physicians flow.


s: Stream to the spring from whence it came.


s: _'Tis still observ'd that fame ne'er sings


s: Oft bend the bow, and thou with ease shalt do


s: What others can't with all their strength put to.


s: Command the roof, great Genius, and from thence


s: Into this house pour down thy influence,


s: That through each room a golden pipe may run


s: Fulfill the larders, and with strengthening bread


s: Next, like a bishop consecrate my ground,


s: That lucky fairies here may dance their round;


s: And after that, lay down some silver pence


s: The master's charge and care to recompense.


s: Charm then the chambers, make the beds for ease,


s: More than for peevish, pining sicknesses.


s: Fix the foundation fast, and let the roof


s: Grow old with time but yet keep weather-proof.


s: To tell how night draws hence, I've none,


s: None is, slight things do lightly please.


s: Then lutes and harps shall stroke the ear.


s: When all birds else do of their music fail,


s: Money's the still sweet-singing nightingale.


s: Her decent legs, clean, long, and small.


s: _Decent_, in the Latin sense, comely; _sincerity_, purity.


s: _Ph._ Charon! O gentle Charon! let me woo thee


s: _Ch._ What voice so sweet and charming do I hear?


s: Say what thou art. _Ph._ I prithee first draw near.


s: _Ch._ A sound I hear, but nothing yet can see;


s: Speak, where thou art. _Ph._ O Charon pity me!


s: _Ch._ What's that to me? I waft nor fish or fowls,


s: Nor beasts, fond thing, but only human souls.


s: _Ph._ Alas for me! _Ch._ Shame on thy witching note


s: That made me thus hoist sail and bring my boat:


s: But I'll return; what mischief brought thee hither?


s: _Ph._ A deal of love and much, much grief together.


s: _Ch._ What's thy request? _Ph._ That since she's now beneath


s: Who fed my life, I'll follow her in death.


s: _Ch._ And is that all? I'm gone. _Ph._ By love I pray thee.


s: _Ch._ Talk not of love; all pray, but few souls pay me.


s: _Ph._ I'll give thee vows and tears. _Ch._ Can tears pay scores


s: For mending sails, for patching boat and oars?


s: _Ph._ I'll beg a penny, or I'll sing so long


s: Till thou shalt say I've paid thee with a song.


s: _Ch._ Why then begin; and all the while we make


s: Our slothful passage o'er the Stygian Lake,


s: Thou and I'll sing to make these dull shades merry,


s: Who else with tears would doubtless drown my ferry.


s: _She's now beneath_, her mother Zeuxippe?


s: A little saint best fits a little shrine,


s: As my small cruse best fits my little wine.


s: As my small jar best fits my little oil.


s: As my small stuff best fits my little shed.


s: A little hearth best fits a little fire,


s: As my small bell best fits my little spire.


s: A little stream best fits a little boat,


s: As my small pipe best fits my little note.


s: As sweetly, lady, give me leave to tell ye,


s: This little pipkin fits this little jelly.


s: Thrice happy roses, so much grac'd to have


s: Die when ye will, your sepulchre is known,


s: Your grave her bosom is, the lawn the stone.


s: A gyges' ring they bear about them still,


s: To be, and not seen when and where they will.


s: They tread on clouds, and though they sometimes fall,


s: They fall like dew, but make no noise at all.


s: And air-like, leave no pression to be seen


s: Where'er they met or parting place has been.


s: _Gyges' ring_, which made the wearer invisible.


s: She smiling blush'd, and blushing smil'd,


s: _Continent_, anything that holds, here the bosom of her dress.


s: White as Zenobia's teeth, the which the girls


s: Of Rome did wear for their most precious pearls.


s: _Zenobia_, Queen of Palmyra, conquered by the Romans, A.D. 273.


s: She wept upon her cheeks, and weeping so,


s: She seem'd to quench love's fire that there did glow.


s: She by the river sat, and sitting there,


s: Break off delay, since we but read of one


s: _Cunctation_, delay: the word is suggested by the name of Fabius


s: Cunctator, the conqueror of the Carthaginians, addressed by Virg.


s: Stand forth, brave man, since fate has made thee here


s: Who for a long, sad time has weeping stood


s: But fears not now to see her safety sold,


s: As other towns and cities were, for gold


s: By those ignoble births which shame the stem


s: Whose restless ghosts shall hear their children sing,


s: "Our sires betrayed their country and their king".


s: True, if this city seven times rounded was


s: With rock, and seven times circumflank'd with brass,


s: Yet if thou wert not, Berkley, loyal proof,


s: The senators, down tumbling with the roof,


s: Would into prais'd, but pitied, ruins fall,


s: Leaving no show where stood the capitol.


s: But thou art just and itchless, and dost please


s: Thy Genius with two strengthening buttresses,


s: Faith and affection, which will never slip


s: _Itchless_, _i.e._, with no itch for bribes.


s: Hast thou attempted greatness? then go on:


s: Discreet and prudent we that discord call


s: That either profits, or not hurts at all.


s: Consult ere thou begin'st; that done, go on


s: consulueris, mature facto opus est," Cat. i.


s: _None sees the fardell of his faults behind_.


s: Man's fortunes are according to his pains.


s: What fate decreed, time now has made us see,


s: That preternatural fever, which did threat


s: Death to our country, now hath lost his heat,


s: And, calms succeeding, we perceive no more


s: Th' unequal pulse to beat, as heretofore.


s: Something there yet remains for thee to do;


s: Then reach those ends that thou wast destin'd to.


s: Go on with Sylla's fortune; let thy fate


s: Make thee like him, this, that way fortunate:


s: Thy war (discreetly made) with white success.


s: Meantime thy prophets watch by watch shall pray,


s: While young Charles fights, and fighting wins the day:


s: That done, our smooth-paced poems all shall be


s: Then maids shall strew thee, and thy curls from them


s: _Sylla's fortune_, in allusion to Sylla's surname of _Felix_.


s: Princes and fav'rites are most dear, while they


s: But the relation then of both grows poor,


s: When these can ask, and kings can give no more.


s: Such as the prince is, will his people be.


s: _Marian_, Maid Marian of the Robin Hood ballads.


s: Nor art thou less esteem'd that I have plac'd,


s: Amongst mine honour'd, thee almost the last:


s: As these have done to thee who art the one,


s: In whom the spirit of the gods does dwell,


s: Firing thy soul, by which thou dost foretell


s: When this or that vast dynasty must fall


s: When this or that horn shall be broke, and when


s: Others shall spring up in their place again;


s: When times and seasons and all years must lie


s: When the black doomsday books, as yet unseal'd,


s: And when the trumpet which thou late hast found


s: Shall call to judgment. Tell us when the sound


s: Of this or that great April day shall be,


s: And next the Gospel we will credit thee.


s: Meantime like earth-worms we will crawl below,


s: And wonder at those things that thou dost know.


s: _The trumpet which thou late hast found_, _i.e._, Alabaster's


s: _April day_, day of weeping, or perhaps rather of "opening" or


s: This stone for name's sake melts to tears.


s: Of both our fortunes good and bad we find


s: Time is the bound of things; where'er we go


s: _Fate gives a meeting, Death's the end of woe_.


s: For I'm grown old and, with mine age, grown poor.


s: _Love must be fed by wealth_: this blood of mine


s: Must needs wax cold, if wanting bread and wine.


s: Must be the first man up, and last in bed.


s: With the sun rising he must walk his grounds;


s: See this, view that, and all the other bounds:


s: Shut every gate; mend every hedge that's torn,


s: Either with old, or plant therein new thorn;


s: Tread o'er his glebe, but with such care, that where


s: He sets his foot, he leaves rich compost there.


s: Puss and her 'prentice both at drawgloves play;


s: That done, they kiss, and so draw out the day:


s: At night they draw to supper; then well fed,


s: They draw their clothes off both, so draw to bed.


s: _Drawgloves_, the game of talking on the fingers.


s: This not the least is, which belongs to kings:


s: If wars go well, each for a part lays claim;


s: If ill, then kings, not soldiers, bear the blame.


s: Kings must not only cherish up the good,


s: Wrongs, if neglected, vanish in short time,


s: But heard with anger, we confess the crime.


s: _Kings ought to shear, not skin their sheep_.


s: Let's call for Hymen, if agreed thou art;


s: Speak thou the word, they'll kindle by-and-bye.


s: And Genius waits to have us both to bed.


s: With maunds of roses for to strew the way:


s: Besides, the most religious prophet stands


s: Ready to join, as well our hearts as hands.


s: Juno yet smiles; but if she chance to chide,


s: Ill luck 'twill bode to th' bridegroom and the bride.


s: Come, I'll instruct thee. Know, the vestal fire


s: Is not by marriage quench'd, but flames the higher.


s: To sup with thee thou did'st me home invite;


s: Should meet and tire on such lautitious meat,


s: And richer wine would'st give to me, thy guest,


s: Than Roman Sylla pour'd out at his feast.


s: I came, 'tis true, and looked for fowl of price,


s: Of maiden's-blush, commix'd with jessamine.


s: Clean was the hearth, the mantel larded jet;


s: Which wanting Lar, and smoke, hung weeping wet;


s: At last, i' th' noon of winter, did appear


s: A ragg'd-soust-neat's-foot with sick vinegar:


s: At which amaz'd, and pondering on the food,


s: How cold it was, and how it chill'd my blood;


s: I curs'd the master, and I damn'd the souce,


s: And swore I'd got the ague of the house.


s: Well, when to eat thou dost me next desire,


s: I'll bring a fever, since thou keep'st no fire.


s: Come guard this night the Christmas-pie,


s: For more or less fruits they will bring,


s: 'Twas rich before, but since your name is down


s: Blaze by this sphere for ever: or this do,


s: Verses out-live the bravest deeds of men?


s: That happiness does still the longest thrive,


s: Where joys and griefs have turns alternative.


s: We pray 'gainst war, yet we enjoy no peace;


s: _Desire deferr'd is that it may increase_.


s: Give me the food that satisfies a guest:


s: His passage through that dreadful shade,


s: Nothing I have, my Crofts, to send to thee


s: For since I've travell'd all this realm throughout


s: To circumspangle this my spacious sphere,


s: And having fix'd thee in mine orb a star,


s: Amongst the rest, both bright and singular,


s: The present age will tell the world thou art,


s: If not to th' whole, yet satisfi'd in part.


s: Here to be paid, I'll pay't i' th' world to come.


s: And for the bride-cake there'll be spice.


s: Man may want land to live in; but for all


s: 'Tis the Chirurgeon's praise, and height of art,


s: Not to cut off, but cure the vicious part.


s: Who after his transgression doth repent,


s: _Grief, if't be great, 'tis short; if long, 'tis light_.


s: _Kathern pears_, _i.e._, Catharine pears.


s: The mean the music makes in everything._


s: Where war with rashness is attempted, there


s: The soldiers leave the field with equal fear._


s: Seest thou that cloud that rides in state,


s: This blessing I will leave thee, ere I go:


s: Prosper thy basket and therein thy dough.


s: Feed on the paste of filberts, or else knead


s: And bake the flour of amber for thy bread.


s: Balm may thy trees drop, and thy springs run oil,


s: These I but wish for; but thyself shall see


s: The blessing fall in mellow times on thee.


s: Does fortune rend thee? Bear with thy hard fate:


s: _Virtuous instructions ne'er are delicate_.


s: Say, does she frown? still countermand her threats:


s: _Virtue best loves those children that she beats_.


s: This day is yours, great Charles! and in this war


s: Your fate, and ours, alike victorious are.


s: In her white stole now Victory does rest


s: _Ensphered with palm on your triumphant crest_.


s: Fortune is now your captive; other Kings


s: _Hold but her hands; you hold both hands and wings_.


s: If blush thou must, then blush thou through


s: 'Twas Cæsar's saying: _Kings no less conquerors are


s: By their wise counsel, than they be by war._


s: And leave their servants but the smoke and sweat:


s: So many kings, and primates too there are,


s: Who claim the fat and fleshy for their share


s: And leave their subjects but the starved ware.


s: In desp'rate cases all, or most, are known


s: A thousand thorns and briars and stings,


s: Yet ne'er can see that salve which brings


s: All has been plundered from me but my wit:


s: Milk still your fountains and your springs: for why?


s: The more th'are drawn, the less they will grow dry.


s: Ay me! I love; give him your hand to kiss


s: Your part's to grant; my scene must be to move.


s: Dear, can you like, and liking love your poet?


s: If you say "Aye," blush-guiltiness will show it.


s: Mine eyes must woo you, though I sigh the while:


s: _True love is tongueless as a crocodile_.


s: And you may find in love these different parts--


s: _Wooers have tongues of ice, but burning hearts_.


s: Love is a circle, and an endless sphere;


s: From good to good, revolving here and there.


s: Of lively colours flowing from the face.


s: When words we want, Love teacheth to indite;


s: And what we blush to speak, she bids us write.


s: The first commerce is, and the next command.


s: _'Tis sweet to think on what was hard t' endure_.


s: Touch but thy lyre, my Harry, and I hear


s: From thee some raptures of the rare Gotiere;


s: Then if thy voice commingle with the string,


s: Or curious Wilson: tell me, canst thou be


s: Less than Apollo, that usurp'st such three?


s: Three, unto whom the whole world give applause;


s: Yet their three praises praise but one; that's Lawes.


s: appointed Master of the King's Music in 1626.


s: Thou hast made many houses for the dead;


s: I' th' churchyard made one tenement for me.


s: Wisheth his body, not his soul, good speed.


s: _Male perfumes_, perfumes of the best kind.


s: Than the last part of night and first of day.


s: If that my fate has now fulfill'd my year,


s: And so soon stopt my longer living here;


s: What was't, ye gods, a dying man to save,


s: But while he met with his paternal grave!


s: Though while we living 'bout the world do roam,


s: We love to rest in peaceful urns at home,


s: Where we may snug, and close together lie


s: 'Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known:


s: _Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their own_.


s: Each grief we feel, that likewise is a kite


s: Sent forth by them, our flesh to eat, or bite.


s: Where some had hang'd themselves for love,


s: Night makes no difference 'twixt the priest and clerk;


s: The body is the soul's poor house or home,


s: Whose ribs the laths are, and whose flesh the loam.


s: Thou say'st thou lov'st me, Sappho; I say no;


s: But would to Love I could believe 'twas so!


s: That thou be righteous found, and I the liar.


s: But when the drought has dried the knot,


s: Stand by the magic of my powerful rhymes


s: 'Gainst all the indignation of the times.


s: Age shall not wrong thee; or one jot abate


s: While others perish, here's thy life decreed,


s: Thou mighty lord and master of the lyre,


s: My fingers so, the lyric-strings to move,


s: That I may play and sing a hymn to Love.


s: Love is a kind of war: hence those who fear!


s: Where love begins, there dead thy first desire:


s: _A spark neglected makes a mighty fire_.


s: Let not thy tombstone e'er be laid by me:


s: But let that instant when thou diest be known


s: One knell be rung for both; and let one grave


s: Down, and half drown'd me with the same:


s: The blooms that fell were white and red;


s: _Where most sweets are, there lies a snake:


s: But those have thorns and these have stings._


s: Thus times do shift; each thing his turn does hold:


s: _New things succeed, as former things grow old_.


s: To th' temple with the sober midwife go.


s: By those who serve the child-bed mysteries,


s: Burn first thine incense; next, whenas thou see'st


s: The candid stole thrown o'er the pious priest,


s: With reverend curtsies come, and to him bring


s: All rites well ended, with fair auspice come


s: (As to the breaking of a bride-cake) home,


s: _She who keeps chastely to her husband's side


s: Is not for one, but every night his bride;


s: And stealing still with love and fear to bed,


s: Brings him not one, but many a maidenhead._


s: But since thou'rt printed, thou dost call


s: Tears most prevail; with tears, too, thou may'st move


s: Rocks to relent, and coyest maids to love.


s: Words beget anger; anger brings forth blows;


s: Blows make of dearest friends immortal foes.


s: For which prevention, sociate, let there be


s: Far better 'twere for either to be mute,


s: Than for to murder friendship by dispute.


s: Truth is best found out by the time and eyes;


s: _Falsehood wins credit by uncertainties_.


s: We credit most our sight; one eye doth please


s: Our trust far more than ten ear-witnesses.


s: Want is a softer wax, that takes thereon


s: Should I not put on blacks, when each one here


s: Comes with his cypress and devotes a tear?


s: Should I not grieve, my Lawes, when every lute,


s: Viol, and voice is by thy loss struck mute?


s: Thy loss, brave man! whose numbers have been hurl'd,


s: And no less prais'd than spread throughout the world.


s: Some have thee call'd Amphion; some of us


s: Some this, some that, but all in this agree,


s: Music had both her birth and death with thee.


s: Out-did the meat, out-did the frolic wine.


s: Of such a wit the world should have no more.


s: Spend, harmless shade, thy nightly hours


s: Since we fresh strewings will bring hither,


s: Let what is graceless, discompos'd, and rude,


s: With sweetness, smoothness, softness, be endu'd.


s: Teach it to blush, to curtsy, lisp, and show


s: Demure, but yet full of temptation, too.


s: _Numbers ne'er tickle, or but lightly please,


s: Unless they have some wanton carriages._


s: This if ye do, each piece will here be good,


s: And graceful made by your neat sisterhood.


s: And in good faith I'd thought it strange


s: And starves with cold the self-same part.


s: But to the stout, and those that skilful are.


s: Till that the cook cries: Bring no more.


s: But, like full clouds, may they from thence


s: T' have boys, and girls too, as they will.


s: The lictors bundled up their rods; beside,


s: Knit them with knots with much ado unti'd,


s: That if, unknitting, men would yet repent,


s: They might escape the lash of punishment.


s: _Men are suspicious, prone to discontent:


s: Subjects still loathe the present government._


s: Lay by the good a while; a resting field


s: Will, after ease, a richer harvest yield;


s: Trees this year bear: next, they their wealth withhold:


s: _Continual reaping makes a land wax old_.


s: Revenge is pleasing to us, as our gain._


s: In all our high designments 'twill appear,


s: _The first event breeds confidence or fear_.


s: _Hard are the two first stairs unto a crown:


s: Which got, the third bids him a king come down._


s: Faith is a thing that's four-square; let it fall


s: This way or that, it not declines at all.


s: Praise they that will times past; I joy to see


s: Myself now live: _this age best pleaseth me_.


s: Though from without no foes at all we fear,


s: We shall be wounded by the clothes we wear.


s: _'Tis but a dog-like madness in bad kings,


s: For to delight in wounds and murderings:


s: As some plants prosper best by cuts and blows,


s: So kings by killing do increase their foes._


s: _Tears quickly dry, griefs will in time decay:


s: 'Tis but a fierce desire of hot and dry.


s: To hear the worst from men when they do well.


s: Conquer we shall, but we must first contend;


s: _'Tis not the fight that crowns us, but the end_.


s: Give house-room to the best; _'tis never known


s: Virtue and pleasure both to dwell in one_.


s: My kiss out-went the bounds of shamefastness:


s: None is discreet at all times; no, _not Jove


s: Himself, at one time, can be wise and love_.


s: Who paddling there, the sea soon frown'd,


s: Who, kissing, kill such saints as these?


s: Peaceful my night; my day devoid of strife:


s: And struggling there, I kiss'd thee too;


s: Though frankincense the deities require,


s: _We must not give all to the hallowed fire_.


s: Such be our gifts, and such be our expense,


s: As for ourselves to leave some frankincense.


s: A roll of parchment Clunn about him bears,


s: Charg'd with the arms of all his ancestors: