7-10:--
Sit mihi verna satur: sit non doctissima conjux:
Sit nox cum somno, sit sine lite dies, etc.
Sit mihi verna satur: sit non doctissima conjux:
Sit nox cum somno, sit sine lite dies, etc.
Robert Herrick
_The Bondman.
_ Cp.
Exodus xxi.
5, 6: "And if the servant shall
plainly say: I love my master, my wife, and my children: I will not go
out free: Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also
bring him to the door, or unto the doorpost; and his master shall bore
his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever".
936. _My kiss outwent the bonds of shamefastness. _ Cp. Sidney's
_Astrophel and Stella_, sonnet 82. For _not Jove himself_, etc. , cp. 10,
and note.
938. _His wish. _ From Martial, II. xc.
7-10:--
Sit mihi verna satur: sit non doctissima conjux:
Sit nox cum somno, sit sine lite dies, etc.
939. _Upon Julia washing herself in the river. _ Imitated from Martial,
IV. xxii. :--
Primos passa toros et adhuc placanda marito
Merserat in nitidos se Cleopatra lacus,
Dum fugit amplexus: sed prodidit unda latentem,
Lucebat, totis cum tegeretur aquis.
Condita sic puro numerantur lilia vitro,
Sic prohibet tenuis gemma latere rosas,
Insilui mersusque vadis luctantia carpsi
Basia: perspicuae plus vetuistis aquae.
940. _Though frankincense_, etc. Ovid, _de Medic. Fac. _ 83, 84:--
Quamvis thura deos irataque numina placent,
Non tamen accensis omnia danda focis.
947. _To his honoured and most ingenious friend, Mr. Charles Cotton. _
Dr.
plainly say: I love my master, my wife, and my children: I will not go
out free: Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also
bring him to the door, or unto the doorpost; and his master shall bore
his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever".
936. _My kiss outwent the bonds of shamefastness. _ Cp. Sidney's
_Astrophel and Stella_, sonnet 82. For _not Jove himself_, etc. , cp. 10,
and note.
938. _His wish. _ From Martial, II. xc.
7-10:--
Sit mihi verna satur: sit non doctissima conjux:
Sit nox cum somno, sit sine lite dies, etc.
939. _Upon Julia washing herself in the river. _ Imitated from Martial,
IV. xxii. :--
Primos passa toros et adhuc placanda marito
Merserat in nitidos se Cleopatra lacus,
Dum fugit amplexus: sed prodidit unda latentem,
Lucebat, totis cum tegeretur aquis.
Condita sic puro numerantur lilia vitro,
Sic prohibet tenuis gemma latere rosas,
Insilui mersusque vadis luctantia carpsi
Basia: perspicuae plus vetuistis aquae.
940. _Though frankincense_, etc. Ovid, _de Medic. Fac. _ 83, 84:--
Quamvis thura deos irataque numina placent,
Non tamen accensis omnia danda focis.
947. _To his honoured and most ingenious friend, Mr. Charles Cotton. _
Dr.
