_Mean things
overcome
mighty.
Robert Herrick
_ Mart.
XII.
x.
;
Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.
696. _Men mind no state in sickness. _ There is a general resemblance in
this poem to the latter part of Hor. III. _Od. _ i. , but I have an uneasy
sense that Herrick is translating.
697. _Adversity. _ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1650.
702.
_Mean things overcome mighty. _ Cp. 486 and Note.
706. _How roses came red. _ Cp. Burton, _Anat. Mel. _ III. ii. 3:
"Constantine (_Agricult. _ xi. 18) makes Cupid himself to be a great
dancer: by the same token that he was capering among the gods, he flung
down a bowl of nectar, which, distilling upon the white rose, ever since
made it red".
709. _Tears and Laughter. _ Bishop Jebb quotes a Latin couplet inscribed
on an old inn at Four Crosses, Staffordshire:--
Fleres si scires unum tua tempora mensem:
Rides, cum non sit forsitan una dies.
Fortuna multis dat nimis, satis nulli.
696. _Men mind no state in sickness. _ There is a general resemblance in
this poem to the latter part of Hor. III. _Od. _ i. , but I have an uneasy
sense that Herrick is translating.
697. _Adversity. _ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1650.
702.
_Mean things overcome mighty. _ Cp. 486 and Note.
706. _How roses came red. _ Cp. Burton, _Anat. Mel. _ III. ii. 3:
"Constantine (_Agricult. _ xi. 18) makes Cupid himself to be a great
dancer: by the same token that he was capering among the gods, he flung
down a bowl of nectar, which, distilling upon the white rose, ever since
made it red".
709. _Tears and Laughter. _ Bishop Jebb quotes a Latin couplet inscribed
on an old inn at Four Crosses, Staffordshire:--
Fleres si scires unum tua tempora mensem:
Rides, cum non sit forsitan una dies.
