_ Is Herrick
translating?
Robert Herrick
When the Civil
War broke out he joined the king's army and was killed by a stray shot
during the siege of Chester, 1645. He set Herrick's _Gather ye rosebuds_
to music.
914. _Numbers ne'er tickle_, etc. Martial, I. xxxvi. :--
Lex haec carminibus data est jocosis,
Ne possint, nisi pruriant, juvare.
918. _M. Kellam. _ As yet unidentified. Dr. Grosart suggests that he may
have been one of Herrick's parishioners, and the name sounds as of the
west country.
920. _Cunctation in correction.
_ Is Herrick translating? According to a
relief at Rome the lictors' rods were bound together not only by a red
thong twisted from top to bottom, but by six straps as well.
922. _Continual reaping makes a land wax old. _ Ovid, _Ars Am. _ iii. 82:
Continua messe senescit ager.
923. _Revenge. _ Tacitus, _Hist. _ iv. 3: Tanto proclivius est injuriae
quam beneficio vicem exsolvere; quia gratia oneri, ultio in quaestu
habetur.
927. _Praise they that will times past. _ Ovid, _Ars Am. _ iii.
War broke out he joined the king's army and was killed by a stray shot
during the siege of Chester, 1645. He set Herrick's _Gather ye rosebuds_
to music.
914. _Numbers ne'er tickle_, etc. Martial, I. xxxvi. :--
Lex haec carminibus data est jocosis,
Ne possint, nisi pruriant, juvare.
918. _M. Kellam. _ As yet unidentified. Dr. Grosart suggests that he may
have been one of Herrick's parishioners, and the name sounds as of the
west country.
920. _Cunctation in correction.
_ Is Herrick translating? According to a
relief at Rome the lictors' rods were bound together not only by a red
thong twisted from top to bottom, but by six straps as well.
922. _Continual reaping makes a land wax old. _ Ovid, _Ars Am. _ iii. 82:
Continua messe senescit ager.
923. _Revenge. _ Tacitus, _Hist. _ iv. 3: Tanto proclivius est injuriae
quam beneficio vicem exsolvere; quia gratia oneri, ultio in quaestu
habetur.
927. _Praise they that will times past. _ Ovid, _Ars Am. _ iii.
