The
important
lines are:--
Sed ne tempore non tuo disertam
Pulses ebria januam, videto.
Sed ne tempore non tuo disertam
Pulses ebria januam, videto.
Robert Herrick
Martial, I.
iv.
3, 4.
4. _While Brutus standeth by. _ "Brutus and Cato are commonplaces of
examples of severe virtue": Grosart. But Herrick is translating. This is
from Martial, XI. xvi. 9, 10:--
Erubuit posuitque meum Lucretia librum,
Sed coram Bruto; Brute, recede, leget.
8. _When he would have his verses read. _ The thought throughout this
poem is taken from Martial, X. xix. , beginning:--
Nec doctum satis et parum severum,
Sed non rusticulum nimis libellum
Facundo mea Plinio, Thalia,
I perfer:
where the address to Thalia perhaps explains Herrick's "do not _thou_
rehearse".
The important lines are:--
Sed ne tempore non tuo disertam
Pulses ebria januam, videto.
. . . . . . . . .
Seras tutior ibis ad lucernas.
Haec hora est tua, cum furit Lyaeus,
Cum regnat rosa, cum madent capilli:
Tunc me vel rigidi legant Catones.
_When laurel spirts i' th' fire. _ Burning bay leaves was a Christmas
observance. Herrick sings:--
"Of crackling laurel, which foresounds
A plenteous harvest to your grounds":
where compare Tibull. II.
4. _While Brutus standeth by. _ "Brutus and Cato are commonplaces of
examples of severe virtue": Grosart. But Herrick is translating. This is
from Martial, XI. xvi. 9, 10:--
Erubuit posuitque meum Lucretia librum,
Sed coram Bruto; Brute, recede, leget.
8. _When he would have his verses read. _ The thought throughout this
poem is taken from Martial, X. xix. , beginning:--
Nec doctum satis et parum severum,
Sed non rusticulum nimis libellum
Facundo mea Plinio, Thalia,
I perfer:
where the address to Thalia perhaps explains Herrick's "do not _thou_
rehearse".
The important lines are:--
Sed ne tempore non tuo disertam
Pulses ebria januam, videto.
. . . . . . . . .
Seras tutior ibis ad lucernas.
Haec hora est tua, cum furit Lyaeus,
Cum regnat rosa, cum madent capilli:
Tunc me vel rigidi legant Catones.
_When laurel spirts i' th' fire. _ Burning bay leaves was a Christmas
observance. Herrick sings:--
"Of crackling laurel, which foresounds
A plenteous harvest to your grounds":
where compare Tibull. II.
