Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus, et nova pubes,
Et memor esto aevum sic
properare
tuum:
cp.
Robert Herrick
(lv.):--
Si linguam clauso tenes in ore,
Fructus projicies amoris omnes:
Verbosa gaudet Venus loquela.
208. _Gather ye rosebuds while ye may._ Set to music by William Lawes in
Playford's second book of "Ayres," 1652. Printed in _Witts Recreations_,
1654, with the variants: "Gather _your_ Rosebuds" in l. 1; l. 4, _may_
for _will_; l. 6, _he is getting_ for _he's a-getting_; l. 8, _nearer to
his setting_ for _nearer he's to setting_. The opening lines are from
Ausonius, ccclxi. 49, 50 (quoted by Burton, _Anat. Mel._ III. 2, 5 ?
5):--
Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus, et nova pubes,
Et memor esto aevum sic
properare
tuum:
cp.
also l. 43:--
Quam longa una dies, aetas tam longa rosarum.
209. _Has not whence to sink at all._ Seneca, _Ep._ xx.: Redige te ad
parva ex quibus cadere non possis. Cp. Alain Delisle: Qui decumbit humi
non habet unde cadat.
211. _His poetry his pillar._ A variation upon the Horatian theme:--
