_ Robert
Pierrepoint
was created Viscount Newark in 1627
and Earl of Kingston in the following year.
Robert Herrick
From Ovid, _Trist._ ii. 353-4:--
Crede mihi, mores distant a carmine nostri:
Vita verecunda est, Musa jocosa, mihi.
625. _'Tis cowardice to bite the buried._ Cp. Ben Jonson, _The
Poetaster_, I. 1: "Envy the living, not the dead, doth bite"; perhaps
from Ovid, _Am._ I. xv. 39: Pascitur in vivis livor; post fata quiescit.
626. _Noble Westmoreland._ See Note to 112.
_Gallant Newark.
_ Robert
Pierrepoint
was created Viscount Newark in 1627
and Earl of Kingston in the following year.
But Herrick is perhaps
addressing his son, Henry Pierrepoint, afterwards Marquis of Dorchester
(see 962 and Note), who during the first Earl of Kingston's life would
presumably have borne his second title.
633. _Sweet words must nourish soft and gentle love._ Ovid, _Ars Am._
ii. 152: Dulcibus est verbis mollis alendus amor.
639. _Fates revolve no flax they've spun._ Seneca, _Herc. Fur._ 1812:
Durae peragunt pensa sorores, Nec sua retro fila revolvunt.
