Postquam
est mortem aptus Plautus, comoedia luget;
Scena deserta, dein risus, ludu' jocusque,
Et numeri innumeri simul omnes collacrumarunt.
Robert Herrick
??? ??????, which is twice quoted by Plato.
382. _After the rare arch-poet, Jonson, died._ Perhaps suggested by the
Epitaph of Plautus on himself, _ap._ Gell. i.
24:--
Postquam
est mortem aptus Plautus, comoedia luget;
Scena deserta, dein risus, ludu' jocusque,
Et numeri innumeri simul omnes collacrumarunt.
384. _To his nephew, to be prosperous in painting._ This artistic nephew
may have been a Wingfield, son of Mercy Herrick, who married John
Wingfield, of Brantham, Suffolk; or one of three sons of Nicholas
Herrick and Susanna Salter, or Thomas, or some unknown son of Thomas
Herrick. There is no record of any painter Herrick's achievements.
392. _Sir Edward Fish, Knight Baronet_, of Chertsey, in Surrey. Died
1658.
405. _Nor fear or spice or fish._ Herrick is remembering Persius, i. 43:
Nec scombros metuentia carmina, nec thus. To form the paper jacket or
_tunica_ which wrapt the mackerel in Roman cookery seems to have been
the ultimate employment of many poems. Cp. Mart. III.
