A saying of
Tiberius
quoted by
Suetonius: Boni pastoris est tondere oves, non deglubere.
Robert Herrick
53: cum recte factorum
sibi quisque gratiam trahant, unius [Principis scil.] invidia ab omnibus
peccatur.
775. _Niggards of the meanest blood._ Seneca, _de Clem._ i. 1: Summa
parsimonia etiam vilissimi sanguinis.
776. _Wrongs, if neglected_, etc. Tacit. _Ann._ iv. 34: [Probra] spreta
exolescunt, si irascare agnita videntur.
780. _Kings ought to shear_, etc.
A saying of
Tiberius
quoted by
Suetonius: Boni pastoris est tondere oves, non deglubere.
Herrick
probably took it from Ben Jonson's _Discoveries_.
784-7. _Ceremonies for Christmas._ More will be found about the Yule-log
in _Ceremonies for Candlemas Day_ (893); cp. also _The Wassail_ (476).
788. _Power and Peace._ From Tacitus, _Ann._ iv. 4: Quanquam arduum sit
eodem loci potentiam et concordiam esse.
789. _Mistress Margaret Falconbridge._ A daughter, probably, of the
Thomas Falconbridge of number 483.
