: Punitis
ingeniis
gliscit auctoritas, etc.
Robert Herrick
_ My friend, Mr.
Herbert Horne, in his
admirably-chosen selection from the _Hesperides_, suggests that the
allusion here is to the great gilt cross at the end of Wood Street. The
suggestion is ingenious; but as Cheapside was the goldsmiths' quarter
this would amply justify the epithet, which may indeed only refer to
Cheapside as a money-winning street, as we might say Golden Lombard
Street.
1032. _Things are uncertain. _ Tiberius, in Tacitus, _Annal. _ i. 72:
Cuncta mortalium incerta; quantoque plus adeptus foret, tanto se magis
in lubrico.
1034. _Good wits get more fame by their punishment. _ Cp. Tacit. _Ann. _
iv. 35, sub fin.
: Punitis ingeniis gliscit auctoritas, etc. , quoted by
Bacon and Milton.
1035. _Twelfth Night: or King and Queen. _ Herrick alludes to these
"Twelfth-Tide Kings and Queens" in writing to Endymion Porter (662), and
earlier still, in the "New-Year's Gift to Sir Simeon Steward" (319) he
speaks--
"Of Twelfth-Tide cakes, of Peas and Beans,
Wherewith ye make those merry scenes,
Whenas ye choose your King and Queen".
Brand (i. 27) illustrates well from "Speeches to the Queen at Sudley" in
Nichols' _Progresses of Queen Elizabeth_.
"_Meliboeus. _ Cut the cake: who hath the bean shall be king, and where
the pea is, she shall be queen.
_Nisa. _ I have the pea and must be queen.
_Mel. _ I the bean, and king. I must command. "
1045. _Comfort in Calamity.
admirably-chosen selection from the _Hesperides_, suggests that the
allusion here is to the great gilt cross at the end of Wood Street. The
suggestion is ingenious; but as Cheapside was the goldsmiths' quarter
this would amply justify the epithet, which may indeed only refer to
Cheapside as a money-winning street, as we might say Golden Lombard
Street.
1032. _Things are uncertain. _ Tiberius, in Tacitus, _Annal. _ i. 72:
Cuncta mortalium incerta; quantoque plus adeptus foret, tanto se magis
in lubrico.
1034. _Good wits get more fame by their punishment. _ Cp. Tacit. _Ann. _
iv. 35, sub fin.
: Punitis ingeniis gliscit auctoritas, etc. , quoted by
Bacon and Milton.
1035. _Twelfth Night: or King and Queen. _ Herrick alludes to these
"Twelfth-Tide Kings and Queens" in writing to Endymion Porter (662), and
earlier still, in the "New-Year's Gift to Sir Simeon Steward" (319) he
speaks--
"Of Twelfth-Tide cakes, of Peas and Beans,
Wherewith ye make those merry scenes,
Whenas ye choose your King and Queen".
Brand (i. 27) illustrates well from "Speeches to the Queen at Sudley" in
Nichols' _Progresses of Queen Elizabeth_.
"_Meliboeus. _ Cut the cake: who hath the bean shall be king, and where
the pea is, she shall be queen.
_Nisa. _ I have the pea and must be queen.
_Mel. _ I the bean, and king. I must command. "
1045. _Comfort in Calamity.
