414:
Raptaque
sint adimi quae potuere mihi.
Robert Herrick
_A wood of darts.
_ Cp.
Virg.
_AEn.
_ x.
886: Ter secum Troius heros
Immanem aerato circumfert tegmine silvam.
112. _The Recompense. _ Herrick is said to have assumed the lay habit on
his return to London after his ejection, perhaps as a protection against
further persecution. This quatrain may be taken as evidence that he did
not throw off his religion with his cassock. Compare also 124.
_All I have lost that could be rapt from me. _ From Ovid, III. _Trist. _
vii.
414: Raptaque sint adimi quae potuere mihi.
123. _Thy light that ne'er went out. _ Prov. xxxi. 18 (of 'the Excellent
Woman'): "Her candle goeth not out by night". _All set about with
lilies. _ Cp. _Cant. Canticorum_, vii. 2: Venter tuus sicut acervus
tritici, vallatus liliis.
_Will show these garments. _ So Acts ix. 39.
134. _God had but one son free from sin.
Immanem aerato circumfert tegmine silvam.
112. _The Recompense. _ Herrick is said to have assumed the lay habit on
his return to London after his ejection, perhaps as a protection against
further persecution. This quatrain may be taken as evidence that he did
not throw off his religion with his cassock. Compare also 124.
_All I have lost that could be rapt from me. _ From Ovid, III. _Trist. _
vii.
414: Raptaque sint adimi quae potuere mihi.
123. _Thy light that ne'er went out. _ Prov. xxxi. 18 (of 'the Excellent
Woman'): "Her candle goeth not out by night". _All set about with
lilies. _ Cp. _Cant. Canticorum_, vii. 2: Venter tuus sicut acervus
tritici, vallatus liliis.
_Will show these garments. _ So Acts ix. 39.
134. _God had but one son free from sin.
