Hazlitt bases his conjecture
that Herrick may have held some subordinate post in the Chapel Royal.
that Herrick may have held some subordinate post in the Chapel Royal.
Robert Herrick
Dei_, ix.
5:
Ipse Deus secundum Scripturas irascitur, nec tamen ulla passione
turbatur. _Enchir. ad Laurent. _ 33: Cum irasci dicitur Deus, non
significatur perturbatio, qualis est in animo irascentis hominis.
9. _Those Spotless two Lambs. _ "This is the offering made by fire which
ye shall offer unto the Lord: two lambs of the first year without spot,
day by day, for a continual burnt-offering. " (Numb. xxviii. 3. )
17. _An Anthem sung in the Chapel of Whitehall. _ This may be added to
Nos. 96-98, and 102, the poems on which Mr.
Hazlitt bases his conjecture
that Herrick may have held some subordinate post in the Chapel Royal.
37. _When once the sin has fully acted been. _ Tacitus, _Ann. _ xiv. 10:
Perfecto demum scelere, magnitudo ejus intellecta est.
38. _Upon Time. _ Were this poem anonymous it would probably be
attributed rather to George Herbert than to Herrick.
41. _His Litany to the Holy Spirit. _ We may quote again from Barron
Field's account in the _Quarterly Review_ (1810) of his
cross-examination of the Dean Prior villagers for Reminiscences of
Herrick: "The person, however, who knows more of Herrick than all the
rest of the neighbourhood we found to be a poor woman in the 99th year
of her age, named Dorothy King. She repeated to us, with great
exactness, five of his _Noble Numbers_, among which was his beautiful
'Litany'. These she had learnt from her mother, who was apprenticed to
Herrick's successor at the vicarage. She called them her prayers, which
she said she was in the habit of putting up in bed, whenever she could
not sleep; and she therefore began the 'Litany' at the second stanza:--
'When I lie within my bed,' etc. "
Another of her midnight orisons was the poem beginning:--
"Every night Thou dost me fright,
And keep mine eyes from sleeping," etc.
Ipse Deus secundum Scripturas irascitur, nec tamen ulla passione
turbatur. _Enchir. ad Laurent. _ 33: Cum irasci dicitur Deus, non
significatur perturbatio, qualis est in animo irascentis hominis.
9. _Those Spotless two Lambs. _ "This is the offering made by fire which
ye shall offer unto the Lord: two lambs of the first year without spot,
day by day, for a continual burnt-offering. " (Numb. xxviii. 3. )
17. _An Anthem sung in the Chapel of Whitehall. _ This may be added to
Nos. 96-98, and 102, the poems on which Mr.
Hazlitt bases his conjecture
that Herrick may have held some subordinate post in the Chapel Royal.
37. _When once the sin has fully acted been. _ Tacitus, _Ann. _ xiv. 10:
Perfecto demum scelere, magnitudo ejus intellecta est.
38. _Upon Time. _ Were this poem anonymous it would probably be
attributed rather to George Herbert than to Herrick.
41. _His Litany to the Holy Spirit. _ We may quote again from Barron
Field's account in the _Quarterly Review_ (1810) of his
cross-examination of the Dean Prior villagers for Reminiscences of
Herrick: "The person, however, who knows more of Herrick than all the
rest of the neighbourhood we found to be a poor woman in the 99th year
of her age, named Dorothy King. She repeated to us, with great
exactness, five of his _Noble Numbers_, among which was his beautiful
'Litany'. These she had learnt from her mother, who was apprenticed to
Herrick's successor at the vicarage. She called them her prayers, which
she said she was in the habit of putting up in bed, whenever she could
not sleep; and she therefore began the 'Litany' at the second stanza:--
'When I lie within my bed,' etc. "
Another of her midnight orisons was the poem beginning:--
"Every night Thou dost me fright,
And keep mine eyes from sleeping," etc.
