_ 1812:
Durae
peragunt
pensa sorores, Nec sua retro fila revolvunt.
Robert Herrick
626. _Noble Westmoreland._ See Note to 112.
_Gallant Newark._ Robert Pierrepoint was created Viscount Newark in 1627
and Earl of Kingston in the following year. But Herrick is perhaps
addressing his son, Henry Pierrepoint, afterwards Marquis of Dorchester
(see 962 and Note), who during the first Earl of Kingston's life would
presumably have borne his second title.
633. _Sweet words must nourish soft and gentle love._ Ovid, _Ars Am._
ii. 152: Dulcibus est verbis mollis alendus amor.
639. _Fates revolve no flax they've spun._ Seneca, _Herc. Fur.
_ 1812:
Durae
peragunt
pensa sorores, Nec sua retro fila revolvunt.
642. _Palms ... gems._ A Latinism. Cp. Ovid, _Fasti_, i. 152: Et nova de
gravido palmite gemma tumet.
645. _Upon Tears._ Cp. S. Bernard: Poenitentium lacrimae vinum angelorum.
