_
_Wantons
we are_, etc.
Robert Herrick
_ Cp.
Hor.
_Od.
_ III.
iii.
1-8.
616. _To the Maids to walk abroad. _ Printed in _Witts Recreations_,
1650, under the title: _Abroad with the Maids_.
618. _Mistress Elizabeth Lee, now Lady Tracy. _ Elizabeth, daughter of
Thomas, first Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh, in Warwickshire, married John,
third Viscount Tracy. She survived her husband two years, and died in
1688.
624. _Poets.
_ _Wantons we are_, etc. From Ovid, _Trist. _ ii. 353-4:--
Crede mihi, mores distant a carmine nostri:
Vita verecunda est, Musa jocosa, mihi.
625. _'Tis cowardice to bite the buried. _ Cp. Ben Jonson, _The
Poetaster_, I. 1: "Envy the living, not the dead, doth bite"; perhaps
from Ovid, _Am. _ I. xv. 39: Pascitur in vivis livor; post fata quiescit.
626. _Noble Westmoreland. _ See Note to 112.
_Gallant Newark.
616. _To the Maids to walk abroad. _ Printed in _Witts Recreations_,
1650, under the title: _Abroad with the Maids_.
618. _Mistress Elizabeth Lee, now Lady Tracy. _ Elizabeth, daughter of
Thomas, first Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh, in Warwickshire, married John,
third Viscount Tracy. She survived her husband two years, and died in
1688.
624. _Poets.
_ _Wantons we are_, etc. From Ovid, _Trist. _ ii. 353-4:--
Crede mihi, mores distant a carmine nostri:
Vita verecunda est, Musa jocosa, mihi.
625. _'Tis cowardice to bite the buried. _ Cp. Ben Jonson, _The
Poetaster_, I. 1: "Envy the living, not the dead, doth bite"; perhaps
from Ovid, _Am. _ I. xv. 39: Pascitur in vivis livor; post fata quiescit.
626. _Noble Westmoreland. _ See Note to 112.
_Gallant Newark.
