_ This "saint" from Herrick's Temple
may
certainly
be identified with the second of the three children
(William, Dorothy, and Thomasine) of Mr.
Robert Herrick
Jincks,
etc.
497. _All flowers sent_, etc. See Virgil's--or the Virgilian--_Culex_,
ll. 397-410.
_Martial's bee._ See _Epig._ IV. xxxii.
De ape electro inclusa.
Et latet et lucet Phaethontide condita gutta,
Ut videatur apis nectare clausa suo.
Dignum tantorum pretium tulit illa laborum.
Credibile est ipsam sic voluisse mori.
500. _To Mistress Dorothy Parsons.
_ This "saint" from Herrick's Temple
may
certainly
be identified with the second of the three children
(William, Dorothy, and Thomasine) of Mr.
John Parsons, organist and
master of the choristers at Westminster Abbey, where he was buried in
1623. Herrick addresses another poem to her sister Thomasine:--
"Grow up in beauty, as thou dost begin,
And be of all admired, Thomasine".
502. _'Tis sin to throttle wine._ Martial, I. xix. 5: Scelus est
jugulare Falernum.
506. _Edward, Earl of Dorset_, Knight of the Garter, grandson of Thomas
Sackville, author of _Gorboduc_. He succeeded his brother, Richard
Sackville, the third earl, in 1624, and died in 1652. Clarendon
describes a duel which he fought with Lord Bruce in Flanders.
_Of your own self a public theatre._ Cp. Burton (Democ. to Reader) "Ipse
mihi theatrum".
