:
Excessit
filius tuus terminos intra quos servitur .
Robert Herrick
761. _The Wake. _ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1650, under the title:
_Alvar and Anthea_.
763. _To Doctor Alabaster. _ William Alabaster, or Alablaster, born at
Hadleigh, Suffolk (1567); educated at Westminster and Trinity College,
Cambridge; a friend of Spencer; was converted to Roman Catholicism while
chaplain to the Earl of Essex in Spain, 1596. In 1607 he began his
series of apocalyptic writings by an _Apparatus in Revelationem Jesu
Christi_. On visiting Rome he was imprisoned by the Inquisition,
escaped, and returned to Protestantism. Besides his theological works,
he published (in 1637) a Lexicon Pentaglotton. Died April, 1640.
766. _Time is the bound of things_, etc. From Seneca, _Consol. ad Marc. _
xix.
: Excessit filius tuus terminos intra quos servitur . . . mors omnium
dolorum solutio est et finis.
771. _As I have read must be the first man up_, etc. Hor. I. _Ep. _ vi.
48: Hoc primus repetas opus, hoc postremus omittas.
_Rich compost. _ Cp. the same thought in 662.
772. _A Hymn to Bacchus.
