_Cynthius
pluck ye by the ear.
Robert Herrick
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146. _Upon the Bishop of Lincoln's Imprisonment. _ John Williams
(1582-1650), Bishop of Lincoln, 1621; Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal,
1621-1625; suspended and imprisoned, 1637-1640, on a frivolous charge of
having betrayed the king's secrets; Archbishop of York, 1641. Save from
this poem and the _Carol_ printed in the Appendix we know nothing of his
relations with Herrick. He had probably stood in the way of the poet's
obtaining holy orders or preferment. When Herrick was appointed to the
cure of Dean Prior in 1629, Williams had already lost favour at the
Court.
147.
_Cynthius pluck ye by the ear. _ Cp. Virg. _Ecl. _ vi. 3: Cynthius
aurem Vellit et admonuit; and Milton's _Lycidas_, 77: "Phoebus replied
and touched my trembling ears".
_The lazy man the most doth love. _ Cp. Ovid, _Remed. Amor. _ 144: Cedit
amor rebus: res age, tutus eris. Nott. But Ovid could also write: Qui
nolet fieri desidiosus amet (1 _Am. _ ix. 46).
149.
146. _Upon the Bishop of Lincoln's Imprisonment. _ John Williams
(1582-1650), Bishop of Lincoln, 1621; Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal,
1621-1625; suspended and imprisoned, 1637-1640, on a frivolous charge of
having betrayed the king's secrets; Archbishop of York, 1641. Save from
this poem and the _Carol_ printed in the Appendix we know nothing of his
relations with Herrick. He had probably stood in the way of the poet's
obtaining holy orders or preferment. When Herrick was appointed to the
cure of Dean Prior in 1629, Williams had already lost favour at the
Court.
147.
_Cynthius pluck ye by the ear. _ Cp. Virg. _Ecl. _ vi. 3: Cynthius
aurem Vellit et admonuit; and Milton's _Lycidas_, 77: "Phoebus replied
and touched my trembling ears".
_The lazy man the most doth love. _ Cp. Ovid, _Remed. Amor. _ 144: Cedit
amor rebus: res age, tutus eris. Nott. But Ovid could also write: Qui
nolet fieri desidiosus amet (1 _Am. _ ix. 46).
149.
