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Mel. _ III. 2, 5 ?
5):--

Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus, et nova pubes,
Et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum:

cp. also l. 43:--

Quam longa una dies, aetas tam longa rosarum.

209. _Has not whence to sink at all. _ Seneca, _Ep. _ xx. : Redige te ad
parva ex quibus cadere non possis. Cp. Alain Delisle: Qui decumbit humi
non habet unde cadat.

211. _His poetry his pillar.
_ A variation upon the Horatian theme:--

"Exegi monumentum aere perennius
Regalique situ pyramidum altius".
(III. _Od. _ xxx. )

212. _What though the sea be calm. _ Almost literally translated from
Seneca, _Ep. _ iv. : Noli huic tranquillitati confidere: momento mare
evertitur: eodem die ubi luserunt navigia sorbentur.

213. _At noon of day was seen a silver star. _ "King Charles the First
went to St. Paul's Church the 30th day of May, 1630, to give praise for
the birth of his son, attended with all his Peers and a most royal
Train, where a bright star appeared at High Noon in the sight of all. "
(_Stella Meridiana_, 1661. )

213. _And all most sweet, yet all less sweet than he.