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_ Cicero, _De Senect. _ xii. 41:
Neque omnino in voluptatis regno virtutem posse consistere. _He lives
who lives to virtue. _ Comp. Sallust, _Catil. _ 2, s. fin.

1088. _Twice five-and-twenty (bate me but one year). _ As Herrick was
born in 1591, this poem must have been written in 1640.

1089. _To M. Laurence Swetnaham. _ Unless the various entries in the
parish registers of St.
Margaret's, Westminster, refer to different men,
this Lawrence Swetnaham was the third son of Thomas Swettenham of
Swettenham in Cheshire, married in 1602 to Mary Birtles. Lawrence
himself had children as early as 1629, and ten years later was
church-warden. He was buried in the Abbey, 1673.

1091. _My lamp to you I give. _ Allusion to the ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?