The poem is
full of such reminiscences: "With holy meal and spirting (MS.
full of such reminiscences: "With holy meal and spirting (MS.
Robert Herrick
appears to follow an unrevised version of the
poem, and contains a few couplets which Herrick afterwards thought fit
to omit. The most important passage comes after line 92: "Virtue had,
and mov'd her sphere".
"Nor know thy happy and unenvied state
Owes more to virtue than to fate,
Or fortune too; for what the first secures,
That as herself, or heaven, endures.
The two last fail, and by experience make
Known, not they give again, they take. "
_Thrice and above blest. _ Felices ter et amplius, Hor. I. _Od. _ xiii. 7.
_My soul's half:_ Animae dimidium meae, Hor. I. _Od. _ iii. 8.
The poem is
full of such reminiscences: "With holy meal and spirting (MS. crackling)
salt" is the "Farre pio et saliente mica" of III. _Od. _ xxiii. 20;
"Untaught to suffer poverty" the "Indocilis pauperiem pati" of I. _Od. _
i. 18; "A heart thrice wall'd" comes from I. _Od. _ iii. 9: Illi robur et
aes triplex, etc. Similar instances might be multiplied. Note, too, the
use of "Lar" and "Genius".
_Jove for our labour all things sells us. _ Epicharm. apud Xenoph.
poem, and contains a few couplets which Herrick afterwards thought fit
to omit. The most important passage comes after line 92: "Virtue had,
and mov'd her sphere".
"Nor know thy happy and unenvied state
Owes more to virtue than to fate,
Or fortune too; for what the first secures,
That as herself, or heaven, endures.
The two last fail, and by experience make
Known, not they give again, they take. "
_Thrice and above blest. _ Felices ter et amplius, Hor. I. _Od. _ xiii. 7.
_My soul's half:_ Animae dimidium meae, Hor. I. _Od. _ iii. 8.
The poem is
full of such reminiscences: "With holy meal and spirting (MS. crackling)
salt" is the "Farre pio et saliente mica" of III. _Od. _ xxiii. 20;
"Untaught to suffer poverty" the "Indocilis pauperiem pati" of I. _Od. _
i. 18; "A heart thrice wall'd" comes from I. _Od. _ iii. 9: Illi robur et
aes triplex, etc. Similar instances might be multiplied. Note, too, the
use of "Lar" and "Genius".
_Jove for our labour all things sells us. _ Epicharm. apud Xenoph.
