If "seven
lusters" can be taken literally for thirty-five years, this poem was
written in 1627.
lusters" can be taken literally for thirty-five years, this poem was
written in 1627.
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Some of his phrases, however, prove that he was occasionally more
indebted to the Latin version of Stephanus than to the original.
82. _That for seven lusters I did never come. _ The fall of Herrick's
father from a window, fifteen months after the poet's birth, was imputed
at the time to suicide; and it has been reasonably conjectured that some
mystery may have attached to the place of his burial.
If "seven
lusters" can be taken literally for thirty-five years, this poem was
written in 1627.
83. _Delight in Disorder. _ Cp. Ben Jonson's "Still to be neat, still to
be drest," in its turn imitated from one of the _Basia_ of Johannes
Bonefonius.
85. _Upon Love. _ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1654. The only variant
is "To tell me" for "To signifie" in the third line.
86. _To Dean Bourn. _ "We found many persons in the village who could
repeat some of his lines, and none who were not acquainted with his
'Farewell to Dean Bourn,' which they said he uttered as he crossed the
brook upon being ejected by Cromwell from the vicarage, to which he had
been presented by Charles the First. But they added, with an air of
innocent triumph, 'he did see it again,' as was the fact after the
restoration. " Barron Field in _Quarterly Review_, August, 1810. Herrick
was ejected in 1648.
_A rocky generation!
Some of his phrases, however, prove that he was occasionally more
indebted to the Latin version of Stephanus than to the original.
82. _That for seven lusters I did never come. _ The fall of Herrick's
father from a window, fifteen months after the poet's birth, was imputed
at the time to suicide; and it has been reasonably conjectured that some
mystery may have attached to the place of his burial.
If "seven
lusters" can be taken literally for thirty-five years, this poem was
written in 1627.
83. _Delight in Disorder. _ Cp. Ben Jonson's "Still to be neat, still to
be drest," in its turn imitated from one of the _Basia_ of Johannes
Bonefonius.
85. _Upon Love. _ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1654. The only variant
is "To tell me" for "To signifie" in the third line.
86. _To Dean Bourn. _ "We found many persons in the village who could
repeat some of his lines, and none who were not acquainted with his
'Farewell to Dean Bourn,' which they said he uttered as he crossed the
brook upon being ejected by Cromwell from the vicarage, to which he had
been presented by Charles the First. But they added, with an air of
innocent triumph, 'he did see it again,' as was the fact after the
restoration. " Barron Field in _Quarterly Review_, August, 1810. Herrick
was ejected in 1648.
_A rocky generation!
