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He set Herrick's _Gather ye rosebuds_
to music.

914. _Numbers ne'er tickle_, etc. Martial, I. xxxvi. :--

Lex haec carminibus data est jocosis,
Ne possint, nisi pruriant, juvare.

918. _M. Kellam. _ As yet unidentified. Dr. Grosart suggests that he may
have been one of Herrick's parishioners, and the name sounds as of the
west country.

920. _Cunctation in correction. _ Is Herrick translating?
According to a
relief at Rome the lictors' rods were bound together not only by a red
thong twisted from top to bottom, but by six straps as well.

922. _Continual reaping makes a land wax old. _ Ovid, _Ars Am. _ iii. 82:
Continua messe senescit ager.

923. _Revenge. _ Tacitus, _Hist. _ iv. 3: Tanto proclivius est injuriae
quam beneficio vicem exsolvere; quia gratia oneri, ultio in quaestu
habetur.

927. _Praise they that will times past. _ Ovid, _Ars Am. _ iii. 121:--

Prisca juvent alios: ego me nunc denique natum
Gratulor; haec aetas moribus apta meis.