_Upon Master Fletcher's
Incomparable
Plays.
Robert Herrick
_A Carol presented to Dr. Williams. _ From Ashmole MS. 36, 298. For Dr.
Williams, see Note to _Hesperides_ 146. This poem was apparently written
in 1640, after the removal of the bishop's suspension.
_His Mistress to him at his Farewell. _ From Add. MS. 11, 811, at the
British Museum, where it is signed "Ro. Herrick".
_Upon Parting. _ From Harleian MS. 6917, at the British Museum.
_Upon Master Fletcher's Incomparable Plays. _ Printed in Beaumont and
Fletcher's Works, 1647, and Beaumont's Poems, 1653.
_The Golden Pomp is come. _ Ovid, "Aurea Pompa venit" (as in _Hesperides_
201).
_To be with juice of cedar washed all over. _ Horace's "linenda cedro,"
as in _Hesperides_.
_Evadne. _ See Note to _Hesperides_ 575.
_The New Charon. _ First printed in "Lachrymae Musarum. The tears of the
Muses: exprest in Elegies written by divers persons of Nobility and
Worth, upon the death of the most hopefull Henry, Lord Hastings. . . .
Collected and set forth by R[ichard] B[rome]. _London_, 1649.
