No More Learning

2: Intonsum pueri
dicite Cynthium.

181. _A dialogue between Horace and Lydia. _ Hor. III. _Od. _ ix.

_Ramsey. _ Organist of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1628-1634. Some of his
music still exists in MS.

185. _An Ode to Master Endymion Porter, upon his brother's death. _
Endymion Porter is said to have had an only brother, Giles, who died in
the king's service at Oxford, _i. e. _, between 1642 and 1646, and it has
been taken for granted that this ode refers to his death.
The
supposition is possibly right, but if so, the ode, despite its beauty,
is so gratingly and extraordinarily selfish that we may wonder if the
dead brother is not the William Herrick of the next poem. The first
verse is, of course, a soliloquy of Herrick's, not, as Dr. Grosart
suggests, addressed to him by Porter. Dr. Nott again parallels Catullus,
_Carm_. v.

186. _To his dying brother, Master William Herrick. _ According to Dr.
Grosart and Mr. Hazlitt the poet had an elder brother, William,
baptized at St. Vedast's, Foster Lane, Nov. 24, 1585 (he must have been
born some months earlier, if this date be right, for his sister Martha
was baptized in the following January), and alive in 1629, when he acted
as one of the executors of his mother's will. But, it is said, there was
also another brother named William, born in 1593, after his father's
death, "at Harry Campion's house at Hampton". I have not been able to
find the authority for this last statement, which, as it asserts the
co-existence of two brothers, of the same name, is certainly surprising.
According to Dr.