_ Taken almost
entirely
from Seneca, _de
Provid.
Provid.
Robert Herrick
_Sung to the King.
_ See Note on 17.
_Composed by M. Henry Lawes. _ See _Hesperides_ 851, and Note.
102. _The Star-Song. _ This may have been composed partly with reference
to the noonday star during the Thanksgiving for Charles II. 's birth. See
_Hesperides_ 213, and Note.
_We'll choose him King. _ A reference to the Twelfth Night games. See
_Hesperides_ 1035, and Note.
108. _Good men afflicted most.
_ Taken almost entirely from Seneca, _de
Provid. _ 3, 4: Ignem experitur [Fortuna] in Mucio, paupertatem in
Fabricio, . . . tormenta in Regulo, venenum in Socrate, mortem in Catone.
The allusions may be briefly explained for the unclassical. At the siege
of Dyrrachium, Marcus Cassius Scaeva caught 120 darts on his shield;
Horatius Cocles is the hero of the bridge (see Macaulay's _Lays_); C.
Mucius Scaevola held his hand in the fire to illustrate to Porsenna Roman
fearlessness; Cato is Cato Uticensis, the philosophic suicide; "high
Atilius" will be more easily recognised as the M. Atilius Regulus who
defied the Carthaginians; Fabricius Luscinus refused not only the
presents of Pyrrhus, but all reward of the State, and lived in poverty
on his own farm.
109. _A wood of darts. _ Cp. Virg. _AEn. _ x. 886: Ter secum Troius heros
Immanem aerato circumfert tegmine silvam.
_Composed by M. Henry Lawes. _ See _Hesperides_ 851, and Note.
102. _The Star-Song. _ This may have been composed partly with reference
to the noonday star during the Thanksgiving for Charles II. 's birth. See
_Hesperides_ 213, and Note.
_We'll choose him King. _ A reference to the Twelfth Night games. See
_Hesperides_ 1035, and Note.
108. _Good men afflicted most.
_ Taken almost entirely from Seneca, _de
Provid. _ 3, 4: Ignem experitur [Fortuna] in Mucio, paupertatem in
Fabricio, . . . tormenta in Regulo, venenum in Socrate, mortem in Catone.
The allusions may be briefly explained for the unclassical. At the siege
of Dyrrachium, Marcus Cassius Scaeva caught 120 darts on his shield;
Horatius Cocles is the hero of the bridge (see Macaulay's _Lays_); C.
Mucius Scaevola held his hand in the fire to illustrate to Porsenna Roman
fearlessness; Cato is Cato Uticensis, the philosophic suicide; "high
Atilius" will be more easily recognised as the M. Atilius Regulus who
defied the Carthaginians; Fabricius Luscinus refused not only the
presents of Pyrrhus, but all reward of the State, and lived in poverty
on his own farm.
109. _A wood of darts. _ Cp. Virg. _AEn. _ x. 886: Ter secum Troius heros
Immanem aerato circumfert tegmine silvam.
