The first two lines read:--
"The violets, as poets tell,
With Venus wrangling went".
"The violets, as poets tell,
With Venus wrangling went".
Robert Herrick
_He that will not love_, etc.
Ovid, _Rem.
Am.
_ 15, 16:--
Si quis male fert indignae regna puellae,
Ne pereat nostrae sentiat artis opem.
_How she is her own least part. _ _Ib. _ 344: Pars minima est ipsa puella
sui, quoted by Bacon, Burton, Lyly, and Montaigne.
Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1654, with the variants, '_freezing_
colds and _fiery_ heats,' and 'and how she is _in every_ part'.
256. _Had Lesbia_, etc. See Catullus, _Carm_. iii.
260. _How violets came blue. _ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1654, as
_How the violets came blue_.
The first two lines read:--
"The violets, as poets tell,
With Venus wrangling went".
Other variants are _did_ for _sho'd_ in l. 3; _Girl_ for _Girls_; _you_
for _ye_; _do_ for _dare_.
264. _That verse_, etc. Herrick repeats this assurance in a different
context in the second of his _Noble Numbers_, _His Prayer for
Absolution_.
269. _The Gods to Kings the judgment give to sway. _ From Tacitus, _Ann. _
vi. 8 (M. Terentius to Tiberius): Tibi summum rerum judicium dii dedere;
nobis obsequi gloria relicta est.
270. _He that may sin, sins least. _ Ovid, _Amor. _ III.
Si quis male fert indignae regna puellae,
Ne pereat nostrae sentiat artis opem.
_How she is her own least part. _ _Ib. _ 344: Pars minima est ipsa puella
sui, quoted by Bacon, Burton, Lyly, and Montaigne.
Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1654, with the variants, '_freezing_
colds and _fiery_ heats,' and 'and how she is _in every_ part'.
256. _Had Lesbia_, etc. See Catullus, _Carm_. iii.
260. _How violets came blue. _ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1654, as
_How the violets came blue_.
The first two lines read:--
"The violets, as poets tell,
With Venus wrangling went".
Other variants are _did_ for _sho'd_ in l. 3; _Girl_ for _Girls_; _you_
for _ye_; _do_ for _dare_.
264. _That verse_, etc. Herrick repeats this assurance in a different
context in the second of his _Noble Numbers_, _His Prayer for
Absolution_.
269. _The Gods to Kings the judgment give to sway. _ From Tacitus, _Ann. _
vi. 8 (M. Terentius to Tiberius): Tibi summum rerum judicium dii dedere;
nobis obsequi gloria relicta est.
270. _He that may sin, sins least. _ Ovid, _Amor. _ III.
