Cui peccare licet, peccat minus: ipsa potestas
Semina nequitiae
languidiora
facit.
Robert Herrick
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. iv.
9, 10:--
Cui peccare licet, peccat minus: ipsa potestas
Semina nequitiae
languidiora
facit.
271. _Upon a maid that died the day she was married._ Cp. Meleager,
Anth. Pal. vii. 182:
