I add a few
readings
from Brit.
Robert Herrick
15 and 16).
The Ashmole MS.
contains in all thirty additional lines,
which may or may not be by Herrick, but which, as not improving the
poem, have been omitted in our text in accordance with the precedent set
by the editor of _Witts Recreations_.
_Mr. Herrick: his Daughter's Dowry. _ From Ashmole MS. 38, where it is
signed: "Finis. Robt. Hericke. "
_Mr. Robert Herrick: his Farewell unto Poetry. _ Printed by Dr. Grosart
and Mr. Hazlitt from Ashmole MS. 38.
I add a few readings from Brit.
Mus. Add. MS. 22, 603, where it is entitled: _Herrick's Farewell to
Poetry_. The importance of the poem for Herrick's biography is alluded
to in the brief "Life" prefixed to vol. i.
For _some sleepy keys_ the Museum MS. reads, _the sleeping keys_; for
_yet forc't they are to go_ it has _and yet are forc't to go_; _drinking
to the odd Number of Nine_ for _Number of Wine_, as to which see below;
_turned her home_ for _twirled her home_; _dear soul_ for _rare soul_.
All these are possible, but _beloved Africa_, and the omission of the
two half lines, "'tis not need The scarecrow unto mankind," are pure
blunders.
_Drinking to the odd Number of Nine_. I introduce this into the text
from the Museum manuscript as agreeing with the
"Well, I can quaff, I see,
To th' number five
Or nine"
of _A Bacchanalian Verse_ (_Hesperides_ 653), on which see Note. Dr.
Grosart explains the Ashmole reading _Wine_ by the Note "_? ? ?
which may or may not be by Herrick, but which, as not improving the
poem, have been omitted in our text in accordance with the precedent set
by the editor of _Witts Recreations_.
_Mr. Herrick: his Daughter's Dowry. _ From Ashmole MS. 38, where it is
signed: "Finis. Robt. Hericke. "
_Mr. Robert Herrick: his Farewell unto Poetry. _ Printed by Dr. Grosart
and Mr. Hazlitt from Ashmole MS. 38.
I add a few readings from Brit.
Mus. Add. MS. 22, 603, where it is entitled: _Herrick's Farewell to
Poetry_. The importance of the poem for Herrick's biography is alluded
to in the brief "Life" prefixed to vol. i.
For _some sleepy keys_ the Museum MS. reads, _the sleeping keys_; for
_yet forc't they are to go_ it has _and yet are forc't to go_; _drinking
to the odd Number of Nine_ for _Number of Wine_, as to which see below;
_turned her home_ for _twirled her home_; _dear soul_ for _rare soul_.
All these are possible, but _beloved Africa_, and the omission of the
two half lines, "'tis not need The scarecrow unto mankind," are pure
blunders.
_Drinking to the odd Number of Nine_. I introduce this into the text
from the Museum manuscript as agreeing with the
"Well, I can quaff, I see,
To th' number five
Or nine"
of _A Bacchanalian Verse_ (_Hesperides_ 653), on which see Note. Dr.
Grosart explains the Ashmole reading _Wine_ by the Note "_? ? ?
