_To the handsome
Mistress
Grace Potter.
Robert Herrick
Herrick's Epithalamium for her marriage
with Sir Clipsby Crew, 283. She died 1639, and was buried in Westminster
Abbey.
979. _On Tomasin Parsons. _ Daughter of the organist of Westminster
Abbey: cp. 500 and Note.
983. _To his kinsman, M. Thomas Herrick, who desired to be in his book. _
Cp. 106 and Note.
989. _Care keeps the conquest. _ Perhaps jotted down with reference to
the Governorship of Exeter by Sir John Berkeley: see Note to 745.
992.
_To the handsome Mistress Grace Potter. _ Probably sister to the
Mistress Amy Potter celebrated in 837, where see Note.
995. _We've more to bear our charge than way to go. _ Seneca, Ep. 77:
quantulumcunque haberem, tamen plus superesset viatici quam viae, quoted
by Montaigne, II. xxviii.
1000. _The Gods, pillars, and men. _ Horace's Mediocribus esse poetis
Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae (_Ars Poet. _ 373). Latin
poets hung up their epigrams in public places.
1002. _To the Lord Hopton on his fight in Cornwall. _ Sir Ralph Hopton
won two brilliant victories for the Royalists, at Bradock Down and
Stratton, January and May, 1643, and was created Baron Hopton in the
following September. Originally a Parliamentarian, he was one of the
king's ablest and most loyal servants.
with Sir Clipsby Crew, 283. She died 1639, and was buried in Westminster
Abbey.
979. _On Tomasin Parsons. _ Daughter of the organist of Westminster
Abbey: cp. 500 and Note.
983. _To his kinsman, M. Thomas Herrick, who desired to be in his book. _
Cp. 106 and Note.
989. _Care keeps the conquest. _ Perhaps jotted down with reference to
the Governorship of Exeter by Sir John Berkeley: see Note to 745.
992.
_To the handsome Mistress Grace Potter. _ Probably sister to the
Mistress Amy Potter celebrated in 837, where see Note.
995. _We've more to bear our charge than way to go. _ Seneca, Ep. 77:
quantulumcunque haberem, tamen plus superesset viatici quam viae, quoted
by Montaigne, II. xxviii.
1000. _The Gods, pillars, and men. _ Horace's Mediocribus esse poetis
Non homines, non di, non concessere columnae (_Ars Poet. _ 373). Latin
poets hung up their epigrams in public places.
1002. _To the Lord Hopton on his fight in Cornwall. _ Sir Ralph Hopton
won two brilliant victories for the Royalists, at Bradock Down and
Stratton, January and May, 1643, and was created Baron Hopton in the
following September. Originally a Parliamentarian, he was one of the
king's ablest and most loyal servants.
