_The Mistress of all
singular
Manners, Mistress Portman.
Robert Herrick
If so, his
wife was a widow when she came to him, as she is spoken of in 1638 as
"Lady Dorothy Smith, wife of Sir Nicholas Smith, deceased". She brought
him a rich dower, and her death greatly confused his affairs.
1067. _Gentleness. _ Seneca, _Phoen. _ 659: Qui vult amari, languida
regnet manu. And Ben Jonson, _Panegyre_ (1603): "He knew that those who
would with love command, Must with a tender yet a steadfast hand,
Sustain the reins".
1068. _Mrs. Eliza Wheeler. _ See 130 and Note.
1071. _To the Honoured Master Endymion Porter. _ For Porter's patronage
of poetry see 117 and Note.
1080.
_The Mistress of all singular Manners, Mistress Portman. _ Dr.
Grosart notes that a Mrs. Mary Portman was buried at Putney Parish
Church, June 27, 1671, and this was perhaps Herrick's schoolmistress,
the "pearl of Putney".
1087. _Where pleasures rule a kingdom. _ Cicero, _De Senect. _ xii. 41:
Neque omnino in voluptatis regno virtutem posse consistere. _He lives
who lives to virtue. _ Comp. Sallust, _Catil. _ 2, s. fin.
1088. _Twice five-and-twenty (bate me but one year).
wife was a widow when she came to him, as she is spoken of in 1638 as
"Lady Dorothy Smith, wife of Sir Nicholas Smith, deceased". She brought
him a rich dower, and her death greatly confused his affairs.
1067. _Gentleness. _ Seneca, _Phoen. _ 659: Qui vult amari, languida
regnet manu. And Ben Jonson, _Panegyre_ (1603): "He knew that those who
would with love command, Must with a tender yet a steadfast hand,
Sustain the reins".
1068. _Mrs. Eliza Wheeler. _ See 130 and Note.
1071. _To the Honoured Master Endymion Porter. _ For Porter's patronage
of poetry see 117 and Note.
1080.
_The Mistress of all singular Manners, Mistress Portman. _ Dr.
Grosart notes that a Mrs. Mary Portman was buried at Putney Parish
Church, June 27, 1671, and this was perhaps Herrick's schoolmistress,
the "pearl of Putney".
1087. _Where pleasures rule a kingdom. _ Cicero, _De Senect. _ xii. 41:
Neque omnino in voluptatis regno virtutem posse consistere. _He lives
who lives to virtue. _ Comp. Sallust, _Catil. _ 2, s. fin.
1088. _Twice five-and-twenty (bate me but one year).
