succeeded to the title. Herrick, therefore, seems to have blundered in the Christian name.}}}}
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453. Let's live in haste. From Martial, VII. xlvii. 11, 12:—
Vive velut rapto: fugitivaque gaudia carpe:
Perdiderit nullum vita reversa diem.
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457. While Fates permit. From Seneca, Herc. Fur. 177:—
Dum Fata sinunt,
Vivite laeti: properat cursu
Vita citato, volucrique die
Rota praecipitis vertitur anni.
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459. With Horace (IV. Od. ix. 29):—
Paulùm sepultae distat inertiae
Celata virtus.
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465. The parting Verse or charge to his Supposed Wife when he travelled. MS. variants of this poem are found at the British Museum in Add. 22, 603, and in Ashmole MS. 38. Their title, "Mr. Herrick's charge to his wife," led Mr. Payne Collier to rashly identify with the poet a certain Robert Herrick married at St. Clement Danes, 1632, to a Jane Gibbons. The variants are numerous, but not very important. In l. 4 we have "draw wooers" for "draw thousands"; ll. 11-16 are transposed to after l. 28; and "Are the expressions of that itch" is written "As emblems will express that itch"; ll. 27, 28 appear as:—
"For that once lost thou needst must fall
To one, then prostitute to all:
And we then have the transposed passage:—
