This part was not issued, as far as is known, except with the Hesperides to which the author evidently intended it to be affixed, if we may judge by the lines toward the end of the first part: "Part of the work remains; one part is past." The year of publication had seen Herrick dispossessed of his living at Dean Prior by the predominant Puritan party, and it has been suggested that he was glad to take this means of gaining an income. His use of the form, "Robert Herrick, Esquire," was, it is thought, a wise move on the part of the publishers, since a book by the "Reverend," or "Robert Herrick, Vicker" would have been less likely to meet with favor. Neither Williams nor Eglesfield was a bookseller of importance, and the printer is entirely unknown. He may have withheld his name for fear of the judgment suggested by Herrick at the head of his column of Errata: "For theſe Tranſgreſsions which thou here doſt ſee, Condemne the Printer, Reader, and not me; Who gave him forth good Grain, though he miſtook The Seed; ſo ſow'd theſe Tares throughout my Book." Copies vary in the imprint, some reading _London, Printed for John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, and are to be ſold by Tho. Hunt, Bookſeller in Exon, 1648_; and several differences of spelling, capitalization and punctuation also occur. These variations have given rise to a discussion that aims to determine the sequence of issues; but thus far it serves only to prove that constant editorial tinkering took place at the press-side. William Marshall, whose prolific graver (Strutt says he used only that tool) produced portraits, frontispieces, title-pages, and other decorations of a certain charm, even if dry and cramped in style, had in Herrick a subject of more than usual difficulty. As if conscious of his shortcomings he attempts to make atonement by the emblematic flattery of Pegasus winging his flight from Parnassus, the Spring of Helicon, loves and flowers, which he adds to lines signed _I. H. C._ and _W. M._ Octavo. COLLATION: _Four leaves (without signatures): B-Z and Aa-Cc, in eights, Aa-Ee, in eights._ JEREMY TAYLOR (1613-1667) 30. The Rule | And | Exercises | Of | Holy Living. | [Eleven lines] London, | Printed for Francis Aſh, Book- | Seller in Worceſter. | MDCL. [Colophon] London, | Printed by R. Norton. | MDCL.