56. _Love give me more such nights as these._ A reminiscence of Marlowe's version of Ovid, _Amor_. I. v. 26: "Jove send me more such afternoons as this". 72. _Upon his Sister-in-law, Mistress Elizabeth Herrick_, wife to his brother Thomas (see _infra_, 106). 74. _Love makes me write what shame forbids to speak._ Ovid, _Phædra to Hippol._: Dicere quæ puduit scribere jussit amor. _Give me a kiss._ Herrick is here imitating the well-known lines of Catullus to Lesbia (_Carm._ v.):-- Da mi basia mille, deinde centum, Dein mille altera, dein secunda centum, Deinde usque altera mille, deinde centum, Dein, cum millia multa fecerimus, Conturbabimus illa, ne sciamus, etc. 77. _To the King, upon his coming with his army into the west._ Essex had marched into the west in June, 1644, relieved Lyme, and captured royal fortresses in Dorset and Devon. Charles followed him into "the drooping west," and, in September, the Parliamentary infantry were forced to surrender, while Essex himself escaped by sea. Herrick's "white omens" were thus fulfilled. 79. _To the King and Queen upon their unhappy distances._ Henrietta Maria escaped abroad with the crown jewels in 1642, returned the next year and rejoined Charles in the west in 1644, whence she escaped again to France. This poem has been supposed to refer to domestic dissensions; but the "ball of strife" is surely the Civil War in general, and the reference to the parting of 1644. 81. _The Cheat of Cupid._ Herrick is here translating "Anacreon," 31 [3]:-- Μεσονυκτίοις ποθ' ὥραις στρέφεθ' ἡνίκ' Ἄρκτος ἤδη κατὰ χεῖρα τὴν Βοώτου, μερόπων δὲ φῦλα πάντα κέαται κόπῳ δαμέντα, 5 τότ' Ἔρως ἐπισταθείς μευ θυρέων ἔκοπτ' ὀχῆας. τίς, ἔφην, θύρας ἀράσσει; κατά μευ σχίζεις ὀνείρους. ὁ δ' Ἔρως, ἄνοιγε, φησίν· 10 βρέφος εἰμί, μὴ φόβησαι· βρέχομαι δὲ κἀσέληνον κατὰ νύκτα πεπλάνημαι. ἐλέησα ταῦτ' ἀκούσας, ἀνὰ δ' εὐθὺ λύχνον ἅψας 15 ἀνέῳξα, καὶ βρέφος μέν ἐσορῶ φἐροντα τόξον πτέρυγάς τε καὶ φαρέτρην. παρὰ δ' ἱστίην καθῖσα, παλάμαις τε χεῖρας αὐτοῦ 20 ἀνέθαλπον, ἐκ δὲ χαίτης ἀπέθλιβον ὑγρὸν ὕδωρ. ὁ δ', ἐπεὶ κρύος μεθῆκεν, φέρε, φησί, πειράσωμεν τόδε τόξον, εἴ τι μοι νῦν 25 βλάβεται βραχεῖσα νευρή. τανύει δὲ καί με τύπτει μέσον ἡπαρ, ὥσπερ οἶστρος· ἀνὰ δ' ἅλλεται καχάζων, ξένε δ', εἶπε, συγχάρηθι· 30 κέρας ἀβλαβὲς μὲν ἡμῖν, σὺ δὲ καρδίην πονήσεις. Some of his phrases, however, prove that he was occasionally more indebted to the Latin version of Stephanus than to the original.