Fabius, Cotta, and Lentulus are examples of Roman patrons of poetry, themselves distinguished. Cp. Juvenal, vii. 94. 119. _His tapers thus put out._ So Ovid, _Am._ iii. 9:-- Ecce puer Veneris fert eversamque pharetram Et fractos arcus, et sine luce facem. 121. _Four things make us happy here._ From Ὑγιαίνειν μὲν ἄριστον ἀνδρὶ θνατῷ· δεύτερον δὲ φυὰν καλὸν γενέσθαι· τὸ τρίτον δὲ πλουτεῖν αδόλως· καὶ τὸ τέταρτον, ἡβᾶν μετὰ τῶν φίλων. (Bergk, _Anth. Lyr._, _Scol._ 8.) 123. _The Tear sent to her from Staines._ This is printed in _Witts Recreations_ with no other variation than in the title, which there runs: "A Teare sent his Mistresse". Dr. Grosart notes that Staines was at the time a royal residence. 128. _His Farewell to Sack._ A manuscript version of this poem at the British Museum omits many lines (7, 8, 11-22, 29-36), and contains few important variants. "Of the yet chaste and undefiled bride" is a poor anticipation of line 6, and "To raise the holy madness" for "To rouse the sacred madness" is also weak. For the line and a half:-- "Prithee not smile Or smile more inly, lest thy looks beguile," we have the very inferior passage:-- "I prithee draw in Thy gazing fires, lest at their sight the sin Of fierce idolatry shoot into me, and I turn apostate to the strict command Of nature; bid me now farewell, or smile More ugly, lest thy tempting looks beguile". This MS. version is followed in the first published text in _Witts Recreations_, 1645. 130. _Upon Mrs. Eliz. Wheeler._ "The lady complimented in this poem was probably a relation by marriage. Herrick's first cousin, Martha, the seventh daughter of his uncle Robert, married Mr. John Wheeler." Nott. 132. _Fold now thine arms._ A sign of grief. Cp. "His arms in this sad knot". _Tempest._ 134. _Mr. J. Warr._ This John Warr is probably the same as the "honoured friend, Mr. John Weare, Councellour," of a later poem. Dr. Grosart quotes an "Epitaph upon his honoured friend, Master Warre," by Randolph. Nothing is known of him, but I find in the Oxford Register that a John Warr matriculated at Exeter College, 16th May, 1619, and proceeded M.A. in 1624. He may possibly be Herrick's friend. 137. _Dowry with a wife._ Cp. Ovid, _Ars Am._ ii. 155: Dos est uxoria lites. 139. _The Wounded Cupid._ This is taken from Anacreon, 33 [40]:-- Ἔρως ποτ' ἐν ῥόδοισιν κοιμωμένην μέλιτταν οὐκ εἶδεν, ἀλλ' ἐτοώθη τὸν δάκτυλον· παταχθείς τὰς χεῖρας ὠλόλυξεν· δραμὼν δὲ καὶ πετασθεις πρὸς τὴν καλὴν Κυθήρην ὄλωλα, μᾶτερ, εἶπεν, ὄλωλα κἀποθνήσκω· ὄφις μ' ἔτυψε μικρός πτερωτός, ὃν καλοῦσιν μέλιτταν οἱ γεωργοί. ἁ δ' εἶπεν· εἰ τὸ κέντρον πονεῖ τὸ τᾶς μελίττας, πόσον δοκεῖς πονοῦσιν, Ἔρως, ὅσους σὺ βάλλεις; 142. _A Virgin's face she had._ Herrick is imitating a charming passage from the first Æneid (ll. 315-320), in which Æneas is confronted by Venus:--