157. _No Herbs have power to cure Love._ Ovid, _Met._ i. 523; id. _Her._ v. 149: Nullis amor est medicabilis herbis. For the 'only one sovereign salve' cp. Seneca, _Hippol._ 1189: Mors amoris una sedamen. 159. _The Cruel Maid._ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1650, with no other variant than the mistaken omission of "how" in l. 7. I do not think that it has been yet pointed out that the whole poem is a close imitation of Theocritus, xxiii. 19-47:-- Ἄγριε παῖ καὶ στυγνέ, κ.τ.λ. Possibly Herrick meant to translate the whole poem, which would explain his initial _And_. But cp. Ben Jonson's _Engl. Gram._ ch. viii.: "'And' in the beginning of a sentence serveth instead of an admiration". 164. _To a Gentlewoman objecting to him his gray hairs._ Mr. Hazlitt quotes an early MS. copy headed: "An old man to his younge Mrs.". The variants, as he observes, are mostly for the worse. The poem may have been suggested to Herrick by Anacreon, 6 [11]:-- Λέγουσιν αἱ γυναῖκες, Ἀνακρέων, γέρων εἶ· λαβὼν ἔσοπτρον ἄθρει κόμας μὲν οὐκέτ' οὔσας κ.τ.λ. 168. _Jos. Lo. Bishop of Exeter._ Joseph Hall, 1574-1656, author of the satires. 169. _The Countess of Carlisle._ Lucy, the second wife of James, first Earl of Carlisle, the Lady Carlisle of Browning's _Strafford_. 170. _I fear no earthly powers._ Probably suggested by Anacreon [36], beginning: τί με τοὺς νόμους διδάσκεις; Cp. also 7 [15]: Οὔ μοι μέλει τὰ Γύγεω. 172. _A Ring presented to Julia._ Printed without variation in _Witts Recreations_, 1650, under the title: "With a O to Julia". 174. _Still thou reply'st: The Dead._ Cp. Martial, VIII. lxix. 1, 2:-- Miraris veteres, Vacerra, solos Nec laudas nisi mortuos poetas. 178. _Corinna's going a-Maying._ Herrick's poem is a charming expansion of Chaucer's theme: "For May wol have no slogardye a night". The account of May-day customs in Brand (vol. i. pp. 212-234) is unusually full, and all Herrick's allusions can be illustrated from it. Dr. Nott compares the last stanza to Catullus, _Carm._ v.; but parallels from the classic poets could be multiplied indefinitely. _The God unshorn_ of l. 2 is from Hor. I. _Od_. xxi. 2: Intonsum pueri dicite Cynthium. 181. _A dialogue between Horace and Lydia._ Hor. III. _Od._ ix. _Ramsey._ Organist of Trinity College, Cambridge, 1628-1634. Some of his music still exists in MS.