208. _Gather ye rosebuds while ye may._ Set to music by William Lawes in Playford's second book of "Ayres," 1652. Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1654, with the variants: "Gather _your_ Rosebuds" in l. 1; l. 4, _may_ for _will_; l. 6, _he is getting_ for _he's a-getting_; l. 8, _nearer to his setting_ for _nearer he's to setting_. The opening lines are from Ausonius, ccclxi. 49, 50 (quoted by Burton, _Anat. Mel._ III. 2, 5 § 5):-- Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus, et nova pubes, Et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum: cp. also l. 43:-- Quam longa una dies, ætas tam longa rosarum. 209. _Has not whence to sink at all._ Seneca, _Ep._ xx.: Redige te ad parva ex quibus cadere non possis. Cp. Alain Delisle: Qui decumbit humi non habet unde cadat. 211. _His poetry his pillar._ A variation upon the Horatian theme:-- "Exegi monumentum aere perennius Regalique situ pyramidum altius". (III. _Od._ xxx.) 212. _What though the sea be calm._ Almost literally translated from Seneca, _Ep._ iv.: Noli huic tranquillitati confidere: momento mare evertitur: eodem die ubi luserunt navigia sorbentur. 213. _At noon of day was seen a silver star._ "King Charles the First went to St. Paul's Church the 30th day of May, 1630, to give praise for the birth of his son, attended with all his Peers and a most royal Train, where a bright star appeared at High Noon in the sight of all." (_Stella Meridiana_, 1661.) 213. _And all most sweet, yet all less sweet than he._ It is characteristic of Herrick that in his _Noble Numbers_ ("The New-Year's Gift") he repeats this line, applying it to Christ. _The swiftest grace is best._ Ὠκεῖαι χάριτες γλυκερώτεραι. Anth. Pal. x. 30. 214. _Know thy when._ So in _The Star-song_ Herrick sings: "Thou canst clear All doubts and manifest the where". 219. _Lord Bernard Stewart_, fourth son of Esme, third Duke of Lennox, and himself created Earl of Lichfield by Charles I. He commanded the king's troop of guards, and was killed at the battle of Rowton Heath, outside Chester, Sept. 24, 1645. Clarendon (_History of the Rebellion_, ix. 19) thus records his death and character: "Here fell many gentlemen and officers of name, with the brave Earl of Litchfield, who was the third brother of that illustrious family that sacrificed his life in this quarrel. He was a very faultless young man, of a most gentle, courteous, and affable nature, and of a spirit and courage invincible; whose loss all men lamented, and the king bore it with extraordinary grief." _Trentall._ Properly a set of thirty masses for the repose of a dead man's soul. Here and elsewhere Herrick uses the word as an equivalent for dirge, but Sidney distinguished them: "Let dirige be sung and trentalls rightly read. For love is dead," etc. "Hence, hence profane," is the Latin, _procul o procul este profani_ of Virg. _Æn._ vi. 258, where "profane" is only equivalent to uninitiated.