223. _The Fairy Temple._ For a brief note on Herrick's fairy poems, see Appendix. On the dedication to Mr. John Merrifield, Counsellor-at-Law, Dr. Grosart remarks: "Nothing seems to be now known of Merrifield. It is just possible that--as throughout the poem--the name was an invented one, 'Merry Field'." But the records of the Inner Temple show that the Merrifields were a legal family from Woolmiston, near Crewkerne, Somersetshire. John (son of Richard) Merrifield, the father, was admitted to the Inner Temple in 1581, and John, the son, in 1611. This latter must be Herrick's Counsellor. He rose to be a Master of the Bench in 1638 and Sergeant-at-Law in 1660. He died October, 1666, aged 75, at Crewkerne. On the other hand, it can hardly be doubted that Dr. Grosart is right in regarding the names of the fairy saints as quite imaginary. He nevertheless suggests SS. Titus, Neot, Idus, Ida, Fridian or Fridolin, Trypho, Felan and Felix as the possible prototypes of "Saint _Tit_, Saint _Nit_, Saint _Is_," etc. It should be noted that "Tit and Nit" occur with "Wap and Win" and other obviously made-up names, in Drayton's _Nymphidia_. 229. _Upon Cupid._ Taken from Anacreon, 5 [59]. Στέφος πλέκων ποθ' εὗρον ἐν τοῖς ῥόδοις Ἔρωτα· καὶ τῶν πτερῶν κατασχών ἐβάπτισ' εἰς τὸν οἶνον· λαβὼν δ' ἔπινον αὐτόν, καὶ νῦν ἔσω μελῶν μου πτεροῖσι γαργαλίζει. 234. _Care will make a face._ Ovid, _Ar. Am._ iii. 105: Cura dabit faciem, facies neglecta peribit. 235. _Upon Himself._ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1654, under the title: _On an old Batchelor_, and with the variants, _married_ for _wedded_, l. 3, _one_ for _a_ in l. 4, and _Rather than mend me, blind me quite_ in l. 6. 238. _To the Rose._ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1654, with the variants _peevish_ for _flowing_ in l. 4, _say, if she frets, that I have bonds_ in l. 6, _that can tame although not kill_ in l. 10, and _now_ for _thus_ in l. 11. The opening couplet is from Martial, VII. lxxxix.:-- I, felix rosa, mollibusque sertis Nostri cinge comas Apollinaris. 241. _Upon a painted Gentlewoman._ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1650, under the title, _On a painted madame_. 250. _Mildmay, Earl of Westmoreland._ See Note to 112. According to the date of the earl's succession, this poem must have been written after 1628. 253. _He that will not love_, etc. Ovid, _Rem. Am._ 15, 16:-- Si quis male fert indignae regna puellae, Ne pereat nostrae sentiat artis opem. _How she is her own least part._ _Ib._ 344: Pars minima est ipsa puella sui, quoted by Bacon, Burton, Lyly, and Montaigne. Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1654, with the variants, '_freezing_ colds and _fiery_ heats,' and 'and how she is _in every_ part'. 256. _Had Lesbia_, etc. See Catullus, _Carm_. iii. 260. _How violets came blue._ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1654, as _How the violets came blue_. The first two lines read:-- "The violets, as poets tell, With Venus wrangling went".