Other variants are _did_ for _sho'd_ in l. 3; _Girl_ for _Girls_; _you_ for _ye_; _do_ for _dare_. 264. _That verse_, etc. Herrick repeats this assurance in a different context in the second of his _Noble Numbers_, _His Prayer for Absolution_. 269. _The Gods to Kings the judgment give to sway._ From Tacitus, _Ann._ vi. 8 (M. Terentius to Tiberius): Tibi summum rerum judicium dii dedere; nobis obsequi gloria relicta est. 270. _He that may sin, sins least._ Ovid, _Amor._ III. iv. 9, 10:-- Cui peccare licet, peccat minus: ipsa potestas Semina nequitiae languidiora facit. 271. _Upon a maid that died the day she was married._ Cp. Meleager, Anth. Pal. vii. 182: Οὐ γάμον ἀλλ' Ἀίδαν ἐπινυμφίδιον Κλεαρίστα δέξατο παρθενίας ἅμματα λυομένα· Ἄρτι γὰρ ἑσπέριοι νύμφας ἐπὶ δικλίσιν ἄχευν λωτοί, καὶ θαλάμων ἐπλαταγεῦντο θύραι· Ἠῷοι δ' ὀλολυγμὸν ἀνέκραγον, ἐκ δ' Ὑμέναιος σιγαθεὶς γοερὸν φθέγμα μεθαρμόσατο, Αἱ δ' αὐταὶ καὶ φέγγος ἐδᾳδούχουν παρὰ παστῷ πεῦκαι καὶ φθιμένᾳ νέρθεν ἔφαινον ὁδόν. 278. _To his Household Gods._ Obviously written at the time of his ejection from his living. 283. _A Nuptial Song on Sir Clipseby Crew._ Of this Epithalamium (written in 1625 for the marriage of Sir Clipseby Crew, knighted by James I. at Theobald's in 1620, with Jane, daughter of Sir John Pulteney), two manuscript versions, substantially agreeing, are preserved at the British Museum (Harl. MS. 6917, and Add. 25, 303). Seven verses are transcribed in these manuscripts which Herrick afterwards saw fit to omit, and almost every verse contains variants of importance. It is impossible to convey the effect of the earlier version by a mere collation, and I therefore transcribe it in full, despite its length. As before, variants and additions are printed in italics. The numbers in brackets are those of the later version, as given in _Hesperides_. The marginal readings are variants of Add. 25, 303, from the Harleian manuscript. 1 [1]. "What's that we see from far? the spring of Day Bloom'd from the East, or fair _enamell'd_ May Blown out of April; or some new Star fill'd with glory to our view, Reaching at Heaven, To add a nobler Planet to the seven? Say or do we not descry Some Goddess in a Cloud of Tiffany To move, or rather the Emerg_ing_ Venus from the sea? 2 [2]. "'Tis she! 'tis she! or else some more Divine Enlightened substance; mark how from the shrine Of holy Saints she paces on _Throwing about_ Vermilion And Amber: spice- ing the chafte-air with fumes of Paradise. Then come on, come on, and yield A savour like unto a blessed field, When the bedabbled morn Washes the golden ears of corn. 3.