Page 137. 275. CROSSES. "goods" corrected to _good_. "Though good things answer many good intents," Page 316. Note to 479. " owers" corrected to _flowers_. "Smell sweet, O ye flowers, in your native sweetness:" Unresolved Errors: The following errors remain as printed: In 405. TO HIS BOOK., _Chipperfeild_, has been retained as it is unclear whether this is a misprint, or intentional. In 101. BARLEY-BREAK; OR, LAST IN HELL. No corresponding note can be found for _Barley-break, a country game resembling prisoners' base_. ABERDEEN UNIVERSITY PRESS. ROBERT HERRICK THE HESPERIDES & NOBLE NUMBERS: EDITED BY ALFRED POLLARD WITH A PREFACE BY A. C. SWINBURNE VOL. II. _REVISED EDITION_ [Illustration] LONDON: NEW YORK: LAWRENCE & BULLEN, LTD., CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 16 HENRIETTA STREET, W.C. 153-157 FIFTH AVENUE 1898. 1898. HESPERIDES. 569. A HYMN TO THE GRACES. When I love (as some have told, Love I shall when I am old), O ye Graces! make me fit For the welcoming of it. Clean my rooms, as temples be, T' entertain that deity. Give me words wherewith to woo, Suppling and successful too; Winning postures, and, withal, Manners each way musical: Sweetness to allay my sour And unsmooth behaviour. For I know you have the skill Vines to prune, though not to kill, And of any wood ye see, You can make a Mercury. _Suppling_, softening. _Mercury_, god of eloquence and inventor of the lyre. 570. TO SILVIA. No more, my Silvia, do I mean to pray For those good days that ne'er will come away. I want belief; O gentle Silvia, be The patient saint, and send up vows for me. 573. THE POET HATH LOST HIS PIPE. I cannot pipe as I was wont to do, Broke is my reed, hoarse is my singing, too; My wearied oat I'll hang upon the tree, And give it to the sylvan deity. 574. TRUE FRIENDSHIP. Wilt thou my true friend be? Then love not mine, but me. 575. THE APPARITION OF HIS MISTRESS CALLING HIM TO ELYSIUM. _Desunt nonnulla ----_