One ear tingles; some there be That are snarling now at me: Be they those that Homer bit, I will give them thanks for it. 1097. UPON KINGS. _Kings must be dauntless; subjects will contemn Those who want hearts and wear a diadem._ 1098. TO HIS GIRLS. Wanton wenches, do not bring For my hairs black colouring: For my locks, girls, let 'em be Grey or white, all's one to me. 1100. TO HIS BROTHER, NICHOLAS HERRICK. What others have with cheapness seen and ease In varnish'd maps, by th' help of compasses, Or read in volumes and those books with all Their large narrations incanonical, Thou hast beheld those seas and countries far, And tell'st to us what once they were, and are. So that with bold truth thou can'st now relate This kingdom's fortune, and that empire's fate: Can'st talk to us of Sharon, where a spring Of roses have an endless flourishing; Of Sion, Sinai, Nebo, and with them Make known to us the new Jerusalem; The Mount of Olives, Calvary, and where Is, and hast seen, thy Saviour's sepulchre. So that the man that will but lay his ears As inapostate to the thing he hears, Shall by his hearing quickly come to see The truth of travels less in books than thee. _Large_, exaggerated. _Incanonical_, untrustworthy. 1101. THE VOICE AND VIOL. Rare is the voice itself: but when we sing To th' lute or viol, then 'tis ravishing. 1102. WAR. If kings and kingdoms once distracted be, The sword of war must try the sovereignty 1103. A KING AND NO KING. _That prince who may do nothing but what's just, Rules but by leave, and takes his crown on trust._ 1104. PLOTS NOT STILL PROSPEROUS. All are not ill plots that do sometimes fail; Nor those false vows which ofttimes don't prevail. 1105. FLATTERY. What is't that wastes a prince? example shows, 'Tis flattery spends a king, more than his foes. 1109. EXCESS. Excess is sluttish: keep the mean; for why? Virtue's clean conclave is sobriety. _Conclave_, guard. 1111. THE SOUL IS THE SALT. The body's salt the soul is; which when gone, The flesh soon sucks in putrefaction. 1117. ABSTINENCE. Against diseases here the strongest fence Is the defensive virtue, abstinence. 1118. NO DANGER TO MEN DESPERATE. When fear admits no hope of safety, then Necessity makes dastards valiant men. 1119. SAUCE FOR SORROWS. Although our suffering meet with no relief, _An equal mind is the best sauce for grief_. 1120. TO CUPID. I have a leaden, thou a shaft of gold; Thou kill'st with heat, and I strike dead with cold. Let's try of us who shall the first expire; Or thou by frost, or I by quenchless fire: _Extremes are fatal where they once do strike, And bring to th' heart destruction both alike_. 1121. DISTRUST.