604. _Old Religion._ Certainly not Roman Catholicism, though Jonson was a Catholic. Herrick uses the noun and its adjective rather curiously of the dead: cp. 82, "To the reverend shade of his religious Father," and 138, "When thou shalt laugh at my religious dust". There may be something of this use here, or we may refer to his ancient cult of Jonson. But the use of the phrase in 870 makes the exact shade of meaning difficult to fix. 605. _Riches to be but burdens to the mind._ Seneca _De Provid._ 6: Democritus divitias projecit, onus illas bonae mentis existimans. 607. _Who covets more is evermore a slave._ Hor. I. _Ep._ x. 41: Serviet aeternum qui parvo nesciet uti. 615. _No Wrath of Men._ Cp. Hor. _Od._ III. iii. 1-8. 616. _To the Maids to walk abroad._ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1650, under the title: _Abroad with the Maids_. 618. _Mistress Elizabeth Lee, now Lady Tracy._ Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas, first Lord Leigh of Stoneleigh, in Warwickshire, married John, third Viscount Tracy. She survived her husband two years, and died in 1688. 624. _Poets._ _Wantons we are_, etc. From Ovid, _Trist._ ii. 353-4:-- Crede mihi, mores distant a carmine nostri: Vita verecunda est, Musa jocosa, mihi. 625. _'Tis cowardice to bite the buried._ Cp. Ben Jonson, _The Poetaster_, I. 1: "Envy the living, not the dead, doth bite"; perhaps from Ovid, _Am._ I. xv. 39: Pascitur in vivis livor; post fata quiescit. 626. _Noble Westmoreland._ See Note to 112. _Gallant Newark._ Robert Pierrepoint was created Viscount Newark in 1627 and Earl of Kingston in the following year. But Herrick is perhaps addressing his son, Henry Pierrepoint, afterwards Marquis of Dorchester (see 962 and Note), who during the first Earl of Kingston's life would presumably have borne his second title. 633. _Sweet words must nourish soft and gentle love._ Ovid, _Ars Am._ ii. 152: Dulcibus est verbis mollis alendus amor. 639. _Fates revolve no flax they've spun._ Seneca, _Herc. Fur._ 1812: Duræ peragunt pensa sorores, Nec sua retro fila revolvunt. 642. _Palms ... gems._ A Latinism. Cp. Ovid, _Fasti_, i. 152: Et nova de gravido palmite gemma tumet. 645. _Upon Tears._ Cp. S. Bernard: Pœnitentium lacrimæ vinum angelorum. 649. _Upon Lucy._ Printed in _Witts Recreations_, 1650, under the title, _On Betty_. 653. _To th' number five or nine._ Probably Herrick is mistaking the references in Greek and Latin poets to the mixing of their wine and water (_e.g._, Hor. _Od._ III. xix. 11-17) for the drinking of so many cups. 654. _Long-looked-for comes at last._ Cp. G. Herbert, preface to Sibbes' Funeral Sermon on Sir Thomas Crew (1638): "That ancient adage, 'Quod differtur non aufertur' for 'Long-looked-for comes at last'". 655. _The morrow's life too late is_, etc. Mart. I. xvi. 12: Sera nimis vita est crastina: vive hodie. 662. _O happy life_, etc. From Virg. _Georg._ ii. 458-9:-- O fortunatos nimium sua si bona norint Agricolas.