820. _Suffer that thou canst not shift._ From Seneca; the title from _Ep._ cvii.: Optimum est pati quod emendare non possis, the epigram from _De Provid._ 4, as translated by Thomas Lodge, 1614, "Vertuous instructions are never delicate. Doth fortune beat and rend us? Let us suffer it"--whence Herrick reproduces the printer's error, _Vertuous_ for Vertues (Virtue's). 821. _For a stone has Heaven his tomb._ Cp. Sir T. Browne, _Relig. Med._ § 40: "Nor doe I altogether follow that rodomontado of Lucan (_Phars._ vii. 819): Coelo tegitur qui non habet urnam, He that unburied lies wants not his hearse, For unto him a tomb's the universe". 823. _To the King upon his taking of Leicester._ May 31, 1645, a brief success before Naseby. 825. _'Twas Cæsar's saying._ Tiberius ap. Tacit. _Ann._ ii. 26: Se novies a divo Augusto in Germaniam missum plura consilio quam vi perfecisse. 830. _His Loss._ A reference to his ejection from Dean Prior. 837. _Mistress Amy Potter._ Daughter of Barnabas Potter, Bishop of Carlisle, Herrick's predecessor at Dean Prior. 839. _Love is a circle ... from good to good._ So Burton, III. i. 1, § 2: Circulus a bono in bonum. 844. TO HIS BOOK. _Make haste away._ Martial, III. ii. Ad Librum suum--Festina tibi vindicem parare, Ne nigram cito raptus in culinam Cordyllas madidâ tegas papyro, Vel thuris piperisque sis cucullus. _To make loose gowns for mackerel._ From Catullus, xcv. 1:-- At Volusi annales Paduam morientur ad ipsam, Et laxas scombris saepe dabunt tunicas. 846. _And what we blush to speak_, etc. Ovid, _Phaedra to Hipp._ 10: Dicere quae puduit scribere jussit amor. 849. _'Tis sweet to think_, etc. Seneca, _Herc. Fur._ 657-58: Quae fuit durum pati Meminisse dulce est. 851. _To Mr. Henry Lawes, the excellent composer of his lyrics._ Henry Lawes (1595-1662), the friend of Milton, admitted a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, 1625. In the _Noble Numbers_ he is mentioned as the composer of Herrick's _Christmas Carol_ and the first of his two _New-Year's Gifts_. Lawes also set to music Herrick's _Not to Love_, _To Mrs. Eliz. Wheeler_ (Among the Myrtles as I walked), _The Kiss_, _The Primrose_, _To a Gentlewoman objecting to him his Grey Hairs_, and doubtless others. 852. _Maidens tell me I am old._ From Anacreon: Λέγουσιν αἱ γυναῖκες Ἀνακρέων γέρων εἶ κ.τ.λ. With a significant variation--"Ill it fits"--for μᾶλλον πρέπει. 859. _Master J. Jincks._ Not identified. 861. _Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their own._ Aristot. _Politics_, iii. 7: καλεῖν εἰώθαμεν τῶν μὲν μοναρχιῶν τὴν πρὸς τὸ κοινὸν ἀποβλέπουσαν συμφέρον βασιλείαν ... ἡ τυραννίς ἐστι μοναρχία πρὸς τὸ συμφέρον τὸ τοῦ μοναρχοῦντος. 869. _Sir Thomas Heale._ Probably a son of the Sir Thomas Hele, of Fleet, Co. Devon, who died in 1624. This Sir Thomas was created a baronet in 1627, and according to Dr. Grosart was one of the Royalist commanders at the siege of Plymouth. He died 1670.