872. _Love is a kind of war._ Ovid, _Ars Am._ II. 233, 34:-- Militiae species amor est: discedite segnes! Non sunt haec timidis signa tuenda viris. 873. _A spark neglected_, etc. Ovid, _Rem. Am._ 732-34:-- E minimo maximus ignis erit. Sic nisi vitaris quicquid renovabit amorem, Flamma redardescet quae modo nulla fuit. 874. _An Hymn to Cupid._ From Anacreon:-- Ὠναξ, ᾧ δαμάλης Ἔρως καὶ Νύμφαι κυανώπιδες πορφυρέη τ' Ἀφροδίτη συμπαίζουσιν ... γουνοῦμαί σε, κ.τ.λ. 885. _Naught are all women._ Burton, III. ii. 5. § 5. 907. _Upon Mr. William Lawes, the rare musician._ Elder brother of the more famous Henry Lawes; appointed a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, 1602, and also one of Charles I.'s musicians-in-ordinary. When the Civil War broke out he joined the king's army and was killed by a stray shot during the siege of Chester, 1645. He set Herrick's _Gather ye rosebuds_ to music. 914. _Numbers ne'er tickle_, etc. Martial, I. xxxvi.:-- Lex haec carminibus data est jocosis, Ne possint, nisi pruriant, juvare. 918. _M. Kellam._ As yet unidentified. Dr. Grosart suggests that he may have been one of Herrick's parishioners, and the name sounds as of the west country. 920. _Cunctation in correction._ Is Herrick translating? According to a relief at Rome the lictors' rods were bound together not only by a red thong twisted from top to bottom, but by six straps as well. 922. _Continual reaping makes a land wax old._ Ovid, _Ars Am._ iii. 82: Continua messe senescit ager. 923. _Revenge._ Tacitus, _Hist._ iv. 3: Tanto proclivius est injuriae quàm beneficio vicem exsolvere; quia gratia oneri, ultio in quaestu habetur. 927. _Praise they that will times past._ Ovid, _Ars Am._ iii. 121:-- Prisca juvent alios: ego me nunc denique natum Gratulor; haec aetas moribus apta meis. 928. _Clothes are conspirators._ I can suggest no better explanation of this oracular epigram than that the tailor's bill is an enemy of a slender purse. 929. _Cruelty_. Seneca _de Clem._ i. 24: Ferina ista rabies est, sanguine gaudere et vulneribus; (i. 8), Quemadmodum praecisae arbores plurimis ramis repullulant [H. uses repullulate, -tion, 336, 794], et multa satorum genera, ut densiora surgant, reciduntur; ita regia crudelitas auget inimicorum numerum tollendo. Ben Jonson, _Discoveries_ (_Clementia_): "The lopping of trees makes the boughs shoot out quicker; and the taking away of some kind of enemies increaseth the number". 931. _A fierce desire of hot and dry._ Cp. note on 683. 932. _To hear the worst_, etc. Antisthenes ap. _Diog. Laert._ VI. i. 4, § 3: Ἀκούσας ποτὲ ὅτι Πλάτων αὐτὸν κακῶς λέγει Βασιλικὸν ἔφη καλῶς ποιοῦντα κακῶς ἀκούειν, quoted by Burton, II. iii. 7.