934. _The Bondman._ Cp. Exodus xxi. 5, 6: "And if the servant shall plainly say: I love my master, my wife, and my children: I will not go out free: Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the doorpost; and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl, and he shall serve him for ever". 936. _My kiss outwent the bonds of shamefastness._ Cp. Sidney's _Astrophel and Stella_, sonnet 82. For _not Jove himself_, etc., cp. 10, and note. 938. _His wish._ From Martial, II. xc. 7-10:-- Sit mihi verna satur: sit non doctissima conjux: Sit nox cum somno, sit sine lite dies, etc. 939. _Upon Julia washing herself in the river._ Imitated from Martial, IV. xxii.:-- Primos passa toros et adhuc placanda marito Merserat in nitidos se Cleopatra lacus, Dum fugit amplexus: sed prodidit unda latentem, Lucebat, totis cum tegeretur aquis. Condita sic puro numerantur lilia vitro, Sic prohibet tenuis gemma latere rosas, Insilui mersusque vadis luctantia carpsi Basia: perspicuae plus vetuistis aquae. 940. _Though frankincense_, etc. Ovid, _de Medic. Fac._ 83, 84:-- Quamvis thura deos irataque numina placent, Non tamen accensis omnia danda focis. 947. _To his honoured and most ingenious friend, Mr. Charles Cotton._ Dr. Grosart annotates: "The translator of Montaigne, and associate of Izaak Walton"; but as the younger Cotton was only eighteen when _Hesperides_ was printed, it is perhaps more probable that the father is meant, though we may note that Herrick and the younger Cotton were joint-contributors in 1649 to the _Lacrymæ Musarum_, published in memory of Lord Hastings. For a tribute to the brilliant abilities of the elder Cotton, see Clarendon's _Life_ (i. 36; ed. 1827). 948. _Women Useless._ A variation on a theme as old as Euripides. Cp. _Medea_, 573-5:-- χρῆν γὰρ ἀλλοθέν ποθεν βροτοὺς παῖδας τεκνοῦσθαι, θῆλυ δ' οὐκ εἶναι γένος· χοὒτως ἂν οὐκ ἦν οὐδὲν ἀνθρώποις κακόν. 952. _Weep for the dead, for they have lost the light_, cp. Ecclus. xxii. 11. 955. _To M. Leonard Willan, his peculiar friend._ A wretched poet; author of "The Phrygian Fabulist; or the Fables of Æsop" (1650), "Astraea; or True Love's Mirror" (1651), etc. 956. _Mr. John Hall, Student of Gray's Inn._ Hall remained at Cambridge till 1647, and this poem, which addresses him as a "Student of Gray's Inn," must therefore have been written almost while _Hesperides_ was passing through the press. Hall's _Horæ Vacivæ, or Essays_, published in 1646, had at once given him high rank among the wits. 958. _To the most comely and proper M. Elizabeth Finch._ No certain identification has been proposed.