1050. _Causeless whipping._ Ovid, _Heroid._ v. 7, 8: Leniter ex merito quicquid patiare, ferendum est; Quae venit indignae poena, dolenda venit. Quoted by Montaigne, III. xiii. 1052. _His comfort._ Terence, _Adelph._ I. i. 18: Ego ... quod fortunatum isti putant, Uxorem nunquam habui. 1053. _Sincerity._ From Hor. _Ep._ I. ii. 54: Sincerum est nisi vas, quodcunque infundis acescit. Quoted by Montaigne, III. xiii. 1056. _To his peculiar friend, M. Jo. Wicks._ See 336 and Note. Written after Herrick's ejection. We know that the poet's uncle, Sir William Herrick, suffered greatly in estate during the Civil War, and it may have been the same with other friends and relatives. But there can be little doubt that the poet found abundant hospitality on his return to London. 1059. _A good Death._ August. _de Disciplin. Christ._ 13: Non potest malè mori, qui benè vixerit. 1061. _On Fortune._ Seneca, _Medea_, 176: Fortuna opes auferre non animum potest. 1062. _To Sir George Parry, Doctor of the Civil Law._ According to Dr. Grosart, Parry "was admitted to the College of Advocates, London, 3rd Nov., 1628; but almost nothing has been transmitted concerning him save that he married the daughter and heir of Sir Giles Sweet, Dean of Arches". I can hardly doubt that he must be identified with the Dr. George Parry, Chancellor to the Bishop of Exeter, who in 1630 was accused of excommunicating persons for the sake of fees, but was highly praised in 1635 and soon after appointed a Judge Marshal. If so, his wife was a widow when she came to him, as she is spoken of in 1638 as "Lady Dorothy Smith, wife of Sir Nicholas Smith, deceased". She brought him a rich dower, and her death greatly confused his affairs. 1067. _Gentleness._ Seneca, _Phoen._ 659: Qui vult amari, languidâ regnet manu. And Ben Jonson, _Panegyre_ (1603): "He knew that those who would with love command, Must with a tender yet a steadfast hand, Sustain the reins". 1068. _Mrs. Eliza Wheeler._ See 130 and Note. 1071. _To the Honoured Master Endymion Porter._ For Porter's patronage of poetry see 117 and Note. 1080. _The Mistress of all singular Manners, Mistress Portman._ Dr. Grosart notes that a Mrs. Mary Portman was buried at Putney Parish Church, June 27, 1671, and this was perhaps Herrick's schoolmistress, the "pearl of Putney". 1087. _Where pleasures rule a kingdom._ Cicero, _De Senect._ xii. 41: Neque omnino in voluptatis regno virtutem posse consistere. _He lives who lives to virtue._ Comp. Sallust, _Catil._ 2, s. fin. 1088. _Twice five-and-twenty (bate me but one year)._ As Herrick was born in 1591, this poem must have been written in 1640.