96. _Sung to the King._ See Note on 17. _Composed by M. Henry Lawes._ See _Hesperides_ 851, and Note. 102. _The Star-Song._ This may have been composed partly with reference to the noonday star during the Thanksgiving for Charles II.'s birth. See _Hesperides_ 213, and Note. _We'll choose him King._ A reference to the Twelfth Night games. See _Hesperides_ 1035, and Note. 108. _Good men afflicted most._ Taken almost entirely from Seneca, _de Provid._ 3, 4: Ignem experitur [Fortuna] in Mucio, paupertatem in Fabricio, ... tormenta in Regulo, venenum in Socrate, mortem in Catone. The allusions may be briefly explained for the unclassical. At the siege of Dyrrachium, Marcus Cassius Scæva caught 120 darts on his shield; Horatius Cocles is the hero of the bridge (see Macaulay's _Lays_); C. Mucius Scævola held his hand in the fire to illustrate to Porsenna Roman fearlessness; Cato is Cato Uticensis, the philosophic suicide; "high Atilius" will be more easily recognised as the M. Atilius Regulus who defied the Carthaginians; Fabricius Luscinus refused not only the presents of Pyrrhus, but all reward of the State, and lived in poverty on his own farm. 109. _A wood of darts._ Cp. Virg. _Æn._ x. 886: Ter secum Troius heros Immanem aerato circumfert tegmine silvam. 112. _The Recompense._ Herrick is said to have assumed the lay habit on his return to London after his ejection, perhaps as a protection against further persecution. This quatrain may be taken as evidence that he did not throw off his religion with his cassock. Compare also 124. _All I have lost that could be rapt from me._ From Ovid, III. _Trist._ vii. 414: Raptaque sint adimi quae potuere mihi. 123. _Thy light that ne'er went out._ Prov. xxxi. 18 (of 'the Excellent Woman'): "Her candle goeth not out by night". _All set about with lilies._ Cp. _Cant. Canticorum_, vii. 2: Venter tuus sicut acervus tritici, vallatus liliis. _Will show these garments._ So Acts ix. 39. 134. _God had but one son free from sin._ Augustin. _Confess._ vi.: Deus unicum habet filium sine peccato, nullum sine flagello, quoted in Burton, II. iii. 1. 136. _Science in God._ Bp. Davenant, _on Colossians_, 166, _ed._ 1639; speaking of Omniscience: Proprietates Divinitatis non sunt accidentia, sed ipsa Dei essentia. 145. _Tears._ Augustin. _Enarr. Ps._ cxxvii.: Dulciores sunt lacrymae orantium quàm gaudia theatorum. 146. _Manna._ Wisdom xvi. 20, 21: "Angels' food ... agreeing to every taste".