The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2

Name: The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2
Author: Herrick, Robert

Herrick, Robert

Poetry

_Witts Recreations_ was again reprinted in 1663, 1667, and perhaps
oftener. In 1817 it was issued as vol. ii. of a collection of _Facetiæ_,
of which Mennis and Smith's _Musarum Deliciæ_ and _Wit Restor'd_ formed
vol. i. On the title-page _Witts Recreations_ is said to be printed from
edition 1640, with all the wood engravings and improvements of
subsequent editions, and in the preface it is explained to be "reprinted
after a collation of the four editions, 1640, 41, 54, and 63, for the
purpose of bringing together in one body all the various articles spread
throughout, and not to be found in any one edition". This 1817 reprint
was re-issued by Hotten in 1874, and this re-issue, as his references to
pagination show, was the one used by Dr. Grosart. The date 1640 on the
title-page may have caught his eye and led to his mistaken allusion to
the "prior publication" of the Herrick poems in 1640, whereas
_Hesperides_ was published in 1648, and the editions of _Witts
Recreations_ which contain anything of his besides the _Description of a
Woman_ and _A Farewell to Sack_, in 1650, 1654, etc.

In the Notes to the present edition I have drawn attention to all
variations in the text of the poems as printed by Herrick and the later
editors, and now subjoin a complete list of the poems under the titles
which they take in _Witts Recreations_, with their numbers in this
edition.

Edition.

A Farewell to Sack.
 [Not in _Hesp._] The Description of a Woman.

Edition Adds:--

A Tear sent to his M^is.
The Cruel Maid.
His Misery.
With a Ring to Julia.
On Gubbs.
On Bunce.
On Guesse.
On a Painted Madam.
On a Child.
On Sneape.
A Foolish Querie.
A Check to her Delay.
Nothing New.
Long and Lazy.
To a Stale Lady.
Gain and Gettings.
On Doll.
On Skrew.
On Linnit.
On Raspe.
On Himself.
Love and Liberty.
On Skinns.
On Craw.
On Jack and Jill.
Change.
To Julia.
On Umber.
Little and Loud.
Abroad with the Maids.
On Lungs.
On a Child.
On an Old Man, a Residentiary.
On Cob.
On Betty.
On Skoles.
Ambition.
On Zelot.
On Crab.
On Women's Denial.
Adversity.
On Tuck.
Adversity.
On Trigg.
Possessions.
Maids' Nays.
On Julia's Weeping.
No Pains No Gains.
Alvar and Anthea.
A Hymn to Bacchus.
Anger.
Verses.
On Bice.
On Trencherman.
Kisses.
On Punchin.
On a Maid.
Beauty.
Writing.
Satisfaction.
On Love.
ll. 13, 14, Sharp Sauce.
On Lulls.
Truth.
On Ben Jonson.
An Hymn to Love.
Leaven.
On Boreman.
On Love.
On Gut.
On Rump.
Sauce for Sorrows.
Of this Book.

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