Soame, and to Susanna and Thomas Herrick. Other recipients of the honour are Sir Edward Fish and Dr. Alabaster, Jack Crofts, Master J. Jincks, etc.
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497. All flowers sent, etc. See Virgil's—or the Virgilian—Culex, ll. 397-410.
Martial's bee. See Epig. IV. xxxii.
De ape electro inclusa.
Et latet et lucet Phaethontide condita gutta,
Ut videatur apis nectare clausa suo.
Dignum tantorum pretium tulit illa laborum.
Credibile est ipsam sic voluisse mori.
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500. To Mistress Dorothy Parsons. This "saint" from Herrick's Temple may certainly be identified with the second of the three children (William, Dorothy, and Thomasine) of Mr. John Parsons, organist and master of the choristers at Westminster Abbey, where he was buried in 1623. Herrick addresses another poem to her sister Thomasine:—
"Grow up in beauty, as thou dost begin,
And be of all admired, Thomasine".
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502. 'Tis sin to throttle wine. Martial, I. xix. 5: Scelus est jugulare Falernum.
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506. Edward, Earl of Dorset, Knight of the Garter, grandson of Thomas Sackville, author of Gorboduc. He succeeded his brother, Richard Sackville, the third earl, in 1624, and died in 1652. Clarendon describes a duel which he fought with Lord Bruce in Flanders.
Of your own self a public theatre. Cp. Burton (Democ. to Reader) "Ipse mihi theatrum".
