Ad Eundem

Herrico succede meo: dedit ille priora
Carmina, carminibus non meliora tuis.<14.1>

<14.1> Herrick's HESPERIDES had appeared in 1648.

<<PERI TOY AYTOY.

Aoulakios pollaplasios philos estin emeio.
  Tounoma esti philos, kai to noema philos.
Kai phylon antiphylo megaloisin agaklyton ergois:
  Tes aretes cheiros kai phrenos anchinoos.
Hos neos en tytthais pinytos selidessin etheke
  Poieton ekaston chromat epagromenos.
Phrouron Mousaon, pokinon essena Melisson,
  En Charitessi charin, kai Meleessi meli.>>
               Scripsit Jo. Harmarus,
                    Oxoniensis, C. W. M.<15.1>

<15.1> A celebrated scholar and philologist. An account of him will be found in Bliss's edition of Wood's ATHENAE. He published an Elegy on St. Alban the Protomartyr and an Apology for Archbishop Williams, and edited Scapula. These lines are omitted by Singer.

POEMS.

SONG. SET BY MR. HENRY LAWES. TO LUCASTA. GOING BEYOND THE SEAS.

                    I.
  If to be absent were to be
      Away from thee;
    Or that when I am gone,
    You or I were alone;
Then my LUCASTA might I crave
Pity from blustring winde or swallowing wave.

                    II.
  But I'le not sigh one blast or gale
      To swell my saile,
    Or pay a teare to swage
    The foaming blew-gods rage;
For whether he will let me passe
Or no, I'm still as happy as I was.

                    III.
  Though seas and land betwixt us both,
      Our faith and troth,
    Like separated soules,
    All time and space controules:
Above the highest sphere wee meet,
Unseene, unknowne, and greet as angels greet

                    IV.
  So then we doe anticipate
      Our after-fate,
    And are alive i'th' skies,
    If thus our lips and eyes
Can speake like spirits unconfin'd
In Heav'n, their earthy bodies left behind.

<16.1> Of Henry and William Lawes an account may be found in Burney and Hawkins. Although the former (H. Lawes) set many of Lovelace's pieces to music, only two occur in the AYRES AND DIALOGUES FOR ONE, TWO, AND THREE VOYCES, 1653-55-8, folio.