Note 1. Ask me why I send you here. This song has been attributed to both Carew and Herrick, but is claimed unreservedly for Herrick in Grosart’s, Palgrave’s, and Pollard’s editions of the poet. Quiller-Couch in his Golden Pomp says, “I have used Carew’s text which appears to me superior;” but on examining the same editor’s “Oxford Book of English Verse” there is discovered his use of the accepted text from the Hesperides, 1648, which seems to leave no doubt as to his final opinion of the authorship. I append the reading of the first stanza of Carew’s text, in which the variants are mostly contained:
