Note 87 — VPON TWO GREENE APRICOCKES SENT TO COWLEY BY SIR CRASHAW.[87]
Reading edition
Appeared originally in 1648 'Delights;' but is not given in 1670 edition. Line 14 is an exquisitely-turned allusion to Cowley's title-page of his juvenile Poems, 'Poetical Blossoms,' 1633. 'Apricocks' = apricots. So Herrick in the 'Maiden Blush,'
'So cherries blush, and kathern peares, And apricocks, in youthfull yeares.'
(Works, by Hazlitt, vol. ii. p. 287.) G.