Thus much have I done for thy memory, Mis- tress Prew! In spite of Herrick's disparagement of Dean- bourn, which he calls "a rude river," and his characterization of Devon folk as "a peo- ple currish, churlish as the seas," the fullest and pleasantest days of his life were prob- ably spent at Dean Prior. He was not un- mindful meanwhile of the gathering political storm that was to shake England to its foun- dations. How anxiously, in his solitude, he watched the course of events, is attested by many of his poems. This solitude was not without its compensation. "I confess," he says,英文原著 · 《Ponkapog Papers》
"I have a wife whom I protest I love. I wish she were in heaven if she could but entreat some power there to change the cruel temper of this currish Jew."英文原著 · 《Tales From Shakespeare》