ThefollowingLinesoccasion'dbytheMarriageofEdwardHerbertEsquire,andMrs.ElizabethHerbert."Elizabeth Herbert, great-great-granddaughter of the fourth
Earl of Pembroke, married Edward Herbert of Swansea, county Glamorgan. The "Worsley" of the poem is
the Frances Worsley who became Lady Cartaret in 1710. Hence the marriage of Edward and Elizabeth Herbert
must have occurred before that date, or when Edward was nineteen and Elizabeth sixteen."
(Reynolds [1903], 422)
CUPIDonedayask'dhisMother,Whenshemeantthatheshou'dWed?You'retooYoung,myBoy,shesaid:NorhasNaturemadeanotherFittomatchwithCupid'sBed.CupidthenherSightdirectedToalatelyWeddedPair;WhereHimselftheMatcheffected;TheyasYouthful,theyasFair.HavingbyExamplecarry'dThisfirstPointintheDispute;WORSELEYnexthesaid'snotMarry'd:Her'swithCupid'sCharmsmaysuit.