John Eyrick or
Heyricke--he spelled his name recklessly--had five sons, the second of
which sought a career in London, where he became a goldsmith, and in
December, 1582, married Julian Stone, spinster, of Bedfordshire, a
sister to Anne, Lady Soame, the wife of Sir Stephen Soame. One of the
many children of this marriage was Robert Herrick.
It is the common misfortune of the poet's biographers, though it was
the poet's own great good fortune, that the personal interviewer was an
unknown quantity at the period when Herrick played his part on the stage
of life. Of that performance, in its intimate aspects, we have only the
slightest record.
Robert Herrick was born in Wood street, Cheapside, London, in 1591, and
baptized at St. Vedast's, Foster Lane, on August 24 of that year. He had
several brothers and sisters, with whom we shall not concern ourselves.
It would be idle to add the little we know about these persons to the
little we know about Herrick himself. He is a sufficient problem without
dragging in the rest of the family.
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