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a 17th-century English lyric poet and cleric. He is best known for Hesperides, a book of poems. This includes the carpe diem poem "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time", with the first line "Gather ye rosebuds while ye may." Herrick wrote over 2,500 poems, about half of which appear in his major work, Hesperides. Hesperides also includes the much shorter Noble Numbers, his first book, of spiritual works, first published in 1647. He is well known for his style and, in his earlier works, for frequent references to lovemaking and the female body. His later poetry was more of a spiritual and philosophical nature.
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Carcan: (1) An iron collar used for punishment, in the 13th through 16th centuries. (2) An ornamental collar or nec...
Cunctation: Delaying; delaying action. From 16th into the 19th century. Robert Herrick, in HESPERIDES (1648), cried: Br...
Nectarel: Like nectar; fragrant. In TO HIS MISTRESSES (HESPERiDES, 1648) Robert Herrick says: For your breaths too, l...
Tind: To light, to kindle; hence, to inflame, arouse; also, to catch fire, become ignited; to become inflamed or ...
Zonulet: A little zone, a zonelet; especially, a girdle or belt (for a maiden's waist). Robert Herrick says in HESPE...
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Robert Herrick1591, Aug1623
 
16741674, Oct

Robert Bruce15541587
 
16241631, Jul 27
 Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland which was called on 6 February 1588 t...
Ericus Erici Sorolainen15461583
 
16251625
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King James I1566, Jun 191603
 
16251625, Mar 27
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16261626
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16261626, Dec 10
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16271628, Jul 20
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1629unknown
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16291629, Sep 7
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1629unknown
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Leopold V1586, Oct 91623
 
16321632, Sep 13
 the son of Archduke Charles II of Inner Austria, and the younger brother of Emperor Ferdinand II,...
George Abbot1562, Oct 191611
 
16331633, Aug 5
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John Marston1576, Oct 71598
 
16341634, Jun 25
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Antonio de Andrade15801600
 
16341634, Mar 19
 a Jesuit priest and explorer from Portugal. Engaged in missionary activity in India, was the firs...
Geoffrey Keating1569 ca1603
 
16341644 ca
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1636unknown
 Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria for the Greek Orthodox Church (1620-1636). He was distinguished ...
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1637unknown
 Ecumenical Patriarch (1636-1637)*Church of Constantinople
Johann Heinrich Alsted1588, Mar1608
 
16381638, Nov 9
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Cyril I Lucaris1572, Nov 131612
 
16381638, Jun 27
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Anne Hutchinsonunknown1634
 
 
1638unknown
 a Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and an important participant in the Antinomian Controv...
Cyril II Kontaresunknown1633
 
 
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Mitrophanes Kritikopoulosunknown1636
 
 
1639unknown
 Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria for the Greek Orthodox Church (1636-1639). His activities were m...
Murad IV1612, Jul 26/271623
 
16401640, Feb 8
 the Sultan and Caliph of the Ottoman Empire from 1623 to 1640, known both for restoring the autho...
Richard Bernard15681598
 
16411641
 an English Puritan clergyman and writer. Barnard was a Calvinist Puritan, but a moderate one. Ber...
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1641unknown
 an English Royalist divine. On 9 December 1630 Edward was admitted to the vicarage of Christ Chur...
Joseph Hall1574, Jul 11597
 
16431656, Sep 8
 an English bishop, satirist and moralist. His contemporaries knew him as a devotional writer, and...
Pope Urban VIII1568, Apr 51592
 
16441644, Jul 29
  Pope (Roman Catholic Church) from 1623 to his death in 1644. He expanded the papal territory by ...
Parthenius Iunknown1639
 
 
1644unknown
 Ecumenical Patriarch (1639-1644)*Church of Constantinople
William Laud1573, Oct 71601
 
16451645, Jan 10
 an English bishop and academic. He was the Archbishop of Canterbury for the Church of England fro...
Nikiphorosunknown1639
 
 
16451645, Apr
 Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria (1639-1645) for the Greek Orthodox Church. During his tenure as ...
Matthew IIIunknown1631
 
 
16461646, Mar 31
 the 100th Pope of Alexandria for the Coptic Orthodox Christian Church from 1631 to 1646 and Patri...
John Abbot1587/881623
 
16471650 ca
 an English Roman Catholic clergyman and poet. His birthplace is uncertain, but may have been Lond...
Thomas Edwards [2]1599 ca1625
 
 
16471647
 an English Puritan clergyman. He was a very influential preacher in London of the 1640s, and also...
Ibrahim I1615, Nov 51640
 
 
16481648, Aug 18
 the Sultan and Caliph (Sunni Islam) of the Ottoman Empire/Caliphate from 1640 until 1648. Ibrahim...
Charles I1600, Nov 191625
 
 
16491649, Jan 30
 was monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and Supreme Governor of the ...
Jasper Fisher15911630
 
 
1649unknown
 an English divine and dramatist. About 1631 (according to Anthony Wood) he became rector of Wilsd...
Naftali Hertzunknown1640
 
 
1649unknown
 a German rabbi, born in Frankfurt, author of the controversial work Emeq HaMelekh (Valley of the ...
Parthenius IIunknown1640
 
 
1651unknown
 the Ecumenical Patriarch for the Church of Constantinople for two periods (1644-1646, 1648-1651)....
Godefroy Wendelin1580, Jun 61599
 
16521667, Oct 24
 a Flemish astronomer. The crater Vendelinus on the Moon is named after him. Around 1630 he measur...
Athanasius III Patelarosunknown1634
 
 
1652unknown
 Ecumenical Patriarch (1634, 1635 and 1652)*Church of Constantinople
Pierre Gassendi1592, Jan 221617
 
16531655, Oct 24
 a French philosopher, priest, scientist, astronomer, and mathematician. While he held a church po...
Cardinal Jules Raymond Mazarin1602, Jul 141628
 
 
16531661, Mar 9
 an Italian cardinal, diplomat, and politician, who served as the Chief Minister to the King of Fr...
Theodore Tronchin1582, Apr 171608
 
16551657, Nov 19
 a Swiss Calvinist theologian, controversialist and Hebraist. He studied theology at Geneva, Basel...
Pope Innocent X1574, May 61626
 
 
16551655, Jan 7
  Pope for the Roman Catholic Church from 15 September 1644 to his death in 1655. Born in Rome of ...
Paisius Iunknown1640
 
 
1655unknown
 a two-time Ecumenical Patriarch for the Church of Constantinople (August 1, 1652-April 1653, Marc...
Joannicius IIunknown1624
 
 
16561659/1660
 Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople four times from 1646 to 1656 (1646-1648; 1651-1652; 1653-1...
Pope Mark VIunknown1646
 
 
16561656, Apr 20
 the 101st Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of the See of St. Mark for the Coptic Orthodox Church. P...
David Pardo [1]1591 ca1610
 
16571657, Mar 15
 a Dutch rabbi and hakham. He was born at Salonica to Rabbi Joseph and Reina in the second half of...
Menasseh Ben Israel16041632
 
 
16571657, Nov 20
 a Portuguese rabbi, kabbalist, writer, diplomat, printer and publisher, founder of the first Hebr...
Ioannikiosunknown1645
 
 
16571657, Sep 15
 Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria (1645-1657) for the Greek Orthodox Church. During his tenure as ...
Oliver Cromwell1599, Apr 251628
 
 
16581658, Sep 3
 an English military and political leader and later Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England,...
Gabriel IIunknown1648
 
 
16591659, Dec 3
  the Ecumenical Patriarch of for the Church of Constantinople for one week in 1657. In 1659 he wa...
Cyril IIIunknown1650
 
 
1659unknown
  the Ecumenical Patriarch of the Church of Constantinople for two short terms in 1652 and 1654. T...
Richard Cromwell1626, Oct 41658
 
 
16591712, Jul 12
 Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, and one of only two commoners to become the Engl...
Theophanes IIunknown1659
 
 
1659unknown
 Ecumenical Patriarch (1659)*Church of Constantinople
Saul Levi Morteira1596 ca1616
 
16601660, Feb 10
 a Dutch rabbi of Portuguese descent. Morteira was the founder of the congregational school Keter ...
Lobsang Chökyi Gyalsten15701570
 
16621662
 the fourth Panchen Lama of the Gelug (Yellow Hat sect) school of Tibetan Buddhism from 1570-1662 ...
Robert Abbot [1]1588 ca1610
 
16621662 ca
 an English theologian who promoted puritan doctrines. He is sometimes mistakenly described as the...
William Aspinwallunknown1648
 
 
1662unknown
  a nonconformist English minister. He proceeded B.A. in 1657, but having obtained orders, went no...
William Ames [2]unknown1655
 
 
16621662
 an early English itinerant Quaker preacher and writer. He joined the Quakers in 1655 at Dublin, h...
William Juxon15821633
 
 
16631663, Jun 4
 an English churchman, Bishop of London from 1633 to 1649 and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1660 u...
Dionysius IIIunknown1662
 
 
1665unknown
 Ecumenical Patriarch (1662-1665)*Church of Constantinople
William Day1605 ca1624
 
 
16661684
 an English cleric and biblical commentator. He received his education at Eton College. He was ele...
Patriarch Nikon I1605, May 71652
 
 
16661681, Aug 17
 the seventh Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus' of the Russian Orthodox Church, serving official...
Pope Alexander VII1599, Feb 131655
 
 
16671667, May 22
 Pope for the Roman Catholic Church from 7 April 1655 to his death in 1667. Alexander VII disliked...
John Wilkins1614, Feb 141637
 
 
16681672, Nov 19
 an Anglican clergyman, natural philosopher and author, and was one of the founders of the Royal S...
John Knowles [1]unknown1646
 
 
1668unknown
 an English antitrinitarian preacher, imprisoned in 1665. A short paper of arguments for the deity...
John Trapp1601, Jun 51622
 
16691669, Oct 16
 an English Anglican Bible commentator. His large five-volume commentary is still read today and i...
Edward Boys [2]15991630
 
 
16691667
 an English divine. Educated at Eton, he was elected a scholar of Corpus Christi College, Cambridg...
Clementunknown1660
 
 
1669unknown
 Ecumenical Patriarch (1667)*Church of Constantinople
Pope Clement IX1600, Jan 281667
 
 
16691669, Dec 9
 Pope for the Roman Catholic Church from 20 June 1667 to his death in 1669. Nothing remarkable occ...
Giovanni Battista Riccioli1598, Apr 171628
 
 
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 an Italian astronomer and a Catholic priest in the Jesuit order. He is known, among other things,...
Ascanio II Piccolomini15901629
 
 
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 the archbishop of Siena from 1629 to 1671. Ascanio was a mathematics pupil of Bonaventura Cavalie...
William Broughunknown1630
 
 
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 an English royalist churchman, Dean of Gloucester from 1643. Brough was a supporter of William La...
Ingen Ryuki1592, Dec 71620
 
16731673, May 19
 a Chinese Linji Chán Buddhist monk, poet, and calligrapher. He is most known for founding the Ob...
Giacomo Carissimi1605, Apr1623
 
16741674, Jan 12
 an Italian composer. He is one of the most celebrated masters of the early Baroque or, more accur...
Gerasimus IIunknown1673
 
1674unknown
 Ecumenical Patriarch (1673-1674)*Church of Constantinople
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16751675, Aug 15
 the 102nd Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of the See of St. Mark for the Coptic Orthodox Church. H...
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16761676, Jul 22
  Pope for the Roman Catholic Church from 29 April 1670 to his death in 1676. On 29 April 1670, th...
Paisios Ligaridesunknown1657
 
1677unknown
 Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria for the Greek Orthodox Church (1657-1677). He went to Moscow fol...
Gilbert Sheldon1598, Jun 191663
 
16771677, Nov 9
 the English Archbishop of Canterbury for the Church of England from 1663 until his death in 1677....
Methodius IIIunknown1646
 
16791679
 the Ecumenical Patriarch for the Church of Constantinople in 1668–1671. Descended from Crete, ...
Thomas Watson [2]1620 ca1646
 
16791686
 an English, Nonconformist, Puritan preacher and author. He showed strong Presbyterian views durin...
Celio Piccolomini16091658
 
16811681, May 24
 a man of the Italian Church, created cardinal by Pope Alexander VII at the Consistory of 14 Janua...
Ngawang Lobsang Gyatso16171642
 
16821682
 the Fifth Dalai Lama of the Gelug (Yellow Hat Buddhism) of Tibet. Gyatso is credited with unifyin...
Parthenius IVunknown1655
 
1685unknown
 a 5-time Ecumenical Patriarch for the Church of Constantinople (1657–1659, 1665–1667, 1671, 1...
Charles II of England1630, May 291660
 
16851685, Feb 6
 the monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and Supreme Governor of the ...
Mehmed IV1642, Jan 21648
 
16871693, Jan 6
 the Sultan and Caliph of the Ottoman Empire from 1648 to 1687. Taking the throne at age six, his ...
John Bunyan1628, Nov1644
 
16881688, Aug 31
 an English writer and Baptist preacher best remembered as the author of the Christian allegory
Pope Innocent XI1611, May 161650
 
16891689, Aug 12
 Pope for the Roman Catholic Church from 21 September 1676 to his death in 1689. He is known as th...
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16901693, Nov 24
 the 79th Archbishop of Canterbury (1678-1690) of the Church of England, and was one of the Seven ...
Michael Wigglesworth16311651
 
16911705
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Isaac Aboab da Fonseca1605, Feb 11623
 
16931693, Apr 4
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16941694, Nov 22
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16961696, Jun 11
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16961696, Sep 23
  Ecumenical Patriarch of the Church of Constantinople for five times, in 1671–73, 1676–79, 16...
Pope Innocent XII1615, Mar 131652
 
17001700, Sep 27
 Pope for the Roman Catholic Church from 12 July 1691 to his death in 1700. He took a hard stance ...
Eliyya X Yohannan Maroginunknown1660
 
1700unknown
 Patriarch (1660-1700)* Assyrian Church of the East
Jacques-Benigne Bossuet1627, Sep 271643
 
17011704, Apr 12
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Philipp Spener1635, Jan 131653
 
17021705, Feb 5
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1702unknown
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17041704, May 3
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Dositheos IIunknown1669
 
1707unknown
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17111720, Feb 27
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17141714, Apr 17
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17211721, Jan 26
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17231723
 the sixteenth Jebtsundamba Khutuktu and the first Bogd Gegeen or supreme spiritual authority, of ...
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17371737
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