Shakspeare and George Herbert

Your correspondent D.S. (Vol. ii., p. 263.) has pointed out two illustrations to Shakspeare in George Herbert's poems. The *parallel passages* between the two poets are exceedingly numerous. There are one or two which occur to me on the instant:— *The Church Porch*: "In time of service, seal up both thine eyes, And send them to thy heart; that, spying sin, They may weep out the stains, by them did rise." Cf. *Hamlet*, III. 4.: "O Hamlet, speak no more; Thou turnst mine eyes into my very soul, And there I see such black and grained spots As will not leave their tinct." *Gratefulness*: "Thou, th…