•ia»**?*-' CIjc iullci: Morlljics' f ibvaig. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF RICHARD CRASHAW. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. MEMOBIAL-INTHODUCTION. STEPS TO THE TEMPLE. CAEMEN DEO NOSTRO. THE DELIGHTS OF THE MUSES. AIRELLES. LONDON : ROBSON AND SONS, PRINTERS, PAUCKAS ROAD, N.W. / ^hj Jfulbr Mortbies' fibranj. THE COMPLETE WORKS RICHARD CRASHAW. FOR THE FIRST TIME COLLECTED AND COLLATED WITH THE ORIGINAL AND EARLY EDITIONS, AND MUCH ENLARGED WITH I. Hitherto unpriiitocl and inelited Poems from Archbishop Sancroffs MSS. &c. &c. II. Ti-anslation of the whole of the Poemata et Epigrammata. III. Memorial-Introduction, Essay on Life and Poetry, and Notes. IV. In Quarto, reproduction in facsimile of the Author's own Illustra- tions of 1652, with others specially prepared. EDITKI) liY THE REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART, ST. GEORGE'S, BLACKBURN, LANCASHIRE. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. 1872. 1 no copies printed. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from Princeton Theological Seminary Library http://archive.org/details/completewo01cras TO THE VERY REVEREXU JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, D.D. AS AX EXPRESSIOX OF GRATITUDE FOR FUXDAMEXTAL IXTELLECTUAL AXD SPIRITUAL gUICKEXIXtt AXD XURTURE POUXD IX AXD SUSTAIXED BY HIS WRITINGS EARLIER AXD LATEST, THIS EDITIOX OF A POET HE LOVES AS EXGLISHMAX AXD CATHOLIC IS DEDICATED BY ALEXANDER B. GROSART. CONTENTS. Those marked [*] are priiik'il for the first tiinc from Mss. ; those markeil [t] have additions for the first time given in their places. PAGE Dedication v Preface xi Memorial-Introduction xxvii Note xl The Preface to the Reader xlv Sacred Poetry : I, Steps to the Temple, and Carmen Deo Nostra, 1-181. tSainte Mary Magdalene, or the Weeper 3 Sancta Maria Dolorvm, or the Mother of Sorrows: a pathe- ticall Descant upon the deuout Plamsong of Stahat Mater Dolorosa .......... 19 fThe Teare 25 fThe Office of the Holy Crosse 29 Vexilla Regis : the Hymn of the Holy Crosse . . .44 The Lord silences His Questioners. ..... 47 Our Blessed Lord in His Cfrcuracision to His Father . . 48 On the Wounds of our crucitied Lord 50 Vpon the bleeding Crucilix : a song 51 tTo the Name above every name, the Name of lesvs : a hymn 55 Psalrae xxiii. 65 Psalnie cxxxvii. ......... 68 tin the Holy Nativity of ovr Lord God: a hj-mn svng as by the Shepheards 70 New Year's Day 76 fin the gloriovs Kpiphanic of ovr Lord God: a hymn svng as by the three Kings -79 To the IJveen's Maiesty ........ 91 VUl CONTENTS. PAGE Vpon Easter Day 94 Sospetto d' Herode 95 The H^inn of Sainte Thomas, in Adoration of the Blessed Sa- crament 121 Lavda Sion Salvatorem : the Hymn for the Bl. Sacrament . 124 fPrayer : an Ode which was prefixed to a little Prayer-book given to a young Gentle- woman 128 To the same Party: Covncel concerning her Choise . . 134 Description of a Religiovs Hovse and Condition of Life (out of Barclay) 137 On Mr. George Herbert's Booke intituled the Temple of Sacred Poems : sent to a Gentle-woman 139 tA Hj-mn to the Name and Honor of the admirable Sainte Teresa 141 fAn Apologie for the foregoing Hymn, as hauing been writt when the Author was yet among the Protestants . . 150 jThe Flaming Heart : vpon the Book and Picture of the sera- phical Saint Teresa, as she is vsvally expressed with a Seraphim biside her 152 A Song of Divine Love 157 tin the gloriovs Ass%Tnption of ovr Blessed Lady . . .158 •fUpon five piovs and learned Discourses by Robert Sbelford . 162 Dies irie, dies Ula : the Hymn of the Chvrch, in meditation of the Day of Ivdgment 166 Charitas Ximia, or the dear Bargain 170 S. Maria Maior : the Himn, O gloriosa Domina . . 173 Hope [by Cowley] 175 M. Crashaw's Answer for Hope ...... 178 Sacred Poetry: IL Airelks, 183-194. *Mary seeking Jesus when lost . . . ■. 185 *The Wounds of the Lord Jesus 187 *0n y'= Gunpowder- Treason 188 * Ditto 190 t Ditto 192 Secular Poetry : I. The DellgliU of the Muses. 195-276. JIusick's Duell . 197 111 the Pniise of the Spring (out of Virgil) .... 207 Wiih a Picture sent to a Friend 20S CONTENTS. IX PAGE fin praise of Lcssius's Kiile of Health ..... 209 The IJei^iiining of Hclioiloriis ...... 212 Cupid's Crycr (out of the Greel and 1648 are left without name rUKFACK. XXI or initials — page 7 to 22 contains Latin Poems and Epi- grams still impnblislicil. On page 22 is a large letter C =Crashaw. The pagination then leaps to p. 39 and goes on to page 04, and consists of Latin Poems and one in Greek ' On other Snbjects,' also wholly unpnblished. Page 06 is blank, and a blank leaf follows. Then there is a Latin poem by Wallis, and pp. 95-0 contain other Latin poems by Crashaw, in part published. Pages 97- 102 are blank, and the pagination again leaps to p. Ill, where begin the English Sacred Poems, continuing to page 137, with ' Crashaw' written at end. These pages (111-137) contain mainly Poems and Epigrams before published. On page 130 is a short poem ' On Good Friday' by T. Randolph. On page 135 are two poems by Dr. Alabaster: then, on page 130, Crashaw's poem ' On the Assumption,' and on page 137, a short poem by Wotton. Pages 138- 142 are blank, and once more the pagination passes to p. 159, where there is a poem by Giles Fletcher (pp. 159-160) — printed by us in Ap- pendix to Poems of Dr. Giles Fletcher in our Fuller Worthies' Miscellanies. Pages 160-1 have poems by Corbett (erroneously inserted as Herrick's by Haz- litt in his edition of Herrick), and a Song by Wotton. On page 102 'The Faire Ethiopian,' by Crashaw: p. 163, 'Upon Mr. CI.' [Cleveland?], who made a Song against the D.D.s — The complaint of a woman with child [both anonymous]. Then at page 104 ' Upon a gnatt burnt in a candle,' by Crashaw (being entered in Index as supra), and never published. On pages 105-6, Love's Horoscope (published) : p. 166, Ad Ainicam. T. E. (not by Cu vsiiaw, being entered in Index under Randolph): pp. 107-71, Fidicinis et Philomela Bellum XXU PREFACE. Musicuni, and Upon Herbert's Temple : pp. 172-3, Upon Isaacson's Frontispiece (the second piece): pp. 173-4, An invitation to faire weather (all published before). Then translations from the Latin Poets with ' R. Cr.' above each, pp. 174-178 — all mipiiblished : pp. 178-9, from Virgil (piiblished). Next on pp. 180-87 are the follow- ing : 'On y' Gimpowder-Treason' (three separate pieces), and ' Upon the King's Coronation' (two pieces). These have never been printed until now in our present Vol., and they are unquestionably Crashaw's, inasmuch as (a) All entered thus 104 v. 167 are by him, and so these being entered under his name in Index as 1G7 v. 19G must belong to him ; (J) ' Upon the King's Coronation' are renderings in part of his own Latin; (r) As shown in our Essay (where also their biographic value is shown) unusual words used by Crashaw occur in them. Pp. 187- 90, ' Panegyrick upon the birth of the Duke of York' (published): pp. 190-2, 'Upon the birth of the Princesse Elizabeth' (never before printed). Pages 192-190, poems by Corbett, Wotton, and others. Pages 19G-7, Trans- lation from the Latin Ex Euphormione (not before pub- lished), and on Lessius (published). Then pp. 197-201, poems by various, in part anonymous: pp. 202-3, An Elegy on Staninougli — not having his name or initials, but entered in Index under his name — (never before pub- lished) : pp. 203-5, In obitum desider. M" Chambers (published, but the heading new), and Upon the death of a friend (not before published) : p. 205, ' On a cobler' (anonymous): p. 206, In obitum D' Brooke: Epitaphium Conjug. (published) : page 207, poem by Culveuweli. : p. 208, blank; and then the pagination passes to p. 223. Pages 223-229, poems on Hcrrys [or Harris") (all pub- IMlElWCi:. XXIU Hslied, but with variations) : pp. "i^'J-GO, Elcgie on Dr. Porter (never before published, and entered in Index under Crashaw) : from p. 231 to 238, various poems, but none by Crashaw; then the pagination leaps to p. 238, and goes on to_ p. 255, with various pieces, but again none by Crash.\w. On pp. 297-8 are eight of the published English Epigrams. All the other anony- mous and avowed poems being entered in the Index separately from Crashaw's, and under either their titles or authors, makes us safe to exclude them from our Volumes. On the other hand, the Index-entries and ' R. C together, assure us that rich and virgin as is the treasure-trove of unprinted and unpublished Poems — English and Latin, especially the Latin — it is without a shadow of doubt Richard Crashaw's, and of supreme worth. I have also had the good fortune to discover a Harleian ms. from Lord Somers' Library (6917-18), which furnishes some valuable readings of some of the Poems, as recorded and used by us. Throughout we have endeavoured with all fidelity to reproduce our Worthy in integrity of text and ortho- graphy — diminishing only (slightly) italics and capitals, and as usual giving capitals to all divine Names (nouns and pronouns) and personifications. In Notes and Il- lustrations all various readings are recorded, and such elucidations and filling-in of names and allusions as are likely to be helpful. It is now my pleasant duty to return right hearty, because heartfelt, thanks to many friends and correspon- dents who have aided me in a somewhat arduous and difficult work and ' labour of love.' To the venerable XXIV PREFACE. and illustrious man whose name by exprcbs permission adorns my Dedication, I owe a debt of gratitude for a beautiful, a pathetic, a (to me) sacred Letter, that greatly animated me to go forward. By my admirable friends Revs. J. H. Clark, M.A., of West Dereham, Xorfolk, and Thomas Ashe, M.A., Ipswich, my edition (as Vol. II. will evidence) is advantaged in various Translations for the first time of the Latin poems, valuable in them- selves, and the more valued for the generous enthusiasm and modesty with which they were offered, not to say how considerably they have lightened my own work in the same field. To Dr. Brinsley Nicholson, who retains in the Army his fine literary culture and acumen ; to W. Alois Wright, Esq., M.A., Trinity College, Cam- bridge; the very Reverend Dr. F. C. Husexbeth, Cossey, Norwich; the Earl and Countess of Dexbigh; Monsignor Stoxor, Rome; to Correspondents at Loretto, Douai, Paris, &c.; and to Colonel Chester and Mr. W. T. Brooke, London, — I wish to tender my warmest thanks for various services most pleasantly rendered ; all to the enrichment of our edition. The Illustrations (in the 4to) speak for themselves. I cannot sufficiently express my ackuowledgments for the spontaneous and ever-increasing willinghood of my artist-poet friend W. J. Lixtox, Esq., who from his temporary Transatlantic home has sent me the exquisite head- and tail-pieces in both volumes, besides cunningly interpreting the two original Illustrations drawn for me by Mrs. HfGii Blackburx of Glasgow, and the Poet's ' Weeper.' To Mrs. Bla( kburx her work is its own abundant reward ; but none the less do I appreciate her great kindness to me. PREFACE. XXV Anything else needing to be said will be found in the Memorial-Introduction and Essay on the Life and Poetry, and Notes and Illustrations. I cannot better close our Preface than with the fine tribute of R. Aris WiLLMOTT, in his ' Dream of the Poets,' wherein he catches up the echo of Cowley across two centuries : Poet and Saint ! thy sky was dark And sad thy lonely vigil here ; But thy meek spirit, like the lark Still showered music on the ear, From its own heaven ever clear : No pining mourner thou ! thy strain Could breathe a slumber upon Pain, Singing thy tears asleep : not long To stray by Siloa's brook was thine : Yet Time hath never dealt thee wrong, Nor brush'd the sweet bloom from thy line : Thou hast a home in eveiy song. In every Christian heart, a shrine. Alexander B. Grosart. 1.5 St. Alban's Place, BlackUimi, I^aiioashire, 4th February 1872. VOL. I. MEMORIAL-INTRODUCTION. In a Study of the Life and Poetry of our present Worthy, which will be found in our Volume II. — thus postponed in order that the completed Works may be before the stu- dent-reader along with it — I venture to hope new hght will be shed on both, and his character as a Man and Poet — one of the richest of the minor Poets of Eng- land — vindicated and interpreted as never hitherto they have been. Some memories cannot bear the ' cniel light' of ctose scrutiny, some poetries when tested prove fal- setto-noted. Richard Crashaw grows on us the more insight we gain. If he were as well known as George Herbert, he would be equally cherished, while his Poetry would be recognised as perfumed with all his devoutness and of a diviner ' stuff' and woven in a grander loom ; in sooth, infinitely deeper and finer in almost eveiy element of true singing as differenced from pious and gracious ver- sifying. In this hurrying-scurrying age, only twos-and- threes take time to hold communion with these ancient Worthies ; and hence my Essay, as with the Fletchers and Lord Brooke and Henry Vaughan, may win-back that recognition and love due to Crashaw. Then, in a much fuller and more adequate Memoir than hitherto furnished of William Crashaw, B.D., Xxviii MEMORIAL-IN-TROUUCTION. father of our Poet-also in our Volume Il.-the usually- criveu ancestral details ^yill appear from new and unused sources So that here and now I intend to limit myself to a brief statement of the few outward Facts t.e. re- serving their relation to the central thing m Richard Ckasha^v's life -his passing from Protestantism to Catholicism, and to contemporaries and mner fnends, and to his Poetry-to our announced Study^ WiLLMOTT in his ' Lives of the English Sacred Poets (vol. first, 1834, vol. second, 1839), begins his fine-toned little Notice thus : ' After an anxious search in al he accessible sources of information, I am able to t 11 httle of one of whom every lover of poetry must desire to know much The time of his birth and of his decease is m- W d in equal mystery n Our ' all' is still ' httle' as compared Jith what we yearn for; but we do not need to begin so dolorously as our predecessor, for we have discovered both the ' time of his Mrthmd of his decease. He was born in London in 1612-3-, this date being ar- rived at from the register-entry of his age on admission to the University, viz. 18 in 1630-1 (as herea ter stated) Shakespkare was then retired to his beloved Stratford Mi.TON was in the sixth year of his cherub-beauty. His father being ' Preacher at the Temple' at the da e would have determined London to have been his birthplace but his admission to Pembroke and his own signature at Peterhouse, 'Richardum CrashawZo,K/m...e.. prove it Who was his mother I have failed to find. The se- cond Mrs. William Cuas.kuv, celebrated in a remark- 1 Fdition of 1834, n. 295 -, of 1S30, vol. i. p. 301. Tiknuuli. adds JJ!:X^:^1. knil..,e. ana repeats all Wiu.M-.. . erroneous dates, &c. MEMUR1AL-INTR0DUCTH)N. XXIX able contemporary poetical tractate printed (if not pub- lished) by Ler bereaved husband (of which more anon and elsewhere, as supra), could not have been the Poet's mother, as she was not married to CiiAsir.vw (pater) until 1619. We should gladly have exchanged the ' Honour of A^ertue or the Monument erected by the sorrowfull Husband and the Epitaphs annexed by learned and worthy men, to the imniortall memory of that worthy Gentle -woman M'*' Elizabeth Crashawe. "Who dyed in child-birth, and was buried in Whit-Chappel : Octob. 8. 1620. In the 24 yeare of her age'— for a page on the first Mrs. Crashaw. Yet is it pleasant to know the motherless little lad received such a new mother as this tribute pictures. In 1G20 he was in his ninth year. Thus twice a broad shadow blackened his father's house and his home. Little more than a year had he his ' second' mother. Our after-Memoir of the elder Crashaw shows that he was a man of no ordinary force of character and influ- ence. The Epistles- dedicatory to his numerous polemical books are addressed with evident familiarity to the fore- most in Church and State : and it is in agreement with this to learn (as we do) that Master Richard gained admission to the great ' Charterhouse' School through Sir Hexry Yelverton and Sir Ranuolrh Crew — the former the patron-friend of the saintly Dr. Sibbes, the latter of Herrick, and both of mark. The Register of Charterhouse as now extant begins in 1680. So that we know not the date of young Crashaw's entry on the ' foundation' provided so munificently by Suttox.^ As 1 The present eminent Head of ' Charterhouse,' Dr. Haig-Bkowx, strove to tind earlier docunients in vain for nic. XXX MEMORIAL-INTRODUCTION. we shall find, one of the Teachers — Brooke — is gratefully and characteristically remembered by our Worthy in one of his Latin poems, none the less gratefully that ' the rod' is recalled. He was 'Schoolmaster' from 1G27-8 to 1G43. The age of admission was 10 to 14 : the latter would bring us to 1G27-8, or Brooke's first year of office. Probably, however, he entered sooner ; but neither Ro- liEUT Grey (1624-2G) nor William Middleton, A.M. (1G26-28), nor others of the Masters or celebrities of the famous School are celebrated by him, with the ex- ception of (afterwards) Bishop Laney. Francis Beau- mont was Head-Master in June 18, 1024, land I should have liked to have been able to associate Crashaw with the Beaumont family. Probably Dr. Joseph Beaumont of ' Psyche' was a school-fellow. How long the Charterhouse was attended is un- known ; but renewed researches at Cambridge add to as well as correct the usual dates of his attendance there. WiLLMOTT states that ' he was elected a scholar of Pem- broke Hall, March 26, 1632,' and remarks, 'and yet we find him lamenting the premature death of his friend, William Herrys, a fellow of the same College, which happened in the October of 1631.'^ He quotes from the Cole mss. The original register in the Admission - book of Pembroke College removes the difficulty, and is otherwise valuable, as will be seen. It is as follows : ' Julij G. 1G31. Richardus Crashawe, Gul-ielmi pres- byteri filius, natus Londini annos habens 18, admissus est ad 2x mensaj ordincm sub tutela M" Tourney.' He was ' matriculated /jeHSJOHe;- of Pembroke, March 2G, 1 As before, vol. ii. p. 30i'. MEMORIAL-INTRODUCTION. XXXI 1(k)2,' but, as above, his 'admission' preceded. Belong- ing to Essex, it is not improbable that Crasiiaw and Harris were school-fellows at the Charterhouse. His ' friendships' and associates, so winsomely ' sung' of, will demand full after-notice. In 1632-3 appeared George Herbert's ' Temple ;' an influential event in our Poet's history. He took the degree of B.A. in 1G34. In 1G34 ' he published anonymously his volume of Latin Epigrams and other Poems ; a very noticeable book from a youth of 20, especially as most must have been composed long prenously. He passed from Pembroke to Peterhouse in 163G; and again I have the satisfaction to give, for the first time, the entry in the old College Register. It is as follows : ' Anno Domini millesimo sexcentesimo tricesimo sexto vicesimo die mensis Novembris Richardus Crashaw admissus fuit a Reverendo in Christo Patre ac D"" D"" Francisco Episcopo Elfecisi ad locum sive societatem Magistri Simon Smith legitime vacantem in Collegio sive Domo S" Petri, et vicesimo secundo die ejusdem mensis coram Magistro et Sociis ejusdem Collegii per- sonaliter constitutus, juramentum prssstitit quod singulis Ordinationibus et Statutis Collegii (quantum in ipso est) reverenter obediret, et specialiter prwter hoc de non ap- pellando contra amotionem suam secundum modum et formam statutorum pr£edictonam et de salvando cistam Magistri Thomre de Castro Bemardi et Magri Thoma? Holbrooke (quantum in ipso est) indemnum, quo jura- mento prrestito admissus fuit a Magistro Collegii in per- petuum socium ejusdem Collegii et in locum supradic- tum. Per me Richardum Crashaw Londinensem.' (p. 500.) xxxii MEMOHIAL-IXTRODUCTIOX. He was made Fellow in 1G37, and ^I.A. in 1638 ; look- ing forward to becoming a ' :Minister' of the Gospel. His Latin Poems in honour of, and in pathetic appeal regarding Peterhocse, are of the rarest interest, and suggest much elucidatory of his great ' change' m re- ligious matters; a change that must have been a sad shock to his ultra-Protestant father, but in which, be- yond all gainsaying, conscience ruled, if the heart qui- vered While at the University he was called on to contribute to the various ' Collections' issued from 1G31 onward; and it certainly is once more noticeable that such a mere youth should have been thus recognised. His Verses — Latin and English -appeared thus with those of Henry Moke, Joseph Beaumont, Edward King ('Lycidas'), Cowley, and others; and more than hold their own. In 1G35 Shelford, ' priest' of Rikgs- • FIELD, obtained a laudatory poem from him for his ' Five Pious and Learned Discourses.' According to Anthony A- Wood, on the authority of one who knew {not from the Registers), he took a degree in 1G41 at Oxford.^ Of his inner Life and experiences during these years (twelve at least), and the influences that went to shape his decision and after-course, and his relation to the Countess of Denbigh, I shall speak fully and I trust helpfully in our Essay. We need to get at the Facts and Circumstances to pronounce a righteous verdict. 1 I feel disposed lo think tb:u it must have been some other K,CH uu, Ckashaw, albeit attendance at both Universities was not uncommon. Wooi.s .vords are. that he was 'incorporated in 164 ■It Oxford; and his authority "the private observation of a certain -Master of Arts, that was this year living in the University; aud i.e adds,-afterwar.ls he was Master of Arts, in which de-rce it is probable he was incorporated' (Fasti, .<:. «.). MEMOUlAI.lNTHOnUCTION. XXXlll For his great- braiucil, stout-hearted, iron-willed Father, the stormy period was cong'enial : but for his son the atmosphere was mephitic ; as the Editor's ' Preface to the Learned Reader,' in his ' character' of liim, suggests. Signatures were being put unsolemnly to the ' Solemn League and Covenant,' and as a political not a religious thing, by too many. Richard Crashaw could not do that, and the crash of ' Ejection' came. Here is the rescript from the Register of PicTERuorsE once more unused hitherto :i ' Whereas in pursuite of an ordinance of Parliament for regulating and reforming of the Universitie of Cam- bridge, I have ejected Mr. Beaumont, Mr. Penniman, Mr. Crashaw, Mr. Holder, Mr. Tyringham, late fellowes of Peterhouse, in Cambridge. And whereas Mr. Charles Hotham, Robert Quarles, Howard Becher, Walter Ellis, Edward Sammes, have been examined and approved by the Assembly of Divines now sitting at Westminster, according to the said Ordinance as fitt to be Fellowes : These are therefore to require you, and every of you, to receive the said Charles Hotham, Robert Quarles, Howard Becher, Walter Ellis, Masters of Arts ; and Edward Sammes, Bach', as fellowes of your Colledge in room of the said Mr. Beaumont, Mr. Penniman, Mr. Crashaw, Mr. Holder, Mr. Tyringham, formerly ejected, and to give them place according to their seniority in the Universitie, in reference to all those that are or shall hereafter bee putt in by mee accordinge to the Ordinance ' I owe very hearty thanks to my good friend Mr. W. Aldis Wright, M.A., Trinity College, Cambridge, and to the Masters and other authorities of IVmbroko and Peterhouse, for unfailing atten- tion to my inquiries and the most zealous aid throughout. VOL. I. '' XXXIV MEMORIAL-INTRODUCTION. of Parliament aforesaid. Given under my hand and seale the cleaventh day of June anno 1G44. ' Manchester. ' To the Master, President; and Fellowes of Peterhouse, in Cambridge.' (p. 518.) ' The ejection' of 1G44, like that larger one of 1662, brought much sorrow and trial to a numbsr of good and true souls. To one so gentle, shy, self-introspective as Crashaw, it must have been as the tearing down of a nest to a poor bird. His fellow-sufferers went hither and thither. Our first glimpse of our Worthy after his ' ejec- tion' is in 1646, when the ' Steps to the Temple' and ' Delights of the Muses' appeared, with its Editor's touching saying at the close of his Preface ' now dead to us.' A second edition, with considerable additions, was published in 1648. Previous to 1646 he had ' gone over' to Catholicism ; for in the ' Steps' of that year is ' An Apologie' for his ' Hymn' — ' In Memory of the Vertuous and Learned Lady Madre de Teresa, that sought an early Marty rdome.' In 1646 it is headed simply ' An Apologie for the precedent Hymne:' in the 'Carmen Deo Nostro' of 1652 it is more fully inscribed ' An Apo- logie for the foregoing Hymn, as hauing been writt when the author was yet among the Protestantes.' His two Latin poems, ^ Fides qvce sola jvstificat non est sine spe et dilectione' and ' Bapiismtis non toUit ftitura pec- cata,' were first published in 1648. Turnbull was either ignorant of their existence or intentionally suppressed them. Our Worthy did not long remain in England. He retired to France ; and his little genial poem on sending ' two green apricocks' to Cowley sheds a gleam of light ME.M0U1AL-1.NTK0ULCT10X. XXXV on Ins residence in Paris. Cowley was in the ' gay city' in 1G4G as Secretary to Lord Jermyn; and inasmuch as the voUnne of that year contained his own alternate-poem on ' Hope,' I like to imagine that he carried over a copy of it to Crashaw, and renewed their old friendship. Cowley, it is told, found our Poet in great poverty : but Car's verses somewhat lighten the gloom. The ' Secre- tary' of Lord Jermyn introduced his friend to the Queen of Charles I., who was then a fugitive in Paris. So it usually runs : but Crasuaw had previously ' sung' of and to her Majesty. From the Queen the Poet obtained letters of recommendation to Italy ; and from a contem- porary notice, hereafter to be used, we learn he became ' Secretary' at Rome to Cardinal Palotta. He appears to have remained in Rome until 1649-50, and by very ' plain speech' on the moraUties, that is immoralities, of certain ecclesiastics, to have drawn down on himself Italian jealousy and threats. His ' good' Cardinal pro- vided a place of shelter in the Lady-chapel of Loretto, of which he was made a Canon. But his abode there was very brief; for, by a document sent me from Loretto, I ascertained that he died of fever after a few weeks' re- sidence only, and was buried within the chapel there, in 1G50.^ Cowley shed 'melodious tears' over his dear friend, in which he turns to fine account his '■fever'' end: and with his priceless tribute, of which Dr. Johnson 1 My 'document' was an extract from an old Register of the Church. I lent it to the late Mr. Robert Bell (who intended to include Crashaw in his ' Poets'), and somehow it got astray. My priest-correspondent at Loretto was ilead when I applied for another copy, and the Register has disappeared. Of the fact, however, that Cuasiiaw died ih IGoO there can be no doubt. XXXvi MEMORIAL-INTRODUCTION. said, ' In these verses there are beauties which cominon authors may justly think not only above their attainment, but above their ambition,'^— I close for the present our Memoir : Ok the Death of Mh. Crashaw. Poet and Saint ! to thee alone are giv'n The two most sacred names of Earth and Heav'n, The hardest, rarest union which can he Next that of godhead with humanity. Long did the Muses hanish'd slaves ahide, And buUt vain p-\Tamids to mortal pride ; Like Moses thou (tho' spells and chai-ms withstand) Hast brought them nobly home, back to their Holy Land. Ah, wietched we. Poets of Earth ! but thou Wert living, the same Poet which thou'rt now ; Whilst angels sing to thee then- ayi-es divine, And joy in an applause so gi-eat as thine. Equal society with them to hold, Thou need'st not make new songs, but say the old ; And they (kind spirits !) shaU aU rejoice to see, How little less than they, exalted man may be. Still the old heathen gods in numbers dwell. The heav'nliest thing on Earth still keeps up HeU : Nor have we yet quite purg'd the Christian land ; Still idols here, like calves at Bethel stand. And tho' Pan's death long since all or'cles broke. Yet stiU in rhyme the fiend Apollo spoke ; Nay, with the worst of heathen dotage, we (Vain men !) the monster woman deifie ; Find stars, and tie our fates there in a face. And Paradise in them, by whom we lost it, place. What diff'rent faults con-upt our Muses thus? Wanton as girls, as old wives, fabulous. Thy spotless Muse, like Mary, did contain The boundless Godhead ; she ilid well disdain 1 Lite of Cowi.iiY. in Livos <.f tlie Poets. . MEMOUIAL-INTRODUCTION. XXXVi: That her eternal verse employ'il should be On a less subject than eternity ; And for a sacred mistress scora'd to take But her whom God Himself scorn'd not His spouse to make ; It (in a kind) her miracle did do, A fruitful mother was, and vii'gin too. How well (blest Swan) did Fate contrive thy death. And made thee render up thy tuneful breath In thy great mistress's arms ! Thou most divine, And richest off 'ring of Loretto's shrine ! ■\Vhere, like some holy sacrifice t' expire, A fever burns thee, and Love lights the fii-e. Angels (they say) brought the fam'd chappel there, And bore the sacred load in triumph thro' the air : "Tis siu-er much they brought thee there ; and they, And thou, theh* charge, went singing all the way. Pardon, my Mother-Church, if I consent That angels led him, when froru thee he went ; For ev'n in eiTor, sure no danger is, AVhen join'd with so much piety as his. Ah ! mighty God, with shame I speak't, and gi-ief ; Ah ! that oui- gi'eatest faults were in belief ! And our weak reason were ev'n weaker yet. Rather than thus, oui- wills too strong for it. His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wi-ong ; his life, I'm sure, was in the right : And I, myself, a Catholick will be ; So far at least, gi-eat Saint ! to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below : Oppos'd by our old enemy, adverse Chance, Attack'd by Envy and by Ignorance ; Enchain'd by Beauty, tortur'd by desu'es, Expos'd by tyrant-love, to savage beasts and fires. Thou from low Earth in nobler flames didst rise. And like Elijah, mount alive the skies. Elisha-like (but with a wish much less, • More fit thy gi'eatuess and my littleness ;) Lo here I beg (I whom thou once didst prove So humble to esteem, so good to love) XXXVm MEMORIAL-INTRODUCTION. Not that thy ep'rit might on me donbled be, I ask but half thy mighty sp'rit for me : And when my Muse soars with so strong a wing, 'Twill leara of things divine, and first of thee to sing.' Alexander B. Grosart, 1 Works, vol. i. (1707) pp. 4-1-7. Line 3 by a strange oversight is misprinted in all the editions I have seen ' The hard, and rarest . . .' I accept Willmott's correction. WOEKS OF EICHAED CEASIIAW. VOL. I. ENGLISH POETRY. NOTE. The title-pnKcs, with coUaliou, of the ori-inal aiul c-arly edi- tions of • Steps to the Temple' and ' The Delights of the MuseB (1(546 to 1670) are here given succesBively : \sre(l:lion,irAr,. (1) STEPS TEMPLE. Sacred Poems, With other Delights of the Muses. By Richard Crashaw, sowr- /hues (/Ff.mbrokf. //(///, and /,//<• Fe//(ru> i/S. Peters Co//. in Cambridge. />rhi/cd and Publis/ied according to Order. LONDON, I'rintcd by T. W. for Humphrey Moselcy, and arc to be sold at his shop at the Princes Armcs in S' I\mh Church- yard. 1 646. (i!) DELIGHTS MUSES. OR, Other Poems written on severall occasions. By Richard Crashaw, sometimes of Pem- broke Hall, and late Fellow o/S<\ Pe- ters Colledge in Cambridge. Mart. Die mihi quid melius desidiosus agas. London, Printed by T. W. for H. Moseley, at the Princes Armes in S. Pauls Churchyard, 1646. [12"] CoUation : Title-page ; the Preface to the Reader, pp. G ; the Author's Motto and short Note to Reader, pp. 2 [all unpaged] ; ' Steps to the Temple,' pp. 99 ; title-page of ' Delights,' as supra, and pp. 103-138; the Tahle, pp. 4. VOL. I. / •2d edition. It! 18. STEPS TO THE TEMPLE, Sacred Poems. With The Delights of the Muses. By Richard Crashaw, some- times 0/ Pembroke Hall, and late fellow o/S. Peters Coll. in Cambridge. The second Edition wherein are added divers pieces not be/ore extant. London, Printed for Humphrey Moseley, and are to be sold at his Shop at the Princes Armes in S! Pauls Church-yard. 1648. [12"] The title-page to tlie ' DeUglits of the Muses' is exactly the same with that of 1646, except the date '1648.' Collation: Engi-aved title-page ; title-page (printed); the Preface to the Keader and the Author's Motto, pp. 6; ' Steps.' pp. HO; the Tahle, pp. 4 ; the ' Delights ;' title-page ; the Table, pp. i ; Poems, pp. 71. ill fMtiott, 1G52. CARMEN DEO NOSTRO, Te Decet Hymnvs Sacred Poems, Collected, Corrected, Avgmented, Most humbly Presented. To My Lady Ihe Covntesse of Denbigh By Her most deuoted Seruant. R. C. In heaty [sk] acknowledgment of his immortall obligation to her Goodnes & Charity. At Paris By Peter Targa, Printer to the Arch- bishope ef [sic] Paris, in S. Victors streete at the golden sunne. M.DC.LII. [8"°] Collation: Title-page; Verses by Car, pp.3; Verse-Letter to Countess of Denbigh, pp. 3 [all unpaged]; the Poems, pp. 131. (See onr Preface for more on this and preceding and suc- ceeding volumes, and for notice of a separate edition of the Verse-Letter to the Countess of Denbigh.) ith edition, evrontously desujiMled 'id edition, l«7(i. STEPS TO THE TEMPLE, THK Delights Of The Muses, and Carmen Deo Nostro. By Ric. Crashaw, sometimes Fellow of Pem- broke Hall, and late Fellow of S\ Peters Collcdge in Cambridge. The 2? Edition. In the Savoy, Printed by T. N. for Henry Herringham at the Blew Anchor in the Loiver Walk of the New Exchange. 1670. [8'°] Collation : Engraving of a ' Temple ;' title-page ; the Pre- face to the Reader and the Author's Motto, pp. 8 ; the Tahle, pp. 6 [aU unpaged] ; ' Steps,' pp. 77 ; ' DeUghts,' pp. 81-137 ; ' Carmen Deo Nostro, Te Decet Hymnvs,' pp. 141-208. For later editions see our Preface, as before, and for details on aU, early and recent, and Manuscripts ; and also our Memorial-In- troduction and Essay. The ' Preface' of 1646 was reprinted in 1648 without change, save a few slight orthographical differ- ences, and these : p. xlvi. line 3, 'theii-' for ' its dearest :' p. sl\ii. line 1, 'subburd' for 'suburb:' and ibid, line 19, 'then' for ' than:' 1648 our text. It foUows this Note in its own place. G. STEPS TO THE TEMPLE, &f. THE PREFACE TO THE READER. Learned Keadeu, The Author's Mend will uot usiu"pe much upon thy eye : This is ouely for those whom tlie name of our divine Poet hath not yet seized^ into admii-ation. I dare under- take tliat what Jamblicus^ [in vita Pythuijonc) affirmetli of his Master, at his contemplations, these Poems can, viz. They shall Uft thee, Header, some yards above the ground : and, as in Pythagoras Schoole, eveiy temper was first tuned into a height by severall proportions of Musick, and spu-ituaUz'd for one of liis weighty lectures ; so maist thou take a poem hence, and tune thy soule by it, into a hea- venly pitch ;3 and thus refined and borne up upon the wings of meditation, in these Poems thou maist talke freely of God, and of that other state. Here's Herbert's* second, but equall, who hath retriv'd Poetry of late, and retm-nd it up to its piinoitive use ; let 1 Query, the legal term 'seized' = taken possession of? So Vau- oiiAN, Siluiist, unci ' O give it ful obedience, that so seu'd Of all I hare, I may not move thy wrath' (i. 164), ' Thou so long seiz'd of my heart' (ib. p. 289). G. - = lamblichus, the celebrated Neo-Platonic philosopher, author of T'^i UuSayiceu ajVVea?, concemirifj; the Philosophy of Pythagoras. G. •* Cf. poem on Lessius, lines IS ;ui(l 38. G. ■• See ourMemorial-lntroiluction and Kssay, for remarks on Hek- bekt's relation to Ckashaw. G. Xlvi STEPS TO THE TEMPLE. it bound back to hcaveu gates, whence it came. Thinke yee St. Augustine would have stejnied his gi-aver learning with a booke of Poetry, had he fancied its dearest end to be the vanity of love -sonnets and epithalamiums ? No. no, he thought with tliis our Poet, tliat eveiy foot in a high-bome verse, might helpe to measm-e the soule into that better world. Divine Poetry, I dare hold it in position, against Suarez on the subject, to be the language of the angels ; it is the quintessence of phantasie and discourse center 'd in Heaven ; 'tis tlie veiy out-goings of the soule ; 'tis what alone our Author is able to tell you, and that in his owne vei'se. It were prophane but to mention here in tlie Preface those under-headed Poets, retainers to seven shares and a halfe ■} madrigall fellowes, whose onely businesse in verse, 1 ' Seven shares and a halfe.' The same phrase occurs in Ben Jouson's Poetaster. The player whom Captain Tucca bullied and fleeced, was one of Henslowe's company, as sho^vTi by Tucca's sting- ing taunt that thev had ' fortmie and the good year on their side; the facts being that the Fortune theatre had just been built, and that the year had been an exceptionally bad one with the hitherto prosperoiis plavers. To call attention tacitly to the allusion ' fortune' !«, in the original editions, printed in italics. Various other players having been mimicked, ridiculed, and reviled, Tucca then bids fare- well to his new acquaintance with— ' commend me to seven shares and a half ;' a remark which bv its position seems to point to the chief men of the companv. But a great part of the oflice of a man- ager like Henslowe was, as exhibited in Henslowe's ovra Diarj-, just such as is depreciatinglv described in our text. He had various dramatic authors, poetasters, and others in his pay and debt. Hence as the Poetaster was written in 1601, and this preface m 1646, it mav be concluded, that 'seven shares and a half was the established proportion taken bv, and therefore a theatrical cant name for, the Manager. It follows also that as the Player was one of Henslowe s companv, the seven shares and a half alluded to by Jonson was Henslowe himself, from whom he had seceded, and with whom he had probablv quarrelled. The question, however, yet remains open, whether seven shares and a half wa« the proportion received by a manager, or that taken bv a proprietor-manager, such as Henslowe was. JSIalone has conjectured that Henslowe drew tifteeu shares; if so, the other seven and a half may have been a.s rent, and out of and '70. St. xvii. line 2, in 1648 misreads ' With loves and tears, and smils disputing.' Turnbull, without the slicrhtest authority, seeing not even in 1670 are the readings found, has thus printed lines 2 and 4, ' With loves, of tears u-ith smiles disporting' . . . ' Each other kissing and comforting' ! ! St. xviii. line 2 in 1648 mis-reads ' Friends with the balsome fires that fill thee." The ' balsome' is an evident misprint, but ' thee' is preferable to ' fill you' of our text (1652), and hence I have adopted it. Line 3 in 1648 reads ' Cause great flames agree.' St. xix. line 3, 1648, reads ' that' for ' the.' Line 4, ib. ' those' for ' these.' Line 6. cf. Revelations xiv. 5, 'These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever He goeth.' St. xxi. line 6. ' wipe with gold,' refers to Mary Magdalene's golden tresses, as also in st. xxii. 'a voluntary mint.' Line 4. ' proiioke'=challenge. St. xxii. line 2. Curiously enough, 1648 edition leaves a blank where we read ' calls "f as iu our text (1652). Turnbull prints ' call'st,' but that makes nonsense. It is caUs 't as=calls it. So too the Sancroft ms. Probably the copy for 1648 was illegible. SAIXTK MAHY M ACDAI.KXE. 17 St. xxiv. line 1. KUO auil 1070 read ■ Does the Night arise ?' Line 2. Our text (1652) misprints ' staiTes' for ' teares' of 1646, 1648 and 1670. Line 3. 1646 and 1670 read • Docs Night loose her ej"es ?' The Sasjcboft ms. reads line 139 'Does the Night arise?' and line 141, ' Does Niget loose her eyes V St. xsv. line 2. 1646 and 1670 read ' Tliy teares' just cadence still keeps time.' So the Sancroft ms. Line 3. Our text (16521 misprints ' paire' tor 'praire.' ' Sweet-breath'd" should probably be pronounced as tlie adjectival of the substantive, not as the participle of the verb. Line 6. 1646, 1648 and 1670 read ' doth' for ' does.' St. xxvi. lines 1 and 2. 1646 and 1670 read ' Thus d<>i»t thou melt tlie yeare Into a weepinp motion. Each minute waitcth heere." So the Sascroft ms. St. xxvii. Restored from 1646 edition. The Sancroft >is. in line 168 miswrites ' teares.' St. xxviii. line 5. reads in 1646 and 1670 ' Others by dayes, by monthcs, by yearcs.' So also the Sancroft ms., wherein this st. follows our st. xv. St. xxix. line 3. Our text (1652) misprints ' fires' for ' tii'e' of 1648. St. XXX. hue 1. Our text (1652) misprints ' Say the bright brothers.' 1646 and 1670 read ' Say watry Brothers.' So Sax- CKOFTMS. 1648 gives 'ye," which I have adopted. The misprint of ' the' in 1652 originated doubtless in the printer's reading ' y'=,' the usual mode of wilting ' the.' Line 2. 1646 and 1670 read ' Yee simpering . . . .' So the Sancroft ms. Line 3, ib. ' fertile' for ' fruitful!.' Line 4, ib. ' ^Miat hath our world that can entice.' So the Sancroft ms. VOL. I. 1) 18 SAIXTK MAIiY MAGDAI.EXK. Lines 5 and 6, ib. ' what is't can borrow Yon from licr eyes, swolne »-onibes of sorrow.' So the Sancroft ms. St. XXXI. line 2. 1640 and 1670 read ' whither ? for the sluttish Earth :' and I accept ' Bluttisli' for ' sordid,' which is also confinned by Sancroft ms. Line 4, ib. ' your' for ' their;' and as this is also the read- ing of 1648 and Sancroft ms., I have accepted it. Line 5. 1646 and 1670 omit ' Sweet.' Line 6, ib. read ' yee' for ' you.' St. xxxii. and xxxiii. In 1646 and 1670 these two stanzas are thrown into one, viz. 23 (there), which consists of the first four lines of xxxii. and the two closing lines of xxxiii. as fol- lows, ' No such thing ; we goe to meet A worthier object, our Lord s feet.' In the Sancroft ms. also, and reads as last line 'A worthy ob- ject, our Lord Jesus feet.' On the closing lines of st. xxxii. cf. Sospetto d'Herode, st. xlviii. I have not thought it needful, either in these Notes or here- after, to record the somewhat arbitrary variations of mere orthogi'aphv in the different editions, as ' haUe" for ' hail,' ' syl- ner" for ' silver," ' hee' for ' he,' and the like. But I trust it will be found that no different wording has escaped record. G. BACKED SANCTA MARIA D O L O R V M. SAXCTA MARIA UULOKVM, Oil THE MOTHER OF SORROWS. A patheticalt Descant vjwn the deuout I'laiiixont) of Stabat Mater Dolorosa.^ In shade of Death's sad tree Stood doleful! shee. Ah she ! now by none other Name to he known, alas, but Sorrow's Mother. Before her eyes, 5 Her's, and the whole World's ioyes, Hanging all torn she sees ; and in His woes And paines, her jiangs and throes : Each wound of His, from euery part, All, more at home in her one heart. 10 1 Appeared originally in ' Steps' of 1648 (pp. 7-9) : reprinted in 1652 and 1670. As before, our text is that of 1652 (pp. 00-6I); but see Notes and Illustrations at close. The illustration, eni,'raved by Mesauer, is reproduced in our illustrated quarto edition. G. IS 20 SANCTA MARIA DOLUKVM. U. What kind of marble, than, Is that cold man AVho can look on and see, Nor keep such noble sorrowes company 1 Sure eu'en from you (l\Iy flints) some drops are due, To see so many unkind swords contest So fast for one soft brest : While with a faithfull, mutuall floud, Her eyes bleed teares, His wounds weep blood. III. O costly intercourse Of deaths, and worse — Diuided loues. WhHe Son and mother Discourse alternate wounds to one another, Quick deaths that grow And gather, as they come and goe : His nailes write swords in her, which soon her heart Payes back, with more then their own smart. Her swords, stUl growing with His pain, Turn spearcs, and straight come home again. 3° IV. She sees her Son. her God, Bow with a load 25 SAXCTA MARIA DOLOKVM. J I Of borrow'tl sins ; ami swimmc In woes that were not made for Him. Ah ! hard command ^e Of lone ! Here must she stand, Charg'd to look on, and with a stedfast ey See her life dy : Leaning her only so much breath As serues to keep aliue her deutli. 40 V. O mother turtle-done ! Soft sourse of loue ! That these dry lidds might borrow Somthing from thy full seas of son-ow ! in that brest . r Of thine (the noblest nest Loth of Loue's fires and flouds) might I recline This hard, cold heart of mine ! The chill lump would relent, and proue Soft subject for the seige of Loue. 50 VI. O teach those wounds to bleed In me ; me, so to read This book of loues, thus -writ In lines of death, my life may coppy it With loj^all cares. c c let me, here, claim shares ! 24 SANCTA MARIA DOLORVM. Till drunk of the dear wounds, 1 l)e A lost thing to tlie world, as it to me. faithful! freind 105 Of mo and of my end ! l''( lid vp my life in loue ; and lay't beneath My dear Lord's vitall death. Lo, heart, thy hope's whole plea ! her pretious brealli Pour'd out in prayrs for thee; thy Lord's in deatli. i 10 NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. St. i. line 10. In 1648 the reading is ' Are more at home in her Ownc heart.' In 1670 ' All, more at home in her own heart.' I think ' all' and ' one' of our text (165'2) preferable. There is a world of jiathos in the latter. Cf. st. ii. line 8. St. ii. line 1. On the change of orthogi-aphy for rhyme, see our Phineas Fletchek, vol. ii. 206 ; and our Lord Brooke, Vaughan, &c. &c., show ' then' and ' than' used as in Crashaw. St. vi. line 3. In 1648 the reading is ' love ;' 1670 as our text (1652). The plural includes the twofold love of Son and mother. Line 7, ib. ' to' for ' in.' Line 9, ib. 'Oh give' at commencement. 1670, 'to' for ' too.' St. vii. and viii. These two stanzas do not appear in 1648 edition, but appear in 1670. St. vii. line 4. By ' tree' the Cross is meant. Cf. st. i. Line 1. St. ix. line 1. 1648 edition supplies the two words required by the measure of the other stanzas, ' in sins.' They are dropped inadvertently in 1652 and. 1670. Turnlmll failed as usual to detect the omission. Line 4. 1648 spells ' Divident." THK TEARK. 25 Lines ") and (5. I have accepted correction of oui'text (1G52) from 1()-18 eilitiou, iu line (J, of 'If for ' Is,' which is also the reading of 1G70. 1(548 substitutes 'just' for 'soft;' but 1()70 does not adopt it, nor can I. St. X. line 1. I(i48 reads 'Lend, lend some reliefc.' Line 9 reads ' To studie thee so.' St. xi. line 3, ib. reads ' thy' for ' the.' Line 8, ib. reads ' Thy deare lost vitall death.' Line 10. I have adopted from 1G48 ' in thy Lord's death' for ' thy lord's in death' of our text (1()5'2). Turnbull has some sad misprints in this poem: e.g. st. ii. line 4, ' sorrow's' for ' sorrows ;' st. iii. line '2, ' death's' for • deaths ;' st. \\. line 9, ' Me to' for ' Me, too ;' st. x. line '2, ' in' for ' an,' and line 3, ' a' mis-inserted before ' sad.' Except in the ' Me to' of st. ^^., he had not even the poor excuse of fol- lowing; the text of 1670. G. THE TKAJ{E." What bright-soft thing is tliis, Sweet Marj', thy faire eyes' expence ? A moist si^ai'ke it is, A watry diamond ; from whence The very tearme, I think, was found, 5 The water of a diamond. ' Appeared oripnally in 'Steps' of 1646 (pp. G-7) : reprinted in 1048 (pp. 9-11) and 1()70 editions. As it does not appear in 'Carmen Deo Nostro,' itc. (lG.i2), our text follows that of IGIS; but see Xotos and Illustrations at close of the pnoiu. G. vol,. 1. 1; 2G THK TKAHE. II. O, 'tis not a teare : 'Tis a star about to dropp From thine eye, its spheare ; The sun will stoope and take it up : i o Proud will his sister be, to weare This thine eyes' iewell in her eare. in. (), 'tis a teare. Too true a teare ; for no sad eyne. How sad so 'ere, 15 Raine so true a teare, as thine ; Each drop leaving a place so deare, Weeps for it self; is its owne teare. IV. Such a pearle as this is, Slipt from Aurora's dewy brest— 20 The rose-bud's sweet lipp kisses ; And such the rose it self that's vext AVith ungentle flames, does shed. Sweating in a too warm bed. V. Such the maiden gem, 25 l?y the pTtrpling vine put on. Peeps from her parent stem, And blushes on the bridegroom sun ; TUK TKAKK. Zl The watry blossonie of thy eyne Kipe, will make the richer wine. 30 VI. Faire drop, wliy quak'st thou so 1 'Cause thou streight must lay thy head In the dust ? 0, no ! The dust shall never be thy bed : A pillow for thee will I bring, 35 Stuft mth downe of angel's wing. VII. Thus carried up on high (For to Heaven thou must goe), Sweetly shalt thou lye, And in soft slumbers bath thy woe, 40 Till the singing orbes awake thee, And one of their bright chorus make thee. Vlll. There thy selfe shalt bee An eye, but not a weeping one ; Yet I doubt of thee, 45 ^\'Tiether th' liad'st rather there have shone An eye of heaven ; or still shine here, In the heaven of Marie's eye, a teare. Tllk; TEA HE. NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. It is to be re-noted that st. v. is identical in all save ' wati-j-' for ' bridegi-oom' with st. xi. of ' The Weeper' as given in text of 1652, and that st. iv. has two lines from st. xxix. of the same poem. Neither of these stanzas appear in ' The Weeper' of Ki-IG. As stated in relative foot-note, I have withdrawn the former from ' The Weeper.' We may be sure it was inadvert- ently inserted in 1652, seeing that the very next stanza closes with the same word ' wine' as in it : a fault which our Poet never could have passed. It is to be noticed too that ' The Teare' did not appear in the edition of 1652. By transferring the stanza to ' The Teare' as in 1646, 1648 and 1670 editions, a blemish is removed from ' The Weeper,' while in ' The Teare' it is a vivid addition. The ' such' of line 1 Unks it naturally on to st. iv. with its ' such.' Our text follows that of 1648 except in st. v. line 4, where I adopt the reading of 1652 in ' The Weeper" (there st. xi.) of ' bridegroom' (misprinted ' bridegi'ooms') for ' watry,' and that I correct in st. ^ii. line 6, the misprint ' the' for ' thee,'— ;the latter being found in 1646 and 1670. With reference to st. v. again, in line 5 in ' The Weeper' of 1648 the reading is ' bal- some' for 'blossom.' The 'ripe' of line 6 settles (I think) that ' blossom' is the right word, as the ripe blossom is:=the gi'ape, to the rich lucent-white di'ops of which the Weeper's tears are likened. ' Balsome' doesn't make wine. I have adopted from st. xi. of ' The Weeper' of 1652 the reading ' the purpling vine' for ' the wanton Spring' of 1646, 1648 and 1670. The Saxcroft MS. in st. i. line 2, reads ' expends' for ' expence ;' st, iv. line 4, ' that's' for ' when ;' st. v. line 4, ' manly sunne' for ' bride- gi'oome,' and line 5, ' thine' for ' thy ;' st. viii. line 6, ' I' th' ' for ' In th'.' G. TradiJit Seviebpfum pr» ryihis ptlatucn^tn, et }ioJhaTn. Deo in odortm SuamtatLs ■ •'•l Epht.f THE OFFICE OF THE HOLY CllOSSE.^ Ti-adiilit seiiictipsuiii pro nobis oblatioiiom et lio.^tiuiii Deo in oiloivni suauitatis. Ail Epli>!. v. 2. THE HOWKIiS. For the Hovh of ^Iatines. The VerskJe. Lord, by Thy sweet and sailing sign ! Tlie Responsorij. Defend iis from our foes and Thine. V. Thou shalt open my lippes, O Lord. ■R. And my mouth shall shew forth Thy jjrayse. V. O God, make speed to saue me. 5 R. Lord, make hast to help me. 1 jNIost of ' The Oflice of the Holy Crosse' appe.'ight ! 25 The Verskle. Lo, we adore Thee, Dread Lamb ! and bow thus low before Thee : THE OFFICE OF THE HOLY CROSSE. 31 Tlie lirspnntiur. 'Cause, by the couenant of Thy crosse, Thou hast sau'd at once the whole World's losse. The Prayer. Lord lESV-CnniST, Son of tlie liuing God ! 30 interpose, I pray Thee, Thine Own pretions death, Thy crosse and passion, betwixt my soul and Thy iudgment, now and in the hour of my dcatli. And vouchsafe to graunt vnto me Thy grace and mercy ; vnto all quick and dead, remission and rest ; to Thy 3 5 Cliurch, peace and concord; to vs sinners, life and glory euerlasting. Who liuest and reignest with the Father, in the vnity of the Holy Ghost, one God, world without end. Amen. For THE Hour of Prime. T/ie Verslcle. Lord, by Thy sweet and sauing sign ! 40 The Responsor. Defend vs from our foes and Thine. V. Thou shalt open my lips, O Lord. R. And my mouth shall shew forth Thy ])raiso. V. O God, make speed to save me. R. O Lord, make hast to heliJ me. 45 r. (ilory be to, (fee. R, As it was in the,