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The Fuller Worthies' Library.

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF RICHARD CRASHAW.

In Two Volumes.

VOL. I.

MEMORIAL-INTRODUCTION. STEPS TO THE TEMPLE. CARMEN DEO NOSTRO. THE DELIGHTS OF THE MUSES. AIRELLES.

London: Robson and Sons, Printers, Pancras Road, N.W.

The Fuller Worthies' Library.

THE COMPLETE WORKS OF RICHARD CRASHAW.

For the First Time Collected and Collated with the Original and Early Editions, and Much Enlarged with

I. Hitherto unprinted and inedited Poems from Archbishop Sancroft's MSS. &c. &c.

II. Translation 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 Illustrations of 1652, with others specially prepared.

Edited by the

REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART,

St. George's, Blackburn, Lancashire.

In Two Volumes.

VOL. I.

Printed for Private Circulation. 1872.

156 copies printed.

TO
THE VERY REVEREND

JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, D.D.

AS AN EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE FOR
FUNDAMENTAL INTELLECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL
QUICKENING AND NURTURE
FOUND IN AND SUSTAINED BY HIS WRITINGS
EARLIER AND LATEST,
THIS EDITION
OF A POET HE LOVES AS ENGLISHMAN AND CATHOLIC
IS DEDICATED BY
ALEXANDER B. GROSART.

CONTENTS.

Those marked [*] are printed for the first time from MSS.; those marked [+] 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 Nostro_, 1-181.

+Sainte Mary Magdalene, or the Weeper 3

Sancta Maria Dolorvm, or the Mother of Sorrows: a patheticall Descant upon the deuout Plainsong of Stabat Mater Dolorosa 19

+The Teare 25

+The 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 Circumcision to His Father 48

On the Wounds of our crucified Lord 50

Vpon the bleeding Crucifix: a song 51

+To the Name above every name, the Name of Iesvs: a hymn 55

Psalme xxiii 65

Psalme cxxxvii 68

+In the Holy Nativity of ovr Lord God: a hymn svng as by the Shepheards 70

New Year's Day 76

+In the gloriovs Epiphanie of ovr Lord God: a hymn svng as by the three Kings 79

To the Qveen's Maiesty 91

Vpon Easter Day 94

Sospetto d'Herode 95

The Hymn of Sainte Thomas, in Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament 121

Lavda Sion Salvatorem: the Hymn for the Bl. Sacrament 124

+Prayer: 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

+A Hymn to the Name and Honor of the admirable Sainte Teresa 141

+An Apologie for the foregoing Hymn, as hauing been writt when the Author was yet among the Protestants 150

+The Flaming Heart: vpon the Book and Picture of the seraphical Saint Teresa, as she is vsvally expressed with a Seraphim biside her 152

A Song of Divine Love 157

+In the gloriovs Assvmption of ovr Blessed Lady 158

+Upon five piovs and learned Discourses by Robert Shelford 162

Dies irae, dies illa: the Hymn of the Chvrch, in meditation of the Day of Ivdgment 166

Charitas Nimia, 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: II. _Airelles_, 183-194.

*Mary seeking Jesus when lost 185

*The Wounds of the Lord Jesus 187

*On ye Gunpowder-Treason 188

*Ditto 190

+Ditto 192

SECULAR POETRY: I. _The Delights of the Muses_, 195-276.

Musick's Duell 197

In the Praise of the Spring (out of Virgil) 207

With a Picture sent to a Friend 208

+In praise of Lessius's Rule of Health 209

The Beginning of Heliodorus 212

Cupid's Cryer (out of the Greeke) 214

Vpon Bishop Andrews' Picture before his Sermons 217

Vpon the Death of a Gentleman 218

Vpon the Death of Mr. Herrys 220

Vpon the Death of the most desired Mr. Herrys 222

Another 225

His Epitaph 228

+An Epitaph vpon a yovng Married Covple, dead and bvryed together 230

Death's Lectvre and the Fvneral of a yovng Gentleman 232

An Epitaph vpon Doctor Brooke 234

On a foule Morning, being then to take a Journey 235

To the Morning: Satisfaction for Sleepe 237

Love's Horoscope 240

A Song (out of the Italian) 243

Out of the Italian 245

Out of the Italian 246

Vpon the Frontispeece of Mr. Isaackson's Chronologie 246

On the same by Bishop Rainbow 248

An Epitaph vpon Mr. Ashton, a conformable Citizen 250

Out of Catullus 251

Wishes 252

+To the Queen: an Apologie for the length of the following Panegyrick 259

To the Queen, vpon her numerous Progenie: a Panegyrick 260

Vpon two greene Apricockes sent to Cowley by Sir Crashaw 269

Alexias: The Complaint of the forsaken Wife of Sainte Alexis: three Elegies 271

SECULAR POETRY: II. _Airelles_, 277-303.

*Upon the King's Coronation 279

*Ditto 280

*Vpon the Birth of the Princesse Elizabeth 282

*Vpon a Gnatt burnt in a Candle 284

*From Petronius 286

*From Horace 287

*Ex Euphormione. 289

*An Elegy vpon the Death of Mr. Stanninow, Fellow of Queen's Colledge 290

*Upon the Death of a Friend 292

*An Elegie on the Death of Dr. Porter 293

+Verse-Letter to the Countess of Denbigh 295

Ditto from Carmen Deo Nostro 301

ILLUSTRATIONS, _in the illustrated Quarto only_: Vol. I.

1. The Weeper: engraved by W.J. Linton, Esq., after the Author's own Design 4

2. Sancta Maria Dolorvm; or the Mother of Sorrows 19

3. The Office of the Holy Crosse 29

4. The Recommendation 43

5. To the Name above every name, the Name of Iesus 55

6. The Hymn of Sainte Thomas 55

7. The 'irresolute' Locked Heart 55

8. In the Holy Nativity of ovr Lord God 71

9. In the gloriovs Epiphanie of ovr Lord God. 79

10. Head of Satan: drawn and engraved by W.J. Linton, Esq. 95

11. Sainte Teresa 141

12. Dies irae, dies illa 166

13. Maria Maior, O gloriosa Domina 173

14. A second Illustration from the Bodleian copy 173

15. The Dead Nightingale: drawn by Mrs. Blackburn, engraved by W.J. Linton, Esq. 197

Nos. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, 14 are reproduced in facsimile from the author's own designs of 1652, by Pouncey of Dorchester, expressly for our edition of Crashaw. Besides the above there are a number of head- and tail-pieces by W.J. Linton, Esq.