Till a sweet whirle-wind (striving to get out)
Heaves her soft bosome, wanders round about,
And makes a pretty Earthquake in her Breast,
Till the fledg'd notes at length forsake their nest;
Fluttering in wanton shoales, and to the sky
Wing'd with their owne wild Eccho's pratling fly.
Shee opes the floodgate, and lets loose a tide
Of streaming sweetnesse, which in state doth ride
On the way'd backe of every swelling straine,
Rising and falling in a pompous traine.
And while she thus discharges a shrill peale
Of flashing aires; she qualifies their zeale
With the coole Epode of a graver noat,
Thus high, thus low, as if her silver throat

Would reach the brasen voyce of war's hoarse bird;

Her little soule is ravish't: and so pour'd

Into loose extacies, that she is plac't

Above her selfe, Musicks Enthusiast.

We close our quotations with a few more lines, giving the result of the musical "duel," and the mournful fate of the nightingale :

At length (after so long, so loud a strife

Of all the strings, still breathing the best life

Of blest variety, attending on

His fingers fairest revolution

In many a sweet rise, many as sweet a fall)

A full-mouth Diapason swallowes all.

This done, he lists what she would say to this,
And she, although her breath's late exercise
Had dealt too roughly with her tender throate
Yet summons all her sweet powers for a noate :
Alas! in vaine! for while (sweet soule) she tryes
To measure all those wild diversities

Of chatt'ring strings, by the small size of one
Poore simple voyce, rais'd in a naturall tone:
She failes, and failing grieves, and grieving dyes.
She dyes and leaves her life the Victors prise
Falling upon his Lute: -ô fit to have

(That liv'd so sweetly) dead, so sweet a Grave!

Our extracts have extended to so great a length that we are unable to add any from the smaller pieces which fill the remainder of the volume, although

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some of them contain passages of much moral beauty, and well merit quotation.

There is an excellent critical article on Crashaw's poems, accompanied with a biographical notice and copious extracts, in the Retrosp. Rev., vol. i. pp. 125, &c. His poems are also noticed with extracts in Headley's Ancient Eng. Poets, vol. i. p. xxxvi. and p. 130; Ellis's Early Eng. Poets, vol. iii. p. 224; and Campbell's Specimens, vol. iii. p. 358. See also Dibdin's Libr. Comp., vol. ii. p. 312; Bibl. Ang. Poet., p. 127; Phillip's Theat. Poet., p. 23, ed. 1803; Biogr. Brit., vol. iv. p. 427.

Collation Title A 2; Sig A, six leaves; B to F 9, in twelves; pp. 126. "The Delights of the Muses:" Title and Table, three leaves; then Sig. A to C 12, in twelves; pp. 78. Total pp. 204.

In Blue Morocco, gilt leaves.

CRASHAW, (RICHARD.) — Carmen Deo Nostro, Te decet Hymnvs. Sacred Poems, collected, corrected, avgmented, most humbly presented to my Lady the Countesse of Denbigh, by her most deuoted Seruant R. C. In hearty acknowledgment of his immortall obligation to her Goodness and Charity.

At Paris, By Peter Targa, Printer to the Archbishope of Paris, in S. Victors streete at the golden sunne. 8vo, pp. 140.

M.DC.LII.

The poems in the present volume, with one or two exceptions at the end, are entirely of a religious character. They had all been printed before in the preceding edition just noticed. After the title are some lines on the author's anagram, "He was Car," one leaf, apparently written by the same person who composed the next, "An Epigramme vpon the pictures in the following Poems, which the Authour first made with his owne hand, admirably well, as may be seene in his Manuscript dedicated to the right Honorable Lady the L. Denbigh."

"Twixt pen and pensill rose a holy strife

Which might draw vertue better to the life:

Best witts gaue votes to that: but painters swore
They neuer saw peeces so sweete before

As these fruites of pure nature; where no art
Did lead the vntaught pensill, nor had part
In th' worke.

The hand growne bold, with witt will needes contest,
Doth it preuayle? ah no! say each is best.
This to the eare speakes wonders; that will trye
To speake the same, yet lowder, to the eye.
Both their aymes are holy, both conspire

To wound, to burne the hart with heauenly fire.
This then's the Doome, to doe both parties right:
This, to the eare speakes best; that, to the sight.
Thomas Car.

Then follows, under an engraved emblem of a locked heart, a metrical address "To the noblest and best of Ladyes, the Countesse of Denbigh. Perswading her to Resolution in Religion, and to render her selfe without further delay into the Communion of the Catholick Church."

Several of the poems are preceded by some neatly engraved embellishments, by J. Messager, and it would appear from the lines by Car just quoted, that some of these were engraved from designs furnished by Crashaw himself. He certainly did not design them all, as a portion of them are from the works of the old masters, and were probably, as has been suggested, from coppers used on former occasions, and that Crashaw's designs extend only to the vignettes of the locked heart, and on pp. 1, 56, 67 and 85. This curious volume from a foreign press is most incorrectly printed. It is very rare, and sold at Nassau's sale, pt. i. No. 791, for 1l. 178.; Bibl. Heber., pt. iv. No. 449, 1. 12s.; Bright's ditto, No. 1522, 1. 198.; Jolley's ditto, pt. ii. No. 876, 21. 78.; Price's ditto, No. 654, 2l. 12s.; Townley's ditto, pt. i. No. 335, 4l. 16s.; Bibl. Ang. Poet., No. 126, 67. 68. From the account given in that work of the latter copy, it was evidently imperfect, wanting the first leaf a ij, containing the lines on Crashaw's

anagram.

Collation: Title ai; Sig. a, four leaves; then A to Rij, in fours; pp. 140. Bound by Mackenzie. In Brown Morocco, gilt leaves.

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CRASHAW, (RICHARD.) Steps to the Temple, the Delights of the Muses, and Carmen Deo Nostro. By Ric. Crashaw, sometimes Fellow of Pembroke Hall, and late Fellow of St. Peters Colledge in Cambridge. The 2nd Edition.

In the Savoy, Printed by T. N. for Henry Herringman at the Blew Anchor in the Lower Walk of the New-Exchange. 1670. 8vo, pp. 226.

Although the present is called the second edition, this is not correct, according to the dates we have already given: nor is this a mere re-issue of the former impression with a new title, but an entire new edition, with considerable alterations and improvements. The arrangement of the poems is also very different from the former, the number of the pieces being rather less, and the lines "In praise of Lessius, his rule of Health" being twice given, on p. 108 in the "Delights of the Muses," and again in the "Sacred Poems," p. 207. Fronting the title is an engraved frontispiece of the Temple different from that in the former edition, and the poems are preceded by the same "Preface to the Reader" by Crashaw's friend, and by "The Table" of Contents. "The Delights of the Muses," and the "Carmen Deo Nostro, or Sacred Poems," have each separate title-pages; and this may be considered the most complete edition of Crashaw's poems, comprehending as it does the contents of both the preceding volumes.

Bibl. Ang. Poet., No. 128, 158.; Bright, No. 1523, 178.
Collation: Sig. A to O 8, in eights; the last leaf blank.

Bound in Russia, with leather joints inside, gilt leaves.

CRASHAW, (RICHARD.) -Richardi Crashawi Poemata et Epigrammata, quæ scripsit Latina et Græca, dum Aulæ Pemb. Alumnus fuit, et Collegii Petrensis Socius. Editio Secunda, Auctior et emendatior.

Εἵνεκεν ἐυμαθιης πινυτόφρονος, ἣν ο Μέλιχρος

Ησκησεν, Μουσῶν ἄμμιγα καὶ Χάριτων.—Ανθολ. Cantabrigiæ, Ex Officina Joan. Hayes, Celeberrimæ Academiæ Typographi. 1670. 8vo, pp. 96.

The Latin and Greek poems of Crashaw were first published anonymously at Cambridge in 1631. The present is the second edition. These poems are dedicated to Dr. Benjamin Lang, head of Pembroke Hall, to whom he has addressed some pleasing verses, as well as others to two of his tutors. The poems in the early part of this collection, including the

epitaph on William Herrys, "To the Queen," &c., had been printed in the former edition of his poems in 1648. To these succeeded his "Sacred Epigrams" in Greek and Latin, preceded by an "Address to the Reader” in verse and prose. It was in these that his celebrated epigram on the miracle at Cana in Galilee first appeared, p. 29, "Aquæ in vinum versæ," ending with the well-known line,

Nympha pudica Deum vidit, et erubuit.

The modest water saw its God, and blushed.

Crashaw's learning and taste for poetry were early shown in these academical poems, which were greatly admired, and are much superior to the general run of Latin poetry, though subject to the same objections as in his English verse, many of the epigrams containing exactly a similar turn to those which we find in his English compositions. We present our readers. with a single specimen both in Latin and Greek:

Luc. 18.

Pharisæus et Publicanus.

En duo Templum adeunt (diversis mentibus ambo :)
Ille procul trepido lumine signat humum:

It gravis hic, et in alta ferox penetralia tendit.
Plus habet hic templi; plus habet ille Dei.

Ανδρες, ἴδου (ἕτεροισι γόοις) δυω ἱρὸν ἐσῆλθον·
Τηλόθεν οῤῥωδει κεῖνος ὁ φρικαλέος,

Αλλ' ὁ μὲν ὥς σοβαρὸς νηοῦ μυχον ἐγγυς ἱκάνει

Πλεῖον ὁ μὲν νηοῦ, πλεῖον ὁ δ ̓ εἶχε Θεοῦ.

See an article in Kippis's Biogr. Brit., vol. iv. p. 427, written by Will. Hayley, Esq.

Collation Sig. A to F. 8, in eights; pp. 96.

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Bound up with the preceding edition of his English poems, and thus forming altogether a complete collection of the poetical works of this author. In Russia, gilt leaves.

CRASHAW, (RICHARD.) - Poetry, by Richard Crashaw, who was a Canon in the Chapel of Loretto, and died there, in the year 1650. With some Account of the Author; and an Introductory Address to the Reader, by Peregrine Phillips, Attorney at Law, Author of the Brighthelmstone Diary, and many