the address or superscription, though so contrived as not to interfere with the metre, but to make a five-foot line with the two feet of the true first line of the poem. So Parolles prefaces his verse with

'Dian, the count's a fool and full of gold,'

(All's Well that ends Well, iv, 3.)

and Longaville (Love's Labour Lost) prefixes to his sonnet,

'O sweet Maria, empress of my love,

In fact, it is the Madam' of a poetical epistle brought into metrical harmony with the verse. G.

DESCRIPTION OF A RELIGIOVS HOVSE

AND CONDITION OF LIFE

fOTT OF BARCLAY, J

No roofes of gold o're riotous tables shining
Whole dayes and ens, denourd with endless dining
No sales of Tyrian syk, proud patements sweeping
Nor isory coaches coetiyer slumber keeping;
False lights of fairing gemmes; tumultuous love, $
Halls full of fattering men and fricking boy;
What'ere false towa of don and slippery goo
Mix the mad won f men in mutual und

But wake, i nton voda; and wrja, 16 )
Vafort and genuine; but won rady the

On lodging, kart at homey un our fare
The can

1 sleep:

A hety infpresor

lambers, that can wake and weep,

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And sing and sigh, and work, and sleep again;
Still rowling a round spar of still-returning pain.
Hus til of harty Ideas: paines that pay
And prize the mselves: dee much, that more they may, 20
And work for work, not wages; let to-morrow's
New drops, wash off the sweat of this daye's sorrows.
A long and dayly dying lite, which breaths

A respiration of reniuing deaths.

But neither are there those ignoble stings

That nip the blossome of the World's best things,
And lash Earth-labouring souls. . . . .

No cruell guard of diligent cares, that keep
Crown'd woes awake, as things too wise for sleep:
But renerent discipline, and religious fear,
And soft obedience, find sweet biding here;
Silence, and sacred rest; peace, and pure ioyes;
Kind loues keep house, ly close, make no noise ;
And room enough for monarchs, while none swells
Beyond the kingdomes of content full cells.

The self-remembring sovl sweetly recouers
Her kindred with the starrs; not basely houers
Below: but meditates her immortall way

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30

35

Home to the originall sourse of Light and intellectuall

day.

NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

In 1648 the heading is simply Description of a religious house.' The original occurs in BARCLAY'S Argenis, book v. These variations include one important correction of a longstanding blunder:

Line 3, 1648 misprints' weeping' for 'sweeping.'

19-20. Our text (1652), followed by 1670, strangely confuses this couplet by printing,

'Hands full of harty labours; doe much, that more they may.' TURNBULL, as usual, unintelligently repeats the blunder. Even in using the text of 1652 exceptionally, if only he found it confirmed by 1670, there was no vigilance. The reading of 1648 puts all right.

Line 23. Our text misspells' ding.'

,, 26. Misprinted 'bosome' in all the editions, and perpetuated by TURNBULL. Line 27 that follows is a break (unrhymed).

Line 33. 1648 misreads 'keep no noise.' G.

ON MR. GEORGE HERBERT'S BOOKE INTITUL

ED THE TEMPLE OF SACRED POEMS.

SENT TO A GENTLE-WOMAN.'

KNOW you, faire, on what you looke?
Divinest love lyes in this booke:
Expecting fier from your faire eyes,

To kindle this his sacrifice.

1 Appeared originally in 'Steps of 1646 (p. 7): reprinted in edi tions of 1648 (pp. 88-9) and 1679 (p. 69). Our text is that of 1648, with a few adopted readings as noted onward. See our Emay on Crashaw's relation to Herbert. In the SANCROFT Ms, the heading

When y

al nan l- untie these strings.

Tunk, yo` have an angell by the wines,

One that gladly would be nich,

To walte upon each morning sigh.

T #latter in the balmy aire

Of al perfumed praier;

The white planes of his hee'i len 1 you.
Which every day to Heaven will end you:
To take acquaintance of each pheare,
And all your mooth fae'd kindred there.
And though HERBERT'S name doe owe
The e devotion; fairest, know

While I thu, lay them on the shrine

Of your white hand, they are mine.

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Vpon Herbert' Temple, sent to a Gentlewoman. R. CR.' Line 3 in the M. pell fire, and has faire before eyes; adopted: line ath book were ued to be tied with strings: line 6th, 1646, you th line 7th, M. read would for will: adopted: line

to wute on your chit G.