p. 156, 1. 4. Nature take. line.

E and Isaacson] die, if (Phoenix-like).

1. 5. E and Isaacson]

1. 6. A comma takes the place of a full stop at the end of the

p. 157, ll. 1, 2. Citizen of London.

Title in D] An Epitaph upon the Death of Mr Ashton 1. 14. D adds]

For every day his deeds put on

His Sundayes repetition.

1. 21.
A full stop has been taken away after zeale. D] yett in zeale.
D] in Life hee lov'd. 1. 26. D] to lead him.

p. 158, 1. 24.

B] trinmphi.

1. 25.

p. 159, l. 1. Title in E] Catull. Vivamus, mea Lesbia &c. 1. 5. D and E] Blithest Sol. 1. 10. D and E] numerous kisses. 1. 11. D] upon our. 1. 15. A and B] of another. 1. 18. D and E] our reckoning. 1. 31. A] infans B] infuns.

p. 160, 1. 11. G] steps tread our. 1. 15. G] Meete her my wishes. 1. 20. D] gawdy fair. 1. 26. G] a bowe, blush. 1. 29. G] commend the.

p. 161, 1. 6. G] what their. 1. 15. G] Themselves in simple nakednesse. 11. 16—18. G] displace.......outface...grace. 1. 26. G] that dares.

p. 162, 1. 10. G] Teares fond and sleight. 1. 14. D] And fond. ll. 19, 21. G has this verse after the next one.

p. 163, 1. 6. D] Art and all ornament th Shame. Last line. G] but she my story.

1. 26. D] dares apply.

p. 164, 1. 1. Published in 'Voces Votivæ ab Academicis Cantabrigiensibus pro novissimo Carolo et Mariæ principe filio emissæ, Cantabrigiæ: apud Rogerum Daniel. MDCXL.' 1. 2. B] paturientem.

p. 165, l. 1.

Published in 'Voces Votivæ.' 1. 9. V.V.] to our. B] to short...to long.

1. 14.

1. 18.

p. 166, ll. 1-3. Title in E] A Panegyrick Upon the birth of the Duke of Yorke. A and D] Upon the Duke of Yorke his Birth A Panegyricke. The section-titles are not in A, D or E. 1. 1o. A and D] full glorys. A, D and E] O if. 1. 19. E] hadst need. 1. 20. D] make thee. These last four lines are not in A, D or E.

1. 32.

p. 167, 1. 2. A] Great Charles. 1. 11. B] owne A] one. 1. 16. A, D read] in these [E those]. 1. 18. E] alablaster. 1. 19. A and D] These hands ..these cherries. 1. 20. A and D] art of all. 1. 21. D] The well-wrought. 1. 23. A] mayest thou. 1. 24. A and D] th'ast drawn this. 1. 31. D] so that. 1.33. The first six lines of this section are not in A, D or E.

p. 168, 1. 8. A and E] were the pearls. D] that wept. section is not in A, D or E.

1. 10. This

1. 24. A, D and E] their offrings.

p. 174, l. 1. E] malorum mala fœmina.

1. 10. E] agnoscite vestros.

1. 21. B] Mortalcs. Last line. E] Nempe fuit.
p. 175, l. 1. Title in E] In Phoebum amantem.
p. 177, l. 13. E] ni Dominæ.

p. 178, 1. 2. E] ignis habet. words end the previous line in E.

p. 179, l. 1. Title in E] Pigmalion.

p. 180, l. 20. E] alter vetat ut sit. 1. 21. E] muta it. Genethliacon vel Epicedium.

p. 182, 1. 16.

30. E] Haud parere.

11. 24, 26. E]

Title in E] Turbæ rerum humanarum per errorum insidias.
E] perfido paratu.

p. 183, 1. 7. CARMEN DEO NOSTRO. Crashaw's designs will be found at the end of these notes. The lines under one of them do not occur elsewhere in his works and, as they may not be easily read as engraved, I give them here :Expostulatio Jesu Christi cum mundo ingrato.

Sum pulcher: at nemo tamen me diligit.
Sum nobilis nemo est mihi qui serviat.
Sum dives: a me nemo quicquam postulat.
Et cuncta possum: nemo me tamen timet.
Aeternus exsto: quaeror a paucissimis.
Prudensque sum: sed me quis est qui consulit?
Et sum via: at per me quotusquisque ambulat?
Sum veritas: quare mihi non creditur?
Sum vita: verum rarus est qui me petit.
Sum vera lux: videre me nemo cupit.
Sum misericors : nullus fidem in me collocat.
Tu, si peris, non id mihi imputes, Homo:
Salus tibi est a me parata: hac utere.

p. 185, l. 16. C] heaty. 1. 20. C] ef Paris.

p. 190, 11. 6—8. In the British Museum there is a copy of this letter separately printed in 4to, undated in type but bearing the written date 1653, entitled A Letter from Mr. Crashaw to the Countess of Denbigh. Against Irresolution and Delay in matters of Religion. London.' The differences are so many that it seems simpler to print the 1653 version here in full.

WHAT Heav'n-besieged Heart is this

Stands Trembling at the Gate of Blisse:
Holds fast the Door, yet dares not venture
Fairly to open and to enter?

Whose Definition is, A Doubt

'Twixt Life and Death, 'twixt In and Out.

Ah! linger not, lov'd Soul: A slow

And late Consent was a long No.

Who grants at last, a great while try'de,

And did his best to have Deny'de.

What Magick-Bolts, what mystick Barrs
Maintain the Will in these strange Warrs?
What Fatall, yet fantastick, Bands

Keep the free Heart from his own Hands?
Say, lingring Fair, why comes the Birth
Of your brave Soul so slowly forth?
Plead your Pretences, O you strong
In weaknesse why you chuse so long
In Labour of your self to ly,
Not daring quite to Live nor Die.

So when the Year takes cold we see
Poor Waters their own Prisoners be:
Fetter'd and lock'd up fast they lie
In a cold self-captivity.

Th' astonish'd Nymphs their Floud's strange Fate deplore,
To find themselves their own severer Shoar.

Love, that lends haste to heaviest things,

In you alone hath lost his wings.

Look round and reade the World's wide face,
The field of Nature or of Grace;

Where can you fix, to find Excuse

Or Pattern for the Pace you use?

Mark with what Faith Fruits answer Flowers,
And know the Call of Heav'n's kind showers:
Each mindfull Plant hasts to make good
The hope and promise of his Bud.

Seed-time's not all; there should be Harvest too.
Alas! and has the Year no Spring for you?

Both Winds and Waters urge their way,
And murmure if they meet a stay.

Mark how the curl'd Waves work and wind,
All hating to be left behind.

Each bigge with businesse thrusts the other,
And seems to say, Make haste, my Brother.
The aiery nation of neat Doves.

That draw the Chariot of chast Loves,
Chide your delay: yea those dull things,
Whose wayes have least to doe with wings,
Make wings at least of their own Weight,
And by their Love controll their Fate.
So lumpish Steel, untaught to move,
Learn'd first his Lightnesse by his Love.
What e're Love's matter be, he moves
By th' even wings of his own Doves,
Lives by his own Laws, and does hold
In grossest Metalls his own Gold.

All things swear friends to Fair and Good,
Yea Suitours; Man alone is wo'ed,
Tediously wo'ed, and hardly wone:
Only not slow to be undone.

As if the Bargain had been driven

So hardly betwixt Earth and Heaven;
Our God would thrive too fast, and be
Too much a gainer by't, should we
Our purchas'd selves too soon bestow
On him, who has not lov'd us so.
When love of Us call'd Him to see
If wee'd vouchsafe his company,
He left his Father's Court, and came
Lightly as a Lambent Flame,
Leaping upon the Hills, to be
The Humble King of You and Me.
Nor can the cares of his whole Crown

(When one poor Sigh sends for him down)
Detain him, but he leaves behind

The late wings of the lazy Wind,

Spurns the tame Laws of Time and Place,
And breaks through all ten Heav'ns to our embrace.
Yield to his Siege, wise Soul, and see
Your Triumph in his Victory.

Disband dull Feares, give Faith the day:
To save your Life, kill your Delay.
'Tis Cowardise that keeps this Field;
And want of Courage not to Yield.

Yield then, O yield, that Love may win
The Fort at last, and let Life in.
Yield quickly, lest perhaps you prove
Death's Prey, before the Prize of Love.
This Fort of your Fair Self if't be not wone,
He is repuls'd indeed, but You'r undone.

1. 22. A parenthesis has been supplied after weaknes!
p. 191, l. 22. C] rebell-wotd.

p. 193, ll. 1-7. Title in B] On the name of Jesus. bright instead of you bright.

see. 1. 31. B] little word.

1. 14. B reads] the

1. 24. A full stop has been taken away after

1. 20. A full stop has been added after 1. 29. A semicolon has been

p. 194, l. 18. B] This C] Thas. sing. 1. 25. B] a habit fit of self-tun'd. added after you.

p. 195, 1. 8. B] Your powers. Last line. B] yeild.

1. 9. C] yours Lutes.

1. 28. B] aloud.

p. 196, 1. 1. B] Seraphins. 1. 2. B] Loyall breast. from. 1. 11. A comma has been added after Light.

been taken away after Guest. 1. 28. B] All heavens.

1. 10. B] forth

1. 15. A full stop has

p. 198, 1. 2. A comma has been supplied after Paradises. 1. 3. B] soules tastes. 1. 18. B] bare thee. 1. 20. B] ware thee. 1. 25. B] served therein thy. A full stop has been added after ends.

p. 200. Title in B] An [A in A and E] Hymne of the Nativity, sung as by [A and E sung by] the Shepheards.

p. 201, ll. 4-7. A and E read]

11. 8-10.

Come wee Shepheards who have seene
Dayes King deposed by Nights Queene.
Come lift we up our lofty song,

To wake the Sun that sleeps [E lies] too long.

A and E read]

'Hee in this our generall joy,

Slept, and dreampt of no such thing,
While we found out the fair-ey'd Boy,'

1. 26. The Chorus lines 1. 27. A and E] chid the world.

1. 19. C] Thysis. 1. 25. A and E] thy eyes.
between the stanzas are not in A or E.
1. 31. C] eye's. 1. 32. A] frosts.

p. 202, 1. 2. A, B and E] Bright dawn. The second and third stanzas on this page are not in A or E. 1. 3. E] thy eyes. A and E] the East B] their East C] their Eate. 1. 5. A comma has been supplied after sight.

1. 11. B] ye powers. 1. 13. B] ye Powers. 1. 14. B] Thyrs C] Thyt.

1. 17. B] is all one.

1. 21. B] Tit C] Tir. supplied after bed.

1. 18. C] morn. B] morne,

1. 20. B] Babe, &c. 1. 23. E] white sheets. 1. 24. A colon has been 28. In A and E the stanza is as follows] I saw th' officious Angels bring,

1.

The downe that their soft brests did strow,
For well they now can spare their wings,

When Heaven it selfe lyes here below.
Faire Youth (said I) be not too rough,
Thy Downe though soft's not soft enough.

In line 3 of this stanza B prints wings, otherwise as in C.
B] said we.

p. 203.

Last line.

The first stanza on this page reads as follows in A and E]
The Babe no sooner 'gan to seeke,

Where to lay his lovely head,

But streight his eyes advis'd his Cheeke,
'Twixt Mothers Brests to goe to bed.
Sweet choise (said I) no way but so,
Not to lye cold, yet sleepe in snow.

1. 16.

1. 1. C] No no. B] No, no, 1. 5. B] said I. 1. 7. B] choice, &c.
A and E] Welcome to our wondring sight. 1. 20. A and E] glorious Birth.
1. 22. A, B and E] not to. C] silk. A, B] silke, 1. 24. A and E] virgins.
1. 26. A] breathes B] breath's C] brearhes. 1. 27. A, B and E add the
following stanza after this one]

Shee sings thy Teares asleepe, and dips
Her Kisses in thy weeping Eye,
Shee spreads the red leaves of thy Lips,
That in their Buds yet blushing lye,
Shee 'gainst those Mother-Diamonds tryes
The points of her young Eagles Eyes.

1. 28. A full stop has been taken away after flyes.
A and E read]

p. 204.

But to poore Shepheards, simple things,
That use no varnish, no oyl'd Arts,

But lift clean hands full of cleare hearts.

Last three lines.

A and B print as two stanzas, as throughout the poem.

1. 6.

BJ their sheep A and E] The Shepheards, while they feed their [E the] sheepe. 1. 11. A and E omit] Till burnt. 1. 12. A and E] Wee'l burne, our owne best sacrifice.

p. 205, ll. 1, 2. Title in A] An Himne cision day of our Lord. 1. 3. A] thou first. Guild thee. 1. 12. B] bosome showes. 1. 18. A] his eyes. 11. 20, 21. A]

[B A Hymne] for the Circum

1. 7.

1. 16.

A] of Laces. 1. 9. A]
A] his glorious beames.

Rob the rich store her Cabinets keep,
The pure birth of each sparkling nest.

1. 23. A and B] embrace. 1. 25. A] in them.

p. 206, 1. 1. A] the sweet. 1. 3. A and B] The Moone. And leave the long adored Sunne. 1. 5. A] Thy nobler beauty. and B add]

Nor while they leave him shall they loose the Sunne,
But in thy fairest eyes find two for one.