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The Fuller Worthies' Library.
THE
COMPLETE WORKS OF RICHARD CRASHAW.
IN TWO VOLUMES.
VOL. II.
ESSAY ON LIFE AND WRITINGS.
EPIGRAMMATA ET POEMATA LATINA: TRANSLATED FOR THE
FIRST TIME. GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
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. II.
PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION.
1873.
156 copies printed.
PREFACE.
In our Essay and Notes in the present Volume we sofully state such things as it seemed expedient to stateon the specialties of our collection of Crashaw's Latinand Greek Poetry, in common with our like collectionof his English Poetry in Vol. I., that little remains forpreface here, beyond our wish renewedly to expressour gratitude and obligations to our fellow-workers onthe Translations now submitted. The names given atp. 4 herein, and the markings on the margin of theContents, will show how generously my own somewhatlarge proportion of the task of love has been lightenedby them; and throughout I have been aided and animatedby the cordiality with which the friends haveresponded to my demands, or spontaneously sent theirc