POEMS FROM MSS. NOT INCLUDED IN PREVIOUS MODERN EDITIONS.

PAGE 401. BODLEIAN MS. TANNER 465.

See the preliminary discussion of these poems, pp. lxx-lxxiii,

above.

Wm Henshaw. William Henshaw, of Emmanuel College, was buried at Great St. Andrew's, Cambridge, on Nov. 8, 1634. He was of Leicestershire, and was admitted to the college in 1631, matriculating in the Easter term of that year.

1. 14. snowy hills. Compare The Weeper', st. 1, l. 4, p. 79, above: Thawing Christall Snowy Hills !'

1. 18. Heauens milky way he shall outshine. Compare' On the Assumption', 1. 6, p. 304, above: 'She climbes; and makes a farre more milkey way.'

1. 24. The liquid jewell of a teare. Compare The Teare', sts. I and 2, p. 84, above: A watry Diamond' and 'This thine eyes lewell '.

PAGE 402, 1. 27. our wat'ry eyes. Compare An Elegie on the death of Dr Porter', 1. 3, p. 395, above: 'Fixe heere thy wat❜ry eyes'. Mr Wm Carre. William Carre, or Carr, matriculated from Queens' College at Michaelmas, 1631, and went to Emmanuel in 1633. He was buried at Great St. Andrew's, Cambridge, on Nov. 12, 1634. He appears to have been of an Essex family.

11. 15-16. From whence, &c. Compare Upon the birth of the Princesse Elizabeth', ll. 1-2, p. 391, above :

Bright starre of Majesty, oh shedd on mee

A precious influence, as sweet as thee.

11. 17-18. And in spite, &c. Compare In praise of Lessius his rule of health', ll. 31-2, p. 157, above:

A soule whose intelectuall beames

No mistes doe maske no lazy steames?

11. 21-4. Th' Astronomer, &c.

coronation', ll. 33–4, P. 389, above:

CompareUpon the Kings

To gaze upon such starres each humble eye
Would be ambitious of Astronomie.

11. 25-6. When his glory, &c. Compare On a foule Morning, being then to take a journey', ll. 7-8, p. 181, above:

Vnfold thy faire front, and there shall appeare
Full glory, flaming in her owne free spheare.

and Upon the Kings Coronation ', ll. 13-14, p. 390, above:
Streight from this sea of teares there does appeare
Full glory flaming in her owne free sphære.

The sad

PAGE 403, 1. 32. The Rhetorick of a weeping eye. Compare 'Vpon the Death of a Gentleman', 1. 20, p. 167, above: language of our eyes'. See also note thereto, p. 441, above. 1. 34. When an eye a tongue can find. Compare loc. cit., 11. 27–8 : Eyes are vocall, Teares have Tongues,

And there be words not made with lungs ;

11. 35-6. O, pri'thee death, &c. Compare 'Vpon the Death of the most desired Mr. Herrys ', ll. 59–60, p. 170, above:

Spare him Death, ô spare him then,

Spare the sweetest among men.

PAGE 403. the Lady Parker. It has not been possible to identify the person in whose honour this poem was written; if the poem is Crashaw's it cannot refer to the wife of William Parker, fourth Baron Monteagle and eleventh Baron Morley, as she died after Crashaw (Parish Register, Great Hallingbury) and in any case would have been referred to more naturally as Lady Monteagle. It seems possible, however, that the lady in question was William Parker's daughter Frances, of whom nothing appears to be recorded except that she died a Nun'. See art. William Parker'

in D.N.B.

11. 3-4. Can such, &c. Compare the poem in memory of S. Teresa, ll. 139-43, p. 135, above:

All thy good workes which went before
and all in one

Weave a Constellation

Of Crownes,

and His Epitaph', ll. 17-20, p. 173, above :

That in the Center of his Brest

Every reconciled Grace,

Had their Generall meeting place.

Il. 11-12. Nor can . . . Excellence. Compare' Upon the birth of the Princesse Elizabeth', ll. 17-18, p. 391, above:

And though these humble lines soare not soe high,

As is thy birth;

and' To the Morning ', ll. 19-20, p. 184, above :

Hence 'tis my humble fancy finds no wings,

No nimble rapture starts to Heaven . .

11. 12-13. Oh could I fly Betwixt Seraphick pinions! Compare 11. 22-3, p. 391, above:

Lett th' hallowed plume of a Seraphick wing

Bee consecrated to this worke,

PAGE 404, 11. 29-30. And gladly, &c. Compare 'Easter day', 11. 16-18, p. 100, above:

Thron'd in thy Grave;

for may hee ly

Death will on this condition be content to Dy.

11. 32-6. How a heart, &c. Compare An Elegie on the death of Dr Porter', ll. 29-30, p. 396, above:

To sing their saddest Dir'ges, such as may
Make their scar'd soules take wing, & fly away.

and On ye Gunpowder-Treason', p. 384, above, 11. 28-30:
A winters thunder with a groane shall scare,
And rouze the sleepy ashes of the dead,
Making them skip out of their dusty bed.

1. 35. My nimble spirits. Compare To the Morning', 1. 20, quoted in note to ll. 11-12 of this poem, above.

11. 38-9. Each crimson streame, &c. Compare 'An Elegy upon the death of Mr Stanninow', ll. 22-4, p. 394, above:

These purple currents hedg'd with violets round

To corrallize, wch softly wont to slide

In crimson waueletts, & in scarlet tide ?

and On ye Gunpowder-Treason', ll. 63-4, p. 385, above:

the warmest blood,

That runnes in violett pipes:

1. 42. That euery heart, &c. Compare 'His Epitaph', 11. 50-2, P. 174, above:

For now (alas) not in this stone

(Passenger who e're thou art)

Is he entomb'd, but in thy Heart.

Heading] M Christopher Rouse. A student of this name was admitted to Pembroke College (Crashaw's college) on April 19, 1621. He is described in the Admission Book as ' Johannis Equitis Aurati filius primogenitus Henham in agro Suffolcensi natus, 15 annos habens'. On March 2, 1623, ‘Gratia ei conceditur ad respondend: quæstiones' (Pembroke Admission-Book). As to his later career and the date of his death no particulars have been discovered.

1. 1. Rich, purest rose. See the note on Crashaw's fondness for the double adjective, Introduction, p. lxxiii, above.

prime flowre of blooming youth. Compare An Elegy upon the death of Mr Stanninow', 1. 28, p. 394, above: this prime flowre of youth'. II. 14-16. Vntill sh' hath flatter'd, &c. Compare Cupid's Cryer', 11. 25-6, p. 159, above:

The working Bees soft melting Gold,

That which their waxen Mines enfold,

(for 'Mines' in this connexion, compare 1. 9, above).

PAGE 405, 11. 17-18. that doe swimme In gulfes of deepest blisse. Compare Cupid's Cryer', ll. 14-15, p. 159, above:

་

hee shall swim

In riper joyes :

and Upon the Kings coronation ', ll. 5-6, p. 389 :

Thou, glad Isle,

That swim'st as deepe in joy, as Seas,

11. 29 and 36. I meane. See the references quoted in the Introduction, pp. lxxii-lxxiii, above.

11. 29-32. where euery grace, &c. Compare 'His Epitaph', 11. 19-20, p. 173, above:

Every reconciled Grace

Had their Generall meeting place.

See also note to p. 403, 11. 3-4, above.

11. 41-2. that from their wings, &c. Compare' Upon the birth of the Princesse Elizabeth', ll. 22-3, p. 391, above:

Lett th' hallowed plume of a Seraphick wing

Bee consecrated to this worke,

and see also note to p. 403, 11. 12-13, above.

An Epitaph. 1. 3. The brightest gemme, &c. Compare 'Vpon the Death of the most desired Mr. Herrys', l. 4, p. 168, above: This is Natures choycest Iewell.

1. 4. We now, &c. Compare 'The Weeper', st. 2, 1. 6, p. 79, above:

What ever makes Heavens fore-head fine.

11. 5-6. Therefore its shrine, &c. Compare 'An Epitaph. Vpon Doctor Brooke', ll. 7-8, p. 175, above:

Meane while his loved bankes now dry,

The Muses with their teares supply.

and' An Elegie on the Death of Dr Porter', ll. 43–4, P. 396, above: all bubling eyes

Are teeming now with store of fresh supplies.

1. 6. watry pearls. Compare 'The Teare', st. 1, 1. 4, p. 83, above: A watry Diamond'.

PAGE 406. BRIT. MUS. MS. HARL. 6917.

See the preliminary discussion of this MS., pp. lxxvi-lxxviii, above.

PAGE 407. Epithalamium, 1. 58. noble Brampstons eyes. It is impossible to be sure as to the identity of this Brampston, but it seems very likely that he was Sir John Bramston the younger (1611-1700), whose father was Chief Justice between 1632 and 1642, and whose autobiography was published in 1845 by the Camden Society. From this it appears that he married in 1635 Alice, eldest daughter of Anthony Abdy, alderman of London. The seat of the Bramstons was at Whitechapel, of which parish William Crashaw, the poet's father, was rector from 1618 to 1626, between Richard Crashaw's sixth and fourteenth years, and acquaintance may easily have begun then. John Bramston's brother, Moundeford, went to Queens' College, Cambridge, in 1632, the year after Crashaw's admission to Pembroke. The reference to the Thames in stanza 4 renders it scarcely possible that the poem was written for Moundeford's own wedding, which took place in 1639, as Moundeford married a Suffolk girl and left Cambridge to live in that county. See the Autobiography, p. 26.

1. 59. The sense is clearer if a comma is understood after thence'.

11. 64-7. t'exhale, &c.

Crashaw uses elsewhere the word 'exhale' in connexion with the idea of death. Compare On a prayer booke', ll. 71-2, p. 129, above:

Delicious deaths, soft exhalations

Of soule; deare, and divine annihilations.

Compare also the verses on S. Teresa, ll. 113–17 (P. 134, above), where the exhalation is associated, as it is here, with fire and sighs : Like a soft lumpe of Incense, hasted

By too hot a fire, and wasted,

Into perfuming cloudes. So fast

Shalt thou exhale to heaven at last,

In a disolving sigh,

1. 71. mother phanixes. Compare 'Vpon the Duke of Yorke his Birth A Panegyricke', ll. 82-3, p. 180, above:

Those art the Mother Phænix, and thy Breast

Chast as that Virgin honour of the East,

PAGES 407-8, 11. 76 and 81-2. Compare A Song ', ll. 13-14,

P. 327, above:

Still liue in me this louing strife

Of liuing DEATH & dying Life.

Compare also 'The Office of the Holy Crosse', Antiphona, II. 1–2,

P. 272, above:

O strange mysterious strife

Of open DEATH & hidden LIFE!

With this stanza, in general, compare' Wishes. To his (supposed) Mistresse', ll. 70-5, p. 197, above:

Feares, fond and flight,

As the coy Brides, when Night

First does the longing lover right.
Teares, quickly fled,

And vaine, as those are shed

For a dying Maydenhead.

PAGE 408, 1. 86. this rich losse. Compare In the Glorious Epiphanie', 1. 142, p. 258, above :

Proud to haue gain'd this pretious losse.

1. 94. the fires, &c. Compare' Vpon the Duke of Yorke his Birth A Paneygricke ', l. 118, p. 181, above:

Give then this rurall wreath fire from thine eyes.

11. 105-6. The rhyme this is' and ' kisses' is used elsewhere by Crashaw. Compare The Teare', st. 4, ll. 1-3, p. 84, above, and Wishes. To his (supposed) Mistresse ', ll. 121-3, p. 198, above. 11. 109-12. Nor may thy Vine, &c. The imagery and the phraseology are partially repeated in Vpon the Duke of Yorke his Birth A Panegyricke ', ll. 102–3, p. 180, above:

Long mayest thou laden with such clusters leane
Vpon thy Royall Elme (faire Vine)

PAGE 409, 1. 121. heauen tyed. This type of compound is not uncommon in Crashaw, especially with 'heaven' as its first element, 'heau'n-intreated' (p. 236, 1. 1, above), Heaun-instructed (p. 295, st. 6, l. 1, above), heaun-designed' (p. 331, l. 1, above). 1. 129. neast. This is one of Crashaw's favourite words. In the Hymn To the Name. . . of Iesus', pp. 239-45, above, it occurs five times in the rhyming position. In this Epithalamium ' it also occurs three times at the end of a line.

APPENDIX I.

POEMS PROBABLY SPURIOUS.

PAGE 410. On the Frontispiece of Isaacsons Chronologie explained. This poem is almost certainly the work of Edward Rainbow, D.D., who became Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, in 1633 and afterwards Bishop of Carlisle.

In his biography, published in 1688, reference is made (p. 84) to ' a Paper of Verses upon the Frontispiece of Mr. Henry Isaacson's Chronology; which acurate Chronologer was our Bishops particular Friend. . .', and the writer goes on 'Of the Honour of the former of these Poems, printed without the addition of any name in 1633, he was robbed by the Publisher of Mr. Richard Crashaw's Poems, Entituled, Steps to the Temple, and ascribed by him to that Ingenious Epigrammatist. But he having no Title to it, but what the modest silence of Mr. Rainbow gave him, I have recovered it to the true Owner by a Melius inquirendum, and subjoyned it here.' PAGE 411. Meliùs purgatur, &c. See the introductory notes on these verses, p. lxiv, above.

Priscianus verberans, &c. See the introductory notes on these verses, p. lxiv, above.

PAGE 413. Vpon a gnatt burnt in a candle. See the introductory notes on these verses, p. lxv, above.