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Castara: The Third Edition of 1640; Edited and Collated with the Earlier Ones of 1634, 1635 — John Shaqi

Castara: The Third Edition of 1640; Edited and Collated with the Earlier Ones of 1634, 1635Habington, William

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Castara: The Third Edition of 1640; Edited and Collated with the Earlier Ones of 1634, 1635

Name: Castara: The Third Edition of 1640; Edited and Collated with the Earlier Ones of 1634, 1635
Author: Habington, William

Habington, William

English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700; Love poetry, English

i. A CHARACTER. _The Holy Man._                                    112
  ii. TWENTY-TWO Poems, chiefly Sacred, with mottoes from the Vulgate.
  We have here given the equivalent passages in the Authorized version:
  inserting between [] the Douay version! where it more closely follows
  the Latin of the Vulgate.
    116. _O Lord, open thou my lips._ Ps. li. 15. No monument of me
           remaine                                                   115
    117. _My harp also is turned to mourning._ Job xxx. 31. Love! I
           no orgies sing                                            116
    118. _I will destroy the wisdom of the wise._ 1 Cor. i. 19.
           Forgive my envie to the World; while I                    118
    119. [_Declare unto me the fewnes of my days_, Douay]. _He
           shortened my days._ Ps. cii. 23. Tell me O great All
           knowing God                                               119
    120. _Not unto us, O Lord._ Ps. cxv. 1. No marble statue, nor
           high                                                      120
    121. _The graves are ready for me._ Job xvii. 1. Welcome thou
           safe retreate!                                            121
    122. _He fleeth also as a shadow._ Job xiv. 2. What shadow your
           faire body made                                           122
    123. _Night unto night sheweth knowledge._ Ps. xix. 2. When I
           survay the bright                                         124
    124. _But the proud he knoweth afar off._ Ps. cxxxviii. 6. To
           the cold humble hermitage                                 125
    125. _Thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness._ Ps. xli. 3.
           My Soule! When thou and I                                 126
    126. _Praise ye the Lord from the heavens._ Ps. cxlviii. 1. You
           Spirits! who have throwne away                            127
    127. _He cometh forth like a flower._ Job xiv. 2. Faire Madame:
           you                                                       129
    128. _Why boasteth thou thyself in mischief._ Ps. lii. 1. Swell
           no more, proud man, so high!                              130
    129. _My God, my God._ Ps. xxii. 1. There is that foole
           Philosophie                                               131
    130. [_For I am ready for scourges_, Douay]. _For I am ready to
           halt._  Ps. xxxviii. 17. Fix me on some bleake precipice  133
    131. [_The life of man upon earth is a warfare_, Douay]. _Is
           there not an appointed time to man upon earth._ Job vii.
           1. Were it your appetite of glory, (which                 134
    132. _Shew me thy ways, O Lord._ Ps. xxv. 4. Where have I
           wandred? In what way                                      136
    133. _And exalteth them of low degree._ Luke i. 52. How
           cheerefully th' unpartiall Sunne                          138
    134. _Lord of Lords._ Deut. x. 17.

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Castara: The Third Edition of 1640; Edited and Collated with the Earlier Ones of 1634, 1635

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