E-text prepared by Taavi Kalju, Rory OConor, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/toronto) Note: Project Gutenberg also has Volume II of this work. See https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38550 Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/completeworksfor01crasuoft Transcriber's note: In two places there is text enclosed by equal signs. That text is in bold face. Elsewhere equal signs are used as equal signs. The Fuller Worthies' Library. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF RICHARD CRASHAW. In Two Volumes. VOL. I. MEMORIAL-INTRODUCTION. STEPS TO THE TEMPLE. CARMEN DEO NOSTRO. THE DELIGHTS OF THE MUSES. AIRELLES. 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. I. Printed for Private Circulation. 1872. 156 copies printed. TO THE VERY REVEREND JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, D.D. AS AN EXPRESSION OF GRATITUDE FOR FUNDAMENTAL INTELLECTUAL AND SPIRITUAL QUICKENING AND NURTURE FOUND IN AND SUSTAINED BY HIS WRITINGS EARLIER AND LATEST, THIS EDITION OF A POET HE LOVES AS ENGLISHMAN AND CATHOLIC IS DEDICATED BY ALEXANDER B. GROSART. CONTENTS. Those marked [*] are printed for the first time from MSS.; those marked [+] have additions for the first time given in their places. PAGE Dedication v Preface xi Memorial-Introduction xxvii Note xl The Preface to the Reader xlv SACRED POETRY: I. _Steps to the Temple, and Carmen Deo Nostro_, 1-181. +Sainte Mary Magdalene, or the Weeper 3 Sancta Maria Dolorvm, or the Mother of Sorrows: a patheticall Descant upon the deuout Plainsong of Stabat Mater Dolorosa 19 +The Teare 25 +The Office of the Holy Crosse 29