But gods are gracious; and their altars make 165 Pretious the offrings that their altars take. Give then this rurall wreath fire from thine eyes, This rurall wreath dares be thy sacrifice. NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS. This poem was originally entitled (as _supra_) 'Upon the Duke of York's Birth.' As new children were born additions were made to it and the title altered. Cf. the Latin poem in our vol. ii. _ad Reginam_. The children celebrated were the following: Charles James, born May 13, 1628, died the same day; the Queen's first child: Charles II., born May 29, 1630: James, who is placed before his sister Mary, who was older than he; born Oct. 14, 1633; afterwards James II.: Princess Mary, born Nov. 4, 1631, afterwards mother of William III.: Princess Elizabeth, born Dec. 28, 1635; died of grief at her father's tragical end, Sept. 8, 1650; was buried in the church at Newport, Isle of Wight, where her remains were found in 1793. Vaughan the Silurist has a fine poem to her memory (our edition, vol. ii. pp. 115-17): Anne, born March 17, 1636-7; she died Dec. 8, 1640 (Crashaw from first to last keeps Death out of his poem): Henry, born July 8, 1640, afterwards Duke of Gloucester and Earl of Cambridge. Henrietta Anne, born June 16, 1644, is not named. The title in 1646 is 'Vpon the Duke of Yorke his Birth: a Panegyricke;' and so in 1670, which throughout agrees with that very imperfect text, except in one deplorable blunder of its own left uncorrected by TURNBULL, as noted below. The heading in the SANCROFT MS. is 'A Panegyrick vpon the birth of the Duke of Yorke. R. CR.' Line 7, in 1646 'glories' for 'honours.' In the SANCROFT MS. line 8 reads 'As sitts alone ....' Line 15, ib. 'O' for 'Sure.' " 16, ib. 'Th' art.' " 29-32 restored from 1648. Not in SANCROFT MS. " 33. These headings here and onward omitted hitherto. " 34, in 1646 'great' for 'bright.' " 43, our text (1648) misprints 'owne' for 'one' of Voces Votivæ. Line 50, 1646 oddly misprints 'these Cherrimock.' Line 52, 1646, 'art' for 'wert.' " 54, ib. 'may'st' for 'did'st.' " 55, ib. 'th' art' for 'th' hadst.' " 64-70 restored from 1648. Not in SANCROFT MS. " 74, 1646, 'pearls' for 'tears.' So the SANCROFT MS. " 78-118, all these lines--most characteristic­--restored from 1648. TURNBULL overlooked them. Not in the SANCROFT MS. Line 140, 1670 drops a line here, and thus confuses, 'A brood of phenixes, and still the mother: And may we long: long may'st thou live t' encrease The house,' &c. PEREGRINE PHILLIPS in his selections from CRASHAW (1785), following the text of 1670, says in a foot-note, 'A line seems wanting, but is so in the original copy.' TURNBULL follows suit and says, 'Here a line seems deficient.' If either had consulted the 'original' editions, which both professed to know, it would have saved them from this and numerous kindred blunders.