Collected, Corrected, Avgmented, Most humbly Presented. To My Lady The Covntesse of DENBIGH By Her most deuoted Seruant. R.C. In heaty [_sic_] acknowledgment of his immortall obligation to her Goodnes & Charity. AT PARIS By PETER TARGA, Printer to the Archbishope ef [_sic_] Paris, in S. Victors streete at the golden sunne. M.DC.LII. [8vo] Collation: Title-page; Verses by CAR, pp. 3; Verse-Letter to Countess of Denbigh, pp. 3 [all unpaged]; the Poems, pp. 131. (See our Preface for more on this and preceding and succeeding volumes, and for notice of a separate edition of the Verse-Letter to the Countess of Denbigh.) _4th edition, erroneously designated 2d edition_, 1670. STEPS TO THE TEMPLE, THE DELIGHTS Of The Muses, and Carmen Deo Nostro. By _Ric. Crashaw_, sometimes Fellow of _Pembroke Hall_, and late Fellow of _St. Peters Colledge_ in _Cambridge_. _The 2d. Edition._ In the Savoy, Printed by T.N. for _Henry Herringham_ at the _Blew Anchor_ in the _Lower Walk_ of the _New Exchange_. 1670. [8vo] Collation: Engraving of a 'Temple;' title-page; the Preface to the Reader and the Author's Motto, pp. 8; the Table, pp. 6 [all unpaged]; 'Steps,' pp. 77; 'Delights,' pp. 81-137; 'Carmen Deo Nostro, Te Decet Hymnvs,' pp. 141-208. For later editions see our Preface, as before, and for details on all, early and recent, and Manuscripts; and also our Memorial-Introduction and Essay. The 'Preface' of 1646 was reprinted in 1648 without change, save a few slight orthographical differences, and these: p. xlvi. line 3, 'their' for 'its dearest:' p. xlvii. line 1, 'subburd' for 'suburb:' and ibid, line 19, 'then' for 'than:' 1648 our text. It follows this Note in its own place. G. STEPS TO THE TEMPLE, &c. THE PREFACE TO THE READER. LEARNED READER, The Author's friend will not usurpe much upon thy eye: This is onely for those whom the name of our divine Poet hath not yet seized[11] into admiration. I dare undertake that what JAMBLICUS[12] (_in vita Pythagoræ_) affirmeth of his Master, at his contemplations, these Poems can, viz. They shall lift thee, Reader, some yards above the ground: and, as in _Pythagoras_ Schoole, every temper was first tuned into a height by severall proportions of Musick, and spiritualiz'd for one of his weighty lectures; so maist thou take a poem hence, and tune thy soule by it, into a heavenly pitch;[13] and thus refined and borne up upon the wings of meditation, in these Poems thou maist talke freely of God, and of that other state.