the reference is to the empurpled lighter and lace- (or gauze-) like clouds of the morning. The heavier clouds are the 'crimson curtains,' the 'purple laces' the fleecy, lace-like, and empurpled streakings of the lighter and dissolving clouds, which the Poet likens to the lace that edged the coverlet, and possibly other parts of the bed and bedstead. SHAKESPEARE describes a similar appearance with the same word, but uses it in the sense of inter or cross lacing, when he makes Juliet say (iii. 5), 'look, love, what envious streaks Do _lace_ the severing clouds in yonder East.' So too in stanza v. 'each sparkling nest,' the flame-coloured clouds are intended. 'Nest,' like 'bud,' is a favourite word with CRASHAW, and he uses it freely. In 1648 edition, st. iii. line 2 reads 'showes;' stanza v. line 2, 'cabinets;' stanza viii. line 5, 'and meet;' stanza ix. 'paramours' = lovers, wooers, _not_ as now signifying loose love. G. IN THE GLORIOVS EPIPHANIE OF OVR LORD GOD: A HYMN SVNG AS BY THE THREE KINGS.[38] _1 Kinge._ Bright Babe! Whose awfull beautyes make 1 The morn incurr a sweet mistake; _2 Kinge._ For Whom the officious Heauns deuise To disinheritt the sun's rise: _3 Kinge._ Delicately to displace 5 The day, and plant it fairer in Thy face. _1 Kinge._ O Thou born King of loues! _2 Kinge._ Of lights! _3 Kinge._ Of ioyes! _Chorus._ Look vp, sweet Babe, look vp and see 10 For loue of Thee, Thus farr from home The East is come To seek her self in Thy sweet eyes. _1 Kinge._ We, who strangely went astray, 15 Lost in a bright Meridian night. _2 Kinge._ A darknes made of too much day. _3 Kinge._ Becken'd from farr By Thy fair starr, 20 Lo, at last haue found our way. _Chorus._ To Thee, Thou Day of Night! Thou East of West! Lo, we at last haue found the way To Thee, the World's great vniuersal East, The generall and indifferent Day. 25 _1 Kinge._ All-circling point! all-centring sphear! The World's one, round, æternall year: _2 Kinge._ Whose full and all-vnwrinkled face Nor sinks nor swells with time or place; _3 Kinge._ But euery where and euery while 30 Is one consistent, solid smile: _1 Kinge._ Not vext and tost _2 Kinge._ 'Twixt Spring and frost; _3 Kinge._ Nor by alternate shredds of light, Sordidly shifting hands with shades and Night. 35 _Chorus._ O little all! in Thy embrace The World lyes warm, and likes his place; Nor does his full globe fail to be Kist on both his cheeks by Thee. Time is too narrow for Thy year, 40 Nor makes the whole World Thy half-sphear. _1 Kinge._ To Thee, to Thee From him we flee.