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 I of this work. See http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38549 Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/completeworksfor02crasuoft Transcriber' note: A character following a carat is supercripted (example: y^e). When two or more characters are superscripted they are enclosed in curly brackets (example: D^{ris}). The Fuller Worthies' Library. THE COMPLETE WORKS OF RICHARD CRASHAW. In Two Volumes. VOL. II. ESSAY ON LIFE AND WRITINGS. EPIGRAMMATA ET POEMATA LATINA: TRANSLATED FOR THE FIRST TIME. GLOSSARIAL INDEX. 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. II. Printed for Private Circulation. 1873. 156 copies printed. PREFACE. In our Essay and Notes in the present Volume we so fully state such things as it seemed expedient to state on the specialties of our collection of Crashaw's Latin and Greek Poetry, in common with our like collection of his English Poetry in Vol. I., that little remains for preface here, beyond our wish renewedly to express our gratitude and obligations to our fellow-workers on the Translations now submitted. The names given at p. 4 herein, and the markings on the margin of the Contents, will show how generously my own somewhat large proportion of the task of love has been lightened by them; and throughout I have been aided and animated by the cordiality with which the friends have responded to my demands, or spontaneously sent their contributions. Preëminently I owe thanks to my 'brother beloved,' the Rev. RICHARD WILTON, M.A., Londesborough Rectory, Market Weighton.