A golden harvest settles on their breasts; With sweeten'd locks to odorous shades they go, Their arrows, weapons harsh, away they throw, While other arms their smiling quivers show. Flowers in their hand, flowers in their breast, are seen, On every side appears a flowery sheen. One Love, reclin'd beside a glassy stream, Admires the nature of the illusive gleam, The liquid likeness of his wavering face, And tremulous deceit of imag'd grace. Thence, his own rays examining, he tries And fashions, as the Nymph may chance advise, That braver fires may tremble in his eyes; His mobile face new lightnings flashes far, With rays more wanton, bickering like a star. R. WI. PRISCIANUS VERBERANS ET VAPULANS. The two following poems--somewhat out of character, so to say, with Crashaw--were probably prepared for a tractate, which it has been our good fortune to hap on in the Bodleian. It is a Latin burlesque Poem, filling a small 4to of 20 pages, with this title: EN PRISCIANUS VERBERANS ET VAPULANS. Jam publicato verberans aures stylo Qua penis iterum vapulet, metuit crisin. Londini Excudebat Augustinus Mathewes impensis Roberti Mulbourne ad insigne Canis venatici in coemeterio Paulino. 1632. The words 'Priscianus Verberans et Vapulans' remind us of the once-famous 'Comoedia' of Nicodemus Freschlin; but the later poem shows no reminiscence of the earlier. These details will doubtless interest and amuse in relation to Crashaw's pieces. Priscianus, otherwise Nisus, a schoolmaster, whips a boy who broke and dirtied his whipping-horse, and the boy's parents bring an action against him for assault. The place is evidently Aldborough in Suffolk--illumined by the genius of Crabbe--and the name of the boy's family Coleman. The poem thus begins and proceeds--the marginal notes being placed at the bottom of our pages: Pinguibus in populi, qui dicitur Austricus,[101] arvis Praeturam, fasces, lictores nuper adepta Villa[102] antiqua, novo jam Burgi turget honore. He describes the school: Vicinae senior Carbonius[3] incola villae, 'Lingua vernacula idem quod ἀνθράκανδρος, sends his son as a scholar: the stipend 20_s._ a year: De stipe[103] consentit genitor: Carbunculus intrat. He describes the whipping-block, the judicious use of which saves boys from the gallows: Iste caballus Non in perniciem, non urbis ut ille ruinam _the Trojan_ Sed curam imberbis populi, regimenque salubre: A triplici ligno[104] lignum hoc penate tuetur Praecipitem aetatem.