The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume IICrashaw, Richard
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The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II
Crashaw, Richard
English poetry -- Early modern, 1500-1700
Yea, ev'n in his death 'twas so;
For being thus at length laid low,
He chose no boastful tomb to tell
How good the life that in him fell:
By so much greater is the guest,
Smaller the mound where he doth rest:
Yea, in his death there was diminution:
Great was the guest, but see how small the stone.
On that very day he died in which the
Church of England reads its even-song:
He was snatch'd away, lest the wickedness
of the times should contaminate his understanding,
viz. 15th October A.S. 1631.[135]
IN EUNDEM SCAZON.[136]
Huc, hospes, oculos flecte, sed lacrimis caecos,
Legit optime haec, quem legere non sinit fletus.
Ars nuper et natura, forma, virtusque
Aemulatione fervidae, paciscuntur
Probare uno juvene quid queant omnes,
Fuere tantae terra nuper fuit liti,
Ergo huc ab ipso Judicem manent coelo.
TRANSLATION.
Stranger, bend here thine eyes, but dim with tears;
Whom weeping blinds, best reader here appears.
Art, Nature, Beauty, Virtue, all agree,
Contending late with a warm rivalry,
To show what in one youth all join'd would be.
So great the strife they caus'd on earth of late,
That here from heaven itself the Judge they wait. R. WI.
IN PICTURAM REVERENDISSIMI EPISCOPI
D. ANDREWS.[137]
Haec charta monstrat, fama quem monstrat magis,
Sed et ipsa necdum fama quem monstrat satis;
Ille, ille totam solus implevit tubam,
Tot ora solus domuit, et famam quoque
Fecit modestam: mentis igneae pater
Agilique radio lucis aeternae vigil,
Per alta rerum pondera indomito vagus
Cucurrit animo, quippe naturam ferox
Exhausit ipsam mille foetus artibus,
Et mille linguis ipse se in gentes procul
Variavit omnes, fuitque toti simul
Cognatus orbi, sic sacrum et solidum jubar
Saturumque coelo pectus ad patrios libens
Porrexit ignes: hac eum, lector, vides
Hac, ecce, charta ô utinam et audires quoque.
GLOSSARIAL INDEX.
As in the other Worthies, this Index is intended to guide to Notes and
Illustrations of the several words in the places; but mainly in Vol. I.,
as Vol. II. consists wholly of the Latin and Greek and their
translations. G.
A.
Acidalian, ii. 22.
Adult'rous, ii. 144.
Alas, i. 181.
All-Hallow, ii. 59.
All-mischiefe, ii. 59.
Alps, ii. 32.
Ambush, i. 90.
Apricockes, i. 269.
Archer [badly misprinted 'anchor'], i. 176.
Assyrian, ii. 30.
B.
Baal-zebub, i. 133.
Bilbilician, ii. 26.
Black-fac'd, ii. 41.
Blossome, i. 28, 207.
Bottles, i. 15.
Brag, ii. 35.
Breakfast, i. 15.
Brisk, i. 15.
Bud, i. 93.
Bulla, ii. 245, 251.
Buried, ii. 72.
C.
Cadence, i. 17.
Calls 't, i. 16.
Canary scribblers, i. xlviii.
Case, i. 15.
Cast, ii. 184.
Cast away, ii. 43.
Ceaze, i. 214.
Chaplaine [of Virgin], i. xv.
Cherrimock, i. 267.
Child, ii. 28-9.
Clouds [mortal], i. 90.
Crawles, i. 14.
Cruzzle, i. 15.
D.
Deaw, i. 15.
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