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
This is a small duodecimo. Collation: Title-page--Epistle-dedicatory
to LANY, with the poems, 'Salve, alme custos Pierii gregis,'
&c.--Venerabili viro Magistro Tournay, Tutori suo summe
observando--Ornatissimo viro Præceptori suo colendissimo, Magistro
Brook--Lectori (verse and prose), seven leaves: Epigrammata Sacra,
pp. 79.
A second edition of this volume appeared in 1670. Its title-page is as
follows:
RICHARDI CRASHAWI
POEMATA
et
EPIGRAMMATA,
Quæ scripsit Latina & Græca,
Dum _Aulæ Pemb._ Alumnus fuit,
Et
Collegii _Petrensis_ Socius.
Editio Secunda, Auctior & emendatior.
Εἵνεκεν εὐμαθίης πινυτόφρονος, ἥν ὁ Μελιχρὸς
Ἤσκησεν, Μουσῶν ἄμμιγα καὶ Χαρίτων. Ἀνθολ.
[Printer's ornament, as before.]
Cantabrigiæ,
Ex Officina _Joan. Hayes_, Celeberrimæ Academiæ
Typographi. 1670.
This is an 8vo. Collation: Title-page--and to Brook, as before; then
these additional Latin poems: In Picturam Reverendissimi Episcopi D.
Andrews--Votiva Domûs Petrensis pro Domo Dei--In cæterorum Operum
difficili Parturitione Gemitus--Epitaphium in Gulielmum Herrisium--In
Eundem--Natalis Principis Mariæ--In Serenissimæ Reginæ partum
hyemalem--Natalis Ducis Eboracensis--In faciem Augustiss. Regis a
morbillis integram--Ad Carolum Primum, Rex Redux--Ad Principem nondum
natum, Reginâ gravidâ. Bastard-title, 'Epigrammata Sacra, quæ scripsit
Græca et Latina'--Lectori (as before), nine leaves: Epigrammata Sacra,
pp. 67.
The additions to the second edition--besides the Latin poems
enumerated--were in the Epigrams these: No. 1, Pharisaeus et Publicanus,
Greek version--No. 11, Obolum Viduæ, ib.--No. 53, Ecce locus ubi jacuit
Dominus, ib.--No. 120, In descensum Spiritûs sancti, ib.--No. 124, In S.
Columbam ad Christi caput sedentem, ib.--No. 141, Ad D. Lucam medicum,
ib.--No. 148, In stabulum ubi natus est Dominus, ib.--No. 161, Hic lapis
fiat panis, ib.--No. 177, In die Ascensionis Dominicæ, ib.--No. 178,
Cæcus implorat Christum, Latin and Greek--No. 179, Quis ex vobis, &c.
ib.--No. 180, Herodi D. Jacobum obtruncati, ib.--No. 181, Cæci receptis,
&c. ib.--and No. 182, Zaccheus in sycomoro.
A third edition was issued in 1674. It is identical with that of 1670,
save in the date on title-page, printer's ornament, and this line at
bottom: 'Prostant venales apud _Joann. Creed_.' Probably consisted of
'remainders' of 1670 edition.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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