Verse
English Poems
Act. 5. The sicke implore St. Peter's shadow (‘Vnder thy shadow may I lurke a while’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 87.
CrR 1
Copy, headed ‘Acts. 5. The sick crave the shadow of Peter’.
In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse, in English and Latin, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, who lived in Cambridge as student and Fellow of Emmanuel College from 1633 to 1651, ii + 115 leaves, in calf. Comprising three separate units: ff. 1r-96v all in Sancroft's hand; ff. 97r-104r in a second hand; and ff. 105r-9r in a third hand. c.1640s [and later].
Including (on ff. 2-23, 27ar-v, 70) 94 Latin poems ascribed to Crashaw (including three of doubtful authorship) and (on ff. 29-41, 43v, 44v-58, 60v, 62v-5v, 67-70v, 72-3, 95-6) 101 English poems (plus a second copy of one of them) attributed to him (including one of doubtful authorship) and (on f. 16r-v) one Greek poem attributed to him; a list of contents on the first page beginning ‘Mr. Crashaw's poems transcrib'd fro his own copie, before the were printed; among wch are some not printed…’.
Cited in IELM as the ‘Sancroft MS’: CrR Δ 1. Crashaw edited in part from this MS, and collated, in Grosart, in Waller and in Martin (cited as T or T5), and discussed in Waller, pp. vi-ix, and in Martin, pp. lviii-lxxiii. Folios 28-34v, 38v-41, 44v, 52v-6 reproduced in facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 1.5
Copy in: An octavo volume of 87 English poems by Crashaw, in a single predominantly italic hand (as in CrR 232), 50 leaves, in contemporary silvered silk boards. Possibly prepared as a presentation copy (? by the author) to a lady, addressed as ‘Faire one’ in two dedicatory poems at the beginning (‘at th' Iuory Tribunall of your hand/ (Faire one) these tender leaues doe tremling stand…’), or else a transcript of such a copy. c.1630s.
Purchased from Bull and Auvache, 34-35 Hart Street, Bloomsbury, 13 November 1886. NB. This MS (once believed to be autograph) was discovered by William Thomas Brooke, finder of the Dobell MSS of Thomas Traherne: see his account in the Bodleian, MS Dobell c. 56, ff. 54-8.
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Bull MS: CrR Δ 4. Crashaw's work edited in part, and collated, in Grosart (Supplement) and in Martin (cited A3); cited in a review ‘New Poems by Crashaw’, in The Saturday Review (17 March 1888), pp. 323-4, and discussed in Martin, pp. lxxiii-lxxvi; the dedicatory poems edited in Martin, pp. 397-8. Reduced facsimile of f. 2r in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 62 (see CrR 3, CrR 180, CrR 186).
Act. 8. On the baptized Aethiopian (‘Let it no longer be a forlorne hope’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 85.
CrR 2
Copy, headed ‘Acts. 8. Upon the Aethiopian’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 3
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin. Reduced facsimile in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 62.
CrR 4
Copy in: A verse miscellany, much of it in shorthand, almost entirely closely written in a small cursive mixed hand, written from both ends, in contemporary calf with initials ‘E H’ in gilt. 16°, 87 leaves (plus two paste-downs); miscellany, including portions of some 42 identifiable English poems by Crashaw, many of the lines here re-arranged in a garbled fashion; compiled by a Cambridge man, possibly a member of Christ's College; probably in a single hand throughout, with variations of style, written from both ends, about thirty pages in shorthand. c.1650s.
Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90) of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Sotheby's 23 April 1891 (Hailstone sale), probably lot 439, to Dobell). Bertram Dobell's sale catalogue No. 103 (June 1902), item 373. Formerly Folger MS 267.1.
Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Hailstone MS: CrR Δ 6. Crashaw's work selectively collated (cited as Dobell) in Martin and discussed p. lxxxi. Facsimile of f. 22 in Dobell catalogue. The MS discussed by Dobell, in other connections, in ‘Some Unpublished Epigrams by Thomas Fuller’, The Athenaeum (27 April 1901), p. 532, and in ‘An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet’, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112. Compare CrR Δ 8.
Act. 21. I am ready not onely to be bound but to dye (‘Come, death, come bands, nor do you shrink, my cares’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 98.
CrR 5
Copy, headed ‘Pauls resolution’ and here beginning ‘Come Bonds, come death, nor do you shrink, my eares’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Another (‘If ever Pitty were acquainted’)
First published in The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 170-2.
CrR 7
Copy, deleted.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 8
Copy, headed ‘Another Vpon the same’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 9
Copy, untitled, run immediately on from Vpon the death of the most desired Mr. Herrys (CrR 291).
In: A quarto compilation of eighteen poems by Crashaw, in four predominantly italic hands, on thirteen quarto leaves (plus eight blanks and stubs of four extracted leaves), in paper wrappers. c.1630s.
Among papers of the More-Molyneux family, of Loseley Park, near Guildford, Surrey. 1553-1632). Scribbling on the wrapper including the name ‘James Anstey’.
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Loseley MS: CrR Δ 7. Discussed in John Yokalvich, ‘A Manuscript of Crashaw's Poems from Loseley’, ELN, 2 (1964-5), 92-7.
A microfilm of all the Folger Loseley MSS is in the British Library, M/437.
This MS collated in Yoklavich.
CrR 10
Copy of an untitled version run-on immediately after Crashaw's elegy on Harris (CrR 292).
In: An octavo verse miscellany, originally written in two hands (A: ff. 1r-22r, 27v-8v; B: ff. 22r-7v, predominantly italic), with late 17th-century additions in three other hands on ff. 28v-33v, 52r and f. 34r, associated with Cambridge, 35 leaves (plus 17 blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Including 13 poems by Randolph, plus three of doubtful authorship. Initials stamped on both covers of ‘F R’ and the inside of the cover inscribed ‘Francis Rolfe Anno dni 1637’: i.e. Francis Rolfe (1618-78), Town Clerk of [King's] Lynn, Norfolk. c.1637.
Sotheby's, 21 July 1988, lot 18.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Rolfe MS’: RnT Δ 5. Briefly described in E.S. Leedham-Green, ‘Francis Rolfe's poetical miscellany: Add.Ms 8684’, Bulletin of the Friends of Cambridge University Library, 9 (1988), 20-2. A facsimile of f. 9v in Sotheby's sale catalogue: see RnT 123, RnT 239. For the Rolfe family (whose later papers are in the Norfolk Record Office, NRS 27114, 404 x 3), see R.T. and A. Gunther, Rolfe Family Records, 2 vols (London & Aylesbury, 1914), and Veronica Berry, The Rolfe Papers: The Chronicle of a Norfolk Family 1559-1908 (Brentwood, Essex, 1979; 2nd impression 1986).
An Apologie. For the Fore-Going Hymne as hauing been writt when the author was yet among the protestantes (‘Thus haue I back again to thy bright name’)
First published in an early version as ‘An Apologie for the precedent Hymne [to Saint Teresa]’ in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 136-7. Later version published in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 322-3.
*CrR 11
Copy, with two textual alterations in Crashaw's hand, untitled, the text following on from A Hymn to...Sainte Teresa (CrR 65).
In: Six MS quarto leaves, in a stylish italic hand, bound at the front of a printed exemplum of Las obras de la S. Madre Teresa de Iesvs...primera parte qve contiene sv vida (Antwerp, 1630), the volume gilt-edged, in old calf. c.1630.
Inscribed inside the front cover, in Rome on 4 January 1836, by Richard Chenevix Trench (1807-86), Protestant Archbishop of Dublin, theologian, philologist and poet, and also with his presentation inscription, dated 5 June 1865, to Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician. Subsequently in the library of the latter's son, Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician.
Pierpont Morgan Library, MA 1385 Bd Engl. Lit., pp. [10-12r].
At th'Iuory Tribunall of your hand
First published in Grosart, Supplement (1888). Martin p. 397.
CrR 12
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Grosart (Supplement) and in Martin.
The Beginning of Heliodorus (‘The smiling Morne had newly wak't the day’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 158.
CrR 13
Copy, headed ‘The Faire Aethiopian. R. Cr.’, deleted.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
But now they have seen, and hated (‘Seene? and yet hated thee? they did not see’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 96.
CrR 15
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Charitas Nimia, or the Dear Bargain (‘Lord, what is man? why should he coste thee’)
First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 280-2.
CrR 17
Extracts, comprising lines 33-8, 41-6, 53-62, headed ‘Condescension’.
In: the MS described under CrR 4 (CrR Δ 6). c.1650s.
Death's Lectvre at the Fvneral of a Yovng Gentleman (‘Dear Reliques of a dislodg'd Sovl, whose lack’)
See CrR 267-268.
Dies Irae Dies Illa. The Hymn. of the Chvrch, In Meditation of the Day of Ivdgment (‘Hears't thou, my soul, what serious things’)
First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 298-301.
CrR 18
Copy in: An oblong octavo miscellany of largely devotional verse and some prose, including (ff. 7v-22r) twelve poems by Crashaw, probably transcribed from Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652), in a single italic hand, written across the width of the pages with the spine upwards, with (ff. 181r-8r) a table of contents, 188 leaves, in calf gilt. Entitled Collections out of seuerall Authors by Marmaduke Raudon Eboracensis 1662: i.e. compiled by Marmaduke Rawdon (1610-69), traveller and antiquary, of Guiseley, Yorkshire, who later lived with his cousin, also named Marmaduke Rawdon, at Hoddesdon, Hertfordshire, the MS including elegies on yet another (Sir) Marmaduke Rawdon (1582-1646), Governor of Basing House. c.1662.
Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849). Rodd's sale catalogue, February 1850, item 764.
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the Rawdon MS: CrR Δ 2. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as A1) and discussed pp. lxxx-lxxxi.
For other Rawdon miscellanies, see Yale, Osborn MS fb 150; York Minster, MS Add. 122; and a MS sold at Puttick and Simpson's, 3 March 1870, lot 552, to Nicholls. For the Rawdon family, see H.F. Hayllar, The Chronicles of Hoddesdon (1948), pp. 52-4.
This MS collated in Martin.
Easter day (‘Rise, Heire of fresh Eternity’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 100.
CrR 20
Copy, headed ‘Upon Christs resurrection’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
CrR 22
Copy of stanza 3, lines 4-6, beginning ‘Nor is Death forct; for may he ly’.
In: An oblong octavo pocket commonplace book, comprising (f. 1r) ‘Poems / Characters / Proverbs / Sentences / Historicall Remarques / Tales’, in Latin, English and Greek, in perhaps two or more hands, probably associated with Cambridge University, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Including (on ff. 17-27, rectos only) portions of 17 English poems by Crashaw. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753).
Recorded in IELM as Sloane MS: CrR Δ 5. Crashaw's work collated in Martin (cited as S) and discussed p. lxxix.
This MS collated in Martin.
An Elegie on the death of Dr Porter (‘Stay, silver-footed Came, striue not to wed’)
First published in Grosart, I (1872), 293-4. Martin, pp. 395-6.
CrR 24
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
CrR 25
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, iv + 278 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled principally by one ‘H. S.’, a Cambridge University man. c.1640s-60s.
This MS volume edited in D.J. Rose, MS Rawlinson Poetical 147: An Annotated Volume of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Verses (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leicester, 1992), of which a copy is in Cambridge University Library, Manuscript Department, A8f.
This MS collated in Martin.
An Elegie on the death of the Lady Porter (‘Can such perfection fade? can Vertue die’)
First published in Martin (1927). Martin (1957), pp. 403-4.
The poem has been erroneously attributed to Philip Cornwallis: see Introduction.
CrR 26
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Martin.
CrR 27
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on ye death of the Lady Parker’.
In: the MS described under CrR 25. c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in Martin.
An Elegy upon the death of Mr Christopher Rouse Esquire (‘Rich, purest rose, prime flowre of blooming youth’)
First published in Martin (1927). Martin (1957), pp. 404-5.
The poem has been erroneously attributed to Philip Cornwallis: see Introduction.
CrR 28
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Martin.
CrR 29
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie vpon his most worth[y, lea]rned and truly Vertuous Kinsm[an,] C[hr]istopher Rouse, Esqr’.
In: Copy of two poems by Crashaw, in a mixed hand, on two conjugate folio leaves, slightly imperfect. c.1630.
Among papers of the More-Molyneux family, of Loseley Park, near Guildford, Surrey.
This MS collated in John Yoklavich, ‘Not by Crashaw, but Cornwallis’, MLR, 59 (1964), 517-18
An Elegy upon the death of Mr. Stanninow fellow of Queenes Colledge (‘Hath aged winter, fledg'd with feathered raine’)
First published in Grosart, I (1872), 290-2. Martin pp. 394-5.
CrR 30
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
An Elegy vpon the death of Mr Wm Carre, student in Eman: Colledge (‘Death hath drawne our golden Carre’)
First published in Martin (1927). Martin (1957), pp. 402-3.
This poem has been erroneously attributed to Philip Cornwallis: see Introduction.
CrR 32
Copy, here ascribed to ‘P. Cornwallis’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Martin.
CrR 33
Copy, subscribed ‘Cornwallis’.
In: the MS described under CrR 25. c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in Martin.
An Epitaph (‘Heere in deaths closett, Reader, know’)
First published in Martin (1927). Martin (1957), p. 405.
This poem has been erroneously attributed to Philip Cornwallis: see Introduction.
CrR 34
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Martin.
CrR 35
Copy, subscribed at the foot of the page in another hand ‘Phil. Cornwaleys’, possibly Cornwallis's autograph signature.
In: the MS described under CrR 29. c.1630.
An Epitaph vpon a Yovng Married Covple Dead and Bvryed Together (‘To these, whom Death again did wed’)
See CrR 42-6.
An Epitaph. Vpon Doctor Brooke (‘A Brooke whose streame so great, so good’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 175.
CrR 37
Copy, headed ‘In obitum Dris Brooke. R. Cr.’, deleted.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 38
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph/Vpon the reverend Dr Brooke’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 39
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye Death of Docter Brooks’.
In: the MS described under CrR 9 (CrR Δ 7). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Yoklavich.
CrR 40
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London. c.1641-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the ‘Calfe MS’: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 41
Copy, under a general heading ‘2 Elegyes’ and then ‘i Vpon ye reurend Dr Brookes Mr of Trin: Col. Camb.’
In: the MS described under CrR 10. c.1637.
An Epitaph Vpon Husband and Wife, which died, and were buried together (‘To these, Whom Death again did wed’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, p. 174 (and later version pp. 399-400).
CrR 42
Copy, headed ‘Epitaphium Conjugug unâ mortuor4 & sepultor4 R. Cr.’, deleted.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 43
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph of a yonge Maried Cupple dead and buried togeather’.
In: the MS described under CrR 18 (CrR Δ 2). c.1662.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 45
Copy in: A composite volume of verse, i + 126 leaves. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary. Late 17th century.
Given to the library in 1954 by N.R. Ker.
CrR 46
Copy, headed ‘On A man and his wife who dyed together, and were so buried’.
In: the MS described under CrR 40. c.1641-9.
This MS collated in Martin.
An Epitaph Vpon Mr. Ashton a conformable Citizen (‘The modest front of this small floore’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 192-3.
CrR 47
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph/Vpon the Death of Mr Ashton/Citizen of London’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
Epithalamium (‘Come virgin Tapers of pure waxe’)
First published in L.C. Martin, ‘A Hitherto Unpublished Poem by (?) Richard Crashaw’, LM, 8 (June 1923), 159-66. Martin (1952), pp. 406-9.
Ex Euphormione R. Cr. (‘Bright Goddesse, whether thy father be’)
First published in Grosart, I (1872), 289. Martin, pp. 392-3.
CrR 49
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
The Flaming Heart upon the Book and Picture of the seraphicall saint Teresa (‘Well meaning readers! you that come as freinds’)
First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 324-7.
CrR 50
Brief extracts, comprising lines 71-4, 81-2, 24, 78, amidst other poems.
In: the MS described under CrR 4 (CrR Δ 6). c.1650s.
‘High mounted on an Ant Nanus the tall’
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 161.
CrR 51
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 52
Copy, headed ‘On Nanus’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 49 leaves, outer leaves imperfect, in modern calf gilt. Including twenty poems by Carew, eleven poems by Crashaw on ff. 10-30 passim, and fifteen poems by Strode. c.1630s.
Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1834), item 728. Acquired from C. Booth, October 1857.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Thorpe MS’: CwT Δ 12, CrR Δ 3, StW Δ 9.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 53
Copy, headed ‘Out of the Greeke’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 54
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Dwarfe riding on an Elephant’.
In: the MS described under CrR 9 (CrR Δ 7). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Yoklavich (no variants recorded).
His Epitaph (‘Passenger who e're thou art’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 172-4.
CrR 55
Copy, headed ‘Epitaphium in eundem. R.G.’, deleted.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 57
Copy of lines 7-10, 23-4, untitled and beginning ‘The ripe endowments of whose mind’.
In: the MS described under CrR 22 (CrR Δ 5). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 58
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CrR 9 (CrR Δ 7). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Yoklavich.
CrR 59
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 10. c.1637.
Horatij Ille & nefasto te posuit die &c. R. Cr. (‘Shame of thy mother soyle! ill=nurtur'd tree!’)
First published in Grosart, I (1872), 287-9. Martin, pp. 382-4.
CrR 60
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
An Himne for the Circumcision day of our Lord (‘Rise thou first and fairest morning’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 141-2.
A Hymne of the Nativity, sung by the Shepheards (‘Come wee Shepheards who have seene’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 106-8.
CrR 62
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
CrR 63
Copy of stanzas 4 (lines 5-6), 6 and 12 (lines 1-4), beginning ‘It was thy Day, Sweet, and did rise’.
In: the MS described under CrR 22 (CrR Δ 5). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 64
Extracts, comprising lines 1-2, 31-4, 79-84.
In: the MS described under CrR 4 (CrR Δ 6). c.1650s.
A Hymn to the Name and Honor of the Admirable Sainte Teresa (‘Loue, thou art Absolute sole lord’)
First published, in an early version as ‘In memory of the Vertuous and Learned Lady Madre de Teresa that sought an early Martyrdome’, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 131-6. Later version published in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 315-21.
*CrR 65
Copy, in a neat hand, the formal title-page, preliminary inscription and some textual alterations in Crashaw's hand.
In: the MS described under CrR 11. c.1630.
This MS collated in Martin, p. xciii, with a facsimile of the title-page facing p. 315. Also discussed by Martin, with a similar facsimile, in ‘An Unedited Crashaw Manuscript’, TLS (18 April 1952), p. 272. Facsimile of the title-page in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 45. See also CrR 11.
CrR 66
Extracts, comprising lines 69-96, 149-50, 143-5, headed ‘Loves victim’ and here beginning ‘Blest powers forbid thy tender life.’
In: the MS described under CrR 4 (CrR Δ 6). c.1650s.
This MS collated in Martin.
I am the Doore (‘And now th'art set wide ope, The Speare's sad Art’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 90.
CrR 67
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
In amorem divinum (Hermannus Hugo) (‘Aeternall loue! what 'tis to loue thee well’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 344. Martin, p. 381.
CrR 69
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
In cicatrices Domini Jesu (‘Come, Braue soldjers, come, & see’)
First published in Grosart, I (1872), 187. Martin, p. 381.
CrR 70
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
In memory of the Vertuous and Learned Lady Madre de Teresa that sought an early Martyrdome (‘Love thou art absolute, sole Lord’)
See CrR 65-6.
In praise of Lessius his rule of health (‘Goe now with some dareing drugg’)
First published (lines 15-46 only) in Leonard Leys, Hygiasticon…done into English, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 1634). Published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Reprinted, as ‘Temperance, Or the Cheap Physitian Vpon the Translation of Lessivs’, in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 156-8 (and later version pp. 342-4).
CrR 71
Copy of lines 1-15, headed ‘Upon Lessius his Hygeiasticon’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 72
Copy of lines 1-14, headed ‘On taking Physicke’.
In: the MS described under CrR 52 (CrR Δ 3). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 75
Copy of lines 15-46, headed ‘To ye reader on Lessius hygiasticon’, here beginning ‘Heark hither, Reader: wouldst thou see’, and subscribed ‘R: Crashaw. Pemb:’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in a single small hand, 31 leaves, in contemporary half-calf over marbled boards, imperfect. A label on the cover: ‘Dr. Lynnet's Common Place Book’: i.e. compiled by Dr William Lynnett (1622/3-1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1643.
Inscribed ‘Ri. Walker 1758. some years agoe Mr. Brigg bought this Common place book in Smithfield, and gave it to RW’. Inscriptions dated 1792 by Thomas Bousefield (or possibly James Simpson), wheelwright of Kendal. Purchased from J.W. Jarvis & Son, 30 January 1891.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 76
Copy. Headed ‘To the Reader, vpon the intent of Lessius his booke concerning Temperance’ and beginning at line 15 (here ‘Hearke hither Reader: wouldst thou see’), transcribed from the text in Hygiasticon (1634), on both sides of a single duodecimo leaf once owned by Frederick Locker (1821-95) and tipped-in an exemplum of Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Mid-17th century.
Puttick and Simpson's, 3 June 1878, lot 84 (erroneously described as ‘Auto[graph]. lines in his singularly minute hand’) and at Sotheby's, 22 March 1907, lot 39.
This MS recorded in The Complete Poetry of Richard Crashaw, ed. George Walton Williams (New York, 1972), p. 673.
In the Gloriovs Assvmption of Ovr Blessed Lady (‘Hark! she is call'd, the parting houre is come’)
See CrR 160-4.
In the Glorious Epiphanie of our Lord God, A Hymn: Sung as by the Three Kings (‘Bright Babe! Whose awfull beautyes make’)
First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 253-61.
Is it better to go to Heaven with one eye, &c. (‘One Eye? a thousand rather, and a Thousand more’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 93.
CrR 78
Copy, headed ‘It is better to enter into the kingdom of God with one eye &c.’
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Joh. 3. But men loved darknesse rather than Light (‘The worlds light shines, shine as it will’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 97.
CrR 80
Copy, headed ‘Joh. 3. 19. Light is come into the world &c.’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
CrR 81
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin. Reduced facsimile in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 62.
Joh. 15. Vpon our Lords comfortable discourse with his Disciples (‘All Hybla's honey, all that sweetnesse can’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 95.
CrR 82
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Joh. 16. Verily I say unto you, yee shall weep and lament (‘Welcome my Griefe, my Ioy. how deare's’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 95.
CrR 85
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
A Letter from Mr. Crashaw to the Countess of Denbigh, Against Irresolution and Delay in matters of Religion (‘What Heav'n-besieged Heart is this’)
First published, as ‘To the Noblest & best of Ladyes, the Countesse of Denbigh. Perswading her to Resolution in Religion’, in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 236-8. Revised version published separately in London, [1653]. Martin, pp. 347-50.
CrR 87
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany and masque, in at least three hands, written from both ends, i + 123 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-late 17th century.
Including (f. 1r) an anagram on Frances Pawlett. Inscribed in red ink (f. 123v) ‘Egigius Frampton hunc librum jure tenet non est mortale quod opto: 1659’: i.e. by Giles Frampton, who is perhaps responsible for some of the later poems. Also inscribed [?]‘R. N. 1663’. Some later notes in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.
Loves Horoscope (‘Love, brave vertues younger Brother’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 185-6.
CrR 88
Copy, deleted.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 90
Extracts, comprising lines 33-40, 18, 23-32.
In: the MS described under CrR 4 (CrR Δ 6). c.1650s.
CrR 91
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of Restoration verse, prose and dramatic works, in a single cursive predominantly italic hand, 417 pages. c.1670s-80s.
Formerly Princeton General MSS Misc AM 14401.
This MS discussed in A.S.G. Edwards, ‘Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401’, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and in PBSA (1977).
Luke 2. Quaerit Jesum suum Maria (‘And is he gone, whom these armes held but now?’)
First published in Grosart, I (1872), 185-6. Martin, pp. 379-80.
CrR 92
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
Luc. 7. She began to wash his feet with teares and wipe them with the haires of her head (‘Her eyes flood lickes his feets faire staine’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 97.
CrR 93
Copy, headed ‘Upon Mary Magdalene’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
Luke 10. And a certaine Priest comming that way looked on him and passed by (‘Why dost Thou wound my wounds, ô Thou that passest by’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 94.
CrR 96
Copy, headed ‘To them, yt passed by at or Saviors passion’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
CrR 98
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf. Including 15 poems (and a second copy of one poem) by Cowley and 15 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source. Early 18th century.
Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as ‘Rawlinson MS II’: PsK Δ 7.
Luke 11. Blessed be the paps which Thou hast sucked (‘Svppose he had been Tabled at thy Teates’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 94.
CrR 99
Copy, headed ‘Blessed is — & the papps, wch thou hast suckt &c’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Luk. 11. Vpon the dumbe Devill cast out, and the slanderous Jewes put to silence (‘Two Devills at one blow thou hast laid flat’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 93.
CrR 101
Copy, headed ‘Christ casteth out 2 divells at once’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Luk. 15. On the Prodigall (‘Tell me bright Boy, tell me my golden Lad’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 86.
CrR 103
Copy, headed ‘Luke 15. 13. Upon the rich young man’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 105
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 98. Early 18th century.
Luke 16. Dives asking a drop (‘A drop, one drop, how sweetly one faire drop’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 96.
CrR 106
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Marke 4. Why are yee afraid, O yee of little faith? (‘As if the storme meant him’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 88-9.
CrR 108
Copy, headed ‘Upon the disciples awaking Christ in the storme’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
Mar. 7. The dumbe healed, and the people enjoyned silence (‘Christ bids the dumbe tongue speake, it speakes, the sound’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 87.
CrR 110
Copy of an eight-line version, headed ‘Upon the tongue’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Marke 12. Give to Caesar — And to God — (‘All we have is God's, and yet’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 96.
CrR 112
Copy, headed ‘Upon paying tribute to Caesar’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
Matthew 8. I am not worthy that thou should'st come under my roofe (‘Thy God was making hast into thy roofe’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 90.
CrR 114
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Matthew. 9. The blind cured by the word of our Saviour (‘Thou speak'st the word (thy word's a Law)’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 91.
CrR 116
Copy, headed ‘Upon Christs restoring sight only by his word’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
Math. 16.25. Whosoeuer shall loose his life &c. (‘Soe I may gaine thy death, my life I'le giue’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 343. Martin, p. 381.
CrR 118
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
CrR 119
Copy, untitled, run on directly from Matth. 16. 25. Quisquis perdiderit animam suam meâ causâ, inveniet eam.
In: the MS described under CrR 9 (CrR Δ 7). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Yoklavich (no variants recorded).
Matthew. 22 Neither durst any man from that Day aske him any more Questions (‘Midst all the dark and knotty Snares’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 92.
CrR 120
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Grosart (Supplement); collated in Martin.
Matthew 23. Yee build the Sepuchres of the Prophets (‘Thou trim'st a Prophets Tombe, and dost bequeath’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 95.
CrR 121
Copy, headed ‘Ye build the sepulchres &c.’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Matthew. 27. And he answered them nothing (‘O mighty Nothing! unto thee’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 91.
CrR 123
Copy, headed ‘Christ accused answered nothing’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Mat. 28. Come see the place where the Lord lay (‘Show me himselfe, himselfe (bright Sir) O show’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 87.
CrR 125
Copy, headed ‘Mat. 28 Mary to the Angell, shewing her the place, where Jesus lay’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 127
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CrR 9 (CrR Δ 7). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Yoklavich (no variants recorded).
Musicks Duell (‘Now Westward Sol had spent the richest Beames’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 149-53.
CrR 128
Copy, headed ‘Fidicinis, & Philomelae / Bellum Musicum’, deleted.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 129
Copy, headed ‘Fidicinis et Philomelae bellu musicum’.
In: the MS described under CrR 52 (CrR Δ 3). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 131
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CrR 22 (CrR Δ 5). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
British Library, Sloane MS 1925, ff. 17r, 18r, 19r, 20r, 21r, 22r.
CrR 133
Copy, headed ‘Fidicinis et Philomelææ bellum musicum’.
In: the MS described under CrR 9 (CrR Δ 7). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Yoklavich.
CrR 134
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse, prose and dramatic MSS, in several hands, the second item (II) constituting an independent quire of six leaves containing copies of, or extracts from, 14 poems by Donne, in a single minute hand, c.160 leaves, in half-calf marbled boards. c.1630.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Emmanuel College MS’: DnJ Δ 65.
Emmanuel College, Cambridge, MS 68 (I. 3. 16), VI, ff. [17r-19v].
CrR 135
Copy, as ‘English'd by Mr Crashaw’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and drama, largely in a single small cursive hand, with later additions by one or two hands after p. 142, 185 pages (including blanks) plus a tipped-in leaf at the end, in brown calf. Late 17th century.
Sotheby's, 13 June 1870, lot 157, to James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector; thence, on 5 July 1870, to Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 3.4.
The Office of the Holy Crosse (‘Lord, by thy Sweet & Saving Sign &c’)
First published (in a compressed form) in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 263-75.
CrR 136
Copy, with general heading ‘Out of Crashawes Poemes’.
In: the MS described under CrR 18 (CrR Δ 2). c.1662.
This MS collated in Martin.
On a foule Morning, being then to take a journey (‘Where art thou Sol, while thus the blind-fold Day’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 181-2.
CrR 138
Copy, headed ‘An Invitation to faire weather. In itinere cum vrgeretur matutinum coelum, tali carmine invitabatur serenitas. R. Cr.’, deleted.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 139
Copy, headed ‘Crosh: on ye morning yt was Clowdye when he was to take a iourney’.
In: the MS described under CrR 52 (CrR Δ 3). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 141
Copy of the last four lines, here beginning ‘The fresh cheekes of ye virgin Morne’.
In: the MS described under CrR 22 (CrR Δ 5). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 142
Extracts, comprising lines 1, 2, 34, 4, 32, 30, 19, 20 rearranged.
In: the MS described under CrR 4 (CrR Δ 6). c.1650s.
CrR 143
Copy, headed ‘In Itinere cum nebulis vrgeretur matutinum coelum, tali carmine invitabatur serenitas’.
In: the MS described under CrR 9 (CrR Δ 7). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Yoklavich.
CrR 144
Copy, headed ‘On A foule morning’.
In: the MS described under CrR 40. c.1641-9.
This MS collated in Martin.
On a prayer booke sent to Mrs. M. R. (‘Loe here a little volume, but large booke’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 126-30 (and later version pp. 328-31).
CrR 146
Copy, headed (on a separate title-page) ‘Verses: Vpon the Booke of Common Prayer’, subscribed ‘R: Crashaw Coll: Petren:’.
In: A quarto volume of religious verse and prose, in a single predominantly italic hand, 33 leaves, in modern half black morocco. The first item (ff. 1r-25v) a sermon (on the authority of kings) with a dedicatory epistle to Charles I signed by the probable compiler of the volume, Thomas Lenthall (b.1610/11), Fellow of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, and dated July 1642. c.1642.
Presented by Edward J.L. Scott, 14 October 1894.
This MS collated in Martin.
On a Treatise of Charity (‘Rise then, immortall maid! Religion rise’)
First published in Five Pious and Learned Discourses…by Robert Shelford of Ringsfield in Suffolk Priest (Cambridge, 1635). Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 137-9.
CrR 147
Copy of the final couplet, beginning ‘What can the poore hope from us, when we be’.
In: the MS described under CrR 22 (CrR Δ 5). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 148
Extracts, comprising lines 5-11, 43, 44.
In: the MS described under CrR 4 (CrR Δ 6). c.1650s.
On Hope, By way of Question and Answer betweene A. Cowley, and R. Crashaw (‘Hope, whose weake being ruin'd is’)
See CoA 2-6.
On Marriage (‘I would be married, but I'de have no Wife’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 183.
CrR 149
Copy, headed ‘Marriage. R. Cr.’, deleted.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 152
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CrR 22 (CrR Δ 5). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 153
Copy, headed ‘Marriage’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and university exercises, including twelve poems by Carew, in a single hand, compiled by Edward Natley, Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, 165 leaves (including many blanks), in calf (rebacked). c.1635-44.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2592. Sotheby's, 10 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 960. Owned in 1896 by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Acquired in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Natley MS’: CwT Δ 6.
On Mr. G. Herberts booke intituled the Temple of Sacred Poems, sent to a Gentlewoman (‘Know you faire, on what you looke’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 130-1.
CrR 154
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Herberts Temple sent to a gentlewoman. R. Cr.’, deleted.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
On our crucified Lord Naked, and bloody (‘Th' have left thee naked Lord, O that they had’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 100.
On St. Peter casting away his Nets at our Saviours call (‘Thou hast the art on't Peter. and canst tell’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 98.
CrR 156
Copy, headed ‘On Peters casting the nett’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
CrR 156.5
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
CrR 157
Copy of lines 3-4, untitled and here beginning ‘When Christ calls, & yy Nets would haue yee stay’.
In: the MS described under CrR 22 (CrR Δ 5). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 157.5
Copy, subscribed ‘Crashaw’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two hands, 36 leaves (including blanks), with loosely inserted notes, in a contemporary green vellum wallet binding. c.1736-47.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 7, f. 8v.
On St. Peter cutting of Malchus his eare (‘Well Peter dost thou wield thy active sword’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 97.
CrR 159
Copy of lines 3-4, untitled and beginning ‘To strike at eares, is to take heed there bee’.
In: the MS described under CrR 22 (CrR Δ 5). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
On the Assumption (‘Harke shee is called, the parting houre is come’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). A version published, as ‘In the Glorious Assvmption of Ovr Blessed Lady’, in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 139-41 (and later version pp. 304-6).
CrR 160
Copy, headed ‘On the Assumption of the Virgin Marie’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
CrR 162
Extracts from the later version, comprising lines 16, 17, 19, 20, 60-3.
In: the MS described under CrR 4 (CrR Δ 6). c.1650s.
CrR 163
Copy in: A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked). c.1620s-30s.
Inscribed (f. ir) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date ‘1741’ added.
CrR 164
Copy, subscribed ‘Rob: Crashaw: A: Pet: Artis: Magist:’.
In: the MS described under CrR 146. c.1642.
This MS collated in Martin.
On the baptized Aethiopian (‘Let it no longer be a forlorn hope’)
See CrR 2-4.
On the bleeding wounds of our crucified Lord (‘Iesu, no more, it is full tide’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 101-2.
CrR 165
Copy of stanzas 1-5, headed ‘Upon our Saviours wounds’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
CrR 167
Copy of lines 37 onwards, headed ‘Christs Wounds’ and here beginning ‘This thy bloods deluge (a dire Chance)’.
In: the MS described under CrR 4 (CrR Δ 6). c.1650s.
On the Blessed Virgins bashfulnesse (‘That on her lap she casts her humble Eye’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 89.
CrR 168
Copy, headed ‘Upon the Virgins looking on our Saviour’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
CrR 170
Copy of lines 5-8, rearranged, headed ‘Christ Incarnate’ and here beginning at line 7, here ‘This new guest to our eyes new laws hath giuen’.
In: the MS described under CrR 4 (CrR Δ 6). c.1650s.
This MS collated and lines 5-8 printed in Martin.
On the death of Wm Henshaw, student in Eman. Coll. (‘See a sweet streame of Helicon’)
First published in Martin (1927). Martin (1957), pp. 401-2.
This poem has been erroneously attributed to Philip Cornwallis: see Introduction.
CrR 171
Copy, subscribed ‘P. Cornwallis’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Martin.
CrR 172
Copy, subscribed ‘Cornwallis’.
In: the MS described under CrR 25. c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in Martin.
On the Frontispiece of Isaacsons Chronologie explained (‘Let hoary Time's vast Bowels be the Grave’)
First published in Henry Isaacson, Saturni ephemerides sive tabula historico-chronologica (London, 1633). Among The Delights of the Muses in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 191.
CrR 173
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Frontispiece of Mr Isaackson's Chronologie. R. Cr.’, deleted.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
On ye Gunpowder — Treason (‘Dull, sluggish Ile! what more than Lethargy’)
First published in Grosart, I (1872), 188-90. Martin, pp. 384-5.
CrR 175
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
On the Miracle of Loaves (‘Now Lord, or never, they'l beleeve on thee’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 88.
CrR 176
Copy, headed ‘On Christ's miracle at the supper’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
CrR 176.5
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
CrR 177.5
Copy, subscribed ‘Crashaw’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on the death of Lady Rich, 44 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. With a general title-page (f. 1r), The Shadow of the (sometimes) right Faire, Vertuous, and Honourable Lady Anne Rich Now an Happy, Glorious, and Perfected Saint in Heaven, and (ff. 2r-3r) a dedication dated 22 October 1638; the miscellany collected by, and apparently in the hand of, John Gauden (1605-62), later Bishop of Worcester. 1638.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Ger. Sleigh’. Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 106 (1949), item 4.
CrR 178
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 98. Early 18th century.
On the miracle of multiplyed loaves (‘See here an easie Feast that knowes no wound’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 86.
CrR 179
Copy, headed ‘John 6. Upon the five loaves’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
CrR 180
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin. Reduced facsimile in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 62.
CrR 181
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 22 (CrR Δ 5). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 182
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CrR 9 (CrR Δ 7). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Yoklavich (no variants recorded).
On the still surviving markes of our Saviours wounds (‘What ever story of their crueltie’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 86-7.
CrR 183
Copy, headed ‘Upon the print of Christs wounds’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
On the water of our Lords Baptisme (‘Each blest drop, on each blest limme’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 85.
CrR 185
Copy, headed ‘Upon the water, wch baptiz'd Christ’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
CrR 186
Copy, under a general heading ‘Diuine Epigrams’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin. Reduced facsimile in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 62.
CrR 187
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 22 (CrR Δ 5). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 188
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CrR 9 (CrR Δ 7). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Yoklavich (no variants recorded).
On the wounds of our crucified Lord (‘O these wakefull wounds of thine!’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 99.
CrR 189
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 191
Copy, headed ‘On Christs Wounds’, subscribed ‘Crashaw’.
In: the MS described under CrR 4 (CrR Δ 6). c.1650s.
Our Lord in his Circumcision to his Father (‘To these first fruits of my growing death’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 98-9.
CrR 192
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Out of Catullus (‘Come and let us live my Deare’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 194.
CrR 194
Copy, headed ‘Catull./Vivamus, mea Lesbia &c R. Cr.’, deleted.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 196
Copy, headed ‘Vivamus mea Lesbia’.
In: the MS described under CrR 9 (CrR Δ 7). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Yoklavich.
Out of Grotius his Tragedy of Christes sufferinges (‘O thou the span of whose Omnipotence’)
First published in Grosart, Supplement (1888). Martin, pp. 398-400.
CrR 198
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Grosart (Supplement) and in Martin.
Out of Martiall (‘Foure Teeth thou had'st that ranck'd in goodly state’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 188.
CrR 199
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 199.5
Copy, headed ‘out of Martiall To an old Woman’, subscribed ‘Tr. by Richd. Crashaw’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in two or more hands, i + 41 leaves, in modern half-calf. c.1735.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 200
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Aelia./Out of Martiall’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
Out of the Greeke Cupid's Cryer (‘Love is lost, nor can his Mother’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 159-61.
CrR 203
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CrR 9 (CrR Δ 7). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Yoklavich.
CrR 204
Copy, headed ‘Loues Hue & Cry’, on a single octavo leaf.
In: the MS described under CrR 45. Late 17th century.
Out of the Italian (‘Love now no fire hath left him’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 190.
CrR 205
Copy, headed ‘Italian’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 206
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: A large folio volume of songs in musical settings by John Wilson (1595-1674), composer and musician, vi + 214 leaves (plus some blanks), gilt-edged, in contemporary black morocco elaborately gilt, lettered on each cover ‘DR. / I.W’, with silver clasps. Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82). c.1656.
Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Lyrics: Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Mus. b. 1’, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209.
Edited from this MS in Poèmes de Donne Herbert et Crashaw mis en musique par leur contemporains, ed. André Souris (Paris, 1961), pp. 12-14.
Out of the Italian (‘Would any one the true cause find’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 190.
CrR 207
Copy, headed ‘Italian’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
Out of the Italian. A Song (‘To thy Lover’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 188-9.
Out of Virgil, In the praise of the Spring (‘All Trees, all leavy Groves confesse the Spring’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 155-6.
CrR 209
Copy, headed ‘E Virg. Georg: particula In laudem Veris. R. Cr.’, deleted.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Petronij Ales Phasiacis petita Colchis &c. R.Cr. (‘The bird, that's fetch't from Phasis floud’)
First published in Grosart, I (1872), 286. Martin, p. 382.
CrR 212
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
CrR 213
Copy, headed ‘Out of Petronius’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
Prayer. An Ode, which was Praefixed to a little Prayer-book giuen to a young Gentle-Woman (‘Lo here a little volume, but great Book!’)
See CrR 145-6.
Psalme 23 (‘Happy me! ô happy sheepe!’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 102-4.
CrR 214
Copy, headed ‘Ps. 23. (Paraphrasticè.)’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
CrR 215
Copy, headed ‘Psalme. 23. a Periphrastique’.
In: the MS described under CrR 52 (CrR Δ 3). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 218
Copy, headed ‘Ψ. 23.’, subscribed ‘R. Crashaw. poem. p. 25’.
In: A composite quarto verse miscellany, 199 leaves, in calf. Compiled (and ff. 2-39 written) by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop Canterbury; the rest in other hands. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
Psalme 137 (‘On the proud bankes of Great Euphrates flood’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 104-5.
CrR 219
Copy, headed ‘Ps. 137. (Paraphrasi Poëtica.)’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
CrR 221
Copy, headed ‘Ψ. 137.’, subscribed ‘R. Crashaw. p. 27’.
In: the MS described under CrR 218. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
The Recommendation (‘These Houres, & that which houer's o're my End’)
First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, p. 276.
Sainte Mary Magdalene or The Weeper (‘Hail, sister springs!’)
See CrR 323-328.
Sancta Maria Dolorvm or The Mother of Sorrows (‘In shade of death's sad Tree’)
First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 283-7.
CrR 223
Copy of stanzas 1-6.
In: the MS described under CrR 18 (CrR Δ 2). c.1662.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 224
Extracts from stanzas 2 and 5, beginning at line 11 (‘What kind of marble than’) and rearranged.
In: the MS described under CrR 4 (CrR Δ 6). c.1650s.
Sampson to his Dalilah (‘Could not once blinding me, cruell, suffice?’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 102.
CrR 226
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 98. Early 18th century.
A Song (‘Lord, when the sense of thy sweet grace’)
First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, p. 327.
CrR 227
Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.
In: A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked). Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere. c.1640s-60s.
Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Probert MS’: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, ‘Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript’, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, ‘Shakespeare's “Harke Harke ye Larke”’, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).
Edited from this MS in Poèmes de Donne, Herbert et Crashaw mis en musique par leur contemporains, ed. André Souris (Paris, 1961), pp. 24-6; and in Major Poets of the Earlier Seventeenth Century, ed. Barbara K. Lewalski and Andrew J. Sabol (New York, 1973), pp. 1222-4; collated in Martin, p. xciv.
CrR 229
Copy in: A quarto volume of devotional works, 145 pages. c.1679.
Sospetto d'Herode (‘Mvse, now the servant of soft Loves no more’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 109-26.
CrR 230
Copy, with a title-page, La Strage De Gli Innocentj Dei Caualier Marino Nouember 15th 1637, in a gathering of ten quarto leaves (plus two blanks).
In: the MS described under CrR 218. Mid-17th century.
Edited in part from this MS in Claes Schaar, Marino and Crashaw: Sospetto d'Herode. A Commentary (Lund, 1971); collated in Martin.
CrR 231
Second copy, with a title-page, La Strage De Gli Innocentj Dei Caualier Marino Nouember 15th 1637, docketed in another hand ‘Translated by R.C.’, in a gathering of ten quarto leaves (plus two blanks).
In: the MS described under CrR 218. Mid-17th century.
Edited in part from this MS in Schaar; collated in Martin. This MS not in the same hand as CrR 230.
CrR 232
Copy, in the same mixed hand as the Bull MS (CrR Δ 4), entitled (in another hand, f. 1v) ‘La Strage Degli Jnnocentj Poema del Cavalier Marino. Tradotta Inglese da R. C.’ and headed (f. 2), in the main hand ‘Sospetto d' Herode Libro Primo’, in an octavo sewn booklet. c.1630s.
In: An unbound folder of miscellaneous manuscript and edited papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 119 leaves. Volume LI of the collections of Thomas Sydney Blakeney (1903-76), collector, traveller and mountaineer.
The Teare (‘What bright soft thing is this?’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 84-5.
CrR 234
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
CrR 236
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CrR 22 (CrR Δ 5). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 237
Copy of a garbled 13-line version including stanza 1 and stanza 8 (lines 2-6).
In: the MS described under CrR 4 (CrR Δ 6). c.1650s.
CrR 238
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, 84 leaves, in contemporary calf. Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man. c.1630s-40s.
Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down ‘Elizabeth hosman’ and ‘William Blois’.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 238.5
Extract, comprising lines 35-6, here beginning ‘A pillow for thee will I bring’, subscribed ‘Crashaw’.
In: the MS described under CrR 157.5. c.1736-47.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 7, f. 7r.
Temperance. Or the Cheap Physitian Vpon the Translation of Lessivs (‘Goe now. and with some daring drugg’)
See CrR 71-76.
‘Though now 'tis neither May nor June’
First published in Grosart, Supplement (1888). Martin, pp. 397-8.
CrR 239
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Grosart (Supplement) and in Martin.
To our Lord, upon the Water, made Wine (‘Thou water turn'st to Wine (faire friend of Life’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 91.
CrR 240
Copy, headed ‘Christ turnes water into wine’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
To Pontius washing his blood-stained hands (‘Is murther no sin? or a sin so cheape’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 94-5.
CrR 242
Copy, headed ‘On Pilate washing his hands’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
To Pontius washing his hands (‘Thy hands are washt, but ô the waters spilt’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 88.
CrR 244
Copy, headed ‘Pilate washes his hands’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 245
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
Edited from this MS in Grosart (Supplement). Collated in Martin.
To the Infant Martyrs (‘Goe smiling soules, your new built Cages breake’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 88.
CrR 246
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
To the Morning. Satisfaction for sleepe (‘What succour can I hope the Muse will send’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 183-5.
CrR 249
Copy, headed ‘Ad Auroram. Somnolentiae expiatio. R. Cr.’, deleted.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 250
Copy, headed ‘Crosh: To ye Deane on occasion of sleeping chappell’.
In: the MS described under CrR 52 (CrR Δ 3). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 252
Extracts, comprising lines 9, 19-29, 36, 37.
In: the MS described under CrR 4 (CrR Δ 6). c.1650s.
To the Name above Every Name, the Name of Iesus A Hymn (‘I sing the Name which none can say’)
First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 239-45.
To the Noblest & best of Ladyes, the Countesse of Denbigh. Perswading her to Resolution in Religion, & to render her selfe without further delay into the Communion of the Catholick Church (‘What heau'n-intreated Heart is This?’)
See CrR 87.
To the Same party Covncel Concerning her Choise (‘Dear, heaun-designed Sovl!’)
First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 331-3.
CrR 255
Copy, headed ‘Good Councell to a yonge Gentlewoman’.
In: the MS described under CrR 18 (CrR Δ 2). c.1662.
This MS collated in Martin.
Two went up into the Temple to pray (‘Two went to pray? ô rather say’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 89.
CrR 256
Copy, headed ‘Upon the Pharisee, & the Publicane’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
CrR 258
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 98. Early 18th century.
Vpon Bishop Andrewes his Picture before his Sermons (‘This reverend shadow cast that setting Sun’)
First published in Lancelot Andrewes, XCVI Sermons, 2nd edition (London, 1641). Among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 163-4.
CrR 259
Copy, headed ‘Upon BP. Andrewes picture before his booke R.Cr.’, deleted.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 260
Copy, headed ‘Crosh: on ye Picture of Bishoppe Andrewes before his booke’.
In: the MS described under CrR 52 (CrR Δ 3). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 261
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Bishop Andrewes’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
Vpon Ford's two Tragedyes Loves Sacrifice and The Broken Heart (‘Thou cheat'st us Ford, mak'st one seeme two by Art’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 181.
CrR 262
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 263.5
Copy in: A small quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one secretary hand, erratically paginated up to 333, 250 leaves, in 18th-century boards. c.late 1630s.
Inscribed (on p. [330]) ‘Robert Lord his book Anno Domini’; (on [p. 335]) ‘william Jacob his booke Amen’; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, ‘Hugh Gibgans of the same’ and ‘John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]’. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.
A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.
Vpon Lazarus his Teares (‘Rich Lazarus! richer in those Gems, thy Teares’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 89.
CrR 264
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 266
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 98. Early 18th century.
Vpon Mr. Staninough's Death (‘Deare reliques of a dislodg'd soule, whose lacke’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Reprinted as ‘Death's Lectvre at the Fvneral of a Yovng Gentleman’ in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 175-6 (and 340-1).
CrR 267
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Death of Mr Stanninough / Fellow of Queens Colledge in Cambridge’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 268
Extracts from the later version, comprising lines 8-11, 25-8.
In: the MS described under CrR 4 (CrR Δ 6). c.1650s.
Vpon our Saviours Tombe wherein never man was laid (‘How life and Death in Thee Agree?’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 93.
CrR 269
Copy, headed ‘In Sepulchrum Domini. (Luke 23. where was neu man laid)’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 270
Copy, headed ‘To our B Lord uppon the Choise of his Sepulcher’.
In: the MS described under CrR 18 (CrR Δ 2). c.1662.
Copy.
CrR 271
Copy, headed ‘Crosh: In sepulchru domini’.
In: the MS described under CrR 52 (CrR Δ 3). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
Vpon the Asse that bore our Saviour (‘Hath onely Anger an Omnipotence’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 90.
CrR 274
Copy, headed ‘Upon ye Asse that carried or Saviour’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
Upon the birth of the Princesse Elizabeth (‘Bright starre of Majesty, oh shedd on mee’)
First published in Grosart, I (1872), 282-4. Martin, pp. 391-2.
CrR 276
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
Upon the death of a freind (‘Hee's dead: Oh what harsh musicks there’)
First published in Grosart, I (1872), 292-3. Martin, p. 393.
CrR 277
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
Vpon the Death of a Gentleman (‘Faithlesse and fond Mortality’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 166-7.
CrR 279
Copy, headed ‘Ad exequias / In obitum desideratissimi Mri Chambers, / Coll: Reginal. Socij. R. Cr.’, deleted.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 280
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Death of Mr Chambers / Fellow of Queens Colledge / in Cambridge’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 282
Copy of lines 1-30, headed ‘An Elegie on a Scholler’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, 72 leaves, in old leather. Probably compiled by one ‘H.S.’, a Cambridge man. c.1640s-50s.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription ‘1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol’. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 283
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlemans death’.
In: the MS described under CrR 40. c.1641-9.
This MS collated in Martin.
Vpon the Death of Mr. Herrys (‘A plant of noble stemme, forward and faire’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 167-8.
CrR 284
Copy, headed ‘In ejusdem præmatur obitu. Allegoricum. R.Cr.’, deleted.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 285
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Death of Mr Herris / Fellow of Pembroke Hall / in Cambridge’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 286
Copy oflines 15-21, here beginning ‘Amongst his leaues, ye day’.
In: the MS described under CrR 22 (CrR Δ 5). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 287
Extracts, comprising lines 36, 37, 78, 47-54, rearranged.
In: the MS described under CrR 4 (CrR Δ 6). c.1650s.
Vpon the death of the most desired Mr. Herrys (‘Death, what dost? ô hold thy Blow’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 168-170.
CrR 288
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on Mr Herris. R.Cr.’, deleted.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 289
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the same’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 290
Copy of lines 31-4, here beginning ‘I'ue seene indeed ye hopefull bud’.
In: the MS described under CrR 22 (CrR Δ 5). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 292
Copy of a version headed ‘2 Vpon his most accomplished freind Mr Harris of ye Society of Pembroke Hall Cantabr’, beginning at line 5 (here ‘This is hee whos rare frame’) and immediately followed by the further elegy ‘If eur pitty were acquainted’ (see CrR 10).
In: the MS described under CrR 10. c.1637.
Vpon the Duke of Yorke his Birth A Panegyricke (‘Brittaine, the mighty Oceans lovely Bride’)
First published in Voces votivae ab academicis Cantabrigiensibus (Cambridge, 1640). Among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 176-81.
CrR 293
Copy, headed ‘A Panegyrick. / Upon the birth of the Duke of Yorke’, deleted.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
CrR 294
Copy, headed ‘Crosh: On ye new borne Prince a Panegyricke’.
In: the MS described under CrR 52 (CrR Δ 3). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 296
Extracts, comprising lines 11-14, 35-7, 68-76, 82, 83.
In: the MS described under CrR 4 (CrR Δ 6). c.1650s.
CrR 297
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye Duke of Yorke’.
In: the MS described under CrR 9 (CrR Δ 7). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Yoklavich.
CrR 298
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Newborn Prince a Panegyrick’, subscribed ‘Crashaw’.
In: An octavo notebook of extracts, chiefly verse, compiled by one or two University of Cambridge men, 69 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1653-60s.
Vpon the faire Ethiopian sent to a Gentlewoman (‘Lo here the faire Chariclia! in whom strove’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 183.
CrR 299
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 300.5
Copy of a version headed ‘Vpon the faire Aethiopian prnted to a gentlewoma’ and beginning ‘Sweetest Chariclia in whom sweetly stroue’.
In: the MS described under CrR 10. c.1637.
Upon the gunpowder treason (‘Grow plumpe, leane Death. his Holinesse a feast’)
First published in Grosart, I (1872), 192-4. Martin, pp. 387-8.
CrR 301
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
Upon the gunpowder treason (‘Reach me a quill, pluckt from the flaming wing’)
First published in Grosart, I (1872), 190-2. Martin, pp. 386-7.
CrR 302
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
Vpon the H. Sepvlcher (‘Here where our Lord once lay'd his Head’)
See CrR 313-15.
Vpon the Infant Martyrs (‘To see both blended in one flood’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 95.
CrR 303
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 305
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CrR 22 (CrR Δ 5). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
Upon the Kings coronation (‘Sound forth, caelesiall Organs, lett heauens quire’)
First published in Grosart, I (1872), 279-80. Martin, pp. 389-90.
CrR 307
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
Upon the Kings Coronation (‘Strange Metamorphosis! It was but now’)
First published in Grosart, I (1872), 280-2. Martin, pp. 390-1.
CrR 308
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
Vpon the Powder Day (‘How fit our well-rank'd Feasts doe follow’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 185.
CrR 309
Copy, headed ‘In conjurationem sulphuream’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Vpon the same (‘Pallas saw Venus arm'd and streight she cry'd’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 161.
CrR 311
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Vpon the Sepulchre of Our Lord (‘Here, where our Lord once laid his Head’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, p. 86 (and later version, p. 277).
CrR 313
Copy, headed ‘On our Saviours Sepulcher’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 314
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 18 (CrR Δ 2). c.1662.
This MS collated in Martin, p. 277.
Vpon the Thornes taken downe from our Lords head bloody (‘Know'st thou this, Souldier? 'tis a much chang'd plant, which yet’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 96-7.
CrR 316
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Vpon two greene Apricockes sent to Cowley by Sir Crashaw (‘Take these, times tardy truants, sent by me’)
First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 220-1.
Vpon Venus putting on Mars his Armes (‘What? Mars his sword? faire Cytherea say’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 161.
CrR 319
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 320
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Venus putting on Mars his Armes. Out of Ausonius’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1.5 (CrR Δ 4). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
Vexilla Regis, The Hymn of the Holy Crosse (‘Looke vp, languishing Soul! Lo where the fair’)
First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 277-9.
The Weeper (‘Haile Sister Springs’)
First published in Steps to the Temple, (London, 1646). 2nd edition (1648). Revised version published as ‘Sainte Mary Magdalene or The Weeper’ in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 79-83 (and later version pp. 307-14).
CrR 323
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin. Facsimile in Steps to the Temple (1970).
CrR 324
Copy of the preliminary couplet published in the second edition of Steps to the Temple (London, 1648), beginning ‘Loe where a wovnded Heart with Bleeding Eyes conspire’.
In: the MS described under CrR 18 (CrR Δ 2). c.1662.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 326
Copy of stanzas 10, 11 and 13, with the addition of a final couplet.
In: the MS described under CrR 22 (CrR Δ 5). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 328
Copy of stanzas 10-16, 18-19, 21-3, here beginning ‘Not in ye evenings eyes’, imperfect.
In: the MS described under CrR 238. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Martin.
The Widowes Mites (‘Two Mites, two drops, (yet all her house and land)’)
First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 86.
CrR 329
Copy, headed ‘The Widdowes two mites’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 331
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 98. Early 18th century.
Wishes. To his (supposed) Mistresse (‘Who ere shee bee’)
First published in Wits Recreations, 2nd edition (London, 1641). Among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 195-8.
CrR 333
Copy of stanzas 10, 15-18, 35, beginning ‘A face made up’.
In: the MS described under CrR 22 (CrR Δ 5). Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
With a Picture sent to a Friend (‘I paint so ill, my peece had need to bee’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 156.
CrR 335
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Latin and Greek Poems
Collections Epigrammatum sacrorum liber
Epigrammatum sacrorum liber
First published in Cambridge, 1634. Martin, pp. 5-64.
*CrR 337
Copy of an early version of the 179 epigrams by Crashaw subsequently published in 1634.
In: Copy of an early version of 185 epigrams by Crashaw, in a single italic hand, with (f. 1r) Crashaw's autograph title-page ‘Sacroru Epigramatum Liber’ and (ff. 2r-4v) his signed autograph prose dedication to ‘Amplissimi et ornatissimi nominis viro, Custodi nostro dignissimo, custodiam caelestem’ [i.e. Benjamin Laney (1591-1675)], Master of Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, on 59 octavo leaves, in contemporary vellum gilt. c.1630s.
The first page later inscribed ‘James Andrew-Ashford’. Sotheby's, 14 February 1922, lot 424, to Quaritch, as ‘The Property of a Gentleman A well-known collector’, erroneously described as autograph throughout, with facsimiles in the sale catalogue of ff. 2r, 3v (signature only) and 32r.
The dedication first pub. in Martin (1927); Martin (1957), pp. 2-3. The MS collated in Martin and described, with a facsimile of Crashaw's signature, pp. liv-lvii. Facsimiles of part of the dedication also in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCIX(d-e) and (of ff. 2v-3r) in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XIa, after p. xxii.
CrR 338
Copy of all Crashaw's epigrams published in 1634 except the final one and the end of the penultimate one, in a rounded mixed hand, 104 Epigrams in the first part (pp. 73-121) headed ‘Epigrammata Divina Siue Occurrentia Quæda ex Xti: Uitâ et Quatuor Euangelijs decerpta’, 74 Epigrams in the ‘Secunda Pars’ (pp. 121-72), all apparently transcribed from a MS source.
In: A small quarto miscellany, in several hands, the greater part in one rounded mixed hand, written from both ends, 357 pages, in old blind-stamped calf. Mid-late 17th century.
Bookplate of Thomas Madden, of the Inner Temple and Rousky Castle, Fermanagh. Also once owned by John Sterne (1660-1745), Bishop of Clogher. Old pressmark F. 4. 28.
This MS selectively collated in Martin and described pp. lvii-lviii.
Individual Epigrams
Abscessum Christi queruntur discipuli (‘Ille abijt. jamque ô quae nos mala cunque manetis’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 312. Martin, p. 356.
CrR 339
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
‘Accipe dona, Puer. parvae libamina laudis’
First published in Waller (1904), p. 324. Martin, p. 367.
CrR 340
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Act 1. In nubem, quae Dnu abstulit (‘O Nigra haec! Quid enim mihi candida pectora monstrat?’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 315. Martin, p. 359.
CrR 341
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Act. x. 39 (‘Quis malus appendit de mortis stipite vitam?’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 313. Martin, p. 357.
CrR 342
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Act. 12.6,7. In D. Petrum ab Angelo solutum (‘Mors tibi, & Herodes instant: cùm nuncius ales’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 314. Martin, p. 358.
CrR 343
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Act. 12.23 (‘Euge Deus! (pleno populus fremit vndique plausu)’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 310. Martin, p. 354.
CrR 344
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Act 17. In Atheniensem merum (‘Ipsos naturae thalamos sapis, imaque rerum’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 312. Martin, p. 356.
CrR 345
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Act 21. Nam ego non solum vinciri - &c.
First published in Waller (1904), p. 319. Martin, p. 363.
CrR 347
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Acts 28.3 (‘Paule, nihil metuas. non fert haec vipera virus’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 308. Martin, p. 353.
CrR 348
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Aeneas Patris sui bajulus (‘Maenia Trojae’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 222-3.
CrR 349
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
‘Ah ferus, ah culter! qui tam bona lilia primus’
First published in Grosart, II (1873), 225-7. Martin, pp. 365-6.
CrR 350
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
Apocal. xii. 7 (‘Arma, viri! (aetheriam quocumque sub ordine pubem’)
First published in Grosart, II (1873), 231-2. Martin, pp. 355-6.
CrR 351
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
CrR 352
Copy, headed ‘Revel: 12.7/Et factum est praelium in caelo / Michael et Angeli ejus. &c.’.
In: the MS described under CrR 337. c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
Arion (‘Squammea vivae’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, p. 224.
CrR 353
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Bonum est nobis esse hîc (‘Cur cupis hîc adeo, dormitor Petre, manere?’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 310. Martin, p. 354.
CrR 354
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Bulla (‘Qvid tibi vana suos offert mea bulla tumores?’)
First published at the end of Daniel Heinsius, Crepundia siliana. ejusdem dissertatio de verae criticae (Cambridge, 1646). Among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 216-20.
CrR 355
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
‘Circulus hic similem quàm par sibi pergit in orbem!’
First published in Waller (1904), p. 324. Martin, p. 368.
CrR 356
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Cùm horum aliqua dedicâram Praeceptori meo colendissimo Amico amicissimo, R. Brooke (‘Qualiter è nido multâ jam floridus alâ’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 325. Martin, pp. 368-9.
CrR 357
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Damno affici saepe fit lucrum (‘Damna adsunt multis taciti compendia lucri’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, p. 226.
CrR 358
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Domitiano. De S. Johanne ad portam Lat. (‘Ergò vt inultus eas? Sed nec tamen ibis inultus’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 321. Martin, p. 365.
CrR 359
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
___________________ (‘Ecce tuos lapides! nihil est pretiosius illis’)
See CrR 442.
Ejusdem In caeterorum Operum difficili Parturitione Gemitus (‘O felix nimis Illa, & nostrae nobile Nomen’)
First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 207-8.
CrR 360
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Elegia (‘Ite meae lacrymae (nec enim moror) ite. Sed oro’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, p. 225.
CrR 361
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Epitaphium (‘Quisquis nectareo serenus aevo’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 225-6.
CrR 362
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Epitaphium in Dominum Herrisium (‘Siste te paulum (viator) ubi Longum Sisti’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 164-6.
CrR 363
Copy of lines 1-38, headed ‘Epitaphium Gulielmi Herisij socij Aulae Pemb: Crosh’.
In: the MS described under CrR 52 (CrR Δ 3). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Martin.
‘Ergò veni: quicunque ferant tua signa timores’
First published in Grosart, II (1873), 223-4. Martin, pp. 363-4.
CrR 364
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
Et conspuebant illum (‘Quid non tam foedè saevi maris audeat ira!’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 317. Martin, p. 361.
CrR 365
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
‘Felices! properâstis jo, properâstis. & altam’
First published in Grosart, II (1873), 235-6. Martin, pp. 364-5.
CrR 366
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
Honoratisso Do. Robo. Heath, summo Justit. de com. Banco. Gratulatio. (‘Ignitum latus, & sacrum tibi gratulor ostrum’)
First published in Grosart, II (1873), 326-7. Martin, pp. 376-7.
CrR 367
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
Horatii Ode. Ille & nefasto te posuit die &c. (‘_______________________’)
First published in Grosart, II (1873), 329-30. Martin, pp. 377-8.
CrR 368
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
Humanae vitae descriptio (‘O vita, tantum lubricus quidam furor’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 226-7.
CrR 369
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Hymnus Veneri, dum in illius tutelam transëunt virgines (‘Tu tuis adsis, Venus alma, sacris’)
First published in Grosart, II (1873), 300-1. Martin, pp. 369-70.
CrR 370
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
In Apollinem depereuntem Daphnen (‘Stulte Cupido’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, p. 222.
CrR 371
Copy, headed ‘In Phaebum amantem’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
In Baptistam Vocem (‘Tantum habuit Baptista loqui, tot flumina rerum’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 314. Martin, p. 358.
CrR 372
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
In Beatae Virginis verecundiam (‘Non est hoc matris, sed (crede) modestia nati’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 310. Martin, p. p. 354.
CrR 373
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
In descensum Spiritûs Sancti (‘Quae vehit auratos nubes dulcissima nimbos?’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 313. Martin, pp. 356-7.
CrR 374
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
In Eundem Scazon (‘Huc hospes, oculos flecte, sed lacrimis coecos’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, p. 214.
CrR 375
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
In (Joh. 17) Cygnaeam Di. Jesû cantionem (‘Quae mella, ô quot, Christe, favos in carmina fundis!’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 317. Martin, p. 361.
CrR 376
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
In lacrymas Christi patientis (‘Saeve dolor! potes hoc? oculos quoque perpluis istos?’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 309. Martin, p. 353.
CrR 377
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
In natales Domini Pastoribus nuntiatos (‘Ad te sydereis, ad te, Bone Tityre, pennis’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 311. Martin, p. 355.
CrR 378
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
In Natales Mariae Principis (‘Parce tuo jam, bruma ferox, ô parce furori’)
First published in Grosart, II (1873), 350-2. Martin, pp. 375-6.
CrR 379
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
In obitum Rev. V. Dris Mansell Coll. Regin. Mri qui reu. Ds. Brooke interitum proximè secutus est (‘Ergo iterum in lacrymas, & saevi murmura planctûs’)
First published in Grosart, II (1873), 323-4. Martin, p. 379.
CrR 380
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
In partum B Virgs. non difficilem (‘Nec facta est tamen illa Parens impunè. quòd almi’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 324. Martin, p. 367.
CrR 381
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
In Picturam Reverendissimi Episcopi, D. Andrews (‘Haec charta monstrat, Fama quem monstrat magis’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 163.
CrR 382
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
In Pigmaliona (‘Paenitet Artis’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 223-4.
CrR 383
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
In reu. Dre. Brooke. Epitaphium (‘Posuit sub istâ (non gravi) caput terrâ’)
First published in Grosart, II (1873), 376-7. Martin, pp. 378-9.
CrR 384
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
In S. Lucam Medicum (‘Hanc, mihi quam miseram faciunt mea crimina vitam’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 317. Martin, p. 361.
CrR 385
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
In Sanctum igneis lnguis descendentem Spiritum (‘Absint, qui ficto simulant pia pectora vultu’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 324. Martin, p. 368.
CrR 386
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
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In spinas demtas è Christi capite cruentatas (‘Accipe (an ingoscis?) de te sata germina, Miles’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 313. Martin, p. 357.
CrR 387
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
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Joh. 1. Agnus Dei, qui tollit peccata mundi (‘Ergò tot heu (torvas facies) tot in ora leonum’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 314. Martin, p. 358.
CrR 388
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
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Joh. 1. 23 (‘Vox ego sum, dicis. tu vox es, sancte Johannes?’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 311. Martin, p. 355.
CrR 389
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Joann. 3. In aquam baptismi Dominici (‘Felix, ô, sacros cui sic licet ire per artus!’)
First published in Epigrammatum sacrorum liber (Cambridge, 1634). Martin, p. 32.
CrR 390
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CrR 9 (CrR Δ 7). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Yoklavich (no variants recorded).
Joh. iii (‘Nox erat, & Christum (Doctor malè docte) petebas’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 314. Martin, p. 357.
CrR 391
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Joh.4. Rogavit eum, vt descenderet, & sanaret filium suum (‘Ille vt eat tecum, in natique, tuique salutem?’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 318. Martin, pp. 361-2.
CrR 392
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Joann. 6. Quinque panes ad quinque hominum millia (‘En mensae faciles, rediviváque vulnera coenae’)
First published in Epigrammatum sacrorum liber (Cambridge, 1634). Martin, p. 16.
CrR 393
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 9 (CrR Δ 7). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Yoklavich (no variants recorded).
Joh. 6.14.26 (‘Jam credunt. Deus es. (Deus est, qui teste palato)’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 309. Martin, p. 353.
CrR 394
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Joh. 10. Ego sum ostium (‘Jamque pates. cordisque seram gravis hasta reclusit’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 312. Martin, p. 357.
CrR 395
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Joh. 12.37. Cùm tot signa edidisset, non credebant (‘Quantâ amor ille tuus se cunque levauerit alâ’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 315. Martin, p. 359.
CrR 396
Copy, headed ‘Joh. 12. 19. Cùm tot signa edidisset, non credebant’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Joh. 13. Domine, non solùm pedes, sed & caput, &c (‘En caput! atque suis quae plus satis ora laborant’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 315. Martin, p. 359.
CrR 397
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Joh. 13. 34. voi amorem praecipit (‘Sic magis in numeros, morituraque carmina vivit’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 309. Martin, p. 353.
CrR 398
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Joh. 15. Ego vitis vera (‘Credo quidem. sed & hoc hostis te credidit ipse)’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 312. Martin, p. 356.
CrR 399
Copy, headed ‘Joh. 14. Ego vitis vera’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Joh. 15.24. vidérunt, & odérunt me (‘Vidit? & odit adhuc? Ah, te non vidit, Jesu’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 318. Martin, p. 362.
CrR 401
Copy, headed ‘Joh.’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
joh. 19. In Sepulchrum Domini (‘Jam cedant, veteris cedant miracula saxi’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 309. Martin, p. 353.
CrR 402
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Luc. 5. Relictis omnibus sequuti sunt eum (‘Ad nutum Domini abjecisti retia, Petre’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 314. Martin, p. 358.
CrR 404
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Luc. 5.9. Pavor enim occupauerat eum super capturam piscium (‘Dum nimiùm in captis per te, Petre, piscibus haeres’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 318. Martin, p. 362.
CrR 405
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Luc. xv (‘O ego vt Angelicis fiam bona gaudia turmis!’)
First published, in a version beginning ‘O Ut ego angelicis fiam bona gaudia turmis’, in Poemata et epigrammata (Cambridge, 1670). Martin p. 70 (and later version pp. 357-8).
CrR 406
Copy, headed ‘Luc. ix.’.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Martin (pp. 357-8).
Luc. 15.4 (‘O ut ego angelicis fiam bona gaudia turmis’)
See CrR 406.
Luc. 18 (‘Improba turba tace. Mihi tam mea vota propinquant’)
See CrR 408.
Luc. 18. Nec sicut iste Publicanus (‘Tu quoque dum istius miseri peccata fateris’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 316. Martin, p. 359.
CrR 407
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Luc. 18. 39. (‘Tu mala turba tace. mihi tam mea vota propinquant’)
First published, in a version beginning ‘Improba turba tace. Mihi tam mea vota propinquant’, in Poemata et epigrammata (Cambridge, 1670). Martin p. 69. Later version published in Waller (1904), p. 318, and in Martin, p. 362.
CrR 408
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Luc. 19. Vidit urbem, & flevit super eam (‘Ergò meas spernis lacrymas, urbs perfida? Sperne’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 315. Martin, p. 359.
CrR 409
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Marc. 1 & Luc. 14 In (febricitantem & hydropicum) sanatos (‘Nuper lecta gravem extinxit pia pagina febrem’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 317. Martin, p. 360.
CrR 410
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Marc. 7. 33 & 36 (‘Voce, manuque simul linguae tu, Christe, ciendae’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 310. Martin, p. 354.
CrR 411
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Marc. 8 Pisces multiplicati (‘Quae secreta meant taciti tibi retia uerbi’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 315. Martin, p. 358.
CrR 412
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Mat. 4. Christus à daemone vectus (‘Ergò ille, Angelicis ô sorcina dignior alis’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 311. Martin, p. 355.
CrR 413
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Mat. 6. 29. Videte lilia agrorum - nec Solomon &c. (‘Candide rex campi, cui floris eburnea pompa est’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 310. Martin, p. 354.
CrR 415
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Mat. 8 - & accedentes discipuli excivavérunt eum (‘Ah, quis erat furor hos (tam raros) soluere somnos’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 316. Martin, p. 360.
CrR 417
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Mat. 9 (‘Falleris. & nudum malè ponis (Pictor) Amorem’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 319. Martin, p. 363.
CrR 418
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Mat. 9. Quaere comedit Magister vester cum peccatoribus &c. (‘Siccine fraternos fastidis, improbe, morbos’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 316. Martin, p. 360.
CrR 419
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Mat. 11. Legatio Baptistae ad Christum (‘Oro, quis es? legat ista suo Baptista Magistro’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 320. Martin, p. 363.
CrR 420
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Mat. 15. In mulierem Canaanaeam cum Dno decertantem (‘Cjo. jam, jamque cadet modò fortiter vrge’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 316. Martin, p. 360.
CrR 421
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Matth. 16. 25. Quisquis perdiderit animam suam meâ causâ, inveniet eam (‘I vita. I, perdam: mihi mors tua, Christe, reperta est’)
First published in Epigrammata sacrorum liber (Cambridge, 1634). Martin, p. 16.
CrR 422
Copy, headed ‘Ad Christum’.
In: the MS described under CrR 9 (CrR Δ 7). c.1630s.
This MS collated in yoklavich (no variants recorded).
Mat. 22. In Pharisaeos Christi uerbis insidiantes (‘O quàm te miseri ludunt vaga taedia voti’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 319. Martin, pp. 362-3.
CrR 423
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Matth. 28. Ecce locus ubi jacuit Dominus (‘Ipsum, Ipsum (precor) ô potiùs mihi (candide) monstra’)
First published in Epigrammata sacrorum liber (Cambridge, 1634). Martin p. 28.
CrR 424
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 9 (CrR Δ 7). c.1630s.
This MS collated in Yoklavich (no variants recorded).
Mitto vos, sicut agnos in medio luporum (‘Hos quoque? an hos igitur saevi lacerabitis agnos?’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 310. Martin p. 354.
CrR 425
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
‘Ne pia, ne nimium, Virgo, permitte querelis’
First published in Grosart, II (1873), 229-30. Martin, pp. 366-7.
CrR 426
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
Non accipimus brevem vitam, sed facimus (‘Ergò tu luges nimiùm citatam’)
First published in Grosart, II (1873), 233-4. Martin, p. 371.
CrR 427
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
On Bp Andrew's's picture (‘Haec est, quae sacrâ didicit florere figurâ’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 332. Martin p. 374.
CrR 428
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Phaenicus (Genethliacon & Epicedion) (‘Phaenix alumna mortis’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 224-5.
CrR 429
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Ps. I (‘O te te nimis, & nimis beatum!’)
First published in Grosart, II (1873), 221. Martin, p. 352.
CrR 430
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
CrR 431
Copy, subscribed ‘R. Crashaw. MS.’
In: the MS described under CrR 218. Mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Martin.
Pulchra non diuturna (‘Eheu ver breve, & invidum!’)
First published in Grosart, II (1873), 295-7. Martin, pp. 371-3.
CrR 432
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
Serenissimae Reginae librum suum commendat Academia (‘Hunc quoque maternâ (nimium nisi magna rogamus)’)
First published in Grosart, II (1873), 345. Martin, p. 377.
CrR 433
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
‘Spes Diva, salue. Diva auidam tuo’
First published in Grosart, II (1873), 237-8. Martin, p. 370.
CrR 434
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
Thesaurus malorum faemina (‘Qvis deus, O quis erat qui te, mala faemina, finxit?’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 221-2.
CrR 435
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Tollat crucem suam - &c. (‘Ergò tuam pone. vt nobis sit sumere nostram’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 317. Martin p. 361.
CrR 436
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
‘Tolle oculos, tolle ô tecum (tua sydera) nostros’
First published in Waller (1904), p. 319. Martin p. 363.
CrR 437
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
Tranquillitas animi, similitudine ductâ ab ave captivâ & canorâ tamen (‘Vt cùm delicias leves, loquacem’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 227-8.
CrR 438
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Veris descriptio (‘Tempus adest, placidis quo Sol novus auctior horis’)
First published in Grosart, II (1873), 303-5. Martin, pp. 373-4.
CrR 439
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
Votiva Domus Petrensis Pro Domo Dei (‘Ut magis in Mundi votis, Aviúmque querelis’)
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 206-7.
CrR 440
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
This MS collated in Martin.
Vox Joannes. Xus Verbum (‘Monstrat Joannes Christum, haud res mira videtur’)
First published in Waller (1904), p. 311. Martin p. 355.
CrR 441
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Waller and in Martin.
‘Ecce tuos lapides! nihil est pretiosius illis’
First published in Grosart, II (1873), 239. Martin, p. 365.
CrR 442
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
Poems in Latin and English of Doubtful Authorship
Ad librum super haec ab ipso ludi magistro editum, qui dr̈ Priscianus verberans & vapulans (‘Sordes ô tibi gratulamur istas’)
Extracts (14 lines) first published in William Hawkins, Priscianus verberans et vapulans (London, 1632). The whole poem published in Grosart, II (1873), 315-16. Martin, p. 413.
Probably spurious (see Martin, p. lxiv).
CrR 443
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Martin.
Meliùs purgatur stomachus per vomitum, quàm per secessum (‘Dum vires refero vomitûs, & nobile munus’)
First published in Grosart, II (1873), 317-18. Martin, p. 411.
Probably spurious (see Martin, p. lxiv).
CrR 444
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
Priscianus verberans, & vapulans (‘Quid facis? ah! tam perversâ quid volvitur irâ?’)
Lines 39-40 first published in William Hawkins, Priscianus verberans et vapulans (London, 1632). The whole poem published in Grosart, II (1873), 311-13. Martin, pp. 411-12.
Probably spurious (see Martin, p. lxiv).
CrR 445
Copy in: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Martin.
Vpon a gnatt burnt in a candle (‘Little = buzzing = wanton elfe’)
First published in Grosart, I (1872), 284-5. Martin, pp. 413-14.
Probably spurious (see Martin, p. lxv). Also ascribed to Thomas Randolph and to Thomas Vincent.
CrR 446
Copy, ascribed to Crashaw in the MS index.
In: the MS described under CrR 1 (CrR Δ 1). c.1640s [and later].
Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Martin.
CrR 447
Copy, headed ‘On a gnatt wch was burnt in a candle & fell into an Inkshorne’, here beginning ‘Silly Buzzing wanton Elfe’ and ascribed to ‘Tho: Vincent Coll. Trin.’.
In: the MS described under CrR 25. c.1640s-60s.
This MS collated in Martin.
CrR 448
Copy, headed ‘On a gnatt wch was burnt in a candle & fell into an Inkehorne’, here beginning ‘Silly, buzzing, wanton elfe’, subscribed ‘Thomas Vincent’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small hand, written from both ends, 25 leaves (foliated 44r-68v), bound with a MS by ‘W. C.’ (ff. 1r-43v) dated 1653, i + 68 leaves in all, in 18th-century half-calf. c.1630s.
Possibly connected with the Darell family, some of the poems relating to Sir Samuel Darell and the death of Elizabeth Darell.
CrR 449
Copy, here beginning ‘Silly buzzing wanton elfe’, subscribed ‘T R.’.
In: the MS described under CrR 10. c.1637.
Document(s)
Document(s)
*CrR 450
Autograph deposition by Crashaw, signed twice, concerning the case of John Ellis, December 1641. 1641.
Cited, together with other related records in these archives, in Hilton Kelliher, ‘Crashaw at Cambridge’, in New Perspectives on the Life and Art of Richard Crashaw, ed. John R. Roberts (Columbia & London, 1990), pp. 180-214 (pp. 213-14).
Cambridge University Archives, Vice-Chancellor's Court, III. 37 (Exhibita Files), item 125.
CrR 451
Entry in the Account Books of the Venerable English College, autograph or in another hand, recording money paid to him between 3 April and 22 June 1647, beginning ‘The 3d of April I Rich: Crashaw haue received two pistols moneta Romana...’. 1647.
*CrR 452
A series of four autograph entries in English, one of them signed, recording loans made to Crashaw on 17 December 1647, 3 January 1647/8, 18 May and 31 October 1648, in the Account Books of the Venerable English College. 1647-8.
Facsimile of f. 20v in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XIb, after p. xxiv. Three of these entries (but not the first) discussed, together with other allusions to Crashaw in the English College records, in Kenneth J. Larsen, ‘Some Light on Richard Crashaw's Final Years in Rome’, MLR, 66 (1971), 492-6.
*CrR 453
Crashaw's signed autograph subscriptions in Latin in the official Admission Books of Peterhouse, Cambridge, under the dates 20 and 22 November 1636. 1636.
Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCIX(b). The text also edited in Martin, p. 418.
*CrR 453.5
Crashaw's autograph signature, as a Fellow of Peterhouse, in the official Treasury Records of the college, agreeing to a college loan to King Charles I, 6 July 1642. 1642.
Facsimile in Greg, Plate XCIX(c) (though the date is misprinted in his transcript as 1624). The text is also printed in Martin, p. 419.
Letters
Letter(s)
CrR 454
Copy of a lengthy letter in English by ‘R.C.’, evidently Crashaw, [to Joseph Beaumont], from Leiden, 20 February 1643/4. 1644.
Edited in Martin, pp. xxvii-xxxi, with a facsimile after p. xxx. Believed by him to be ‘almost certainly’ autograph (even ‘though cramped and hurried’). The recipient was identified by Elsie Duncan-Jones.
Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Crashaw
Extracts
CrR 455
Extracts, including The Weeper and The Teare from Crashaw's Steps to the Temple (1646).
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, i + 200 leaves (ff. 129-199 blank), in quarter-vellum over boards. Compiled by John Phillipps, of Exeter College, Oxford, and the Middle Temple, who has inscribed the front pastedown ‘John Phillipps. med: Temp: Lond: 1776’. c.1776-1804.
Acquired from Cumming of Exeter, 1941.
CrR 456
Extracts from poems.
In: A large untitled folio anthology of quotations chiefly from Elizabethan and Stuart plays, alphabetically arranged under subject headings, in a single mixed hand, in double columns, 900 pages (lacking pp. 1-4, 379-80, 667-8, 715-20 and 785-8), including (pp. 893-7) an alphabetical index of some 351 titles of plays, in modern boards. This is the longest known extant version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised c.1660, among works he purposed to print, by Humphrey Moseley. Another version of this work, in the same hand, dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), is now distributed between Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger, MS V.a.75, Folger, MS V.a.79, and Folger, MS V.a.80. c.1656-66.
Formerly MS 469.2.
This MS identified in IELM, II.i (1980), p. 450. Discussed, as the ‘master draft’, with a facsimile of p. 7 on p. 381, in Hao Tianhu, ‘Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404 (the full index printed as ‘Catalogue A’ on pp. 385-94).
CrR 457
Extracts, headed ‘These Verses Taken out of Mr Richard crashaws Poems’.
In: A large quarto miscellany of verse extracts, comprising 182 entries, in a single cursive hand varying in style, 115 unnumbered leaves (plus 26 blanks), in contemporary calf. Entitled (f. [1r]) ‘A Collection of Miscellany Poems from the Greatest Poets, both Ancient and Modern That i have Read, & here place for my own entertainment, to diuert Malincolly Thoughts, & to assist My Memory, That was neuer Good at no Time:’. Late-17th century.
From the library at Newburgh Priory, Yorkshire.