THE COMPLETE WORKS

IN VERSE AND PROSE

OF

GEORGE HERBERT.

FOR THE FIRST TIME FULLY COLLECTED AND COLLATED WITH
THE ORIGINAL AND EARLY EDITIONS AND MSS.

AND MUCH ENLARGED WITH

I. HITHERTO UNPRINTED AND INEDITED POEMS AND PROSE FROM
THE WILLIAMS MSS. ETC.

II. TRANSLATION OF THE WHOLE OF THE LATIN AND GREEK VERSE
AND LATIN PROSE.

III. MEMORIAL-INTRODUCTION, ESSAY ON LIFE AND WRITINGS, AND
NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS.

IV. IN QUARTO, PORTRAITS ON STEEL, AND OTHER SPECIALLY-
PREPARED ILLUSTRATIONS AND FACSIMILES.

Edited by the

REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART,

ST. GEORGE'S, BLACKBURN, LANCASHIRE.

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III. PROSE.

PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION.

156 copies only.

1874.

HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

FROM THE LIBRARY OF
HERBERT WEIR SMYTH
. APR.- 15,- 1941

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TO

BRINSLEY NICHOLSON, Esq. M.D.

WOODLANDS ROAD, REDHILL;

DEPUTY INSPECTOR-GENERAL IN THE ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT; ETC. ETC. ETC.

I dedicate

THIS FIRST COMPLETE COLLECTION OF THE

PROSE WORKS OF GEORGE HERBERT,

AS A MEMORIAL OF

VERY PLEASANT LITERARY CORRESPONDENCE AND

UNITED RESEARCH IN AND CRITICAL EXAMINATION OF

OUR ELDER LITERATURE.

GRATEFULLY AND SINCERELY,

ALEXANDER B. GROSART.

I. IZAACK WALTON'S LIFE OF GEORGE HERBERT, pp. 1-80.

Appendix A. Various Readings and Additions from later texts

of the Life.

B. Additional Notices of Herbert by Walton

C. Letters of Dean Donne to Lady Magdalene Her-

bert

D. Poems in honour of Herbert and Walton

Notes and Illustrations

II. A PRIEST TO THE TEMPLE, AND PRAYERS, pp. 117-219.

(a) A Prefatory View of the Life and Vertues of the Authour

and Excellencies of this Book, by Archdeacon Oley

(b) Preface to the Christian Reader (Ibid.)

(c) Advertisement (Ibid.)

Notes and Illustrations

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III. A COPY OF A LETTER written by Mr. George Herbert to
his Friend the Translator of this Book [viz. Valdesso's
'Considerations'], with briefe notes relating to the dvbiovs
and offensive places in the Considerations, pp. 263-287.

Notes and Illustrations

IV. A TREATISE OF TEMPERANCE AND SOBRIETIE. Written

by Lud. Cornarus, and translated into English by Mr.

George Herbert, pp. 289-310.

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