The Fuller Worthies' Library.

THE

COMPLETE WORKS OF GEORGE HERBERT.

VOL. II. VERSE.

ESSAY ON THE LIFE AND WRITINGS.

THE CHURCH MILITANT.

LILIES OF THE TEMPLE. PSALMS.

SECULAR POEMS: WITH ADDITIONS FROM MSS. PARENTALIA.
ANTI-TAMI-CAMI-CATEGORIA AND EPIGRAMMATA APOLOGETICA.
ALIA POEMATA LATINA. PASSIO DISCERPTA. LUCUS.
WITH TRANSLATIONS OF THE WHOLE.

GLOSSARIAL INDEX.

LONDON:

ROBSON AND SONS, PRINTERS, PANCRAS ROAD, N.W.

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 SPECIALLYPREPARED ILLUSTRATIONS AND FACSIMILES.

Edited by the

REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART,

ST. GEORGE'S, BLACKBURN, LANCASHIRE.

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HARVARD UNIVERSITY LIBRARY

CONTENTS.

Those with a star [*] are in the Williams MS.; † indicates additions or va-

rious readings in the Notes and Illustrations; ‡ appear or are translated

for the first time. These markings (left side) apply to all the volumes.

At right side G. is the Editor; R. WI. Rev. Richard Wilton; H.-Her-

bert, as Translators.

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Essay on the Life and Writings of George Herbert, by the

Editor

I. THE CHURCH MILITANT, pp. 1-14.

Notes and Illustrations.

II. LILIES OF THE TEMPLE: from unpublished мss.,

III. PSALMS: hitherto uncollected and inedited, pp. 29-42.

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IV. SECULAR POEMS: with additions from мss., pp. 43-52.

I. Sonnets. Sent by George Herbert to his Mother as

a New-year's gift from Cambridge

II. Inscription in the Parsonage, Bemerton: To my suc-

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