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, 1

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

1. 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. it. VERSE.

PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION.

1874. 156 copies only.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

LIBRARY

CONTENTS.

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

rious readings in the Notes and Illustrations; I 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. W1.=Rev. Richard Wilton; H.=Her-

bert, as Translators.

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

Editor . . . . . . . . . . 1X

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

Notes and Nlustrations . . .

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.

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 LILIES OF THE TEMPLE: from unpublished Mss.,

pp. 19-28,

* 1. The Holy Communion . . . . .

* II. Love .

* III. Trinity Sunday . . .

** iv. Euen-Song . . . . . . .

*1 v. The Knell. . . . . . . .

*vi. Perseverance

VII. The Convert . .

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

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

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

a New-year's gift from Cambridge . . . . 45

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

cessor · · · · · · · · · 46

Another version . . . . . . . . 46