For readier reference, these Contents are also arranged alphabeti-
cally. The figures 1, 2, 3 on to 160 denote the number of the
Poem required.

63. Tentation (Affliction). IOI 148. The Rose

ILLUSTRATIONS IN VOL. I. 4to.

1. Portrait on steel of GEORGE HERBERT, after the original engraving of 1674, by W. J. Alais, London. . to face title-page II. The interior of Leighton Bromswold Church, showing the Reading-desk and Pulpit, &c., after a photograph by Maddison, Huntingdon .. to face page XXV III. Bemerton Church (before its restoration), after an original painting by T. G. Targett, Salisbury. on page xxv IV. (1) South-east view of the Church of St. Mary, Leighton Bromswold, from Dr. Zouch's edition of Walton's 'Lives;' (2) View of the Church and Parsonage of Bemerton, from an original drawing taken on the spot (1825) for the Venerable Archdeacon Coxe; (3) View of Fuggleston Church, from an original drawing made on the spot (1825). These three from Major's edition of Walton's 'Lives' (1825).

. to face page lv

Nos. II. and IV. (1, 2, 3) are anastatic etchings by Rev. W.
F. Francis, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, reproduced by Mr.
Stephen H. Cowell, Ipswich.

PREFACE.

FROM NICHOLAS FERRAR and BARNABAS OLEY and IZAAK WALTON earlier, to WILLIAM PICKERING, JAMES YEOWELL, WILLIAM JERDAN, ROBERT ARIS WILLMOTT, and C. COWDEN CLARKE more recently, many loving and capable Editors have spent time and pains (in the old sense) on the Works of the divine Herbert'-epithet irreversible as 'judicious' for Richard Hooker, 'holy' for Richard Baxter. I wish, therefore, right cordially to acknowledge the labours of my predecessors on this Worthy. It were to belie my innermost feeling, not to express my sense of obligation with emphasis. Nevertheless, it may be permitted me to point out certain things whereby the present edition claims to be in advance of others:

1. For the first time the text throughout is reproduced in integrity of wording and orthography. Collation and re-collation of the original and early editions revealed manifold, in some cases flagrant and ignorant, departures from both, and important errors in even the most careful, while the punctuation has been chaos (e.g. Pickering's, 1835, 1838, and onward: Bell and Daldy's Yeowell, 1865: Willmott Jerdan: Clarke). The more prominent are pointed out in their places in the Notes and Illustrations, and others will be recognised by the critical Student. The text of HERBERT has suffered more than most from successive misprints, and small but in the aggregate destructive changes and 'improvements' by successive Editors.