etiam doctoris Curiæ Prerogative Cantuariensis Magisteri Custodis sive Commissarij legitime constituti duodecimo die mensis Martij Anno Domini juxta cursum et computaconem Ecclesie Anglicane Millesimo sexcentesimo tricesimo secundo juramento Arthuri Woodnoth Executoris in hujusmodi Testamento nominati cui commissa fuit administratio omnium et singulorum bonorum jurium et creditorum dicti defuncti de bene et fideliter administrando eadem ad Sancta Dei Evangelia in debita juris forma jurat.

So much for our Memorial-Introduction of the outward facts in the Life of George Herbert. I may be permitted to ask the reader to accompany me farther, by now turning to the Essay in Vol. II., and then to Walton's Life as annotated in Vol. III. He will be pleased also to look at our anastatic etchings of (1) The Church and Parsonage of Bemerton previous to modern restoration beyond recognition: (a) In the smaller view from Major's 'Walton's Lives' (1825); (b) The larger, both in the present volume; (2) The little view of Fugglestone, also from Major, in the present volume.1

I will now only detain from The Church Porch and The Temple until the finely-touched tribute of Richard Crashaw is read, as follows:

'ON MR. GEORGE HERBERT'S BOOKE INTITULED THE TEMPLE OF SACRED POEMS: SENT TO A GENTLE-WOMAN.

Know you, faire, on what you looke?

Divinest love lyes in this booke:
Expecting fier from your faire eyes,

To kindle this his sacrifice.

When your hands untie these strings,

Thinke yo' have an angell by the wings;

One that gladly would be nigh,

To waite upon each morning sigh;

To flutter in the balmy aire

Of your well-perfumed praier;

These white plumes of his hee'l lend you,

Which every day to Heaven will send you:
To take acquaintance of each spheare,

1 See Contents for the Illustrations in quarto form, with details.

VOL. I.

And all your smooth-fac'd kindred there.
And though Herbert's name doe owe
These devotions; fairest, know
While I thus lay them on the shrine

Of your white hand, they are mine."1

ALEXANDER B. GROSART.

1 Our edition of the complete Works of Richard Crashaw: 2

vols., vol. i. pp. 139-140.

THE PORTRAIT OF GEORGE HERBERT

BY R. WHITE.

SINCE my Preface was printed off, I have discovered in the Williams Library a virgin copy of the first edition of the Life of HERBERT by Izaak Walton, 1670; and, lo! facing the title-page, is a most brilliant impression of another Portrait of HERBERT by the same R. WHITE to whom we are indebted for that in the 1674 edition of 'The Temple.' It is the same Face, but younger and unworn, and with a subtle light of humour over it, exceedingly attractive. I cannot say that I prefer it to the wasted, wistful Face of 1674, for its pathetic realism is infinitely precious. Still I rejoice to have come on this healthier, sunnier Portrait. It is plain that White, in reengraving the Face for the 1674 'Temple,' must have worked after a later drawing, when the dying Poet bore the insignia of change.

Portrait and other collectors despoil many of these old books of their engravings sorrowfully. I have seen at least a dozen copies of the 1670 Life of HERBERT without the Portrait, never one until now with it. I hope hereafter to reproduce this earlier Face of HERBERT, as prepared for Izaak Walton, largely and finely. None extant is true to or worthy of it.

ALEXANDER B. GROSART.