The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw Volume II Part 76

In another application, quaint old Dr. Worship, in his 'Earth raining upon Heaven' (1614), in rebuking the unfeminine boldness of the s.e.x, says, 'Harke yee grammarians: _Hic mulier_ ere long will be good Latin'

(pp. 5, 6). G.

[63] For Crashaw's own rendering of this epigram or poem, see our vol.

i. pp. 50-1. G.

[64] Cf. St. Matt. iv. 3. G.

[65] Joan. xix. 41. ?? ? ??d?p? ??de?? ?t??? CR.

[66] Ver. 2. se?s?? ????et? ??a?. CR.

[67] Ver. 4. ?se?s??sa? ?? t?????te?, ?a? ??????t? ?se? ?e????. CR.

[68] Barksdale, as before, renders the closing couplet thus:

'Is He the Christ? And the inquiry is Of Himself? Why, the dumb can answer this.'

[69] Barksdale, as before, renders the latter couplet. G.

[70]

Or--To the Jews it is not fire, Yet the name best tells Heav'n's ire. G.

[71] Barksdale, as before, thus renders the last couplet:

'Most worthy nest this for the Bird above; Most worthy of this nest is th' holy Dove.' G.

[72] Barksdale, as before, renders the latter couplet. G.

[73] Barksdale, as before, thus renders the latter couplet:

'These loaves of Christ are well bestow'd: if fed With these, they hunger after living bread.' G.

[74] Barksdale, as before, thus renders the latter couplet:

'By your opposing force, Greeks, what is meant?

That you have no convincing argument.' G.

[75] Barksdale, as before, renders the latter couplet. G.

[76] Barksdale, as before, renders the opening couplet. G.

[77] = reckoning or debt to be paid. G.

[78] By an oversight Willmott renders _ora_ 'regions' instead of 'eyes.' G.

[79] Barksdale thus renders the second couplet:

'This house a stable! No: Thy blessed birth, Jesus, converts it to a heaven on earth.' G.

[80] Barksdale, as before, thus renders the closing couplet:

'John is Christ's flame; Domitian, in thine ire, Canst thou e'er hope with oil to extinguish fire?' G.

[81] Barksdale thus renders the latter couplet:

'Do, Dragon, do, thy snakes together call, That by Christ's virtue they may perish all.' G.

[82] Barksdale, as before, thus renders the closing couplet:

'Shine forth, my Sun: soon as Thy beams are felt, Thy gracious healing beams, my snow will melt.' G.

[83] Ver. 31. Sustulerunt lapides. CR.

[84] ... Et continuo exivit sanguis et aqua. CR.

[85] Act. i. Nubes susceptum eum abstulit. CR.

[86] Crashaw must have stopped short in his Greek version of the present and succeeding epigram. G.

[87] Rev. i. 16. CR.

[88] Is the allusion to Peter's following 'afar off,' and after-denial of the Lord? G.

[89] The allusion in l. 5 is to wrestlers anointing themselves to prevent their adversaries grasping them. R. WI.

[90] See the above Epigram, with only a few verbal changes, at pp.

160-1, with translation by Rev. Richard Wilton. I add my own, as the inadvertent repet.i.tion was not observed until too late. G.

[91] This was overlooked in its proper place as Crashaw's own rendering of Epigram VI. p. 39. G.

[92] LVI. and LVII. from Tanner MSS., as before. G.

[93] Ecclesia. CR.

[94] Cf. Wordsworth's 'A faculty for storms' ('Happy Warrior'). G.

[95] MS. has no stop here, and leaves a s.p.a.ce nearly wide enough for a line. Mr. Wilton has excellently supplied it. Doubtless it was left blank by Sancroft in order to consult the Text, or as unable to decipher the MS. G.

[96] I have ventured to supply a connecting line in place of the pentameter here dropt out; which might have been something like this:

'Inque brevi vita splendida facta micent.' R. WI.

[97] From 'The Recommendation' ill.u.s.tration in 'Carmen D. nostro'

(Paris, 1652). See vol. i. in 4to, p. 43. G.

[98] See Ill.u.s.tration (in 4to) by Mrs. Blackburn to ll. 13-14 as vignette in Essay. G.