The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I

by Richard Crashaw

II.

AIRELLES.

FROM UNPUBLISHED MSS.

NOTE.

See our Preface for explanation of the title. 'Airelles' to these and other hitherto unprinted and unpublished Poems from the Tanner mss. of Archbishop Sancroft: and our Essay for the biographic interest of the poems on the Gunpowder-Plot. I adhere strictly throughout to the orthography of the ms. G.

MARY SEEKING JESUS WHEN LOST.

St. Luke ii. 41-52: Quærit Jesum suum Maria, &c. (v. 44.)