The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I

by Richard Crashaw

Line 2. 1646 and 1670 read

'Yee simpering ...'

So the Sancroft ms.

Line 3, ib. 'fertile' for 'fruitfull.'

Line 4, ib. 'What hath our world that can entice.' So the Sancroft ms.

Lines 5 and 6, ib.

'what is't can borrow
You from her eyes, swolne wombes of sorrow.'

So the Sancroft ms.

St. xxxi. line 2. 1646 and 1670 read

'O whither? for the sluttish Earth:'