'See, O my guests, a Deity is here:
The chast nymph saw a God, and blusht for fear.'
For Dryden's and others, see our Essay in this volume. G.
[61] Barksdale, as before, thus renders the last couplet:
'To see Christ was first in my desire:
Next, having seen Thee, forthwith to expire.'
[62] Barksdale, as before, inserts an anonymous epigram on the same subject as supra, being the only one not by Crashaw in the volume. It is as follows: '40. Mulier Canaanitis. Matt. 15. Femina tam fortis, &c.
'O woman, how great is that faith of thine!
Fides more than a grammar's feminine.'
In another application, quaint old Dr. Worship, in his 'Earth raining upon Heaven' (1614), in rebuking the unfeminine boldness of the sex, 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. ἐν ᾧ οὐδέπω οὐδεὶς ἐτέθη Cr.