[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 repetition 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 space 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: