I.
EPIGRAMMATA SACRA.
(1634-1670.)
NOTE.
The earliest appearance of Crashaw as a poet was in the University Collections of Latin Verse on the (then) usual conventional occasions of royal births and deaths, and the like. These pieces will be found in their places in the present volume. The place of honour herein we assign to his own published volume of 1634, of which the following is the title-page, within a neat woodcut border:
EPIGRAM-
MATUM
SACRORUM
LIBER.University Printer's ornament,
with legend, 'Hinc. Lvcem. Et.
Pocula. Sacra.' and 'Alma Mater.'Cantabrigiæ,
Ex Academiæ celeberrimæ
typographeo. 1634.This is a small duodecimo. Collation: Title-page—Epistle-dedicatory to Lany, with the poems, 'Salve, alme custos Pierii gregis,' &c.—Venerabili viro Magistro Tournay, Tutori suo summe observando—Ornatissimo viro Præceptori suo colendissimo, Magistro Brook—Lectori (verse and prose), seven leaves: Epigrammata Sacra, pp. 79.
A second edition of this volume appeared in 1670. Its title-page is as follows: