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Title: Complete works of Richard Crashaw
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Crashaw, Richard, 1613?-1649
Subjects: English poetry Religious poetry, English
Publisher: (London : Robson and Sons, Printers)
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
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Treason offer once to sippeOne dropp of this pure nectar, w* doth flowIn azure channells warme tlirongh mounts of snow ?The roses fresh, conserued from the rage,And crueU ravishing of frosty age,Feare is afraid to tast of: only this.He humbly craud to banquett on a kisse,Poore meagre horro streightwaies was amazd.And in the stead of feeding stood, & gazd.Their appetites were gone at th uery sight;But yet theire eyes surfett with sweet delight.Only the Pope a stomack still could find ;But yett they were not powderd to his mind.Forth-with each god stept from his starry throne,And snatchd away the banquett; euery oneConveyd liis sweet delicious treasuryTo the close closet of eternity:Where they will safely keepe it, from the rude.And rugged touch of Plutos multitude. Secular ;poctrg. 1.THE DELIGHTS OF THE MUSES (1G4C). NOTE. For the title-page of The Delights of the MuBes see Noteimmeiliatcly before the original Preface, and our Pi-eface onthe classification of the several jioems. G.
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MUSICKS DUELL. Now Westward Sol had spent the richest beams ( Of Xoons high ghiry, when hard by the streamsOf Tiber, on the sceane of a greene plat,Vnder protection of an oake, there sateA sweet Lutes-master; in whose gentle aires 5 He lost the dayes heat, and his owne hot cares.Close in the covert of the leaves there stoodA Nightingale, come from the neighbouring wood :(The sweet inhabitant of each glad tree,Their Muse, their Syren—harmlesse Syren she !) i oThere stood she listning, and did entertaineThe musicks soft report, and mold the sameIn her owne niurmures, that what ever moodllis cnrious fingers lent, her voyce made good : 1 Appeared originally in nelii,lits of 1646 (pp. 103-7): was re-printed in 1648 (pp. 1-5), and 1670 (pp. 81-6). Our text is that of1648, as before; but all agree. See Notes and Illustrations at closeof this poem for other two earlier translations, and our Essay for theoriginal Latin, with critical remarks. In our illustrated quarto edi-tion will be found

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