The complete poems of Robert Southwell S.J. : for the first time fully collected and collated with the original and early editions and MSS. and enlarged with hitherto unprinted and inedited poems from MSS. ar Stonyhurst college, Lancashire, and…

The complete poems of Robert Southwell S.J. : for the first time fully collected and collated with the original and early editions and MSS. and enlarged with hitherto unprinted and inedited poems from MSS. ar Stonyhurst college, Lancashire, and original illustrations and facsimiles in the quarto form

Author: Southwell, Robert

Year: 1872

CONTENTS. I place on the left figures 1, 2, 3, &c in these Contents, in order to show the frequence of the Poems in the Anther's Htonyhurst MA. volume. There is no title-page to it, and never has been. On the seventh page (three leaves blank) begins the Letter to his Father (pp. »). Next three pages blank; then the Triumphs ouer Deuth (pp. 33)— the last page and half containing the Latin and English poems as printed by us (pp. 182-3). After the Latin and English verse on the Lady of the Howard family, there are other three pages blank, then comes the Preface, commencing * Poets, by abusing/ Jtc. (2 pp.) Then, to the Reader, and the poems in succession as numbered. The Poems occupy 36 leaves and part of a page — 72 or 73 page)*, with five blank leaves, The Prose occupies. 31 J pp. O. Dedication . . . . . ... v Preface xi Memorial-Introduction. I. The Life . . . . xxxv „ „ II. The Writings. . . lxvi I. St. Peter's Complaint, 1-55 . , . .1 II. Myrvae, or Myrtle- Wreaths, 57-1x2. 27. Mary Magdalen's Blushe 59 83. Mary Magdalen's Complaint at Christ's Death . . .62 44. Tymes goo by tunics . . . .' .64 43. Looke Home . . . . .... - 65 49. Fortune's Falschoode 66 52. Scorne not the Least*