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. AT

STONYHURST COLLEGE, LANCASHIRE,

AND ORIGINAL ILLUSTRATIONS AND FACSIMILES IN THE
QUARTO FORM.

EDITED, WITH MEMORIAL-INTRODUCTION AND NOTES,

BY THE

REV. ALEXANDER B. GROSART,
ESE LIBRA

ST. GEORGE'S BLACKBURN, LANCASHIRE.

UNIVERSITY

TO WHICH, IN COMMON WITH MULTITUDES, I OWE MUCH,

AND TO WHOM

NOT ADMIRATION ONLY BUT LOVE IS FELT BY ALL OF US,

I DEDICATE

THIS EDITION OF A

6 SWEET SINGER ;'

REMAINING VERY GRATEFULLY

ALEXANDER B. GROSART.

CONTENTS.

I place on the left figures 1, 2, 3, &c. in these Contents, in order to show

the sequence of the Poems in the Author's Stonyhurst MS. 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. 29). Next three pages blank;
then the Triumphs ouer Death (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,' &c. (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 pages, with five blank leaves.
The Prose occupies 31 pp. G.

II. MYRTÆ, OR MYRTLE-WREATHS, 57-112.

27. Mary Magdalen's Blushe

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