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Crashaw and his patrons, ser. iv., vol. i., p. 450. and his Italian songs, ser. iv., vol. v., p. 173. and Tertullian, ser. v., vol. vi., p. 169, 233. and Aaron Hill, ser. vi., vol. viii., pp. 165, 166, 294; ser. vii., vol. v., p. 301. Richard The Owens College [Manchester] Magazine. Crashaw and John Henry Newman, their Poetic DELIGHTS OF THE MUSES. OR, Other Poems written on feverall occafions. By Richard Crafhaw, fometimes of Pembroke Hall, and late Fellow of St. Peters Colledge in Cambridge. Mart. Dic mihi quid melius defidiosus agas. LONDON, Printed by T. W. for H. Mofeley, at the Princes Armes in S. Pauls Church-yard, 1648. 1 THE PREFACE TO THE READER. LEARNED READER, - The Author's friend will not usurp much upon thy eye; this is only for those whom the name of our divine Poet hath not yet seized into admiration. I dare undertake, that what JAMBLICUS (in vita Pythagora) affirmeth of his Master, at his Contemplations, these poems can, viz., They shalt lift thee, Reader, some yards above the ground; and, as in PYTHAGORAS' school, every temper was first tuned into a height by several proportions of music, and spiritualised for one of his weighty lectures; so mayest thou take a poem hence, and tune thy soul by it into a heavenly pitch; and thus refined and borne up upon the wings of meditation, in these poems thou mayest talk freely of God, and of that other state. Here is HERBERT's second, but equal, who hath retrieved Poetry of late, and returned it up to its primitive use; let it bound back to heaven gates, whence it came. Think ye ST. AUGUSTINE would have stained his graver learning with a book of Poetry, had he fancied their dearest end to be the vanity of love-sonnets and epithalamiums? No, no, he thought with this our poet, that every foot in a high-born verse, might help to measure the soul into that better world. Divine Poetry, I dare hold it in position, against SUAREZ on the subject, to be the language of the angels; it is the quintessence of phantasy and discourse centred in heaven; it is the very outgoings of the soul; it is what alone our Author is able to tell you, and that in his own verse. It were profane but to mention here in the Preface those underheaded Poets, retainers to seven shares and a-half; madrigal fellows, whose only business in verse is to rhyme a poor sixpenny soul, a suburb sinner into Hell :- May such arrogant pretenders to Fiery vanish, with her prodigos sue fumamus teas and fashes of her adultere irans and or ever afer may dis nur Pe film the beter om if nan Ch: when de geneal traignment of es mal le a WU, W Viata rumphant rw al mur divine Per at above auf ook down 1000 pour Sower. Tez. STRACE. CATSCAN ko: who had amongst den e il nc oak mut a great part of their glam genius con fees fng, ings, mi gas, and CE as himself here on Scriptures, fivine gras mays, and modis kealer, we wyle is Sacred Poems. Starr a tie Tennel and orly, for in the Temple of God, mder Es ving, he let his life n 3. Mary's Chur, near St. Peter's College; there he lodget der Testsert roof of angels: there he made his next more gladly Khan David's walow near the house of God: where. Eke a primitive mint, he offered more prayers in the men than others 19ally offer in the day: there he penned these Frems, STEPS for happy world to din Beaven by. And those offer of his pieces, entitled, The Delights of the Muss' (though of a more human mite, are as sweet as they are The praises that follow are but few of many that might be conferred on him: he was excellent in five languages (besides his mother-tongue), viz, Hebrew, Greek, Latin, Italian, Spanish, the two last whereof he had little help in-they were of his own acquisition. Amongst his other accomplishments in academic (as well pious as harmless) arts, he made his skill in Poetry, Music, Drawing, Limning, Graving (exercises of his curious invention and sudden fancy) to be but his subservient recreations for vacant hours, not the grand basiness of his soul. To the former qualifications I might add that which would crown them all-his rare moderation in diet (almost Lessian temperance); |