. The Complete poems of Robert Southwell, : for the first time fully collected and collated with the original and early editions and mss. . ph comes from thence,So forcible, hell-gates cannot resist: A thing whereby both angels, clouds and starres, At mans request fight Gods reuengefull warres. I^othing more gratefull in the Highest eyes,Nothing more firme in danger to protect us. 188 TO THE READER OF SHORT RVLES OF CxOOD LIFE. Nothing more forcible to pierce the skies, And not depart till Mercy doe respect vs :And, as the soule life to the body giues,So prayer reuiues the soule, by praye
. The Complete poems of Robert Southwell, : for the first time fully collected and collated with the original and early editions and mss. . ph comes from thence,So forcible, hell-gates cannot resist: A thing whereby both angels, clouds and starres, At mans request fight Gods reuengefull warres. I^othing more gratefull in the Highest eyes,Nothing more firme in danger to protect us. 188 TO THE READER OF SHORT RVLES OF CxOOD LIFE. Nothing more forcible to pierce the skies, And not depart till Mercy doe respect vs :And, as the soule life to the body giues,So prayer reuiues the soule, by prayer it Hues. NOTES. St. ii. line 1, fovtresse= prayer : st. iii. liue 4, respect=to look back upon or again, hold in view, look upon consider-ately. Part of one of these (the Preparation to Prayer) was pre-fixed to Bp. Cosiss Hora: but with some variations (pp. 16-18,Oxford reprint). Some of the Prayers in that book are takenfrom Southwell (which rathe) modifies what is said in the Ox-ford Preface from Evelyn, p. xii.): for example, on pp. 68-72,which is altered from one in Southwells Rules of Good Life(latter part of sheet y, ed. 1630). POEMATA LATIN A. FROM THE MSS. OP THE AUTHOR. Never before printed. NOTE. The whole of the following hitherto unprinted Latin Poemsby Southwell are from his own mss. now preserved in Stony-HUKST College, near Blackburn. They are wi-itten in fasci-culi distinct from the English Poems ms. (on which see ourPreface). The first two pieces explain themselves—and for remarkson them and the others, i-eference may be made to our Me-morial-Introduction ; but it may be well to note here, that thefirst of the Fragment of a Series of Elegies seems to relateto some disaster to the Spanish arms, probably the Armadacollapse of 1588; that Elegia VIII. is the lament of a husbandfor the death of his wife, in which there is a conceit runningthroughout, founded upon the idea of the one being alter egoof the other; and that Elegia IX. is historically interesting
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