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Title: The Complete poems of Robert Southwell, S.J. : for the first time fully collected and collated with the original and early editions and mss.
Year: 1872 (1870s)
Authors: Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595
Subjects: Southwell, Robert, Saint, 1561?-1595 Christian poetry, English English poetry
Publisher: (London) : Printed for private circulation (by Robson and sons)
Contributing Library: Princeton Theological Seminary Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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n ourPreface. After an anxious collation of mss. and editions, wehave taken for basis the edition of 1596 ; and in Notes and Il-lustrations at the close of the poem, record corrections andvarious readings, with their several authorities in ms. and print.Opposite is the title-page of 1596. It is placed within anengi-aved border of quaint device, and having in the centre anopen book with an hour-glass set on it, and the motto, I lineto dy: I dy to line (in Jesus College, Oxford, copy there is thisin a contemporary hand, Vt moriar vivo: vt viva morior), andunderneath a winged deaths-head and a globe ; all as repro-duced in fac-simile in our illustrated quarto edition. For moreon this edition, and certain significances in its ornaments, andothers, see our Preface. The Notes and Illustrations are placed at the close of St.Peters Complaint, and of each of the others, as throughout.Our Memorial-Introduction sheds light on the formation of the Complaint: and thither the reader is referred. G.
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SaintPETERS COM-PLAINT, Newly augmentedWith other Poems. I line I dy to to dy liue London, Printed by H. L. for William Lcakc: andare to be sold at his shop in Paules Church-yard, at the signe of the holyGhost. (n.d. 1596? 4to.) THE AUTHOR TO HIS LOUING COSIN. Poets, by abusing their talent, and making the folliesand faynings of loue the customarie subiect of theirbase endeiiours, haue so discredited this facultie, thata poet, a louer, and a Iyer, are by many reckoned butthree words of one signification. But the vanitie ofmen cannot counterpoyse the authoritie of God, Whodeliuering many parts of Scripture in verse, and, byHis Apostle willing vs to exercise our deuotion inhymnes and spiritual sonnets, warranteth the art tobe good, and the vse allowable. And therefore notonely among the heathen, whose gods were chiefelycanonized by their poets, and their paynim diuinitieoracled, in verse, but euen in the Olde and NeweTestament, it hath beene vsed by men of gi-eatest • Tliis forms the

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