The earliest appearance of CRASHAW as a poet was in the University Collections of Latin Verse on the (then) usual conventional occasions of royal births and deaths, and the like. These pieces will be found in their places in the present volume. The place of honour herein we assign to his own published volume of 1634, of which the following is the title-page, within a neat woodcut border:
University Printer's ornament, with legend, 'Hinc. Lvcem. Et. Pocula. Sacra.' and 'Alma Mater.'
Cantabrigiæ, Ex Academiæ celeberrimæ typographeo. 1634.
This is a small duodecimo. Collation: Title-page--Epistle-dedicatory to LANY, with the poems, 'Salve, alme custos Pierii gregis,' &c.--Venerabili viro Magistro Tournay, Tutori suo summe observando--Ornatissimo viro Præceptori suo colendissimo, Magistro Brook--Lectori (verse and prose), seven leaves: Epigrammata Sacra, pp. 79.
A second edition of this volume appeared in 1670. Its title-page is as follows:
Quæ scripsit Latina & Græca, Dum _Aulæ Pemb._ Alumnus fuit, Et Collegii _Petrensis_ Socius.
{ Heineken eumathiês pinytophronos, hên ho Melichros Êskêsen, Mousôn ammiga kai Charitôn.} { Anthol.}
Cantabrigiæ, Ex Officina _Joan. Hayes_, Celeberrimæ Academiæ Typographi. 1670.
This is an 8vo. Collation: Title-page--and to Brook, as before; then these additional Latin poems: In Picturam Reverendissimi Episcopi D. Andrews--Votiva Domûs Petrensis pro Domo Dei--In cæterorum Operum difficili Parturitione Gemitus--Epitaphium in Gulielmum Herrisium--In Eundem--Natalis Principis Mariæ--In Serenissimæ Reginæ partum hyemalem--Natalis Ducis Eboracensis--In faciem Augustiss. Regis a morbillis integram--Ad Carolum Primum, Rex Redux--Ad Principem nondum natum, Reginâ gravidâ. Bastard-title, 'Epigrammata Sacra, quæ scripsit Græca et Latina'--Lectori (as before), nine leaves: Epigrammata Sacra, pp. 67.
The additions to the second edition--besides the Latin poems enumerated--were in the Epigrams these: No. 1, Pharisaeus et Publicanus, Greek version--No. 11, Obolum Viduæ, ib.--No. 53, Ecce locus ubi jacuit Dominus, ib.--No. 120, In descensum Spiritûs sancti, ib.--No. 124, In S. Columbam ad Christi caput sedentem, ib.--No. 141, Ad D. Lucam medicum, ib.--No. 148, In stabulum ubi natus est Dominus, ib.--No. 161, Hic lapis fiat panis, ib.--No. 177, In die Ascensionis Dominicæ, ib.--No. 178, Cæcus implorat Christum, Latin and Greek--No. 179, Quis ex vobis, &c. ib.--No. 180, Herodi D. Jacobum obtruncati, ib.--No. 181, Cæci receptis, &c. ib.--and No. 182, Zaccheus in sycomoro.