The Fuller Worthies' Library. Henry Caughan, Silurist. ре 3740 A5 676 1983 Vil VOL. I. AMS PRESS NEW YORK THE WORKS IN VERSE AND PROSE COMPLETE OF HENRY VAUGHAN SILURIST, FOR THE FIRST TIME COLLECTED AND EDITED: WITH Memorial-Introduction: Essay on Life and Writings : AND NOTES: ALSO FIFTEEN ORIGINAL PHOTO-CHROMO-LITHS AND FAC-SIMILES: CHIEFLY FROM PHOTOGRAPHS BY GRIFFITHS OF BRECON BY THE REV ALEXANDER B. GROSART, IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. I. MEMORIAL-INTRODUCTION AND SACRED POETRY: CONTAINING SILEX SCINTILLANS, 1650-1655: PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. 1871. 50 COPIES ONLY. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Vaughan, Henry, 1622-1695. The works in verse and prose complete of Henry Vaughan, Edited by A. B. Grosart. Reprint. Originally published: Blackburn, Lancashire: I. Grosart, Alexander Balloch, 1827-1899. II. Title. PR3740.A5G76 1983 ISBN 0-404-11493-8 821'.4 73-21067 AMS PRESS 56 East 13th Street, New York, N. Y. 10003 Reprinted from the edition of 1869, Blackburn, Lancashire. Trim INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ΤΟ Sir John Duke Coleridge M. P. HER MAJESTY'S SOLICITOR GENERAL &c. &c. &c. SIR JOHN, : In the outset you were kind enough spontaneously to express your interest in my work on the Worthies that form the (now) goodly Series of my privately-printed books and successively I owe you many suggestive and pleasantlyworded letters, that came as so much sunlight into my study. By a gratifying coincidence too, while I was busied in preparations for it, you honoured me with your counsel to include HENRY VAUGHAN'S 'secular' as well as 'sacred' Poetry in the Fuller Worthies' Library. I was overjoyed to find my own decision confirmed by one whose judgment and taste few will challenge. I have now the pleasure to offer you Vols. Ist and IIIrd.-first of Prose and Verse respectively,and in the Autumn I hope to add Vols. IId. and IVth.-Verse and Prose-so making a complete collective edition of the Works of the Silurist: and your approbation of what I have tried to do |