Carmen Deo nostro, te decet hymnus sacred poems, / collected, corrected, augmented, most humbly presented. To my Lady the Countesse of Denbigh by her most deuoted seruant. R.C. In heaty [sic] acknowledgment of his immortall obligation to her goodnes & charity.

Title

Carmen Deo nostro, te decet hymnus sacred poems, / collected, corrected, augmented, most humbly presented. To my Lady the Countesse of Denbigh by her most deuoted seruant. R.C. In heaty [sic] acknowledgment of his immortall obligation to her goodnes & charity.

Author

Crashaw, Richard, 1613?-1649.

Publication

At Paris :: By Peter Targa, printer to the Arch-bishope of Paris, in S. Victors streete at the golden sunne.,

M. DC. LII. [1652]

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English poetry -- 17th century.

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"Carmen Deo nostro, te decet hymnus sacred poems, / collected, corrected, augmented, most humbly presented. To my Lady the Countesse of Denbigh by her most deuoted seruant. R.C. In heaty [sic] acknowledgment of his immortall obligation to her goodnes & charity." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A80774.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 20, 2025. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• CRASHAWE, THE ANAGRAMME. HE WAS CAR.
• AN EPIGRAMME Vpon the pictures in the following Poemes which the Authour first made with his owne hand, admirably well, as may be seene in his Manuscript dedicated to the right Honorable Lady the L. Denbigh.

• NON VI.

• TO THE NAME ABOVE EVERY NAME, THE NAME OF IESVS A HYMN.
• IN THE HOLY NATIVITY OF OVR LORD GOD A HYMN SVNG AS BY THE SHEPHEARDS.

  Ton Createur te faict voir sa naissance, Daignant souffrir pour toy des son enfance.

• NEW YEAR'S DAY.
• IN THE GLORIOVS EPIPHANIE OF OVR LORD GOD, A HYMN. SVNG AS BY THE THREE KINGS
  • The Close.
• TO THE QVEEN'S MAIESTY.
• THE OFFICE OF THE HO¦LY CROSSE
  • THE HOWRES FOR THE HOVR OF MATINES.
    • The Versicle.
    • The Responsory.
    • THE HYMN.
    • The Antiphona.
    • The Versicle.
    • The Rsponsor.
    • The Prayer.
  • FOR THE HOVR OF PRIME.
    • The Versicle.
    • The Responsor.
    • THE HYMN.
    • The Antiphona.
    • The Versicle.
    • The Responsor.
    • The Prayer.
  • THE THIRD.
    • The Versicle.
    • The Responsor.
    • THE HYMN.
    • The Antiphona.
    • The Versicle.
    • The Responsor.
    • The Prayer.
  • THE SIXT.
    • The Versicle.
    • The Responsor.
    • THE HIMN.
    • The Antiphona.
    • The Versicle.
    • The Responsor.
    • The Prayer.
  • THE NINTH.
    • The Versicle.
    • The Responsor.
    • THE HYMN.
    • The Antiphona.
    • The Versicle.
    • The Responsor.
    • The Prayer.
  • EVENSONG.
    • The Versicle.
    • The Responsor.
    • THE HYMN.
    • The Antiphona.
    • The Versicle.
    • The Responsor.
    • The Prayer.
  • COMPLINE.
    • The Versicle.
    • The Responsor.
    • THE HIMN.
    • The Antiphona.

  • EXPOSTVLATIO IESV XPI. CVM VNDO INGRAT SVM pulcher: at nemo tamen me diligit. Sum nobilis: nemo est mihi qui seruiat: Sum diues: a me nemo quicquam postulat. Et cuncta possum: nemo me tamen tinet. Aeternus exs: quaeror a paucissinus. Prudensque sum: sed me quis est qui consulit? Et sum via: at per me quotusquisque ambulat? Sum veritas: quare mihi non creditur? Sum vita: verum rarus est qui me petit. Sum vera lux: videre me neme cupit. Sum misericors: nullus fidem in me collocat. TV, si poris, non id mihi imputes, Homo: Salus ibi est a me parata: hac vtere. cud.

    THE RECOMMENDATION.
  • VPON THE H. SEPVLCHER.
• VEXILLA REGIS, THE HYMN OF THE HOLY CROSSE.
  • TO OVR B. LORD VPON THE CHOISE OF HIS Sepulcher.
• CHARITAS NIMIA. OR THE DEAR BARGAIN.
• SANCTA MARIA DOLORVM OR THE MOTHER OF SORROWS. A Patheticall descant vpon the deuout Plainsong OF STABAT MATER DOLOROSA.
• VPON THE BLEEDING CRVCIFIX A SONG.
• VPON THE CROWNE OF THORNS TAKEN DOWNE From the head of our Bl. LORD, all Bloody.
• VPON THE BODY OF OVR BL. LORD, NAKED AND BLOODY.
• THE HYMN OF SANITE THOMAS IN ADORATION OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT.
• LAVDA SION SALVATOREM. THE HYMN. FOR THE BL. SACRAMENT.

• S. MARIA MAIOR. Dilecius meus mihi et ego illi▪ qui pascitur inter lilia. .

  THE HIMN O GLORIOSA DOMINA.
• IN THE GLORIOVS ASSVMPTION OF OVR BLESSED LADY. THE HYMN.
• SANITE MARY MAGDALENE OR THE WEEPER.
• A HYMN TO THE NAME AND HONOR OF THE ADMIRABLE SANITE TERESA, FOVNDRESSE of the Reformation of the Discalced CARMELITES, both men & Women; A WOMAN for Angelicall heigth of speculation, for Masculine courage of performance, more then a woman. WHO Yet a child, out ran maturity, and durst plott a Martyrdome;
• AN APOLOGIE. FOR THE FORE-GOING HYMEN as hauing been writt when the au∣thor was yet among the protestantes.
• THE FLAMING HEART VPON THE BOOK AND Picture of the seraphicall saint, TERESA, (AS SHE IS VSVALLY EX∣pressed with a SERAPHIM biside her.)
• A SONG.
• PRAYER. AN ODE, WHICH WAS Praefixed to a little Práyer-book giuin to a young. GENTLE-WOMAN.
• TO THE SAME PARTY COVNCEL CONCERNING HER CHOISE.
• ALEXIAS THE COMPLAINT. OF THE FORSAKEN WIFE OF SANITE ALEXIS.
  • THE FIRST ELEGIE.
  • THE SECONDE ELEGIE.
  • THE THIRD ELEGIE.
• DESCRIPTION. OF A RELIGIOVS HOVSE AND CONDITION OF LIFE (OVT OF BARCLAY.)
• AN EPITAPH VPON A YOVNG MARRIED COVPLE DEAD AND BVRYED TOGETHER.
• DEATH'S LECTVRE AND THE FVNERAL OF A YOVNG GENTLEMAN.
• TEMPERANCE. OF THE CHEAP PHYSITIAN VPON THE TRANSLATION OF LESSIVS.
• HOPE.
• M. CRASHAWS. ANSWER FOR HOPE.