BIBLIOGRAPHY.WithFirst Lines, &c. of the three first editions, showing the growth of the work.(a) Issues in the Author's lifetime.I.As a separate publication.1. "CASTARA, &c. LONDON, Printed byAnne GriffinforWilliam Cooke, and are to be sold at his shop neareFurnivals Innegate in Holburne. 1634. 4to."Perfectly anonymous: all names being represented by initials. It consists of only two Parts, each having a separate title page; in which Parts are contained the following:CASTARA.The First Part.PAGEi.TheAuthor. [A Prose Preface]11ii.G[eorge] T[albot].Not in the silence of content, and store14iii.Fifty-threePoems, byWilliam Habington.1.Let the chaste Phœnix from the flowry East,172.I sawCastarapray, and from the skie,173.Yee blushing Virgins happie are184.By those chaste lamps which yeeld a silent light185.Where am I? not in heaven: for oh I feele196.Not still ith' shine of Kings. Thou dost retire197.Doe not their prophane Orgies heare,208.Sing forth sweete Cherubin (for we have choice219.In vaine faire sorceresse, thy eyes speake charmes,2210.While you dare trust the loudest tongue of fame,2211.Why doth the stubborne iron prove2312.Transfix me with that flaming dart2413.Wing'd with delight (yet such as still doth beare2514.Learned shade ofTycho Brache, who to us,2615.Ye glorious wits, who finde then Parian stone2616.If she should dye, (as well suspect we may,2717.You younger children of your father stay,2718.Fond Love himselfe hopes to disguise2819.Feare.Checke thy forward thoughts, and know2820.Nimble boy in thy warme flight,2921.Cupidsdead, who would not dye,3022.Fly on thy swiftest wing, ambitious Fame,3023.Araphill.Dost not thouCastararead3124.Why haste you henceCastara? Can the earth,3225.I am engag'd to sorrow, and my heart3326.Th' Arabian wind, whose breathing gently blows3327.Looke backeCastara. From thy eye3328.Tis madnesse to give physicke to the dead;3429.The lesser people of the ayre conspire3430.Swift in thy watry chariot, courteousThames,3531.My Muse (great Lord) when last you heard her sing3532.ThankesCupid, but the Coach ofVenusmoves3633.How fancie mockes me? By th' effect I prove,3734.Faire Mistresse of the earth, with garlands crown'd,3735.With your calme precepts goe, and lay a storme,3836.Tis ICastara, who when thou wert gone,3837.Pronounce me guilty of a Blacker crime,3938.Thrice hath the pale-fac'd Empresse of the night,3939.Scorn'd in thy watry UrneNarcissuslye,4040.Banisht from you, I charg'd the nimble winde,4041.Blest Temple, haile, where the Chast Altar stands,4142.Bright Dew which dost the field adorne4143.Stay under the kinde shadow of this tree4244.Dare not too farreCastara, for the shade4345.Vowes are vaine. No suppliant breath4346.Night. Let silence close my troubled eyes,4447.Your judgement's cleere, not wrinckled with the Time,4548.What should we feareCastara? The coole aire,4649.More welcome myCastara, then was light4650.Why dost thou looke so pale, decrepit man?5251.T'was Night: whenPhœbeguided by thy rayes,5252.Why would you blushCastara, when the name5353.Like the Violet which alone53CASTARA.The Second Part.iv.Thirty-sixmore Poems.54.This day is ours. The marriage Angell now5955.Did you not see,Castara, when the King5956.Whose whispers soft as those which lovers breath6057.Forsake me not so soone.Castarastay,6158.Hence prophane grim man, nor dare6159.Sleepe myCastara, silence doth invite6260.She is restor'd to life. Unthrifty Death,6261.May you drinke beare, or that adult'rate wine6362.Castarawhisper in some dead mans eare,6463.Forsake with me the earth, my faire,6464.Castaraweepe not, though her tombe appeare6565.What's death more than departure; the dead go6766.Castara!O you are too prodigall6767.I heard a sigh, and something in my eare6868.You saw our loves, and prais'd the mutuall flame6869.Why should we build,Castara, in the aire6970.Castara, see that dust, the sportive wind7071.Were but that sigh a penitentiall breath7072.Araphill.Castarayou too fondly court7173.My thoughts are not so rugged, nor doth earth7274.Tyrant o're tyrants, thou who onely dost7375.The breath of time shall blast the flowry Spring,7376.The reverend man by magicke of his prayer7477.Thy vowes are heard, and thyCastara'sname7578.Thou dreame of madmen, ever changing gale,7579.Were we by fate throwne downe below our feare7680.What can the freedome of our love enthrall?7681.Bright Saint, thy pardon, if my sadder verse7782.I like the greene plush which your meadows weare7883.Thou art return'd (great Light) to that blest houre8084.They meet but with unwholesome Springs8085.The Laurell doth your reverend temples wreath8186.'Bout th' husband Oke, the Vine8287.Let not thy grones force Eccho from her cave,8288.We saw and woo'd each others eyes8389.Here Virgin fix thy pillars, and command982. "CASTARA, &c. The Second Edition. Corrected and Augmented. London. Printed byB. A.andT. F.forWill. Cooke, and are to bee sold at his shop neareFurnivals-InneGate inHolburne, 1635. 12mo."In this second edition, the authorship is avowed by means of a new heading to G. Talbot's poem, atp.14. It still consists of but two Parts, each with a separate title: but is augmented by three Characters in prose and twenty-six poems; all by Habington.CASTARA.The First Part.i.A Character.A Mistris.15ii.Fouradditional poems are inserted.90.Hee who is good is happy. Let the loude4791.Harke, how the traytor winde doth court4992.It shall not grieve me (friend) though what I write5093.You who are earth, and cannot rise51CASTARA.The Second Part.iii.A Character.A Wife.57iv.Fourteenadditional Poems.94.Though my deareTalbotsFate exact, a sad8495.If your example be obey'd8696.Its false Arithmaticke to say thy breath8897.Why should we feare to melt away in death8998.WhenPelionwondring saw, that raine which fell8999.O whither dost thou flye? Cannot my vow90100.Where sleepes the North-wind when the South inspires90101.Should the coldMuscovit, whose furre and stove91102.Amphion, O thou holy shade92103.You'd leave the silence in which safe we are92104.Give me a heart where no impure94105.Why doth the eare so tempt the voyce,95106.I hate the Countries durt and manners, yet96107.I wonder when w'are dead, what men will say;97v.A Character.A Friend.vi.EightElegies "The Funerals of the Honourable, my best Friend and Kinsman,George Talbot, Esq."101108.(1) Twere malice to the fame; to weepe alone101109.(2)Talbotis dead. Like lightning which no part102110.(3) Let me contemplate thee (faire soule) and though103111.(4) My name, dear friend, even thy expiring breath104112.(5) Chast as the Nuns first vow, as fairely bright105113.(6) Goe stop the swift-wing'd moments in their flight107114.(7) There is no peace in sinne. Æternall war108115.(8) Boast not the rev'rend Vatican, nor all1093. 1640. Third Edition in 12mo: with Titles, Characters, and Poems arranged in the order here reprinted. For titles, seepp.9, 55, 111. There are no further additions to the first two parts: but there is added an entire Third Part.CASTARA.Third Part.i.A Character.The Holy Man.112ii.Twenty-twoPoems, chiefly Sacred, with mottoes from the Vulgate. We have here given the equivalent passages in the Authorized version: inserting between [] the Douay version! where it more closely follows the Latin of the Vulgate.116.O Lord, open thou my lips.Ps. li. 15. No monument of me remaine115117.My harp also is turned to mourning.Job xxx. 31. Love! I no orgies sing116118.I will destroy the wisdom of the wise.1 Cor. i. 19. Forgive my envie to the World; while I118119.[Declare unto me the fewnes of my days, Douay].He shortened my days.Ps. cii. 23. Tell me O great All knowing God119120.Not unto us, O Lord.Ps. cxv. 1. No marble statue, nor high120121.The graves are ready for me.Job xvii. 1. Welcome thou safe retreate!121122.He fleeth also as a shadow.Job xiv. 2. What shadow your faire body made122123.Night unto night sheweth knowledge.Ps. xix. 2. When I survay the bright124124.But the proud he knoweth afar off.Ps. cxxxviii. 6. To the cold humble hermitage125125.Thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.Ps. xli. 3. My Soule! When thou and I126126.Praise ye the Lord from the heavens.Ps. cxlviii. 1. You Spirits! who have throwne away127127.He cometh forth like a flower.Job xiv. 2. Faire Madame: you129128.Why boasteth thou thyself in mischief.Ps. lii. 1. Swell no more, proud man, so high!130129.My God, my God.Ps. xxii. 1. There is that foole Philosophie131130.[For I am ready for scourges, Douay].For I am ready to halt.Ps. xxxviii. 17. Fix me on some bleake precipice133131.[The life of man upon earth is a warfare, Douay].Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth.Job vii. 1. Were it your appetite of glory, (which134132.Shew me thy ways, O Lord.Ps. xxv. 4. Where have I wandred? In what way136133.And exalteth them of low degree.Luke i. 52. How cheerefully th' unpartiall Sunne138134.Lord of Lords.Deut. x. 17. Supreame Divinity! Who yet139135.I will be sorry for my sin.Ps. xxxviii. 18. In what darke silent grove140136.I shall go softly all my years.Is. xxxviii. 15. Time! where didst thou those years inter142137.Having a desire to depart.Phil.i.23. The soule which doth with God unite143II.With other Works.None.(b) Issues since the Author's Death.I.As a separate publication.6. 14 April 1870. London. 1 vol. 8vo.English Reprints: see title atp.1. This Edition follows No. 3 as to the arrangement of the Poems, &c.: but has been corrected with the earlier editions; when ever in spelling or punctuation the former were the better readings. In doubtful cases, the earlier variations are shown in footnotes.5. [1812.] Bristol. 1 vol. 8vo. "Habington'sCastara, with a preface and notes byCharles A. Elton." [A reprint of No. 3.]II.With other Works.4. London. 1810. 21 vols. 8vo.The Works of the English Poets.Ed. byA. Chalmers, F.S.A. Vol. iv. 437-482 contains a Reprint of No. 3.III.Selections, &c.One or more of these Poems will be found in the Selections of Ellis, H. Headley,The Lyre of Love, E. Sandford'sBritish Poets, &c. &c.
WithFirst Lines, &c. of the three first editions, showing the growth of the work.
1. "CASTARA, &c. LONDON, Printed byAnne GriffinforWilliam Cooke, and are to be sold at his shop neareFurnivals Innegate in Holburne. 1634. 4to."
Perfectly anonymous: all names being represented by initials. It consists of only two Parts, each having a separate title page; in which Parts are contained the following:
2. "CASTARA, &c. The Second Edition. Corrected and Augmented. London. Printed byB. A.andT. F.forWill. Cooke, and are to bee sold at his shop neareFurnivals-InneGate inHolburne, 1635. 12mo."
In this second edition, the authorship is avowed by means of a new heading to G. Talbot's poem, atp.14. It still consists of but two Parts, each with a separate title: but is augmented by three Characters in prose and twenty-six poems; all by Habington.
3. 1640. Third Edition in 12mo: with Titles, Characters, and Poems arranged in the order here reprinted. For titles, seepp.9, 55, 111. There are no further additions to the first two parts: but there is added an entire Third Part.
None.
6. 14 April 1870. London. 1 vol. 8vo.English Reprints: see title atp.1. This Edition follows No. 3 as to the arrangement of the Poems, &c.: but has been corrected with the earlier editions; when ever in spelling or punctuation the former were the better readings. In doubtful cases, the earlier variations are shown in footnotes.
5. [1812.] Bristol. 1 vol. 8vo. "Habington'sCastara, with a preface and notes byCharles A. Elton." [A reprint of No. 3.]
4. London. 1810. 21 vols. 8vo.The Works of the English Poets.Ed. byA. Chalmers, F.S.A. Vol. iv. 437-482 contains a Reprint of No. 3.
One or more of these Poems will be found in the Selections of Ellis, H. Headley,The Lyre of Love, E. Sandford'sBritish Poets, &c. &c.