BIBLIOGRAPHY.

With First 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 by Anne Griffin for William Cooke, and are to be sold at his shop neare Furnivals Inne gate 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.PAGE

i.The Author. [A Prose Preface]11

ii.G[eorge] T[albot]. Not in the silence of content, and store14

iii.Fifty-three Poems, by William Habington.

1.Let the chaste Phœnix from the flowry East,17

2.I saw Castara pray, and from the skie,17

3.Yee blushing Virgins happie are18

4.By those chaste lamps which yeeld a silent light18

5.Where am I? not in heaven: for oh I feele19

6.Not still ith' shine of Kings. Thou dost retire19

7.Doe not their prophane Orgies heare,20

8.Sing forth sweete Cherubin (for we have choice21

9.In vaine faire sorceresse, thy eyes speake charmes,22

10.While you dare trust the loudest tongue of fame,22

11.Why doth the stubborne iron prove23

12.Transfix me with that flaming dart24

13.Wing'd with delight (yet such as still doth beare25

14.Learned shade of Tycho Brache, who to us,26

15.Ye glorious wits, who finde then Parian stone26

16.If she should dye, (as well suspect we may,27

17.You younger children of your father stay,27

18.Fond Love himselfe hopes to disguise28

19.Feare. Checke thy forward thoughts, and know28

20.Nimble boy in thy warme flight,29

21.Cupids dead, who would not dye,30

22.Fly on thy swiftest wing, ambitious Fame,30

23.Araphill. Dost not thou Castara read31

24.Why haste you hence Castara? Can the earth,32

25.I am engag'd to sorrow, and my heart33

26.Th' Arabian wind, whose breathing gently blows33

27.Looke backe Castara. From thy eye33

28.Tis madnesse to give physicke to the dead;34

29.The lesser people of the ayre conspire34

30.Swift in thy watry chariot, courteous Thames,35

31.My Muse (great Lord) when last you heard her sing35

32.Thankes Cupid, but the Coach of Venus moves36

33.How fancie mockes me? By th' effect I prove,37

34.Faire Mistresse of the earth, with garlands crown'd,37

35.With your calme precepts goe, and lay a storme,38

36.Tis I Castara, who when thou wert gone,38

37.Pronounce me guilty of a Blacker crime,39

38.Thrice hath the pale-fac'd Empresse of the night,39

39.Scorn'd in thy watry Urne Narcissus lye,40

40.Banisht from you, I charg'd the nimble winde,40

41.Blest Temple, haile, where the Chast Altar stands,41

42.Bright Dew which dost the field adorne41

43.Stay under the kinde shadow of this tree42

44.Dare not too farre Castara, for the shade43

45.Vowes are vaine. No suppliant breath43

46.Night. Let silence close my troubled eyes,44

47.Your judgement's cleere, not wrinckled with the Time,45

48.What should we feare Castara? The coole aire,46

49.More welcome my Castara, then was light46

50.Why dost thou looke so pale, decrepit man?52

51.T'was Night: when Phœbe guided by thy rayes,52

52.Why would you blush Castara, when the name53

53.Like the Violet which alone53

CASTARA. The Second Part.

iv.Thirty-six more Poems.

54.This day is ours. The marriage Angell now59

55.Did you not see, Castara, when the King59

56.Whose whispers soft as those which lovers breath60

57.Forsake me not so soone. Castara stay,61

58.Hence prophane grim man, nor dare61

59.Sleepe my Castara, silence doth invite62

60.She is restor'd to life. Unthrifty Death,62

61.May you drinke beare, or that adult'rate wine63

62.Castara whisper in some dead mans eare,64

63.Forsake with me the earth, my faire,64

64.Castara weepe not, though her tombe appeare65

65.What's death more than departure; the dead go67

66.Castara! O you are too prodigall67

67.I heard a sigh, and something in my eare68

68.You saw our loves, and prais'd the mutuall flame68

69.Why should we build, Castara, in the aire69

70.Castara, see that dust, the sportive wind70

71.Were but that sigh a penitentiall breath70

72.Araphill. Castara you too fondly court71

73.My thoughts are not so rugged, nor doth earth72

74.Tyrant o're tyrants, thou who onely dost73

75.The breath of time shall blast the flowry Spring,73

76.The reverend man by magicke of his prayer74

77.Thy vowes are heard, and thy Castara's name75

78.Thou dreame of madmen, ever changing gale,75

79.Were we by fate throwne downe below our feare76

80.What can the freedome of our love enthrall?76

81.Bright Saint, thy pardon, if my sadder verse77

82.I like the greene plush which your meadows weare78

83.Thou art return'd (great Light) to that blest houre80

84.They meet but with unwholesome Springs80

85.The Laurell doth your reverend temples wreath81

86.'Bout th' husband Oke, the Vine82

87.Let not thy grones force Eccho from her cave,82

88.We saw and woo'd each others eyes83

89.Here Virgin fix thy pillars, and command98

2. "CASTARA, &c. The Second Edition. Corrected and Augmented. London. Printed by B. A. and T. F. for Will. Cooke, and are to bee sold at his shop neare Furnivals-Inne Gate in Holburne, 1635. 12mo."

In this second edition, the authorship is avowed by means of a new heading to G. Talbot's poem, at p. 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.15

ii.Four additional poems are inserted.

90.Hee who is good is happy. Let the loude47

91.Harke, how the traytor winde doth court49

92.It shall not grieve me (friend) though what I write50

93.You who are earth, and cannot rise51

CASTARA. The Second Part.

iii.A Character. A Wife.57

iv.Fourteen additional Poems.

94.Though my deare Talbots Fate exact, a sad84

95.If your example be obey'd86

96.Its false Arithmaticke to say thy breath88

97.Why should we feare to melt away in death89

98.When Pelion wondring saw, that raine which fell89

99.O whither dost thou flye? Cannot my vow90

100.Where sleepes the North-wind when the South inspires90

101.Should the cold Muscovit, whose furre and stove91

102.Amphion, O thou holy shade92

103.You'd leave the silence in which safe we are92

104.Give me a heart where no impure94

105.Why doth the eare so tempt the voyce,95

106.I hate the Countries durt and manners, yet96

107.I wonder when w'are dead, what men will say;97

v.A Character. A Friend.

vi.Eight Elegies "The Funerals of the Honourable, my best Friend and Kinsman, George Talbot, Esq."101

108.(1) Twere malice to the fame; to weepe alone101

109.(2) Talbot is dead. Like lightning which no part102

110.(3) Let me contemplate thee (faire soule) and though103

111.(4) My name, dear friend, even thy expiring breath104

112.(5) Chast as the Nuns first vow, as fairely bright105

113.(6) Goe stop the swift-wing'd moments in their flight107

114.(7) There is no peace in sinne. Æternall war108

115.(8) Boast not the rev'rend Vatican, nor all109

3. 1640. Third Edition in 12mo: with Titles, Characters, and Poems arranged in the order here reprinted. For titles, see pp. 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.112

ii.Twenty-two Poems, 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 remaine115

117.My harp also is turned to mourning. Job xxx. 31. Love! I no orgies sing116

118.I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. 1 Cor. i. 19. Forgive my envie to the World; while I118

119.[Declare unto me the fewnes of my days, Douay]. He shortened my days. Ps. cii. 23. Tell me O great All knowing God119

120.Not unto us, O Lord. Ps. cxv. 1. No marble statue, nor high120

121.The graves are ready for me. Job xvii. 1. Welcome thou safe retreate!121

122.He fleeth also as a shadow. Job xiv. 2. What shadow your faire body made122

123.Night unto night sheweth knowledge. Ps. xix. 2. When I survay the bright124

124.But the proud he knoweth afar off. Ps. cxxxviii. 6. To the cold humble hermitage125

125.Thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. Ps. xli. 3. My Soule! When thou and I126

126.Praise ye the Lord from the heavens. Ps. cxlviii. 1. You Spirits! who have throwne away127

127.He cometh forth like a flower. Job xiv. 2. Faire Madame: you129

128.Why boasteth thou thyself in mischief. Ps. lii. 1. Swell no more, proud man, so high!130

129.My God, my God. Ps. xxii. 1. There is that foole Philosophie131

130.[For I am ready for scourges, Douay]. For I am ready to halt. Ps. xxxviii. 17. Fix me on some bleake precipice133

131.[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, (which134

132.Shew me thy ways, O Lord. Ps. xxv. 4. Where have I wandred? In what way136

133.And exalteth them of low degree. Luke i. 52. How cheerefully th' unpartiall Sunne138

134.Lord of Lords. Deut. x. 17. Supreame Divinity! Who yet139

135.I will be sorry for my sin. Ps. xxxviii. 18. In what darke silent grove140

136.I shall go softly all my years. Is. xxxviii. 15. Time! where didst thou those years inter142

137.Having a desire to depart. Phil. i. 23. The soule which doth with God unite143

II. 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 at p. 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's Castara, with a preface and notes by Charles A. Elton." [A reprint of No. 3.]

II. With other Works.

4. London. 1810. 21 vols. 8vo. The Works of the English Poets. Ed. by A. 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's British Poets, &c. &c.