Note 30 — OUR B[LESSED] LORD IN HIS CIRCUMCISION TO HIS FATHER.[30]
Reading edition
Appeared originally in the 'Steps' of 1646 (p. 21): was reprinted in 1648 (p. 29) and 1670 (p. 22). Our text is that of 1648, but the others are the same except in the usual changes of orthography. The Sancroft ms. in line 7 reads 'Then shall He drink;' line 9, 'My paines are in their nonage: my young feares;' line 10 I have adopted, instead of 'Are yet both in their hopes, not come to yeares,' which isn't English; line 12, 'are tender;' line 14, 'a towardnesse.' I have arranged these poems in numbered couplets as in the Sancroft ms. I insert 'd,' dropped by misprint in 1648, but found in 1646 (line 13). G.