Tu difcidifti Gorgoneas manus Enceladum, pharetramque Rhœci. Ceu victa, mufis porrigit herbulas Non ulla Bellonæ furentis Arma tui metuunt alumni. Pallas retortis cæfia vocibus Ut fi recifis arboribus meis Nudetur illic lucus amabilis, Fructufque poft mortem recufent Dulcem rependent tum mihi tibiam Dignamque cœlefti corona Harmoniam dabit inter aftra. X. E MSTO. AUTOG. UM petit Infantem Princeps, Grantamque Jacobus, CUM Quifnam horum major fit, dubitatur, amor? Vincit more fuo Nofter: nam millibus Infans Non tot abeft, quot nos Regis ab ingenio. XI. E MSTO. AUTOG. ERO verius ergo quid fit, audi VERO Verum, Gallice, non libenter audis. THE SYNAGOGUE OR THE SHADOW OF THE TEMPLE SACRED POEMS AND PRIVATE EJACULATIONS IN IMITA TION OF MR. GEORGE HERBERT 'BY CHRISTOPHER HARVEY M.A., "Stultiffimum credo ad imitandum non optima quæque proponere." Plin. Sec. lib. 1. Ep. 5. I do esteem't a folly not the least To imitate examples not the best. LONDON M DCCC XXXXIIII T ADVERTISEMENT TO THE SYNAGOGUE. HE "Synagogue" was first published in 1640,* without the author's name; and the authority for afcribing the work to Chriftopher Harvey rests upon the following evidence: In the "Complete Angler," chap. v. Walton, after quoting George Herbert, fays, "And fince you like these verses of Mr. Herbert's fo well, let me tell you what a reverend and learned divine, that profeffes to imitate him, and has indeed done so most excellently, hath writ of our Book of Common Prayer; which I know you will like the better, because he is a friend of mine, and I am fure no enemy to angling;" then follow the Verfes on the Book of Common Prayer, printed in this volume, p. 280, which are fubfcribed, Ch. Harvie. In the fecond edition of the "Complete Angler," published in 1653, will be found commendatory verses, addreffed to Walton by "Ch. Harvie, Printed by T. L. for Phil. Stephens, and Christopher Meredith, at the Golden Lion, in St. Paul's Church-yard. The fecond edition enlarged, was published Lond. 1647, third edit. 1657; fourth, 1661; fifth, 1667; fixth, 1673; seventh, 1679; eighth, 1703; ninth, 1709, and fince with almost every edition of the Temple. M. of Arts." In the fourth edition of the " Synagogue" are verses by Walton, addreffed " to my reverend friend, the Author of the Synagogue," wherein he fays, "I loved you for your Synagogue, before I knew your person, but now love you more.” from these facts there cannot be any doubt that the work is affigned to its true author. Another work, probably by Ch. Harvie, is entitled "Schola Cordis; or the Heart of itselfe gone away from God; brought back againe to him; and instructed by him, in 47 emblems, London, printed for H. Blunden, at the Castle in Cornhill, 1647," 12mo. pp. 196.* In the edition of 1675 it is stated, that they were "written by the Author of the Synagogue' annexed to Herbert's Poems;" if fo, this volume must be alfo afcribed to Christopher Harvey; it should, however, be observed, that it has been reprinted two or three times, within the last half century, and ascribed to Francis Quarles, but erroneously. 6 The only Chriftopher Harvey that can be traced in both universities, and who probably was our author, is the one mentioned by Anthony Wood, who fays that he was a minister's son of Cheshire, was born in that county, became a battler of Brazen-Nofe College, in 1613, aged fixteen years, took the degrees in Arts,† that of Master being completed in 1620, *The fecond edition was printed in 1674; third in 1675; fourth, 1676; the emblems were taken from a work by Benedictus Haeftenus, entitled "Schola Cordis five averfi a deo cordis ad eundem reductio et instructio, Antv. 1635." † B.A. 19th May, 1617; M.A. 10th May, 1620. |