The Complete Works in Verse and Prose of George Herbert (Volume 3)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1874 Excerpt: ... Title-page and pp.70,12mo. In the first edition the Proverbs are numbered 1 to 1032, and commence with 'Man proposeth, ' &c. and end with ' He that wipes, ' &c.; but the numbering inadvertently passes from 173 to 178, and so onward to 778, when the numbering is continued 780, and so again 831 is succeeded by 833, and 947 by 949. Thus 7 from 1032 leaves 1025, agreeably to our numbering, in the first edition. Our text follows the original edition throughout; but the additions of 1650 are placed within brackets unnumbered. All modern reprints hitherto are careless, as see examples in our Preface to Vol. I. and Notes and Illustrations herein. Original orthography and wording are for the first time restored. It has been objected that the early editors do not mention the Proverbs. Two explanations suggest themselves--Walton similarly passed over his translation of Cornarus, Notes on Valdesso, &c. as probably too slight for specific mention; while Archdeacon Oley might regard the collection as infra dianitate. Had either known it to be unauthentic, it would have been doubtless disowned, especially Oley, with whose edition of ' The Country Parson, ' ' Jacula Prudentum' was bound up, as below. So too with Peckard. It seems clear that such a collection never would have been thought of as being assigned to Herbert, unless the owners of the Ms. were satisfied of its authenticity. It is not a thing that, hastily regarded, one would have expected from Herbert. Hence the genuineness is the more probable. The second edition (separately paged) is usually found with ' Herbert's Remains' (1652); and in relation thereto be it noted further, that the publisher of the original edition of the' Priest to the Temple' (of which mainly the 'Remains' consist) was T. Garthwait, the publis...