Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Complete Poems of Robert Southwell, S. J: For the First Time Fully Collected and Collated With the Original and Early Editions and Mss; And Enlarged With Hitherto Unprinted and Inedited Poems From Mss; At Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, and Original Illustrations and Facsimiles in the Quarto Form
I place on the left figures 1, 2, 3, &c. In these Contents, in order to Show the sequence of the Poems in the Author's Stonyhurst ms. Volume. There is no title-page to it, and never has been. On the seventh page (three leaves blank) begins the Letter to his Father (pp. Neit three pages blank; then the Triumphs ouer Death (pp. 33) - the last page and half containing the Latin and English poems as printed by us (pp. 182 After the Latin and English verse on the Lady of the Howard family, there are other three pages blank, then comes the Preface, commencing Poets, by abusing, ' &c. (2 pp.) Then, to the Reader, and the poems in succession as numbered. The Poems occupy 36 leaves and part of a page 72 or 73 pages, With five blank leaves.
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