Castara / The Third Edition of 1640; Edited and Collated with the Earlier Ones of 1634, 1635

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 store	14
iii.	Fifty-three Poems, by William Habington.
1.	Let the chaste Phoenix from the flowry East,	17
2.	I saw Castara pray, and from the skie,	17
3.	Yee blushing Virgins happie are	18
4.	By those chaste lamps which yeeld a silent light	18
5.	Where am I? not in heaven: for oh I feele	19
6.	Not still ith' shine of Kings. Thou dost retire	19
7.	Doe not their prophane Orgies heare,	20
8.	Sing forth sweete Cherubin (for we have choice	21
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 prove	23
12.	Transfix me with that flaming dart	24
13.	Wing'd with delight (yet such as still doth beare	25
14.	Learned shade of Tycho Brache, who to us,	26
15.	Ye glorious wits, who finde then Parian stone	26
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 disguise	28
19.	Feare. Checke thy forward thoughts, and know	28
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 read	31
24.	Why haste you hence Castara? Can the earth,	32
25.	I am engag'd to sorrow, and my heart	33
26.	Th' Arabian wind, whose breathing gently blows	33
27.	Looke backe Castara. From thy eye	33
28.	Tis madnesse to give physicke to the dead;	34
29.	The lesser people of the ayre conspire	34
30.	Swift in thy watry chariot, courteous Thames,	35
31.	My Muse (great Lord) when last you heard her sing	35
32.	Thankes Cupid, but the Coach of Venus moves	36
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 adorne	41
43.	Stay under the kinde shadow of this tree	42
44.	Dare not too farre Castara, for the shade	43
45.	Vowes are vaine. No suppliant breath	43
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 light	46
50.	Why dost thou looke so pale, decrepit man?	52
51.	T'was Night: when Phoebe guided by thy rayes,	52
52.	Why would you blush Castara, when the name	53
53.	Like the Violet which alone	53
	CASTARA. The Second Part.
iv.	Thirty-six more Poems.
54.	This day is ours. The marriage Angell now	59
55.	Did you not see, Castara, when the King	59
56.	Whose whispers soft as those which lovers breath	60
57.	Forsake me not so soone. Castara stay,	61
58.	Hence prophane grim man, nor dare	61
59.	Sleepe my Castara, silence doth invite	62
60.	She is restor'd to life. Unthrifty Death,	62
61.	May you drinke beare, or that adult'rate wine	63
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 appeare	65
65.	What's death more than departure; the dead go	67
66.	Castara! O you are too prodigall	67
67.	I heard a sigh, and something in my eare	68
68.	You saw our loves, and prais'd the mutuall flame	68
69.	Why should we build, Castara, in the aire	69
70.	Castara, see that dust, the sportive wind	70
71.	Were but that sigh a penitentiall breath	70
72.	Araphill. Castara you too fondly court	71
73.	My thoughts are not so rugged, nor doth earth	72
74.	Tyrant o're tyrants, thou who onely dost	73
75.	The breath of time shall blast the flowry Spring,	73
76.	The reverend man by magicke of his prayer	74
77.	Thy vowes are heard, and thy Castara's name	75
78.	Thou dreame of madmen, ever changing gale,	75
79.	Were we by fate throwne downe below our feare	76
80.	What can the freedome of our love enthrall?	76
81.	Bright Saint, thy pardon, if my sadder verse	77
82.	I like the greene plush which your meadows weare	78
83.	Thou art return'd (great Light) to that blest houre	80
84.	They meet but with unwholesome Springs	80
85.	The Laurell doth your reverend temples wreath	81
86.	'Bout th' husband Oke, the Vine	82
87.	Let not thy grones force Eccho from her cave,	82
88.	We saw and woo'd each others eyes	83
89.	Here Virgin fix thy pillars, and command	98

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 loude	47
91.	Harke, how the traytor winde doth court	49
92.	It shall not grieve me (friend) though what I write	50
93.	You who are earth, and cannot rise	51
	CASTARA. The Second Part.
iii.	A Character. A Wife.	57
iv.	Fourteen additional Poems.
94.	Though my deare Talbots Fate exact, a sad	84
95.	If your example be obey'd	86
96.	Its false Arithmaticke to say thy breath	88
97.	Why should we feare to melt away in death	89
98.	When Pelion wondring saw, that raine which fell	89
99.	O whither dost thou flye? Cannot my vow	90
100.	Where sleepes the North-wind when the South inspires	90
101.	Should the cold Muscovit, whose furre and stove	91
102.	Amphion, O thou holy shade	92
103.	You'd leave the silence in which safe we are	92
104.	Give me a heart where no impure	94
105.	Why doth the eare so tempt the voyce,	95
106.	I hate the Countries durt and manners, yet	96
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 alone	101
109.	(2) Talbot is dead. Like lightning which no part	102
110.	(3) Let me contemplate thee (faire soule) and though	103
111.	(4) My name, dear friend, even thy expiring breath	104
112.	(5) Chast as the Nuns first vow, as fairely bright	105
113.	(6) Goe stop the swift-wing'd moments in their flight	107
114.	(7) There is no peace in sinne. Æternall war	108
115.	(8) Boast not the rev'rend Vatican, nor all	109

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 remaine	115
117.	My harp also is turned to mourning. Job xxx. 31. Love! I no orgies sing	116
118.	I will destroy the wisdom of the wise. 1 Cor. i. 19. Forgive my envie to the World; while I	118
119.	[Declare unto me the fewnes of my days, Douay]. He shortened my days. Ps. cii. 23. Tell me O great All knowing God	119
120.	Not unto us, O Lord. Ps. cxv. 1. No marble statue, nor high	120
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 made	122
123.	Night unto night sheweth knowledge. Ps. xix. 2. When I survay the bright	124
124.	But the proud he knoweth afar off. Ps. cxxxviii. 6. To the cold humble hermitage	125
125.	Thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. Ps. xli. 3. My Soule! When thou and I	126
126.	Praise ye the Lord from the heavens. Ps. cxlviii. 1. You Spirits! who have throwne away	127
127.	He cometh forth like a flower. Job xiv. 2. Faire Madame: you	129
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 Philosophie	131
130.	[For I am ready for scourges, Douay]. For I am ready to halt. Ps. xxxviii. 17. Fix me on some bleake precipice	133
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, (which	134
132.	Shew me thy ways, O Lord. Ps. xxv. 4. Where have I wandred? In what way	136
133.	And exalteth them of low degree. Luke i. 52. How cheerefully th' unpartiall Sunne	138
134.	Lord of Lords. Deut. x. 17. Supreame Divinity! Who yet	139
135.	I will be sorry for my sin. Ps. xxxviii. 18. In what darke silent grove	140
136.	I shall go softly all my years. Is. xxxviii. 15. Time! where didst thou those years inter	142
137.	Having a desire to depart. Phil. i. 23. The soule which doth with God unite	143

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.

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