The poems and verse-translations of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ::

The poems and verse-translations of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor

For the first time collected and edited after the author's own text: With introduction. By the Rev. Alexander B. Grosart [in Miscellanies of The Fuller Worthies' Library]

Taylor, Jeremy (1613-1667)

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II. Festival Hymns.

HYMNS CELEBRATING THE MYSTERIES AND CHIEF FESTIVALS OF THE YEAR, ACCORDING TO THE MANNER OF THE ANCIENT CHURCH: FITTED TO THE FANCY AND DEVOTION OF THE YOUNGER AND PIOUS PERSONS, Apt for memory, and to be joyned to their other PRAYERS.

Hymns for Advent, or the weeks immediately before the Birth of our blessed Saviour.

Hymns for Christmas-day.

The Second Hymn; being a Dialogue between Three Shepherds.

The Third Hymn: of Christ's Birth in an June.

[The Fourth] Hymn for Christmas Day.

A Hymn upon St John's day.

Upon the Day of the Holy Innocents.

Upon the Epiphany, and the Three Wise Men of the East coming to Worship Jesus.

A Meditation of the Four last things Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell For the time of Lent especially.

On the Conversion of St. Paul.

On the Purification of the blessed Virgin.

On Good-Friday.

On the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin.

Easter Day.

On the day of Ascension.

On the Feast of Pentecost, or Whitsunday.

Penitentiall Hymns.

A prayer for Charity.

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III. Job's Curse.

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IV. Verse-portraits of the Four Evangelists;

V. Aurea Grana.

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13. A NOBLE FRIENDSHIP.

By wine and mirth and every daye's delight
We choose our friends to whom we think we might
Our souls intrust; but fools are they that lend
Their bosome to the shadow of a friend.

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[Line 3rd πατερ . . οιετ', edd. recentt: ap. Plutarch de frat. am. t vii. p. 872.]

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13. A NOBLE FRIENDSHIP.