"The main object of this edition is to establish the text of The temple by providing a more complete and more accurate collection of the evidence than has been hitherto available."--Pref.

Introduction.--The temple.--English poems in the Williams MS. not included in The temple.--Poems from Walton's Lives.--Doubtful poems.--A priest to the temple, or, The country parson.--Cornaro's Treatise of temperature, translated into English by George Herbert.--Briefe notes on Valdesso's considerations, and a letter to the translator.--Outlandish proverbs.--Jacula prudentum.--Letters.--The will of George Herbert.--Musae responsoriae ad Andreae Melvini Scoti Anti-Tami-Cami-Categoriam.--Passio discerpta.--Lucas.--Memoriae matris sacrum (otherwise known as Parentalia).--Alia poemata latina.--Orationes.--Epistolae.--Commentary.--Appendix.