Verse
Poems by Davenant
‘Awake, awake, the morne will never rise’
See DaW 44.
The Christians Reply to the Phylosopher (‘The Good in Graves as Heavenly Seed are sown’)
First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 196-8.
DaW 1
Copy of an eleven-stanza version, headed ‘Astragon dying’, followed by a copy of stanzas 6 and 7 of the printed version, the whole preceded by a note: ‘At the End of a Quarto Gondibert printed Anno 1651. & given by ye Author to a Friend, I found these stanzas written by his own hand, & subscibd with his name. Will Davenant...’.
In: Twelve unbound quarto leaves, in a single hand, f. 11v inscribed at the foot ‘Dec. 1678.’ 1678.
Sotheby's, 3 July 1973, lot 269.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 23, ff. 11r-12r.
DaW 2
Copy of an eleven-stanza version, headed ‘Astragon Dying’, followed by a copy of stanzas 6 and 7 of the printed version, on the last three of 23 quarto pages bound-in at the end of a printed exemplum of Gondibert (first edition, 1651), dated December 1678. c.1678.
Elegie on B. Haselrick, slaine in's youth, in a Duell (‘Now in the blinde and quiet age of Night’)
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 59-61.
DaW 3
Copy, headed ‘An Elegye on Captaine Bartin Haslerigge slaine in Duell’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in a single secretary hand, written from both ends, 179 leaves, in 19th-century half blue morocco gilt. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 179r) ‘This is Sr. Thomas Meres [or ? Maiors] Book’: i.e. probably Sir Thomas Meres (1634-1715), of Kirton, Lincolnshire. Later bookplate of the Rev. John Curtis. Purchased from Mrs Ann Austin Curtis 12 October 1889.
DaW 4
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on Cap: Haslerigge by wi: Dauenon’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Thomas Carew, probably in a single accomplished hand (changing to two styles of italic on ff. 42v-4v, 5r-60r, 76r-v), i + 89 leaves (including blanks, stubs of two or three excised leaves, and an index), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1630s-40s.
Later notes and scribbling including the names ‘John Nutting’ (ff. 26r, 56r) and ‘John M.’ and ‘John Susan’ (rear paste-down). The last leaf also containing a list of the titles of 65 poems by Carew together with the number of lines in each poem, this list unrelated to the contents of the rest of the MS.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Nutting MS’: CwT Δ 35. The list of poems, probably relating to another MS, is edited, with facsimiles, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 198-9, 217-19).
This MS collated in Gibbs.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 19r-20r.
Elegie, on Francis, Earle of Rutland (‘Call not the Winds! nor bid the Rivers stay!’)
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 62-4.
DaW 5
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on the death of Francis late Earle of Rutland’.
In: A verse miscellany, i + 25 leaves. c.1640.
Owned before 1959 by the Lingard-Guthrie family.
DaW 6
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on ye Ld ffra: Mannor Earle of Rutland’ and subscribed ‘W. Davenant’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two ‘Indexes’, in contemporary vellum. Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College. c.1634-43.
A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his ‘brother Ed: Weston’, 3 May 1714. The name ‘John Saunders’ inscribed on the final leaf.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
DaW 7
Copy, headed ‘An Elogie on the Earle of Rutland’, subscribed ‘Wm Davenant’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index). Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.
Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Dobell MS II’: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.
DaW 8
Copy, headed ‘Elegie on the Earle of Rutland’, subscribed ‘Will: Dauennant’.
In: the MS described under DaW 4. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 70r-1v.
An Elegy on the Duke of Buckingham's Death (‘No Poetts triviall rage, that must aspire’)
First published in Gibbs (1972), pp. 272-4.
DaW 9
Copy, subscribed ‘Wil: Davenant’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in a single professional secretary hand associated with the playhouse and possibly inns of court (also responsible for ChG 12.5, HyT 5, and MiT 6), 97 leaves, with a first-line ‘Index’ at the end, in contemporary vellum boards. Including fourteen poems by James Shirley, generally ascribed to him, and eleven poems by Strode (and two of doubtful authorship). c.1636.
Inscribed (on the front paste-down) ‘My cousin chute gaue me this book out of his father study at the vine Hampshire’ (following the same statement in French), indicating that the MS was owned by, and possibly originally compiled for, the family of Chaloner Chute, MP (c.1595-1659), Speaker of the house of Commons, who acquired The Vyne, near Basingstoke, Hampshire, in 1653. Later owned by Sir William Tite (1798-1873), architect. Sotheby's, 30 May 1874, lot 2343. Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Sotheby's, 21 March 1891 (Crawford sale), lot 2493.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Chute MS’: ShJ Δ 2 and StW Δ 11. Briefly discussed, with a facsimile of f. 34v (see ShJ 96 and ShJ 100) in Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 192-210 (pp. 200-1, 209-10 n. 40). Discussed, with facsimiles of ff. 53r and 80r, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Chaloner Chute's Poetical Anthology (British Library, Additional MS 33998) as a Cosmopolitan Collection’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).
Edited from this MS in Gibbs.
DaW 10.5
Copy in: A small quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one secretary hand, erratically paginated up to 333, 250 leaves, in 18th-century boards. c.late 1630s.
Inscribed (on p. [330]) ‘Robert Lord his book Anno Domini’; (on [p. 335]) ‘william Jacob his booke Amen’; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, ‘Hugh Gibgans of the same’ and ‘John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]’. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.
A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.
Epitaph On the Daughter of Mr. Richard Turpin (‘Stript from her Silks and Lawnes here lies’)
First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, p. 167.
An Epitaph Wrot by Sir William Davenant Long Since upon Jeffery Hudson the Queens Dwarf (‘Let no rude hand remove this Ston’)
First published in The Poetry of Mildmay Fane, Second Earl of Westmorland, ed. Tom Cain (Manchester, 2001), Appendix I, pp. 363-4.
DaW 11.5
Copy of a poem headed ‘An Epitaph wrot by Sr William Dauenant Long since vpon Jefferey Hudson ye Queens Dwarf’, 16 lines beginning ‘Let no rude hand remoue this Ston’. c.1660s.
The text is followed by ‘Jeffreides or Jeffery ye Dwarfs answer to Sr william Dauenant in reuenge for the Epitaph he wrot long since on him’ (36 lines beginning ‘I'm stil aliue as I suppose’).
In: A small folio volume of c.128 pages containing some 180 English and Latin poems dating from c.1649 to 1665. Written throughout in the hand of Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland.
Both poems edited from this MS in Cain, who thinks that Hudson's ‘answer’ may be a persona poem possibly by Mildmay Fane.
Epithalamium. The morning after the Marriage of the Earl of Barymore with Mrs. Martha Laurence (‘A Lover is a high and mighty Thing!’)
First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 158-62.
DaW 11.8
Copy in: A folio formal verse miscellany, in a single rounded hand, 259 pages (plus a three-page index), in modern boards. The contents, the latest of which (on pp. 203-7) can be dated to a marriage that took place in November 1656, reflect the taste of Interregnum Royalist sympathisers. c.Late 1650s.
Formerly in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 4001. Sotheby's, 29 June 1946, lot 164, to Myers. Then in the library of Charles Kay Ogden (1889-1957), psychologist, linguist, and book collector.
For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day (‘Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present’)
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.
DaW 12
Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.
In: A small quarto journal of proceedings in Parliament from 20 January to 2 March 1628/9, with additional verses, in three hands, ii + 87 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1629-30s.
Inscribed (f. 3r) ‘Arth: Langford his booke the first of may 1629’; (ff. 3r, 84v) ‘John Slaughter’; (f. 86r) ‘Francis Webb’ and ‘Robert Thurketil’. Subsequently in the papers of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 51.
Sotheby's, 14 December 1989, lot 232, and 13 December 1990, lot 11. Facsimile example in the sale catalogues. Acquired 22 March 1991.
DaW 13
Copy, headed ‘Will Dauenants Newyears=guifte to Endimion Porters wife’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, including 37 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 279 leaves (including numerous blanks, mostly in ff. 42r-140r), with stubs of extracted leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Wase MS’: DnJ Δ 39.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
DaW 14
Copy, headed ‘On Newyeeres day for Mrs Porter’, subscribed ‘W. Dauenant’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in generally small mixed hands, ii + 40 leaves, in 19th-century embossed black leather. c.1640s.
Later owned by Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; and by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 190.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
DaW 15
Copy, headed ‘On Endimion Porters wife’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, largely in one secretary hand, written from both ends, with indexes (ff. 2r-3r, 168r-v), 168 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled by Sir John Perceval, Bt (1629-65), probably while at Magdalene College, Cambridge. Volume CXCII of the papers of the Perceval family, Earls of Egmont, and the allied Southwell family. c.1646-9.
DaW 16
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, headed ‘A New Yeares Guifte for Mres Porter’.
In: A large folio volume of autograph vocal music by Henry Lawes (1596-1662), ix + 184 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt. Comprising over 300 songs and musical dialogues by Lawes, probably written over an extended period (c.1626-62) in preparation for his eventual publications, including settings of 38 poems by Carew, fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, and fifteen by Waller. Mid-17th century.
Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer; of Robert Smith, of 3 St Paul's Churchyard; and of Stephen Groombridge, FRS (1755-1832), astronomer. Later owned, until 1966, by Miss Naomi D. Church, of Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Formerly British Library Loan MS 35.
Recorded in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Henry Lawes MS’: CwT Δ 16; HeR Δ 3; WaE Δ 11. Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Pamela J. Willetts, The Henry Lawes Manuscript (London, 1969). Facsimiles of ff. 42r, 78r, 80r, 84r, 111r and 169r in The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric C. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 59, 60, 62, 64, 66 and 117. Also discussed in Willa McClung Evans, Henry Lawes: Musician and Friend of Poets (New York and London, 1941), and elsewhere. A complete facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 3 (New York & London, 1986).
DaW 18
Copy, headed ‘To the wife of Endimion Porter’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, written predominantly in a single italic hand (on ff. 2r-19v, 20v-134v, 139r-43r); another hand on ff. 20r-v, 135v, 136v, 137v, 138v, with verbal alterations in yet another hand and scribbling elsewhere; f. 137v (rev.) containing a receipt of one Richard Bull signed by one Thomas Johnson and dated 1676; 143 leaves. Including 14 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, 22 poems by Corbett and 36 poems (plus three of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.early 1630s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) by one ‘I A’ of Christ Church, Oxford, and also ‘Robert Killigrew his booke witnes by his Maiesties ape Gorge Harison’. Later owned by Sir Hans Sloane, Bt (1660-1753), physician and collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Killigrew MS’: CwT Δ 21; CoR Δ 6; StW Δ 14. Facsimile example of f. 2v in Mary Hobbs, Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellany Manuscripts (Aldershot, 1992), Plate 7, after p. 86.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
DaW 19
Copy, headed ‘A Newyeares day to Mris Porter. Davenant’.
In: An octavo notebook of extracts, chiefly verse, compiled by one or two University of Cambridge men, 69 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1653-60s.
DaW 20
Copy, headed ‘A New years Gift’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a Scottish secretary hand, paginated 5-132, bound with a later verse MS on 98 pages, in brown calf. c.1630s-40s.
Bookplate of John Pinkerton (1758-1826), historian and poet. Sotheby's, April 1812 (Pinkerton sale), lot 593, to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1104, to Thomas Thorpe. His catalogue, 1836, bought by Laing.
DaW 21
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse, state papers and parliamentary speeches, in several secretary and mixed hands, 134 leaves (plus numerous blanks), written from both ends chiefly on rectos only (Part I: ff. 1r-113r, Part II: ff. 1r-21r), disbound. c.1640s.
DaW 22
Copy, headed ‘A new yeares guift to Mrs. Porter from Wm. Dauenant’, subscribed ‘W. D.’
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt. c.1640.
Formerly MS 2073.3.
DaW 23
Copy, headed ‘A new-yeeres guift to Mrs Porter from W: Dauenant’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked). Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph. c.1630s-40s.
Inscribed ‘Jane Wheeler’ and ‘Tho: Oliver Busfield’. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) ‘To ye two partners of my heart Mr John Wheeler, and Mr Symon Tue’. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.
A ‘Jo. Wheeler’ signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wheeler MS’: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.
DaW 24
Copy, headed ‘Davenats new yeares guift to Mrs Porter’, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves. The text followed on the same page by ‘The mock new-yeares guift’ (‘Goe hunt ye stinking fox’).
In: Papers of the Gell family, formerly of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire, in different hands and paper sizes, now disbound in folders.
Sotheby's, 16 December 1950, lot 560. Owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Given to the Houghton Library by Robert S. Pirie in 1959.
DaW 24.5
Copy in: A small quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single non-professional mixed hand, written from both ends, 90 leaves, in vellum (lacking spine). c.1630s.
Among papers of the Clitherow family of London, which included Sir Christopher Clitherow (1578-1642), Lord Mayor of London in 1635. Bookplate of James Clitherow Esq. of Boston House, Middlesex: i.e. either Christopher's son, James Clitherow (1618-82), merchant and banker, who purchased Boston Manor, in the parish of Hanwell, in 1670, or James Clitherow (1694-1752).
DaW 25
Copy, headed ‘William Davenants verses upon Mr Endymion Porters Wife for wch and other by-respects Mr Porter gave him a hundred pound. 1631’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Carew and one of doubtful authorship, in a single neat non-professional hand, 72 leaves (plus a later index). c.1643-50s.
Later owned by the Newcastle antiquarian collectors John Bell (1783-1864) and Robert White (1802-74).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the Bell-White MS, CwT Δ 30. Described, with facsimiles of ff. 30r and 56v, in T.G.S. Cain, ‘The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems’, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 33r.
DaW 26
Copy, headed ‘A new yeares gift to mrs Porter’.
In: the MS described under DaW 4. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
DaW 27
Copy, headed ‘a New years guift By Mr Dauenant on Sr Endimions Porters’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including ten poems by Henry King, perhaps almost entirely written over a period in a single secretary hand with slightly varying styles, 54 leaves, in limp vellum. c.1636-40s.
The name of the possible compiler ‘John Pike’ inscribed on f. 1r: i.e. possibly a member of the Pike family of Cambridge (one John Pike (d.1677) matriculating at Peterhouse in 1662).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the ‘Pike MS’: KiH Δ 12. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6), pp. 143-7.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
DaW 28
Copy, headed ‘For Mris Porter on New yeares day’.
In: A folio miscellany of some 133 poems, including 55 poems by Henry King and nineteen by Thomas Carew, 247 pages. In the hands of two amanuenses associated with King: i.e. Scribe A (c.1636), pp. 1-214, that of Thomas Manne's ‘imitator’ using two styles (a: pp. 1-62, 64-6, 133-4, 147-215; and b, the earlier: pp. 63, 67-132, 135-45); and Scribe B (c.1641): pp. 217-47, that of the scribe responsible for the Phillipps MS (Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8471). c.1636-41.
The flyleaf inscribed ‘Ex dono Eugenii Stoughton Die Octobrii 23 Anno-1738-Domini’: i.e. owned before 1738 by the Stoughton family, of St John's House, Warwick.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Stoughton MS’: CwT Δ 36 and KiH Δ 6. A complete photocopy deposited by Mary Hobbs in the Bodleian (MS Facs. d. 157). Edited in Mary Hobbs, An Edition of the Stoughton Manuscript (An Early Seventeenth-Century Poetry Collection in Private Hands connected with Henry King and Oxford) seen in relation to other contemporary Poetry and Song Collections (unpub. Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1973). Also discussed in Mary Hobbs, ‘The Poems of Henry King: Another Authoritative Manuscript’, The Library, 5th Ser. 31 (1976), 127-35. Recorded in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King, D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96. A complete facsimile edition in The Stoughton Manuscript, ed. Mary Hobbs (Aldershot: Scolar Press, 1990).
DaW 29
Copy, headed ‘To ye wife of Mr Endemion Porter’ and subscribed ‘Tho: Carewe’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by or attributed to Herrick, almost entirely in a single small predominantly italic hand, 250 pages (plus numerous blanks), originally in contemporary calf, but now disbound. Inscribed four times on a flyleaf ‘Tobias Alston his booke’: i.e. probably Tobias Alston (1620-c.1639) of Sayham Hall, near Sudbury, Suffolk. His half-brother Edward (b.1598) was a contemporary of Herrick at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, while his cousin, Edward Alston, later President of the College of Physicians, was a contemporary of Herrick at St John's College, Cambridge, some of the other contents also relating to Cambridge, besides some relating to Suffolk. The date 1639 occurs on p. 241, and pp. 243-50 contains verses written in two later hands (to c.1728) and some prose pieces written from the reverse end. c.1639 [-c.1728].
Names inscribed on a flyleaf including Henry Glisson (later Fellow of the College of Physicians); Thomas Avral(?); Horace Norton; Henry Rich; and James Tavor (Registrar of Cambridge University). Later owned by one John Whitehead, and by Dr Mary Pickford. Sotheby's, 27 June 1972, lot 309.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Alston MS’: HeR Δ 7. A complete set of photocopies of the MS is in the British Library, RP 772. Facsimile of pp. 6-7 in Sotheby's sale catalogue (see HeR 176, HeR 405) where the MS is described at some length. See also letters by Peter Beal and Donald W. Foster in TLS (24 January 1986), pp. 87-8.
Gondibert (‘Of all the Lombards, by their Trophies knowne’)
First published in London, ‘1651’ [i.e. December 1650]. The Seventh and Last Canto of the Third Book published in London, 1685. Gladish (1971).
See also DaW 1-2, DaW 37-42.
DaW 29.6
Extract from Book 2, Canto 1, line 63 et seq., headed ‘The Description of a Great City’, beginning ‘From wider gates oppressors sally there’.
In: A small octavo notebook, in English and Latin, in several hands, 140 leaves, in half-calf. Compiled, at least in part, by George Sacheverell (d.1715), including letters by him to women, begun when he was ‘resident’ at Oriel College, Oxford, in August 1651. c.1651-66.
Other inscriptions include ‘W Hippisley his Book’, ‘Lucey Hippisley’, ‘Frank Hippisley 1662’, ‘George Pudsey’, ‘Herbert Pudsey’, ‘Robert Pudsey’, ‘Sarah Chapman’, ‘G. Chapman’, and ‘Hob Knowle 1662 / 1663’.
DaW 29.8
Extracts, on pages including pp. 88, 315, 356, 572.
In: An octavo commonplace book, with entries under headings, in a single cursive hand, 512 pages (plus numerous blanks), in vellum boards. c.1705.
DaW 30
Copy of two stanzas, beginning ‘If they in Temples Berlan equality’, originally occurring in Book II, canto i, after stanza 58, but omitted from printed editions, inscribed on the verso of the front leaf in an exemplum of the first printed edition. c.1651.
Later owned by one Charles Boynton, and in 1970 by Arthur Hobart Nethercot (1895-1981), Professor of English Literature, Northwestern University.
This MS printed and discussed in Arthur H. Nethercot, ‘Scribblings in a Copy of D'Avenant's “Gondibert”’, N&Q, 215 (July 1970), 249-51.
Jeffereidos, Or the Captivitie of Jeffery (‘A Sayle! a sayle! cry'd they, who did consent’)
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 37-43.
DaW 31.5
Copy, in two cantos, on ten pages of a quire of eight folio leaves, numbered ‘14’. c.1630s.
The Mistress (‘When Nature heard Men thought her old’)
First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 181-2.
DaW 32
Copy, headed ‘On the young Duke of Buckingham’ and here beginning ‘When Nature saw Men thought her old’.
In: the MS described under DaW 19. c.1653-60s.
A New-years-Gift to the Queen, in the Year 1643 (‘Madam, 'tis fit I now make even’)
First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 134-6.
DaW 33
Copy, preceded by a deleted copy of lines 6-14, on two of three folio leaves containing extracts from Davenant.
In: A composite collection of separate copies of English verse, 64 folio and quarto pages. Assembled by the traveller Lorenzo Magalotti (1637-1712). Late 17th century.
Sotheby's, 19 July 1966, lot 518.
On his mistris Singing (‘Singe gentle Lady till you move’)
First published in Herbert Berry, ‘Three New Poems by Davenant’, PQ, 31 (1952), 70-4. Gibbs, pp. 275-6. A variant version, beginning ‘Sing fair Clorinda’, published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Gibbs, pp. 303-8.
DaW 34
Copy, headed ‘To the lady hopkins Singing’, subscribed ‘S: Will: Dau’.
In: A quarto composite volume of verse, in several hands (the 22 or 23 poems by Carew on ff. 2r-22r in a single hand), with later additions dated 1731-3 by one ‘G. Broughton’ on ff. 1r and after 44r, a reference to St John's College, Cambridge (in 1731) on f. 83v, 93 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century half black morocco. c.1630s [-1733].
‘G. Broughton’ is possibly William (‘Gulielmus’) Broughton (b.1684/5), of Trinity College, Cambridge (one of whose Latin verse compilations was copied in 1704-6 by Richard Robinson in Trinity College, Cambridge, MS 0.6.1 (James 1497). Also the name ‘Jo: Tweedy’ is inscribed several times on f. 81r. Owned before 1841 by one W. Potter.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Tweedye MS’: CwT Δ 10.
This MS collated in Berry and in Gibbs.
DaW 34.5
Copy of the version beginning ‘Sing fair Clorinda...’, in a musical setting by Lawes, headed ‘Words Sir Wm. Davenant’.
In: A square-shaped folio volume of vocal and instrumental music, in two or more cursive italic hands, written from both ends, with (ff. 1v-2v, 96v rev) a table of contents, 97 leaves, in modern half red morocco. c.1760s.
Bookplate of Edmund Thomas Warren Horne, publisher, and probably the compiler. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.
DaW 36
Copy, subscribed ‘W: Dauenant’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including 33 poems by Thomas Carew and sixteen by Henry King, in a single small hand, with (ff. 1r-2v) an alphabetical Index, 105 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Compiled by Peter Calfe (1610-67), son of a Dutch merchant in London. c.1641-9.
Later owned by John, Baron Somers (1651-1716), Lord Chancellor, and afterwards by Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Cited in IELM II.i-ii (1987-93), together with British Library, Harley MS 6918 with which it was once bound, as the ‘Calfe MS’: CwT Δ 18; KiH Δ 9; RnT Δ 4. Described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp 129-35, 444-5 (see KiH Δ 6).
Edited from this MS in Berry and in Gibbs.
The Philosophers Disquisition directed to the Dying Christian (‘Before by death you newer knowledge gain’)
First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 182-96. The poem originally intended to form part of Gondibert (see Gibbs, pp. lii et seq., 431).
DaW 37
Copy, headed ‘The Rationall Sceptist by a Person of Honour’ and here beginning ‘Vnlesse by Death, you nu knowledge gain’.
In: A miscellany of verse and prose, mainly on affairs of state, 176 pages, in Middle Hill boards. c.1700.
Formerly Phillipps MS 10984. Sotheby's, 5 June 1899, lot 995. Then owned by F.W. Cock. Sotheby's, 8 May 1944 (Cock sale), lot 235. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue 97 (1947), item 179.
DaW 38
Copy of stanzas 24-90. Copy of stanzas 24-90, headed ‘Sr. William Davenant's Reason’ and here beginning ‘Tell if you found your Faith, e're you it sought’, with two additional stanzas, on five quarto leaves. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
DaW 39
Copy of a 57-stanza version, headed ‘Ratio et Fides Sr: Wm Davents Addition to Gondibert’ and beginning at stanza 24 (here ‘Tell if you found yr faith ere you it sought’), followed by an explanation: ‘Among some Notes of my Ld Mordants [i.e. John, Viscount Mordaunt (1627-75)] I found this. S Wm Davenets out of Complemt sent me severall Canto's of ye 2d part of Gondibert...[&]’, this followed by ‘The Argument’ and first stanza (‘The griefe of Astragon & whence it springs’) and lines 1-3 of stanza 24 again.
In: A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts from philosophical works, under headings, in a single minute hand, xx + 327 pages (including a number of blanks), with an index, in modern calf gilt. 1687-8.
Formerly owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 19.
DaW 40
Copy of a version comprising an introductory ‘Argument’ and first stanza (beginning ‘The Grief of Astragon, & whence it springs’), followed by 92 stanzas numbered 11-102, the whole preceded by a lengthy explanation: ‘The Following Poem I found not alltogether, but gleand it up, out of Severall Papers. Among my Ld Mordaunts Papers, I found, thus. Sr Wm Davenant out of Complemt sent me severall Cantos of ye. 2d Part of Gondibert...I dissuaded ye Printing...I could never find out ye whole Canto, but believe I want now only ye 9 Stanzas after ye first...’.
In: the MS described under DaW 1. 1678.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 23, ff. 1r-10v.
DaW 41
Copy of stanzas 24-90 with two additional stanzas, headed ‘Faith and Reason by ye Earl of Rochester’, with an introductory ‘Argument’, the first stanza beginning ‘The greif of Astragon, and whence it springs’, on six folio leaves, sent by John Verney to Sir Ralph Verney. [1675/6].
Recorded in HMC, 7th Report, Part I (1879), Appendix, p. 467. Discussed in V. de Sola Pinto, ‘An Unpublished Poem Attributed to Rochester’, TLS (22 November 1934), p. 824, and (6 December 1934), p. 875. Collated and the additional lines edied in Gibbs.
A set of microfilms of the Verney Papers is in the British Library (M/636/1-60). For a letter by John Verney to Sir Ralph Verney, 23 March 1675/6, referring to this MS, see Gibbs, p. 431 (and microfilm M/636/29).
DaW 42
Copy of a version comprising an introductory ‘Argument’ and first stanza (beginning ‘The Grief of Astragon, & whence it springs’), followed by 92 stanzas numbered 11-102, preceded by a lengthy explanation ‘The following Poem I found not altogether, but gleand it vp, out of severall papers, Among my Ld Mordaunts pspers I found this...[&c.]’, on the first 20 of 23 quarto pages bound-in at the end of a printed exemplum of Gondibert (quarto, 1651); dated December 1678. c.1678.
See also DaW 2.
DaW 42.3
Copy, headed ‘Reason, a poem’, together with ‘extracts from Doomsday’. Late 17th century?
Sotheby's, 27 November 1807, lot 260, to Clarke & Sons.
Poem to the Kings most Sacred Majesty (‘Though Poets (Mighty King) such Priests have bin’)
First published in Madagascar (1638). Gibbs, pp. 90-1.
DaW 42.5
Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘A Poem to the King's most Sacred Majesty. by Sr William Dauenant. 1663’, 22 quarto pages, in modern calf gilt. Late 17th century.
In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector.
‘Search all the world about’
First published in A. M. Gibbs, ‘A Davenant Imitation of Donne?’, RES, NS 18 (1967), 45-8. Gibbs (1972), p. 272.
DaW 43
Copy, subscribed in the hand of Elias Ashmole (1617-92) ‘Will: Davenant’.
In: A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.
Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).
Edited from this MS in Gibbs (bis).
Song (‘The Lark now leaves his watry Nest’)
First published (with the refrain) in John Wilson, Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). published (without the refrain) in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, p. 173.
DaW 44
Copy, with the preliminary refrain ‘Awake, awake, the morne will never rise...’, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: A large folio volume of songs in musical settings by John Wilson (1595-1674), composer and musician, vi + 214 leaves (plus some blanks), gilt-edged, in contemporary black morocco elaborately gilt, lettered on each cover ‘DR. / I.W’, with silver clasps. Possibly Wilson's formal autograph MS or else in the hand of someone similarly associated with Edward Lowe (c.1610-82). c.1656.
Complete facsimile in Jorgens, Vol. 7 (1987). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Lyrics: Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Mus. b. 1’, MD, 10 (1956), 142-209.
Edited from this MS in Gibbs, pp. 322-4.
DaW 45
Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled and here beginning ‘The Larke forsakes her wat'ry nest’.
In: A folio songbook (First Treble part), in a single hand, written from both ends, viii + 213 pages (paginated 1-191, then 1-22 rev.), lacking pp. 87-8, 115-18, the first two of which are now Birmingham Central Library, Acc. No. 57316, Location No. S747.01, in modern half brown morocco marbled boards. Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer. Mid-late 17th century.
Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.
Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).
DaW 46
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: A folio songbook, in a single secretary hand, some items misnumbered, 144 leaves. c.1640s.
Once owned by the Shirley family, Earls Ferrers, of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire. Also owned, and annotated, by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
Generally cited as the Earl Ferrers MS. Collated in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, MD, 18 (1964), 151-202. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 9 (New York & London, 1987).
Edited from this MS in Gibbs, pp. 290-2. Collated in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, p. 171.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 29, ff. 21v-2r.
Song. The Dying Lover (‘Dear Love let me this Evening dy!’)
First published (in Lawes's musical setting) in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 168-70, 311-12.
DaW 47
Copy of the first two stanzas, headed ‘The Broken heart’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, probably in a single hand, written largely on rectos only and from both ends, 44 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in calf gilt (rebacked). Mid-17th century.
Inscribed (f. [iir]) ‘Edward Pulton / Aprill 1645’, and (f. 44v rev.) ‘Edwardus Jackson 1687’.
DaW 48
Copy, headed ‘Phill: Porters Rant, Sonnett . 17’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany of Scottish provenance, chiefly in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, including some shorthand, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Incept. March. 23. 1652/3.’, 190 leaves, in old brown calf gilt (rebacked). c.1653-64.
Purchased c.1798.
DaW 49
Copy, in a musical setting.
In: the MS described under DaW 46. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, pp. 176-7.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 53, ff. 39r-40r.
DaW 50
Copy, in a musical setting, here beginning ‘Dear let me now this evening die’.
In: A folio music book, containing 327 songs, in three largely secretary hands, with a ‘Cattalogue’ of contents, 229 leaves. Owned (in 1659) and partly compiled by the composer John Gamble (d.1687), with some misnumbering. c.1630s-50s.
Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author. Acquired in 1888.
A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 10 (New York & London, 1987). Discussed in Charles W. Hughes, ‘John Gamble's Commonplace Book’, M&L, 26 (1945), 215-29.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 193.
DaW 50.8
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio formal verse miscellany, comprising c.406 poems, many of them song lyrics, in various neat hands, compiled probably over a period, 8 blank leaves (pp. [i-xvi]) + 10 unnumbered pages of poems (pp. [xvii-xxvi]) + 9 numbered pages (pp. 1-9) + ff. [9v]-151v + 12 leaves at the end blank but for a poem on the penultimate page (f. [11v]), in contemporary calf gilt. Once erroneously associated with Thomas Killigrew (1612-83), whose hand does not appear in the volume. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘Sr Robert Killigrew / 1702’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9070. Sotheby's, 19 May 1897, lot 455.
Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Nancy Cutbirth, ‘Thomas Killigrew's Commonplace Book?’, Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin, NS No. 13 (1980), 31-8.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, ff. 17v-18r.
Song. The Souldier going to the Field (‘Preserve thy sighs, unthrifty Girle!’)
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 175-6.
DaW 51
Copy, headed ‘D'avenant when he went to Warre’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf. c.1630s.
Inscribed (f. 101v) ‘Henry Lawson’ (or just possibly ‘Lamson’). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Lawson MS’: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
DaW 52
Copy, headed ‘To his Mistris at his going to ye warres’, subscribed ‘Wil: Davenant’.
In: the MS described under DaW 9. c.1636.
This MS text collated in Gibbs.
DaW 53
Copy, headed ‘A song takeing leave of my Mistresse for a voyage’.
In: the MS described under DaW 3. c.1640s.
DaW 54
Copy, headed ‘To my Mistris taking leave for a voyage’.
In: the MS described under DaW 19. c.1653-60s.
DaW 55
Copy, headed ‘To his mrs when readie for a voyage’, subscribed ‘Will: Dauenant’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, the first 21 pages in a small mixed hand, the rest (including a book catalogue dated 1675) in one or two later hands, 33 pages (plus numerous blanks), in old calf. Inscribed (p. 1) ‘ffran: Wyrley’, possibly the principal compiler, whose name is also subscribed to several poems. c.1636-77.
Also inscribed (f. ii) ‘Michaell Keepis. anno Dom: 1636 ffebruarie. 13th. Me tenet’. Later Phillipps MS 9311. Bookplate of Wyrley Birch. Purchased from Peter Murray Hill, 1950. Formerly S4975M1 [1636-75] Bound.
Song. To a dreadful Tune (‘You Fiends and Furies come along’)
See DaW 117-118.
Song. To Two Lovers Condemn'd to die (‘Oh draw your Curtains and appeare!’)
See DaW 93-94.
To a Gentleman at his uprising (‘Soe phoebus rose, as if he had last night’)
First published in Herbert Berry, ‘Three New Poems by Davenant’, PQ, 31 (1952), 70-4. Gibbs, pp. 317-21.
DaW 56
Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.
In: the MS described under DaW 44. c.1656.
Edited from this MS in Berry and in Gibbs.
DaW 57
Copy, subscribed ‘W: Dauenant’.
In: the MS described under DaW 36. c.1641-9.
Edited from this MS in Berry and in Gibbs, p. 275.
DaW 57.5
Copy, headed ‘An Incitation to Mr: Endymion Porter's Morning Muse’ and subscribed ‘Sr William Dauenant’.
In: the MS described under DaW 24.5. c.1630s.
London Metropolitan Archives, ACC/1360/528, ff. [10v-11r rev.].
DaW 58
Copy of lines 1-4, headed ‘To Mr Porter’.
In: the MS described under DaW 25. c.1643-50s.
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, MS Bell/White 25, f. 33r-v.
To his Excellency the Lord General Monck (‘Our fiery Scots scorn'd your triumphant night’)
First published, as A Panegyrick To His Excellency, The Lord General Monck (London, 1660). Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 81-2.
DaW 59.5
Copy, by Dawson Turner.
In: A quarto volume of ‘Gleanings from Rare Books’ compiled by Dawson Turner, FSA (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Early 19th century.
To I.C. Rob'd by his Man Andrew (‘Sir, whom I now love more than did the good’)
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 44-5.
DaW 60
Copy, headed ‘To my noble friend mr John Croftes newly robde’, subscribed ‘W Dauenon’.
In: the MS described under DaW 4. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), f. 64r-v.
To my Friend Mr. Ogilby, Upon the Fables of Aesop Paraphras'd in Verse (‘In Empires Childhood, and the dawne of Arts’)
First published in John Ogilby, The Fables of Aesop (London, 1651). Works (1673). Gibbs, pp. 153-5.
DaW 61
Copy. on a flyleaf of a printed exemplum of John Ogilby, The Fables of Aesop (London, 1665). Late 17th century.
To the King on New-yeares day 1630. Ode (‘The joyes of eager Youth, of Wine, and Wealth’)
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 31-2.
DaW 62
Copy in a small verse miscellany.
In: A composite volume of verse, i + 126 leaves. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary. Late 17th century.
Given to the library in 1954 by N.R. Ker.
DaW 63
Copy, headed ‘Mr Davenants Newyeares gvifte to kinge Charles: 1631’.
In: A folio composite volume of separate MSS of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, written over an extended period, with a table of contents (f. 3r-v), 186 leaves. Comprising papers of the Skipwith family of Cotes, Leicestershire, including 60 poems by John Donne (and one Problem), the text related in part to the ‘Edward Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 45); also 15 poems (and second copies of two) by Henry King; and 19 poems (and two of doubtful authorship) by Carew. c.1620-50.
Including poems ascribed to William Skipwith (? Sir William Skipwith, d.1610, or his grandson, William, or possibly a cousin, William Skipwith, of Ketsby, Lincolnshire, fl.1633); to Sir Henry Skipwith (fl.1609-52); and to Thomas Skipwith, and several poems by Donne's friend Sir Henry Goodyer (1571-1627), to whom a branch of the Skipwith family was related by marriage. Later owned by Robert Sherard (1719-99), fourth Earl of Harborough. Sotheby's, 10 June 1864, lot 605, to Boone.
This MS is the ‘curious folio volume’ lent to John Nichols (1745-1826) by ‘the late Lord Harborough’ and cited in Nichols's account of the Skipwith family in his History of Leicestershire, 4 vols (1795-1815), III, part i (1800), 367.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Skipwith MS’: DnJ Δ 21; CwT Δ 14; KiH Δ 8. Also described in Mary Hobbs's thesis, pp. 119-29 (see KiH Δ 6). For Sir William Skipwith and his literary connections, see James Knowles, ‘Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby’, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (esp.pp. 171-2).
DaW 64
Copy headed ‘Dauenats newyeares guift to K Charles 1631’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several small non-professional hands, 88 leaves, imperfect at the beginning. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
DaW 65
Copy, headed ‘To the King. A newyeares guift’, subscribed ‘W: Davenant’.
In: the MS described under DaW 7. c.1630s.
DaW 66
Copy, headed ‘Dauenat's newyeares guift to K Charles 1631’.
In: An oblong octavo composite volume, comprising two independent verse miscellanies, Part I, in Latin and English, largely in a neat secretary hand, paginated 1-22, Part II, in English and Welsh, in several hands, one neat secretary hand predominating, paginated 1-266, the two parts bound together in modern quarter red morocco. c.1630s.
Inscriptions including (Part I, pp. 1, 3 and 42) ‘Edward Lewis his Book 1753’, ‘John Parker’, ‘P H Warburton’, and ‘John Aden’, and (Part II, p. 33) ‘Thomas Lloyd Esq’. Wigfair MS 43, among papers mainly of the Lloyd family of Hafodunos, Denbighshire, and Wigfair, near St Asaph, Flintshire, purchased in 1926-7 from Colonel H. C. Lloyd Howard, of Wigfair.
National Library of Wales, NLW MS 12443 A, Part II, pp. 102-4.
DaW 67
Copy, headed ‘To the King on Newyeares day. 1631’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including 15 poems by Donne, f. 162r-v in a rounded italic hand, ff. 164r-74v in a slightly erratic italic hand, ff. 175r-279v in a neat formal italic hand (also responsible for the index on ff. 2r-11v), this miscellany constituting ff. 162r-279v of a single folio volume containing also Part I (DnJ Δ 15), ii + 279 leaves in all (lacking one or more leaves at the end), in old blind-stamped calf (rebacked). c.1630s.
Formerly MS G. 2.21.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Dublin MS (II): DnJ Δ 61.
To the Lady Bridget Kingsmill. sent with Mellons after a report of my Death (‘Madam, that Ghosts have walk'd, and kindly did’)
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 29-30.
DaW 68
Copy, headed ‘Sent (with mellons) to the Lady Kingsmell, after a report of my death’, subscribed ‘W. Dauenon’.
In: the MS described under DaW 4. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
St John's College, Cambridge, MS S. 23 (James 416), ff. 62r-3r.
To the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (‘My Lord./ How much you may oblige, how much delight’)
First published in The Foure Ages of England (London, 1648). Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 198-9.
DaW 69
Copy, headed ‘To my Lrd. Leifnt.’ and endorsed ‘To my Lo: Leuet: when hee was Sick 1640 By will Dauenante’, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1640.
Among the papers of the Middleton family, a Yorkshire recusant family. Formerly MD59/22/B/2.
To the Queen (‘Madam. so much peculiar and alone’)
First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 139-40.
DaW 69.5
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, comprising 162 poems in English, in a single hand, 273 pages, in brown morocco gilt. c.late 1640s.
Formerly (before 1686) in the Palatine Library at Heidelberg. Possibly acquired by Charles Louis (1617-80), Elector Palatine, while at the English court of his uncle, Charles I, from 1635 to 1649.
This volume discovered, and announced in the TLS, 23 July 2010, pp. 14-15, by June Schleuter and Paul Schleuter.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 241-3.
To The Queene, entertain'd at night by the Countesse of Anglesey (‘Faire as unshaded Light. or as the Day’)
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 28.
DaW 70
Copy, headed ‘Comendacons of a Lady’.
In: the MS described under DaW 64. c.1630s-40s.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
To the Queene, upon a New-yeares day (‘You of the Guard make way! and you that keepe’)
First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 61-2.
DaW 71
Copy on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, imperfect, chewed by rodents.
In: the MS described under DaW 43.
This MS collated in Gibbs.
Upon a moale in his mistris face (‘Old nature would worke cleane, therefore commands’)
First published in Herbert Berry, ‘Three New Poems by Davenant’, PQ, 31 (1952), 70-4. Gibbs, p. 276.
DaW 72
Copy, subscribed ‘Dauenant’.
In: the MS described under DaW 36. c.1641-9.
Edited from this MS in Berry and in Gibbs.
‘Why should great Beauties vertuous Fame desire’
First published (in Lawes's musical setting) in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). Gibbs, pp. 277, 309-10.
DaW 73
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, untitled.
In: A folio autograph songbook by William Lawes (1602-45), composer, 49 leaves, in contemporary calf stamped in gilt with arms of Charles I. c.1638-45.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘Richard Gibbon his booke giuen to him by Mr William Lawes all of his owne pricking and composeing’, and ‘Giuen to me J R by his widdow mris Gibbon J R:’, and ‘Borrowed of Alderman Fidye by me Jo: Surgenson’. Bookplates of William Gostling (1696-1777), antiquary and topographer, and of Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986). Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘British Museum Additional MS. 31432 William Lawes' writing for the Theatre and the Court’, The Library, 5th Ser. 7 (1952), 225-34, and in Margaret Crum, ‘Notes on the Texts of William Lawes's Songs in B.M. MS. Add. 31432’, The Library, 5th Ser. 9 (1954), 122-7.
Edited from this MS in Gibbs, p. 293.
DaW 74
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: the MS described under DaW 46. c.1640s.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 6, f. 6r-v.
DaW 75
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: the MS described under DaW 50. c.1630s-50s.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4257, No. 81.
DaW 75.5
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under DaW 50.8. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, ff. 39r, 40v.
Poems of Uncertain Authorship
An Epitaph on ye Lady Merri (‘Though 'tis but vain to raise dead stones to her’)
Unpublished. Allegedly ‘omitted in [Davenant's] works’.
DaW 76
Copy of a poem allegedly ‘omitted in his works’, written on a blank page at the end of an exemplum of Davenant's printed Works (London, 1673). Late 17th century.
Once owned by ‘Rd Milles’.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, Lt. q. DAV.
E're long we must be cold (‘Cold, cold my Love, & wrap't in stubborne sheetes’)
Unpublished. Ascribed to ‘D'Avenant’ by William Burton, but perhaps only because reminiscent of Davenant's song ‘My lodging it is on the Cold ground’ (Gibbs, p. 267).
DaW 77
Copy, ascribed to ‘D'Avenant’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in Latin and English, written from both ends, 181 pages. Compiled by, and principally in the hand of, William Burton (1609-57), antiquary. c.1637-46.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, MS 261, pp. 39-40 rev.
The Fable of the Potts (‘Celestiall Genius of Brittania's Isle’)
First published in Gibbs (1972), pp. 279-80.
DaW 78
Copy, in a rounded hand, ascribed to ‘W D’, on the first page, followed by other verses, in a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Mid-late 17th century.
In: A bundle of unbound verse MSS, in various hands.
Among papers of the Sackville and Cranfield families, Earls of Dorset and of de la Warr, of Knole Park, Kent.
Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 303-4.
Edited from tis MS in Gibbs.
On a Gentlewoman dying in Travell and the childe unborne (‘Within this grave there is a grave intomb'd’)
Gibbs, p. 278.
See BrW 77-96.
On the old Lord Broak (‘Good Reader, kisse on this stone for look’)
Unpublished. Davenant served in the household of Fulke Greville, Lord Brooke (d.1628), c.1624-8.
DaW 79
Copy, ascribed to Davenant (‘Idem’), with a side-note against the first six lines: ‘This is set’.
In: the MS described under DaW 19. c.1653-60s.
To my honored ffriend Mr Thomas Carew at Sr: Richard Leightons house in Boswell Court these (‘Soe the rude Carpenter or Mason may’)
First published, and tentatively attributed to Davenant, in Peter Beal, ‘Massinger at Bay: Unpublished Verses in a War of the Theatres’, Yearbook of English Studies, 10 (1980), 190-203. The verses reprinted and discussed in Massinger: The Critical Heritage, ed. Martin Garrett (London & New York, 1991), pp. 59-68 (and see also pp. 4-7)
DaW 79.5
Copy, prefaced by a brief prose address to Carew, in a secretary hand.
In: the MS described under DaW 12. c.1629-30s.
Edited from this MS in Beal.
Prose
A Proposition for Advancement of Moralitie By a new way of Entertainment of the People
First published in London, 1654.
*DaW 79.8
Autograph summary of Davenant's Proposition, on a single folio leaf. [1653-1654].
Among the papers of Samuel Hartlib (c.1600/2-1662), educationalist and natural philosopher.
This MS edited, discussed and (correctly) attributed to Davenant, with a facsimile, in James R. Jacob and Timothy Raylor, ‘Opera and Obedience: Thomas Hobbes and A Proposition for Advancement of Moralitie by Sir William Davenant’, The Seventeenth Century, 6 (1991), 205-50. A facsimile also in The Hartlib Papers Project Newsletter (March 1994).
Dramatic Works
Britannia Triumphans. Songs (‘Britanocles, the great and good appeares’)
First published in London, 1637 [i.e. 1638]. Dramatic Works, III, 245-300 (pp. 286-90). Trois Masques a la Cour de Charles Ier d'Angleterre, ed. Murray Lefkowitz (Paris, 1970), pp. 171-243 (pp. 205-9). Stephen Orgel and Roy Strong, Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vols (Sotheby Parke Bernet, University of California Press, 1973), II, 662-7 (pp. 666-7). Gibbs, pp. 223, 225-6.
DaW 80
Copy of the chorus of poets and Fame, Galatea's song and the Valediction, in a musical setting by William Lawes, headed ‘The King's Masque’.
In: A large folio autograph songbook of the composer William Lawes (1602-45), viii + 114 pages, various leaves excised, in contemporary calf gilt bearing the royal arms. c.1638-45.
Edited from this MS in Sabol, 400 Songs and Dances for the Stuart Masque, Nos. 49-51, and in Lefkowitz, pp. 211-43 (with a facsimile of p. 17 after p. 26, plate XI); recorded in Gibbs, p. 447.
The Just Italian, Act V, scene i. Song (‘This lady, ripe, and calm, and fresh’)
First published in London, 1630. Dramatic Works, I, 207-80.
DaW 81
Copy of the ‘song between two boys’, in a musical setting by John Atkins.
In: the MS described under DaW 46. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, p. 184.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 77, f. 56r-v.
The Law against Lovers, III, i. Song (‘Wake all the dead! what hoa! what hoa!’)
First published in Works (London, 1673). Dramatic Works, V, 109-211 (pp. 152-3). Gibbs, p. 260.
DaW 82
Copy of Viola's song, untitled, on a single folio leaf, endorsed with three staves of music.
In: the MS described under DaW 43.
DaW 83
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards. Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source. Late 17th century.
Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as ‘Rawlinson MS I’: PsK Δ 6.
DaW 84
Copy, headed ‘ffirst Song’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, including (ff. 113r-15r) copies of, or brief extracts from, 30 poems by Donne (plus two apocryphal poems), in a single hand, transcribed from the 1635 or 1639 edition of Donne's Poems, headed ‘Donnes quaintest conceits’ in several hands, 156 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Late 17th century.
Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the ‘Harley Rawlinson MS’: DnJ Δ 64.
DaW 84.5
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under DaW 50.8. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 125r.
DaW 85
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio volume of 51 poems by Edmund Waller, in a probably professional hand, with alterations in another hand (possibly collations with one of the editions of 1645), 149 pages, imperfect (pp. 49-50, 55-6, 61-2 and most of pp. 57-8 excised), in calf. On pp. 1-3, in the hand of the main scribe, is a prose dedication ‘To the Queene [Henrietta Maria]’ and, on pp. 147-9, another ‘To my Lady Sophia’ [‘Bartie—ye earle of Linseys Daughter’ added in another hand], and four poems by other writers added in yet another hand on pp. 122-46. c.1640s.
The volume purchased by a later member of the Waller family, in 1868, from the London bookseller F.S. Ellis, who notes in an enclosed letter (dated 20 August 1868) that he bought it from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1813), bibliographer and writer, who had bought it in ‘a miscellaneous sale of books & furniture at Robinson's Rooms in Bond St. some eight or ten years since’. In another enclosed letter (dated 3 August 1868) Ellis expresses the wholly erroneous view that ‘some of the corrections are his [Waller's]… and …the whole was written under his eye — the writing is certainly identical with that of the dedication in the volume of his poems in the British Museum, addressed to the Duchess of York’ [WaE 610, WaE 688]. The volume was owned in 1893 by Mr Waller, of Farmington Lodge, Northleach.
Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Hazlitt MS: WaE Δ 4. Recorded in Thorn-Drury and the dedication ‘To the Queene’ printed (I, vi-vii).
—— Act V, scene i. Song (‘Our Ruler has got the vertigo of State’)
First published in Works (London, 1673). Dramatic Works, V, 109-211 (pp. 191-2). Gibbs, p. 261.
DaW 86
Copy in: the MS described under DaW 84. Late 17th century.
Love and Honour, Act IV, scene i. Song (‘No morning red, and blushing faire’)
First published in London, 1649. Dramatic Works, III, 91-192 (pp. 155-6). Gibbs, pp. 208-9.
DaW 87
Copy of the boy's song.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a single small hand, 54 leaves, in vellum boards. Compiled by a Cambridge University man. c.1640s.
DaW 88
Copy, headed ‘Songe’.
In: A folio volume of of tracts and papers chiefly on state matters, largely in one hand, 72 leaves (plus blanks). c.1635.
Inscribed (f. 10r) with names of Stephen Foster of Wrexham, Buckinghamshire (possibly the principal compiler) and Robert Drake of Topsham, Devon. Bookplate (f. 11r) of Berkeley Seymour of Queens's College, Cambridge. Purchased from the Rev. John C. Jackson 8 December 1866.
DaW 89
Copy, headed ‘A Song’.
In: A duodecimo verse miscellany in several hands, written from both ends, 46 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed names (on front paste-down and f. 1r) of ‘Fra: Norreys’ (? Sir Francis Norris (1609-69)) and ‘Hen. Balle’. Purchased from J. Harvey 8 December 1877.
DaW 91
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo miscellany of chiefly verse, in at least two cursive italic hands, with religious verse and prose at the reverse end in another hand, 111 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf gilt. Including nineteen poems by Corbett and 29 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, the date 1634 occurring on f. 78v. c.1635.
Inscribed on f. 111v rev. ‘Thursday next at Capricks for Mr Pitt’. Later among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son Edward, second Earl (1689-1741).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Harley MS’: CoR Δ 5.
DaW 91.5
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under DaW 50.8. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, ff. 25v-6r.
—— Act V, scene i. Song (‘O draw your Curtains and appeare!’)
Published in Works (1673) as a separate song headed ‘Song to Two Lovers Condemn'd to die’. Gibbs, p. 156. Dramatic Works, III, 173-4. William Lawes's musical setting first published in New Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1678).
DaW 92
Autograph copy by Lawes, in his musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under DaW 73. c.1638-45.
Edited from this MS in Gibbs, pp. 294-5.
DaW 93
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: the MS described under DaW 46. c.1640s.
This MS collated in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, pp. 166-7.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 10, f. 9r-v.
Macbeth
First published in London, 1673. Dramatic Works, V, 295-394. Edited by Christopher Spencer (New Haven, 1961).
DaW 94
Copy of the full text, with an ornate title-page. Copy of the full text, with an ornate title-page: ‘Macbeth A Tragedy As it is now acted at the Dukes Theatre 1674’; pp. 1-8, 11-15, 22-63 predominantly in a single hand with corrections, deletions and additions, some on pasted-in slips, in three other hands; the title-page and dramatis personae added in another hand, and later additions (supplying missing text) in a modern bookseller's hand; probably copied for the most part from Davenant's foul papers in preparation for a promptbook, 65 large folio pages (plus blanks), in contemporary marbled boards. c.1664-74.
Afterwards owned by Sir William Turner (d.1692), philanthropist, of Kirkleatham, Yorkshire. Acquired in 1948, at the sale of the library of Turner's Hospital and Free School, by Seven Gables Bookshop, New York, and annotated then by Alexander Schultze.
Edited from this MS (with facsimiles of ff. 1, 2, 24, 30v and 34v, between pp. 74 and 79) in Spencer.
DaW 95
A large quarto book of songs in Macbeth set to music by Richard Leveridge, 38 pages, in half morocco marbled boards. c.1723.
Once owned by Thomas Oliphant (1799-1873), music editor and cataloguer. Puttick & Simpson's, 25 April 1873 (Oliphant sale), bought by William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Sotheby's, 17-24 May 1917 (Cummings sale), lot 1402
DaW 96
Copy of the music score by John Eccles (with words to songs and choruses), apparently transcribed from DaW 95.
In: A folio volume of vocal music principally by John Eccles, the lyrics largely in a single cursive hand, with (f. 2r) an index, 205 leaves, in contemporary reversed brown calf (rebacked), stamped on the front cover ‘volvm III’. Early 18th century.
Inscribed (f. 1v) ‘J.W Windsor Bath 1802’; (inside cover) ‘Vincent Novello [(1781-1861), music publisher] / 66 St. Queen Street / Lincolns Inn / purchased of Mr Hamilton Jun March 28 1829’, with (f. 1r) an affixed letter by Novello dated 28 March 1848. Puttick & Simpson's, 24 April 1873.
DaW 96.5
A folio MS of ‘The original Play-house Music to Macbeth. A Manuscript of the time of Charles II, with the names of the singers...injured by damp’. Late 17th century.
Thomas Rodd's sale catalogue of manuscripts for 1841, item 602.
—— II, [v]. Song (‘Let's have a dance upon the Heath’)
Dramatic Works, V, 348. Gibbs, pp. 263-4. Spencer, pp. 105-6.
DaW 97
Copy of the Witches' Second Song, untitled and here beginning ‘Letts dance a dance upon the Heath’.
In: the MS described under DaW 43.
DaW 99
Copy in: the MS described under DaW 84. Late 17th century.
DaW 100
Copy in: A folio verse miscellany, in vellum. Late 17th century?
Inscribed on the front cover ‘William Turner his booke, 1662’ and, on the rear paste-down ‘Catherine Gage's Booke’: i.e. Catherine Gage, Lady Aston (d.1720). Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.
Poems selectively edited from this MS (as his ‘Third Division: Poems Collected by the Right Honourable Lady Aston’) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 107-205.
Edited from this MS, as ‘The Witches Song’, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 144-5.
Untraced Tixal MSS, Tixall MS 3, [unspecified page numbers].
DaW 101
Copy, headed ‘The Song of Macbeth’, on one side of a single quarto leaf (the other side containing the end of an epilogue), apparently extracted from a MS volume. Late 17th century.
P.J. Dobell, sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1238, with a facsimile. Collated from this facsimile in Gibbs, pp. lxxvi-lxxvii, 263-4.
The Man's the Master, Act III, scene ii. Song (‘The Bread is all bak'd’)
First published in London, 1669. Dramatic Works, V, 1-107 (pp. 67-9). Gibbs, pp. 268-9.
DaW 102
Copy of Don John's song, in a musical setting by John Banister, untitled.
In: A folio volume of vocal music, probably in a single cursive hand, 190 leaves, in remains of vellum boards within modern half red morocco. c.1682.
Inscribed (f. 1*r) ‘P. Fussell Winton’, ‘Liber Caroli Morgan e Coll Magd Decmo: 6to Die 7bris: Anno Domini 1682’, and ‘Vincent Novello [(1781-1861), music publisher] The gift of his kind friend Wm Patten’.
The Platonick Lovers
First published in London, 1636. Dramatic Works, II, 1-105.
DaW 102.4
Extract.
In: An octavo commonplace book of extracts from various authors, some under headings, compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, written from both ends, iv + 558 pages (the majority blank), in contemporary vellum. Late 17th century.
DaW 102.6
Extracts, headed Out of ye Platonick louers Tragicomedy By Will: Dauenant, with comments on the play.
In: A quarto miscellany of extracts from plays and historical works, with comments on them, entitled ‘Excerpta quædam per A. W. Adolescentem’, in a single cursive predominantly italic hand, 119 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco. Entirely in the hand of the Rev. Abraham Wright (1611-90), of St John's College, Oxford, author. c.1640.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Ja: Wright’ (Abraham's son) and later ‘of Taylor, Brighton’. Bookplate of William Bromley, of Baginton, Warwickshire, 1703. Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector. Sotheby's, 21 August 1858 (Bliss sale), lot 220.
For facsimile examples, see ShW 71 and ShW 44.
See Arthur C. Kirsch, ‘A Caroline Commentary on the Drama’, MP, 66 (1968-9), 256-61 (pp. 258-9).
The Play House to be Lett, Act II. Song (‘Ah, love is a delicate ting’)
First published in Works (London, 1673). Dramatic Works, IV, 1-104 (48-9). Gibbs, pp. 262-3.
DaW 102.8
Copy in Shenstone's hand.
In: A volume entitled ‘A Collection of Poems Transcrib'd & Corrected from Original M.S.S. By W. Shenstone’ [(1714-63), poet]. c.1759.
Annotations by Thomas Percy (1729-1811), Bishop of Dromore, writer. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 272.
Published as Shenstone's Miscellany 1759-1763, ed. I.A. Gordon (Oxford, 1952).
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, Shenstone Miscellany, p. 207.
The Prince D'Amour
First published in London, 1635. Dramatic Works, I, 317-40.
See The Triumphs of the Prince D'Amour: DaW 110.5-116.
The Rivals, Act III. Song (‘For straight my green Gown into Breeches I'le make’)
First published in London, 1668. Dramatic Works, V, 213-93 (p. 262). Gibbs, p. 265.
DaW 103
Copy of Celania's song, here beginning ‘Strait my Green Gown into breeches i'l make’, erroneously headed ‘In the Tempest’.
In: the MS described under DaW 84. Late 17th century.
—— V. Song (‘My lodging it is on the Cold ground’)
Dramatic Works, V, 282. Gibbs, p. 267.
DaW 104.5
Copy, headed ‘A song’, subscribed ‘Mr S. H.’ [or ‘S. L.’].
In: An octavo miscellany of drama and amatory songs, in at least three hands, written from both ends, in contemporary panelled calf (rebacked). Mid-late 17th century.
DaW 106
Copy, headed ‘The Slighted Maid’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in two hands, possibly compiled principally by Robert Clarke of Wadham College, Oxford. c.1663.
DaW 106.5
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under DaW 50.8. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, ff. 119v-20r.
DaW 106.8
Copy in: A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several hands, showing communal use, 161 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Formerly Chest II, No. 21.
The Siege of Rhodes, Parts I and II
First published (First Part) in London, 1656. The expanded version in two parts published in London, 1663. Dramatic Works, III, 231-365. Edited by Ann-Mari Hedbäck (Studia Anglistica Upsaliensia 14, Uppsala, 1973).
DaW 107
Proof-sheet, with a printer's corrections, of four pages in the first edition of Part I (1656), comprising sigs. D1v, D2r, D3v and D4r, in an exemplum of that edition. c.1656.
This sheet discussed, with a facsimile, in Ann-Mari Hedbäck, ‘The Printing of The Siege of Rhodes’, SN, 45 (1973), 68-79.
DaW 107.5
Copy of the first 32 lines, by the Admiral and Villerius, in the ‘First Entry’ of Part I, untitled and here beginning ‘Arme arme Valerious arme’.
In: the MS described under DaW 50.8. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
Dramatic Works, III, 260-1.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, p. [xxvi].
DaW 108
Copy of Part II, headed ‘The Siege of Rhodes by Solyman the Magnificent Fourth Emperour of the Turks. The Second Part. By Sir William D'avenant’, probably transcribed largely from a printed source (the quarto of 1663) and prepared as an acting version.
In: MS volume of plays, used for amateur staging by one of the English colleges in Douai. 1694/5.
This MS collated in Hedbäck's edition, pp. xxiv-xxvii, 108-10; also discussed by her in ‘The Douai Manuscript Reexamined’, PBSA, 73 (1979), 1-18.
Bibliothèque Municipale, Douai, France, MS 787, ff. 287v-317r.
—— Part II, iv. Song (‘Beauty, retire! Thou dost my pity move!’)
Dramatic Works, III, 350-1.
DaW 109
Copy of Solyman's declamation, in a musical setting by Morelli.
In: A folio volume of music compiled by Cesare Morelli for the use of Samuel Pepys, 169 leaves, in contemporary black morocco gilt. c.1680-93.
This MS discussed in Macdonald Emslie, ‘Pepys' Shakespeare Song’, SQ, 6 (1955), 159-70 (pp. 160-1). Facsimiles of f. 6r (erroneously said to be Pepys's setting) in The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. H.B. Wheatley (London, 1920), V, facing p. 165, and in Geoffrey Tease, Samuel Pepys and his World (London, 1972), p. 69.
Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2591, ff. 6r-7r.
DaW 110
Copy, in a musical setting by Samuel Pepys.
In: A folio songbook compiled by Cesare Morelli for the use of Samuel Pepys, 113 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1680-93.
Pepys records in his diary completing his setting on 6 December 1665. This MS discussed in Emslie, loc. cit. Facsimile in The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. Robert Latham & William Matthews, VI (London, 1972), between pp. 320 & 321. The song is shown in the portrait of Pepys in the National Portrait Gallery.
Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys Library, MS 2803, ff. 111v-12v.
The Tempest, or The Enchanted Island
See Introduction.
The Triumphs of the Prince D'Amour
First published in London, 1635. Dramatic Works, I, 317-40. Trois Masques à la Cour de Charles Ier d'Angleterre, ed. Murray Lefkowitz (Paris, 1970), pp. 111-69.
DaW 110.5
Copy of the opening speech, headed ‘The master of the Ceremonies of the Prince D'Amour to the Prince Elector’ (here beginning ‘Sr this shorte Journey from my prince's throne’), in a neat predominantly secretary hand, on one side of a single folio leaf; together with (f. 80r), in another secretary hand, ‘Certaine quæries of the Prince D'Amour and his officers’, queries which formed no part of Davenant's printed text but which were also probably part of the entertainment. Mid-17th century.
In: An unbound folder of verse MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 138 leaves. Volume CCXXXVI of the Trumbull Papers, of the Trumbull family, including chiefly William Trumbull (1576/80?-1635), diplomat and government official. Later belonging to the Marquess of Downshire, of Easthampstead Park. Formerly Berkshire Record Office Trumbull Add 17 and 18.
Sotheby's sale catalogue, The Trumbull Papers (14 December 1989), part of lot 39.
Dramatic Works, I, 328-9.
The Triumphs of the Prince d'Amour. Song (‘Whither so gladly, and so fast’)
Dramatic Works, I, 333-4. Lefkowitz, pp. 130-1. Gibbs, p. 219.
Henry Lawes's musical setting published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669). Reprinted in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances from the Stuart Masque, No. 45.
DaW 111
Copy of Cupid's song, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.
In: Portion of a folio songbook compiled by John Playford (1623-86?). c.1660.
This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Paris Conservatoire MS. Rés. 2489’, MD, 23 (1969), 117-39 (p. 128).
DaW 112
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, inscribed ‘Cupid to ye Knights Templers in a Maske at ye Midle Temple’.
In: the MS described under DaW 16. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Sabol.
—— Song (‘Behold, how this conjunction thrives!’)
Dramatic Works, I, 338. Lefkowitz, pp. 134-5. Gibbs, p. 221.
DaW 113
Copy of the song of the Priests of Apollo in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: A folio music part book (2nd treble part), viii + 218 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer. c.1650s.
Bookplate of Povert Henley.
Edited in part from this MS in Sabol, No. 415, and in Lefkowitz, pp. 142-9.
DaW 114
Copy in a musical setting by William Lawes.
In: the MS described under DaW 80. c.1638-45.
Edited from this MS in Sabol, No. 46
DaW 115
Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.
In: the MS described under DaW 45. Mid-late 17th century.
Edited from this MS in Sabol, No. 415. Collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 194).
—— Song (‘The furious steed, the Phyph and Drum’)
Dramatic Works, I, 339. Lefkowitz, pp. 135-6. Gibbs, pp. 221-2.
DaW 116
Copy of the songs of valediction and final chorus sung by the Priests of Mars, Venus and Apollo, here beginning ‘The angry steed...’, in a musical setting by William Lawes (d.1645).
In: the MS described under DaW 80. c.1638-45.
Edited from this MS in Sabol, No. 47, and in Lefkowitz, pp. 150-69; recorded in Gibbs, p. 446.
The Unfortunate Lovers, Act III. Song (‘Run to Loves Lott'ry! Run, Maids, and rejoyce’)
The play first published London, 1643. This song first published in Davenant, Works (London, 1673). Dramatic Works, III, 11-90 (pp. 86-7). Gibbs, pp. 234-5 (music on pp. 331-6).
DaW 116.5
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under DaW 50.8. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 124v.
The Unfortunate Lovers, Act V, scene i. The Song to a horrid Tune (‘You Fiends and Furies come along’)
First published in London, 1643. Dramatic Works, III, 11-90 (p. 78). Gibbs, p. 145.
Lawes's musical setting published in New Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1678).
The Wits
First published in London, 1636. Dramatic Works, II, 107-244.
DaW 119
Extracts, headed ‘Out of ye witts. A Comedie by Will. Dauenant’, with comments on the play.
In: the MS described under DaW 102.6. c.1640.
Letters
Letter(s)
DaW 120
Copy of a letter by Davenant to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, from London, [c.1628]. Among papers of Dudley Carleton (1574-1632), Viscount Dorchester, diplomat. c.1628.
Edited in Harbage, p. 38. Quoted in Nethercot, pp. 70-1.
*DaW 121
Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to [Edward, second Viscount Conway], from Newcastle, 24 [August 1640]. 1640.
Puttick & Simpson, 3 June 1878, lot 91. Sotheby's, 27 February, 1882, lot 20. Sotheby's, 9 November 1965, lot 358, to Dobell.
Quoted in Nethercot, pp. 187-8.
DaW 122
Copy of a letter by Davenant to William Legge, from London, 1 January 1641[/2]. c.1642.
*DaW 123
Autograph letter signed, to Alderman James Watkinson, from Scarborough, 21 September 1643, (‘at night’). 1643.
Sotheby's, 4 April 1938, lot 117, to Doran. Christie's, 12 July 2000 (William Foyle sale, Part III), lot 329, the detached inscribed leaf only, in an extra-illustrated printed exemplum of Peter Cunningham, The Story of Nell Gwyn (London, 1852), opposite p. 11.
*DaW 124
Autograph letter signed, to Alderman James Watkinson, from Amsterdam, 19 October 1643. 1643.
Formerly in Files/Davenant.
*DaW 125
Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Prince Rupert, from Haleford, 13 June 1644. 1644.
In: A folio guardbook of original letters, in varius hands, 65 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt.
Facsimiles in Garnett & Gosse (1903), III, 79; in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XXVI; and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 92. Ciited in Nethercot, p. 213.
DaW 126
Letter by Davenant, in the hand of an amanuensis, unsigned, to John, first Lord Colepepper, and Sir Edward Hyde, from Paris, 17 January 1645/6. 1646.
In: A folio composite volume of a collection of state letters and papers, in various hands, 592 leaves, now in two volumes, foliated 1-321 and 322-592 respectively.
Quoted in Harbage, pp. 96-7, and in Nethercot, p. 220.
DaW 127
Copy of a letter by Davenant, to Sir Hugh Pollard, [from Paris, February 1645/6], as ‘Intercepted’ and ‘deciphered…By Sr Walter Erle 28 Febr: 1645’. 1646.
In: the MS described under DaW 126.
Cited in Nethercot, p. 220.
*DaW 128
Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Sir Edward Hyde, from Paris, 5 May 1646. 1646.
In: A composite volume of letters and papers of the Earl of Clarendon, for May-December 1646, 310 leaves.
*DaW 129
Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Sir Edward Hyde, from St Germain, 2 June 1646. 1646.
In: the MS described under DaW 128.
Unpublished.
*DaW 130
Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Sir Richard Browne, from St Germains, 14 August [1646]. 1646.
In: A large quarto composite volume, comprising c.230 letters of British poets, 234 leaves (including blanks), in 19th-century half-calf. Assembled in 1824 by William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector.
Among collections of Captain Montagu Montagu, RN (d.1863).
Edited in Harbage, p. 104, and in Nethercot, pp. 224-5.
*DaW 131
Autograph letter signed, to an unspecified correspondent, from St Germains, 1 September 1646. 1646.
Formerly among the Egerton-Warburton MSS at Arley Hall, Cheshire. Sotheby's, 16 March 1937, lot 483, to King.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 291.
*DaW 132
Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to the Marquess of Ormond, from Paris, 25 October 1648, endorsed ‘By Mr Fanshaw’. 1648.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters and papers for the period January 1647/8 to November 1648, 699 leaves.
*DaW 133
Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Sir George Hamilton, from Kinsale, 3 March 1648/9. 1649.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters and papers for the period March 1648/9 to May 1649, in various hands, 801 leaves.
DaW 134
Copy of a petition by Davenant, to the Council of State, from the Tower, [1650]. 1650.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 192. Cited in Nethercot, p. 279.
The Marquess of Bath, Longleat House, Whitelocke Papers, Vol. X, f. 220.
*DaW 135
Autograph petition signed, to Parliament, from the Tower, [1652]. 1652.
*DaW 136
Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Colonel Henry Marten, from the Tower, 8 July 1652. 1652.
Recorded in HMC, 13th Report (1892), Appendix IV, p. 389. Quoted in Nethercot, pp. 284-5.
*DaW 137
Autograph note by Davenant, from the Tower, 19 December 1652. 1652.
Sotheby's, 7 August 1884 (J.P. Collier sale), lot 1052, to B. J. Stevens.
*DaW 138
Autograph petition signed by Davenant, to Oliver Cromwell, Lord Protector, with largely autograph enclosures, 18 April 1654. 1654.
Facsimile in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XII, after p. xxiv, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 93. Quoted in Nethercot, pp. 293-4.
National Archives, Kew, SP 18/69/75, and I, II, III, and /76.
*DaW 139
Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to John Thurloe, 15 June 1655. 1655.
In: A folio composite volume of the state letters and papers of John Thurloe (1616-68), government official, for June-July 1655, in various hands, 430 leaves. Volume XXVII of the Thurloe Papers.
Edited in A Collection of the State Papers of John Thurloe Esq, ed. Thomas Birch, 7 vols (London, 1742), III, 554. Reprinted in Harbage, p. 120. Quoted in Nethercot, pp. 295-6.
*DaW 140
Autograph petition unsigned, [to John Thurloe], for the allowance of stage plays, endorsed by Thurloe ‘Some observations concerning the people of this nation’, [1656]. 1656.
In: A folio composite volume of state papers of John Thurloe (1616-68), government official, in various hands, 284 leaves. 1656-7.
Volume XLVI of the Thurloe Papers.
Identified as Davenant's and edited in Sir Charles Firth, ‘Sir William Davenant and the Revival of the Drama during the Protectorate’, EHR, 18 (1903), 319-21. Quoted in Harbage, pp. 125-6.
*DaW 141
Autograph petition unsigned, by Davenant and Sir William Killigrew, in a secretary's hand throughout, to King Charles II, from Whitehall, 16 January 1661/2. 1662.
Recorded in Nethercot, p. 344.
DaW 142
Copy of an unsigned petition by Davenant and Sir William Killigrew to King Charles II, from Whitehall, 16 January 1661/2. c.1662.
In:
*DaW 143
Autograph petition signed, [? to Sir Edward Nicholas], concerning actors, with autograph enclosure, c.6 August 1662. 1662.
Recorded in Nethercot, p. 365.
*DaW 144
Autograph petition by Davenant, [? to the Counci], for compensation, 25 April 1664. 1664.
Edited in E. S. de Beer, ‘A Statement by Sir William D'Avenant’, N&Q, 153 (5 November 1927), 327.
Documents
Document(s)
*DaW 145
Original indenture signed by Davenant, concerning the building of a theatre originally planned to be near the ‘Three Kings' Ordinary’ in Fleet Street, London, 2 October 1639. 1639.
Sotheby's, 14 March 1920, lot 518, to Hope, with a reduced facsimile in the sale catalogue.
*DaW 146
An agreements, signed by Davenant, for the forming of a theatre company with Thomas Betterton and others, 5 November 1660. Signed by Davenant. 1660.
*DaW 147
An agreement, signed by Davenant, for the forming of a theatre company with Thomas Betterton and others, 11 March ‘1660’. 1661.
DaW 149
The original letters patent by Charles II, authorizing Davenant to form two companies of actors, on vellum, illuminated. 15 January 1661/2.
The charter is illustrated in Clive E. Driver, A Selection from our Shelves: Books, manuscripts and drawings from the Philip H. & A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation Museum (Philadelphia, 1973), No. 44; a highly reduced facsimile also appeared in The Sunday Times (5 December 1982).
Inscribed Presentaton Exempla of Gondibert
Gondibert (4to, London, 1651)
*DaW 150
A printed exemplum of the 1651 quarto edition with Davenant's autograph inscription ‘For the most honor'd and Learned John Selden Esquire’. c.1651.
A complete facsimile edition of this exemplum published by the Scolar Press, 1970.
*DaW 151
A printed exemplum with Davenant's autograph inscription ‘For the right Hoble. [Martha] the Countesse of Munmouth’. c.1651.
Inscribed ‘Margaret Simeon 1700’. Bookplate of Thomas Weld. Maggs, sale catalogue No. 640 (1937), item 357, with facsimile of the inscribed flyleaf and title-page.
*DaW 152
Printed exemplum with Davenant's autograph inscription ‘For the much Honourd Charles Cotton Esquire’ [the Elder, d.1658]. c.1651.
Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 14 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part 1), lot 161, to Borg.
*DaW 153
A printed exemplum with Davenant's autograph inscription ‘For the much honour'd Serjeant Major [John] Wildman’, dated 19 December 1651. c.1651.
Sotheby's, 21 July 1983, lot 18, to Blackwell, with a facsimile of the inscription in the sale catalogue. Owned at some time by Howes Bookshop Ltd, Hastings, Sussex.
*DaW 154
A detached flyleaf with Davenant's autograph inscription ‘For my much honour'd and old friend Robert Brereton Esquire…Tower the 22th 1651’, the rest of the volume untraced. 1651.
Possibly the ‘Aut[ograph] inscription signed [by Davenant] 1651’ once owned by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist and antiquary. Puttick and Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), in lot 677.
*DaW 155
Detached flyleaf with Davenant's autograph inscription ‘For his most worthy and Learned friend Mr Lambert Osbertson’ [i.e. presumably Lambert Osbaldeston (1594-1659), headmaster of Westminster School], the rest of the volume untraced. c.1651.
Formerly Literary File, Acc. 121750.
Extracts from Works by Davenant
Extracts
DaW 156
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one hand, with additions by others, written from both ends, material at the reverse end dated 1708-9, ii + 114 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf. Inscribed (f. [iir]), probably by the compiler, ‘Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] Sti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703’. c.1703-9.
Also inscribed (f.[iir]) ‘Mrs Frances Wright 1708’. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: ‘Direct to Margtt Borrett att Mrs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These’.
Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS: WaE Δ 12.
DaW 157
Extracts from Davenant's plays.
In: A quarto commonplace book of extracts illustrating specified topics, largely in a single cursive hand, entitled Miscellanea Tragica Theatrical Index of Sentimts. & Descriptions Vol. 7, 244 pages (including blanks, plus a seven-page index and further blanks), in quarter crushed morocco on marbled boards. Inscribed ‘W. Harte 1726’: i.e. by Walter Harte (1709-41), compiler of the MS, which also has his bookplate. c.1726.
DaW 158
Copy in: A large untitled folio anthology of quotations chiefly from Elizabethan and Stuart plays, alphabetically arranged under subject headings, in a single mixed hand, in double columns, 900 pages (lacking pp. 1-4, 379-80, 667-8, 715-20 and 785-8), including (pp. 893-7) an alphabetical index of some 351 titles of plays, in modern boards. This is the longest known extant version of the unpublished anthology Hesperides or The Muses Garden, by John Evans, entered in the Stationers' Register on 16 August 1655 and subsequently advertised c.1660, among works he purposed to print, by Humphrey Moseley. Another version of this work, in the same hand, dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), is now distributed between Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger, MS V.a.75, Folger, MS V.a.79, and Folger, MS V.a.80. c.1656-66.
Formerly MS 469.2.
This MS identified in IELM, II.i (1980), p. 450. Discussed, as the ‘master draft’, with a facsimile of p. 7 on p. 381, in Hao Tianhu, ‘Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404 (the full index printed as ‘Catalogue A’ on pp. 385-94).
DaW 159
Extracts from Davenant's plays and poems.
In: An octavo miscellany chiefly of verse, in several hands, with two tables of contents, 207 leaves (lacking ff. 1-4), in calf. c.1725.
Inscribed (f. 207v) ‘James Dyson’ and ‘James Thompson’.
DaW 160
Copy in: A folio volume principally of poems, the majority (at least 20) by Edmund Waller, some probably by members of his family, 73 unnumbered leaves, in calf gilt. Including copies of various drafts, fragments and extracts, as well as poems by other writers such as Anne Wharton, Sir Charles Berkeley, Sir Thomas Higgons (including part of a play by him), Elizabeth Taylor (Lady Wythens, afterwards Lady Colepeper), ‘Ephelia’, George Granville, the Duke of Buckingham, Sir George Etherege, the Earl of Rochester, James Shirley, and Thomas Rymer, also extracts from Dryden and Davenant; almost entirely in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with considerable variation of style; an apparently second, unidentified, hand copying verse and prose (‘Memoire…par le Sieur Lycelot…Le 9me de Decembre 1687’ and ‘Instructions to the Judges of Assize &c Lent 1687/8’) on ff. [23r, 62r-7v, 70v]; two of these leaves ([65r and 70v]) docketed in a later hand (after 1713) ‘The Handwriting of Dr Atterbury’ and ‘Bishp Atterbury’ [meaning perhaps copied from Atterbury's writing (see WaE Δ 15)]; a draft letter addressed (as is clear from the content) to Catherine, Lady Ranelagh (1614-91), sister of the ‘noble and learned…Mr [Robert] Boyle’, on f. [16v], enclosing ‘ffathers last verses’ [not specified], noting his reluctance to write anything for the forthcoming marriage of Princess Anne and Prince George of Denmark [which took place on 28 July 1684], and observing that he has ‘now consecrated his remayning facullty in vers to devotion’; a poem ‘Of his voyage vp the river to vissett’ (beginning ‘In my breast Eternall flames’) on f. [71r] ascribed to ‘Mrs M Waller’ (presumably Waller's second wife, Mary Bresse or Breaux, d. 1677); some scribbling and calculations on ff. 3r, 71v, 72v, 73v, a label on the spine erroneously identifying the volume as a compilation by Brian Fairfax (1637-1711). c.1693-8.
Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1798-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9096.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Harvard MS’: WaE Δ 6.
DaW 161
Copy in: A quarto volume, in two hands. 274 leaves, unnumbered. 1626-96.
Comprising:
[Part I, ff. 12r-168r], five sermons, the first four by Donne, in the hand of Knightley Chetwode, son of Richard Chetwode, of Chetwode, Buckinghamshire, and Oakley, Staffordshire. 1625/6.
[Part II, ff. 1r-78r rev.], a verse miscellany, produced when the original blank pages were later filled from the reverse end, probably by one Katherine Butler. 1696.
The volume inscribed as having been given to Katherine Butler by her father in May 1693.
Described in Potter & Simpson, I, 41-2.