Verse
A crown of sonnets, but unfinished (‘Thogh the most parfet stile kannot attaine’)
A sequence of sonnets numbered ‘11’, ‘2 Sonnet. 12’, ‘3 Sonnet 13’, ‘4 Son: 14’, and ‘5 Son:’, subscribed ‘The rest of the 13 sonnets doth want.’ Croft, pp. 174-81.
*SiR 1
Autograph, with revisions.
In: Autograph volume of poems by Robert Sidney, with his revisions, 46 quarto leaves, in 19th-century black morocco gilt. Written for Sidney' wife, Barbara (née Gamage), but inscribed by him (f. 1r) ‘For the Countess of Pembroke’ (his sister).
Bookplate of Warwick Castle. Tipped-in letter about the MS by W. Blott to H.J. Cooke, 24 January 1848. Item 794 in an unidentified sale catalogue.
Elegy 16 (‘Fayrest of Venus greate posteritee’)
Croft, pp. 280-5.
In another place (‘So when wthout all noyse of mee’)
Croft, pp. 270-1.
Pastoral 2: Shepherd, Nymph (‘Shepherd, iffaith now say how wel’)
Croft, pp. 140-7.
Pastoral 7 (‘Lysa sweet Nymph did sit’)
Croft, pp. 198-201.
Pastoral 8 (‘Shepheard, why doest thow so looke still on mee’)
Croft, pp. 206-9.
Pastoral 9 (‘Day wch so bright didst shyne, how darck art thow?’)
Croft, pp. 228-31.
Pastoral 14 (‘What a change is this I see’)
Croft, pp. 272-5.
Song 1 (‘O eyes, o lights deuine’)
Croft, pp. 130-3.
Song 3 (‘Loue not who haue not lou'd’)
Croft, pp. 148-55.
Song 4 (‘My sowle in purest fyre’)
Croft, pp. 166-71.
Song 5 (‘If those deuotions now noe more’)
Croft, pp. 182-3.
Song 6 Lady. Pilgrim. (‘Yonder comes a sad pilgrim’)
Croft, pp. 184-95.
Song 10 (‘Yow whoe fauor doe enioy’)
Croft, pp. 232-5.
Song 11 (‘Thowghts vnto mee so deer’)
Croft, pp. 242-7.
Song 12 To a french Tune Ou estes vous allez mes belles amourettes (‘Since now those fayre eyes doe shyne in theyr cleer light’)
Croft, pp. 248-51.
*SiR 16
Autograph, written sideways up the length of the page, with revisions.
In: the MS described under SiR 1.
Song 13 (‘Vpon a wretch, that wastes away’)
Croft, pp. 262-5.
Song 15 (‘Heauen if any heauen there is’)
Croft, pp. 276-9.
Song 17 (‘The Sun is set, and masked night’)
Croft, pp. 284-5.
Song 18 (‘How oft sayd I, delaies are death’)
Croft, pp. 286-7.
Song 19 (‘Sun bee hencefourth from shyning parted’)
Croft, pp. 288-9.
Song 20 (‘Senses by vniust force banisht’)
Croft, pp. 290-3.
Song 21 (‘So did the morning crymson ryse’)
Croft, pp. 294-5.
Song 22 (‘But alas why do yow nowrish’)
Croft, pp. 296-9.
Song 23 (‘Greefs sent from her whome in my sowle I bless’)
Croft, pp. 300-3.
Song 24 (‘Absence I fled to thee’)
Croft, pp. 304-7.
Sonnet 1 (‘Yow purest stars, whose neuer dijng fyres’)
Croft, pp. 128-9.
Sonnet 2 (‘The pains wch I vncessantly susteine’)
Croft, pp. 134-5.
Sonnet 3 (‘Beauties born of the heauens, my sowles delight’)
Croft, pp. 136-7.
Sonnet 4 (‘These purest flames, kindled by beauties rare’)
Croft, pp. 138-9.
Sonnet 5 (‘Of trauailes past oft when I thincking ame’)
Croft, pp. 156-7.
Sonnet 6 (‘When rest locks vp the treasures of delight’)
Croft, pp. 158-9.
Sonnet 7 (‘The hardy Captein vnusde to retyre’)
Croft, pp. 160-1.
Sonnet 8 (‘If that her worth I kowld as wel forget’)
Croft, pp. 162-3.
Sonnet 9 (‘Oft had I past the ioies and greefs in loue’)
Croft, pp. 164-5.
Sonnet 10 (‘Shee whoe I serue to wryte did not despyse’)
Croft, pp. 172-3.
Sonnets 11-14
See A crown of sonnets (SiR 1), but unfinished.
Sonnet 15 (‘Yow that haue power to kil, haue wil to saue’)
Croft, pp. 196-7.
Sonnet 16 (‘Most fayre when first wth pleasd but cursed eyes’)
Croft, pp. 202-3.
Sonnet 17 (‘The endless Alchymist, wth blinded will’)
Croft, pp. 204-5.
Sonnet 18 (‘Most faier: The feeld is yowrs: now stay yor hands’)
Croft, pp. 210-11.
Sonnet 19 (‘When other creatures all each in theyr kinde’)
Croft, pp. 212-13.
Sonnet 20 (‘Shine on fayre stars: giue comfort to these eyes’)
Croft, pp. 214-15.
Sonnet 21 (‘Alas why say yow I ame ritch? when I’)
Croft, pp. 216-17.
Sonnet 22 (‘On vnknown shore, wth wether hard destrest’)
Croft, pp. 218-19.
Sonnet 23 (‘Absence what floods of plaints gainst thee would ryse’)
Croft, pp. 220-1.
Sonnet 24 (‘Canst thow turn from the haue of thy rest’)
Croft, pp. 222-3.
Sonnet 25 (‘Yow that take pleasure in yowr cruelty’)
Croft, pp. 224-5.
Sonnet 26 (‘Ah deerest lims my lifes best ioy and stay’)
Croft, pp. 226-7.
*SiR 48
Autograph, with revisions.
In: the MS described under SiR 1.
Facsimile of this page in Croft, p. [117].
Sonnet 27 (‘Falshood: how long did I yowr stings endure’)
Croft, pp. 236-7.
Sonnet 28 (‘Ayre wch about these wanton leaues dost play’)
Croft, pp. 238-9.
Sonnet 29 (‘Yowr hate to mee, must needs bee violent’)
Croft, pp. 240-1.
Sonnet 30 (‘Absence I cannot say thou hyd'st my light’)
Croft, pp. 252-3.
Sonnet 31 (‘Forsaken woods, trees wth sharpe storms opprest’)
Croft, pp. 254-5.
Sonnet 32 (‘All yow fayre minds whome chois or destiny’)
Croft, pp. 256-7.
Sonnet 33 (‘Fayrest of fayre, on whome the heaues bestow’)
Croft, pp. 258-9.
Sonnet 34 (‘Wth how wyde iawes would I my poison drinck’)
Croft, pp. 260-1.
Sonnet 35 (‘Time cruel time how fast pass yow away’)
Croft, pp. 266-7.
Translated out of Seneca (‘Yow vnto whome hee that rules sea and land’)
Croft, pp. 270-1.
Translated out of Spanish (‘Shee whome I loued, and loue shall still’)
Croft, pp. 268-9.
Vpon a Snufkin (‘Goe happy furres the hands preserue’)
Croft, pp. 268-9.
Miscellaneous
Commonplace book
*SiR 61
Autograph commonplace book, on political and historical subjects, under headings, with some additions, including an index, possibly in the hand of the second Earl of Leicester, 754 folio pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1613-15.
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
Discussed in Robert Shephard, ‘The Political Commonplace Books of Sir Robert Sidney’, Sidney Journal, 21 (2003), 1-30, and in Fred Schurink, ‘Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England’, HLQ, 73/3 (2010, 453-69 (pp. 457-60).
*SiR 62
Autograph commonplace book, on principally genealogical and historical matters, with a few additions possibly in the hand of the second Earl of Leicester, 486 pages (including blanks), partly in ruled columns, in contemporary vellum, with green silk ties. Early 17th century.
Recorded in Robert Shephard, ‘The Political Commonplace Books of Sir Robert Sidney’, Sidney Journal, 21 (2003), 1-30 (p. 2 n).
*SiR 63
Autograph commonplace book, on coinage and history, 348 quarto pages (including blanks, plus further blanks at the end), in contemporary vellum. Late 16th-early 17th century.
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
Recorded in Robert Shephard, ‘The Political Commonplace Books of Sir Robert Sidney’, Sidney Journal, 21 (2003), 1-30 (p. 2 n).
*SiR 64
Autograph commonplace book by Robert Sidney, on political subjects, under some headings, with additions, including an index, possibly in the hand of the second Earl of Leicester, 954 folio pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1600.
Among papers of the Sidney family, Viscounts De L'Isle, of Penshurst Place, Ashford, Kent.
Discussed in Robert Shephard, ‘The Political Commonplace Books of Sir Robert Sidney’, Sidney Journal, 21 (2003), 1-30.
Liber amicorum
*SiR 65
Robert Sidney's autograph inscription while in Vienna, 11 August 1581. 1581.
In: The liber amicorum of Nicolaus Engelhardt.
This MS recorded in George Gömöri, ‘Inscriptions by Philip and Robert Sidney in Alba Amicorum’, N&Q, 50 (September 2004), 240-2.
SiR 66
Autograph inscription in Latin by Robert Sidney in the liber amicorum of Gregorius Horváth Stansith, dated 29 March 1580. 1580.
Probably destroyed in World War II. A copy of the MS made by Jenö Abel is in Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Kézirattára, Budapest, Hungary, MS 335/12, entry 3.
This MS recorded in George Gömöri, ‘Inscriptions by Philip and Robert Sidney in Alba Amicorum’, N&Q, 50 (September 2004), 240-2.