Verse
Poems by Waller Published no later than 1711
À la Malade (‘Ah, lovely Amoret! the care’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 85-6.
WaE 1
Copy in: A quarto volume of 75 poems by Edmund Waller, in a single professional hand, 76 leaves (ff. 43r-76v blank), in vellum gilt, with remains of ties. With (f. 1r-v) a prose dedication ‘To the Queene’ (Henrietta Maria), an entry on f. 42v in a later hand, and f. 76v with scribbled date ‘14 of Jvne 1665’. c.1640s.
Covers inscribed on the inside at various times ‘Gentilles Colte her Book’, ‘Th Whitfield Septbr. 18: 1764’ and ‘b[ough]t at Woodcoates sale’. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 7004). Sotheby's, 24 April 1911. lot 844. Colbeck, Radford & Co., ‘The Ingatherer’, No. 24 (June 1932), item 221. Sold by P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1936.
Reduced facsimile of ff. 1r-41v in Poems 1645 (1971). Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Colte MS’: WaE Δ 1.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 2
Copy in: A folio volume of 50 poems by Edmund Waller, in a single professional hand, viii + 104 pages (pp. 82-92 blank and pp. 93-7 bound-in separately), in vellum. Some annotations and scribbling in an 18th-century hand; the volume now imperfect, the bottom corner of virtually every page mutilated probably by rodents. c.1640s.
Later owned by the Rev. Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as ‘Rawlinson MS’: WaE Δ 2.
WaE 2.5
Copy in: A folio volume of 73 poems by Edmund Waller, in an accomplished professional mixed hand, a few songs, with music, added at the end probably partly in another hand, x + 124 leaves, in calf gilt.
Inscribed (f. 48r) ‘Robert Binnes’ and (on a rear flyleaf) ‘John Brownlowe’: i.e. very probably Sir John Brownlowe (1659-97), the builder of Belton House, the phrase ex dono deleted. The MS discovered by Dr Peter Hoare in the 1990s.
WaE 3
Copy in: A folio volume comprising 60 poems by Edmund Waller, in a single probably non-professional hand, showing variations of style, 46 leaves (plus c.30 blanks) imperfect at the beginning, in calf. c.1640s.
Inscriptions on flyleaves including ‘Gyfford’; ‘we went to london the 13 of Aprill and came home the 23 of June 1687’; ‘Mary Stane Anno Dom: 1747: December 8th’; and, on f. 3r, ‘Suf folk’. Offered for sale in Percy Dobell's Catalogue of an Important Collection of Poetical Manuscripts (1927), p. 10. At some time lot 2124 in a [?]Sotheby's sale. Later owned by John Maynard Keynes, Baron Keynes (1883-1946), economist.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Keynes MS’: WaE Δ 3.
WaE 4
Copy in: A folio volume of 65 poems by Edmund Waller, in a professional hand, an anonymous poem in a different style of hand on pp. 104-6, and three poems by others added in yet another, probably Scottish, hand on pp. 2 and 106-9, 110 pages, in contemporary red morocco gilt, with the armorial bookplate of the Earl of Breadalbane. c.1640s.
The first page inscribed ‘The Book belongeth to Jn Campbelly [i.e. John Campbell] Janwarie: 3: 1657’ in a hand probably responsible for a couplet on p. 110. The volume may have belonged originally to Sir John Campbell, tenth Laird of Glenorchy (d. 1686), and evidently owned by his son, John Campbell (1635-1717), first Earl of Breadalbane, one of the most powerful of the Highland chiefs, who on 17 December 1657 married Lady Mary Rich (grand-daughter of Penelope Rich, Sidney's ‘Stella’; Lady Mary's father being Henry, first Earl of Holland who was executed by Parliament in 1649). The Earls of Breadalbane were also related to Waller's friend, Lady Isabella Thynne. Later owned, in 1927, by John Grant Jr, and in 1934 by Roswell G. Ham (1891-1983), scholar. Bearing an early pressmark and sold at some time by Sanders & Co., Oxford. Formerly MS Vault Sect. 10, Drawer 3, Waller Poems.
The MS exhibited at the Bodleian Library, 16-28 June 1930: see Proceedings & Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the ‘Breadalbane MS’: WaE Δ 5.
WaE 5
Copy, untitled.
In: A folio verse miscellany, comprising nearly 250 poems, in five hands, vii + 135 leaves (with a modern index), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked), with remains of clasps. Including 16 poems (plus second copies of two) by Carew, 19 poems by or attributed to Herrick (and second copies of six of them), 23 poems (plus second copies of two and four of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, 18 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode, and eleven poems by Waller. c.1630s-40s.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Peeter Daniell’ and his initials stamped on both covers. Later scribbling including the names ‘Thomas Gardinor’, ‘James Leigh’ and ‘Pettrus Romell’. Owned in 1780 by one ‘A. B.’ when it was given to Thomas Percy (1768-1808), later Bishop of Dromore. Sotheby's, 29 April 1884 (Percy sale), lot 1. Acquired from Quaritch, 1957.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Daniell MS’: CwT Δ 5, HeR Δ 2, RnT Δ 1, StW Δ 5, WaE Δ 9. Briefly discussed in Margaret Crum, ‘An Unpublished Fragment of Verse by Herrick’, RES, NS 11 (1960), 186-9. A facsimile of f. 22v in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 106). Betagraphs of the watermark in f. 65 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. 241).
WaE 5.5
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. 155-6.
WaE 6
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, 58 leaves, in modern calf gilt. Including 39 poems by Waller on ff. 20v-36r; poems on ff. 1-52v in a single neat, possibly feminine, hand; poems on ff. 53-8v added later in another hand. Early 18th century.
Sotheby's, 21 July 1970, lot 652.
Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the ‘Brotherton MS’: WaE Δ 14.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 28r.
WaE 6.5
MS alterations to the printed text.
In: Exemplum of the ‘Third’ printed edition of Waller's Poems (8°: London, 1668) extensively annotated by Francis Atterbury (1662-1732), Bishop of Rochester, including his rewriting of many poems, a blank page at the beginning annotated in an unidentified hand; pages 49-51 with a note on the irregularities of Waller's verse; the last blank page with other notes on Waller by Atterbury (‘Waller commends no Poet of his times that was in any degree a Rival to him...’) and by an unidentified hand (?Neve). c.1721.
The volume briefly described in H.C. Beeching, Francis Atterbury (1909), pp. 227-31.
WaE 7
MS alterations to the printed text.
In: Exemplum of the ‘Fifth’ edition of Waller's Poems (8°: London, 1686) extensively annotated in MS throughout by ‘P.N.’ [i.e. Philip Neve]. Exemplum of the ‘Fifth’ edition of Waller's Poems (8°: London, 1686) extensively annotated in MS throughout by ‘P.N.’ [i.e. Philip Neve], who records in a MS preface dated July 1788 that his notes (to p. 238) ‘that are written in the same hand as the 3 following pages are transcribed from B[isho]p Atterbury's Copy [i.e. that of Francis Atterbury (1662-1732), Bishop of Rochester] who wrote with Waller's MS before him, as appears at p. 230 (see WaE 371). The B[isho]p either made his Remarks in a Copy of the 3d. Edition, published in 1668 — or the MS he consulted was what Waller had corrected for that Edition — as the Notes &c. go to the very page where that Edition ends. How far in his Alterations Atterbury followed the MS it is fruitless to enquire — very improbably throughout’. The notes record variant readings and alterations for 53 poems in the volume (each of which is given a separate entry below). A selection of these MS readings is listed in Deas, pp. 321-4. c.1788.
The volume with Atterbury's notes and emendations that are copied here can be identified as that in Westminster Abbey (CB 67).
At the end of the volume (on pp. 307-10) are MS copies by Neve of two further poems by Waller [see WaE 417, WaE 780-1] transcribed from an independent [and now unlocated] ‘very antient Ms which contains most of Waller's other Pieces, written before 1645, tho' none afterwards’, as well as poems by Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Sir John Suckling and Thomas Carew, and this ‘Ancient Ms’ is also cited as the source for some MS lines and alterations inserted by Neve in the printed text of poems on pp. 27-8 and 30-3. Neve records three poems by Waller from the same source in his Cursory Remarks on some of the Antient English Poets, particularly Milton (London, 1789), pp. 70-2 [see WaE 103, WaE 532, WaE 780-1]. It is possibly from this source that Neve also derived the text of ‘a few hitherto unprinted Verses of Waller’ which he sent to George Steevens on 14 April 1789, as is witnessed by his accompanying letter of that date in the Folger (MS C. b. 10(116)). For one other, unrelated, MS of the 17th-century verse once owned by Neve, see DnJ Δ 33.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Atterbury-Neve volume’: WaE Δ 15. For Neve's alterations in the accompanying exemplum of The Seconde Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690), see WaE 377. NB. The preface printed in this edition was almost certainly written by Francis Atterbury. According to a MS note by the publisher Jacob Tonson in an unlocated exemplum last recorded in 1891, Atterbury was also responsible for printing the poems published for Tonson in The Maid's Tragedy Altered. With some other Pieces by Edmund Waller (London, 1690), his source being ‘a Manuscript Copy of them’ borrowed by Atterbury ‘of Dr. Birch’ [i.e. Dr Peter Birch (1652?-1710), Chaplain to the House of Commons, who married Waller's daughter Mary]: see Thorn-Drury, II, 150-1; a note by J.T.Y. in N&Q, 7th Ser. 11 (4 April 1891), 266-7; and also Life (1711), p. xl.
Folkestone Williams further records that Atterbury used an exemplum of the ‘Third’ edition of Waller's Poems (1668), ‘probably during his college career’, containing ‘numerous corrections by him’ and that Atterbury ‘compiled a collection of select passages [from Waller] still in his handwriting’ (Memoirs and Correspondence of Francis Atterbury, D.D., 2 vols (London, 1869), I, 48). For other evidence of Atterbury's association with Waller, see WaE Δ 6.
An Apology for having Loved before (‘They that never had the use’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 120-1.
WaE 8
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 9
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled and with the third stanza first (here beginning ‘To man that was i'th Eu'ninge made’).
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).
WaE 9.5
Copy, here beginning ‘They who never knew the use’.
In: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 65-7.
WaE 10
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 28v.
WaE 11
Extensive MS alterations to the printed text.
In: the MS described under WaE 7 (WaE Δ 15). c.1788.
The Apology of Sleep (‘My charge it is those breaches to repair’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 80-1.
WaE 12
Copy headed ‘The Apologie of Somnus for not approaching the Ladie whoe can doe any thing but sleepe when she pleaseth’.
In: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 13
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 14
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 14.5
Copy, headed ‘The Apologie of sleep for not approaching ye Lady who can doe any thing but sleep when she pleaseth’.
In: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 198-200.
WaE 15
Copy, headed ‘The Apology of Sleepe for not approaching the Lady who can doe any thing butt sleepe when shee pleaseth’, with alterations in another hand.
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).
WaE 16
Copy, headed ‘The Apologye of Somnus for not aproaching the Lady who can doe any thinge but sleepe when she pleaseth’.
In: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 17
MS alterations and deletions to the printed text, with five lines written on an inserted slip.
In: the MS described under WaE 7 (WaE Δ 15). c.1788.
At Penshurst (‘Had Sacharissa lived when mortals made’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 46-7.
WaE 18
Copy, here beginning ‘Had Dorothea liv'd, when mortalls made’.
In: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 18.2
Copy, here beginning ‘Had Dorothea liu'd when Mortalls made’.
In: the MS described under WaE 2.5.
WaE 19
Copy, headed ‘Another of the same’ and here beginning ‘Had Dorothea liu'd when Mortalls made’, subscribed with a note in a late 17th-century hand ‘In the printed copy follow these lines…’ and the text of four lines (lines 17-20) copied and marked for insertion after line 16.
In: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 20
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 20.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Had Dorothæa liv'd when mortally made’.
In: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 175-7.
WaE 21
Copy, with an alteration in another hand.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 22
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
At Penshurst (‘While in the park I sing, the listening deer’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 64-5.
WaE 23
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 24
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 25
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 25.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 177-9.
WaE 26
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 27
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 28
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, ff. 26v-7r.
The Battle of the Summer Islands (‘Aid me, Bellona! while the dreadful fight’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 66-74.
WaE 30
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 31
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 31.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 124-34.
WaE 32
Copy, with alterations and a line inserted in another hand.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 33
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 34
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, including nineteen poems by Waller (pp. 1-64), probably transcribed from printed sources, with an index, 318 pages. Compiled over a period, probably by the same person, at one of the English (? Benedictine) colleges in Douai, a later addition (p. 292) dated 1723. Early 18th century.
Behold the Brand of Beauty Tossed. A Song (‘Behold the brand of beauty tossed!’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 126.
WaE 35
Copy, headed ‘Songe’.
In: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 37.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
The Bud (‘Lately on yonder swelling bush’)
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 98. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
WaE 39
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 40
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under WaE 9 (WaE Δ 11). Mid-17th century.
WaE 40.5
MS alterations and deletions to the printed text.
In: the MS described under WaE 6.5. c.1721.
Chloris and Hylas (‘Hylas, oh Hylas! why sit we mute’)
First published, as ‘On the approaching Spring’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 114-15.
WaE 42
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 44
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
The Countess of Carlisle in Mourning (‘When from black clouds no part of sky is clear’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 22-3.
WaE 45
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 46
Copy, here beginning ‘When from the blacke no part of skie is cleere’.
In: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 47
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 47.5
Copy, headed ‘To ye Countesse of Carlisle in mourning’.
In: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 179-80.
WaE 49
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
The Country to My Lady of Carlisle (‘Madam, of all the sacred Muse inspired’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 21.
WaE 52
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 53
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 54
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 54.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 190-1.
WaE 55
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 56
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
An Epigram on a Painted Lady with Ill Teeth (‘Were men so dull they could not see’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 3.
WaE 58
Copy in: An exemplum of the octavo ‘Fifth’ printed edition of Waller's Poems (London, 1686) with MS copies of ten further poems by him written on various pages in a single hand, varying in degrees of neatness, in contemporary calf. End of 17th century.
Scribbling (on the title-page and verso) including the names ‘Tho: Trevor’ and [?] Herbert Lloyd, and with the bookplate of ‘The Honble Tho: Trevor. Esqr’. A slip pasted on the calf cover bearing the name ‘Elianore Mary’ below the monogram ‘EMR’.
The bookplate is presumably that (between 1712 and 1730) of Thomas Trevor (c.1692-1753), second Baron Trevor of Bromham, son of Thomas, first Baron (1658-1730), Lord Chief Justice &c., whose grandfather was Edmund Waller's first cousin and neighbour, the statesman John Hampden (1594-1643). Later in the Oxford library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector. Christie's, 21 October 1992 (Sparrow sale), lot 288.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1997) as the ‘Trevor volume’: WaE Δ 16.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 94, the verso of the frontispiece.
Epilogue to the ‘Maid's Tragedy’. Spoken by the King (‘The fierce Melantius was content, you see’)
First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 98.
WaE 59
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
In: A quarto miscellany of chiefly verse, with some prose and French exercises, including at least seventeen poems by or attributed to Waller, as well as a complete transcript of The Maid's Tragedy Altered, in more than one hand, the predominant hand that of one of Waller's daughters, written from both ends, some of the ascriptions to ‘Mr Waller’ added later in a different hand, 100 unnumbered leaves (including stubs of some extracted leaves [ff. 9-13v, 7r-v rev., 27r-v rev., 35-6v rev.]), in calf. Including such association texts as ‘An Epistle to my father Ox: Sep: ye 17: 1667’ (f. [2v]), ‘On ye Wallers arms’ (f. [15v]), a letter [by Waller] to ‘my Dearest Neece’ (ff. [20-1]) followed by a letter to her ‘Honrd Uncle’ ascribed in another hand to ‘Lady Speake’ (f. 21r-v), and ‘The ffollowing line my ffather write…’ dated from ‘Hallbarn Aprill ye 11 1685’ (f. [33v]). c.1680s [-1700s].
Scribbling inside the covers and on the flyleaves including (several times) the name ‘Edmond Waller’ and ‘Edmund Waller his Bookes’: i.e. very probably the poet's son, Edmund Waller the Younger (1651-99). Pinned inside the cover is a receipt dated 29 September 1645 for money received from Anne Waller, the poet's mother (d. 1653), signed by Anne Darell and witnessed by John Ford and John Pepys.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Younger Waller MS: WaE Δ 7. Briefly recorded in Thorn-Drury and in Wikelund (1970), pp. 77-8.
Epitaph on Sir George Speke (‘Under this stone lies vertue, youth’)
First published in Poems, ‘Fifth’ edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 107-8.
WaE 60
Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
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.
WaE 61
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Sr. Geo: Speak, the good son and good mother exemplyfy'd’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, entitled ‘The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts’, in a single hand, 189 leaves. Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources. Early 18th century.
A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): ‘John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at ye Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley’. A note on f. 1: ‘Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves’. Date at the end of the volume: ‘1718’, and some notes on a flyleaf dated ‘1724’.
The ‘Mr. Corbet’ from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Dunton MS’: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.
For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).
WaE 62
Copy on two pages.
In: Exemplum of the ‘Fourth’ printed edition of Waller's Poems (8°: London, 1682), accompanying The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690), 2 vols. With a collection of 21 poems, including nine by Waller, copied in MS on 47 blank pages at the end of the first volume in the hand of Elizabeth Moyle (afterwards Mrs Gregor), another poem at the very end added in a different hand; the printed text of the poems also containing a number of MS emendations, and some of the poems numbered in MS from 1 to 38. c.1686-90s.
The first volume inscribed as being a gift in 1684 by Sir Walter Moyle (d. 1701), M.P., of Bake, St Germans, Cornwall, to his daughter Elizabeth (afterwards Mrs Gregor), brother of the essayist and politician Walter Moyle (1672-1721).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Moyle Volume’: WaE Δ 17.
WaE 63
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf. c.1713.
Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.
Epitaph on the Lady Sedley (‘Here lies the learned Savil's heir’)
First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 114-15.
WaE 64
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 58 (WaE Δ 16). End of 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 94, the recto of the second endpaper.
Epitaph to be written under the Latin Inscription upon the Tomb of the only Son of the Lord Andover (‘'Tis fit the English reader should be told.’)
First published in Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 63.
WaE 65
Copy, as ‘by Mr Edmond Waller’.
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.
WaE 66
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 32v.
WaE 67
Copy, untitled.
In: A quarto composite volume of antiquarian collections, epitaphs and monuments, in Latin and English, iv + 362 pages, in modern calf gilt. Early 18th century.
Epitaph Unfinished (‘Great soul! for whom Death will no longer stay’)
First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 116.
WaE 68
Copy of the last four lines in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and here beginning ‘Here beauty, youth, and Noble Virtue Shin'd’.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
Fabula Phoebi et Daphnes (‘Arcadiae juvenis Thyrsis, Phoebique sacerdos’)
First published in Poems (London, 1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 53.
WaE 70
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 71
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 71.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
The Fall (‘See! how the willing earth gave way’)
First published, as ‘The Reply’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 96.
WaE 72
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 73
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 73.5
Copy in: A large folio verse miscellany, headed (p. 1) ‘Poems on Severall Occasions’, 298 pages, in contemporary calf (rebacked). c.1735.
WaE 74
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 74.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 104-5.
WaE 75
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 76
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 61 (WaE Δ 10). Early 18th century.
For Drinking of Healths (‘And is antiquity of no more force!’)
First published, in an 18-line version beginning at line 7, ‘Let Bruits, and Vegetals that cannot think’, in Workes (1645). A 34-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), pp. 89-90. Thorn-Drury (1904), I, 89-90.
WaE 77
Copy of the 18-line version.
In: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 78.5
Copy of the 18-line version beginning at line 7, here ‘Let brutes & vegetalls that cannot think’.
In: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 113-14.
WaE 79
Copy of the 34-line version, headed ‘Ane answeare to on that write against Healths’, with alterations in another hand.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
Edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury.
WaE 80
Copy of the 34-line version, headed ‘An Answere to one that did write against Healths’.
In: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
From a Child (‘Madam, as in some climes the warmer sun’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 94.
WaE 81
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 82
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 26v.
‘Go, lovely Rose’
First published, as ‘On the Rose’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 128. Setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).
WaE 83
Copy, headed ‘Songe’.
In: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 84.5
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one rounded hand, with later additions in other hands, 169 pages, in a marbled wrapper. c.1710-30s.
Among papers of the Knatchbull family, Barons Brabourne, of Mersham-le-Hatch, Kent.
WaE 85.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 109-10.
WaE 86
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 87
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 88
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under WaE 9 (WaE Δ 11). Mid-17th century.
WaE 89
Copy, headed ‘Sending a Rose’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of chiefly Restoration verse and drama, including thirteen poems by Waller and also extracts from 45 poems by Donne, the greater part in a single neat hand (also responsible for Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 4146), 241 pages (plus blanks). c.1690-1700.
Inscribed (on front pastedown and f. 133r) by one Peter Save and, in 1743, by one Joseph Butler.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Save MS’: WaE Δ 13.
WaE 89.5
Copy, in a musical setting, headed ‘Glee for four Voices’.
In: An oblong folio volume of part-songs, madrigals, glees, etc., the second in a set of three part books, in a single hand, 214 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco. c.1780-1833.
Bookplate of Julian Marshall (1836-1903), music and print collector and writer.
WaE 89.8
Copy of a version.
In: A composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in verse and prose, mainly in the hands of the Rev. Dr Philip Francis (1708-73), writer and translator, and his son Sir Philip Francis (1740-1818), politician and political writer, 477 leaves. Mid-18th century.
WaE 90
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
In: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, ff. 23v-4r.
WaE 90.5
Copious MS alterations to the printed text.
In: the MS described under WaE 6.5. c.1721.
Cited in Beeching.
WaE 92
Copy, headed ‘To a Gentlewoman with a Rose’, subscribed ‘Ed. Waller’.
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.
In Answer to Sir John Suckling's Verses (‘Stay here, fond youth! and ask no more. be wise’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 116-19. The Works of Sir John Suckling: The Non-Dramatic Works, ed. Thomas Clayton (Oxford, 1971), pp. 181-3.
See also SuJ 5-10.
WaE 93
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971). Collated in Clayton.
WaE 94
Copy, headed A ‘Coppie of verses of Sr: John Succlings against fruition taken in peices & Answered by Mr: Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 95
Copy of lines 1-39, headed ‘Against & For Fruition’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, including eleven poems by Carew, in a single professional secretary hand (adopting a different style on ff. 176r-8r), ii + 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), the date 1633 occurring on f. 55r. c.1630s.
The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Michell MS’: CwT Δ 8. Briefly discussed (in connection with the poem ‘Shall I die?’ attributed to Shakespeare) by Gary Taylor in The Sunday Times (24 November 1985, pp. 1, 3, with a facsimile example) and by Peter Beal in TLS (3 January 1986, p. 13); and see also letters on 24 January 1986, pp. 87-8.
This MS collated in Clayton.
In Answer to One who Writ against a Fair Lady (‘What fury has provoked thy wit to dare’)
First published, in a four-stanza version headed ‘In Answer to a libell against her, &c’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 24-5.
WaE 96
Copy of a four-stanza version, headed ‘In Answer to &c.’.
In: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 96.5
Copy of a four-stanza version headed ‘In Answer to a libell against her’.
In: the MS described under WaE 2.5.
WaE 97.5
Copy, headed ‘In answeare to etc’.
In: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 192-3.
WaE 99
Copy, headed ‘In Answer to a Libell against her’.
In: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 99.5
MS alterations to the printed text and comments.
In: the MS described under WaE 6.5. c.1721.
WaE 100
Extensive MS alterations to the printed text, with an inserted slip containing six lines in MS beginning ‘Tho' Ceres' child cod. not avoide the Rape’ to be inserted after line 12, subscribed ‘P.N.’ and ‘Antient Ms’ [i.e. these lines derived from Philip Neve's separate MS: see Introduction].
In: the MS described under WaE 7 (WaE Δ 15). c.1788.
WaE 101
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Waller’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, ii + 318 pages (pp. 103-290 largely blank). Including many poems by Sidney Godolphin (1610-43), poet and courtier, and associated with the circle of Lucius Cary (1609/10-1643), second Viscount Falkland, politician and author, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire. c.late 1630s-early 1640s.
The text of this MS given in Deas, pp. 324-5.
WaE 102
Copy, headed in another hand ‘By Mr Edward Waler. the answer’ [i.e. to a poem on Lady Carlisle by Roger Twysden, 1639].
In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written over a period, 80 leaves (plus 67 blanks and stubs of numerous extracted leaves), in contemporary vellum gilt. Compiled by or for Sir Henry Cholmley, brother of Sir Hugh Cholmley (1600-57), the ascription ‘by my brother Sr Hugh Cholmley’ (1600-57) inserted on f. 19r in a cursive hand responsible for entries on ff. 3r-12v, 15v-29r, 41r-v, 75v-7r, the contents including twelve poems by Thomas Carew and poems by members of the circle of Lucius Cary (1610?-43), second Viscount Falkland, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire, by the St Leger family of Ulcombe, Kent, and by Sir William Twysden of Kent. c.1624-41.
Later bookplate of Henry B. Humphrey.
Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Cholmley MS’: CwT Δ 27.
WaE 103
Copy, with lines 13-18 concluding the poem.
In: ‘A MS made in the middle of the reign of Charles I. and before the first edition of Waller's poems’, containing ‘many of the original poems of Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Sir John Suckling, Thomas Carew and Waller, and each piece is carefully distinguised by the name of its author’.
Recorded in Philip Neve, Cursory Remarks on some of the Ancient English Poets, particularly Milton (London, 1789), p. 72.
The third stanza (lines 13-18, beginning ‘Though Ceres child could not avoid the rape’) edited from this MS in Neve, p. 71. Reprinted in Thorn-Drury.
Instructions to a Painter (‘First draw the sea, that portion which between’)
First published as a broadside (London, 1665). Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 48-59. See also Mary Tom Osborne, Advice-to-a-Painter Poems (Austin, Texas, 1949), pp. 26-7.
*WaE 104
Copy of the complete poem, in the hand of an amanuensis, with autograph revisions and two lines (75-6, on p. [3]) in the poet's hand, the last four lines added in yet another hand, on eleven pages of four pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Headed ‘Instructions to a Painter for the drawing of the Posture & Progresse of his Maties forces at Sea under the Command of His H: R: together with [a description of deleted] the Battel & victory obteynde ouer the Dutch 3 June 1665’, followed by thirteen lines in French beginning ‘Je suis vaincu du temps’, subscribed ‘Malherbe au Roy Henry le Grand’. c.1665.
Among papers of the Waller family.
WaE 105
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 34. Early 18th century.
WaE 107
Copy, headed ‘Instructions to a Painter for the drawing of a Picture of the State and Posture of the English Forces at Sea under the Command of His Highness Royal in the conclusion of the Year 1664’.
In: An exemplum of Waller's printed octavo Poems (London, 1664), with ‘twenty-four pages of closely written manuscript additions’, comprising five poems by Waller and additional lines for a sixth. Late 17th century?.
Once owned by Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Cunningham (1820-75), field engineer in the Madras Army (retired 1861) and afterwards editor of, and commentator on, Ben Jonson, Marlowe and Massinger. Cunningham's library was dispersed at Sotheby's, 17-21 July 1876, but no mention of this volume is made in the sale catalogue.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Cunningham Volume’: WaE Δ 18. The volume is briefly discussed by Cunningham in ‘Waller's Poems’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 9 (10 March 1866), 192-3.
WaE 108
Copy in: An octavo miscellany of verse and drama, largely in a single small cursive hand, with later additions by one or two hands after p. 142, 185 pages (including blanks) plus a tipped-in leaf at the end, in brown calf. Late 17th century.
Sotheby's, 13 June 1870, lot 157, to James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector; thence, on 5 July 1870, to Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 3.4.
WaE 109
With sixteen lines added at the end in MS for insertion on page 18, beginning ‘As those bold Gyants when they fought with Jove’ and subscribed ‘These lines should have come in immediatly before the foure last, but for a mistake in the Printing’.
In: Exemplum of the edition of 1666 of Instructions to a Painter, imperfect. Late 17th century.
WaE 110
Copy, incomplete, dated ‘1664’.
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.
WaE 111
Copy in: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state entitled A Collection of Poems Sayters and Lampoones, 4178 pages (but a number excised). Late 17th century.
Front endpaper inscribed ‘Latchington 2 March 1787’. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (Phillipps MS 8303). At Yale formerly Chest II, Number 3.
The Lady Katherine Howards Voyage and Enterteynement, aboard the Triumph by the Earle of Northumberland he being then Lord High Admirall (‘Madame / Mixt with the Greatest, a Grand Day at Court’)
Firsr published, and attributed to Waller, in Timothy Raylor, ‘A new poem by Waller? Lady Katherine Howard, the Earl of Northumberland, and an Entertainment on board the Triumph’, EMS, 13 (2007), 211-31 (pp. 223-7). The attribution supported in John Burrows, ‘A Computational Approach to the Authorship of Lady Katherine Howard's Voyage’, EMS, 13 (2007), 232-49.
WaE 111.5
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on two conjugate folio leaves, imperfect and lacking a title. c.late 1630s.
In: A double-folio-size guardbook of separate verse MSS, in various hands and sizes, 43 leaves, in modern cloth.
Among the papers of Sir Joseph Williamson (1633-1701), but possibly derived in part from the Conway Papers: see Donne, Introduction.
Edited from this MS in Raylor, with a facsimile of the first page on p. 213.
WaE 111.8
Copy, headed ‘The Lady Katherine Howards Voyage and Enterteynement, aboard the Triumph by the Earle of Northumberland he being then Lord High Admirall’.
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.
This MS collated in Raylor, with a facsimile of p. 12 on p. 215.
Long and Short Life (‘Circles are praised, not that abound’)
First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 112.
WaE 112
Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Argumentum’ and including four lines of prose.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 113
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 58 (WaE Δ 16). End of 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 94, front paste-down.
WaE 113.5
Copy, headed ‘On Long and Short Life. By Mr Waller’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, with some rubrication, 122 pages, with an index, in contemporary marbled boards. With a title-page: ‘Poems on Various Subjects Extracted cheifly from the Works of Some of the Most Celebrated Poets Scribendo Disces MDCCXLVII’. 1747.
Love's Farewell (‘Treading the path to nobler ends’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 93.
WaE 114
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under WaE 9 (WaE Δ 11). Mid-17th century.
WaE 115
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 25v.
The Miser's Speech. In a Masque (‘Balls of this metal slacked At'lanta's pace’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 111.
WaE 116
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 117
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 118
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 118.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 137-8.
WaE 119
Copy, with a line inserted in another hand.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 120
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 121
Copy, under a general heading ‘Verses written by Mr Dauenant Mr Carey & Mr Kelligraue Anno 1640’.
In: the MS described under WaE 5 (WaE Δ 9). c.1630s-40s.
The Night-Piece. or, A Picture drawn in the Dark (‘Darkness, which fairest nymphs disarms’)
First published in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 65-6.
WaE 122
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 61 (WaE Δ 10). Early 18th century.
WaE 124
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, ff. 34v-5r.
Of a fair Lady playing with a snake
See WaE 474.
Of a Lady who writ in Praise of Mira (‘While she pretends to make the graces known’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 2.
WaE 126
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 127
Copy, here beginning ‘Whilst she pretends to make the graces known’.
In: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 128
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 128.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 114-15.
WaE 129
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 130
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 131
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 65 (WaE Δ 12). c.1703-9.
WaE 132
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 21r.
WaE 132.5
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, 186 pages, in contemporary calf. c.1728.
Of a Tree cut in Paper (‘Fair hand! that can on virgin paper write’)
First published, in a fourteen-line version, in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). A 22-line version in Thorn-Drury, II, 68.
WaE 133
Copy of a 22-line version, headed ‘On the Lady Isabella [Thynne's] cutting Trees in Paper’ and subscribed ‘I had these Verses from my Lady Long in 1656. Her Lap: had several other Copies of Mr Wallers Verses. (of which Mr Waller had not duplicats) which she lent to the Dutches of Beaufort, and were never return'd. Their friendship is now broken; but I hope her Grace will be so kind as to grant Transcripts of them upon the reprinting of ye Book’, on a single quarto leaf, a note on the verso referring to ‘Mr Aubery’.
In: the MS described under WaE 59 (WaE Δ 7). c.1680s [-1700s].
Lines 15-20 edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury.
Mr Richard Waller, [no shelfmark], [unnumbered loosely inserted leaf].
WaE 134
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 33v.
WaE 134.5
MS alterations to the printed text and comments.
In: the MS described under WaE 6.5. c.1721.
WaE 136
Copy of a 22-line version, headed ‘To the Lady Isabella Thinn on her exquisite cutting trees in paper’.
In: the MS described under WaE 107 (WaE Δ 18). Late 17th century?.
Edited from this MS in Cunningham.
WaE 137
Copy, headed ‘The Lady Isabella Thynne on her exquisite cutting trees in paper’, subscribed I had these Verses from my Lady Long in 1656. Her Lap. had severall other Copies of Mr Wallers Verses (of which Mr Waller had not duplicats) which she lent to ye Dutches of Beaufort, and were never return'd. Their friendship is now broken: but I hope her Grace will be so kind as to grant Transcripts of them upon the reprinting of ye Book, and also subscribed ‘Ed. Waller’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in at least three professional hands, 39 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. Late 17th century.
Owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector.
This MS discussed in Kate Bennett, ‘John Aubrey and the Circulation of Edmund Waller's “Of a Tree Cut in Paper”’, N&Q, 247 (September 2002), 344-5.
WaE 138
Copy of a 22-line version, headed (partly in Aubrey's hand) ‘Of cutting Trees in Paper, by the Lady Isabella Thynn, daughter of ye Earle of Holland’, subscribed ‘By Mr Edmund Waller’ and, also in Aubrey's hand, ‘These Verses I had from my Lady Dorothy Long of Dracot-Cerne 1656. Her Lap. had severall other Copies of Mr Waller, wch he had not copies of, wch she lent to ye Dutchesse of Beaufort at Badminton, which were never return'd’, on a single quarto leaf, following item 22, a printed exemplum of Waller's To the King, upon His Majesty's happy Return (London, [1660]). Late 17th century.
In: A large folio composite volume of some 43 tracts and papers, mostly printed, in half-calf.
Formerly MS Wood 276c.
This MS discussed in Kate Bennett, ‘John Aubrey and the Circulation of Edmund Waller's “Of a Tree Cut in Paper”’, N&Q, 247 (September 2002), 344-5.
WaE 139
Copy, headed ‘To my Lady Isabella Thinn cutting trees in paper’, subscribed ‘E Waller’.
In: A folio miscellany of verse and some prose, compiled in part by John Locke (1632-1704), philosopher, and also in part by Thomas Barlow and Sylvester Brownover, xxviii + 358 pages (pp. 224-358 blank), in calf. Late 17th century.
WaE 140
Copy, headed ‘To the Lady Isabella Thynn on Her exquisite Cutting trees in paper’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany and masque, in at least three hands, written from both ends, i + 123 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-late 17th century.
Including (f. 1r) an anagram on Frances Pawlett. Inscribed in red ink (f. 123v) ‘Egigius Frampton hunc librum jure tenet non est mortale quod opto: 1659’: i.e. by Giles Frampton, who is perhaps responsible for some of the later poems. Also inscribed [?]‘R. N. 1663’. Some later notes in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.
WaE 141
Copy, headed ‘Waler to a Lady who sent him a Groue of Trees cut out in white Paper’.
In: A quarto composite volume of four MSS, in English and Latin, iii + 187 leaves, in vellum boards. Part B (ff. 16d-86v): A quarto miscellany of poems and letters, in several hands, compiled by William Elyott (a nephew of Sir Simonds D'Ewes). c.1640-55.
Part C (ff. 86 bis-120r): A quarto verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Axton, M.A. (b.1699/1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1718-22.
Part C sold at the Thomas Rawlinson sale in March 1733/4, lot 289.
WaE 141.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 84.5. c.1710-30s.
WaE 142
Copy with corrections, headed ‘Of a fayre Lady that cut Trees in paper’, on a single folio leaf.
In: A folio composite volume of MS poems presented to, or owned by, James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, c.120 pages, of various sizes, in 19th-century calf. Some items docketed by Ormonde or by his private secretary Sir George Lane. Mid-late 17th century.
Formerly British Library Loan MS 37/6. The greater part of the collection sold at Sotheby's, 19 July 1994, lot 276, to C.R. Johnson Rare Books. Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 6829.
Recorded in HMC, 14th Report, Appendix VII, Ormonde I (1895), pp. 105-18.
WaE 143
Copy, in an unidentified hand, headed ‘To the Lady isabella Thynne on her Exquisit cutting Trees in Paper’.
In: MS of a play and two poems, in three different hands, i + 64 folio leaves (plus some blanks), in mottled calf gilt. Late 17th century.
Later owned by Robert Hoe (1839-1909), business man and book collector.
Of a War with Spain, and a Fight at Sea (‘Now, for some ages, has the pride of Spain’)
First published as a broadside (London, 1658). Revised version in Samuel Carrington, History of the Life and Death of Oliver, Late Lord Protector (London, 1659). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 23-7.
See also WaE 765.
*WaE 144
Autograph rough draft, with revisions, of two sections of a revised version of the poem (55 lines, here beginning ‘meanewhile their daughters & their floating sonns’), untitled, on both sides of a single folio leaf. [1658-9].
American Art Association, New York, 30 April 1936 (J. Percy Sabin sale), lot 416.
This MS discussed, transcribed and reproduced in facsimile in Wikelund (1970) and in Croft Autograph Poetry, I, 45-6. Facsimile also in in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), pp. 276-7.
WaE 145
Copy of a version of lines 95-6, here ‘How frail is man how quickly changed are / Our wraugh & fury to a frindly care’, among jottings in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
In: the MS described under WaE 59 (WaE Δ 7). c.1680s [-1700s].
These lines recorded in Wikelund (1970), pp. 77-8. They also correspond to two lines spoken by Melantius in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (on p. 206 in Poems, ‘Eighth’ edition (London, 1711)).
WaE 146
Copy, headed ‘Of a Sea-fight with Spain, by General Montague. A.1656’.
In: the MS described under WaE 34. Early 18th century.
WaE 147
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, ff. 31r-2r.
WaE 148
Copy, headed ‘Variations of the copy p. 192’.
In: the MS described under WaE 107 (WaE Δ 18). Late 17th century?.
Edited from this MS in Cunningham. Cited in Thorn-Drury.
WaE 149
Copy, headed ‘Of or prsent warr wth Spain, & first victory at Sea.’, subscribed ‘Edmund Waller’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, iv + 278 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled principally by one ‘H. S.’, a Cambridge University man. c.1640s-60s.
This MS volume edited in D.J. Rose, MS Rawlinson Poetical 147: An Annotated Volume of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Verses (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leicester, 1992), of which a copy is in Cambridge University Library, Manuscript Department, A8f.
WaE 149.5
Copy, headed ‘Upon ye warr with Spain, and ye victory obtain'd at sea, 1656’.
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’.
WaE 150
Copy of the first fifteen lines, headed ‘On ye Admiralles taking & destroying the Spanish Silver-fleet in wch was a Marquesse & his family’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in a single cursive hand, 30 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half-calf. Compiled by a royalist. Mid-late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Wm Godolphin Servt to Mr Savile’ and ‘Hen: Savile Servt: to Mr Godolphin’.
WaE 151
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Warr wth Spain, & a Seafight’.
In: the MS described under WaE 108. Late 17th century.
WaE 152
Copy, in an unidentified hand, headed ‘On ye Admiralls takeing & destroying the Spanish Silver fleete in which was a Marquesse & his family’.
In: the MS described under WaE 143. Late 17th century.
WaE 153
Copy, headed ‘On the Victory over the Spanish Plate fleet in the Protectour's Time. 1655’.
In: An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, predominantly in a single small hand, 42 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled by a twenty-year-old Oxford University graduate. 1670.
Sotheby's, 28 November 1972, lot 302.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 38, ff. 27r-8r.
WaE 154
Copy, headed ‘On the Admirall's taking & destroying the Spanish Silver-fleet wherein was a Marquesse & his family’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, neatly written in possibly several italic hands, perhaps connected with Christ Church, Oxford. Mid-17th century.
Recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 189.
WaE 155
Copy, headed ‘On ye victory over ye Spaniards at St Lugar: 1656’ and subscribed ‘E.W’.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands suggesting communal use, paginated 5-309, in mottled calf. c.1697-1702.
Of an Elegy made by Mrs. Wharton on the Earl of Rochester (‘Thus mourn the Muses! on the hearse’)
First published in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn Drury, II, 89.
WaE 156
Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Of an Eligy vpon the Earl of Rochester: written by a Lady &c.’.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 157
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Of A Ladyes Elegy upon ye Earl of Rochester’, ascribed in another hand to ‘Mr Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 59 (WaE Δ 7). c.1680s [-1700s].
Of Divine Love. Six Cantos (‘The Grecian muse has all their gods survived’)
First published in Poems, ‘Fourth’ edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 119-30.
WaE 158
Copy of Canto I, lines 1-22, 45-54, and Canto II, lines 1-8 only, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 159
Copy, headed ‘On Divine Love from Mr Waller’, in a quarto verse miscellany (occupying ff. 84r-117v). Early 18th century.
In: A tall folio composite volume of verse and some prose, chiefly translations from Latin, in various hands and paper sizes, 133 leaves, mounted on guards, in half red morocco. Volume XVIII of papers of the families of Browne, Mariett and West, of the manor of Alscot, in Preston-on-Stour, Gloucestershire.
Portions once owned by Henry Jackson (1586-1662), Hooker's first editor; by Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary; by Thomas Coxeter (1689-1747); and probably by James West, FRS, FSA, MP (1703-72), politician and antiquary.
WaE 159.5
Copy of extracts from Cantos 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6, headed ‘Mr Waller of diuine Loue’, on seven pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter. Late 17th century.
In: A collection of unbound verse manuscripts, in various hands and paper sizes (chiefly folio), 142 leaves. Partly compiled by Sir Richard Browne and his father Christopher Browne (1577-1646), of Saye's Court, Deptford.
Volume LXVII of the Evelyn Papers, of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist and writer, of Wootton House, Surrey, and his family, also incorporating papers of his father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne, Bt (1605-83), diplomat, and his family. Formerly preserved at Christ Church, Oxford. Acquired March 1995.
WaE 160
Extract, headed ‘On ye Scriptures’, beginning at line 15 (‘As late philosophy our globe has graced’), subscribed ‘mr Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 63. c.1713.
Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos (‘Poets we prize, when in their verse we find’)
First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.
WaE 161
Copy of a version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, here arranged as Canto I, lines 1-20, 40-1, 21-39, 42-54, and Canto II.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
*WaE 162
A draft of 29 lines (including repetitions), in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with one or two autograph revisions by Waller (notably in line 15 here [= Canto II, line 61 in the printed text]) and some passages deleted with crosses, headed ‘Upon Mrs: Whartons translation Of the 53d of Esay in vers’ and here beginning ‘Esaiah She, to speak our tonge, has taught’, on a single folio leaf, imperfect at the bottom. Late 17th century.
Among papers of the Waller family.
Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile XXb.
*WaE 163
A draft of 93 lines (including repetitions, half-lines and deletions), with revisions, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with two lines on the third page (lines 65-6 here [= Canto II, lines 67-8 in the printed text]) in Waller's hand, headed ‘Upon Mrs: Whartons translation Of the 53d of Isaiah, and of Divine Poesy’, on two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
Among papers of the Waller family.
*WaE 164
A draft fragment of eighteen lines in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Upon Mrs: Whartons translation Of the 53d of Esay in vers’, and here beginning ‘This Lady shares in the great prophets glory’, followed (inverted on the fourth page) by 23 lines beginning ‘As Ivy lives wch on the oak takes hold’, with a few autograph revisions and insertions by Waller in both sections, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
Among papers of the Waller family.
*WaE 165
A fair copy of 91 lines, with some revisions and lines in draft, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with one or two autograph revisions and insertions by Waller (notably in line 28 here [= Canto I, line 50 in the printed text]), headed ‘Upon Mrs Whartons translation of the 53d of Isaiah, and of Divine Poesy’, on two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
Among papers of the Waller family.
WaE 166
A draft of 68 lines, including revisions, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Upon Mrs Whartons translation of the 53d of Isaiah, and of Divine Poesy’, on two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
Among papers of the Waller family.
WaE 167
A draft of two separate sets of verse, the first being four lines beginning ‘No verse produced by so divine a rage’ [= a version of Canto II, lines 4-5], the second being six lines beginning ‘The truth she told in a sublimer strain’ [= Canto II, lines 53-60], in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled, on a single folio leaf. Among papers of the Waller family. Late 17th century.
WaE 167.8
Copy in: A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt. In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered. Late 17th-early 18th century.
Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.
Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.
WaE 168
Copy, the heading including the reference ‘aded in ye last Edistion 1682’ [i.e. 1686], on seven pages.
In: the MS described under WaE 62 (WaE Δ 17). c.1686-90s.
WaE 169
Copy, on two folio leaves. End of 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse, 130 leaves (plus numerous blanks).
Volume 3 of the collections of Dr Robert Shippen (1675-1745), Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford. Once owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (Part of Phillipps MS 4274, bought in 1826 probably from Thorpe). Sotheby's, 1 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 598.
WaE 170
Copy, as ‘by Mr Waller’, in a quarto verse miscellany (occupying ff. 84r-117v). Early 18th century.
In: the MS described under WaE 159.
WaE 170.5
Extracts.
In: A folio volume of collections compiled by Dr Basil Kennett (1674-1715), antiquary and translator. Volume VI of the Kennett Papers. c.1700.
WaE 171
Copy, headed ‘A Divine Poesy. Two Cantons occationed on ye sight of the :53: chapter of Isaiah Turn'd into Verse by Mrs: Whard.’
In: A quarto volume of poems almost entirely by Anne Wharton (1659-85), 21 quarto leaves. Late 17th century.
Probably once owned by Lady Ann Coke. Among the manuscripts of the Coke family, Earls of Leicester, including collections of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634), lawyer and politician.
Recorded in HMC, 9th Report (1883), Appendix, p. 371.
Of English Verse (‘Poets may boast, as safely vain’)
First published in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 69-70.
Of her Chamber (‘They taste of death that do at heaven arrive’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 26.
WaE 172
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 173
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 174
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 174.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 191-2.
WaE 175
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 (‘What revolutions in the world have been’)
First published in Poems, ‘Fifth’ edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.
See also WaE 255-6.
WaE 177
Copy of a ten-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Of hir Maty on hir birth day’ and beginning ‘Still like themselves the Sun and shee appears’ with various alternative readings and interlineations.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 178
Copy of a ten-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and beginning ‘May every birth-day find hir still the same’ with an alternative version of five lines.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 179
Copy of a ten-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Of hir Maty on hir birth day’ and beginning ‘Shee and the Sunn still like themselves appear’.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 180
Copy of a nine-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Nov: 21’ and beginning ‘What revolutions in the world are seen’.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 181
Copy of a thirteen-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Of hir Maty on hir birth day’ and beginning ‘What revolutions in the world are seen’, with an alternative version of four lines.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 182
Copy of a five-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘The Queen’ and beginning ‘Shee and the Sun alone unchang'd appear’.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 183
Copy of a sixteen-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Of hir Maty on Newyears day’, with alternative readings.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 184
Copy of the eighteen-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Of hir Maty on Newyears day’, with an alternative version of two lines.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 186
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled ‘A Booke of Paragrafts’, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco. In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63. c.1680s-90s.
Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) ‘matt Calihan’, ‘To Cpt Robinson att Capt Eloass [Elwes] near ye Watch house in Marlburhroagh street’, ‘For Capt. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross’. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.
Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain ‘Eloass’ mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.
Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, ‘The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds’, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 54, p. 242.
Of her Passing through a Crowd of People (‘As in old chaos (heaven with earth confused)’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 51.
WaE 187
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 188
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 188.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 173-4.
WaE 189
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 190
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 191
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 34. Early 18th century.
WaE 192
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 61 (WaE Δ 10). Early 18th century.
WaE 193
Copy, headed ‘Passing thro' a Crowd’.
In: the MS described under WaE 89 (WaE Δ 13). c.1690-1700.
WaE 195
Copy, headed ‘Upon the Crowde’ and here beginning ‘As in old chaos all things were Confus'd’, subscribed ‘EW’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, i + 74 leaves, in contemporary calf. Owned (inscription f.[ir]), and possibly partly compiled, by Sir Henry Rainsford (1599-1641), of Clifford Chambers, near Stratford-upon-Avon. c. late 1630s-40s.
Bookplate of Edward Greenfield Doggett and Hugh Greenfield Doggett, of Bristol, 1893. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 15. Discussed in Peter Davidson, ‘The Notebook of Henry Rainsford’, N&Q, 229 (June 1984), 247-50.
Of Her Royal Highness, Mother to the Prince of Orange. and of her portrait, written by the late Duchess of York while she lived with her (‘Heroic nymph! in tempests the support’)
First published in Poems, ‘Fifth’ edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 74.
WaE 196
Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Of hir R: H: Mother to the present Prince of Orange and of hir Portraite written by the late Duchesse of Y. while shee liv'd with hir’.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 197
Copy, headed ‘A Poem made by Mrr Waller left out of all his Bookes, Made one the Princes of orang & ofe ye portraite wch mrs Hide, while she liued wt her made one he Highnes’, on one page.
In: the MS described under WaE 62 (WaE Δ 17). c.1686-90s.
Of His Majesty's Receiving the News of the Duke of Buckingham's Death (‘So earnest with thy God! can no new care’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 11-12.
WaE 198
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 199
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 199.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 211-12.
WaE 201
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 202
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 34. Early 18th century.
WaE 203
Copy, headed ‘To the king after the Death of the D. of Buckingham’ and subscribed ‘Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 101. c.late 1630s-early 1640s.
This MS recorded in Deas, p. 324.
WaE 204
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1630s-40s.
In: the MS described under WaE 111.5.
Of Love (‘Anger in hasty words or blows’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 87-8.
WaE 205
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 206
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 207
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 207.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 118-20.
WaE 208
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 209
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 210
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, ff. 24v-5.
WaE 211
MS alterations to the printed text, with seven additional lines written on an inserted slip.
In: the MS described under WaE 7 (WaE Δ 15). c.1788.
WaE 212
Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 101. c.late 1630s-early 1640s.
This MS recorded in Deas, p. 324.
WaE 213
Copy in: A miscellany of verse and prose, iii + 141 leaves. Compiled by Matthew Crosse, Oxford University bedell of law. c.1630s.
WaE 214
Copy, headed ‘Love’, subscribed ‘Waller. Poems. p. 72’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in probably a single neat hand, with a two-page index at the end, 143 pages, in limp vellum. Early 18th century.
Formerly P7455M1 [1712?] Bound.
WaE 215
Copy, headed ‘Boldness in lov prevails with women’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in various hands, including seventeen poems by Carew, a title-page inscribed ‘A book of Verses / Seria mixta Jocis’, c.260 pages, in calf blind-stamped ‘V/I F 1667’. References to ‘Westminster Drollerie’ (which was not published until 1671) added on pp. 1 and 242. c.1667-8.
Inscribed on the title-page ‘Frendraught Legi’: i.e. by James Crichton (d.1674/5), second Viscount Frendraught. Bookplate of Thomas Fraser Duff (1830-77), of Woodcote, Oxfordshire. Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 9 April 1987, lot 272 (with a facsimile of p. 131 in the sale catalogue), sold to Quaritch.
WaE 216
Copy, untitled.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.118 items, including thirteen poems by Donne, twenty poems by Corbett, and twelve poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode, written in several hands over an extended period, associated with Christ Church, Oxford, 99 leaves. c.1620-40s.
Owned and probably compiled in part, in his Oxford days, by George Morley (1598-1684), Bishop of Winchester.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Morley MS’: DnJ Δ 62, CoR Δ 13, and StW Δ 27. This MS apparently transcribed in part in the ‘Killigrew MS’ (British Library, Sloane MS 1792).
Facsimile of f. 49r in William Shakespeare: A Textual Companion, ed. Stanley Wells and Gary Taylor (Oxford, 1987), p. 24.
Of Loving at First Sight (‘Not caring to observe the wind’)
First published, headed ‘The Reply on the Contrary’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Ascribed to ‘Tho. Batt.’ in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653). Thorn-Drury, I, 100.
WaE 217
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 218
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 219
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 219.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 136-7.
WaE 220
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 221
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under WaE 9 (WaE Δ 11). Mid-17th century.
Of Mrs. Arden (‘Behold, and listen, while the fair’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 91. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
See also WaE 759.
WaE 223
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 224
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 225
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 225.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 143-4.
WaE 226
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 227
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5 (WaE Δ 9). c.1630s-40s.
WaE 228
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under WaE 9 (WaE Δ 11). Mid-17th century.
WaE 229
Copy, as ‘by ye. same hand’ [i.e. Waller].
In: the MS described under WaE 65 (WaE Δ 12). c.1703-9.
WaE 230.5
A few MS alterations to the printed text and comments.
In: the MS described under WaE 6.5. c.1721.
WaE 232
Copy 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. 126).
WaE 233
Copy on the first page of two conjugate quarto leaves. The text accompanied (on pp. 43-4) by a Latin translation by Sir John Cotton. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous antiquarian papers, in prose and verse, in various hands and sizes, viii + 108 pages, in early 18th-century half-calf.
Among collections of Thomas Smith (1638-1710), Oxford scholar and editor. Owned on 16 March 1710/11 by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), antiquary, who records (p. v) Smith's bequest of the volume to him.
WaE 234
Copy, headed ‘On a good voyce & a handsome face’, subscribed ‘EW’.
In: the MS described under WaE 195. c. late 1630s-40s.
Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute (‘Such moving sounds from such a careless touch!’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 90.
WaE 235
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 236
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 237
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 237.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 105-6.
WaE 238
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 239
Copy, headed ‘On a Lady playing on ye Lute’.
In: the MS described under WaE 34. Early 18th century.
WaE 240
Copy, headed ‘On his Isabella playing on a Lute’.
In: the MS described under WaE 61 (WaE Δ 10). Early 18th century.
WaE 240.5
Late 17th century.
In: A composite volume of miscellaneous legal and family papers of the Moreton family, of Moreton, Cheshire, 194 leaves. The third of four volumes of Moreton Papers.
WaE 241
Copy, as ‘by ye. same hand’ [i.e. Waller].
In: the MS described under WaE 65 (WaE Δ 12). c.1703-9.
WaE 243
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 25v.
WaE 245
Copy, headed ‘On the Lady Thinne playing on the Lute’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single neat predominantly italic hand, 72 leaves, in old leather. Probably compiled by one ‘H.S.’, a Cambridge man. c.1640s-50s.
Later owned by the Rev. Philip Bliss (1787-1857), antiquary and book collector, with his bookplate and inscription ‘1806 Purchased of Lansdown of Bristol’. Bliss sale, 21 August 1858, lot 192.
WaE 246
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany, 40 leaves (plus some blanks), in engraved wrappers (with an image of William, Prince of Orange, on horseback, 1650). c.1712.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘James Gollop’, possibly the compiler.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 61, ff. 29v-30r.
Of Salle (‘Of Jason, Theseus, and such worthies old’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 13-14.
WaE 247
Copy, headed ‘Of the takinge of Salley’.
In: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 248
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 249
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 249.5
Copy, headed ‘Of Salley’.
In: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 204-6.
WaE 250
Copy, headed ‘Of the taking of Sallye’, with alterations and an inserted line in another hand.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
Of Sylvia (‘Our sighs are heard. just Heaven declares’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 97.
WaE 252
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 253
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under WaE 9 (WaE Δ 11). Mid-17th century.
WaE 253.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 103-4.
Of Tea, commended by Her Majesty (‘Venus her myrtle, Phoebus has his bays’)
First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 94.
WaE 254
Copy of a 21-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and beginning ‘What Mity Princes doe bestow’.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 255
Copy of a 33-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Of Tea Commended by hir Maty’ and beginning ‘The best of Queens and best of harbs we owe’, incorporating (as the last six lines) lines subsequently used in Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 [see WaE 177-86].
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 256
Copy of a sixteen-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Of Tea Commended by hir Maty’ and beginning ‘Venus hir Martle, Phoebus has his bayes’, incorporating (as the last six lines) lines subsequently used in Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 [see WaE 177-86].
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 257
Copy, as ‘by ye. same hand’ [i.e. Waller].
In: the MS described under WaE 65 (WaE Δ 12). c.1703-9.
Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) escaped in the Road at Saint Andrews (‘Now had his Highness bid farewell to Spain’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 1-7.
WaE 258
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 259
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 260
Copy of lines 118-70, here beginning ‘But halfe reueale and halfe their beauties hide’, imperfect, lacking the beginning.
In: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 260.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 212-20.
WaE 262
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 263
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 34. Early 18th century.
WaE 264
Copy, headed ‘Of the danger Charles ye 2d (being Prince) escap'd in ye road at St Andiers’.
In: the MS described under WaE 108. Late 17th century.
Of the Lady Mary, &c. (‘As once the lion honey gave’)
First published in Poems, ‘Fourth’ edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 80-1.
WaE 265
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 33r.
WaE 266
Copy, here beginning ‘As Sampsons Lyon honey gave’, on a single folio leaf.
In: A guard book of separate copies of poems, 72 pages, various sizes. Chiefly late 17th century.
Assembled by Col. Cyril Hackett Wilkinson (1888-1960), Vice Provost of Worcester College, Oxford, literary scholar. Sotheby's, 26 June 1961, lot 212. At Yale formerly ‘Osborn Box 89. No. 7’.
a microfilm of this MS is in the British Library, M/625.
Of the Lady who can Sleep when she Pleases (‘No wonder sleep from careful lovers flies’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 49.
WaE 267
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 268
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 269
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 269.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 171-2.
WaE 271
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 272
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 34. Early 18th century.
WaE 273
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5 (WaE Δ 9). c.1630s-40s.
WaE 274
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 21v.
WaE 276
Copy, untitled.
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.
Of the last Verses in the Book (‘When we for age could neither read nor write’)
First published in Poems, ‘Fifth’ edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 144.
WaE 278
Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 279
Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘The last verses my Dear ffather made’.
In: A sheaf of sixteen folio leaves of verse, in a single hand, disbound.
Among the papers of the Waller family.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.
WaE 280
Copy, headed ‘The Advantages of approaching Death to a good old man’.
In: the MS described under WaE 61 (WaE Δ 10). Early 18th century.
WaE 281
Copy, headed ‘writ on a blank leaf of a waller by ——’.
In: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 36r.
WaE 283
Copy, untitled, on a single small leaf; end of 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse, in various hands, i + 250 leaves. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729). Some pages in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.
WaE 284
Copy, headed ‘Mr Waller's last Verses’, in a quarto verse miscellany (occupying ff. 84r-117v). Early 18th century.
In: the MS described under WaE 159.
WaE 285
Copy, in a probably professional hand, on the first page of two conjugate quarto leaves, endorsed (f. 95v) ‘Mr Wallers Verses vpon old Age’. Late 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.
WaE 286
Copy, headed ‘A Poem found in Antient Writing’, inscribed in a later hand.
In: A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt. In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand. c.1646-8.
Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Phillipps MS’: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).
Edied from this MS in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King (London, 1977), p. 94.
WaE 286.5
Copy, on two pages.
In: Two poems inscribed, in a neat hand, in a printed exemplum of the ‘Fifth’ edition of Waller's Poems (London, 1686), in contemporary red morocco gilt. c.1690.
Bookplates of Sir Charles Bagot [? (1781-1843), of Blithfield House, Rugely, Staffordshire, Governor-General of British North America, and of William Waldorf, Viscount Astor of Hever Castle. Probably the volume in Maggs's sale catalogue No. 643 (1937), item 1571. Quaritch's sale catalogue ‘English Literature in Manuscript’ (November 1996), item 17.
John Emmerson, Melbourne, Australia, [Waller 1686], On rear endpapers .
WaE 287
Copy, on the final endpaper and paste-down.
In: An exemplum of Waller's Poems, ‘Fifth’ edition (London, 1686), in contemporary red morocco gilt. End of 17th century.
Once owned by Sir Roger Strickland, MP (1640-1717), Admiral and Jacobite. Later in the Britwell Court Library, at Burnham, Buckinghamshire, founded by William Henry Miller, MP (1789-1848) and subsequently owned by Samuel Christie Miller, MP (1810-89). Later booklabel of Graham Pollard (1903-76), bookseller and bibliographer.
WaE 289
Copy, untitled, on the first of two unbound conjugate quarto leaves. c.1700.
From the papers of the Trumbull family of Easthampstead Park, Berkshire.
Microfilm of this MS in the British Library (M/690).
Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs (‘Design, or chance, makes others wive’)
First published, as ‘On the two Dwarfs that were marryed at Court, not long before Shrovetide’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 92.
WaE 290
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 290.8
Copy, headed ‘To a faire Lady, of the late marriage at court of the the [sic] two Dwarfes of my Ld Chamberlaines & the Dutchesse of Lenox’.
In: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 247-8.
WaE 291
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 26r.
WaE 293
Copy, here beginning ‘The Signe or Chance makes Others wiue’.
In: the MS described under WaE 92. c.1640s.
Of the Misreport of her being Painted (‘As when a sort of wolves infest the night’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 50.
WaE 294
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 295
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 295.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 172-3.
WaE 297
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 301
Copy, headed ‘Upo ye Lad: Sydw: paynting’ and here beginning ‘Just as a sort of Wolves infest ye night’, subscribed ‘EW’.
In: the MS described under WaE 195. c. late 1630s-40s.
WaE 302
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the misreport of the Lady: D: S: being painted’.
In: the MS described under WaE 102. c.1624-41.
WaE 303
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather. Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew. c.1638-42.
Inscriptions including ‘Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus’ [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], ‘Thomas Arding’, ‘Thomas Arden’, ‘William Harrington’, ‘Thomas John’, ‘John Anthehope’ and ‘Clement Poxall’. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 194.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Carey MS’: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, ‘Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).
Of the Queen (‘The lark, that shuns on lofty boughs to build’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 77-9.
WaE 304
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 305
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 306
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 306.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 196-8.
WaE 308.5
MS alterations to the printed text and comments.
In: the MS described under WaE 6.5. c.1721.
WaE 310
Copy, headed ‘The Discription of a Lark by Edmond Waller Esqr’.
In: A quarto composite miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, 11 + 109 leaves. Early-mid-18th century.
Owned in 1812 by Miss Elizabeth Mansel. Given to Henry Gough, of Redhill, who presented it to the Bodleian in December 1884.
WaE 311
Copy, headed ‘On ye Queen’ and here beginning ‘The lark yt shuns her humble nest to build’, subscribed ED.
In: the MS described under WaE 195. c. late 1630s-40s.
Cambridge University Library, MS Add. 8447, ff. [43r, 44r, 45r].
On a Brede of Divers Colours, Woven by Four Ladies (‘Twice twenty slender virgin-fingers twine’)
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 121.
WaE 312
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 313
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 314
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 314.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
WaE 315
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 316
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 317
Copy, as ‘by ye. same hand’ [i.e. Waller].
In: the MS described under WaE 65 (WaE Δ 12). c.1703-9.
WaE 318
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 26r.
WaE 319.5
Copy, in a quarto booklet of poems (occupying ff. 1r-6v) in a single neat (possibly female) roman hand. Late 17th century.
In: A large double-folio-size guardbook of miscellaneous verse, in various hands and paper sizes, 186 leaves.
From the library of the Ormsby Gore family, Barons Harlech, of Brogyntyn (or Porkington), Oswestry, Shropshire.
National Library of Wales, Brogyntyn MS II. 57 Vol. I, f. 2r.
On a Girdle (‘That which her slender waist confined’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 95.
WaE 320
Copy, as ‘by ye. same hand’ [i.e. Waller].
In: the MS described under WaE 65 (WaE Δ 12). c.1703-9.
WaE 320.2
Copy in: A miscellany of verse and prose, entitled Miscellanies, many pages excised. Compiled by one Thomas Phillibrown of London. c.1740-58.
Once owned by J.L. Lawford. Given to the library on 5 October 1901 by Mrs Green, of Burton Joyce, Nottinghamshire.
WaE 321
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 22r.
WaE 321.5
Copious MS alterations to the printed text.
In: the MS described under WaE 6.5. c.1721.
Cited in Beeching.
WaE 322.5
Copy in: A folio volume of antiquarian collections, including much verse, in a single neat hand, 238 leaves, in half-morocco. In the hand of the Rev. William Cole, FSA (1714-82), antiquary (Volume XXXI of the Cole Collection). Mid-18th century.
WaE 322.8
Copy, headed ‘Girdle’, subscribed ‘Waller. Poems. f. 93’.
In: the MS described under WaE 214. Early 18th century.
WaE 323
Copy, lacking lines 5-6.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 271 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. c.1700.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 48, f. 43r.
WaE 324
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 246. c.1712.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 61, f. 29r-v.
WaE 325
Copy in a later hand, headed ‘Upon a girdle’. Late 17th century.
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.
On Mr. John Fletcher's Plays (‘Fletcher! to thee we do not only owe’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 3-4.
WaE 327
Copy of a version of lines 17-26 beginning ‘Fletcher thy Muse at once improv'd, & marrd’.
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.
WaE 328
Copy, headed ‘on Fl——cher’.
In: A verse miscellany. c.1674.
Owned by Henry Bracegirdle, of Merton College, Oxford, and in 1674 by one Hugh Massey.
King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 11. 13, f. [26r].
On My Lady Dorothy Sidney's Picture (‘Such was Philoclea, such Musidorus' flame!’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 43.
WaE 329
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 330
Copy, with a note in a late 17th-century hand inserting four lines (3-6) after line 2.
In: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 331
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 331.5
Copy, headed ‘Of the Lady Dorothy Sidneys picture’, here beginning ‘Such was Philoclea, such was Dorus flame’.
In: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 174-5.
WaE 333
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 334
Copy, as ‘by ye. same hand’ [i.e. Waller].
In: the MS described under WaE 65 (WaE Δ 12). c.1703-9.
WaE 335
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 22v.
On St. James's Park, as lately improved by His Majesty (‘Of the first Paradise there's nothing found’)
First published as a broadside (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 40-5.
WaE 336.5
MS alterations to two lines of the printed text.
In: the MS described under WaE 6.5. c.1721.
WaE 337.5
Copy of lines 91-6, here beginning ‘That Antique Pile behold’, on a rear endpaper in a printed exemplum of Milton's “Paradise Lost” (London, 1668). Inscribed on the title-page of the volume ‘E Libris J Jenckinson Em: Coll: Cant: AB: 1746’. Early-mid-18th century.
WaE 337.8
Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous tracts and papers, in various hands, 168 leaves.
On the Discovery of a Lady's Painting (‘Pygmalion's fate reversed is mine’)
First published, as ‘On a patch'd up Madam’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 99.
WaE 338
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 339
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 340
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 340.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 142-3.
WaE 341
Copy of the last stanza (lines 19-24, here beginning ‘A reall beautie though to neare’), imperfect, the first eighteen lines excised.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 342
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 343
Copy, headed ‘Discovery o' Painting’.
In: the MS described under WaE 89 (WaE Δ 13). c.1690-1700.
On the Duke of Monmouth's Expedition into Scotland in the Summer Solstice, 1679 (‘Swift as Jove's messenger, the winged god’)
First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 84-5.
WaE 345
Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Of the Duke of Mounmouths expedition to Scotland in the Summer Solstis——1678’; c.1683-8.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 346
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Of the Duke of Monmouths expedition to Scotland in the summer solstis 1678’, ascribed in another hand to ‘Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 59 (WaE Δ 7). c.1680s [-1700s].
The last four lines (46-9) edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury.
WaE 347
Copy of a 47-line version, headed ‘On ye D of M's expedition into Scotland in ye summer’.
In: the MS described under WaE 58 (WaE Δ 16). End of 17th century.
The text corresponds with lines 1-38, 46-7, 39-45 (and lacking lines 49-50) of Thorn-Drury's printed version.
On the Fear of God. In Two Cantos (‘The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace’)
First published in Poems, ‘Eighth’ edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 139-43.
WaE 348
Copy, in the hand of Thomas Ellwood (1639-1713), headed ‘Of the ffear of god in 2 Cantos’, on two conjugate folio leaves. c.1680s.
Among papers of the Waller family.
WaE 348.5
A contemporary copy on a separate folio leaf. October 1687.
In: Sheaf of unbound letters (some of a later date) and a few copies of verse.
WaE 349
Copy, made ‘for and by ye desire of ye. Right Honorable ye Lady Anne Somerset by Arthur Somerset 1689 whereunto is annexed a Copy of Verses writ by that famous poet Mr Waller about two months before his Exit. viz. 1684’.
In: A folio booklet of verse chiefly by Rochester, nine leaves. 1689.
King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 10. 10, ff. [7r-9r].
WaE 350
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 63. c.1713.
On the friendship betwixt two Ladies (‘Tell me, lovely, loving pair!’)
First published, as ‘On the Friendship betwixt Sacharissa and Amoret’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 60-1.
WaE 351
Copy, headed ‘On the Freindshipp betwixt Zacharissa and Amorett’.
In: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 351.5
Copy, headed ‘Of the freindship betwixtSacharissa and Amoret’.
In: the MS described under WaE 2.5.
WaE 351.8
Copy in: A verse miscellany, entitled ‘Lusus seniles or trifles to kill time’, much relating to Oxford, iv + 180 leaves. Mid-18th century.
Signed (f. iv) by ‘Frances Lidmoll’. Acquired in 1941 from J. Kyrle Fletcher.
WaE 352
Copy, headed ‘Of a freindship betweene Sachariza & Amorett’.
In: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 353
Copy, headed ‘On the Freindshipp betwixt Sacharissa and Amoret’.
In: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 353.5
Copy, headed ‘On ye freindship betwixt Sacharissa & Amorett’.
In: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 156-7.
WaE 354
Copy, headed ‘On the freendship betuixt Sacharissa and Amoret’, with a note in another hand ‘Lady Dor. Sidnei & Lady Anne Caudish. wife to my Lord Rich’.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
This MS cited in Thorn-Drury.
WaE 355
Copy, headed ‘Of the friendship betwixt Sacharissa & Amorett’.
In: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 356
Copy, headed ‘On the frendeshippe betweene Sacharissa & Amorett’.
In: the MS described under WaE 5 (WaE Δ 9). c.1630s-40s.
WaE 357
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 61 (WaE Δ 10). Early 18th century.
WaE 358
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 23r.
On the Head of a Stag (‘So we some antique hero's strength’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 110.
WaE 360
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 361
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 361.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 139-40.
WaE 363
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 364
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 34. Early 18th century.
WaE 365
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5 (WaE Δ 9). c.1630s-40s.
WaE 367
The last eleven lines deleted and three lines written out in MS in the printed text.
In: the MS described under WaE 7 (WaE Δ 15). c.1788.
WaE 368
Copy, headed ‘A Poem upon hunting the Stag by Waller, in print’. The text followed (f. 72) by a Latin version headed ‘Thus paraphras'd by Mr T: Townes’ and subscribed ‘Comunicat ab Authour May. 15. 1671’.
In: An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and some prose, largely in one mixed hand, 123 leaves, with (ff. 2r-4r) an index, in calf gilt. Compiled by John Watson (d. c.1707), of Queens' College, Cambridge, vicar of Mildenhall, Suffolk. c.1667-73.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Ex dono Drs Barb: Rhodes ...Mri Joan: Rhodes Decemb: 5 1667’; ‘Janawary ye 2 day 1726’; ‘Wm faildham London to ye Land of maderah & from thence to Jamaca’. Purchased from Lilly, 13 July 1850.
WaE 369
Copy, headed ‘Upon a Staggs Horns’, subscribed ‘Ed Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 92. c.1640s.
On the Picture of a Fair Youth, taken after he was dead (‘As gathered flowers, while their wounds are new’)
First published in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 67.
WaE 370
Copy, as ‘by ye. same hand’ [i.e. Waller].
In: the MS described under WaE 65 (WaE Δ 12). c.1703-9.
WaE 371
Printed text ending at line 10 with the note ‘The rest is lost’, a MS note commenting ‘i.e. was not worth preserving: for it was actually preserv'd in Waller's M.S. & from thence transcrib'd at the bottom of this Page—Waller was too judicious to approve & too lazy to mend these Verses; & yet too fond of his own writing, to be wiling to part even with this Scrap…’, the six additional lines (beginning ‘No wonder then he sped in love so well’) then transcribed; c.1788.
In: the MS described under WaE 7 (WaE Δ 15). c.1788.
WaE 372
Copy of lines 11-16, headed ‘The continuation of the poem On the picture of a fair youth taken after he was dead. page 230:’ [i.e. supplying missing lines in the printed text which are there represented by the remark ‘The rest is lost’], the lines here beginning ‘No wonder then he sped in Love so well’.
In: the MS described under WaE 58 (WaE Δ 16). End of 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 94, front paste-down.
On the Statue of King Charles I. at Charing Cross (‘That the First Charles does here in triumph ride’)
First published in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 75.
WaE 373
Copy, in an unidentified hand, headed Mr Waller on ye statue of King Charles ye 1st at Charing-crosse erected by ye D: of Leeds.
In: the MS described under WaE 59 (WaE Δ 7). c.1680s [-1700s].
WaE 374
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 61 (WaE Δ 10). Early 18th century.
A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation (‘While with a strong and yet a gentle hand’)
First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.
WaE 375
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and incomplete.
In: the MS described under WaE 59 (WaE Δ 7). c.1680s [-1700s].
WaE 376
Copy, headed ‘Verses in praise of My Lord Protector. 1654’.
In: the MS described under WaE 34. Early 18th century.
WaE 377
Extensive MS alterations to the printed text., probably collations with the edition of 1655.
In: Exemplum of The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). accompanying the Atterbury-Neve volume (C. 28. c. 12 (1)). c.1788.
WaE 378
Copy of lines 63-156, 173-88, written in an irregular sequence, some verses sideways down the margin, and without a heading.
In: the MS described under WaE 58 (WaE Δ 16). End of 17th century.
WaE 379
Copy, apparently transcribed from the folio edition of 1655, on ten pages.
In: the MS described under WaE 62 (WaE Δ 17). c.1686-90s.
WaE 380
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 107 (WaE Δ 18). Late 17th century?.
WaE 381
Copy, headed ‘A Pangyrike upon Oliver Cromwell’.
In: Exemplum of the printed octavo ‘Fifth’ edition of Waller's Poems (London, 1686) accompanying The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690), with ‘Bound at the end of the vol…26 pp. in MS. in a contemporary hand, entitled “Some Things Written by Mr. Waller which are left out in this Impression”’, containing MS texts of two poems and three speeches. c.1690s.
From the library of Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, seat of Sir Thomas Mostyn, second Baronet (c.1651-1700?) and of Sir Roger Mostyn, third Baronet (1675-1739). Christie's, 24 October 1974 (Mostyn sale, Part 3), lot 1408, to Traylen.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Mostyn Volume: WaE Δ 19.
WaE 382
Copy, as ‘By E. W. Esq.’
In: A booklet of six folio leaves. Late 17th century.
Among papers of the Earls de Grey, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire.
WaE 383
Copy, subscribed ‘Edmund Waller’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, iv + 248 pages, imperfect at the end, in contemporary calf. Compiled by an Oxford University man. End of 17th century.
Sold by J.W. Jarvis & Sons, 5 December 1888.
WaE 384
Copy, headed ‘A panygrick to Oliver Cromwell’, subscribed ‘Finis. Waller’.
In: A folio verse miscellany, chiefly song lyrics, iv + 124 pages. Late 17th century.
Owned in 1670 by one Hilkiah Bedford.
WaE 384.5
Copy, headed ‘A Panegyrick to my Ld Protector by Edward Waller Esqr’.
In: An octavo miscellany of Restoration poems, chiefly upon affairs of state, ii + 89 octavo leaves, in 19th-century red morocco. Predominantly in a single professional hand, with subsequent corrections or annotations in other hands or inks, and (f. 89v) with a pencil note after a table of contents ‘This Book is written by Brown’. Late 17th century.
Bookplate of Edward Vernon Utterson (1776?-1856), of the Isle of Wight, artist, book collector and literary antiquary. Sotheby's, 19 April 1852, lot 1318. Owned after 1911 by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Christie's, 26 November 1997, lot 75.
WaE 385
Copy in: A quarto verse miscellany probably associated with Oxford. Late 17th century.
This MS recorded in Deas, p. 317.
WaE 386
Copy, headed ‘A Panegyrick to the lord Protectour, by A. Gentleman’ and subscribed ‘mihi Edited 2d pt. of Wallers Poems p. 62 xi’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single hand, 95 leaves in all. This MS is a companion volume to British Library, Add. MS 69823, and in the same hand. Folios 1-45 contain academic speeches of 1651-63, chiefly in Latin, relating to both Oxford and Cambridge (but chiefly Christ Church, Oxford), and ff. 46-95 verses written sideways across the length of the pages. Some poems are docketed later c.1686 ‘Mihi - Edited’ [i.e. presumably that the owner has the Edited version]. c.1667.
Inscribed on first page ‘Mr Mathews, the Bbinder D: Frown[?]. Mar. 16. 67. 0.0.6.7’ [i.e. ? the bookseller Thomas Mathews (fl.1650s-60s)]. Also (on f. 95v): ‘Charles Trumbull’ [D.D. (c.1646-1724), chaplain to Bishop Sancroft], ‘Ralphe Trumbull’ [(c.1640-1708), both brothers of the lawyer and government official Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716)]; and ‘Sandys’. Later note on upper endpaper that this MS was No. CCVIII of Dr Adam Clarke's MSS and was purchased 29 May 1838 from Baynes.
WaE 387
Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘A Panegerick by E—W’, on three pairs of conjugate quarto leaves.
In: A folio composite volume of poems, chiefly on affairs of state, in various hands, 67 leaves, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Late 17th century.
WaE 388
Copy, in a roman hand, headed ‘Mr. W. Panegyricke to Oliuer’, on two pairs of once conjugate quarto leaves. Late 17th century.
In: A large folio guard-book of miscellaneous verse and prose, in various hands and sizes of paper, 214 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Collected by Sir Hans Sloane (1660-1753).
WaE 388.5
Copy, headed ‘A Panegyrick on Cromwell’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, principally in a single non-professional hand (pp. 1-119), with additions (pp. 56-71) in later hands of c.1702, 71 leaves (plus blanks). c.1680s-1702.
WaE 389
Copy, headed ‘A Panegyrick to Oliver Cromwell’, subscribed ‘By Mr Ed: Waller: A:D: 1654’.
In: A quarto miscellany, in several hands, 66 leaves (plus 70 blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled at least in part by George Stanhope (1660-1728), Dean of Canterbury, chiefly while he was at King's College, Cambridge. c.1678-80s.
Inscribed ‘Mrs Denham Cookes 1922 March 10’.
WaE 389.5
Copy, headed ‘A Panegirick By E: W:’.
In: A quarto volume of Poems upon Affairs of State, 170 pages (plus 80 blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt. Predominantly in a single professional hand, with a table of contents at the end, the volume produced under the auspices of the manuscript purveyor ‘Captain’ Robert Julian (fl. c.1650-90), ‘Secretary of the Muses’, with a few additions in two other professional hands and by subsequent owners. c.1680s.
Inscribed by William Stanley (c.1655-1702), ninth Earl of Derby, ‘I bought this booke of Julian not so much for my own use as to prevent others reading of it’. Inscribed later by his brother James Stanley (1664-1736), tenth Earl of Derby, ‘When Knowsley House was puled doune (for else it would soon haue faln of it self) this Book was found hid in one of ye Chimneys, to be sure by my Brother Derby’.
Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 20-30.
WaE 390
Copy, headed ‘A Panegyrick to ye Ld Protectour.… 1655’.
In: the MS described under WaE 153. 1670.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 38, ff. 25r-6v.
WaE 391
Copy, headed ‘A Panegyrick on Oliver Cromwell by Mr Waller Anno Dni 1655’.
In: A folio volume of state tracts and parliamentary proceedings, largely in three neat mixed hands, ii + 139 pages (plus numerous blanks at the end), in contemporary vellum. c.1682.
Inscribed (p. ii) ‘Frances Butler’. Later in the library of Rheola House, Neath Valley, West Glamorgan. Donated in 1936 by R.J. Thomas, MA, of Treorchy.
WaE 392
Copy, headed ‘A Panegyrick to Cromwell Lord Protector By Mr Waller...1655’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in two or three mixed hands, twenty pages, unbound. c.1670.
Inscribed (p. 20) ‘Rob: Cholmondeley 1670’. Among papers of the Myddelton family, of Chirk Castle, Wrexham.
WaE 393
Copy, headed ‘A Panegyrick to ye Ld Protector by Mr Waller One that loves ye peace, vnion & prosperity of ye English Nation 1655’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems and plays by Corbet Owen (1645/6-71) and others, a ‘Catalogus Librorum’ at the reverse end, in probably several cursive predominantly italic hands, possibly associated with Oxford University, 166 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1671.
Owned in 1671 by one ‘J. H.’. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1253. Purchased from Dobell in 1935.
WaE 394
Copy, headed ‘Panegyrick by E:W’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a ‘Table’ of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf. Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items. c.1680s.
Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.
Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.
WaE 395
Copy, in a mixed hand, as ‘by Edmond Waller Esqr’, on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves. Mid-late 17th century.
WaE 396
Copy, in an italic hand, as ‘by E. Waller Esqr 1655’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in possibly several hands, written from both ends, paginated 1-205, then from the reverse end 206-58 (plus blanks to 271), in old reversed calf (rebacked). Mid-17th century.
Later owned by Lucy Hutchinson's nephew Julius Hutchinson (1678-1738).
This MS is described in the online Perdita Project.
WaE 397
Copy, in a professional rounded hand, headed ‘A Panegyrick To my Lord Protector. On the present Greatnesse and Joynrt Interest of his highnesse and this Nation’, here beginning ‘Whilst with a strong and yett a gentle hand’, subscribed ‘by Mr: Waller’, on all eight pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves, in a paper wrapper. Mid-17th century.
Among the archives of Petworth House, seat of the Percy family, Earls of Northumberland.
WaE 398
Copy in: A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in a single neat hand but for additions in other hands on pp. 183-226, 226 pages (including numerous blanks), in modern cloth. Compiled by Sir George Ent (1604-89), physician, a founding member of the Royal Society, to whom is addressed an inscription, sending the last item in the volume, on p. 226. c.1674-80.
WaE 399
Copy, headed ‘A Panegyrick on Oliver Cromwell by Edmund Waller Esq.’, dated at the end ‘Jan: 4 1682’.
In: A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, ‘A S’ in a gilt lozenge on each cover. The later additions partly compiled by George Clarke (1661-1736), politician and virtuoso (whose bookplate is inside the cover and whose family coat of arms is on f. [iv]), son of Sir William Clarke (1623?-66), Secretary of War to the Commonwealth and Charles II. c.1662[-1730s].
Inside the front cover inscribed ‘E[?] Barrow’, evidently a member of the family of Samuel Barrow (1625-82), Royal Physician and friend of John Milton, Barrow being the second husband of Sir William Clarke's widow, Dorothy (d.1695). Formerly MSS 6. 13.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Clarke MS’: PsK Δ 5. See also Elizabeth H. Hageman, ‘Treacherous Accidents, and the Abominable Printing of Katherine Philips's 1664 Poems’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004), pp. 85-95.
WaE 399.5
Copy, headed ‘A Panegyrick to O Cromwell by Mr Waller...Anno 1655’ [corrected to ‘1656’].
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, possibly in a single variant cursive hand, 76 pages, disbound. c.1660s.
Inscribed ‘Thomas Beesly his booke’, ‘Richard Dewe’, and ‘Stephen Philips his booke’, and possibly associated with the University of Oxford. Sotheby's, 17 July 2008, lot 133, to ‘Anonymous’, with facsimiles of pp. 20-1 in the sale catalogue.
A set of photocopies is in the British Library, RP 9362.
Part of the Fourth Book of Virgil, Translated (‘All this her weeping sister does repeat’)
Thorn-Drury, II, 29-33.
See WaE 400-404.
The Passion of Dido for Aeneas (‘Meanwhile the Queen fanning a secret fire’)
First published complete, by Humphrey Mosley, as The Passion of Dido for Aeneas, as it is incomparably exprest in the Fourth Book of Virgil, Translated by Edmund Waller and Sidney Godolphin Esqrs (London, 1658), where it is stated that the translation was ‘done (all but a very little) by …Mr. Sidney Godolphin’. Complete text in The Poems of Sidney Godolphin, ed. William Dighton (Oxford, 1931), pp. 31-55. Godolphin was responsible for the first 454 lines. Waller for the next 131 lines (455-585), beginning ‘All this her weeping sister does repeat’ which might possibly be his revision of part of Godolphin's translation of the whole. while the last 113 lines (586-699, beginning ‘Aurora now, leaving her watry bed’) are unassigned but probably also Godolphin's. The portion definitely by Waller is reprinted separately in Waller's Poems (London, 1664), pp. 185-92, and reprinted in Thorn-Drury, II, 29-33.
WaE 400
Copy, untitled, the work subscribed ‘S: Godolphin’.
In: the MS described under WaE 101. c.late 1630s-early 1640s.
Edited from this MS in Dighton.
WaE 401
Copy, untitled but preceded by a prose ‘Argument’ and the work recorded (f. 3r) as ‘By Mr Sydney Godolphin’.
In: the MS described under WaE 150. Mid-late 17th century.
WaE 402
Copy of lines 1-414, unascribed.
In: A quarto composite verse miscellany, in one or possibly two hands, 56 pages (including blanks), in 19th-century boards. Early-mid-18th century.
Formerly among the papers of the Fairfax family, of Leeds Castle, Kent. Fairfax sale at Leeds Castle, 1843, to Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 11141. 1898 Phillipps sale, lot 479, to W. A. Lindsay. His sale London, 14 February 1927, lot 671, to Dobell. Dobell & Radford's sale catalogue The Ingatherer, No. 11 (1930), item 209.
WaE 403
Copy, in a flourished italic hand, preceded (f. 3r-v) by ‘The Argument of the Fourth booke of Virgill's Aeneis’ in prose, headed ‘The History of Aeneas & Dido's Love translated out of the Fourth Booke of Virgill By Mr Godolphin’, subscribed at the end in another hand ‘Sid. Godolphin Ed. Waller Esqes’.
In: the MS described under WaE 154. Mid-17th century.
WaE 404
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Sidney Godolphin’.
In: the MS described under WaE 396. Mid-17th century.
This MS recorded in Dighton, p. xli.
A Poem on the Present Assembling of the Parliament, March the 6th 1678 (‘Break, sacred morn, on our expecting Isle’)
First published as an anonymous broadside [London, 1679]. For the attribution to Waller by Gilbert Burnet (who recorded it in a contents list as ‘Waller's Verses on the New Parl., 1679’), see G. Thorn-Drury in N&Q, 11th Ser. 5 (20 April 1912), 305. Also printed by Charles Firth in N&Q, 9th Ser. 4 (15 July 1899), 41-2 (and see also 2 September 1899, p. 190), where the attribution to Waller is rejected, as it is in Deas (pp. 316-17).
WaE 405
Copy, with an alteration in line 8 possibly in another hand, untitled, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed (f. 52v) ‘Mr Wallers verses uppon the meetinge of the Parlament, 1679.’c.1679.
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 from this MS in Firth.
A Presage of the Ruin of the Turkish Empire. Presented to His Majesty on his Birthday (‘Since James the Second graced the British Throne’)
First published in Poems, ‘Fifth’ edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 103-5.
Pride (‘Not the brave Macedonian youth alone’)
First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 114.
WaE 407
Copy of a 39-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and beginning ‘Not the brave Alexander alone’.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 408
Copy of the eighteen-line version, untitled, in an unidentified hand.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 409
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 58 (WaE Δ 16). End of 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 94, end paste-down.
Prologue for the Lady-Actors: Spoken before King Charles II (‘Amaze us not with that majestic frown’)
First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 95.
WaE 410
Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘prologue for the Lady actors &c.’.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 411
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Prologue for the Lady actors &c.’.
In: the MS described under WaE 59 (WaE Δ 7). c.1680s [-1700s].
Prologue to the ‘Maid's Tragedy’ (‘Scarce should we have the boldness to pretend’)
First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 96-7.
WaE 412
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
In: the MS described under WaE 59 (WaE Δ 7). c.1680s [-1700s].
Puerperium (‘You gods that have the power’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 82.
WaE 413
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 414
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 414.5
Copy, here beginning ‘Yee Gods that have ye power’.
In: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 200-1.
WaE 415
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 416
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 416.5
Copy, preceded by the note (on p. 307) ‘The following Poem is copied from a very antient Ms which contains most of Waller's other Pieces, written before 1645, tho' none afterwards — & many of Sir John Suckling & Thomas Carew — & in which each Piece is seperately & correctly distinguished by the name of its Author. This Poem has never yet been printed.’, and headed ‘A Song of Mr Waller — presented to the Queen — in 1638’, at the end of the volume.
In: the MS described under WaE 6.5. c.1721.
WaE 417
Copy, preceded by the note (on p. 307) ‘The following Poem is copied from a very antient Ms which contains most of Waller's other Pieces, written before 1645, tho' none afterwards — & many of Sir John Suckling & Thomas Carew — & in which each Piece is seperately & correctly distinguished by the name of its Author. This Poem has never yet been printed.’, and headed ‘A Song of Mr Waller — presented to the Queen — in 1638’, at the end of the volume.
In: the MS described under WaE 7 (WaE Δ 15). c.1788.
The Self-Banished (‘It is not that I love you less’)
First published, as ‘The Melancholy Lover’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 101. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
WaE 418
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 419
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 420
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 420.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
WaE 421
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 422
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under WaE 9 (WaE Δ 11). Mid-17th century.
WaE 423
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 23v.
Some reflections of his upon the several Petitions in the same Prayer (‘His sacred name with reverence profound’)
First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 137-9.
WaE 425
Copy of lines 10-12 in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and here beginning ‘—his precepts bring’, subscribed ‘to be added to the verses of the Lords prayer in the second petition’.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 426
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 61 (WaE Δ 10). Early 18th century.
Song (‘Chloris! farewell. I now must go’)
First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). Poems, ‘Eighth’ edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 110-11.
WaE 428
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under WaE 9 (WaE Δ 11). Mid-17th century.
WaE 429
Copy, headed ‘A copy of Verses written by Mr Waller, above forty years since, & never printed in any edition of his Poems’.
In: the MS described under WaE 58 (WaE Δ 16). End of 17th century.
Facsimile in The Brotherton Collection Review 1991-94 (Leeds. 1996), p. 9.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 94, verso of the first end-paper.
WaE 431
Copy, originally headed ‘Cloris’ and beginning ‘Cloris farewell I needs must goe’ but now imperfect at the beginning.
In: A long narrow ledger-like volume (c.40 x 15 cm) of ballads and metrical romances, in a single predominantly secretary hand, 268 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern half-morocco. Mid-17th century.
Later owned by Thomas Percy (1768-1808), Bishop of Dromore, writer and literary editor, and bearing copious annotations in his hand throughout, with a list by him at the end dated 20 December 1757.
This volume edited as Bishop Percy's Folio Manuscript, ed. John W. Hales and Frederick J. Furnivall, 4 vols (London, 1867-8). Re-edited by I. Gollancz, 4 vols (London, 1905-10). Facsimile example of f. 94r in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 20, p. 31. Discussed, with five facsimile examples, in Joseph Donatelli, ‘The Percy Folio Manuscript: A Seventeenth-Century Context for Medieval Poetry’, EMS, 4 (1993), 114-33.
Hales & Furnivall, II, 22-3.
WaE 432
Copy, untitled.
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.
WaE 433
Copy, headed ‘A Copy of Verses’.
In: A quarto verse miscellany, comprising principally translations or imitations of classical authors, chiefly in a single cursive hand, a later hand writing over a number of pages, entitled ‘A Choice Collection of Miscellany Poems Upon severall Subjects. Gathered out of severall Authors, by Wm. Gordon…In the Year, M.DCC,XI’, c.260 pages (plus blanks), all independently paginated in separate sections, in half-morocco. 1711-12.
WaE 434
Copy, untitled.
In: A sextodecimo miscellany of verse and topographical prose, probably in a single small cursive hand, 78 leaves, written from both ends, Part I foliated 1r-33r, Part II foliated 1r-45r, in old calf. c.1650s-60s.
Inscribed (Part I, f. 1r) ‘Mr John Oldhams Booke’ [i.e. the poet John Oldham (1653-83)]. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1r) ‘James Bateman’ [(b.1633/4) of Christ's College, Cambridge], and ‘Robert Pierrepont’ [either the son of Col. Francis Pierrepont, M.P. (d.1659), or the third Earl of Kingston (1650/1-82), of Holme-Pierrepoint, Nottinghamshire, Oldham's patron]. Formerly Folger MS 621.1.
Described in F.P. Hammond, ‘A Commonplace Book owned by John Oldham’, N&Q, 224 (December 1979), 515-18.
WaE 435
Copy, headed ‘Sonnet:t 6’ and here beginning ‘Cloris farwell I needes must goe’.
In: the MS described under WaE 110. c.1653-64.
WaE 436
Copy, in a musical setting by Henry 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).
This MS collated in Cutts, ‘Drexel Manuscript 4041’, p. 177.
New York Public Library, Music Division, Drexel MS 4041, No. 57, f. 42r.
WaE 437
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Cloris farwell I needs must goe’, on one side of a single quarto leaf of verse, once folded as a letter. Mid-17th century.
WaE 438
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, f. 17r.
WaE 438.5
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Chloris farewell I needs must goe’.
In: the MS described under WaE 111.8. c.Late 1650s.
WaE 438.8
Copy, untitled.
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.
Song (‘Peace, babbling Muse!’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 124.
WaE 439
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 440
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 441
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 441.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
WaE 442
Copy, headed ‘Banist if he made Loue’.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
This MS cited in Thorn-Drury.
WaE 443
Copy, headed ‘Banish't, if he make Love’.
In: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
Song (‘Say, lovely dream! where couldst thou find’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 53-4.
WaE 444
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 445
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 446
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 446.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 111-13.
WaE 447
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 448
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5 (WaE Δ 9). c.1630s-40s.
Song (‘Stay, Phoebus! stay’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 123.
WaE 451
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 452
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 452.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 107-8.
WaE 453
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 454
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 456
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.
WaE 457
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Madamelle de Morneys eyes a Lady of ye Queene Mothers Trayne 1638’, subscribed ‘by Mr. Waler’.
In: the MS described under WaE 102. c.1624-41.
This MS recorded in Warren L. Chernaik, The Poetry of Limitation: A Study of Edmund Waller (New Haven & London, 1968), p. 69.
The Story of Phoebus and Daphne, Applied (‘Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 52.
WaE 458
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 459
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 460
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 460.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 144-5.
WaE 461
Copy, with an alteration in another hand.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 462
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 463
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 34. Early 18th century.
WaE 464
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5 (WaE Δ 9). c.1630s-40s.
WaE 465
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 22r.
These Verses were writ in the Tasso of Her Royal Highness (‘Tasso knew how the fairer sex to grace’)
First published in Poems, ‘Fourth’ edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 88.
WaE 467
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 32v.
Thyrsis, Galatea (‘As lately I on silver Thames did ride’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 40-2.
WaE 468
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 469
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 470
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 470.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 150-2.
WaE 471
Copy, with alterations and a line inserted in another hand.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 472
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
To a Fair Lady, Playing with a Snake (‘Strange|! that such horror and such grace’)
First published, as ‘Of a fair Lady playing with a Snake’, in Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 47.
WaE 474
Copy, headed ‘Playing with a Snake’.
In: the MS described under WaE 89 (WaE Δ 13). c.1690-1700.
To a Friend, of the different Success of their Loves (‘Thrice happy pair! of whom we cannot know’)
First published, as ‘The Variable Lover. or a Reply to the Melancholy Lover’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 102-3.
WaE 475
Copy, headed ‘To A:H: of the different success of their Loves’.
In: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 475.5
Copy, headed ‘To A. H. of the different succese of their Loues’.
In: the MS described under WaE 2.5.
WaE 476
Copy, headed ‘To A:H: of the different success of theire Loves’.
In: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 477
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 29r.
To a Lady, from whom he received a Silver Pen (‘Madam! intending to have tried’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 109.
WaE 479
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 480
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 481
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 481.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 140-2.
WaE 482
Copy of lines 11-17 (here beginning ‘Immortall praise forwhat I wrought’), imperfect, the rest excised.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 483
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 484
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5 (WaE Δ 9). c.1630s-40s.
WaE 485
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 27v.
To a Lady, from whom he received the foregoing copy which for many years had been lost (‘Nothing lies hid from radiant eyes’)
First published in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 69.
WaE 487
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 33v.
WaE 488.5
A MS alteration to the printed text in the last line.
In: the MS described under WaE 6.5. c.1721.
WaE 489
Copy, headed ‘To Mrs. Steward, who brought him the verses he had lost, and was then sitting to Mr. Lilly for her picture’.
In: the MS described under WaE 107 (WaE Δ 18). Late 17th century?.
This MS cited in Thorn-Drury.
WaE 490
Copy, headed ‘To Madam Stewart upon hir Returning a lost Letter to E: W:’, on a single quarto leaf, endorsed ‘To Mrs Stuart by Mr Waller’. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse, 208 leaves.
WaE 491
Copy, headed ‘On Madame Stuart now Duchess of Richmond’.
In: the MS described under WaE 140. Mid-late 17th century.
WaE 492
Copy, in the hand of William Fitzherbert, headed ‘Mr Wallr. To a lady upon ye recovery of lost Coppy of verses’.
In: A folio volume of 124 poems by Charles Cotton (with second copies of three poems), including a few poems by others, 258 pages. Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one ‘Posthumus’, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (‘…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…’). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (‘Posthumus’) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature ‘WF’ and date ‘1660’ appearing on p. 216 and the signature ‘WF’, the inscription ‘Vivat Poeta’ and date ‘Jan. 14 1666’ on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 ‘C. Port’ (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4). c.1651-66 [with later additions].
The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.
Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature ‘Charles Cotton’ written twice and the inscriptions ‘Elizabeth Fitzherbert’; ‘Madam Barterenia’; ‘madam ursenia’; ‘Cathrine Cotton’ (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); ‘Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]’; ‘Frances Fitz:Herbert may ye 23 (8i),’; ‘Mercia Fitzherbert. March ye: 3d: 3d: 1687’; ‘M.B. 1688’; ‘I Port his Booke’; ‘C: Port’; ‘Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660’; ‘Aug 12 [66’; and ‘Mr. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff’. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (‘WF’).
The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his ‘dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton’. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by ‘Mr. Pickering’ at ten guineas.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the ‘Derby MS’. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in ‘Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains’, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerised exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).
The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, ‘Cotton's Poems’, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, ‘Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve’, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, ‘The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and “Contentation” Re-Considered’, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.
WaE 493
Copy, headed ‘A Song’
In: A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, 46 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1665.
Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), Earl de Grey, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire.
To a Lady in a Garden (‘Sees not my love how time resumes’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 113.
WaE 494
Copy, headed ‘To a Ladie in Retirement’.
In: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 496.5
Copy, headed ‘To a Lady in retirement’.
In: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 138-9.
WaE 498
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 61 (WaE Δ 10). Early 18th century.
WaE 499
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under WaE 9 (WaE Δ 11). Mid-17th century.
WaE 501
Copy, headed ‘Mr Waller / On his Mistres in a garden she refusing to loue to preserve her Beauty’.
In: A small quarto verse anthology, in a single minute hand (but for p. 206), arranged under genre headings (‘Epitaphs’, ‘Satyricall’, ‘Love Sonnets’, etc.), probably associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 382 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the ‘Thomas Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 48). c.1630s.
Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Welbeck MS’: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others’, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).
To a Lady in retirement
See WaE 494-501.
To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing (‘Chloris! yourself you so excel’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 105. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published, as ‘To the same Lady singing the former Song’, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
WaE 502
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 503
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under WaE 9 (WaE Δ 11). Mid-17th century.
WaE 503.5
Copy, headed ‘Songe’.
In: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 248-9.
WaE 504
Copy, headed ‘Singing A Song o' Mine’.
In: the MS described under WaE 89 (WaE Δ 13). c.1690-1700.
WaE 505
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 22v.
WaE 508
Copy, in a musical setting possibly by Nicholas Lanier, untitled.
In: A square-shaped folio songbook, largely in a single rounded secretary hand, with (ff. 1r-v, 69r-v) a table of contents, i + 69 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Mid-17th century.
Puttick & Simpson's, 2 March 1866, lot 230.
A complete facsimile of this volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 2 (New York & London, 1986).
WaE 510
Copy, headed ‘Heareing a Lady singing some verses of his makeing’.
In: the MS described under WaE 276. c.1640s.
WaE 511
Copy, untitled, on a single quarto leaf.
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.
To a very young Lady (‘Why came I so untimely forth’)
First published, as ‘To my young Lady Lucy Sidney’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 57.
WaE 512
Copy, headed ‘To my Younge Lady Lucie Sidney’.
In: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 513
Copy, headed ‘To my young Ladie Lucie Sidney’.
In: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 514
Copy, headed ‘To my young Lady Lucy Sidney’.
In: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 514.5
Copy, headed ‘To ye Lady Lucy Sidney’.
In: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 168-9.
WaE 515
Copy, headed ‘To my young Lady Lucy Sidney’.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 516
Copy, headed ‘To the young Lady Lucy Sidney’.
In: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 517
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 30v.
To Amoret (‘Amoret! the Milky Way’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 83.
WaE 518
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 519
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 519.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 157-8.
WaE 520
Copy, here beginning ‘Amidst the milky way’.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 521
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 522
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under WaE 9 (WaE Δ 11). Mid-17th century.
To Amoret (‘Fair! that you may truly know’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 58-60.
WaE 524
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 525
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 525.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 158-61.
WaE 527
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 528
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5 (WaE Δ 9). c.1630s-40s.
WaE 529
Copy, headed ‘To Amoret - by Mr Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, ff. 20v-1r.
WaE 531
Copy, in double columns, on the first page of two conjugate quarto leaves. c.1700.
In: A folio composite volume of verse MSS and miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 248 leaves, in 19th-century half green morocco.
Presented by Mrs Jervis, 13 May 1876.
To Chloris (‘Chloris! since first our calm of peace’)
First published, as ‘To Chloris uppon a favour receaved’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 112. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published, as ‘To a Lady, more affable since the war began’, in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).
WaE 533
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under WaE 9 (WaE Δ 11). Mid-17th century.
WaE 535
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WaE 438. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 41r.
To Chloris (‘Chloris! what's eminent, we know’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 122.
WaE 536
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 58 (WaE Δ 16). End of 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 94, verso of the frontispiece.
To Flavia. A Song (‘'Tis not your beauty can engage’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 125.
WaE 537
Copy, headed ‘To Flavia’.
In: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 539.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 106-7.
To His Majesty, upon his Motto, Beati Pacifici, occasioned by the taking of Buda, 1686 (‘Buda and Rhodes proud Solyman had torn’)
First published as a separate leaf inserted in some exempla of Poems, ‘Fifth’ edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 106-7.
WaE 541
Copy, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed on the fourth page in Ormonde's hand ‘Mr Wallers verses to ye King’. c.1686.
In: the MS described under WaE 142. Mid-late 17th century.
WaE 541.5
Copy, on three pages.
In: the MS described under WaE 286.5. c.1690.
John Emmerson, Melbourne, Australia, [Waller 1686], On front endpapers .
To his Worthy Friend, Master Evelyn, upon his Translation of Lucretius (‘That chance and atoms make this all’)
First published, in a version beginning ‘Lucretius with a stork-like fate’, in John Evelyn, An Essay on the first Book of T. Lucretius Carus (London, 1656). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 21-2.
To Mr. George Sandys, on his Translation of some parts of the Bible (‘How bold a work attempts that pen’)
First published in George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 28-9.
WaE 544
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 545
Copy, with alterations in another hand, headed ‘To his worthy freend Mr: George Sandys—on his sacrad Poems’.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 546
Copy, headed ‘To his worthy freind Mr: George Sandys on his sacred Poems written in a burning feavour’.
In: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
To Mr. Granville (Now Lord Lansdowne), on his Verses to King James II (‘An early plant! which such a blossom bears’)
First published, as ‘To Mr. G. Granville, on his Verses to the King’, in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), p. 159. The Works of Edmund Waller, ed. Elijah Fenton (London, 1729), p. 321. Thorn-Drury, II, 111.
WaE 547
Copy, headed ‘To Mr: G. Granville on his Verses to ye King by Mr. Edmund Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 65 (WaE Δ 12). c.1703-9.
To Mr. Henry Lawes, who had then newly set a song of mine in the year 1635 (‘Verse makes heroic virtue live’)
First published in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, I, 19-20.
WaE 548
Copy, headed ‘Setting Songs’, subscribed ‘Waller. To Mr Henry Lawes, who had then newly set a song of mine in the Year 1635. Poems. p. 176’.
In: the MS described under WaE 214. Early 18th century.
WaE 549
Copy of lines 17-28, headed ‘Mr Waller to Henry Lawes yt had set his song had this passage vizt’, here beginning ‘As a Church Window thick with Paint’.
In: the MS described under WaE 63. c.1713.
To Mistris Braughton (‘Fair fellow-servant! may your gentle ear’)
See WaE 645-650.
To My Lady Morton, on New-Year's Day, 1650. At the Louvre in Paris (‘Madam! new years may well expect to find’)
First published as a broadside (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 6-7.
WaE 551
Copy, headed ‘To the Lady Morton who carried away the Princesse, sent her on New years day’, subscribed ‘E Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 139. Late 17th century.
WaE 552
Copy, headed ‘A new yeares gift to the Countesse of Moorton, (fformerly Lady del: Keith; and first of all the Lady (Villiers) on her stealing away into France with the Kings younger daughter disguis'd in the habitt of a milke=mayde’.
In: the MS described under WaE 140. Mid-late 17th century.
WaE 553
Copy, with deletions, as by ‘Mr Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 154. Mid-17th century.
WaE 554
Copy of a 40-line version, in a neat rounded hand, subscribed ‘Ed: Waller’.
In: A folio volume of miscellaneous verse and prose, in Latin and English, largely in one hand, with additions in other hands, written from both ends, dates ranging from 1633 to 1649, 43 unfoliated leaves, in paper wrappers. Principally composed and copied by Mildmay Fane (1602-66), second Earl of Westmorland, politician and writer. c.1640s-50s.
This MS recorded in Gerald W. Morton, ‘Two Literary and Historical Manuscripts in the Westmorland Collection’, ELN, 26 (1988), 13-17 (pp. 13-14).
Northamptonshire Record Office, W(A) Box 6 Parcel VI, No. 1, ff. [28v-9r].
WaE 555
Copy, in an italic hand, subscribed ‘E: W:’.
In: the MS described under WaE 396. Mid-17th century.
WaE 556
Copy of lines 1-36, in a cursive hand, as by ‘Mr Waller’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.
To my Lord Admiral, of his late Sickness and Recovery (‘With joy like ours, the Thracian youth invades’)
First published in Thomas Carew, Poems, 2nd edition (London, 1642). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 33-5. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), pp. 200-1.
WaE 557
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 558
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 559
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 559.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 161-4.
WaE 560
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 561
Copy, headed ‘To the Lord Admirall of his late Sicknes and Recovery imediatly after his Ladies Death, his Brother being sicke too’.
In: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 562
Copy, subscribed ‘Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 101. c.late 1630s-early 1640s.
This MS recorded in Deas, p. 324.
To My Lord Northumberland, upon the Death of his Lady (‘To this great loss a sea of tears is due’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 31-2.
WaE 563
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 564
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 565
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 565.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 164-6.
WaE 566
Copy, with alterations in another hand and a gloss on ‘Lady’ in the title (‘my lord of Sallisbery's Daughter’).
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 567
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
To my Lord of Falkland (‘Brave Holland leads, and with him Falkland goes’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 75-6.
See also WaE 765.
WaE 569
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 570
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 571
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 571.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 153-4.
WaE 572
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 573
Copy, headed ‘To the Lord of Falkland goeing into Scotland’.
In: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 574
Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 101. c.late 1630s-early 1640s.
This MS recorded in Deas, p. 324.
To My Lord of Leicester (‘Not that thy trees at Penshurst groan’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 47-8.
WaE 577
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 578
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 579
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 579.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 169-71.
WaE 581
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
To one Married to an old Man (‘Since thou wouldst needs (bewitched with some ill charms!)’)
First published, as ‘To the wife being marryed to that old man’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 2.
WaE 583
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 584
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 585
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 585.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
WaE 586
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 587
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 588
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 61 (WaE Δ 10). Early 18th century.
WaE 589
Copy, headed ‘One Marryed to a Old man’.
In: A quarto composite volume comprising three independent MSS bound together, i + 78 leaves. The first MS a verse miscellany, in an italic hand, 29 leaves. c.1640.
WaE 590
Copy in: An octavo verse miscellany, in several generally italic hands, written originally on rectos only, the versos used by later hands, i + 112 leaves (ff. 93-5 excised), in old calf (rebacked). Including 26 poems by Thomas Carew and one of doubtful authorship. c.1694-1740.
Inscribed (inside the front cver) ‘Tho: Jesson His Book 1694’; (ff. ir, 5v) ‘S Harriott 1740’, and a poem (f. 37v) subscribed ‘Sarah Harriott’.
Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Jesson MS’: CwT Δ 23.
WaE 590.5
Copy, heavily deleted.
In: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 23r.
To Phyllis (‘Phyllis! 'twas love that injured you’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 27-8.
WaE 591
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 593
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 593.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 148-50.
WaE 594
Copy, with one word inserted in another hand.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 595
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
To Phyllis (‘Phyllis! why should we delay’)
First published, as ‘The cunning Curtezan’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 84.
WaE 597
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 598
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 599
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 599.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 147-8.
WaE 601
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting, untitled.
In: the MS described under WaE 9 (WaE Δ 11). Mid-17th century.
WaE 602
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 24r.
WaE 604
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.
WaE 605
Copy, headed ‘Wooing’, subscribed ‘Waller to Phyllis. Poems. p. 75.’
In: the MS described under WaE 214. Early 18th century.
WaE 606
Copy, headed ‘Wooing’.
In: the MS described under WaE 246. c.1712.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 61, ff. 28v-9r.
WaE 607
Copy, in a musical setting, among the appended Italian songs.
In: MS transcript of the first printed edition (Aberdeen, 1662) of John Forbes, Cantus, Songs and Fancies. c.1662.
In the Atholl Collection of Music, assembled by Lady Dorothea Stewart-Murray (1866-1937), daughter of John Stewart-Murray (1840-1917), seventh Duke of Atholl. Formerly in the Sandeman Library, Perth.
To the Duchess of Orleans, when she was taking leave of the Court at Dover (‘That sun of beauty did among us rise’)
First published in Poems, ‘Fourth’ edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 72.
WaE 608
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 65 (WaE Δ 12). c.1703-9.
WaE 609
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 35r.
To the Duchess, when he presented this book to Her Royal Highness (‘Madam! / I here present you with the rage’)
First published in Poems, ‘Fourth’ edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 71.
WaE 610
Copy in a calligraphic hand, written on Waller's behalf, headed ‘This Booke, never Dedicated to any before, humbly desires the Patronage of hir R: Highness’, written sideways along the length of the page on five preliminary pages.
In: Exemplum of Waller's Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). After December 1677.
Volume presented by Waller to Mary of Modena, Duchess of York, wife of the future James II, the elaborate binding bearing her arms.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury, II, 212.
To the King, on his Navy (‘Wher'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 15-16.
See also WaE 765.
WaE 611
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 612
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 613
Copy of lines 17-32 (here beginning ‘'Tis not so hard for greedy foes to spoyle’), imperfect, lacking the first part.
In: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 613.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 209-10.
WaE 614
Copy, with an alteration in another hand.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 615
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 616
Copy, headed ‘A Copy of verse to ye King on his navy’.
In: the MS described under WaE 34. Early 18th century.
WaE 617
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 61 (WaE Δ 10). Early 18th century.
WaE 618.5
Copy, in a neat mixed hand, headed by the fourth Earl of Bedford ‘Wallers verses’.
In: A quarto commonplace book, in several hands, begun 1 May 1634, written from both ends, 262 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked). Compiled by, and largely in the rugged italic hand of, Francis Russell, MP (1593-1641), fourth Earl of Bedford, politician. c.1634-5.
Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 1.
WaE 619
Copy, headed ‘Edmond Waller Esqr his Poeme To ye King on his navy’.
In: A small octavo volume of poems chiefly by Michael Drayton, iv +10 leaves (plus seven blanks), in modern brown morocco gilt. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed name (f. 1r) of John Saye, Sayce or Sayer. Purchased in 1951 from Dobell by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector. Formerly classified after 1977 as MS Juel-Jensen Drayton f. 1.
WaE 619.5
MS annotations and deletions to the printed text.
In: the MS described under WaE 6.5. c.1721.
To the King, upon His Majesty's happy Return (‘The rising sun complies with our weak sight’)
First published as a broadside (London, [1660]). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 35-9.
WaE 620
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 34. Early 18th century.
WaE 621
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 61 (WaE Δ 10). Early 18th century.
WaE 623
Copy, subscribed ‘By ED: WALLER Esq. 1660.’, imperfect, lacking the beginning.
In: the MS described under WaE 155. c.1697-1702.
To the Mutable Fair (‘Here Celia! for thy sake I part’)
First published, as ‘The Reply’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 106-8.
WaE 624
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Mutable ffaire’.
In: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 625
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 626
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 626.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 115-18.
WaE 627
Copy, with an insertion in another hand.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
The text corrected from this MS in Thorn-Drury.
WaE 628
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 629
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, ff. 35r-6r.
To the Queen Mother of France, upon her Landing (‘Great Queen of Europe! where thy offspring wears’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 35-6.
WaE 631
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 632
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 633
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 633.5
Copy, headed ‘To ye Queen-Mother upon her landing’.
In: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 193-5.
WaE 634
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 635
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 636
Copy, headed ‘To the Queene Mother on her Landing’ and subscribed ‘Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 101. c.late 1630s-early 1640s.
This MS recorded in Deas, p. 324.
To the Queen, Occasioned upon Sight of Her Majesty's Picture (‘Well fare the hand! which to our humble sight’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 8-10.
WaE 637
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 638
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 639
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 639.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 201-4.
WaE 640
Copy, with alterations in another hand.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 641
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 642
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 34. Early 18th century.
To the Queen, upon Her Majesty's Birthday, after her happy recovery from a dangerous sickness (‘Farewell the year! which threatened so’)
First published in Poems (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 45-6.
WaE 644
Copy, as ‘by ye. same hand’ [i.e. Waller].
In: the MS described under WaE 65 (WaE Δ 12). c.1703-9.
To the Servant of a Fair Lady (‘Fair fellow-servant! may your gentle ear’)
First published, as ‘To Mistris Braughton’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 55-6.
WaE 645
Copy, headed ‘To Mrs: Braughton’.
In: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 647.5
Copy, headed ‘To Mrs. Broughton’.
In: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 166-8.
WaE 648
Copy, with an alteration in another hand, headed ‘To Mirs: Braughton’.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 650
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 34r.
To Vandyck (‘Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 44-5.
WaE 651
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 652
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 653
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 653.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 145-7.
WaE 654
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 655
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 655.5
Copy of lines 5-8, headed ‘Waller to Vandike’ and here beginning ‘The heedless lover does not know’. c.1728.
In: the MS described under WaE 325. c.1639 [-c.1728].
WaE 656
Copy, headed ‘Painter’, subscribed ‘(Wall)’.
In: the MS described under WaE 65 (WaE Δ 12). c.1703-9.
WaE 656.5
MS alterations to the printed text and comments.
In: the MS described under WaE 6.5. c.1721.
WaE 657
MS alterations to the printed text, with the comment by ‘P.N.’ that these readings are ‘In an antient Ms. (probably before the 1st. Edit)’ [i.e. they derive from a separate MS, not from Atterbury: see Introduction]. c.1788.
In: the MS described under WaE 7 (WaE Δ 15). c.1788.
To Zelinda (‘Fairest piece of well-formed earth!’)
First published, as ‘The Ladyes Slave to his Mistresse’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). as ‘Palamede to Zelinde. Ariana, lib. 6’ in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 103-4.
WaE 658
Copy, headed ‘Palamede to Zelinde Ariana: Lib: 6’.
In: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 659
Copy, as ‘by ye. same Hand’ [i.e. Waller].
In: the MS described under WaE 65 (WaE Δ 12). c.1703-9.
WaE 660
Extensive MS alterations to the printed text.
In: the MS described under WaE 7 (WaE Δ 15). c.1788.
Translated out of French (‘Fade, flowers! fade, Nature will have it so’)
First published in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Poems, ‘Seventh’ edition (London, 1705). Thorn-Drury, II, 112.
WaE 661
Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 662
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled, ascribed in another hand to ‘Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 279.
Translated out of Spanish (‘Though we may seem importunate’)
First published in Poems, ‘Fourth’ edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.
WaE 664
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 33v.
The Triple Combat (‘When through the world fair Mazarin had run’)
First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 77-8.
WaE 665
Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, here arranged in the order of lines 1-22, 25-6, 23-4, 27-46.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 666
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, ascribed in another hand to ‘Mr Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 59 (WaE Δ 7). c.1680s [-1700s].
Under a Lady's Picture (‘Some ages hence, for it must not decay’)
First published, in a six-line version headed ‘To be ingraven under the Queen's Picture’ and beginning at line 3 (‘Such Helen was! and who can blame the boy’), in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). An eight-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), p. 129. Thorn-Drury (1904), II, 1.
WaE 667
Copy of lines 3-8, beginning ‘Such Helen was…’.
In: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 668
Copy of lines 3-8, beginning ‘Such Helen was…’.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 669
Copy of lines 3-8, beginning ‘Such Helen was…’.
In: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
Edited from this MS (then owned by John Grant, Jr) in H.J.C. Grierson, ‘Poems by Waller’, TLS (29 December 1927), p. 989.
WaE 670
Copy of lines 1-3, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘This was writen under my Lady Spekes Picture’.
In: the MS described under WaE 59 (WaE Δ 7). c.1680s [-1700s].
WaE 671
Copy of lines 3-8, beginning ‘Such Hellen was…’.
In: the MS described under WaE 61 (WaE Δ 10). Early 18th century.
WaE 672
Copy of lines 3-8, beginning ‘Such Hellen was & who can blame ye. Boy’, as ‘by ye. same hand’ [i.e. Waller].
In: the MS described under WaE 65 (WaE Δ 12). c.1703-9.
WaE 673
Copy of lines 3-8, beginning ‘Such Hellen was…’.
In: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 25r.
WaE 673.5
Copy of lines 3-8, headed ‘written vnder a Ladys picture’ and here beginning ‘Such Helen was & who can blame ye boy’, in a quarto booklet of poems (occupying ff. 1r-6v) in a single neat (possibly female) roman hand. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under WaE 319.5.
National Library of Wales, Brogyntyn MS II. 57 Vol. I, f. 1v.
Upon Ben Jonson (‘Mirror of poets! mirror of our age!’)
First published in Jonsonus Virbius (London, 1638). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 29-30.
WaE 674
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 675
Copy, headed ‘Vpone Ben: Johnsone the most excellent of Comick Poets’.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 676
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Ben: Johnson the most Excellent of Comicke Poets’.
In: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
Upon Her Majesty's New Buildings at Somerset House (‘Great Queen! that does our island bless’)
First published as a broadside (London, 1665). Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 61-2.
WaE 677
This MS recorded, and an additional couplet edited from it, in F. Cunningham. Cited in Thorn-Drury.
In: the MS described under WaE 107 (WaE Δ 18). Late 17th century?.
WaE 678
Copy, later subscribed ‘Edited in Mr Wallers Poems - p. 227 mihi. 1686’.
In: the MS described under WaE 386. c.1667.
Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's (‘That shipwrecked vessel which the Apostle bore’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 16-18.
WaE 679
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 680
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 681
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 681.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 206-9.
WaE 683
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 684
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 34. Early 18th century.
WaE 684.5
Some MS alterations to the printed text and comments.
In: the MS described under WaE 6.5. c.1721.
WaE 686
Copy 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.
WaE 687
Copy on a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.
In: A folio composite volume of verse and drama MSS, in various hands, 155 leaves, in 19th-century half brown morocco. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary, his brother Oliver, and Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector.
Upon our late Loss of the Duke of Cambridge (‘The failing blossoms which a young plant bears’)
First published in Poems, ‘Fourth’ edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 79.
WaE 688
Copy in a calligraphic hand, written on Waller's behalf, headed ‘Vpon our Publick loss of The late Duke of Cambridge’, written sideways down the length of the page on three pages at the end.
In: the MS described under WaE 610. After December 1677.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury, II, 212.
WaE 689
Copy, headed ‘On ye Death of ye Duke of Cambridge’, the poem dated December 1677. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under WaE 490.
WaE 689.5
Copy, headed ‘On the death of the Duke of cambridg’.
In: A folio volume of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in a non-professional hand, with a table of contents (listing some 125 poems), once containing upwards of 240 pages, but all of which after p. 22 have been excised. Late 17th century.
Upon the Death of my Lady Rich (‘May those already cursed Essexian plains’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 37-40.
WaE 690
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 691
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 692
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 3 (WaE Δ 3). c.1640s.
WaE 692.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 120-4.
WaE 693
Copy, with two words inserted in another hand.
In: the MS described under WaE 15 (WaE Δ 4). c.1640s.
WaE 694
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 4 (WaE Δ 5). c.1640s.
WaE 695
Copy, headed ‘Upon ye death of a Lady’.
In: the MS described under WaE 34. Early 18th century.
WaE 696
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, ff. 29v-30v.
WaE 697
Copy in: A quarto miscellany of poems on the death of Lady Rich, 44 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. With a general title-page (f. 1r), The Shadow of the (sometimes) right Faire, Vertuous, and Honourable Lady Anne Rich Now an Happy, Glorious, and Perfected Saint in Heaven, and (ff. 2r-3r) a dedication dated 22 October 1638; the miscellany collected by, and apparently in the hand of, John Gauden (1605-62), later Bishop of Worcester. 1638.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Ger. Sleigh’. Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 106 (1949), item 4.
Upon the Earl of Roscommon's Translation of Horace, ‘De Arte Poetica’. and of the Use of Poetry (‘Rome was not better by Horace taught’)
First published in Wentworth Dillon, fourth Earl of Roscommon, Horace's Art of Poetry. Made English (London, 1680). Poems, ‘Fourth’ edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 86-8.
WaE 699
Extract, headed ‘On Poetry’ and beginning at line 17 (here ‘Chast moral writing we may learn from hence’), subscribed ‘Mr Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 63. c.1713.
Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same (‘We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim’)
First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As ‘Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C.’ in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.
For the ‘answer or construction’ by William Godolphin, see the Introduction.
WaE 700
Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and lacking lines 11-12.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 701
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘on ye death of Oliver Cromwell’.
In: the MS described under WaE 59 (WaE Δ 7). c.1680s [-1700s].
WaE 702
Copy, headed ‘Upon ye Death of ye Lord Protector. 1658’.
In: the MS described under WaE 34. Early 18th century.
WaE 703
Copy, the text followed (ff. 107v-8v) by Godolphin's answer.
In: the MS described under WaE 61 (WaE Δ 10). Early 18th century.
WaE 704
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 58 (WaE Δ 16). End of 17th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. 94, recto of the first end-paper.
WaE 705
Copy, headed ‘Upon ye storm & of ye Death of Oliuer Cromwell ensuing y same by Mr Waller left out of all his Books’, on two pages. The text followed (p. 3) by an ‘Answer’ ascribed to Godolphin, but see Introduction above.
In: the MS described under WaE 62 (WaE Δ 17). c.1686-90s.
WaE 706
Copy, headed ‘On the stormes Happening about the Protectors death’.
In: the MS described under WaE 381 (WaE Δ 19). c.1690s.
WaE 707
Copy, the subject dated ‘Sept: ye: 3d. 1658’, subscribed ‘Ed: Waller’. The text followed (f. 37r-v) by Godolphin's answer.
In: the MS described under WaE 137. Late 17th century.
WaE 708
Copy, forming part of a quarto transcript of Three Poems upon …Oliver Lord Protector (1659), ascribed ‘By Mr Waller’.
In: A quarto composite volume of micellaneous papers, in verse and prose, 188 leaves (including blanks), in half-green morocco over marbled boards, worn. Collected by Thomas Gale, FSA (1635?-1702), Dean of York, or else by his son, Samuel Gale (1682-1754), Land Surveyor at the Customs House, London.
Once owned by Elizabeth Stukeley (née Gale) and by William S. and Richard Fleming. Later bookplate of ‘Andrew Coltee Ducarel L.L.D. Doctor's Commons’, 1778. P.J. & A.E. Dobell, sale catalogue No. 62 (1926), item 129.
WaE 709
Copy, subscribed ‘Edmund Waller’. The text followed (pp. 90-1) by Godolphin's ‘Answer to the Storm’.
In: the MS described under WaE 383. End of 17th century.
WaE 710
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the late storme and the death of the Protector ensuing the same. by Mr Waller’; the text followed (f. 22r-v rev.) by Godolphin's answer.
In: An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, including academic speeches, in Latin and English, in a single non-professional italic hand, 54 leaves, written from both ends, in contemporary calf. Compiled by a member of Christ Church, Oxford. Late 17th century.
WaE 711
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye Death of Oliver Cromwell; alias The Storme’; the text followed (ff. 22v-3) by Godolphin's ‘Answer’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany, 28 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary reversed calf. Late 17th century.
Compiled by an Oxford University man, probably its one-time owner Samuel Desmaistres (1655/6-86), of Magdalen Hall.
WaE 712
Copy, subscribed ‘mr Waller’.
In: An octavo book of jests and verse compiled by William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury, vi + 374 pages (pp. 72-306 blank), in contemporary calf. c.1682-91.
WaE 713
Copy, headed ‘On ye Death of the Protector’, subscribed ‘Edm. Waller Esq’.
In: A quarto miscellany of poems and speeches, in English and Latin, i + 235 leaves (ff. 131-235 blank), stubs of some extracted leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled by an Oxford University man. Late 17th century.
WaE 713.5
Copy, headed ‘Upon ye storm ye 30 of Aug. 1658, and Oliver's death ensuing ye same’.
In: the MS described under WaE 149.5. c.1651-66.
WaE 714
Copy, subscribed ‘Edited. mihi. 2d pt. of Wallers Poems. p. 72’.
In: the MS described under WaE 386. c.1667.
WaE 715
Copy, the text followed (f. 125r-v) by Godolphin's answer.
In: the MS described under WaE 432. Late 17th century.
WaE 716
Copy, headed ‘On the same Subject By Mr Waller’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 303 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt. In two parts: Part I on ff. 1r-149r (followed by blanks and then an index on ff. 150-1); Part II, on ff. 152-302 (with an addition in another hand on f. 303), entitled A Collection of the most choice and Private Poems, Lampoons &c from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701 Collected by a Person of Quality. c.1703.
A note of payment (f. 1r) for purchase on 25 March 1703. Owned by Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).
Cited in IELM, II.i, as the ‘Harley MS’: MaA Δ 6. Marvell recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.
WaE 717
Copy, headed ‘The Storm on ye Death of O: Cromwell’, subscribed ‘E. Waller’, followed (pp. 45-6) by Godolphin's ‘answer’.
In: the MS described under WaE 388.5. c.1680s-1702.
WaE 718
Copy, headed ‘Vppon Cromwels dying in a greate wind’, subscribed ‘E Waller’.
In: An octavo verse miscellany and notebook, in several italic hands, written from both ends, 64 unnumbered leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled chiefly by members of the Grosvenor family, of Downton, Radnorshire (now Shropshire). c.1681-1732.
Various inscriptions including ‘Teverra Byrd’, ‘Teverra Grosvenor of Downton 1731’, and ‘Rich: Grosvenor his Book Given him p Mrs Teverra Grosvenor in the Year of Our Lord God Ano Dom 1730’. Also including earlier notes, dated 1681, relating to persons excommunicated ‘since J: Sayer came to Old Radnor’.
A microfilm of this volume is in the National Library of Wales.
WaE 719
Copy on a single folio leaf loosely inserted.
In: Verse miscellany. c.1700.
Clark Library, Los Angeles, fC6977M1 [1730?] Bound, [no page number].
WaE 719.5
Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed ‘Upon the Death of ye Illustrious Oliver September ye 3d: 1658’, on one side of an unbound folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1658.
WaE 720
Copy in: An unbound bundle of verse MSS, in various hands. Late 17th century.
Among archives of the Copped (or Copt) Hall estate, chiefly relating to the Conyers family.
WaE 721
Copy, headed ‘On The Storm & Death of Oliver Cromwell By Mr Waller’. The text followed (f. 83r-v) by Godolphin's ‘Answer’.
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’.
WaE 722
Copy, headed ‘On the Same Subject By Mr Waller’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, including 27 poems by Rochester (all ascribed to him), xii + 299 pages (plus a number of blanks), including a table of contents, in contemporary calf (rebacked). In a single professional hand but for a few later additions at the very end (pp. 295-8, with some pages tipped-in). c.1690s.
Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Harvard MS: RoJ Δ 7.
WaE 723
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye storm just before Cromwells Death’.
In: the MS described under WaE 328. c.1674.
King's College, Cambridge, Hayward Collection, H. 11. 13, f. [20v].
WaE 724
The text accompanied (on ff. 32, 33, 34) by Godolphin's answer (‘A Construction of Wallers Poem by Mr Godolphin Student of ch: ch: 1660’).
In: the MS described under WaE 153. 1670.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 38, ff. 31v, 32v, 33v.
WaE 725
Copy, in Gibson's hand, headed ‘Mr Waller on Oliver Cromwells Death. 1659’, on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.
In: A collection of unbound verse MSS. Assembled by John Gibson (1630-1711), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, North Yorkshire.
Sotheby's, 18 July 1991, lot 164, to Quaritch.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt. q. 52, f. 9r.
WaE 726.5
Copy, untitled, on a single folio leaf (the verso containing WaE 757.5). c.1658.
In: MSS.
Among papers of the Herbert family, Barons Herbert of Cherbury. Formerly Powis MSS (1990 deposit).
WaE 727
Copy of lines 15-34, here beginning ‘As his last Legacy to Brittain Left’, imperfect, lines 1-14 excised.
The text followed (ff. 1v-2v) by ‘The Construction of Mr Wallers Poem. By Mr Godolphin of Ch: Ch: Oxon’.
In: the MS described under WaE 393. c.1671.
WaE 728
Copy, headed ‘The storme’.
In: the MS described under WaE 394. c.1680s.
The text followed (ff. 80r-1r) by Godolphin's The Answer to ye Storme (anon)a
WaE 729
Copy, in the left column of double columns, the right column, and the left on the second page, bearing Godolphin's ‘Answeare to Wallers Tempesteous Verses’, on the first of two unbound conjugate large folio leaves. Late 17th century.
WaE 730
Copy, headed ‘On ye same Subject: By Mr Waller’.
In: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including twelve poems in the Marvell canon (plus prose and apocryphal poems), in probably a single professional hand with variations of style (but for another hand on pp. 189-92), 192 pages (plus over 90 blank leaves and an Index), in modern red morocco. The predominant hand in the MS is the same as that in Yale Osborn MS b 105. c.1680s.
In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Formerly Restoration poetry MS 1.
Marvell items recorded and some poems collated in POAS, I.
WaE 731
Copy, headed ‘Mr Waller on ye death of ye Lord Protector in ye Year 1658’, subscribed ‘Mr. Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 63. c.1713.
WaE 732
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye late storm, & death of His Highnesse ye Ld Protectour, ensuing ye same. By Mr Waller’, the text followed (p. 57) by ‘The Answer’ by Godolphin.
In: the MS described under WaE 398. c.1674-80.
WaE 733
Copy, headed ‘On ye Ld Protectors dying in a storm by Ed. Waller’; the text followed (pp. 22-5) by Godolphin's answer.
In: An octavo verse miscellany, 148 pages (lacking pp. 55-8, 117-26). Late 17th century.
Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1284. Afterwards owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.
WaE 733.5
Copy, followed (pp. 2-3) by Godolphin's ‘construction of Mr Wallers Poem’.
In: the MS described under WaE 399.5. c.1660s.
‘While I listen to thy voice’
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 127. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
WaE 734
Copy, headed ‘Songe’.
In: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 734.6
Copy, in a musical setting, headed ‘Henry Lawes. Lines to a Lady singing by Edmund Waller’.
In: An oblong quarto-size music book, in a single hand, 91 pages, in 19th-century half-morocco. 18th century.
WaE 735
Second copy, headed ‘Songe’.
In: the MS described under WaE 1 (WaE Δ 1). c.1640s.
Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).
WaE 736
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 2 (WaE Δ 2). c.1640s.
WaE 737.8
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 5.5. c.late 1640s.
Landesbibliothek Kassel, 2o Ms. poet. et roman. 4, pp. 108-9.
WaE 740
Copy, in Lawes's musical setting.
In: the MS described under WaE 9 (WaE Δ 11). Mid-17th century.
WaE 741
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
In: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 21v.
WaE 744
Copy, headed ‘Singing’, subscribed ‘Waller. Poems. p. 78’.
In: the MS described under WaE 214. Early 18th century.
WaE 745
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Eliz. Fowler’.
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.
WaE 746
Copy, untitled.
In: the MS described under WaE 438. Mid-17th century-c.1702.
University of Texas at Austin, Ms (Killigrew, T) Works B Commonplace book, f. 124r.
WaE 747
Copy, untitled, on a single quarto leaf.
In: the MS described under WaE 511. Late 17th century.
Written on a Card that Her Majesty tore at Ombre (‘The cards you tear in value rise’)
First published in Poems, ‘Fourth’ edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 92.
WaE 748
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 65 (WaE Δ 12). c.1703-9.
WaE 749
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 6 (WaE Δ 14). Early 18th century.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt 36, f. 32r.
Other Poems Attributed to Waller
‘Hector consilio te flectere nemo salubri’
Apparently unpublished.
*WaE 750
Nine Latin hexameters, untitled, written in what is probably Waller's variant bold style of hand (as seen in his Latin notebook, WaE 789).
In: A printed work by Pierre de Cardonnel.
Bookplate of John Henry Wrenn (1841-1911), Chicago industrialist and book collector.
University of Texas at Austin, Wj C179 662ca WRE, Unnumbered flyleaf .
‘Hide for adresses pays as many grotes’
Apparently unpublished.
WaE 751
Copy of four lines of verse, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, ascribed in another hand to ‘Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 59 (WaE Δ 7). c.1680s [-1700s].
Of Mrs Dunch (‘This haughty cariage in my Mrs shows’)
Apparently unpublished.
WaE 752
Copy of ten lines of verse, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, subscribed ‘these are imperfectly remember'd’, ascribed in another hand to ‘Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 59 (WaE Δ 7). c.1680s [-1700s].
On her Coming to London (‘What's she, so late from Penshurst come’)
First published in John Bruce, ‘Lines by Waller: Presumed to be Unpublished’, N&Q, 4th Ser. 3 (2 January 1869), 1-2. Thorn-Drury, I, 62-3. The authorship is doubtful.
WaE 753
Copy, with alterations, untitled, subscribed ‘Intended to her Lap att her Coming to London March ye 2. 1638’ [‘8’ apparently altered to ‘9’], on the first leaf of two conjugate folio leaves among the ‘Conway Papers’. c.1639.
The ‘Conway Papers’ are descended from Sir Edward Conway, first Viscount Conway (c.1564-1631), and his son, Edward, second Viscount Conway (1594-1655).
Edited from this MS in Bruce and in Thorn-Drury.
On Mrs. Higgons (‘Ingenious Higgons never sought’)
First published in The Works of the English Poets, ed. Alexander Chalmers, 21 vols (London, 1810), VIII, 75. Thorn-Drury, II, 118.
WaE 754
Copy of a six-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Of Higgons’ and beginning ‘Noe woundes shee so well indites’.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 755
Copy of a twelve-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and beginning ‘Ingenious Higgions that ne're sought’.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 756
Copy of a 24-line version in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
On the Marriage of Mrs Frances Cromwell with Mr Rich, Grandchild to the Earl of Warwick (‘Peace ye loud violins, peace’)
First published in Book Lover's Almanac (New York, 1893). Reprinted in Beverly Chew, Essays & Verses about Books (New York, 1926), pp. 29-32.
WaE 757
Copy of an eighteen-line poem here ascribed to ‘Ed: Waller’, written on a flyleaf in a printed exemplum of Poems (London, 1645). c.1657.
Edited from this MS text in Book Lover's Almanac (1893) and in Beverly Chew (1926).
WaE 757.5
Copy, untitled, on the verso of a single folio leaf (the recto containing WaE 726.5). c.1658.
In: the MS described under WaE 726.5.
On the Marriage of Sir John Denham (‘Methinks her beauty should revive his quill’)
First published in G. Thorn-Drury, A Little Ark (London, 1921), p. 33.
*WaE 758
Autograph fair copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Me thinks hir bewty should reuiue his quill’, on one page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, possibly once folded as a letter or packet. [1665].
Later owned by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Sotheby's, 22 February 1932 (Thorn-Drury Sale, 4th portion), lot 2419, to Dobell.
First recorded by George Thorn-Drury in N&Q, 11th Ser. 5 (20 April 1912), p. 305. Edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury, A Little Ark.
‘Que la Belle chantante encor’
First published in Ella Theodora Riske, ‘Waller in Exile’, TLS (13 October 1932), p. 734.
*WaE 759
Autograph MS of Waller's twelve-line French version of his poem Of Mrs. Arden, which he describes as ‘a translation of something of my owne (wch you may have heard or read) produced by the same occasion as the originall’, on both sides of a quarto leaf in Waller's letter to John Evelyn, from Rouen, [after July] 1646. 1646.
In: the MS described under WaE 405.
Edited from this MS in Riske.
‘That shortly they shall fflourish and wax green’
First published in Thorn-Drury (1893). Thorn-Drury (1904), I, lxviii.
WaE 760
Copy, probably in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Hallbarn Aprill ye 11 1685 The ffollowing line my ffather write in a letter to my Lady Ranalagh after saying he had not much joy in walking in his woods where he found ye trees as bare & withered as himselfe But wth this diferance’.
In: the MS described under WaE 59 (WaE Δ 7). c.1680s [-1700s].
Edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury.
WaE 761
Copy of four lines, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘The ffoollowing line my ffather write in a letter to my Lady Ranalagh after saying he had not much joy in walking in his woods at Hallbarn where he found the trees as bare & withered as himselfe but with this diferance’.
In: the MS described under WaE 279.
‘The' advantage man ore Beasts in Reason getts’
Apparently unpublished.
WaE 762
Copy of twenty lines of dramatic verse in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 763
Copy of a twelve-line version, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, ascribed in another hand to ‘Mr Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 59 (WaE Δ 7). c.1680s [-1700s].
WaE 764
Copy of an eight-line version, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
In: the MS described under WaE 279.
‘This happened not by chaunce’
Unpublished in full.
*WaE 765
Autograph draft verses written on both sides of a flyleaf, comprising a total of 21 lines jotted in five groups:
(i) 2½ + 2½ lines, beginning ‘This happened not by chaunce’.
(ii) two lines beginning ‘A Lyon so wth self prouoking smart’, constituting lines 37-8 in To My Lord of Falkland
(iii) two lines beginning ‘Princes vnarm'd liuing in courts at ease’, echoing in part lines 7-8 in Evadne's opening speech in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690), p. 8: ‘Princes that fly, their scepters left behind,/Contempt or Pitty, where they travel, find’
(iv) eight lines (after a deleted false start, ‘Joue vs'd to part’) beginning ‘So Joue from Ida did both hoasts servay’, constituting a version of lines 61-4 in Of a War with Spain, and a Fight at Sea, the first two lines of this section also corresponding to lines 5-6 in To the King, on his Navy
(v) four lines beginning ‘So <some>/<the>bright Clowds seeme all of gould’.
In: A printed edition of Homer.
This MS recorded in Wikelund (1970), p. 69, and lines (iv) edited in full, p. 76. Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile XXa, after p. xxi.
‘Thus the Manandrian dying Swan did sing’
Apparently unpublished.
WaE 766
Copy of ten lines of verse, subscribed ‘E. Waller’, in a MS collection of letters and verses. 17th century.
Later owned by Miss E. A. T. Winchester. Sotheby's, 9 October 1973, lot 396, to Maggs.
To Cloe (‘Would you be, Cloe, ever fair’)
To Sacharissa on her having shewed me a paper of her own Writing Under the Name of Amoret (‘Oh How Vain, how Weak is Art’)
Apparently unpublished.
WaE 767
Copy, headed ‘Transcribed from Waller To Sacharissa on her having shewed me a paper of her own Writing Under the Name of Amoret’, on three pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves.
In: the MS described under WaE 382. Late 17th century.
To ye Generall the Ld Fairfax (‘The Peeres & generous comonaltie’)
Apparently unpublished.
WaE 768
Copy, subscribed in another hand to ‘Mr Edm: Waller’.
In: A folio miscellany of Royalist (‘Rump’) poems, in various hands, entitled in a slightly later hand A Collection of Poems & Ballads in ridicule of the Parliamty Party during the Quarrell with Ch: I, c.172 pages (and at least 40 blank leaves), with an ‘Index’ of contents, in contemporary calf gilt. Mid-late 17th century.
The upper cover stamped in gilt with the crest of Edward Conway (1594-1655), second Viscount Conway and second Viscount Killultagh, politician and book collector.
To the Honourable Ed. Howard Esq. upon his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem of the British Princes (‘Sir/ You have oblig'd the British Nation more’)
First published, ascribed to ‘Mr. Waller’, in The Third Part of Miscellany Poems (London, 1716), pp. 68-9. The Works of Edmund Waller, ed. Elijah Fenton (London, 1729). The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, ed. Robert Thyer, 2 vols (London, 1759), I, 104-6.
Because of the last publication, this poem was rejected from the Waller canon by Thorn-Drury (I, p. vii). See, however, the Introduction above and IELM, II.i, Samuel Butler, pp. 31-8.
WaE 769
Copy, headed ‘On ye same’ [i.e.‘Upon Mr. Howardes Brittish Princes’] and subscribed ‘Hudebras’.
In: A folio volume of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in professional hands, ff. 1-49 comprising poems of the 1640s, ff. 49v onwards Restoration poems up to 1681, 174 leaves (including twelve blanks), in contemporary calf, both covers stamped ‘1642’, with remains of clasps. Including nine poems in the Marvell canon (plus apocryphal poems); ff. 1-157 a single unit in variant styles of hand; ff. 158-62 in yet another hand on a smaller tipped-in quire of paper. Mid-late 17th century.
Among the collections of Francis Douce (1757-1834), antiquary and collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1993) as the Douce MS: MaA Δ 3. Marvell contents recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.
WaE 770
Copy, headed ‘On the British Princes To the Honourable Ed. Howard Esq. vpon his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem of the British Princes’, subscribed ‘Edmund Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 383. End of 17th century.
WaE 770.5
Copy, headed ‘On the same’ [i.e. Edward Howard], subscribed ‘Sam: Butler’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and French, in several hands, written from both ends, 360 pages (the majority blank), in old calf. Inscribed (p. [41 rev.]) ‘J. Tyrell’ and compiled at least in part by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer and friend of the philosopher John Locke (1632-1704), a poem by whom (ff. [16v-17r]) he dockets as ‘By my dear Friend Mr J. Lock’. c.1670s-80s.
Later in the library of Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician, and his son Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician.
WaE 771
Copy, subscribed ‘Ed Waller’.
In: A duodecimo miscellany of verse, on affairs of state etc., and prose, including Latin academic exercises, in a single small hand, compiled by an Oxford University man, written from both ends, iii + 87 leaves, in old morocco. c.1670s.
Bookplate of Arthur Ashpitel, FSA, and bequeathed by him 1869.
To the Prince of Orange, 1677 (‘Welcome, great Prince, unto this land’)
First published in The Works of the English Poets, ed. Alexander Chalmers, 21 vols (London, 1810), VIII, 68-9. Thorn-Drury, II, 82-3.
WaE 772
Copy, subscribed ‘Edmund Waller of Beaconsfield’.
In: A large quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled Collection of Choice Poemes, in a single neat hand, with a ‘Catalogue’ of contents (ff. 382v-6v), 387 leaves, in half brown morocco gilt. c.1703.
Note of purchase (f. 1r) ‘pd - 6 - 9 -/ April 24 1703’.
WaE 773
Copy in a section entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &ca Not yet Printed.
In: A tall folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in professional hands, 257 leaves, in modern calf gilt. In three sections each with its own title-page. Early 1700s.
First section: ‘A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &ca Not yet Printed’.
Second section (f. 102r): ‘A Collection of Choice Poems, Satyrs, & Lampoons From 1672 to 1688 Never printed’.
Third section (f. 146r): ‘A Collection of Poems. From 1688 to 1699. 1703/4’.
WaE 775
Copy in: A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index). c.1690s.
Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, ‘Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien’, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.
Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090, ff. 143v-4v.
WaE 776
Copy, headed ‘Upon ye Prince of Orange’.
In: An octavo miscellany of poems on affairs of state, largely in one small neat hand, with additions (pp. 71-5 plus 20 pages at the reverse end) in later hands c.1709, 95 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum gilt. c.1680-1700s.
A label: ‘Sold by Robert Paske Stationer in the Piatza on ye North side of the Royal Exchange London’.
This volume is probably that sold at Sotheby's, 1 March 1871 (Sir John Simeon sale, 7th day), lot 1675, to Quaritch, and probably item 1279 in Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918). In the collection of Robert H. Taylor (1908-85), American book and manuscript collector. Restoration poetry MS 4.
WaE 777
Copy in: A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, in two volumes: Vol. I, including twelve poems by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal item, spp. 1-461 (plus index); Vol. II, pp. 462-842 (with irregularities of pagination). This MS is closely related to Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna, Cod. 14090. c.1690s-1700.
Later owned by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869), literary scholar and editor, who records that £50 ‘was given by Perry, for these 2 volumes’.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Dyce MS: RoJ Δ 15.
Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce MS 43 (Pressmark Dyce 25.F.37-38), pp. 270-2.
‘Oh How vain, how Weak is Art’
See WaE 767.
Upon a Lady's Fishing with an Angle (‘See where the fair Clorinda sits, and seems’)
First published in Thorn-Drury (1893), pp. 244-5. Thorn Drury (1904), II, 116-17. The attribution toWaller doubtful.
‘Venus came from the sea & sits by him that governs it’
Unpublished.
*WaE 779
Autograph draft of six largely unrelated lines jotted on the flyleaf.
In: Printed edition of Malherbe.
When he was at Sea (‘Whilst I was free I wrote with high conceit’)
First published in Philip Neve, Cursory Remarks on some of the Ancient English Poets (London, 1789), pp. 70-1. Thorn-Drury, I, 75.
WaE 779.5
Copy, headed ‘Mr Waller, when he was at Sea’, evidently made from Philip Neve's ‘antient MS’, at the end of Atterbury-Neve Volume.
In: the MS described under WaE 6.5. c.1721.
WaE 780
Copy, headed ‘Mr Waller, when he was at Sea’, evidently made from Philip Neve's ‘antient MS’, at the end of Atterbury-Neve Volume; see WaE 781.
In: the MS described under WaE 7 (WaE Δ 15). c.1788.
WaE 781
Copy, headed ‘Mr. Waller when he was at Sea’.
In: the MS described under WaE 103.
Edited from this MS in Neve.
WaE 782
Copy in: A miscellaneous collection of MS verse, ‘totally unconnected with each other, and written on backs of letters, or other scraps of paper’. 17th century.
Formerly among the papers of the Aston family, of Tixall, Staffordshire.
Selectively edited (as his ‘Fourth Division: Miscellaneous Poems’) in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), pp. 207-324.
Edited from this MS, as ‘Mr Waller when he was at Sea’, in Arthur Clifford, Tixall Poetry (Edinburgh, 1813), p. 219.
‘fower riuers Eden did adorne & guard’
Unpublished.
*WaE 783
Autograph draft verses, untitled, beginning ‘fower riuers Eden did adorne & guard’, comprising seventeen lines in all, with deletions and repetitions, jotted on both sides of an endpaper. Edited with facsimiles in Taylor, pp. 18-21.
In: A printed edition of Machiavelli, bound with Hubert Languet, Vindiciae contra tyrannos (1580).
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, Stuart 239-241, Endpaper.
‘When we began to make our neibours feele’
Line 6 of verses by Waller: WaE 783.
‘Who in this Age behave yourself, & walke’
Written before a Lady's Waller (‘The lovely Owner of this book’)
Apparently unpublished. An elaborate compliment to a lady, suggesting that ‘ye Old Bard would have celebrated her instead of Sacharissa had he been younger’. Its authorship is uncertain.
WaE 784
Copy of a 27-line poem in an unidentified hand, docketed ‘Bishp Atterbury’ [i.e. found in the handwriting of Atterbury: see f. [65] for a similar note].
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
WaE 785
Copy, headed ‘Written in a Ladys Book by Mr Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 63. c.1713.
WaE 785.5
Copy, headed ‘Written in a lady's Waller’.
In: An octavo miscellany, principally in two hands, written from both ends, 177 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled by Samuel Estwick (c.1657-1739), minor canon at St Paul's and sacrist and rector of St Helen's, Bishopsgate, London. Inscribed on p. 101 ‘Rob: Fysher Decemb: 30th 1713’. c.1700-1714.
Written in my Lady Speke's Singing-Book (‘Her fair eyes, if they could see’)
First published in Thorn-Drury (1893), p. 129. Thorn Drury (1904), II, 1.
WaE 786
Copy of a nine-line poem, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, ascribed in another hand to ‘Waller’.
In: the MS described under WaE 59 (WaE Δ 7). c.1680s [-1700s].
Speeches
Speech in the House of Commons, 22 April 1640
A speech beginning ‘I will use no preface, as they do who prepare men to something to which they would persuade them...’ First published in two variant editions, as A Worthy Speech Made in the house of commons this present Parliament 1641 and as An Honorable and Learned Speech made by Mr Waller in Parliament respectively (both London, 1641). In Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), pp. 306-8. It is doubted whether Waller actually delivered this speech in Parliament, though ‘He may have prepared and circulated the speech in manuscript to impress contemporaries’.
WaE 787
Copy in: A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and papers, 368 leaves. Mid-17th century.
WaE 788
Copy in: A volume chiefly of speeches and proceedings in Parliament, 1640, 54 leaves, in modern half-vellum marbled boards. c.1640s.
Later owned by Frederic Morrell, Oxford solicitor. Acquired from the executors of Mrs Morrell in 1925.
Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 306.
WaE 789
Copy in: A folio composite volume of state and parliamentary papers, in various hands, iii + 96 leaves.
Possibly once owned by Anthony Wood (1632-95), Oxford antiquary. Acquired from W.H. Turner in 1878.
Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 306.
WaE 789.5
Copy in: A folio volume of speeches in the House of Commons in 1640, in a single professional hand, 105 leaves, in modern quarter red morocco. c.1640s.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘John Griffith’ and with a stamp lettered ‘Cole Devm’.
Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 306.
WaE 790
Copy in: A folio composite volume of parliamentary speeches, from 1640 to 1675, in various professional hands, 293 leaves, in old calf.
Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 306.
WaE 790.5
Copy in: A folio composite volume of speeches in Parliament 1639-41, in several professional hands, 356 leaves, in old calf gilt (rebacked).
Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 306.
WaE 791
Copy, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘Mr Wallers Speech’, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1640.
In: A folio composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various hands and paper sizes, 332 pages, in (deteriorated) old half-calf boards.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Dr Williams's Papers wch We brought from Barrow’. Bequeathed by J.M. Edwards, MA, 18 March 1958.
Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 306.
WaE 792
Copy, headed ‘Mr Wallar speech in Pliament 1640’.
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.
Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 306.
WaE 792.5
Copy in: A folio booklet of speeches in Parliament, 1640, in a professional hand, 22 leaves (plus blanks). c.1640s.
Among the papers of the Jervoise family, of Herriard Park.
WaE 793
Copy, headed ‘Mr Wallers Speech in Parlt in the House of Comons 1640’.
In: A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings in April 1640, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, ii + 73 unnumbered leaves, in a stiff paper wrapper. c.1640s.
WaE 793.5
Copy, introduced ‘Mr. Waller said as followeth’.
In: A quarto volume of parliamentary letters and speeches, mostly (up to p. 94) in probably two professional secretary hands, a later second secretary hand from p. 109 onwards, 295 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1620s-40s.
Formerly among the MSS of John Harvey of Ickwell Bury, Hertfordshire, and Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Sotheby's, 19 June 1922. lot 522.
Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 62.
Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 307.
WaE 794
Copy, headed ‘Mr Wallers Speech in the House of Comons, Ao. 1640’. c.1642.
In: A folio composite volume of speeches and proceedings in the House of Commons in 1640-42, in various hands, vi + 1237 pages, rebound in two volumes, in modern quarter-calf. c.1640s.
Among the collections of George Neilson (1858-1923), Scottish historian and antiquary.
Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 307.
WaE 795
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Mr Wallers speech in the howse of Comons Anno 1640’.
In: A folio volume of speeches in Parliament, in two professional secretary hands, written from both ends, with two tables of contents, 44 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum with ties. c.1640s.
Purchased from Mr Mercier, December 1806. Old pressmark I. 3. 17.
Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.
WaE 796
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Mr Waller his Speech in the Comons howse of Parliamt novemb: Ano Dni 1640’.
In: A folio volume of proceedings in Parliament in 1640 and other state papers, in several professional hands, 369 leaves (plus blanks), in old calf. c.1640s.
Old pressmark G. 3. 12.
Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 306.
WaE 796.5
Copy, headed ‘Mr Wallers Speech in the Comons house of Parlt shewing that Parlts best aduance ye kinges affaires, & property & freedome of ye Subiect, support Religion, and obedience to the King’.
In: A quarto miscellany of political material, principally of parliamentary speeches and letters for 1640-1, neatly written in a rounded hand, 310 pages, in 17th-century calf. Mid-17th century.
Formerly Osborn Collection, Box 45, 19.
Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 307.
WaE 797
Copy, headed Mr Waller's speech in Parliament April. 15 1640.
In: A quarto volume comprising speeches in Parliament 1640-40/1, in a single mixed hand, 52 leaves, in modern cloth. c.1640s.
Later owned by Edward Dowden (1843-1913), and with a tipped-in letter to him about the MS by David Masson, 4 May 1875. Dowden sale, London 9 June 1914, to Dobell. Purchased in 1928.
WaE 797.5
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 381 (WaE Δ 19). c.1690s.
Speech in Parliament, at a Conference of both Houses in the Painted Chamber, July 6, 1641, upon delivering the Impeachment against Mr. Justice Crawley
Speech beginning ‘My Lords, I am commanded by the House of Commons to present you with these articles against Mr Justice Crawley...’. First published in London.1641. The Works of Edmund Waller, Esqr (London, 1772), p. 208 et seq..
WaE 797.6
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 381 (WaE Δ 19). c.1690s.
WaE 797.7
Copy, headed ‘Mr Wallers Speech in Parlt at a conference of both Houses in the painted Chamber 6. Julj. i641’.
In: the MS described under WaE 796.5. Mid-17th century.
Speech in the House of Commons, on Tuesday, July 4, 1643, when Mr. Waller was brought to the Bar
A speech beginning ‘I acknowledge it a great mercy of God, and a great favor from you...’. The Works of Edmund Waller, Esqr (London, 1772), p. 218 et seq.
WaE 797.8
An account of Waller's speech after the failure of his ‘Plot’, in the autograph diary of Sir Simonds D'Ewes. 1643.
In: A large folio composite volume of state papers and parliamentary speeches, in various hands, 291 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
Much in the hand of Sir Simonds D'Ewes.
WaE 797.9
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 381 (WaE Δ 19). c.1690s.
Dramatic Works
The Maid's Tragedy Altered
First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (1690).
See also WaE 145, WaE 765.
WaE 798
Copy of all Waller's adaptation on ff. [8r-23r rev.], with additional passages on f. [25r et seq. rev.], also (on f. [2r]) a sixteen-line passage beginning ‘Under what Tyranny are Women born’ [a version of Evadne's lines near the beginning of the play, line 9 et seq.], in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
In: the MS described under WaE 59 (WaE Δ 7). c.1680s [-1700s].
Recorded in IELM, II.ii (1993), as WaE 787.
Mr Richard Waller, [no shelfmark], ff. [8r-23r rev.], [25ret seq. rev.], f. [2r].
WaE 798.5
Copy of a series of passages, at least some relating to Waller's adaptation and possibly incorporating rejected drafts, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters on four pages.
Besides 12 lines (on f. [4]) begininng ‘When I consider life tis all a cheate’ from Dryden's Aureng-Zebe, IV, i, the passages on these four pages include (i) 16 lines beginning ‘Under what Tyranny are women born!’, the first two lines being a version of Evadne's couplet beginning ‘Under how hard a Fate are Women born!’ near the opening of the play (lines 9-10); and (on lower half of f. [8]) 16 lines beginning ‘Noe forrest, Cave, or Savage Denn’, being Aspasia's lines 7-22 in her scene in the Forest. Some of the other, unidentified passages also occur in other Waller family papers.
In: the MS described under WaE 60 (WaE Δ 6). c.1693-8.
Recorded in IELM, II.ii (1993), as WaE 788.
Letters
Letter(s)
*WaE 799
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to Lady Dorothy Sidney (‘Sacharissa’), [? May 1639]. 1639.
Edited in Thorn-Drury, I, xxvi-xxvii.
*WaE 800
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to Jerome Weston, Earl of Portland, [June 1643]. 1643.
In: A folio composite volume of chiefly state letters and papers for 1643, in various hands, 656 leaves, now in two volumes, foliated 1-311 and 313-656 respectively.
Edited in Works, ed. Elijah Fenton (London, 1729), pp. 430-2. Text in Deas, pp. 167-9.
*WaE 801
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to Colonel Arthur Goodwyn, [July 1643]. 1643.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous correspondence, including papers of the Wharton family, 1640-67, in various hands, 828 leaves.
Edited in Lord Nugent, Some Memorials of John Hampden, his Party, and his Times, 2 vols (London, 1832), II, 417-19. Text in Deas, pp. 170-1.
*WaE 802
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to Colonel Henry Marten, [1643/4]. 1644.
Facsimile in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), No. 43.
Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, Marten/Loder-Symonds MSS, Box 78.
*WaE 803
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to his cousin Walter Waller, [after 1644]. c.1645 or later.
Sotheby's, 17 December 1956, lot 155, to Quaritch, with a facsimile of the subscription in the sale catalogue.
*WaE 804
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, from Rouen, 3 August 1646. 1646.
In: A folio guardbook of letters, in various hands and paper sizes, 143 leaves, in modern half red morocco. Volume CXLVIII of the Evelyn Papers.
Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn Papers, Letters 1341. A passage quoted by Allan Pritchard in Editing Poetry from Spenser to Dryden, ed. A.H. De Quehen (New York & London, 1981), p. 69.
*WaE 805
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, from Rouen, 17 August 1646. 1646.
In: the MS described under WaE 804.
Formerly Evelyn Papers, Letters 1342.
*WaE 806
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, from Rouen, 22 August 1646, with (ff. 77v-8r) Evelyn's draft reply. 1646.
In: the MS described under WaE 804.
Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn Papers, Letters 1343.
*WaE 807
Autograph letter signed by Waller, in French, to John Evelyn, from Rouen, 6 October 1646, with (f. 87r-v) Evelyn's draft reply. 1646.
In: the MS described under WaE 804.
Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn Papers, Letters 1344.
*WaE 808
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, from Dieppe, 18 October 1646. 1646.
In: the MS described under WaE 804.
Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn Papers, Letters 1345.
*WaE 809
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to [John Evelyn], from Rouen, [after July] 1646]. 1646.
In: the MS described under WaE 405.
Edited in Ella Theodora Riske, ‘Waller in Exile’, TLS (13 October 1932), 734. Text also in Deas, pp. 172-3.
*WaE 810
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, from Rouen, 18 January ‘1646’. 1647.
In: the MS described under WaE 804.
Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn Papers, Letters 1346.
*WaE 811
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, from Rouen, 21 January 1646[/7]. 1647.
In: the MS described under WaE 804.
Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn Papers Letters 1340.
*WaE 812
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, from Rouen, 14 August 1647. 1647.
In: the MS described under WaE 804.
Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn Papers, Letters 1347.
*WaE 813
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, from Rouen, 5 September 1647. 1647.
In: the MS described under WaE 804.
Formerly Christ Church, Oxford, Evelyn Papers, Letters 1348.
*WaE 814
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, from Paris, 5 May 1648. 1648.
Later owned by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. Sotheby's, 13 June 1911 (Huth sale), lot 232, to Lindsay, with a facsimile in the sale catalogue.
*WaE 815
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, from Pont de l'Arche, 1 October 1648. 1648.
Evans's [i.e. Sotheby's], 10 February 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 286, to Young.
Facsimile in F. G. Netherclift and R. Sims, The Autograph Souvenir, a Collection of Autograph Letters, 1st Ser. (London, 1865). Facsimile example also in Lawrence B. Phillips, The Autographic Album (London, 1866), p. 12.
*WaE 816
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to Sir Richard Browne, from Rouen, 3 July 1649. 1649.
In: A folio composite volume of letters and papers, in various hands and paper sizes, ii + 179 leaves, with an index by William Upcott, in half-leather.
Volume DXVIII of the Evelyn Papers.
*WaE 817
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to John Evelyn, [28 August 1651]. 1651.
*WaE 818
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to [an unidentified gentleman], from St Germain, ‘Tuesday morning’ [1651]. 1651.
Later owned by John L. Clawson. Anderson Galleries, New York, 29 November 1920. Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1 November 1950 (Oliver R. Barrett sale), lot 1114. (the addressee erroneously identified as Dorothy Spencer, ‘Sacharissa’). Owned in 1953 by the New York dealer C.A. Stonehill, Great Bookham, Surrey.
*WaE 819
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to an unidentified correspondent, [April 1652].
Later in the Donald and Mary Hyde Collection.
Recorded in The R. B. Adam Library, 3 vols (London & New York, 1929), III, 250. Edited in W. Carew Hazlitt, Bibliographical Collections and Notes on Early English Literature 1474-1700, Second Series (London, 1882), p. 631. Reedited in Thorn-Drury, II, 198.
*WaE 820
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to [? Sir Richard Browne], 10 May 1652. 1652.
Formerly John Wild Autograph Collection, Leaf 92.
*WaE 821
Autograph letter signed by Waller, [to John Evelyn], from Beaconsfield, 30 August 1652. 1652.
In: A folio composite volume of autograph letters. Volume II of the Charnwood Autograph Collection, formed by Dorothea Mary Roby Benson (d.1942), wife of Godfrey Rathbone, first Baron Charnwood.
Formerly Loan MS 60/2.
*WaE 822
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to Thomas Hobbes (quoting Italian verses with his rendering in an English couplet), [late July 1656]. 1656.
Maggs's sale catalogue No. 480.
Edited in Paul H. Hardacre, ‘A Letter from Edmund Waller to Thomas Hobbes’, HLQ, 11 (1948-9), 431-3, and in The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes, ed. Noel Malcolm, (Oxford, 1994), I, Letter 88, pp. 294-6. The Text also in Deas, pp. 174-7. Facsimile page in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 274 (dated 9 September 1657).
*WaE 824
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to William Cavendish, third Earl of Devonshire, [c.1657]. 1657.
Facsimile in British Literary Manuscripts, Series I, ed. Verlyn Klinkenborg et al. (New York, 1981), No. 40.
*WaE 825
Autograph letter signed by Waller, [to ? John Evelyn], from St. James's Street, [London], 14 October 1671. 1671.
In: A folio composite volume of miscellaneous papers, in various hands, 97 leaves.
Facsimile of the second page in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LIV. Text in Deas, p. 189.
*WaE 826
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to his wife, from London, 14 February [no year, but before 1677]. c.1676.
*WaE 826.5
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to his wife, from London, ‘Thursday 2 [or 9] a clock att night’ [no year, but before 1677]. [c.1676].
Facsimile of the second page in Wikelund (1970), before p. 73.
WaE 827
Copy of a letter by Waller to Mrs Myddelton, [May 1677]. c.1677.
In:
Edited in Steinman (1864), pp. 32-3. Text in Deas, pp. 187-8. The original letter was owned in 1733 by Mrs Myddelton's daughter Jane, Mrs May (c.1662-1740).
WaE 828
Copy of a letter by Waller to Mrs Myddelton, from Beaconsfield, 12 May 1678. c.1678.
In: the MS described under WaE 827.
Cited and discussed in Warren L. Chernaik, The Poetry of Limitation: A Study of Edmund Waller (New Haven & London, 1968), pp. 36-7 (where the date is erroneously read as ‘1670’ and a suggested emendation of ‘1675’ made). Edited in Steinman (1864), pp. 34-5. Text in Deas, pp. 179-80. The original letter was owned in 1733 by Mrs Myddelton's daughter Jane, Mrs May (c.1662-1740).
*WaE 829
Autograph letter signed by Waller, [to Jacob Tonson], from Beaconsfield, 22 June 1679. 1679.
Sotheby's, 1 July 1925 (property of H. Clinton Baker of Bayfordbury), lot 785, to Dobell.
WaE 830
Copy of a letter by Waller to Mrs Myddelton, from Beaconsfield, 8 August [1680]. c.1680.
In: the MS described under WaE 827.
Edited in Steinman (1864), pp. 35-7. Text in Deas, pp. 181-3. The original letter was owned in 1733 by Mrs Myddelton's daughter Jane, Mrs May (c.1662-1740).
WaE 831
Letter by Waller, to Dr Robert Wood, in the hand of an amanuensis and sent on by Wood to Sir William Petty, from Saint Germain, 7 March [1680/1]. 1681.
In: A tall folio composite volume of miscellaneous correspondence of Sir William Petty, in various hands, iv + 310 leaves, in 19th-century morocco gilt.
Formerly Petty Papers, Vol. 6, 1st and 2nd series.
WaE 832
Copy of a letter by Waller [to Mrs Myddelton], 23 March [1680/1]. c.1681.
In: the MS described under WaE 827.
Edited in Steinman (1864), pp. 37-9. Text in Deas, pp. 185-7. The original letter was owned in 1733 by Mrs Myddelton's daughter Jane, Mrs May (c.1662-1740).
WaE 833
Copy of a letter by Waller to Mrs Myddelton, 4 August [1683?]. c.1683.
In: the MS described under WaE 827.
Edited in Steinman (1864), p. 40. Text in Deas, p. 180. The original letter was owned in 1733 by Mrs Myddelton's daughter Jane, Mrs May (c.1662-1740).
WaE 834
Copy of a letter by Waller [to Mrs Myddelton], from Hall Barn, 22 August [1683]. c.1683.
In: the MS described under WaE 827.
Edited in Steinman (1864), pp. 41-2. Text in Deas, pp. 183-5. The original letter was owned in 1733 by Mrs Myddelton's daughter Jane, Mrs May (c.1662-1740).
Documents
Document(s)
*WaE 835
Bargain and sale of ‘one peece of wast ground’ in Beaconsfield from Richard Baldwyn and his son Richard to Anne Waller and her son Edmund, signed by both Anne and Edmund Waller, 2 May 1626. 1626.
*WaE 836
Account book of overseers and churchwardens of Amersham for 1611-1741, signed by Waller on 1 May 1633 (p. 42), 2 April 1635 (p. 47) and 25 April 1636 (p. 49), as well as signed by his kinsman, John Hampden, on retrospective accounts for 1630 and 1631 (pp. 39, 41). 1633-5.
*WaE 837
A certificate of return of Justices of the Peace for the three hundred of Burnham, concerning relief of the poor and administration of justice, signed by Waller, [2 October 1634]. 1634.
*WaE 838
A lease to Richard Widmer of properties in Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, signed by Anne Waller and her son Edmund Waller and others, also signed as witnesses by Walter Waller and by one John Milton (not the poet), 14 December [1638]. 1638.
*WaE 839
A return of Constables of Chesham, signed by Waller, 21 July 1640. 1640.
*WaE 841
An order of payment to Thomas Soames, Alderman, signed by Waller, 16 March 1641/2. 1642.
WaE 842
Waller's petition to the house of Lords, when a prisoner in the Tower, pleading for mercy, pledging a £10,000 fine from his estate and seeking banishment, in a rounded hand, with his autograph signature ‘Edm Waller’, on the first page of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Mr Wallers Peticon. read. sept. 24o 1644’.
In: A large guardbook of papers relating to the House of Lords from 23 September to11 October 1644, in various hands and paper sizes, 141 leaves foliated ff. 94-160, 1-74. 1644.
*WaE 843
A signed marriage settlement between Waller and his second wife, on a vellum leaf, January 1645[/6]. 1646.
Acquired from Seven Gables Bookshop, New York.
*WaE 844
A receipt for £400 from Edward Garard, Kent, signed by Waller, 27 November 1651. 1651.
Columbia University, New York, Sm Coll Smith Documents 1651.
*WaE 845
Three indentures and one recovery roll, concerning the settlement of Waller's daughter, Anna Marah (b.1634), on marrying William Dormer, all signed by Waller, 10 October 1653. 1653.
*WaE 846
A deed of purchase of Widgenden and Diffield by George Gosnold of Beaconsfield, on vellum, signed by Waller, also by his second wife Mary, and attested by George Etherege (see EtG 157) and others, 8 June 1655. 1655.
Puttick & Simpson's, 13 May 1867 (the Rev. F.B. Woodward sale), 4th day, lot 1346. Sotheby's, 8 May 1868, lot 545, to Waller. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 536 (1930), item 2401.
*WaE 847
A quitclaim from Waller to Ambrose Bennett relating to property in Beaconsfield, 1 December 1657. 1657.
*WaE 848
An order of Council for Foreign Plantations for payment of £150 to their secretary, Colonel Froude, signed by Waller, Orrery, and others, 9 March 1662[/3]. 1663.
Sotheby's, 14 April 1875, lot 858.
*WaE 849
A Joint Council letter to the Lord Chief Justice on the King's Bench, Ireland, requesting duplicates of receipts for revenues from 1660-8, signed by Waller and others, from Essex House, 31 October 1668. 1668.
Sotheby's, 2 June 1881, lot 174. 29 June 1904, lot 245, to Pearson.
*WaE 850
Part of a King's Treasury document, assigning an order to John Portman, signed by Waller, 21 February 1670[/1]. 1671.
WaE 851
Citation, in Entry Book 55, of a petition by Waller to the King, applying for the office of Clerk of the Arching in the Common Pleas, the original untraced but cited here in an official copy of Lord Sunderland's warrant on behalf of the King, 14 October 1679, favourably referring the matter to the Solicitor General. 1679.
*WaE 852
A mortgage agreement relating to Stocks Place, Coleshill, signed by Waller and also by Thomas Ellwood, 7 February 1682/3. 1683.
WaE 853
A six-page legal draft of a petition by ‘Your oratour Edmund Waller of Hall Barne in ye County of Buckes Esqr’ Relating to Edmund Waller the Younger rather than the poet. This petition concerns an agreement made c.1679 between the late John Ayloffe of the Inner Temple, John Freke of the Middle Temple and Edmund Waller for the purchase of a farm in Hampshire from the late Earl of Shaftesbury. Mid-1680s.
*WaE 854
An agreement for the purchase of land in Beaconsfield, signed by Waller, 20 March 1685[/6]. 1686.
Sotheby's, 26 July 1921, lot 463, to Maggs.
*WaE 855
A settlement for the marriage of Edmund Waller the Younger and Abigail Tilney, 18 November 1686. 1686.
*WaE 856
A bond and obligation between Waller and Zachary Allsmith and James Child, of Coleshill, signed by Waller in a shaky hand, 25 March 1687. 1687.
*WaE 857
A detached signature of Waller, inserted in an exemplum of Boswell's Life of Johnson, II, 176. Mid-late 17th century.
Possibly the signature ‘Edm Waller’ on a slip of paper sold at Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York, 1 November 1950 (Barrett sale), lot 1115.
Will
*WaE 858
Waller's last will and testament, dated 12 September 1681, with a codicil dated 9 January 1681[/2], on vellum and signed by the poet. 1681-2.
WaE 859
A notarised copy of Waller's last will and testament, 19 June 1686, with a separate codicil dated 2 July 1687, and proved 7 November 1687. c.1687.
WaE 860
Copy of Waller's will dated 12 September 1681, with its codicil dated 9 January 1681[/2] (i.e. of WaE 858), made in 1871 when it was in the custody of Coverdale, Lee, Collyer-Bristow, Withers and Russell, of 4 Bedford Row, London, and now among papers of George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. 1871.
WaE 861
A registered copy of Waller's last will and testament, entirely in a professional hand, 19 June 1686, with a separate codicil dated 2 July 1687, and proved 7 November 1687. 1687.
WaE 862
A registered confirmation of the codical, made on 2 July 1687, to Waller's last will and testament dated 19 June 1686, proved 7 November 1687. 1687.
WaE 863
Registered copy of Waller's last will and testament, 19 June 1686, with a separate codicil dated 2 July 1687, and proved 7 November 1687. 1687.
Miscellaneous
Notebook
*WaE 864
A small octavo autograph notebook, 89 leaves (plus 66 blanks), written from both ends: ff. [2v, 16r-28v] and [59v-61v rev.] written in Waller's distinctive cursive hand; ff. [3r-25v] and [1r-58v rev.] closely written in a bolder, more upright variant of his hand [cp. WaE 750]; in quarter-calf marbled boards. Containing a series of philosophical notes in Latin, including (ff. [2v-28v] a commentary on Aristotle, (ff. [1r-58v rev.]) a series of 61 entries or definitions (‘De arte’, ‘De logice’, ‘De voce’, &c.), and (ff. [59v-61v rev.] notes on the Bible.
Inscribed ‘J. Lee. Doctors Commons… M.S. From the Library of Waller the Poet’ and, on the spine, ‘M.S. No 380 Waller's Library’: i.e. later in the library of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. John Pearson & Co. of 5 Pall Mall, London, catalogues of ‘rare and valuable autographs’ [n.d.], variously items 98, 405, 594, and 675.
What might just possibly be this manuscript is what is described as a quarto manuscript Logicæ Rudimenta, dated 1666.allegedly in Waller's hand, offered in Willis and Sotheran's sale catalogue for 1859, item 5245.
Recorded in IELM, II.ii (1993), as WaE 789.
Books from Waller's Library
Commentary on St Paul's Epistles
*WaE 864.5
A folio MS on vellum, ‘with Mr. Waller's Autograph’. Lot 120 in the Waller sale of 1832. Mid-17th century.
Ariosto, Ludovico. Orlando Furioso (Venice, 1617)
WaE 864.8
Waller's alleged exemplum. 17th century.
Lot 389 in the Waller sale of 1832. Offered in an anonymous mid-19th-century sale catalogue.
Aristotle. La Rhetorique d'Aristote, traduction nouvelle [par F. Cassandre] (Paris, 1675)
*WaE 865
A printed exemplum, inscribed on the title-page ‘Edm Waller. 001: 5s: 1675’. 1675.
Christie's, 30 September 1981 (Chatsworth sale), lot 447). This corresponds to lot 343 in the Waller sale of 1832.
Barnewal, Robert. Les Reports de les cases conteinus in les ans vint primer, et apres in temps del roy Henry le siz (London, 1601)
*WaE 866
Printed exemplum, in brown calf, inscribed ‘Edm Waller’, ‘Theophilus Ashton’, and ‘Jo: Kelynge’. Mid-late 17th century.
Bookplate of William Thomas Smedley (1851-1934), Baconian.
Bible (folio, London: for Robert Barker, 1616)
*WaE 867
An exemplum of the Bible printed for Robert Barker in 1616. ‘Royal Version of the Old Testament only, interleaved with blank paper’ with ‘autograph of Waller the poet: “Edm. Waller, Anno Domini 1626, July 11”’. Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 7 August 1854 (Pickering sale), 3rd day, lot 961, to Willis. Willis & Sotheran's sale catalogues for 1859, item 702, and for 1862. This corresponds to lot 251 in the Waller sale of 1832. 1626.
Boccaccio, Giovanni. The Falle of Princis…tra[n]slatid i[n]to Englissh by Iohn Ludgate (London, 1494)
*WaE 868
A printed exemplum, with ‘the signature, “Edmond Waller”, in an old hand…cut out from a blank leaf at the end of the volume before re-binding, and preserved on a fly-leaf’. Mid-17th century.
Thomas Thorp's sale catalogue No. 380 (1927), item 101.
Cardonnel, Pierre de. Complementum fortunatarum insularum, Part II (London, 1662)
*WaE 869
An octavo printed exemplum, with an inlaid slip bearing the names of ‘Robert Waller’, ‘Ro: Waller’, and ‘Edm waller’, in modern calf gilt. Late 17th century.
In: the MS described under WaE 750.
University of Texas at Austin, Wj C179 662ca WRE, The volume as a whole.
Cavendish, Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle. Philosophical and Physical Opinions, 2nd edition (London, 1663)
*WaE 870
A printed exemplum, bearing a pencilled note ‘from Waller the Poets Library 11256’. The first flyleaf bearing the couplet in ink, ‘New Castles on the air this Lady builds, / While nonsence with Philosophy she guilds’ apparently in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with a later pencil note suggesting ‘This couplet may have been written by Waller’. Late 17th century.
Later in the library of Beverly Chew (1850-1924), book collector. This corresponds to lot 196 in the Waller sale of 1832.
Danaeous, Lambertus. Vetustissimae primi mundi antiquitates (Orthes, 1590)
*WaE 872
A printed exemplum, with ‘the signature of Edmund Waller on title’.
Sotheby's, 23 November 1893 (Hazlitt sale), lot 139, to South.
Davenant, Sir William. Gondibert (London, 1651)
*WaE 873
A printed exemplum with signature ‘Edmond Waller’ on the flyleaf. Mid-17th century.
P. J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 242 (May 1915), item 6.
Esquemeling, John. Bucaniers of America (London, 1684)
*WaE 874
A printed exemplum, with ‘signatures [of] Edm. Waller and John Aislabie on blank flyleaf at end’. Mid-17th century.
Christie's, 7 June 1967, lot 199. This corresponds to lot 171 in the Waller sale of 1900.
Eutychius. Scriptoris…Ecclesiae suae origines…edidit…Ioannes Seldenus (London, 1642)
*WaE 875
A printed exemplum, with ‘inscription on title in the hand of [Waller] “Edm Waller. Ex dono Aucthoris. 30° Sept: 1642”’. 1642.
Sotheby's, 18 March 1926 (Christie-Miller sale), lot 550. This may correspond to lot 316 in the Waller sale of 1832.
Fabro Bremundan, Francisco. Historia de los hechos del Senor Don Juan de Austria en el principado de Cataluña, Parte I (Saragossa, 1673)
*WaE 876
A printed exemplum ‘from the library of Waller the poet’.
Sotheby's, 12 December 1853 (the Rev. Dr Hawtrey sale), 3rd day, lot 697, to Boone.
Florilegii magnii seu polyantheæ floribus novissimis sparsaæ, libri xx (Frankfurt, 1628)
*WaE 877
A printed exemplum with Waller's autograph signature on the title-page. Mid-17th century.
De los Santos, Francisco. Descripcion breve del monasterio de S. Lorenzo…del Escurial (Madrid, 1657)
*WaE 878
A printed exemplum ‘from the poet Waller's library’. Mid-late 17th century.
Sotheby's, 12 December 1853 (the Rev. Dr Hawtrey sale), 5th day, lot 1578, to Toovey. This corresponds to lot 463 in the Waller sale of 1832. It also corresponds to lot 230 in the Waller sale of 1900, when it was described as having the initials ‘E.W.’ on the title and was sold to Allen.
Gassendo, Pierre. Philosophiae Epicuri syntagma and Institutio logica, 2 vols in 1 (London, 1668)
*WaE 879
A printed exemplum with Waller's ‘autograph signature on title-page’, his inscription ‘02:06-1672’, and W. Fuller Maitland's note ‘Autograph of Edmund Waller, died 1687. I bought it at sale of his library’. Late 17th century.
Bernard Halliday, Leicester, sale catalogue No. 211 (1937), item 644, and No. 232 (1938), item 815. Owned in 1953 by Mrs Oriana Haynes, Clayfurlong House, Kemble, Cirencester. This may correspond to lot 328 in the Waller sale of 1832.
Guzman, Luis de. Historia de las misiones que han hecho los religiosos de la Compania de Jesus en la India Oriental, la China, y Japon, 2 vols (Alcala, 1601)
*WaE 880
A printed exemplum ‘from the library of the poet Waller’.
Sotheby's, 12 December 1853 (the Rev. Dr Hawtrey sale), 3rd day, lot 822, to Toovey. This corresponds to lot 463 in the Waller sale of 1832. It also corresponds to lot 230 in the Waller sale of 1900, when it was described as having the initials ‘E. W.’ on the title of the first volum and was sold to Allen.
Hesiod. Opera, et dies, theogonia, scutum Herculis, cum scholiis, Graece, edidit V. Trincavellus (Venice, 1537)
*WaE 881
A printed exemplum ‘from the library of Waller the poet’.
Sotheby's, 7 April 1853 (the Rev. Thomas Payn sale), 2nd day, lot 448, to Lilly. This corresponds to lot 521 in the Waller sale of 1832.
Homer. Opera quae extant omnia (Geneva, 1606)
*WaE 882
A printed exemplum, with, on the flyleaf and end-leaf, the signature ‘Edm Waller’, autograph draft verses by him and a four-line autograph note in Latin referring to page 270. This corresponds to lot 500 in the Waller sale of 1832 and to lot 277 in the Waller sale of 1900, when it was sold to Sabin. Mid-late 17th century.
In: the MS described under WaE 765.
No. 18 in the list of books from Waller's library.
Trinity College, Hartford, [no shelfmark], The volume as a whole.
Jones, Sir William. Les Reports…de divers special cases cy bien in le court de Banck le Roy (London, 1675)
WaE 882.5
A printed exemplum ‘with autograph of E. Waller, the poet, on title’.
Puttick & Simpson's, 11 February 1870, lot 2340, to ‘Stev[e]ns & H.’. This corresponds to Lot 58 in the Waller sale of 1832.
Leonardo y Argensola, Bartolomé. La conquista de las islas Malucas (Madrid, 1609)
*WaE 883
A printed exemplum with ‘no title-page, and 2 leaves MS. the poet Waller's copy’.
Sotheby's, 12 December 1853 (the Rev. Dr Hawtrey sale), lot 76, to Bumstead. This may correspond to lot 469 in the Waller sale of 1832.
Lipsius, Justus. Opera omnia, 5 vols (Antwerp, 1637)
*WaE 884
Waller's printed exemplum. Mid-17th century.
Christie's, 1 February 1848, in lot 842. This corresponds to lot 493 in the Waller sale of 1832.
Livius, Titus. Historiarum ab urbe condita libri, qui extant, xxxv…a Carlo Sigonio emendati (Venice, 1555)
*WaE 885
A printed exemplum with ‘signature of Edmund Waller on title’ and ‘bookplate of a descendant “Edmund Waller”’.
Maggs's sale catalogue No. 953 (1973), item 89. This corresponds to lot 500 in the Waller sale of 1832 and lot 278 in the Waller sale of 1900, to Maggs.
Lucanus, Marcus Annaeus. Pharsalia…ex emendatione H. Grotii ([Leiden], 1614)
*WaE 886
A printed exemplum with ‘autograph of E. Waller the poet’.
Sotheby's, 11 June 1885 (James Crossley sale), 5th day, lot 1618, to Ridler. This corresponds to lot 547 in the Waller sale of 1832.
Machiavelli, Niccolò. Princeps (Basle, 1580)
*WaE 887
A printed exemplum, with the name ‘Edm Waller’ written seven times on a flyleaf and with Waller's autograph annotations. Mid-17th century.
In: the MS described under WaE 783.
Recorded in Kathleen Coleridge, Descriptive Catalogue of the Milton Collection in the Alexander Turnbull Library (Oxford, 1980), p. 4. Discussed in Timothy Raylor, ‘Reading Machiavelli: Writing Cromwell’, Turnbull Library Record, 35 (2002), 9-32. No. 24 in the list of books from Waller's library.
Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington, New Zealand, Stuart 239-241, The volume as a whole.
Malherbe, François de. Les oeuvres (Paris, 1659)
*WaE 888
A printed exemplum, with signature ‘Edm Waller’ on the title-page, the text marked with various MS crosses. c.1660s.
In: the MS described under WaE 779.
Malherbe is mentioned in Waller's letter to Mrs Myddelton, 12 May 1678 (WaE 828),and see also the copy of a poem by Malherbe appended to WaE 104. Lot 153 in the Waller sale of 1832 includes ‘Poesies de Malherbe and 2 others, Paris, 1666’, and another exemplum of the edition of 1666 is lot 329.
March, James. Reports: or, New Cases, 2nd edition (London, 1675)
*WaE 889
A printed exemplum ‘with autograph of Waller the poet’.
Puttick & Simpson's, 16 May 1865, lot 1165, to Thorpe. This corresponds to lot 43 in the Waller sale of 1832.
Milton, John. Poems, etc. upon Several Occasions (London, 1673)
*WaE 890
A printed exemplum with Waller's ‘signature on the title “Edm Waller 02s: 06d: 1673”’. 1673.
Sotheby's, 7 March 1836 (Richard Heber sale, Part VIII, 7th day), lot 1650, to Bohn. Sotheby's, 29 March 1928 (Holford sale), lot 665, to Pearson.
Monluc, Blaise de Lasseran-Massencome, Seigneur de. Commentaires, 2 vols (Paris, 1594)
*WaE 891
Waller's signature on the title-page.
This corresponds to lot 245 in the Waller sale of 1832.
Ovidius Naso, Publius. Epistolae ex Ponto, 4 vols (Paris, 1641-8)
*WaE 892
A printed exemplum, with two signatures ‘Edm Waller’ on the title-page. Mid-17th century.
Rodd's sale catalogue No. iv (1837), item 1073. Sotheby's, 17 December 1849, lot 216. Bookplate of A. Russell Pollock, Greenhill, 10 September 1857.
Ovidius Naso, Publius. Opera cum variorum doctorum virorum commentariis, 3 vols, (Frankfurt, 1601)
*WaE 893
A printed exemplum, ‘Edm. Waller the poet's copy, with his signature “Edm. Waller, 21. 3s. 1673/4” on first title’. Mid-17th century.
This corresponds to lot 499 in the Waller sale of 1832 and lot 276 in the Waller sale of 1900, sold to Buckles.
Persius Flaccus, Aulus. In A Flacci Persii satyras sex, quatuor…commentarij, 2 pts (Basle, [1578])
*WaE 895
A prinred exemplum ‘with the autograph of Waller, the poet’. Mid-17th century.
Benjamin Wheatley, of 191 Piccadilly, auction on 1 June 1836, lot 1221. This corresponds to lot 521 in the Waller sale of 1832.
Pseudo-Phalaris. The Epistles of Phalaris, [trans. W. D.] (London, 1634)
*WaE 896
Waller's exemplum, inscribed ‘Edm: Waller’, a duodecimo in vellum boards.
Later owned by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. In the Britwell Court Library of William Henry Miller, MP (1789-1848), and Samuel Christie Miller, MP (1810-89), at Burnham, Buckinghamshire, and in the library of Sir Robert Leicester Harmsworth, first Baronet, MP (1870-1937). Sotheby's, 15 March [?1926], lot 439. H.B. Quaritch, 23 March 1926.
Randolph, Thomas. Poems (Oxford, 1668)
*WaE 897
A printed exemplum with ‘autograph of Edm. Waller, the poet, on the title’.
Sotheby's, 28 July 1853 (William Empson sale), lot 62, to Brown.
Sacrabosco, Joannes. Sphaera (Cologne, 1610)
*WaE 898
A printed exemplum bearing Waller's signature, three Latin aphorisms in his hand (from Ptolomy, Jeremiah and elsewhere) on the flyleaf, and some autograph notes by him on an end-paper (including ‘note that the ancients thought that part of the Earth not habitable wch was beyond 50 degrees northward/ vid de Clyn:’). Mid-17th century.
Salazar, Pedro de. Historia en la qual se cuenta muchas guerras succedidas entro christianos y infieles (Medina del Campo, 1570)
*WaE 899
A printed exemplum, ‘the poet Waller's copy’. Mid-17th century.
Sotheby's, 12 December 1853 (the Rev. Dr Hawtrey sale), 5th day, lot 1563, to Boone.
Sandoval, Prudencio de. Chronica del inclito Emperador de España Don Alonzo VII (Madrid, 1600)
*WaE 900
A printed exemplum ‘from the Waller Collection’. Mid-17th century.
Sotheby's, 12 December 1853 (the Rev. Dr Hawtrey sale), lot 401, to Stewart. This corresponds to lot 469 in the Waller sale of 1832.
Sandys, George. A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638)
WaE 900.5
A printed exemplum presented to Edmund Waller, with the name ‘Edm Waller’ and inscription ‘Ex dono Author[is]’ on the title-page, as well as the inscription ‘Ex dono authoris Georgij sandis mihi Edmondo Vallerio. Edm Waller Edm Waller’ on a slip attached to the front paste-down. Later in the Britwell Court Library, at Burnham, Buckinghamshire, founded by William Henry Miller, MP (1789-1848) and maintained by Samuel Christie Miller, MP (1810-89). Sotheby's, 18 March 1926 (Christie-Miller sale), lot 529. Sotheby's, New York, 1 May 1990 (H. Bradley Martin sale), lot 3158. c.1638-44.
No. 37 in the list of books from Waller's Library.
Sotheby's, 18 March 1926 (Christie-Miller sale), lot 529, and at Sotheby's, New York, 1 May 1990 (H. Bradley Martin sale), Lot 3158.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Decem tragoediae (Leiden, 1580)
*WaE 901
A printed exemplum with the signature ‘Ed Waller’ on the title-page. Mid-17th century.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Opera…a J. Lipsio emendata, 4th edition (Antwerp, 1652)
*WaE 902
Waller's printed exemplum.
Christie's, 1 February 1848, in lot 842.
Sidney, Sir Philip. The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (London, 1613)
*WaE 903
Waller's printed exemplum. Mid-17th century.
Stanislaus Vincent Henkels' sale, 30 January 1935, item 158. This corresponds to lot 159 in the Waller sale of 1832.
Stapylton, Sir Robert. Mores Hominum. The Manners of Men. Described in sixteen Satyrs by Juvenal (London, 1660)
*WaE 904
A printed exemplum ‘originally owned by Edmund Waller, with his autograph on title-page’. Late 17th century.
Anderson Galleries, New York, 15 March 1920 (H. Buxton Forman sale, lot 787). This may correspond to lot 207 in the Waller sale of 1832.
Tacitus, Publius Cornelius. Opera quae exstant…cum…J. Lipsii…notis, 3 pts (Antwerp, 1648)
*WaE 905
Waller's printed exemplum.
Christie's, 1 February 1848, in lot 842.
Valerius Maximus. Dictorum factorumque memorabilium lib. IX (1673)
*WaE 906
‘Edmund Waller the Poet's copy, with his autograph on title, “E. Waller, 1s 6d July ye 3d 1674”’. 1674.
Sotheby's, 12 February 1889, lot 52, to Pickering.
Vitruvius Pollio, Marcus. De architectura…praemittuntur collecta ab…Henrico Wottono elementa architecturae, 2 vols (Amsterdam, 1649)
*WaE 907
A printed exemplum with ‘Waller's autograph’.
Benjamin Wheatley, auction on 1 June 1836, lot 1880. This corresponds to lot 444 in the Waller sale of 1832.
Warcupp, Edmund. Italy, in its original Glory, Ruine and Revival (London, 1660)
*WaE 908
A printed exemplum with ‘autograph of “Edmund Waller the poet, and 5s.—75”, on the title-page’. Sotheby's, 22 April 1931, lot 856, to Hubbard. This corresponds to lot 229 in the Waller sale of 1832. This volume also contains printed verses by Waller on pp. 35-6: see E.S. De Beer, ‘An Uncollected Poem by Waller’, RES, 8 (1932), 203-5. Late 17th century.
Miscellaneous Extracts from Works by Waller
Extracts
WaE 909
Copy of, or extracts from, four religious poems by Waller.
In: A verse miscellany, i + 230 pages, in a contemporary green vellum wallet with clasps. Mid-18th century.
Donated by F.F. Madan, 1938.
WaE 910
Extracts.
In: A large folio composite miscellany of poems generally on affairs of state, in one or more professional hands, 289 leaves, in half crushed morocco on marbled boards. c.1730.
WaE 912
Copy in: the MS described under WaE 65 (WaE Δ 12). c.1703-9.
WaE 913
Extracts from poems by Waller, headed ‘Innocence’.
In: the MS described under WaE 65 (WaE Δ 12). c.1703-9.
Edinburgh University Library, MS Dc. 3. 76, ff. 62v, 64r, 71v, 76r.
WaE 914
Forty-five extracts from the ‘Poems of Ed: Waller of Beckonsfeild Esquire’.
In: A quarto miscellany of verse extracts, in a single italic hand (but for additions on f. 35r-v), foliated 14-52, in contemporary vellum. Mid-17th century.
Inscribed inside the front cover ‘F. C. Wellstood / Oxford’. Inscribed (f. 35r) ‘W. C. 1789’.
WaE 915
Extracts, headed ‘Skraps out of Waller’, on 23 pages.
In: An octavo miscellany, in a single mixed hand, possibly compiled by a Jesuit. Late 17th century.
WaE 916
Extracts, headed ‘These Verses Taken out of The Poems of Edmond Waller Esqr:’.
In: A large quarto miscellany of verse extracts, comprising 182 entries, in a single cursive hand varying in style, 115 unnumbered leaves (plus 26 blanks), in contemporary calf. Entitled (f. [1r]) ‘A Collection of Miscellany Poems from the Greatest Poets, both Ancient and Modern That i have Read, & here place for my own entertainment, to diuert Malincolly Thoughts, & to assist My Memory, That was neuer Good at no Time:’. Late-17th century.
From the library at Newburgh Priory, Yorkshire.
WaE 917
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.
WaE 918
Extracts from works by Waller. Late 17th century.
In: An unbound collection of unbound manuscripts of verse and other writings, in various hands and paper sizes, upwards of 100 items. Belonging to the family and descendants of Sir William Temple, Bt (1628-99), diplomat and author.
Sotheby's, 13 December 1994, lot 43, to Figgis Rare Books.
WaE 919
Extracts. c.1700.
From the papers of the Trumbull family of Easthampstead Park, Berkshire.