Aberdeen University Library

Macbean Collection

Copy, in a professional hand, transcribed from a printed edition, on sixteen quarto pages. End of 17th century.

HaG 26: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, A Letter to a Dissenter

This MS recorded in Brown, I, 397, and in Brown, HLQ (1974), p. 334.

First published, anonymously, in London, 1687. Foxcroft, II, 361-78. Brown, I, 250-64.

MS 28

A small quarto commonplace book, of ballads, proverbs and poems, in a single hand. Compiled by Andrew Melville (1593-1640), Doctor in the Song School of Aberdeen in 1621-36. c.1621-40.

Owned in 1886 by John Anderson, London.

Selectively edited in Extracts from the Commonplace Book of Andrew Melville, ed. William Walker (Aberdeen, 1899).

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• DyE 35: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘My mynde to me a kyngdome is’

Copy of an eight-stanza version, headed ‘Off Ane Contented Mynd’.

Edited from this MS in Walker, pp. 56-7.

First published, as two poems (one comprising stanzas 1-4, 6 and 8. the other stanzas 9-12) in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). Sargent, No. XIV, pp. 200-1. The uncertain authorship of this poem and its textual history are discussed in Steven W. May, ‘The Authorship of “My mind to me a kingdom is”’, RES, NS 26 (1975), 385-94. EV 15376.

MS 29

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, evidently associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 214 pages (skipping p. 177), plus an index. Including 18 poems by Corbett and 59 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s.

Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Elizabeth Lane hir booke’ and, among scribbling on another flyleaf, ‘Johannes Finch’. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 341.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Elizabeth Lane MS’: CoR Δ 1 and StW Δ 4. The Dobell catalogue description recorded in Forey (pp. lxxxv-lxxxvi).

pp. 1-15

• CoR 279: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)

Copy, headed ‘Iter Boreale: R: C:’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

pp. 15-21

• CoR 630: Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North (‘My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes’)

Copy, headed ‘To my Lord Mordant: R: C:’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.

pp. 21-4

• CoR 342: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)

Copy, headed ‘To ye Marquis on his iourney into spaine: R: C:’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

pp. 24-5

• CoR 389: Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham (‘When I can pay my Parents, or my King’)

Copy, headed ‘To ye Duke of Buckingham: R: C:’.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.

pp. 25-8

• HeR 261: Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack (‘So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles’)

Copy, headed ‘Hericks wellcome to sack:’.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.

pp. 28-9

• DnJ 3750: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy, headed ‘I: D: to his friend trauailing:’.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.

pp. 29-30

• StW 1066: William Strode, To a frinde (‘Like as the hande which hath bin usd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘To a friend: W: S:’.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 99-100. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), p. 130. Forey, p. 31.

pp. 30-4

• EaJ 9: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree (‘Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on ye death of Sr Iohn Burrowes: I: E:’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, ‘John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs’, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).

pp. 38-9

• CoR 247: Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem (‘Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on’)

Copy, headed ‘Against Price his Anniversary upon Prince Henry: R:C:’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's ‘Answer’ (‘So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace’), and see also CoR 227-46.

p. 40

• CoR 227: Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum (‘Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory’)

Copy, headed ‘An Answear to Dctr. Price his reply’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.

For related poems see CoR 247-78.

pp. 41-2

• CwT 1123: Thomas Carew, To Saxham (‘Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘A winters entertainment: T: C:’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.

pp. 43-4

• CwT 1162: Thomas Carew, To the King at his entrance into Saxham, by Master Io. Crofts (‘Sir, Ere you passe this threshold, stay’)

Copy, headed ‘To ye king: T: C:’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 30-1.

pp. 44-9

• CoR 16: Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge (‘It is not yet a fortnight, since’)

Copy.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.

Some texts accompanied by an ‘Answer’ (‘A ballad late was made’).

pp. 49-50

• CoR 163: Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London (‘When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke’)

Copy, headed ‘On Byshopp Rains: R: C:’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.

pp. 51-4

• CoR 205: Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… (‘The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on’)

Copy, headed ‘A godly exhortation...’.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.

An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note ‘None of Dr Corbets’ and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.

p. 54

• StW 301: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)

Copy.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.

pp. 55-6

• MoG 87: George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt (‘Well fare those three that where there was a dearth’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye crowne of an hat drunk in for want of a cupp’.

pp. 56-7

• CoR 79: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of his owne Father (‘Vincent Corbet, farther knowne’)

Copy, headed ‘On Doctor Corbetts Father: R: C:’.

First published (omitting the last four lines) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published with the last four lines in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 67-9.

p. 57

• HrJ 256: Sir John Harington, Of Treason (‘Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Treason:’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.

pp. 58-9

• DnJ 1595: John Donne, An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton (‘Whether that soule which now comes up to you’)

Copy, headed ‘On Marques Hamledons death: I: D:’.

This MS recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 288-90. Shawcross, No. 154. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 74-5. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 220-1.

pp. 61-3

• StW 1140: William Strode, To Mr Rives heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon. (‘Welcome abroad, o welcome from your bedd!’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye recouery of a Gentleman: W: S.’

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 95-7. Forey, pp. 11-14.

pp. 63-5

• DnJ 2577: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy, headed ‘Of perfumes: I: D:’.

First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as ‘Elegie IV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.

pp. 65-8

• StW 105: William Strode, An Epitaph on Mr. Fishborne the great London benefactor, and his executor (‘What are thy games, o death, if one man ly’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph upon Mr. Fisborne ye geat London benefactor: W: S:’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 82-5. Forey, pp. 124-7.

pp. 68-70

• StW 438: William Strode, On a Glasse falling on the stones without breaking (‘How can the Embleme of Mortality’)

Copy, headed ‘On a glasse falling on ye stones Without breaking: W: S:’.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 35-7.

pp. 70-3

• StW 945: William Strode, A Song of Capps (‘The witt hath long beholding bin’)

Copy, headed ‘A song of Capps: W: S:’.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.

p. 74

• StW 92: William Strode, An Epitaph (‘Man newly borne is at full age to die’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph: W. S.’

Unpublished. Forey, p. 129.

pp. 74-5

• StW 365: William Strode, On a freind's absence (‘Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay’)

Copy, headed ‘On a friends absence: W: S:’.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 13. Forey, pp. 95-6.

pp. 75-7

• StW 742: William Strode, Song (‘Hath Christmas furrd your Chimneys’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song: W: S’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 111-14. Forey, pp. 89-91.

pp. 78-80

• CoR 316: Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 (‘My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine’)

Copy, headed ‘To Sr. Thomas Aylesbury: R: C’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.

pp. 80-2

• JnB 654: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge’)

Copy of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses, headed ‘To ye king: B: I:’.

Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.

For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

pp. 82-3

• JnB 152: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body (‘Sitting, and ready to be drawne’)

Copy, headed ‘The body: B: J:’.

First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).

pp. 83-5

• JnB 195: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind (‘Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone’)

Copy, headed ‘The minde. B: I:’.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

p. 88

• StW 1214: William Strode, A watchstring (‘Tymes picture here invites your eyes’)

Copy of the second couplet, here beginning ‘My strings cann doe what noe man could’.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 44. Forey, p. 210.

pp. 89-90

• KiH 192: Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. (‘I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne’)

Copy, headed ‘On Sr. Gual. Rawleigh: J:D:’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.

pp. 99-101

• StW 598: William Strode, On the death of the young Baronet Portman, dying of an Impostume in the head (‘Is death soe cunning now, that all her blow’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of ye young Baronet Portman, dying of ye impostume in ye head. W: S:’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 66-8. Forey, pp. 112-13.

pp. 101-3

• StW 574: William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham (‘Meerely for death to greive and mourne’)

Copy, headed ‘On ye death of Sr Thomas Pelham: W: S:’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.

p. 103

• StW 624: William Strode, On Twins divided by death (‘Where are you now, Astrologers, that looke’)

Copy, headed ‘On ye death of a twin’.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 66. Forey, pp. 115-16.

pp. 103-5

• StW 550: William Strode, On the death of doctor Langton, President of Maudlin Colledg (‘When men for injuries unsatisfied’)

Copy, headed ‘On ye death of Doctor Langton: W:S:’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 68-70. Forey, pp. 121-3.

pp. 105-6

• StW 529: William Strode, On Sir Thomas Savil dying of the smal Pox (‘Take, greedy Death, a Body here intoomd’)

Copy, headed ‘On Sr. Thomas Sauil dying of ye small poxe: W: S:’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 86-7. Forey, p. 124.

p. 106

• StW 97: William Strode, An Epitaph on Mr. Bridgman (‘One Pitt containes him now, who could not die’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Mr Bridgman: W: S:’.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 87. Forey, p. 123.

p. 106

• CoR 456: Richard Corbett, On Henry Bowling (‘If gentlenesse could tame the fates, or wit’)

Copy, headed ‘On Mr Bowling: R: C:’.

First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.

pp. 107-8

• StW 29: William Strode, An Answeare to an old Soldier of the Queenes (‘With a new beard but lately trimd’)

Copy, headed ‘An answeare to an old Soldier of ye Queenes: W: S.’

Unpublished. Forey pp. 83-5.

pp. 109-10

• StW 926: William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment (‘Preferment, like a Game at bowles’)

Copy, headed ‘A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferrment: W: S:’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.

p. 110

• CoR 421: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Tom Bell of C: Ch:’.

First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, ‘Great Tom of Oxford’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing ‘(from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent’).

pp. 113-14

• CoR 687: Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes (‘Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse’)

Copy, headed ‘On Fayrford windowes R: C.’

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.

pp. 114-16

• StW 484: William Strode, On Faireford windores (‘I know noe paint of Poetry’)

Copy, headed ‘Alias. W: S:’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 25-7. Forey, pp. 7-10.

pp. 117-18

• StW 633: William Strode, On Westwell Downes (‘When Westwell Downes I gan to treade’)

Copy, headed ‘On Westwell downes: W: S:’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 20-1. Four Poems by William Strode (Fransham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 5-7.

pp. 118-22

• StW 1235: William Strode, Westwell Elme (‘Prethe stand still a while, and view this Tree’)

Copy, headed ‘On a great hollow Tree. W: S:’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 21-4. Forey, pp. 1-5.

pp. 122-3

• CoR 472: Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 (‘Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke’)

Copy, headed ‘On John Dawson ye Butlers Death. W: S:’.

First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.

pp. 123-5

• StW 443: William Strode, On a good legge and foote (‘If Hercules tall Stature might be guest’)

Copy, headed ‘On a good legg, and a good foot: W: S.’

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.

pp. 125-6

• StW 341: William Strode, On a Dissembler (‘Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Dissembler. W: S.’

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.

pp. 126-8

• StW 538: William Strode, On the Bible (‘Behold this little Volume here inrold’)

Copy, headed ‘On ye Bible: W: S:’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 51-2. Forey, pp. 46-7.

p. 128

• StW 692: William Strode, A Register for a Bible (‘I am the faithfull deputy’)

Copy, headed ‘A register for a Bible. W: S’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 52-3. Forey, p. 52.

p. 128

• StW 3: William Strode, Another (‘I, your Memory's Recorder’)

Copy, headed ‘Alias. W: S’.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 53. Forey, p. 52.

pp. 129-30

• StW 116: William Strode, An Epitaph on Sir John Walter, Lord cheife Baron (‘Farewell Example, Living Rule farewell’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Sr. John Walter. Lord chiefe Baron. W: S:’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 73-5. Forey, pp. 130-2.

pp. 130-3

• StW 566: William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Leigh (‘You that affright with lamentable Notes’)

Copy, headed ‘On ye death of Sr. Thomas Leigh: W.S.’

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 71-3. Forey, pp. 118-21.

p. 133

• StW 113: William Strode, An Epitaph on Sir Henry Lees 3 children (‘Three branches death here prun'd from Henry Lee’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Sr Henry Lees three Children. W: S.’

Unpublished. Forey, p. 130.

pp. 133-4

• StW 966: William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection (‘Like to the casting of an Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘Of death W: S:’.

First published in Poems and Psalms by Henry King, ed. John Hannah (Oxford & London, 1843), p. cxxii. Dobell, pp. 50-1. Forey, pp. 107-8.

MS texts usually begin ‘Like to the rolling of an eye’.

pp. 134-5

• StW 194: William Strode, Justification (‘See how the rainbow in the skie’)

Copy, headed ‘Justification W. S:’.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.

pp. 135-6

• StW 908: William Strode, Song (‘When Orpheus sweetly did complaine’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Orpheus. W: S.’.

First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dobell, pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 79-80. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

p. 136

• StW 609: William Strode, On three Dolphins sewing down Water into a white Marble Bason (‘These Dolphins, twisting each on others side’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Fountayne. W: S.’ and here beginning ‘The Dolphines twisting each on others side’.

First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660). Dobell, p. 46. Forey, p. 185.

p. 136

• DaJ 161: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Child’ and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers to theyr bedd doe laye’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

pp. 137-8

• StW 159: William Strode, In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)

Copy, headed ‘In ye commendation of Musick. W: S.’

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

pp. 138-9

• StW 985: William Strode, A song on the Baths (‘What Angel stirrs this happy well?’)

Copy, headed ‘On ye Baths. W: S:’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 9-10. Forey, pp. 99-101.

pp. 139-40

• StW 1212: William Strode, A wassal (‘This Jolly Boule with broided Curlings wrought’)

Copy, headed ‘A wassall. W: S.’

First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 41. Forey, pp. 105-6.

p. 141

• RaW 224: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, headed ‘Mans life’.

First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, ‘The Text of Ralegh's Lyric “What is our life?”’, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

p. 141

• HoJ 116: John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart (‘Reader I was born and cried’)

Copy, headed ‘On a fart in ye Parlianent.’

pp. 141-2

• CoR 186: Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls (‘Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee’)

Copy. headed ‘On Doctor Donne an epitaph. R: C.’

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.

pp. 142-3

• CoR 560: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett (‘What I shall leave thee none can tell’)

Copy, headed ‘R: C. to his sonne Vincent.’

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.

p. 143

• DaJ 127: Sir John Davies, An Epitaph (‘Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a bellow=maker’ and here beginning ‘Heare lyes Sim Symcock a maker of bellowes’.

A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.

pp. 144-50

• CwT 642: Thomas Carew, A Rapture (‘I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come’)

Copy, headed ‘A louers rapture. T: C.’

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.

pp. 150-1

• PoW 1: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a gentlewoman wth. black hayre and eyes’.

First published, as ‘In praise of black Women; by T.R.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as ‘On a black Gentlewoman’. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as ‘On black Hair and Eyes’ and superscribed ‘R’; in The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as ‘on Black Hayre and Eyes’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

pp. 152-3

• CwT 1094: Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence (‘Though I must live here, and by force’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistris in absence. T: C:’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 22.

pp. 154-6

• CoR 652: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him (‘Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold’)

Copy, headed ‘On Mistris Mallet: R: C.’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.

pp. 159-60

• KiH 34: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘The reply.’

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) ‘A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds’ (‘Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee’). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

pp. 161-2

• KiH 112: Henry King, The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)

Copy, headed ‘A louer to one yt misiudged his Mistriss’.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

p. 162

• CwT 1246.2: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy, headed ‘A louers song’.

First published, as ‘The Rapture, by J.D.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.

pp. 163-4

• StW 727: William Strode, Song (‘As I out of a Casement sent’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a gentlewoman seene Out of a Casemen: W: S.’

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 11-12. Forey, pp. 77-9.

p. 164

• StW 748: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman walking in ye Snow: W: S.’

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).

p. 165

• StW 837: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a gentlewoman too fayre W: S.’

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.

pp. 165-7

• StW 707: William Strode, A Sigh (‘O tell mee, tell, thou God of winde’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Sigh: W: S:’.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 6-8. Forey, pp. 194-6.

pp. 167

• StW 411: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox (‘A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman inur'd by ye Poxe: W: S:’.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.

pp. 167-8

• StW 1290: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, headed ‘A louer to his Mistresse: W: S:’.

First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

p. 168

• CwT 260: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on a fly: T: C:’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

pp. 169-71

• DnJ 75: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘In ye Commendation of Flavua:’.

First published as ‘Elegie II’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as ‘Elegie II’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

p. 171

• RaW 320: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen (‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’)

Copy, headed ‘W: R: To his Mistris’, here beginning ‘Passions are likened best to floods, and streames’, and prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (RaW 500).

First published, prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 500-42) and headed ‘To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh’, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.

For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, ‘Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of “Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart”’, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.

pp. 171-2

• RaW 500: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy, prefixed by ‘Passions are likened best to floods, and streames’ (RaW 320).

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by ‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’ (see RaW 320-38) and headed ‘To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh’. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).

This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).

pp. 172-3

• CwT 569: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Sigh’ and here beginning ‘Goe thou gentle whistling wind’.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

pp. 173-5

• DnJ 3192: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘I: D: to his wife going to bedd’.

First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as ‘Elegie XIX. Going to Bed’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.

The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, ‘Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's “To his mistress going to bed”’, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.

p. 176

• JnB 12: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph (‘See the Chariot at hand here of Love’)

Copy of lines 21-30, headed ‘A song’ and here beginning ‘Haue you seene ye white Lilly grow’.

First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning ‘Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light’) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).

pp. 181-2

• MoG 55: George Morley, On the Nightingale (‘My limbs were weary and my head oppressed’)

Copy, headed ‘On ye Nightingale: G: M:’.

p. 184

• StW 875: William Strode, Song (‘O when will Cupid shew such Art’)

Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet: W: S.’

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 6. Forey, p. 76.

pp. 184-5

• DnJ 453: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy, headed ‘A gentleman to his Mrs. beeing in bedd yt shee would not rise’.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.

pp. 185-6

• DnJ 2952: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

Copy of a two-stanza version, headed ‘Another on the same’ and here beginning ‘Sweet staye a while, why doe you rise’.

First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her ‘Dubia’). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.

See also DnJ 428.

p. 186

• RaW 453: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Say not you love, unless you do’

Copy, headed ‘Two Louers dialogue’.

Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174.

First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.

pp. 186-7

• CwT 383: Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned (‘Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)’)

Copy, headed ‘A louer to his Mistris yt cared not for him: T: C.’

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

p. 187

• StW 1349: William Strode, A Riddle on a Kisse (‘What thing is that, nor felt, nor seene’)

Copy, headed ‘On a kisse.’, with ‘W. S.’ added in a later hand.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 48-9. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 340.

pp. 187-8

• B&F 112: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy of the Passionate Lord's song, headed ‘Vpon Melancholy. W: S’.

Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.

For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

pp. 188-9

• StW 643: William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy (‘Returne my joyes, and hither bring’)

Copy, headed ‘An opposite to Melancholy: W: S:’.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.

pp. 190-1

• CwT 38: Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon (‘Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood’)

Copy, headed ‘A louer to his Mrs. beeing let blood’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.

pp. 192-4

• StW 905: William Strode, Song (‘When meddow grounds wer fresh and gay’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song. W. S’.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 86-8.

pp 194-7

• StW 1208: William Strode, Vpon Will: Bridle, who being zealous for his Sweethart never went without a blewe Eye, and one time founde noe other remedy then chalke to hide it (‘That my pen may not be idle’)

Copy, ascrbed to ‘W: S:’.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 19-21.

pp. 197-8

• StW 270: William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe (‘Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill’)

Copy, headed ‘On a blisterd lipp. W: S:’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.

p. 198

• StW 250: William Strode, A Necklace (‘These Vaines are Natures Nett’)

Copy, headed ‘A Necklace: W: S.’, the second stanza headed ‘Another’.

First stanza first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Second stanza (‘Loe on my necke…’) first published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Complete in Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 35.

p. 198

• StW 74: William Strode, An Earestring (‘'Tis vaine to adde a ring or Gemme’)

Copy of the fourth couplet, here beginning ‘Here silken twine, the locks you see’, followed by the second couplet, headed ‘Another’ and here beginning ‘When idle wordes are passing here’.

First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 101. Dobell, p. 44. Forey, pp. 34-5.

p. 199

• StW 378: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)

Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman yt sung, and playd on ye lute well: W: S.’

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.

pp. 199-200

• StW 210: William Strode, A Letter impos'd (‘Goe, happy paper, by commande’)

Copy, headed ‘A Letter imposd: W: S.’

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 100-1. The Poems and Amyntas of Thomas Randolph, ed. John Jay Parry (New Haven & London, 1917), pp. 219-20. Forey, pp. 32-3.

p. 201

• StW 1038: William Strode, A Souldier to Penelope (‘Penelope the faire and chast’)

Copy, headed ‘A souldier to Penelope. W. S’.

Unpublished. Forey, p. 33.

pp. 201-3

• StW 36: William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies (‘Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye. commendation of graye Eyes: W: S.’

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.

p. 203

• StW 472: William Strode, On a watch made by a blacksmith (‘Vulcan and love of Venus seldome part’)

Copy, headed ‘On a watch made by a black Smith: W: S.’, here beginning ‘A Vulcan, and a Venus seldome part’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 38-9. Forey, p. 44.

p. 203

• StW 665: William Strode, Poses for Braceletts (‘This keepes my hande’)

Copy of the third stanza, headed ‘Vpon Bracelets: W: S’, here beginning ‘Vouchsafe my Prisoner thus to bee’.

Third stanza (beginning ‘Voutchsafe my Pris'ner thus to be’) and fourth stanza (beginning ‘When you putt on this little bande’) first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 43-4. Forey, p. 34.

pp. 204-5

• StW 361: William Strode, On a Faire Crooked Gentlewoman, Proude and Dissembling (‘Halfe beautifull! Imperfect peice of Clay’)

Copy, headed ‘On a crooked fayre Gentlewoman dissembling, and somewhat boasting. W: S:’.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 135-6.

pp. 205-6

• StW 433: William Strode, On a Gentlewomans Watch that wanted a Key (‘Thou pretty Heavn, whose greate and lesser spheares’)

Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewomans watch yt. wanted a key: W: S.’

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 36-7. Forey, pp. 44-6.

pp. 206-7

• StW 1246: William Strode, With Pen, Inke and paper these to a distressed &c. (‘Here is paper, pen and Inke’)

Copy, headed ‘With penn, Inke, and paper these to a distred Louer. W: S.’

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 101-2. Forey, pp. 15-16.

pp. 207-9

• StW 1085: William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde (‘Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘To a gentlewoman for a Louer. W: S.’

Lines 15-20 (beginning ‘Oft when I looke I may descrie’) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.

pp. 209-10

• StW 124: William Strode, For a Gentleman who kissing his frinde, at his departure out of England, left a Signe of blood upon her (‘What Mystery was this, that I should finde’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘W: S.’

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.

p. 214

• DnJ 200: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)

Copy, headed ‘An apparition of a louer’.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.

MS 185

A theological miscellany, dated 19-20 July 1555. Compiled by Robert Parkyn (d.1569), curate of Adwick-le-Street, Yorkshire. 1555.

This MS collated in Yale.

ff. 217r-20r

• MrT 39: Sir Thomas More, A Treatise to Receive the Blessed Body

Copy.

First published in Workes (London, 1557), pp. 1264-9. Yale, Vol. 13, pp. 189-204.

MS 1047

Copy, on 261 pages, in calf. Late 17th century.

HbT 9: Thomas Hobbes, Behemoth or The Long Parliament

Acquired in 1934.

First published, as The History of the Civil Wars of England, ([in London], 1679). Molesworth, English, VI, 161-418. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969), and reprinted with an introduction by Stephen Holmes (Chicago & London, 1990).

MS 2538

A MS travel journal. The ‘Triennial Travels’ of James Fraser (1634-1709), minister of Wardlaw, near Inverness. Mid-late 17th century.

Probably owned (before 1905) by Miss H.M. Paterson, of Birkwood, Banchory, a descendant of Fraser.

Vol. III, ff. 106r-26r

• FeO 71: Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries

Copy, based on the edition of 1652 with additions, written as part of Fraser's description of Holland, where he travelled in 1659.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).