MS 422
An octavo verse miscellany, of English and Welsh verse and prose, in probably several hands, the English verse (on pages 9-70, 93-104) including eleven poems by Strode and two of doubtful authorship, 110 pages (plus stubs of extracted leaves). Compiled by members of the Griffith family, of Llanddyfnan, the verse probably entered by one or more of the various members of that family who studied in this period at the University of Oxford. Mid-17th century.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Griffith MS’: StW Δ 26.
pp. 9-13
• CwT 655.5: Thomas Carew, A Rapture (‘I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come’)
Copy, headed ‘A Lovers Rapture’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.
p. 16
• StW 977: William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection (‘Like to the casting of an Eye’)
Copy.
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. 16-18
• StW 1197: William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada (‘Now the declining Sun gan downward bende’)
Copy, headed ‘A translation out of Strada by Mr Strode of ye lutanist and ye nightingale’.
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 16-18. Forey, pp. 72-5.
pp. 21-2
• CoR 454.5: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)
Copy, headed ‘On Tom by of Chr: Chur:’.
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’).
p. 22
• KiH 460.5: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)
Copy, headed ‘A midnight meditation’.
First published, as ‘Man's Miserie, by Dr. K’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.
p. 22
• WoH 196.3: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)
Copy, headed ‘On a gentleman dyinge soone after his wife’ and here beginning ‘She first deceased, he after lived and dyed’.
First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.
This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning ‘Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds’, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.
pp. 24-6
• CoR 369.5: 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 the Marquesse of Buckingham on his returne from Spaine’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.
pp. 26-7
• StW 620: William Strode, On three Dolphins sewing down Water into a white Marble Bason (‘These Dolphins, twisting each on others side’)
Copy, headed ‘On a fountaine’.
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.
pp. 27-8
• PoW 97: Walton Poole, On the death of King James (‘Can Christendoms great champion sink away’)
Copy.
First published in Oxford Drollery (1671), p. 170. A version of lines 1-18, on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, was published in The Swedish Intelligencer, 3rd Part (1633). Also ascribed to William Strode.
p. 28
• StW 1346: William Strode, On Jealousy (‘There is a thing that nothing is’)
Copy.
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 49. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
pp. 29-30
• EaJ 57.5: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death (‘Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse’)
Copy, headed ‘Vppon the death of ye Earle of Pembroke’.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 40-2. Extract in Bliss, pp. 227-8. Possibly written by Jasper Mayne (1604-72).
p. 30
• CoR 78.5: Richard Corbett, An Elegie on the late Lord William Haward Baron of Effingham, dead the tenth of December. 1615 (‘I did not know thee, Lord, nor do I striue’)
Copy of the first six lines, headed ‘An Elegie made by Dr Corbet on the late lord Sr William Howard baron of Effingham’; imperfect, lacking the rest.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 20-3.
pp. 32-3
• StW 735: William Strode, Song (‘As I out of a Casement sent’)
Copy, headed ‘Vppon a Ladie as he sawe her out of a casement walkeing in ye streete’.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 11-12. Forey, pp. 77-9.
pp. 33-4
• StW 354: William Strode, On a Dissembler (‘Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell’)
Copy.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.
pp. 34-7
• EaJ 33.5: 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 ‘On the death of sr John Burroughes slaine in the night at ye Ile Rhees by a Musket bullet from ye fort’.
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. 37-8
• StW 952: William Strode, A Song of Capps (‘The witt hath long beholding bin’)
Copy of an eleven-stanza version, headed ‘Verses on the cap by Mr Stroude’.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.
p. 42
• StW 1370: William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie (‘Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke’)
Copy, headed ‘Of a ladies blush’.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
pp. 43-4
• DnJ 3214.3: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)
Copy, headed ‘To his mistres as shee was comming to bed’.
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.
pp. 44-5
• DnJ 323.5: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)
Copy, headed ‘An inuitation to Mes to come and fish’.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.
p. 45
• StW 174: William Strode, In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)
Copy.
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).
p. 46
• CwT 592.8: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)
Copy, headed ‘On a sigh’ and here beginning ‘goe then gentle whispring winde’.
First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.
p. 47
• CwT 833.5: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘Harke how my Celia, with the choyce’)
Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs singing in a gallery at Yorke house’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
p. 47
• StW 152: William Strode, A Girdle (‘When ere the wast makes too much hast’)
Copy, headed ‘On a ladies girdle’.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.
p. 50
• CoR 387.5: Richard Corbett, Little Lute (‘Little lute, when I am gone’)
Copy of a two-line version, headed ‘verses uerste on his Mrs lecke’ and beginning ‘Pretty lute when I am gon tell thy Mrs there was one’.
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.
Some texts followed by an answer beginning ‘Little booke, when I am gone’.
pp. 51-3
• JnB 649.5: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest’)
Copy, headed ‘The deuills inuitation by' cooke lawrell’.
Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.
p. 53
• BrW 176.5: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)
Copy, headed ‘Of on drowned in a great snow’.
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.
p. 55
• KiH 368.5: Henry King, The Farwell (‘Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp’)
Copy, headed ‘A farewell to ye world’.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.
See also B&F 121-2.
p. 55
• BrW 95.5: William Browne of Tavistock, On an Infant Unborn, and the Mother Dying in Travail (‘Within this grave there is a grave entomb'd’)
Copy, headed ‘Of an infant unborne, the mother therof dying in travell’.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Brydges (1815), pp. 90-1. Goodwin, II, 255-6. Also (doubtfully) attributed to Richard Corbett and to Sir William Davenant: see Sir William Davenant, The Shorter Poems, and Songs from the Plays and Masques, ed. A.M. Gibbs (Oxford, 1972), p. lxxxvii.
pp. 55-6
• StW 1099: William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde (‘Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye’)
Copy, headed ‘to A gentlewoman’.
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.
p. 56
• RaW 287.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)
Copy of an eight-line version, headed ‘Of 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.
pp. 57-9
• RaW 176.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)
Copy, headed ‘Sr Water Raulies farewell to ye wourld’.
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.
This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, ‘Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine’, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's ‘answer’ to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.
pp. 64-5
• StW 1100: William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde (‘Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye’)
Copy, headed ‘To a gentlewoman for his friend’.
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.
p. 65
• HrJ 208.5: Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister (‘I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten’)
Copy, headed ‘Vppon a puritane’ and here beginning ‘A holie maide by one of her societie’.
First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.
p. 66
• CwT 950.5: Thomas Carew, Song. To my Mistris, I burning in love (‘I burne, and cruell you, in vaine’)
Copy, headed ‘To his coy Mrs’, here beginning ‘I burne (o cruell) yt in vaine’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 34.
pp. 66-7
• StW 281: William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe (‘Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill’)
Copy, headed ‘On a lady hauing a sprouting lip’.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.
p. 67
• CoR 727.5: Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre (‘A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne’)
Copy, headed ‘On a comet which appeared before I: fines death and the prince his goinge to Spaine’.
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.
p. 69
• StW 1228: William Strode, A watchstring (‘Tymes picture here invites your eyes’)
Copy, headed ‘On a watch’.
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 44. Forey, p. 210.
p. 69
• DnJ 467.5: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman newly married’.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
p. 96
• RaW 122.8: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)
Copy, headed ‘A Louer to his Mrs’.
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).
p. 100
• CmT 129.5: Thomas Campion, ‘Though you are yoong and I am olde’
Copy of the first four lines only, headed ‘A Old Man to his Mrs’.
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. ii. Davis, pp. 20-1.
pp. 103-4
• HeR 411.5: Robert Herrick, Upon a Cherrystone sent to the tip of the Lady Jemmonia Walgraves eare (‘Lady I intreate yow weare’)
Copy, headed ‘On a cherystone hauing the picture of death on one side and a gentlewoman on ye other’.
First published in Delattre (1912), 519-21. Martin, pp. 417-18. Patrick, pp. 547-8.
p. 106
• CoR 685.5: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him (‘Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold’)
Copy of lines 1-10, untitled; imperfect, lacking the rest of the poem.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.