CELM: Bodleian Library, Ashmole Collection

Ashmole H. 24

MS Ashmole 36/37

A large folio composite volume of verse, in various largely secretary hands, 327 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Collected, and partly written, by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Betagraph of the watermark in f. 29 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 239).

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• LoR 28: Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song (‘When Love with unconfined wings’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Norman Ault, Seventeenth Century Lyrics (London, 1928), pp. 228-9, 483; recorded in C.H. Wilkinson, ‘Richard Lovelace’, TLS (14 August 1937), p. 592.

First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, ‘Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of “To Althea, from Prison”’, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).

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• ClJ 15: John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath (‘Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze’)

Copy, headed ‘A Dyalogue of two zealotts’ and here beginning ‘S^r Roger, from a peece of zealous freeze’.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.

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• MnJ 21: John Milton, On Time (‘Fly envious Time, till thou run out thy race’)

Copy of an early version, headed ‘Vpon a Clocke Case, or Dyall’. c.1630s.

This MS collated in Darbishire.

First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 25-6. Darbishire, II, 131. Carey & Fowler, pp. 165-6.

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• DaW 43: Sir William Davenant, ‘Search all the world about’

Copy, subscribed in the hand of Elias Ashmole (1617-92) ‘Will: Davenant’.

Edited from this MS in Gibbs (bis).

First published in A. M. Gibbs, ‘A Davenant Imitation of Donne?’, RES, NS 18 (1967), 45-8. Gibbs (1972), p. 272.

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• B&F 113: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole, untitled, in a column faced on the right by an answer poem beginning ‘Come all my deare delights’.

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.

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• ToA 26: Aurelian Townshend, A Paradox (‘There is no Lover, hee or shee’)

Copy, headed ‘A Paradox’.

This MS text recorded in Brown.

First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.

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• CmT 161: Thomas Campion, ‘Young and simple though I am’

Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole, untitled.

First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.

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• JnB 607: Ben Jonson, The Fortunate Isles, and their Union, lines 586 et seq. Song (‘Come, noble Nymphs, and doe not hide’)

Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole (1617-92).

First published in London, 1625. Herford & Simpson, VII, 701-29 (p. 727).

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• DnJ 201: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)

Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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• PoW 101: Walton Poole, To a Ladie which desired him to make her a copy of verses (‘Faire Madam, cast these diamonds away’)

Copy, headed ‘To a lady richly adorned with jewels, being more beautiful’, here beginning ‘Fair lady cast those diamonds away’.

First published, as anonymous, in Henry Huth, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies (1870).

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• DeJ 27: Sir John Denham, Elegy on the Death of Judge Crooke (‘This was the Man! the Glory of the Gown’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on Judge Crooke’. Mid-late 17th century.

First published in The Topographer for the year 1790 (London, 1790), II, 177. Banks, pp. 156-8.

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• DeJ 61: Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death (‘Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all’)

Copy, headed ‘An Eligie on y^e Earle of Strafford’.

First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.

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• RaW 225: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole, untitled.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

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.

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• JnB 308: Ben Jonson, The humble Petition of poore Ben. To th' best of Monarchs, Masters, Men, King Charles (‘That whereas your royall Father’)

Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole, headed ‘To the Kings Most Excellent Maiesty The humble Petcon of your Poet To your Maiestye dooth shew it’, here beginning ‘Whereas late your Royal father’, and subscribed ‘B. Johnson’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxvi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 259-60.

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• JnB 521: Ben Jonson, To the immortall memorie, and friendship of that noble paire, Sir Lvcivs Cary, and Sir H. Morison (‘Brave infant of Saguntum, cleare’)

Copy, headed ‘Ode on the death of S^r: Henry Morison to the noble S^r: Lucius Cary’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 242-7.

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• MrJ 18: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

Copy.

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• SuJ 16: John Suckling, A Ballade, Upon a Wedding (‘I tell thee Dick, where I have been’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646): Clayton, pp. 79-84.

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• CwT 820: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘Harke how my Celia, with the choyce’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon Caelia's singing in y^e vault at Yorke howse’.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 231.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.

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• SuJ 216: John Suckling, Sir John Suckling's Answer (‘I tell thee foole who'ere thou be’)

Copy, here beginning ‘I tell thee [fellowe] foole who e're thou be’.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.

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• CoR 190: Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls (‘Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Dunne Deane of Powles’.

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

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• DnJ 399: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy, headed ‘The Chayne’, subscribed ‘J. Done’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Eleg. XII. The Bracelet’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as ‘Elegie XI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.

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• DaW 97: Sir William Davenant, Macbeth, II, [v]. Song (‘Let's have a dance upon the Heath’)

Copy of the Witches' Second Song, untitled and here beginning ‘Letts dance a dance upon the Heath’.

Dramatic Works, V, 348. Gibbs, pp. 263-4. Spencer, pp. 105-6.

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• CoR 732: Richard Corbett, Nonsence (‘Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Like to the fiery touchstone of a Cabage’.

Edited from this MS in Gilchrist, pp. 220-1; recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 163.

First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.

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• DeJ 87: Sir John Denham, A Speech against Peace at the Close Committee (‘But will you now to Peace incline’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Hampdens Speech ag^st peace’, on two folio leaves. c.1640s.

First published as a broadside entitled Mr. Hampdens speech occasioned upon the Londoners Petition for Peace [Lonon, 1643]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 122-7.

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• DeJ 42: Sir John Denham, News from Colchester (‘All in the Land of Essex’)

Copy on three pages of two folio leaves.

First published as A Relation of a Quaker [1659]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 91-4.

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• DeJ 100: Sir John Denham, To the Five Members of the Honourable House of Commons. The Humble Petition of the Poets (‘After so many Concurring Petitions’)

Copy, headed ‘The Humble Peticon of the Poets to the 5 Members’, on one side of a single folio leaf.

First published in Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662). Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 128-9.

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• DaW 71: Sir William Davenant, To the Queene, upon a New-yeares day (‘You of the Guard make way! and you that keepe’)

Copy on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, imperfect, chewed by rodents.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 61-2.

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• StW 65: William Strode, A Devonshire Song (‘Thou ne'er wutt riddle, neighbour Jan’)

Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘A Ridle a Ridlea me neighbour John’. Mid-17th century.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, pp. 65-6. John Tuckett, ‘A Devonshire Song’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 462. Dobell, pp. 114-16. Forey, pp. 101-3.

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• MaA 290: Andrew Marvell, Upon his House (‘Here lies the sacred Bones’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Clarendon House built by the Lord Chancell^r: Hyde a°. 1665. on the Hill ag^t. S^t. James's’ and here beginning ‘Here lye the consecrated bones’, on a single folio leaf of verse. Late 17th century.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 146-7. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

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• HrJ 28: Sir John Harington, Against Swearing (‘In elder times an ancient custome was’)

Copy, on a single folio leaf of verse. Late 17th century.

First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.

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• HoJ 275: John Hoskyns, ‘Hic jacet Egremundus Rarus’

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph made vpon Egrimond Thyn by S^riant Hoskins’ and here beginning ‘Hic iacet Egrimontanus’, on one side of a half-folio leaf of verse. Early-mid-17th century.

Clark, I, 424. Osborn, No. V (p. 169).

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• PeW 70: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of Friendship (‘Friendship on Earth we may as easily find’)

Copy, headed ‘On ffreindship D^r. Donne’. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’.

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• HrJ 29: Sir John Harington, Against Swearing (‘In elder times an ancient custome was’)

Second copy. Mid-late 17th century.

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• ShJ 65: James Shirley, A Songe (‘Coblers and Coopers and the rest’)

Copy of lines 1-30, 34-5, untitled, on a single folio leaf. c.1630s-40s.

This MS collated in Armstrong and in Howarth.

First published in R. G. Howard, ‘Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley’, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (pp. 27-8). Armstrong, pp. 46-7.

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• SuJ 146: John Suckling, An Answer to a Gentleman in Norfolk that sent to enquire after the Scotish business

Copy, headed ‘S^r John Sucklings letter to his friend’ on one side of a single folio leaf.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 142-4.

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• SuJ 197: John Suckling, Upon Sir John Suckling's hundred horse (‘I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King’)

Copy.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.

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• SuJ 217: John Suckling, Sir John Suckling's Answer (‘I tell thee foole who'ere thou be’)

Copy.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.

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• HoJ 39: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Downe came graue auncient Sargeant Croke’, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s-30s.

Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of ‘Doubtful Verses’ in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.

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• SuJ 1: John Suckling, Against Absence (‘My whining Lover, what needs all’)

Copy, untitled, on the rectos of two conjugate folio leaves, gnawed at the corner by rodents.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 39-40.

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• SuJ 38: John Suckling, Loves Feast (‘I pray thee spare me, gentle Boy’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published, as ‘Song’, in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 51-2.

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• SiP 160: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 62 (‘What toong can her perfections tell’)

Copy of a version of lines 75-6, headed ‘On a Mayden’ and here beginning ‘A prettie seale of virgine wax’, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 136r-45v).

Ringler, pp. 85-90. Robertson, pp. 238-42.

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• CmT 121: Thomas Campion, ‘Though you are yoong and I am olde’

Copy, headed ‘Old: Young’, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 136r-45v).

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. ii. Davis, pp. 20-1.

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• GrF 35: Fulke Greville, Mustapha, IV, iv, 116-117 (‘Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes’)

Copy of the couplet, headed ‘Treason’ and here beginning ‘Treason is like the Basiliscus eye’, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 136r-45v).

Bullough, II, 118.

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• HrJ 257: Sir John Harington, Of Treason (‘Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e same’ [i.e. Treason], in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 136r-45v).

First published in 1615; 1618, Book IV, No. 5; McClure No.l 259, p. 255.

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.

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• HoJ 310: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood’)

Copy, in double columns, headed ‘M^r Poldens delight of N: Coll: Oxf:’ and here beginning ‘O loue whose force & might’, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 136r-45v).

Osborn, p. 301.

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• HrJ 258: Sir John Harington, Of Treason (‘Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?’)

Second copy, headed ‘On Treason’ and here beginning ‘Treason did neu psp; what's y^e Reason’.

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.

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• JnB 530: Ben Jonson, To the Parliament (‘There's reason good, that you good lawes should make’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben: Johnson on y^e Parliam^t:’, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 159r-62v).

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Epigrammes (xxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 34.

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• JnB 361: Ben Jonson, A New-yeares-Gift sung to King Charles. 1635 (‘To day old Janus opens the new yeare’)

Copy of a version of lines 56-65 (here beginning ‘Procures all Plenty & our Flocke encrease’) incorporated as lines 14-23 in a copy of Nicholas Lanier's ‘A Pastorall Song to the King on Newyeares day: Ano. Dni. 1663[/4?]’ (beginning ‘Looke shephards looke, old Janus doth vnfold’), on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves. c.1665.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxix) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 263-5.

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• CaW 21: William Cartwright, On a Gentlewomans Silk-hood (‘Is there a Sanctity in Love begun’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Vpon a Gentlewomans silke hood’, on one of two conjugate folio leaves of verse. c.1630s.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 232-4. Evans, pp. 483-4.

f. 172r-v

• FeO 20: Owen Felltham, An Elegie on the honorable and Excellent Mistress M. Coventry (‘I might persuade she were not dead and cry’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on y^e ho^ble. & Excellent M^ris M: Coventry. p[er] Owen ffeltham’, on a folio leaf.

Edited from this MS in Robertson and in Pebworth & Summers.

First published in Jean Robertson, ‘The Poems of Owen Felltham’, MLN, 58 (1943), 388-90. Pebworth & Summers, pp. 77-8, among ‘Manuscript Poems Attributed to Felltham’.

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• CoR 597: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbett to y^e ladyes of y^e new dresse’, in a pair of quarto conjugate leaves (ff. 173r-4v).

First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.

This poem is usually followed in MSS by ‘The Ladyes Answer’ (‘Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night’): see GrJ 14.

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• GrJ 14: John Grange, ‘Black cypress veils are shrouds of night’

Copy, headed ‘Their Answer’, in a pair of quarto conjugate leaves (ff. 173r-4v).

An ‘Answer’ to Corbett's ‘To the Ladyes of the New Dresse’ (CoR 595-629), first published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 91. Listed as by John Grange in Krueger.

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• HeR 321: Robert Herrick, Herracke on a Kisse to his M^rs (‘Why what are lips but earth burnt read’)

Copy of lines 1-4, headed ‘On the Lipps’, with other verse on a single quarto leaf.

This MS recorded in Cain.

First published, and attributed to Herrick, in T.G.S. Cain, ‘The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems’, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70 (pp. 261-3).

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• CwT 643: Thomas Carew, A Rapture (‘I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come’)

Copy on two conjugate folio leaves.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 62.

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

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• DoC 283: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Phyllis (‘Phyllis, though your powerful charms’)

Copy, untitled, with other verse in a different hand, on a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Harris, pp. 69-71. Authorship of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, suggested in Arthur Mizener, ‘“Though, Phyllis, Your Prevailing Charms”’, MLN, 56 (1941), 529-30. Not, however, included in Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, ed. Robert D. Hume and Harold Love, 2 vols (Oxford, 2007).

f. 199v

• ClJ 212: John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector (‘What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing’)

Copy.

Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 78-9. The Works of Mr. John Cleveland (London, 1687), p. 343. Berdan, p. 185, as ‘probably not genuine’. Rejected ‘as probably not Cleveland's’ by Withington, pp. 321-2.

f. 200r

• DaW 82: Sir William Davenant, The Law against Lovers, III, i. Song (‘Wake all the dead! what hoa! what hoa!’)

Copy of Viola's song, untitled, on a single folio leaf, endorsed with three staves of music.

First published in Works (London, 1673). Dramatic Works, V, 109-211 (pp. 152-3). Gibbs, p. 260.

f. 213r

• HoJ 91: John Hoskyns, A Dreame (‘Me thought I walked in a dreame’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Hoskins his Dreame in the Tower’, on a single folio leaf of verse. c.1620s-30s.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.

A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning ‘the worst is tolld, the best is hidd’ and ending ‘he errd but once, once king forgiue’, was widely circulated.

f. 213r

• HoJ 231: John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins (‘Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge’)

Copy, untitled, on a single folio leaf of verse. c.1620s-30s.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).

f. 214r

• DeJ 62: Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death (‘Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all’)

Second copy, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate small quarto leaves, endorsed ‘Verses on the Earle of Strafford’. c.1640s.

First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.

f. 217r

• LoR 50: Richard Lovelace, To Lucasta. From Prison. An Epode (‘Long in thy Shackels, liberty’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epode’ and beginning with the second stanza (here beginning ‘Before I doe begin to Love’).

Edited from this MS in Dosia Reichardt, ‘Some Unnoticed Lovelace Manuscripts’, N&Q, 247 (2002), 336-8.

First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 44-6. Wilkinson (1930), pp. 48-51.

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• KiH 328: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)

Copy, headed ‘An Ellegye by D^r Harry Kinge on the death of his wife’, on two conjugate folio leaves. c.1630s-40s.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

f. 256r

• CoR 733: Richard Corbett, Nonsence (‘Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r: Corbets nonsence’, on a single folio leaf. c.1630s.

First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.

f. 257r

• JnB 271: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)

Copy, untitled, on one side of a half-folio leaf.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson. The text accompanied by the original Latin version by Girolamo Amaltei.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.

f. 258r-v

• CoR 22: 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, in double columns, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves of verse. c.1630s.

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’).

ff. 260r, 261r, 260v

• CoR 433: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)

Copy, headed ‘To Yonge Tom’, on two conjugate quarto leaves. c.1630s.

Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 149; printed in H.T. Ellacombe, ‘Great Tom of Oxford’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 2 (20 December 1862), 493-5.

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’).

f. 267r-v

• DrJ 152: John Dryden, Prologue To the Rival-Ladies (‘'Tis much Desir'd you Judges of the Town’)

Copy, followed (ff. 267v-8r) by the ‘Epilogue by the Doctor’, on the first of two conjugate folio leaves.

This MS recorded in Kinsley.

First published in The Rival Ladies (London, 1664). Kinsley, I, 34. California, VIII, 103. Hammond, I, 84-6.

f. 292r

• SuJ 17: John Suckling, A Ballade, Upon a Wedding (‘I tell thee Dick, where I have been’)

Second copy, untitled, in double columns on one side of a single folio leaf.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646): Clayton, pp. 79-84.

f. 298r

• HeR 304: Robert Herrick, A Charroll presented to Dr. Williams Bp. of Lincolne as a Newyears guift (‘Fly hence Pale Care, noe more remember’)

Copy, on one side of a single folio leaf. c.1630s.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt (erroneously cited as ‘Ashmole MS. 38’), in Martin and in Patrick.

First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 445-6. Martin, p. 413. Patrick, pp. 74-5.

f. 305r

• HrE 63: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To Mrs. Diana Cecyll (‘Diana Cecyll, that rare beauty thou dost show’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 34-5.

MS Ashmole 38

A large folio composite verse miscellany, chiefly folio, partly quarto, 243 pages, in contemporary calf. Including 18 poems by Carew and two of doubtful authorship, compiled by Nicholas Burghe (d.1670), Royalist Captain during the Civil War and one of the poor Knights of Windsor in 1661 (references to ‘I Nicholas Burgh’ occurring on ff. 165r, with the date ‘3^d of June 1638’, and 166r, and his name partly in cipher on other pages); predominantly in his hand, with some later additions in other hands. c.1638.

Afterwards owned by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Burghe MS’: CwT Δ 1.

p. 1a

• WoH 219: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘Doctor Donn's valadiction to the worlde’.

This MS recorded in Hannah.

First published, as ‘a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will’, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

p. 2

• BcF 2: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy headed ‘On mans Mortalite by [Doctor Donn deleted] S^r Fran: Bacon’.

First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems’, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.

p. 3

• KiH 416: Henry King, Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice (‘I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect’)

Copy, headed ‘On hauing married an Ill fauored Woman his frind wrighte thus to hymm’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 144-5.

p. 4

• StW 1306: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, untitled.

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

p. 4

• CwT 872: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Soules Mistris I.M.’.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

p. 4

• HeR 57: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)

Copy, headed ‘A forsaken Ladye that dyde for Loue’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

p. 5

• JnB 196: 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’)

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

pp. 5-6

• JnB 153: 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, here ascribed to ‘Geo: Ghapman’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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).

p. 7

• CwT 157: Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned (‘Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke’)

Copy, headed ‘An Inuectiue Against his M^ris’.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 222.

First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

p. 9

• StW 770: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, here beginning ‘I saw fayre Celia walke alone’.

Edited from this MS in The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. W. Carew Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. 49.

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. 9

• CwT 236: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘The Amourouse fly’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 48.

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

p. 10

• ChG 1: George Chapman, Epicures Frugallitie (‘Frugallitie is no philosophie’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘Ge. Chapman’.

Edited from this MS in Shepherd and in Bartlett.

First published in The Works of George Chapman, ed. R.H. Shepherd, II, Poems and Minor Translations (London, 1875). Bartlett, pp. 373-4.

p. 13

• RnT 503: Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale (‘When shall we meet again and have a taste’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘Th. Jay’.

Collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5^v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8^v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.

The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.

p. 14

• DnJ 1578: John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father (‘Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne’)

Copy, headed ‘To Christ’, subscribed ‘finis D Donn’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 369 (and variant text p. 370). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 193. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

pp. 16-18

• ChG 5: George Chapman, An Invective Wrighten by Mr. George Chapman against Mr. Ben: Johnson (‘Greate-Learned wittie-Ben: be pleasd to light’)

Edited from this MS in Bartlett.

First published in The Works of George Chapman, ed. R.H. Shepherd, II, Poems and Minor Translations (London, 1875). Bartlett, pp. 347-8.

p. 19

• MrJ 55: John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII (‘Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘John Marston’.

p. 20

• FeO 44: Owen Felltham, On the Duke of Buckingham slain by Felton, the 23. Aug. 1628 (‘Sooner I may some fixed Statue be’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Murder of the Ducke of Buck 1628’.

Edited from this MS in Poems and Songs relating to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham; and his Assassination by John Felton, August 23, 1628, ed. Frederick W. Fairholt (Percy Society, London, 1850), pp. 54-5. The MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 6-7.

pp. 21-2

• RnT 337: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet (‘I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare’)

Copy, headed ‘On A Gentlewoman that had A most Excellent sweet Voyce; but A most Ouglye deformed face’.

This MS collated in Davis.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.

p. 25

• MrJ 56: John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII (‘Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘John Marston’.

p. 25

• CwT 673: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, headed ‘A gentle man that had a M^ris, and after was constrayned to marry a nother, the first was a frayd that hee would reveale to his new wyfe thair secreet loues whereuppon hee wrights thus to hur’ and here beginning ‘Thynke not dear Loue that Ile reueale’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 12.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

See also Introduction.

p. 30

• PoW 2: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that thought hur selfe not fayre because hur hur [sic] heare and eyes weare blacke’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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. 30-1

• CwT 96: Thomas Carew, The Complement (‘O my deerest I shall grieve thee’)

Copy, headed ‘In praise of the excellent composure of his mistress’.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.

p. 36

• CwT 1283: Thomas Carew, To a Strumpett (‘Hayle thou true modell of a cursed whore’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Whore’ and here beginning ‘Hayle shamles modell of a cursed whore’.

Lines 1-12 printed from this MS in Powell, p. 295; collated in Dunlap.

First published as ‘On one Grace C. an Insatiate Whore’ in a 24-line version beginning ‘Go shamefull Model of a Cursed Whore!’ in Latine Songs, With their English: and Poems. By Henry Bold (London, 1685). A 36-line version published in Minor Poems of the Seventeenth Century, ed. R.G. Haworth (Everyman Library, 1931). Dunlap. p. 191.

p. 38

• WiG 24: George Wither, M^r George Withers, to the king when hee was Prince of wales (‘Thoughe to bee to Obsequious weare a Sinn’)

Copy of a verse appeal to Prince Charles, here ascribed to Wither and evidently written not long after his release from prison (after 15 March 1621/2 and before 17 February 1622/3).

Edited from this MS in Pritchard.

First published in Allan Pritchard, ‘An Unpublished Poem by George Wither’, MP, 61 (1963-4), 120-1.

p. 39

• ShJ 28: James Shirley, The Garden (‘This Garden does not take my eyes’)

Copy of a seven-stanza version headed ‘Cardias Garden’ and beginning ‘Faine would I haue A plott of Ground’.

This MS collated in Howarth and recorded in Armstrong.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 16-17.

pp. 40-3

• DnJ 2848: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satire against the Court wrighten by Doctor Dunne. In Queene Elizabeths Raigne’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.

p. 49

• DnJ 846: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)

Copy, headed ‘A Comination wrigten by D. Donn’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.

p. 49

• BrW 233.5: William Browne of Tavistock, One that was iealous that an other loued his Mistres (‘Hee that woulde my Mistres knowe’)

Copy, unascribed.

Unpublished. Authorship uncertain.

p. 50

• BrW 235: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Poor silly fool! thou striv'st in vain to know’

Copy, headed ‘The answer [to ‘He that would my mri^s know’] by him that was suspected’.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 26-7.

p. 51

• KiH 778: Henry King, Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland (‘So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun’)

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 81-2.

p. 52

• CoH 1: Henry Constable, A calculation of the natiuitye of the Ladie Riches daughter borne vpon friday in the yeare 1588, comonly call'd the yeare of wonder. Sonet 6. (‘Fayre by inheritance, whom borne we see’)

Copy, headed ‘A Calculation vppon the birth of the Ladye Riches Daughter borne Anno 1588, & on A friday’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published in Diana (London, 1592), sig. D3^r. Park (1812). Grundy, p. 157.

p. 52

• CoH 142: Henry Constable, To the Countesses of Cumberland and Warwicke sisters. Sonet 3. (‘Yow sisters Muses doe not ye repine’)

Copy, headed ‘To the two sisters Margarett Countess of Cumberland And Anne Countess of Warwicke’ and numbered ‘3’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1602). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 146.

p. 52

• CoH 13: Henry Constable, The first 7 only of the byrth and beginning of his loue. Sonet 1. (‘Resolud to loue vnworthie to obtayne’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Fairest that hath bene 1’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published, as ‘Sonetto primo’, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 115.

p. 52

• CoH 9: Henry Constable, An excuse to his Mistrisse for resoluing to loe so worthye a creature. Sonet 7. (‘Blame not my hearte for flying vp so high’)

Copy, untitled, numbered ‘2’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published, as ‘Sonnetto terzo’, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 121.

p. 53

• CoH 29: Henry Constable, Of his Mistrisse vpon occasion of a friend of his which disswaded him from louing. Sonet 5. (‘A friend of myne moaning my helplesse loue’)

Copy, headed ‘3’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published, as ‘Sonnetto settimo’, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 134.

p. 53

• CoH 52: Henry Constable, Sonet 2. (‘Ladye in beautye and in favoure rare’)

Copy, headed ‘2’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published, as ‘Sonnetto decimo’, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 123.

p. 53

• CoH 63: Henry Constable, Sonet 3. (‘Pittye refusing my poore loue to feed’)

Copy, headed ‘5’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published, as ‘Sonnetto sedeci’, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 161.

p. 53

• CoH 68: Henry Constable, Sonet 5. (‘Myne eye with all the deadlie sinnes is fraught’)

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published, as ‘Sonnetto vndeci’, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, pp. 175-6.

p. 54

• CoH 34: Henry Constable, Of the conspiracie of his Ladies eyes and his owne to ingender loue. Sonet 3. (‘Thyne eye the glasse where I behold my hearte’)

Copy, headed ‘7’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published, as ‘Sonnetto nono’, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 117.

p. 54

• CoH 20: Henry Constable, The last 7 of the end and death of his loue. Sonet 1. (‘Much sorrowe in it selfe my loue doth move’)

Copy, headed ‘8’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published, as ‘Sonnetto quindeci’, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 171.

p. 54

• CoH 56: Henry Constable, Sonet 2. (‘Needs must I leaue and yet needs must I loue’)

Copy, headed ‘9’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 172.

p. 54

• CoH 157: Henry Constable, To the Ladie Rich. Sonet 7. (‘Heralds at armes doe three perfections quote’)

Copy, headed ‘10’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 151.

p. 55

• CoH 73: Henry Constable, Sonet 6. (‘If true loue might true loues reward obtayne’)

Copy, headed ‘11’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published, as ‘Sonnetto ottauo’, in Diana (London, 1592). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 177.

p. 55

• CoH 66: Henry Constable, Sonet 4. (‘Each day new proofes of new dispaire I find’)

Copy, headed ‘12’.

This MS collated in Grundy.

First published in Diana (London, 1594). Park (1812). Grundy, p. 174.

pp. 56-7

• RnT 189: Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes (‘Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Thomas Randalls Expostulation w^th his Credditors’.

First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.

p. 58

• ToA 80: Aurelian Townshend, Mr. Townsends Verses to Ben Johnsons, in Answer to an Abusive Copie, Crying Down his Magnetick Lady (‘It cannon move thy friend (firm Ben) that he’)

Copy, headed ‘To M^r. Ben Jonson against M^r Alexander Gill's verses written by him against...The magnetic lady’, ascribed to ‘M^r. Souch Townlye’.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656), p. 18. Chambers, p. 49. Almost certainly written by Zouch Townley.

p. 58

• RnT 264: Thomas Randolph, A parley with his empty Purse (‘Purse, who'l not know you have a Poets been’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 127-8.

p. 59

• RaW 438: Sir Walter Ralegh, The passionate mans Pilgrimage (‘Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses Made by S^r walter Raleigh the night before hee was beheaded’.

This MS recorded in Latham pp. 141-2.

First published with Daiphantvs or The Passions of Loue (London, 1604). Latham, pp. 49-51. Rudick, Nos 54A, 54B and 54C (three versions, pp. 126-33).

This poem rejected from the canon and attributed to an anonymous Catholic poet in Philip Edwards, ‘Who Wrote The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage?’, ELR, 4 (1974), 83-97.

p. 62

• JnB 256: Ben Jonson, A Fragment of Petronius Arbiter (‘Doing, a filthy pleasure is, and short’)

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxxviii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 294.

p. 63

• DnJ 3193: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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. 65

• CoR 598: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)

Copy, headed ‘Docter Corbettes verses on the Ladies of the New dress’.

First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.

This poem is usually followed in MSS by ‘The Ladyes Answer’ (‘Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night’): see GrJ 14.

p. 65

• GrJ 14.5: John Grange, ‘Black cypress veils are shrouds of night’

Copy, headed ‘Their Answere’.

p. 65

• CoR 556: Richard Corbett, Replye to the Answere (‘Yff nought but love-charmes power have’)

Copy, subscribed ‘finis D D. Corbett’.

Edited from this MS in Gilchrist and in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

First published in Gilchrist (1807), p. 234. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 91-2.

pp. 66-7

• RnT 76: Thomas Randolph, An Eglogue occasion'd by two Doctors disputing upon predestination (‘Ho jolly Thirsis whither in such hast?’)

Copy, headed ‘An Eglogue by M^r Tho: Randall’.

This MS collated (as ‘Ash’) in Thorn-Drury.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 101-4.

p. 67

• JnB 411: Ben Jonson, On the Right Honourable, and vertuous Lord Weston, L. high Treasurer of England, Vpon the Day, Hee was made Earle of Portland, To the Envious (‘Looke up, thou seed of envie, and still bring’)

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxiii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 250.

p. 68

• StW 1079: William Strode, To a frinde (‘Like as the hande which hath bin usd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Carew to his friend’.

Edited from this MS in Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses [1691-2], ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), II, 659, and in The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. W. Carew Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. 164.

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. 68-71

• CwT 627: Thomas Carew, A Rapture (‘I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come’)

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 62.

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

p. 71

• FeO 1: Owen Felltham, An Answer to the Ode of Come leave the loathed Stage, &c. (‘Come leave this saucy way’)

A version first published, as ‘Against Ben: Johnson’, in Panassus Biceps, ed. Abraham Wright (London, 1656), pp. 154-6. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 26-8.

p. 74

• JnB 525: Ben Jonson, To the King. On his Birth-day. An Epigram Anniversarie (‘This is King Charles his Day. Speake it, thou Towre’)

Copy of lines 1-18.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 249.

p. 74

• AlW 168: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘Between two Bretheren Civil warres and worse’)

Copy of the English translation by Holland, headed ‘In duos Reginaldas fratres inter de relligione certantes et in Contrarice’, here beginning ‘Betwixt two brothers...’, subscribed ‘per Gulielmus Alablaster’.

A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Hugh Holland. Sutton, p. 13.

pp. 76-7

• BmF 56: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)

Copy, headed ‘On his deseased M^risan Inuictiue Eligie’.

First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.

pp. 77-78

• DrM 50: Michael Drayton, These verses weare made by Michaell Drayton Esquier Poett Laureatt the night before hee dyed (‘Soe well I love thee, as without thee I’)

Edited from this MS in Elton and in Hebel.

First published in Oliver Elton, Michael Drayton (London, 1905), p. 210. Hebel, I, 507.

pp. 80-1

• JnB 368: Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe (‘Come leaue the lothed stage’)

Printed from this MS in The New Inn, ed. G.B. Tennant (New York, 1908); collated in Herford & Simpson, and in Tom Davis, ‘Ben Johnson's Ode to Himself: An Early Version’, PQ, 51.i (1972), 410-21.

First published, with the heading ‘The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe’, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.

p. 82

• JnB 502: Ben Jonson, To my Detractor (‘My verses were commended, thou dar'st say’)

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 408-9.

p. 84

• HrJ 290: Sir John Harington, Of writing with double pointing (‘Dames are indude with vertues excellent?’)

Copy of a version beginning ‘Wemen or noble vertuos excellent’.

First published in 1618, Book I, Nos. 33 and 35. McClure Nos. 34 and 36, pp. 161-2. Kilroy, Book I, No. 65, pp. 116-17.

p. 84

• JnB 36: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 7. Begging another, on colour of mending the former (‘For Loves-sake, kisse me once againe’)

Copy, headed ‘On Begging A kiss of his M^ris’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 139.

p. 85

• HrJ 167: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler (‘A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling’)

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.

pp. 88-90

• HeR 308: Robert Herrick, The Descripcion: of a Woman (‘Whose head befringed with bescattered tresses’)

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt; edited in part in Patrick; collated in Martin.

First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hazlitt, II, 433-6. Martin, pp. 404-6. Patrick, pp. 549-51.

pp. 90-2

• HeR 45: Robert Herrick, A Country life: To his Brother, Master Thomas Herrick (‘Thrice, and above, blest (my soules halfe) art thou’)

Copy, headed ‘In praise of the Country Life’.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 456-60; collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 34-8. Patrick, pp. 50-3.

pp. 93-4

• HeR 200: Robert Herrick, The parting Verse, or charge to his supposed Wife when he travelled (‘Go hence, and with this parting kisse’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Hericke his charge to his wife’ and here beginning ‘Goe: and with...’.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 460-3; collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 174-6. Patrick, pp. 233-5.

pp. 94-6

• HeR 357: Robert Herrick, Mr Hericke his daughter's Dowrye (‘Ere I goe hence and bee noe more’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Hericke his daughter's Dowrye’.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Martin; collated in Patrick.

First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 436-9. Martin, pp. 407-9. Patrick, pp. 539-42.

p. 98^a

• CwT 598: Thomas Carew, Psalme the first (‘Happie the man that dothe not walke’)

Edited from this MS in Fry and in Dunlap.

First published in John Fry, Bibliographical Memoranda (Bristol, 1816). Dunlap. p. 135.

p. 98^a

• CwT 599: Thomas Carew, Psalme 2 (‘Why rage the heathen, wherefore swell’)

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Hazlitt (1970), pp. 177-8. Dunlap. p. 136.

p. 98^b

• CwT 601: Thomas Carew, Psalme 51 (‘Good god vnlock thy Magazines’)

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 178-80. Dunlap. pp. 137-8.

pp. 98^b-c

• CwT 619: Thomas Carew, Psalme 113 (‘Yee Children of the Lorde, that waite’)

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 184. Dunlap. pp. 142-3.

p. 98^c

• CwT 621: Thomas Carew, Psalme 114 (‘When the seed of Jacob fledd’)

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 185. Dunlap. p. 143.

pp. 98^c-d

• CwT 624: Thomas Carew, Psalme 137 (‘Sitting by the streames that Glide’)

Edited from this MS in Dunlap.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in his Select Psalmes of a New Translation (London, 1655), pp. 1-3 [unique exemplum in the Huntington]. Dunlap, pp. 149-50. Edited from Lawes in Scott Nixon, ‘Henry Lawes's Hand in the Bridgewater Collection: New Light on Composer and Patron’, HLQ, 62 (1999), 233-72 (pp. 270-1).

pp. 98^d-e

• CwT 603: Thomas Carew, Psalme 91 (‘Make the greate God thy Fort, and dwell’)

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 180-1. Dunlap. pp. 138-9.

pp. 98^e-f

• CwT 609: Thomas Carew, Psalme 104 (‘My soule the great Gods prayses sings’)

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in his Select Psalmes of a New Translation (London, 1655), pp. 4-6 [unique exemplum in the Huntington]. Hazlitt (1870), pp. 181-4. Dunlap. pp. 139-42. Edited from Lawes in Scott Nixon, ‘Henry Lawes's Hand in the Bridgewater Collection: New Light on Composer and Patron’, HLQ, 62 (1999), 233-72 (pp. 265-6).

pp. 99-100

• HeR 336: Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing (‘When the monethly horned Queene’)

Copy, headed ‘King Oberons Apparell’ and here ascribed to ‘S^r. Simon steward’.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, collated in Farmer.

First published, as ‘A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes’ and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr., ‘Robert Herrick and “King Oberon's Clothing”: New Evidence for Attribution’, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, ‘Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward’, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.

pp. 100-1

• HeR 177: Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast (‘A Little mushroome table spred’)

Copy, headed ‘Kinge Obrons Feast’ and without the preliminary lines.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 470-2; collated in Martin.

First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning ‘Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State’, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled ‘A Description of his Dyet’, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.

pp. 101-3, 105

• HeR 190: Robert Herrick, Oberons Palace (‘Full as a Bee with Thyme, and Red’)

Copy in two hands, without the preliminary lines and with lines 69-107 first copied on p. 105 and repeated on p. 103.

Edited evidently from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 466-70; collated in Martin.

First published, with eight preliminary lines beginning ‘After the Feast (my Shapcot) see’, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 165-8. Patrick, pp. 222-5.

p. 103

• JnB 471: Ben Jonson, A speach presented vnto king James at a tylting in the behalfe of the two noble Brothers s^r Robert & s^r Henrye Rich, now Earles of warwick and Hollande (‘Two noble knightes, whom true desire and zeale’)

Printed from this MS in Herford & Simpson.

First published (?) in Herford & Simpson, VIII (1947), 382-3.

pp. 106-7

• HeR 360: Robert Herrick, M^r Robert Hericke his farwell vnto Poetrie (‘I have behelde two louers in a night’)

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, in Martin, and in Patrick.

First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 439-42. Martin, pp. 410-12. Patrick, pp. 543-5.

p. 114

• HeR 128.5: Robert Herrick, His age, dedicated to his peculiar friend, Master John Wickes, under the name of Posthumus (‘Ah Posthumus! Our yeares hence flye’)

Copy of a version in which some lines of the poem are reworked into a song of seven sestains plus a chorus, headed ‘11^th Song’ and beginning ‘Come hether my Lads a while’.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 132-6. Patrick, pp. 179-83.

p. 116

• StW 1262: William Strode, Jack on both Sides (‘I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, as ‘The Church Papist’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as ‘The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed’ by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, ‘The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

p. 117

• JnB 257: Ben Jonson, A Grace by Ben: Johnson. extempore. before King James (‘Our King and Queen the Lord-God blesse’)

Copy of a short version beginning ‘Our Royall king & Queene, God Bless’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published (?) in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), II, 14. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 418-19.

p. 118

• WoH 64: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘the 13 songe’.

This MS recorded in Leishman.

First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, ‘“You Meaner Beauties of the Night” A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification’, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

p. 120

• CmT 28: Thomas Campion, ‘Fire, fire, fire, fire!’

Copy of the first strophe.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xx. Davis, p. 156-8. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 2.

p. 120

• ShJ 42: James Shirley, The Kisse (‘I could endure your Eie, although it shott’)

Copy, headed ‘Songe the 19^th’.

This MS recorded in Armstrong.

First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 499. Armstrong, p. 34.

p. 121

• DnJ 3751: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy of a version headed ‘Song the 21’ and beginning ‘As dying saints who sweetly pass away’, subscribed ‘S Butterris’.

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

p. 121

• DrM 4: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)

Copy, headed ‘The 24^th’ and here beginning ‘Dear frinds either for loue or hier’.

First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.

p. 122

• DrM 5: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)

Second, copy, headed ‘Songe the 27’ and also beginning ‘Dear frinds eyther for loue or hyer’, deleted.

First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.

p. 125

• BmF 150.91: Francis Beaumont, A Song in the Praise of Sack (‘Listen all I you pray’)

Anonymous.

Unpublished?

p. 127

• MiT 24: Thomas Middleton, The Widow, III, i, 22-37. Song (‘I keep my horse, I keep my whore’)

Copy of Latrocinio's song, headed ‘Thee Highe Lawyers Song in the playe called the Widdowe’.

First published in London, 1652. Bullen, V, 117-235 (pp. 168-9). Edited by Robert T. Levine (Salzburg, 1975). Oxford Middleton, pp. 1078-1123 (pp. 1098-9).

p. 128

• CmT 77: Thomas Campion, ‘Silly boy, 'tis ful Moone yet, thy night as day shines clearely’

Copy, here beginning ‘Silly boy 'tis new moon yet’.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxvi. Davis, p. 162.

p. 132

• WoH 49: Sir Henry Wotton, A Hymn to my God, in a night of my late sickness (‘Oh Thou great power! in whom I move’)

Copy, headed ‘A shorte Hymne by S Hen: Wotton In a nyght of his present sicknes’.

This MS collated in Hannah.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 515. Hannah (1845), pp. 49-51.

pp. 133-5

• MrJ 19: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

Copy, here ascribed to ‘Mr [John] Heappe’.

p. 137

• CwT 722: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’)

Copy, headed ‘On In prayse of his M^ris’.

this MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 264.

First published in a five-stanza version beginning ‘Aske me no more where Iove bestowes’ in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. ‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’).

For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, ‘Manuscript Evidence and the Author of “Aske me no more”: William Strode, not Thomas Carew’, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, ‘“Aske me no more” and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany’, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.

p. 139

• KiH 510: Henry King, A Salutation of His Majestye's Shipp The Soveraigne (‘Move on thou Floating Trophee built to Fame!’)

Copy, deleted.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 92-3.

p. 141

• KiH 511: Henry King, A Salutation of His Majestye's Shipp The Soveraigne (‘Move on thou Floating Trophee built to Fame!’)

Second copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 92-3.

p. 141

• HeR 291: Robert Herrick, Advice to a Maid (‘Love in thy youth fayre Mayde bee wise’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Airs (London, 1632). Martin, p. 443 (in his section ‘Not attributed to Herrick hitherto’). Not included in Patrick.

p. 142

• CaE 1: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham (‘Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am’)

Copy of both six-line epitaph and 44-line elegy (here with two extra lines) as separate but sequential poems.

This MS recorded in Akkerman.

A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to ‘the Countesse of Faukland’ in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.

Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.

p. 145

• CoR 648: Richard Corbett, To the New-Borne Prince, Upon the Apparition of a Starr, and the following Ecclypse (‘Was Heav'ne afray'd to be out-done on Earth’)

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 84-5.

p. 149

• StW 1008: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.

First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).

p. 150

• PeW 211: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy of a version headed ‘A Mayds Denyall’ and beginning ‘Nay pish, nay pue nay fayth, and will you fye’.

Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed ‘P.’. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as ‘A Paradox of a Painted Face’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’. Also ascribed to James Shirley.

A shorter version, beginning ‘Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie’, was first published, as ‘A Maids Denyall’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].

p. 151

• CwT 791: Thomas Carew, Song. A beautifull Mistris (‘If when the Sun at noone displayes’)

Copy, headed ‘Songe’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 7.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 7. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

p. 152

• RaW 454: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Say not you love, unless you do’

Copy, subscribed ‘finis D: Donn’.

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.

p. 152

• JnB 582: Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song (‘Still to be neat, still to be drest’)

Copy of Clerimont's song, headed ‘On a spruce Ladye’, subscribed ‘finis Ben John’.

First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.

p. 152

• HeR 208: Robert Herrick, The Present: or, The Bag of the Bee (‘Fly to my Mistresse, pretty pilfring Bee’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Flye to my M^ris yealowe footed bee’

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 100. Patrick, p. 140.

p. 153

• StW 1355: William Strode, A Riddle on a Kisse (‘What thing is that, nor felt, nor seene’)

This MS recorded in Forey.

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

p. 154

• CwT 44: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy, headed ‘On his M^ris Features’ and here beginning ‘Fayrest, thy tresses are not hayres of gould’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 118.

First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.

p. 154

• RaW 226: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

p. 155

• JnB 425: Ben Jonson, A Satyricall Shrub (‘A Womans friendship! God whom I trust in’)

Copy of lines 17-24, untitled and here beginning ‘Aske not to knowe this woman, she is worse’.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson and in Beal.

First published (in an incomplete 24-line version) in The Vnder-wood (xx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 171-2. Complete 32-line version first published in Grace Ioppolo, ‘The Monckton-Milnes Manuscript and the “Truest” Version of Ben Jonson's “A Satyricall Shrubb”’, Ben Jonson Journal, 16 (May 2009), 117-31 (pp. 125-6). Some later texts of this poem discussed in Peter Beal, ‘Ben Jonson and “Rochester's” Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress’, RES, NS 29 (1978), 320-4. See also Harold F. Brooks, ‘“A Satyricall Shrub”’, TLS (11 December 1969), p. 1426.

p. 155

• CwT 1246: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

This MS collated in Dunlap.

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.

p. 156

• CwT 951: Thomas Carew, Song. To one that desired to know my Mistris (‘Seeke not to know my love, for shee’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 51.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 39-40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

p. 156

• DnJ 1896: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)

Copy, headed ‘Epigram on a whore m^r’.

First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.

pp. 157-9

• RnT 271: Thomas Randolph, A Pastorall Courtship (‘Behold these woods, and mark my Sweet’)

This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury; collated in Davis.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 109-15. Davis, pp. 77-91.

p. 167

• KiH 281: Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset (‘Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere’)

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.

p. 167

• WiG 15: George Wither, An Epitaph, on A Child, Sonne to Sir W.H. Knight (‘Here lyes, within a Cabinet of stone’)

This MS collated in Sidgwick.

First published in ‘A Miscelany of Epigrams [&c.]’ appended to Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 922-3. Sidgwick, II, 184.

p. 167

• WiG 16: George Wither, An Epitaph vpon a Gentlewoman, who had fore-told the Time of her death (‘Her, who beneath this stone, consuming lyes’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon a Gentle woman that had far told the tyme of her death’.

This MS collated in Sidgwick.

p. 168

• JnB 122: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. (‘Would'st thou heare, what man can say’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on a gentlewoman whose name was Elizabeth’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.

p. 168

• DaJ 163: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘on the vntymely death of a Child’ and here beginning ‘As Carefull Nurses to their bedd do lay’.

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

p. 168

• CoR 534: Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella (‘How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power’)

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

p. 168

• BrW 181: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, ‘Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha’, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.

p. 169

• HoJ 1: John Hoskyns, ‘A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late’

Copy, headed ‘Vppon A Smith’.

Whitlock, p. 108.

p. 170

• HoJ 185: John Hoskyns, Of One y^t kepte runinge Horses (‘Here lyes that man whose horse did gayne’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XX (p. 189).

p. 171

• JnB 143: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on S<alomon> P<avy> a Child of Q. El<izabeths> Chappel (‘Weepe with me all you that read’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon Sal: Pauye a boy of 13 years of age and on of the Companye of the Reuells to Queene Elizabeth’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Epigrammes (cxx) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 77.

p. 172

• HoJ 147: John Hoskyns, An Ep: one a man for doyinge nothinge (‘Here lyes the man was borne and cryed’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon an old man noted for nothing butt his Age’ and here beginning ‘Here lieth one was Borne and Cried’.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XII (p. 171).

p. 172

• DaJ 128: Sir John Davies, An Epitaph (‘Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a bellows maker’ and here beginning ‘Here lies Bounce 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.

p. 174

• ShJ 118: James Shirley, Verses on the martyrdom of St. Alban (‘This image of our frailty, painted Glass’)

Copy of lines 1-10, headed ‘Verses wrighten vnder A windowe In the Abby Church of S^t Alban whearin the Execution of that protomartire was paynted; the Heads mans eyes falling out att the Martirdome’, here beginning ‘The Image of our frailtie, paynted glass’, and ascribed to ‘I.S.’.

Printed from this MS in Howarth; collated in Armstrong.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 408. Sir Henry Chauncy, Historical Antiquities of Hertfordshire (London, 1700), p. 472. R.G. Howarth, ‘Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley’, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (p. 29). Armstrong, p. 54, as a ‘Doubtful Poem’.

p. 175^b

• ShJ 39: James Shirley, In verolamium, a forgotten Cittie some tymes standing neere S^ct Albions (‘Stay thy foot that passeth by’)

Edited from this MS in Howarth and in Armstrong.

First published in R. G. Howarth, ‘Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley’, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (p. 29). Armstrong, p. 54, as a ‘Doubtful Poem’.

p. 176

• HoJ 154: John Hoskyns, An Epitaphe on Mr Sandes (‘Who wo'ld live in other's breath’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon on Sands’.

p. 177

• DaJ 222: Sir John Davies, An other Epitaph: of one who died with the Maple Buttons (‘Heere lieth Dick Dobson iwrapped in molde’)

Copy, headed ‘vppon on that was balde’ and here beginning ‘Here lies John Baker Inrolled In mould’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 412. Krueger, p. 304.

p. 179

• WiG 21: George Wither, An Epitaph vpon the Right Vertuous Lady, the Lady Scott (‘Let none suppose this Relique of the Iust’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on the Ladie Scott’.

This MS collated in Sidgwick.

p. 179

• WiG 17: George Wither, An Epitaph vpon a Woman, and her Child, buried together in the same Graue (‘Beneath this Marble Stone doth lye’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon A mother and her Child buried In on graue’.

This MS collated in Sidgwick.

p. 179

• WiG 20: George Wither, An Epitaph vpon the Porter of a Prison (‘Here lye the bones of him, that was of late’)

Copy, headed ‘On the porter of a prison’.

This MS collated in Sidgwick.

p. 179

• HeR 58: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)

Second copy, headed ‘An Epitaphe made by A Gentelwoman att her Death, her louer prouing Inconstant’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

p. 181

• RaW 384: Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester (‘Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword’)

Copy, headed ‘On S^r Robert Dudley Earle of warwicke and Leicester’, and here beginning ‘Here lies the souldier that neuer drewe his sword’.

This MS recorded in Latham.

First published as introduced ‘...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe’ and beginning ‘Heere lies the woorthy warrier’, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, ‘1592’), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.

p. 181

• HoJ 251: John Hoskyns, Vppon on of the Mayds of Honor to Queen Elizabeth (‘Here lies, the lord haue Mercie vppon hur!’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon on of the Mayds of Honor to Queen Elizabeth’, subscribed ‘Serg^t Hoskins’.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 349. Osborn, No. VII (p. 170).

p. 184

• RnT 202: Thomas Randolph, On Mr parson(s) Organist of Westminster Abbye (‘Death passing by, and hearing parsons play’)

Edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 415. Thorn-Drury, pp. 147-8.

MS Ashmole 40

A 15th-century folio MS, on 97 vellum leaves, of Hoccleve's treatise dedicated to Henry V (as Prince) inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Liber W: Browne, / 1612’, with Browne's autograph notes and corrections, including.additional verses (ff. 7r, 40v, 80r) and the text of three missing leaves (ff. 65r-v, 70r-v, 74r-v) supplied in his hand, the MS evidently collated by him with another text. c.1612.

*BrW 258: William Browne of Tavistock, Hoccleve, Thomas. Regement of Princes

Edwards, No. 8.

MS Ashmole 45

A 16th-century quarto MS of the romance, inscribed (ff. 2r) ‘W. Browne’ and (f. 3r) ‘W Browne’, bound with other MSS. Early 17th century.

BrW 268: William Browne of Tavistock, The Story of the Erle of Tolous

Edwards, No. 9.

MS Ashmole 46

A quarto 15th-century illuminated MS, on vellum, 163 leaves, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘W^m Browne’, in old leather gilt. Early 17th century.

*BrW 263: William Browne of Tavistock, Lydgate, John. Lives of SS Edmund & Fremund

Edwards, No. 10.

MS Ashmole 47

An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in five hands, one predominating on ff. 8v-130r, ii + 166 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled in part (ff. 131v-66r) by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary. c.1630s-40s.

ff. 8r-16v

• CoR 290: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)

Copy, in two hands, headed ‘Iter Boreale by D^r Corbet’.

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

ff. 17r-21r

• CoR 637: Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North (‘My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes’)

Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet on y^e guard dedicated to my L^d. Mordant’.

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

f. 21r

• HrJ 56: Sir John Harington, The Author to Queene Elizabeth, in praise of her reading (‘For euer deare, for euer dreaded Prince’)

Copy, headed ‘To y^e Prince’, subscribed ‘R: corbet’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 13. McClure No. 267, p. 258. This epigram is also quoted in Breefe Notes and Remembraunces (Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 172). Kilroy, Book IV, No. 88 (p. 243).

ff. 21v-2r

• SuJ 5: John Suckling, Against Fruition I (‘Stay here fond youth and ask no more, be wise’)

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Edmund Waller: Workes (London, 1645). Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 37-8. See also WaE 93-5.

f. 29v

• WoH 5: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, headed ‘True ffelicitye’.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

f. 31r

• HeR 322: Robert Herrick, Herracke on a Kisse to his M^rs (‘Why what are lips but earth burnt read’)

Copy of lines 1-4, headed ‘on the lips’ and here beginning ‘Why were your ffresh lip^s. but earth burn'd red’.

This MS recorded in Cain.

First published, and attributed to Herrick, in T.G.S. Cain, ‘The Bell/White MS: Some Unpublished Poems’, ELR, 2 (1972), 260-70 (pp. 261-3).

ff. 31r-3r

• KiH 154: Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse (‘Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published 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. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.

f. 33v

• RnT 101: Thomas Randolph, An Elegie on the death of that Renowned and Noble Knight Sir Rowland Cotton of Bellaport in Shropshire (‘Rich as was Cottons worth, I wish each line’)

Copy, headed ‘On S^r Rowland Cotton's death’ and ascribed to ‘T: R:’.

First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635), sig. G4v-Hv. Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 89-92.

ff. 33v-4r

• CoR 564: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett (‘What I shall leave thee none can tell’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘R: C:’.

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

f. 34r

• StW 1257: William Strode, In eundem [the death of Mr. Fra. Lancaster] (‘To die is Natures debt. and when’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’.

This MS recorded in Forey.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 340.

ff. 35r-6r

• PoW 3: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘on y^e prayse of a black woman’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

f. 36r-v

• StW 1373: William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie (‘Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke’)

Copy, headed ‘on his M^rs Blush’ and here beginning ‘Stay hasty blood where canst thou seeke’.

This MS recorded in Forey.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

f. 36v

• CwT 570: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Sigh’ and here beginning ‘Go soft thou gentle whispring wind’.

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

f. 37r

• PoW 102: Walton Poole, To a Ladie which desired him to make her a copy of verses (‘Faire Madam, cast these diamonds away’)

Copy, headed ‘To his mistress’.

First published, as anonymous, in Henry Huth, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies (1870).

f. 37r-v

• CwT 262: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘on a flye drownd in a gentlewoman's eye’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 48.

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

f. 37v

• StW 1307: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, headed ‘On his M^rs’ and here beginning ‘Ile tell you whence y^e Rose grew redde’.

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

ff. 37v-8r

• PeW 167: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)

Copy, headed ‘on a gentlewoman vnmarriageable’ and here beginning ‘White should thy passion lead thee blynd’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by Walton Poole.

f. 38r

• CwT 1254: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy, headed ‘By one thinking on his m^rs’.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

f. 38r-v

• KiH 429: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy, headed ‘on man’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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.

ff. 39r-40r

• ClJ 107: John Cleveland, A Song of Marke Anthony (‘When as the Nightingall chanted her Vesper’)

Copy, headed ‘A sonnet’.

This MS probably recorded in Morris & Withington (erroneously as MS Ashmole 38).

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 40-1.

f. 41r

• StW 586: William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham (‘Meerely for death to greive and mourne’)

Copy, headed ‘vppon an old man’.

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

f. 41r-v

• CwT 390: Thomas Carew, A Ladies prayer to Cupid (‘Since I must needes into thy schoole returne’)

Copy.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap, p. 131.

f. 41v

• CwT 218: Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence (‘You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay’)

Copy, here beginning ‘You will aske phaps wherefore I stay’.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.

f. 42r

• PeW 26: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, I left you, and now the gain of you is to me a double Gain (‘Dear, when I think upon my first sad fall’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Losse of his m^rs. and regaining her’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), p. 25, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 28, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’.

ff. 42v-3r

• CwT 68: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Perfection of his m^rs’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 118.

First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.

f. 43r-v

• BrW 149: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.

ff. 43v-4r

• StW 979: William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection (‘Like to the casting of an Eye’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Like to the rowling of an eye’.

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’.

f. 44r

• StW 206: William Strode, Justification (‘See how the rainbow in the skie’)

Copy, headed ‘Justification m^r Stroad’.

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

f. 44v

• KiH 546: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘on his discontented m^rs.’

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 147-8.

f. 44v

• JnB 552: Ben Jonson, To William Earle of Pembroke (‘I doe but name thee Pembroke, and I find’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Epigrammes (cii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 66.

ff. 44v-5r

• EaJ 1: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie upon Master Francis Beaumont (‘Beaumont lies here, and where now shall wee have’)

Copy, headed ‘on y^e death of M^r. ffrancis Beaumont’.

First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640), sig. Kl^r-K2^r. Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Bliss, pp. 229-32.

f. 45r

• JnB 412: Ben Jonson, On the Vnion (‘When was there contract better driuen by Fate?’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e vnion betwixt scotland and England’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.

f. 45v

• JnB 407: Ben Jonson, On Some-Thing, That Walkes Some-Where (‘At court I met it, in clothes braue enough’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Epigrammes (xi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 30.

f. 45v

• JnB 497: Ben Jonson, To Iohn Donne (‘Donne, the delight of Phoebvs, and each Muse’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Epigrammes (xxiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 34.

f. 45v

• JnB 390: Ben Jonson, On Banck the Vsvrer (‘Banck feeles no lamenesse of his knottie gout’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Epigrammes (xxxi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 36.

ff. 45v-6r

• JnB 404: Ben Jonson, On Margaret Ratcliffe (‘Marble, weepe, for thou dost couer’)

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Epigrammes (xl) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 39.

f. 46r-v

• JnB 394: Ben Jonson, On Giles and Ione (‘Who sayes that Giles and Ione at discord be?’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson. A facsimile of f. 46v in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 94).

First published in Epigrammes (xlii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 40.

ff. 46v-7r

• StW 44: William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies (‘Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night’)

Copy, headed ‘on y^e prayse of gray eyes’.

This MS collated in Forey. A facsimile of f. 46v in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 94).

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

f. 47r

• HrJ 30: Sir John Harington, Against Swearing (‘In elder times an ancient custome was’)

Copy, headed ‘Of swearing’.

f. 48r

• HrJ 273: Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues (‘You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young’)

Copy, headed ‘A refusall of a Learned wife’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.

f. 48v

• KiH 35: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘The answer’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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).

ff. 50v-1r

• CwT 132: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Copy, headed ‘On a cruell M^rs’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 8.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

f. 51v

• StW 587: William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham (‘Meerely for death to greive and mourne’)

Second copy of lines 1-6, headed ‘on sorrow for y^e dead’.

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

f. 51v

• StW 422: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox (‘A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine’)

Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman y^t had y^e pox’.

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

ff. 51v-2r

• RaW 227: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy of a version, headed ‘On mans life’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

f. 52r

• TiC 2: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament (‘My prime of youth is but a frost of cares’)

Copy, headed ‘The map of man’.

First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also ‘The Text of “Tichborne's Lament” Reconsidered’, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the ‘answer’ to this poem, see KyT 1-2.

f. 52v

• DaJ 165: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘On an infant diseased’ and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers in their beds doe lay’.

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

f. 52v

• StW 1308: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Second copy.

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

f. 53r-v

• CwT 740: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’)

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘On the prayse of his M^rs’.

This MS recorded and the additional stanza printed in Dunlap, p. 264.

f. 53v

• HrJ 125: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Ladye’.

First published in ‘Epigrammes’ appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

f. 54r-v

• PeW 212: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy of a short version, headed ‘A mayds denyall’ and here beginning ‘nay pish nay phew...’.

f. 54v

• RaW 455: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Say not you love, unless you do’

Copy, headed ‘A Gentlewoman to a gentleman’.

This MS recorded in Latham.

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.

ff. 55r-6v

• CwT 1008: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)

Copy, headed ‘An Admonition to coy acquaintance’.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 216, and in Hazlitt, p. 2.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

f. 59r-v

• BcF 54.1: Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox (‘Are all diseases dead? or will death say’)

Copy.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.

ff. 59v-60r

• RnT 106: Thomas Randolph, An Elegie upon the Lady Venetia Digby (‘Death, who'ld not change prerogatives with thee’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegye on y^e Lady Verrona digbye’ and omitting the epitaph.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 52-3.

ff. 67v-8v

• RnT 95: Thomas Randolph, An Elegie (‘Love, give me leave to serve thee, and be wise’)

Copy, headed ‘A true m^rs’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 66-7.

ff. 69v-70r

• CoR 663: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him (‘Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbett to M^rs. Mallet’.

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

f. 73r-v

• DnJ 2954: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

Copy of a three-stanza version, headed ‘A song D^r Corbet’ and here beginning ‘Lye still my deare’, incorporating lines 1-6 of Breake of day, and ascribed to ‘D^r Corbet’.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 609-11.

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.

MS Ashmole 48

A small quarto miscellany of ballads, in several hands, 141 leaves. Copy. Mid-16th century.

Inscribed ‘Gabriell Penn 1640’.

f. 1r-v

• WyT 356: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘To my myshap alas I fynd’

Copy, with the second stanza placed first, headed ‘Tempore quo fodiebat’ and beginning ‘Amydes my myrth and pleasantnes’.

This MS collated in Muir & Thomson.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 181-3. Attributed to Sir Francis Bryan in A. Stuart Daley, ‘The Uncertain Author of Poem 225, Tottel's Miscellany’, SP, 47 (1950), 485-93.

ff. 139r-138v

• GaG 1: George Gascoigne, The arraignment of a Lover (‘At Beautyes barre as I dyd stande’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘At beautyse bar where I dyd stand’.

This MS collated in Pigman, p. 627.

First published in A Hundreth sundrie Flowres (London, [1573]). Cunliffe, I, 38-9. Prouty, pp. 144-5. Pigman, No. 50, pp. 264-6, as ‘Gascoignes araignement’.

MS Ashmole 51

A small quarto writing book of extracts and exercises, predominantly in a female roman hand, 20 leaves, bound with two other independent verse MSS (MSS Ashmole 49 and 50), in half-calf on marbled boards. Early-mid-17th century.

Inscribed (f. 18v rev.) ‘Ann: Bowyr’, evidently the principal compiler.

f. 6r-v

• RaW 149: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)

Copy of an adaptation of the poem.

Facsimile and transcription of this MS in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 340-1.

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.

f. 7r

• DnJ 3752: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy, in two hands, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

MS Ashmole 53

MS of a revised version of the continuation of Chaucer's Squire's Tale by John Lane (fl.1620). 1630.

[unspecified pages]

• SpE 8.2: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

Quotations from Book IV, Canto II, stanzas 31-5.

Books I-III first published in London, 1590. Books IV-VI published in London, 1596. Variorum, Vols I-VI.

MS Ashmole 59

A 15th-century collection of verse and prose, 134 leaves, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Liber W: Browne’ and (f. 133v) ‘W. Browne Inter. Templi 1614’, bound with another tract by Lydgate (ff. 135-84). 1614.

BrW 261: William Browne of Tavistock, Lydgate, John, and works by others

Edwards, No. 11. Described in E. P. Hammond, ‘Ashmole 59 and Other Shirley Manuscripts’, Anglia, 30 (1907), 320-48.

MS Ashmole 111

A folio composite volume of Ashmole's papers.

ff. 85v-6v

• CmW 19: William Camden, Regni regis Jacobi I annalium apparatus

Notes, chiefly relating to the Order of the Garter, transcribed by Elias Ashmole (1617-92) from Camden's autograph MS ‘in the custody of D^r: Hacket B^p: of Lichfield and Coventry 1668’. 1668.

First published in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 1-85.

MS Ashmole 176

A quarto composite volume of MSS, chiefly astrological papers, in various hands, ix + 273 leaves, in contemporary calf, with metal clasps. Collected by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary, and partly derived from William Lilly (1602-81), astrologer.

f. 97r-v

• SuH 20: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, ‘If care do cause men cry, why do not I complaine?’

Copy, untitled, in an accomplished secretary hand. Late 16th century.

This MS recorded in Rollins, II, 313.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 28, pp. 80-2. Jones, pp. 14-16.

MS Ashmole 230

Sir Richard Napier's notebook recording his medical practice from 19 August 1618 to 17 May 1619. 1618-19.

f. 343v

• RaW 13: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

MS Ashmole 313

A composite collection of quarto tracts published by William Lilly (1602-81), astrologer.

ff. 32v-3r

• CoR 325: 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 in the hand of Elias Ashmole, in an interleaved printed exemplum of Lilly's Englands Propheticall Merline (1644). Mid-17th century.

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

MS Ashmole 356

MS Ashmole 420

A large folio notebook and miscellany, 376 pages, in contemporary calf with metal clasps. Entitled A Volume of Figures Set by M^r Lilly from Aprill 1647 to Sept: 1648, comprising for the most part a formal collection of horoscopes. Mid-17th century.

ff. 5r-7r

• ShJ 136: James Shirley, Changes, or Love in a Maze

Extracts.

First published in London, 1632. Gifford & Dyce, II, 269-364.

MS Ashmole 749

A quarto composite volume of sixteen tracts and papers, in contemporary calf (rebacked).

MS IV (ff. 2r-14r)

• CtR 384: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on 13 quarto leaves. c.1620s.

Treatise, written c.1614 and ‘Presented to King James’, beginning ‘Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...’. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).

MS Ashmole 767 (I)

A quarto MS of letters and tracts by or relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in several probably professional secretary and italic hands, v + 72 leaves (ff. 43v-61v blank), bound with other MSS in contemporary calf. Early 17th century.

f. 1r-2r

• EsR 51: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary (‘It was a time when sillie Bees could speake’)

Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, headed ‘The buzzeinge Bees complaynt’ and here beginning ‘There was a tyme when seylley bees could speake’.

This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.

First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

ff. 10r-43r

• EsR 100: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology

Copy, in two secretary hands, with various deletions and alterations.

First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.

ff. 64r-5v

• EsR 98: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Welcome sweet Death the kindest freind I have’

Copy, headed ‘Essex laste Voyage to the hauen of Happiness’.

Discussed and attribution to Essex rejected in May, Poems, p. 115.

ff. 66v-8r

• EsR 254: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy.

Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

MS Ashmole 767 (II)

An illustrated MS emblem book belonging to William Browne, 112 quarto leaves (ff. 1r-20v, 22r-3r, 113-17 blank), bound with other manuscripts in contemporary calf. Produced in 1598 by Thomas Palmer and originally intended as a gift for Lord Burghley (who died in that year), the verses in a neat secretary script (with watercolours on ff. 21r, 24v-87v), bearing (f. 21r) Browne's inscription ‘Liber: willi: Browne’. 1598.

*BrW 257: William Browne of Tavistock, Emblem Books

This and MS Ashmole 767 (III) discussed by Geoffrey Tillotson in ‘A Manuscript of William Browne’, RES, 6 (1930), 187-91, and in ‘Further Note on Ashmole MS. 767’, RES, 7 (1931), 457-8. Also discussed in Percy Simpson in ‘Two Emblem Books’, BQR, 6 (1932), 172-3, and, with facsimile examples, in Gillian Wright, ‘The Growth of an Emblem: Some Contexts for Bodleian Library MS Ashmole 767’, in Emblems and the Manuscript Tradition, ed. Laurence Grove (Glasgow, 1997), pp. 81-99.

Unpublished.

MS Ashmole 767 (III)

The manuscript as a whole. An illustrated MS emblem book, the main text all in Browne's semi-calligraphic hand (a different hand or variation in style in the addition on f. 14r), the watercolours also probably executed by him, the pictures and mottoes being largely copied from Palmer's MS (BrW 257), but the verses (on the first 14 leaves), beginning ‘Euerie thing as 'tis taken’, composed by Browne, with his inscription (f. 3r) ‘Liber W: Browne’, 103 quarto leaves, incomplete, bound with other MSS in contemporary calf. Early 17th century.

*BrW 257.4: William Browne of Tavistock, Emblem Books

This and MS Ashmole 767 (II) discussed by Geoffrey Tillotson in ‘A Manuscript of William Browne’, RES, 6 (1930), 187-91, and in ‘Further Note on Ashmole MS. 767’, RES, 7 (1931), 457-8; also Percy Simpson in ‘Two Emblem Books’, BQR, 6 (1932), 172-3.

Unpublished.

MS Ashmole 767 (III)

Browne's emblem book.

f. 12v

• *BrW 15: William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Book II, Song 4, lines 705-28 (‘A man that only liv'd to live no more’)

Autograph copy of an early version, headed ‘Perijt memoria eius vna cum sonitu. Ps: 9. 6.’ and here beginning ‘That man Whoe onlie liu'd to liue no more’.

Facsimile of this MS in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 30, and in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 42.

MS Ashmole 768 (I)

A quarto MS of speeches in Parliament, 1640, 170 pages, bound with five other MSS of legal and political tracts, xxii + 612 pages in all (pp. 171-271 blank), in various professional hands, in contemporary calf. c.1640s.

pp. 25-37

• RuB 140: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beniamin Riddyers speech in Parliament i Novemb: i640’

Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning ‘We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's...’. First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.

MS Ashmole 770

A quarto copy of William Whitlock's Chronicon Lichefeldensis Ecclesie, in a professional secretary hand, 66 leaves, bound with two much earlier quarto and octavo MSS on vellum (ff. 67-8, 69-76), in contemporary calf. 2nd half 16th century.

f. 12v

• LeJ 7: John Leland, Poemata

Copy of an epigram on Cambridge University, headed ‘Jhoannes Lelandus antiquarius composuit sequens epigramma’ and beginning ‘Olim granta fuit titulis vrba inclyta multis’.

Many of Leland's Latin epigrams published in Principum, ac illustrium aliquot & eruditorum in Anglia virorum, encomia, trophaea, genethliaca & epithalamia, ed. Thomas Newton (London, 1589). Reprinted in Joannis Lelandi...collectanea, ed. Thomas Hearne, 3rd edition (London, 1774), V, 79-167.

MS Ashmole 781

A small quarto colume of state papers and verse, in a closely written hand, i + 170 pages, badly affected by ink seepage. c.1620s-37.

pp. 1-19

• DnJ 4000: John Donne, A Sermon of Valediction at my going into Germany, at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619, on Ecclesiastes 12.1

Copy in a professional secretary hand, subscribed ‘Finis D^r Dun’.

This MS collated in Potter & Simpson and described, I, 45.

First published in Sapientia Clamitans (London, 1638). XXVI Sermons (London, 1661), No. 13. Potter & Simpson, II, No. 11, pp. 235-49.

p. 76

• LyJ 14: John Lyly, A petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth

Copy.

Beginning ‘Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yo^r Highnes w^th many wordes...’. Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.

p. 77

• LyJ 37: John Lyly, A second petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth

Copy.

Beginning ‘Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme...’. Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.

p. 83

• EsR 1: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Happy were Hee could finish foorth his Fate’

Copy, headed ‘Certaine verses made by him’ [i.e. Essex].

This MS collated in May, pp. 124-5.

May, Poems, No. 7, p. 47. May, Courtier Poets, p. 254. EV 8176.

pp. 92-101

• RaW 830: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of letters by Ralegh, to James I (3), Lady Ralegh (3), and Robert Carr.

pp. 101-3

• RaW 728.3: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment 28 October 1618.

Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, ‘“The Great Day of Mart”: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603’, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

pp. 129-31

• HoJ 92: John Hoskyns, A Dreame (‘Me thought I walked in a dreame’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Hoskins Dreame’.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.

A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning ‘the worst is tolld, the best is hidd’ and ending ‘he errd but once, once king forgiue’, was widely circulated.

p. 131

• HoJ 93: John Hoskyns, A Dreame (‘Me thought I walked in a dreame’)

Copy of the shortened version of lines 43-68, headed ‘M^rs Hoskins to his ma^tie for her husband’ and beginning ‘The worst is told, the best is hid’.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.

A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning ‘the worst is tolld, the best is hidd’ and ending ‘he errd but once, once king forgiue’, was widely circulated.

pp. 132-4

• EsR 52: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary (‘It was a time when sillie Bees could speake’)

Copy of a fifteen-stanza version, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis Essex:’.

This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.

First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

p. 134

• HrJ 72: Sir John Harington, How England may be reformed (‘Men say that England late is bankrout grown’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘England men say of late is Banquerout growen’, and subscribed ‘finis S^r J Harrington’.

This MS recorded in McCLure, p. 425.

Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). McClure No. 375, p. 301. Kilroy, Book I, No. 1, p. 186.

p. 136

• DrW 177.1: William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table (‘Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre’)

Copy of the version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’.

First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

p. 138

• RaW 106: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Wa: Ralegh’.

This MS collated in The Phoenix Nest, ed. H.E. Rollins (Cambridge, Mass., 1931), pp. 178-9; recorded in Latham, p. 101.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).

p. 138

• TiC 3: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament (‘My prime of youth is but a frost of cares’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis Chidiock Tichborne’.

pp. 140-2

• DyE 15: Sir Edward Dyer, A Fancy (‘Hee that his mirth hath loste, whose comfort is dismaid’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Sargent.

First published, in a garbled version, in Poems by the Earl of Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660), pp. 29-31. Sargent, No. V, pp. 184-7. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 290-2. EV 8529.

p. 142

• ElQ 7: Queen Elizabeth I, On Monsieur's Departure, circa 1582 (‘I grieve and dare not show my discontent’)

Edited from this MS in John Nichols, The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, 3 vols (London, 1823). Cited (as ‘mostly illegible’) in Bradner, in Collected Works, and in Selected Works.

Collected Works, Poem 9, pp. 302-3. Selected Works, Poem 6, pp. 12-13. Bradner, p. 5.

p. 143

• RaW 501: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy of stanzas 1-7, apparently subscribed ‘Lo: Walden’, but now in an illegible state.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116, and in Gullans.

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).

p. 152

• BrW 182: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on the death of Marie Countesse of Pembrooke’.

This MS collated in Norman Ault, Seventeenth Century Lyrics, 2nd edition (New York, 1950), p. 2.

pp. 153-4

• BmF 87: Francis Beaumont, A Funeral Elegy on the Death of the Lady Penelope Clifton (‘Since thou art dead, Clifton, the world may see’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegey on the death of Penelope late Ladie Clifton’, subscribed ‘Finis Fra: Beo’.

First published in Poems (London, 1653). Dyce, XI, 511-13.

p. 162

• PeW 71: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of Friendship (‘Friendship on Earth we may as easily find’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’.

p. 163

• RaW 497.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Water thy plants with grace devine, and hope to live for aye’

Copy of a two-stanza version conflated to four extended lines, subscribed ‘Sir Wa: Raleigh’.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 58, p. 137.

A version first published as the first two stanzas in a twenty-line poem edited in Poetical Miscellanies from a Manuscript Collection of the Time of James I, ed. James Orchard Halliwell, Percty Society 15 (1845). The long version in Rudick, p. 187. The two-stanza version (conflated to four lines) in Rudick, No. 58, p. 137.

p. 164

• EsR 37: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Courte's skorne, state's disgracinge’

Copy, headed ‘The answere to the lye’.

As ‘The Answer to the Lie’ in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., 8 vols (Oxford, 1829), VIII, 735. May, Poems, No. I, p. 60. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 264-5. EV 5008.

p. 164

• RaW 10.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, Erroris Responsio (‘Courts Comender, states maintayner’)

Copy, headed ‘Erroris Responsio’, subscribed ‘S^r Wa: Ra:.’.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 22, p. 45.

Rudick, No. 22, p. 45.

MS Ashmole 783

A miscellany.

ff. 4r-16r, 155v-6v

• FuT 5.1: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War

Extracts.

Recorded in Bailey, p. 181.

First published in Cambridge, 1639.

MS Ashmole 787

Copy of the Preface only, in the accomplished predominantly secretary hand of a relatively young Elias Ashmole, transcribed from a printed source, on 51 duodecimo leaves, imperfect and lacking title, in quarter-calf over contemporary reversed calf, with remains of metal clasps. Mid-17th century.

RaW 678: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World

First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

MS Ashmole 788

A folio miscellany of tracts, letters and verse, written over a period, 210 leaves. Compiled by one Philip Kynder (b.1597). c.1620s-50s.

f. 18r

• SuJ 68: John Suckling, Sonnet I (‘Do'st see how unregarded now’)

Copy, untitled and deleted.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646)and in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 47-8.

f. 21v

• WoH 65: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of a six-stanza version.

This MS recorded in Leishman. The text followed on f. 22 by a parodied version, beginning ‘Ladies that guild the glittering moone’, on the fall of Charles I.

f. 22r

• ClJ 163: John Cleveland, The General Eclipse (‘Ladies that guild the glittering Noon’)

Copy, headed ‘The Antiparade’.

First published in Clievelandi Vindiciae, or Clieveland's Genuine Poems, Orations, Epistles, etc. (1677). Morris & Withington, pp. 69-70.

f. 52v

• CnC 148: Charles Cotton, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Cotton, to Philip Kynder, in Kynder's hand, [from Beresford], 10 July 1662. 1662.

Edited in Turner, p. 78.

f. 190r

• CnC 149: Charles Cotton, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Cotton, to Philip Kynder, in Knyder's hand, [from Beresford], 8 November 1662. 1662.

Edited in Turner, p. 79.

MS Ashmole 800

A folio composite volume of political letters and speeches (up to 1640), in various hands, 259 leaves (ff. 8-20 and 212-59 blank), in contemporary calf.

Assembled by the astrologer and antiquary Elias Ashmole (1617-92).

ff. 1r-4r

• SiP 185: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur

Copy in a single secretary hand, headed ‘S^r Phillip Sidney to hir Ma^tie’, on seven closely-written folio pages, endorsed on f. 4v ‘S^r Phillip Sidney to Quee Elizabeth Concning her Marriage w^th Mounser’. End of 16th-early 17th century.

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 326 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 37. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 4.

First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.

This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).

ff. 21r-7r

• KiT 13: Thomas Killigrew, Letter about the possessed Nuns of Tours, from Orleans, 7 December 1635

Copy, in a professional secretary hand. c.1636-40.

Edited from this MS in Lough and Crane.

Letter, to Lord Goring, beginning ‘Being thus far from London...’. Published in European Magazine, 43 (1803), 102-6. Edited in J. Lough and D. E. L. Crane, ‘Thomas Killigrew and the Possessed Nuns of Loudun: The Text of a Letter of 1635’, Durham University Journal, 78 (1986), 259-68.

ff. 74v-82v

• CoR 767: Richard Corbett, A speech made by Doctor Corbet Bpp of Norwich to the Clergie of his Diocesse about theire Benevolence for the repayre of S^t Paules Church London [29 April] Anno domini 1634

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Doctor Corbett the Byshop of Norwich his Speech to the Clergy of y^e Dyocesse for their benevolence towards Paules deliuered at a Synod in the Chathedrall of Norwich on the 29 of Aprill. 1634’. c.1634.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xl.

Sermon, beginning ‘My worthy freinds & brethren of the Clergy, I did not send for you before, though I had a commission...’, first published in James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, 4 vols (London, 1802-7), II (1803), 77-80. Edited (with omissions) in Gilchrist, pp. xli-xlviii.

134v-44v

• BcF 325: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of a speech by Bacon.

ff. 210r-12r

• ClE 71: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon in 1667

Copy.

Petition beginning ‘I cannot express the insupportable trouble and grief of mind I sustain...’. Published as To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon, [in London, 1667?] and subsequently reprinted widely, sometimes under the title News from Dunkirk-house: or, Clarendon's Farewell to England Dec 3 1667.

MS Ashmole 810

A folio volume of extracts, compiled by John Stansby, 147 leaves, the majority blank. Late 17th century.

f. 26r-v

• FuT 5.255: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England

Extracts.

First published in London, 1662.

MS Ashmole 816

A quarto volume of antiquarian and miscellaneous extracts, compiled by John Stansby, written from both ends, 34 leaves, in half-calf. Late 17th century.

f. 2r-v

• CtR 523: Sir Robert Cotton, Miscellaneous

Notes out of Cottoni posthuma (octavo edition of 1672).

ff. 3r-4r

• RaW 1039: Sir Walter Ralegh, Extracts

ff. 38r-42v, 44r, 56v-52v rev.

• FuT 5.26: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England

Extracts.

First published in London, 1662.

MS Ashmole 826

A folio composite volume of historical and miscellaneous MSS, in various hands, iii + 250 leaves. Collected and some items written by Elias Ashmole (1617-92). Mid-17th century.

f. 101r

• SuJ 175.5: John Suckling, Letter(s)

A copy of a letter by Suckling, [to William Wallis], from Leiden, 18 November 1629. 1620.

Edited in Clayton, pp. 112-14.

f. 103r-v

• SuJ 147: John Suckling, An Answer to a Gentleman in Norfolk that sent to enquire after the Scotish business

Copy, in Ashmole's hand, subscribed ‘J: S:’, on a single folio leaf. c.1640.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 142-4.

ff. 177r-8v

• BcF 697: Francis Bacon, An Essay of a King

Copy.

Essay, beginning ‘A king is a mortal god on earth...’. Spedding, VI, 595-7 (discussed pp. 592-4).

ff. 249r-51r

• DnJ 4082: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems

Copy of nineteen Problems.

This MS discussed by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 10 (1934), 293-7. Problem Nos XI and XII edited from this MS in Peters, pp. 36-7 and pp. 39-40.

Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to ‘Dubia’) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.

MS Ashmole 830

A folio composite volume of state letters, speeches and other papers, in various hands and paper sizes, x + 315 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf.

Collected and partly written by Elias Ashmole (1617-92).

ff. 40r-8v

• EsR 190: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy.

ff. 49r-50r

• EsR 255: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, untitled.

Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

ff. 87r-103v

• RaW 544: Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana

Copy in three or four hands, headed ‘S^r Walter Ralegh his Appologie’.

A tract beginning ‘If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example...’. First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V. T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.

ff. 104r-8r, 113r

• RaW 836: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copies of letters by Ralegh, including one to James I.

ff. 109r-10v

• RaW 701: Sir Walter Ralegh, Orders to be observed by the Commanders of the Fleet with Land Companies. 3 May 1617

Copy.

Orders, beginning ‘First, because no action or enterprise can prosper (be it by sea or land) without the favour and assistance of Almighty God...’. First published in Newes of Sir Walter Rauleigh (London, 1618). Works (1829), VIII, 682-8. Edited by V. T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 121-6.

ff. 114r-15v

• RaW 742: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Copy in Ashmole's hand, headed ‘S^r Walter Rawley his speech at his death...’.

Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.

ff. 129r-32v

• BcF 430: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of two of Bacon's submissions.

The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning ‘I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...’); 22 April 1621 (beginning ‘It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...’); and 30 April 1621 (beginning ‘Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...’), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

f. 133r-v

• BcF 431: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Second copy of one of Bacon's submissions.

f. 275r-v

• RuB 203: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 17 February 1642/3

Copy, in a professional hand, headed 17: Febr: 1642 S^r Beniamin Rudyerd his Speech for a speedy Treaty of Peace w^th his Ma^tie.

Speech beginning ‘I do verily believe that the vote we have already passed for the disbanding the Army...’.

f. 288r

• BrW 270: William Browne of Tavistock, Letter(s)

Probably a copy of a letter by ‘W^m Browne’, in a secretary hand, to Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, from Dorking, 29 November 1640. 1640.

Edited in Goodwin, I, xxv).

MS Ashmole 837

A large folio composite volume of historical and miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 272 leaves.

ff. 172v-3r

• CdA 10: Lady Anne Clifford, The title of the La: Anne Clifford...to the style and title of...three Baronies

Copy of ‘The case of y^e Ladie Anne Clifford concernenge the hono^rs of Clifford, Westmerland, and Vescy. 1606’. Early-mid 17th century.

Lady Anne Clifford's evidences for her claim to the title and banonies of Clifford, Westmorland and Vesey, 1606.

f. 212r-v

• CmW 13.2: William Camden, Britannia

Extracts.

First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

MS Ashmole 848

A large folio volume of antiquarian collections, in a single italic hand, 115 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary reversed calf (rebacked), with remains of metal clasps. Compiled by Robert Glover (1544-88), Somerset Herald. Late 16th century.

ff. 1r-6r

• LeJ 23: John Leland, Collectanea [Stow transcript]

Extracts transcribed from one of John Stow's transcripts.

MS Ashmole 849

Copy of an English translation by Richard Knolles (1550?-1610), 579 folio leaves (plus a later index on ff. 580-602), in contemporary calf. Entitled ‘Britannia, or a Chorographicall Description of the most florishing Kingdomes of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and of the Ilands adiacent’; inscribed on the title-page in another hand ‘This being m^r William Camdens manuscript found in his owne library lockt in a cupbord as a treasuer hee much estemed and since his death sufferd to se light’; what appears to be the main scribe signing himself, however (f. 579v), ‘P. Hanwood’, with the number ‘58’ [? 1658]. Early-mid-17th century.

CmW 13: William Camden, Britannia

Owned in 1657 by one Richard Champion.

The scribe identified in H. R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), as John Crisp, amanuensis of Sir Peter Manwood, MP (d.1625).

First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

MS Ashmole 855

A volume of antiquarian collections concerning Lichfield, 450 pages (pp. 250-450 chiefly blank), in contemporary mottled calf. Compiled by Elias Ashmole (1617-92). Mid-late 17th century.

pp. 3-9

• LeJ 69: John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]

Extracts.

MS Ashmole 856

A large folio volume of antiquarian tracts relating to the Earl Marshal and court of chivalry, in probably professional predominantly secretary hands, iv + 445 pages (plus fifteen blank pages), in contemporary calf. Volume I of twelve volumes of collections made by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

ff. 115r-25r

• DaJ 246: Sir John Davies, Of the Antiquity, Use, and Ceremony of Lawful Combats in England

Copy, inscribed in the margin ‘Ex MS: in bibl Hatton’: i.e. copied from a manuscript in the library of Christopher Hatton. c.1630s.

Paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries, beginning ‘Our Question is of the antiquity and manner of lawful combats...’, dated 22 May 1601. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 180-7. Grosart, III, 293-302.

ff. 126v-45r

• HoH 56: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Duello Foiled

Copy, in a professional hand, ascribed to Northampton, inscribed in the margin ‘Ex MS: in bibl Hatton’: i.e. copied from a manuscript in the library of Christopher Hatton. The text is followed (on ff. 146r-8r) by a copy of Sir Edward Coke's discourse on the subject allegedly written at Northampton's request. c.1630s.

A discourse, with a dedicatory epistle to ‘my very good Lord’, beginning ‘Reasons moving me to write this thing which handleth not the whole matter...’, the tract beginning ‘The two parties between whom this single fight was appointed...’. Published in Thomas Hearne, A Collection of Curious Discourses written by Eminent Antiquaries (London, 1771), II, 223-42, where it is attributed to Sir Edward Coke. It is not certain whether this tract is by Howard or simply annotated by him as a reader.

MS Ashmole 861

A folio volume of antiquarian tracts and papers, x + 571 pages (including blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, with metal clasps.

Volume VII of twelve volumes of collections made by Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

pp. 354-400

• LeJ 70: John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]

Extracts from seven ‘books’, headed ‘8. Oct 1659 / Seuerall things excerpted out of John Lelands Itinerary; otherwise called his Collectanea’, followed (pp. 402-7) by Ashmole's attempt to draw up ‘John Leilands Journies through England, extracted out of his Itinerary’. October 1659.

This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxix.

MS Ashmole 1115

A volume of collections for Ashmole's History of the Order of the Garter. 274 leaves, on single sheets. Chiefly in Ashmole's hand and constituting Volume XIV of such volumes. Mid-late 17th century.

f. 94r-v

• LeJ 31: John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]

Brief extracts in Ashmole's hand.

MS Ashmole 1137

A folio composite volume of antiquarian collections, 147 leaves of various sizes, chiefly quarto. Compiled and chiefly written by Ashmole. Late 17th century.

f. 119r

• MaA 39: Andrew Marvell, Janae Oxenbrigiae Epitaphium (‘Juxta hoc Marmor, breve Mortalitatis speculum’)

Copy in the hand of Elias Ashmole (1617-92), headed ‘Ingraved on a black marble placed vnder the Arch and agt the aforesd Monumt.’, the memorial dated ‘33 Aprilis An°: 1658’.

First published, as prose, in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 139-40. This inscription, in lapidary verse, was on a memorial formerly in Eton College Chapel and several extant texts recorded below were transcribed from a transcript of it made by one ‘Taffy’ Woodward, Chapel Clerk at Eton. See the discussion and reconstructed text in Kelliher (1978), pp. 72-3, and in Kelliher, ‘Some Notes on Andrew Marvell’, British Library Journal, 4 (1978), 122-44 (pp. 134-9). Smith, pp. 193-4, with English translation.

MS Ashmole 1139

A folio composite volume of antiquarian tracts, letters and notes, in various hands and paper sizes, 111 leaves.

f. 106r-v

• FxJ 1.1: John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

Extracts, relating to the reign of Edward III.

First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).

f. 108r-v

• CmW 13.3: William Camden, Britannia

Extracts.

First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

f. 110r-v

• DaS 39.3: Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England

Notes and extracts, relating to the reign of Edward III.

First part first published in London, 1612. First published complete in London, [1618?]. Grosart, IV, 69-299. V, 1-291.

MS Ashmole 1143

Copy in the hand of an accomplished amanuensis, with autograph corrections, deletions and insertions, comprising two large folio volumes bound together, xxii + 800 leaves, almost entirely on rectos only, in contemporary calf. Headed ‘The Life and Raigne of K. Henry the VIII^th. Together with which is brieflie represented a Generall Historie of the times’, and with a dedication to Charles I. c.1638.

*HrE 122: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Life and Reign of King Henry VIII

This MS described in Rossi, III, 490.

First published in London, 1649. Published in London, 1880 (with Autobiography).

MS Ashmole 1144

A folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands, one predominating, 428 pages, in contemporary calf.

Among the collections of Elias Ashmole (1617-92), astrologer and antiquary.

pp. 257-8

• *CtR 525: Sir Robert Cotton, Miscellaneous

Autograph draft, listing historical cases and precedents up to Henry VII, beginning ‘Odo Byshop of Bayeux and Erl of Kent’, and citing sources, on both sides of a single folio leaf.

MS Ashmole 1149

A composite volume of tracts and papers.

Part III, p. 87 et seq.

• RaW 1127: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Treatise of the Soul

Copy, in Ashmole's hand, as ‘by S^r: Walter Rawleigh knight’.

Edited from this MS in Works (1829).

A tract beginning ‘There are two kinds of souls, one void of reason, another endued with reason...’. Works (1829), VIII, 571-9. See Lefranc (1968), pp. 57-8.

MS Ashmole 1153

A quarto composite volume of state papers and tracts, in various hands, 140 leaves. c.1617.

ff. 64v-5v

• CoR 765: Richard Corbett, Oratio Domini Doctoris Corbet, ex Aede Christi, In Funus Henrici Principis

Copy of Corbett's Latin oration (beginning ‘Quam sit semper vrbis facile, et pronum, justo servire...’).

Edited from this MS in Gilchrist.

First published in Gilchrist (1807), pp. 249-59.

ff. 117r-19r, 122r-8r

• BaR 5: Richard Barnfield, The Encomion of Lady Pecunia: or The Praise of Money (‘I sing not of Angellica the faire’)

Phonetic transcript of the complete edition of 1605 made by Robert Robinson.

Printed from this MS in Dobson, pp. 29-46, with a facsimile of f. 117 as the frontispiece.

First published in London, 1598. Grosart, pp. 129-53. Arber, pp. 81-93. Klawitter, pp. 149-60.

MS Ashmole 1407 (II)

A compendium of medical, chemical and alchemical receipts and prescriptions ‘By me Thomas Robson’, 70 quarto leaves, bound with eight other alchemical tracts and papers, in contemporary calf, with metal clasps. Early 17th century.

ff. 35v-6r

• RaW 716: Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts

Copy of Ralegh's receipt to make quicksilver, headed ‘To make [symbol] into watter as S^r walter Rawlye did’.

This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 680.

MS Ashmole 1424

A quarto volume of alchemical papers compiled by Thomas Robson, 204 leaves (including blanks). 1615.

ff. 49v-50r

• RaW 717: Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts

Copy of Ralegh's receipt to make quicksilver.

This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 680.

ff. 57v-8r

• RaW 717.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts

Second copy of Ralegh's receipt to make quicksilver.

This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 680.

MS Ashmole 1463

A small folio miscellany of medical receipts, chemical experiments, and verse, in a single small hand, 62 leaves (chiefly blank). Compiled by one John Stansby. c.1669.

p. 2

• HrJ 31: Sir John Harington, Against Swearing (‘In elder times an ancient custome was’)

Copy.

p. 2

• MaA 291: Andrew Marvell, Upon his House (‘Here lies the sacred Bones’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Clarendon house built by y^e Lord Chancellor in the yeare 1665 over ag^t St James otherwise Dunkirk house’.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 146-7. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

p. 13

• RaW 14: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, headed ‘S^r Walter Raleighs verses, found in his bible in the gate house at Westm^r’.

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

MS Ashmole 1478

A folio composite volume of alchemical and other manuscripts.

IV, ff. 27v-8v

• BaJ 26.5: John Bale, Scriptorum illustrium Maioris Brytanniae catalogus

Extracts, relating to Bale's ‘The lyfe of Jhone Garland, a most excellent philosopher’. Late 16th century.

First published in Basle, 1557. Reprinted in facsimile (Farnborough, 1971).

MS Ashmole 1486 (I)

Copy of an alchemical compendium of receipts and prescriptions apparently by Robert Garland, in at least three hands, 68 folio leaves, bound with five other achemical works, in contemporary calf. The MSS collected, and partly written, by Dr Simon Forman (1552-1611), astrologer and medical practitioner. c.1596.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘I am Robarte Garlands booke’ and (f. 27r) ‘This is Robarte Garlandes booke, practizioner in the arte spagericke, anno Do. 1596’.

f. 24v

• RaW 718: Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts

Copy of Raleigh's receipt to make quicksilver, headed ‘S^r. w Rawley’.

This MS recorded in Lefranc (1968), p. 680.

MS Ashmole 1486 (II)

Copy of an alchemical tract by Simon Forman, predominantly in a single hand, 20 folio leaves, dated (f. 20v) 10 November 1598, bound with five other alchemical tracts, in contemporary calf. November 1598.

The MSS collected, and partly written, by Dr Simon Forman (1552-1611), astrologer and medical practitioner.

f. 6v

• MrC 10: Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love (‘Come live with mee, and be my love’)

Copy of a four-stanza version, in an unidentified secretary hand, untitled.

This MS collated in Bowers; facsimile in Bakeless, II, facing p. 184.

First published in a four-stanza version in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). Printed in a six-stanza version in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Bowers, II, 536-7. Tucker Brooke, pp. 550-1. Gill et al., I, 215. For Ralegh's ‘Answer’ see RaW 189-99.

f. 6v

• RaW 189: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard (‘If all the world and loue were young’)

Copy of lines 1-16, 21-4, in an unidentified secretary hand, headed ‘The Aunswere’ and here beginning ‘If that the Worlde and Loue were yong’, imperfect, gnawed by rodents.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 112; facsimile in John Bakeless, The Tragicall History of Christopher Marlowe (Cambridge, Mass., 1942), II, facing p. 184.

One stanza published in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). First published complete in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Latham, pp. 16-17. Rudick, Nos 45A and 45B, pp. 117, 119-20 (two versions, as ‘Her answer’ to Marlowe's poem on p. 116 and as ‘The Milk maids mothers answer’) respectively. For the companion poem by Marlowe, which accompanies most of the texts of Ralegh's ‘reply’, see MrC 10-19.

MS Ashmole 1818

A composite volume of tracts.

item 30

• HbT 29: Thomas Hobbes, An Historical Narration concerning Heresy and the Punishment thereof

Copy, incomplete, headed ‘Of Heresy: written ('tis said) by Tho. Hobbes’, on four pages of three folio leaves. Late 17th century.

A tract beginning ‘The word Heresie is Greek, and signifies a taking of any thing...’. First published in London, 1680. Molesworth, English, IV, 385-408.

MS Ashmole 1819

A large folio composite volume of some 43 tracts and papers, mostly printed, in half-calf.

Formerly MS Wood 276c.

After No. 22

• WaE 138: Edmund Waller, Of a Tree cut in Paper (‘Fair hand! that can on virgin paper write’)

Copy of a 22-line version, headed (partly in Aubrey's hand) ‘Of cutting Trees in Paper, by the Lady Isabella Thynn, daughter of y^e Earle of Holland’, subscribed ‘By M^r Edmund Waller’ and, also in Aubrey's hand, ‘These Verses I had from my Lady Dorothy Long of Dracot-Cerne 1656. Her La^p. had severall other Copies of M^r Waller, w^ch he had not copies of, w^ch she lent to y^e 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.

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.

First published, in a fourteen-line version, in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). A 22-line version in Thorn-Drury, II, 68.