CELM: Bodleian Library, Don. MSS

MS Don. b. 8

A large folio formal miscellany of verse and prose, in a single rounded hand throughout, the margins ruled in red, and with an alphabetical index (pp. 719-21), 738 pages (pp. 722-38 blank), plus 40 pages of preliminary inserted material, in contemporary elaborately tooled leather. Including thirteen poems and a mock-speech in the Marvell canon and eleven poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, compiled — in stages, probably for the most part in chronological sequence, over a period of up to fifteen years — by Sir William Haward (or Hawarde or Hayward) of Tandridge, Surrey (his signature, dated 21 January 1676/7, on p. 66). c.1667-82 [the poems by Marvell and Rochester c.1670s].

Sir William Haward was knighted in 1643, served as a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to Charles I, Charles II, James II and William III, was M.P. for Bletchingley (1661-78), a Fellow of the Royal Society (1665) and a Commissioner for the Sale of Fee Farm Rents (1670 onwards); he lived sometime in Scotland Yard and was still living in 1702 (see, inter alia, W. Paley Baildon, The Hawardes of Tandridge Co. Surrey (London, 1894), pp. 23-31). John Evelyn described him as ‘a greate pretender to English antiquities &c:’. An autograph letter by him, dated 23 March 1688/9, is in the British Library (Add. MS 29563, f. 453).

Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), by his wife Frances Le Neve (signature on p. vii), by their servant Joseph Allen, who entered additional items in 1729, and by her second husband Thomas Martin (1697-1771) of Palgrave. Later in the library of the Aston family of Tixall, Staffordshire (and sold in the Tixall sale at Sotheby's, 7 November 1899, lot 430 to Bertram Dobell (1842-1914)). Afterwards owned by George Thorn-Drury (1860-1931) and sold in 1935 by P.J. Dobell.

The Marvell canon selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II and the Rochester canon selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. See also Paul Hammond, ‘The Dating of Three Poems by Rochester from the Evidence of Bodleian MS. Don. b. 8’, BLR, 11 (1982), 58-9.

Facsimile of p. 277 in POAS, I, facing p. 228 (see MaA 98).

pp. 156-68

• ClE 96: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667

Copy.

Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.

pp. 194-7

• BuS 19: Samuel Butler, Dildoides (‘Such a sad Tale prepare to hear’)

Copy, as ‘supposed written by S^r Charles Sidley’.

Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.

pp. 205-6

• MaA 476: Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter (‘Painter once more thy Pencell reassume’)

Copy, headed ‘A new advice to the Painter. 1670’.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.

p. 210

• MaA 84.2: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad called The Haymarket Hectors (‘I sing a woeful ditty’)

Copy.

Sometimes called Upon the cutting of S^r John Coventry's nose. First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Thompson, I, xxxix-xli (from ‘Marvell's writing’). Grosart, I, 456-8. Edited in POAS, I (1963), 168-71, as doubtfully by Marvell.

p. 212

• HoJ 161: John Hoskyns, Epitaph On S^r Walter Pye, Attorney of the Wardes, dying on Christmas Day, in the morning (‘If Any aske, who here doth lye’)

Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on S^r Walter Pye Atturney of y^e Wards, who dyed on Christmas day’.

Osborn, No. XLVI (p. 214).

pp. 217, 561

• MaA 199: Andrew Marvell, Nostradamus's Prophecy (‘The Blood of the Just London's firm Doome shall fix’)

Copy, headed ‘The Prophecy of Nostre-Dame written in French, now done into English./ January 1671/2’, the second part headed ‘A Libell’ and written later separately.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.

pp. 218-21

• MaA 389: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

pp. 237-46

• MaA 315: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)

Copy, here ascribed to Denham.

This MS collated in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, ‘Two New Poems by Marvell?’, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, ‘The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

p. 248

• DrJ 154: John Dryden, Prologue To the Second Part of The Conquest of Granada (‘They who write Ill, and they who ne'r durst write’)

Copy, headed ‘Prologue to the first part of y^e Conquest of Granada. Spoken by Mohun’ and here beginning ‘Those who write ill & those…’.

This MS collated in Kinsley and in California.

First published in The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards (London, 1672). Kinsley, I, 133-4. California, XI, 103-4. Hammond, I, 240-2.

p. 249

• DrJ 32: John Dryden, Epilogue to the First Part of The Conquest of Granada (‘Success, which can no more than beauty last’)

Copy, headed ‘Epilogue to the Second part of the seige of Granada. Spoken by Hart’.

This MS collated in Kinsley and in California.

First published in The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards (London, 1672). Kinsley, I, 129-30. California, XI, 99-100. Hammond, I, 236-7.

pp. 283-4

• MaA 59: Andrew Marvell, To his Coy Mistress (‘Had we but World enough, and Time’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Had I but world enough, & tyme’.

Edited from this MS in Hilton Kelliher, ‘A New Text of Marvell's “To His Coy Mistress”’, N&Q, 215 (July 1970), 254-6; and see also Thomas Clayton, ‘“Morning Glew” and Other Sweat Leaves in the Folio Text of Andrew Marvell's Major Pre-Restoration Poems’, ELR, 2 (1972), 356-75 (p. 356). Facsimiles in Kelliher (1978), p. 53, and in Smith, pp. 79-80.

First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 27-8. Lord, pp. 23-5. Smith, pp. 81-4.

pp. 284-5

• DoC 264: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called ‘The British Princes’ (‘Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^r Edward Howards poeme, the L^d. Buckhurst y^e supposed Authour’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.

p. 368

• HoJ 162: John Hoskyns, Epitaph On S^r Walter Pye, Attorney of the Wardes, dying on Christmas Day, in the morning (‘If Any aske, who here doth lye’)

Second copy, headed ‘On S^r Walter Pye Atturney of y^e Court of Wards, who died on Christmas day’.

Osborn, No. XLVI (p. 214).

pp. 368-9

• MaA 233: Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market (‘As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon S^r Robert Viners setting up y^e Kings statue on Horsebacke, &c.’.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

p. 409

• RoJ 260: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Women about Town (‘Too long the wise Commons have been in debate’)

Copy, headed ‘Lampoone by y^e Earl of Rochester’.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as ‘Lampoone’. Love, p. 42, as ‘Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester’.

pp. 409-11

• RoJ 47: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee (‘As some brave admiral, in former war’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

p. 411

• MaA 163.3: Andrew Marvell, The Dream of the Cabal: A Prophetical Satire Anno 1672 (‘As t'other night in bed I thinking lay’)

Copy.

A lampoon sometimes called The Gamball or a dreame of y^e Grand Caball. First published in A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Edited in POAS, I (1963), pp. 191-203, as possibly by John Ayloffe. Ascribed to Marvell in two MS copies (MaA 163.4 and MaA 163.92).

pp. 457-63

• ClE 127: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Letters to the Duke of York and the Duchess of York

Copy.

Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.

These were first published in Two Letters written by…Edward Earl of Clarendon…one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.

pp. 463-4

• DrJ 118: John Dryden, Prologue to Amboyna (‘As needy Gallants in the Scriv'ners hands’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Kinsley.

First published in Amboyna (London, 1673). Kinsley, I, 150-1. Danchin, II, 471 et seq. Hammond, I, 270-3.

p. 464

• DrJ 17: John Dryden, Epilogue [to Amboyna] (‘A Poet once the Spartans led to fight’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Kinsley.

First published in Amboyna (London, 1673). Kinsley, I, 152. Danchin, II (1981), 474. Hammond, I, 273-4.

pp. 465-7

• MaA 435: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Edited from this MS in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by ‘A-M-l, Esq’. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

p. 475

• RoJ 123: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Louis XIV (‘Lorraine you stole. by fraud you got Burgundy’)

Copy, following the Latin version and here beginning ‘You Loraine stole; by fraud you got Burgundy’.

First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 21. Walker, p. 121, as ‘[On Louis XIV]’. See also A. S. G. Edwards, ‘Rochester's “Impromptu on Louis XIV”’, N&Q, 219 (November 1974), 418-19.

pp. 477-8, 480-2

• RoJ 359: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Signior Dildo (‘You ladies all of merry England’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Tune of Peggy's gone to Sea with a Souldier’, together with (pp. 480-2) ‘Additions to Seigneur Dildoe’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; recorded and the ‘Additions’ printed in Walker, pp. 186-8.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 54-9. Walker, pp. 75-8.

The poem discussed, texts collated, and the attribution to Rochester questioned, in Harold Love, ‘A Restoration Lampoon in Transmission and Revision: Rochester's(?) “Signior Dildo”’, SB, 46 (1993), 250-62. Love (two versions and added stanzas), pp. 248-9, 250-2, 252-3, 253-7, among Disputed Works.

pp. 490-4

• RoJ 136: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (‘Chloe, In verse by your command I write’)

Copy, with a sidenote ‘This poeme is supposed, to bee made by y^e Earle of Rochester, or M^r Wolseley’ [i.e. Robert....who wrote the Preface to Valentinian].

Edited from this MS by all editors.

First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

pp. 495-8

• RoJ 287: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy of lines 1-173, headed ‘A Satyr’, with a side-note ‘This satyre is supposed to be a Translation of y^e Earle of Rochesters out of Italian’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning ‘All this with indignation have I hurled’) in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as ‘Satyr’. Love, pp. 57-63.

The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, ‘A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's “A Satyr against Reason and Mankind”’, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different ‘Answer’ poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

p. 498

• RoJ 512: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's ‘Troades’, Act II, Chorus (‘After death nothing is, and nothing, death’)

Copy, headed ‘Seneca's Troas Act 2. Chorus’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as ‘Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour’.

pp. 499-501

• MaA 508: Andrew Marvell, His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, 13 April 1675

Copy, headed ‘A pretended libellous speech prepared for his Ma^ty in February 1674/5 to be spoken to both Houses at the meeting of the parliament on y^e 13^th of Aprill following’.

Edited from this MS in The Prose Works of Andrew Marvell, 2 vols (Yale University, 2003), I, 461-4.

A mock speech, beginning ‘I told you last meeting the winter was the fittest time for business...’. First published, and ascribed to Marvell, in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 36-43. Grosart, II, 431-3. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (London, 1905), pp. 200-2. Discussed in Legouis, p. 470, and in Kelliher, pp. 111-12.

pp. 525-6

• MaA 215: Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross (‘What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses on y^e Statue att Charing-Crosse of King Charles y^e ffirst. 1675’.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.

pp. 526-7

• MaA 63: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn (‘I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene’)

Copy, with ‘The Answer’ (which is headed ‘Supplement to the Chequer Inn’), the poem here dated 1675.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

pp. 527-9

• RoJ 104.3: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids (‘Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second’)

Copy.

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii).

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

pp. 535-9

• MaA 99: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, ‘Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe’, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

pp. 558-9

• DrJ 34: John Dryden, Epilogue to The Man of Mode (‘Most Modern Wits, such monstrous Fools have shown’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Kinsley, in California and in Dearing.

First published in Sir George Etherege, The Man of Mode: or, S^r Fopling Flutter (London, 1676). Kinsley, I, 158-9. California, I, 154-5. Vinton A. Dearing, A Manual of Textual Analysis (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1959), pp. 69-72. Danchin, II, 705 et seq. Hammond, I, 301-3.

p. 561

• RoJ 4: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Against Constancy (‘Tell me no more of constancy’)

Copy, headed ‘Songe of y^e Earle of Rochesters’.

Edited from this MS in David M. Vieth, ‘A New Song by Rochester’, TLS (6 November 1953), p. 716 (and see also related correspondence on 19 and 26 February 1954, pp. 121, 137). Edited in part from this MS in Vieth (1968) and in Love. Collated in Walker.

First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Vieth, pp. 83-4. Walker, pp. 42-3. Love, p. 34, as Songe of the Earle of Rocherters.

p. 568

• RoJ 129.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on the English Court (‘Here's Monmouth the witty’)

Copy of a version beginning ‘Monmouth's Witty’.

First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 135. Walker, p. 123, as ‘A Lampoon upon the English Grandees’.

p. 569 et seq.

• MaA 139.1: Andrew Marvell, A Country Clowne call'd Hodge Went to view the Pyramid, pray mark what did ensue (‘When Hodge had number'd up how many score’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Mengel.

First published, as ‘Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision’, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.

First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.

pp. 573-7

• MaA 140: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses (‘Wee read in profane and Sacred records’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as ‘probably Marvell's’. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

pp. 579-81

• MaA 302: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty (‘The Londoners Gent’)

Copy, headed ‘The City Maggott’.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 190-4. POAS, I, 237-42. Lord, pp. 196-201, as ‘Upon the Citye's going in a body…’.

pp. 585-6

• RoJ 338: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II (‘I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown’)

Copy, headed ‘A base copy’.

Edited from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, ‘Rochester's “I' th' isle of Britain”: Decoding a Textual Tradition’, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.

p. 586

• SeC 100: Sir Charles Sedley, Song (‘In the Fields of Lincolns Inn’)

Copy, untitled and here ascribed to ‘S^r Charles Sidley’.

This MS recorded in Sola Pinto, I, xxvii, and Vieth, loc. cit.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], 1680). Possibly by Sedley: see David M. Vieth, Attribution in Restoration Poetry (New Haven & London, 1963), pp. 172-4, 404-5.

pp. 598-600

• DoC 37: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyre’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

pp. 602-3

• RoJ 606: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia (‘Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat’)

Copy, headed ‘An Heroicall Epistle in answer to Ephelia by Rochester’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.

pp. 617-20

• MaA 164: Andrew Marvell, An Historical Poem (‘Of a tall Stature and of sable hue’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, II.

First published in The Fourth (and Last) Collection of Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 218-23, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, II, 154-63, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

p. 634 et seq.

• DrJ 43.71: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)

Copy.

A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, ‘Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire’, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that ‘Mulgrave had by far the major hand’. Recorded in Hammond, V, 684, in an ‘Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition’.

pp. 640-4

• DoC 337: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS.

First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being ‘probably by the L^d Dorset’ in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

p. 645

• DoC 220: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen (‘Clarendon had law and sense’)

Copy, headed ‘A short poeme upon y^e Chitts’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

pp. 654-5

• RoJ 565: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

Copy, headed ‘Rochesters Verses upon Nothing’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.

First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

p. 697

• MaA 210.2: Andrew Marvell, Oceana and Britannia (‘Whither, O whither, wander I forlorn?’)

Copy.

Published in Thompson (1776), III, 307-14. Cooke, II, 17-25. Grosart, I, 443-9. The poem probably dates from 1680-1, after Marvell's death.

MS Don. b. 9

A folio volume of poems, in a single accomplished hand, 61 leaves (plus stubs of fifteen extracted leaves), imperfect, in quarter-vellum. Including 49 pems by Thomas Carew and one of doubtful authorship. c.1640s.

Later owned by F. Wyburd who, according to W.C. Hazlitt (1870, p. xv), ‘obtained it about three years ago of a dealer at Knightsbridge’. Owned c.1927 by P.J. Dobell, who sold it in 1936.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Wyburd MS’: CwT Δ 3. Reduced facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969). Briefly discussed in Evelyn M. Simpson, ‘Two Manuscripts of Donne's Paradoxes and Problems’, RES, 3 (1927), 129-45 (pp. 131-3).

f. 2r-v

• CwT 145: Thomas Carew, A deposition from Love (‘I was foretold, your rebell sex’)

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 16-17. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

f. 2v

• CwT 366: Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned (‘Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)’)

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

f. 2v

• CwT 873: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

f. 3r-v

• CwT 1133: Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse (‘Fayre copie of my Celia's face’)

Copy, headed ‘Of one like his Celia’.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.

f. 3v

• CwT 1185: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband (‘This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme’)

Copy, headed ‘A Ribban.’

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.

f. 4r

• CwT 11: Thomas Carew, Another. A Lady rescued from death by a Knight who in the instant leaves her, complaines thus (‘Oh whither is my fayre Sun fled’)

Copy, headed ‘The Princess Song’.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 63-4.

ff. 4r-6r

• CwT 305: Thomas Carew, Foure Songs by way of Chorus to a play, at an entertainment of the King and Queene, by my Lord Chamberlaine (‘From whence was first this furie hurld’)

Copy of the four songs.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 244. Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 59-62.

f. 6r-v

• CwT 345: Thomas Carew, An Hymeneall Dialogue (‘Tell me (my love) since Hymen ty'de’)

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 66.

f. 7r

• CwT 501: Thomas Carew, On Mistris N. to the greene sicknesse (‘Stay coward blood, and doe not yield’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon the Greene Sickness of Mris. K.N.’.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 269. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1642). Dunlap, p. 113.

f. 7r-v

• CwT 1071: Thomas Carew, To M^ris Katherine Nevill on her greene sicknesse (‘White innocence that now lies spread’)

Copy, headed ‘An other of the same’ [i.e. after ‘Vppon the Greene Sickness of Mris. K.N.’].

This MS collated in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Musarum Deliciae (London, 1655). Dunlap. p. 129.

f. 7v

• CwT 1282: Thomas Carew, On the Green Sickness. Song (‘Bright Albion, where the Queene of love’)

Copy, headed ‘Againe an other of the same’ [i.e. on ‘The Greene Sicknesse of M^ris. K.N.’]

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 149. Dunlap. p. 194.

f. 8r

• CwT 600: Thomas Carew, Psalme 2 (‘Why rage the heathen, wherefore swell’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

ff. 8r-9r

• CwT 602: Thomas Carew, Psalme 51 (‘Good god vnlock thy Magazines’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

f. 9r-v

• CwT 604: Thomas Carew, Psalme 91 (‘Make the greate God thy Fort, and dwell’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

ff. 9v-10

• CwT 610: Thomas Carew, Psalme 104 (‘My soule the great Gods prayses sings’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

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).

f. 11r

• CwT 620: Thomas Carew, Psalme 113 (‘Yee Children of the Lorde, that waite’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

f. 11r-v

• CwT 622: Thomas Carew, Psalme 114 (‘When the seed of Jacob fledd’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

ff. 11v-14v

• CwT 623: Thomas Carew, Psalme 119 (‘Blest is hee that Spottless stands’)

Copy of verses 1-64; imperfect, lacking the end.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Hazlitt (1970), pp. 186-91. Dunlap. pp. 144-9.

f. 14r-v

• CwT 989: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)

Copy of lines 41-84, here beginning ‘That eye, which now is Cupids nest’; imperfect, lacking lines 1-40.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

ff. 14v-15v

• CwT 1112: Thomas Carew, To Saxham (‘Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘A winters entertainement att Saxham’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 34. Facsimile MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

ff. 15v-16v

• CwT 1220: Thomas Carew, Vpon the Kings sicknesse (‘Sicknesse, the minister of death, doth lay’)

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 35-6.

ff. 16v-17v

• CwT 459: Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters (‘So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes’)

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.

f. 18r-v

• DrM 6: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)

Copy, untitled.

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

ff. 18v-19v

• HoJ 260: John Hoskyns, Convivium philosophicum (‘Quilibet si sit contentus’)

Copy, imperfect, half of the second leaf torn away.

Osborn, No. XXVIII (pp. 196-9), with an English version (beginning ‘Whosoever is contented’), on pp. 288-91.

f. 20r-v

• CwT 1084: Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence (‘Though I must live here, and by force’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 27. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

ff. 20v-1v

• CwT 546: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy, imperfect at the end.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

f. 22r

• CwT 541: Thomas Carew, A Pastorall Dialogue (‘This mossie bank they prest. That aged Oak’)

Copy, beginning at line 12 (here ‘Those streaks of doubtfull light vsher not day’); imperfect, lacking the beginning.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 45-6.

f. 22v

• CwT 963: Thomas Carew, Song. To one who when I prais'd my Mistris beautie, said I was blind (‘Wonder not though I am blind’)

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 33.

ff. 22v-3

• CwT 941: Thomas Carew, Song. To my Mistris, I burning in love (‘I burne, and cruell you, in vaine’)

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 34.

f. 23r

• CwT 923: Thomas Carew, Song. To her againe, she burning in a Feaver (‘Now she burnes as well as I’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Dunlap. Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 34-5.

f. 23v

• CwT 420: Thomas Carew, A Looking-Glasse (‘That flattring Glasse, whose smooth face weares’)

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 19.

ff. 23v-4r

• CwT 1102: Thomas Carew, To my Rivall (‘Hence vaine intruder, hast away’)

Copy of lines 1-4; imperfect, lacking all the remainder.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.

f. 24v

• CwT 512: Thomas Carew, On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water (‘Stand still you floods, doe not deface’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Mistresses face in the water’.

This MS collated in part in Dunlap, p. 263. Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.

f. 26r

• CwT 1024: Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (‘'Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand’)

Copy of the last nine lines, here beginning ‘From Conquerd Author, be as Trophies worne’; imperfect, lacking the rest.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 84. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.

f. 26r-v

• CwT 440: Thomas Carew, A Lover upon an Accident necessitating his departure, consults with Reason (‘Weepe not, nor backward turne your beames’)

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 48.

f. 26v

• CwT 436: Thomas Carew, A Lover in the disguise of an Amazon, is dearly beloved of his Mistresse (‘Cease thou afflicted soule to mourne’)

Copy, headed ‘The Amazons song’.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 63.

f. 27r

• CwT 15: Thomas Carew, Boldnesse in love (‘Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine’)

Copy, headed ‘The Marygold’.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 42.

f. 27r-v

• CwT 481: Thomas Carew, A New-yeares Sacrifice. To Lucinda (‘Those that can give, open their hands this day’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 41, and in Dunlap, p. 227. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 32-3.

ff. 27v

• CwT 1083: Thomas Carew, To my Honoured friend, Master Thomas May, upon his Comedie, The Heire (‘The Heire being borne, was in his tender age’)

Copy of lines 1-4; imperfect, lacking the remainder.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 167. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Thomas May, The Heire (London, 1622). Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 92-3.

f. 28r

• ToA 10: Aurelian Townshend, Elegy on the death of the King of Sweden: sent to Thomas Carew (‘I had and have a purpose to be kind’)

Copy of lines 36-58, here beginning ‘Till hands are found fitt for a Monarchy’, imperfect, lacking the first 35 lines.

This MS text collated in Brown.

Brown, pp. 48-9.

ff. 28r-30r

• CwT 350: Thomas Carew, In answer of an Elegiacall Letter upon the death of the King of Sweden from Aurelian Townsend, inviting me to write on that subject (‘Why dost thou sound, my deare Aurelian’)

Copy, headed ‘Thomas Carew his answere to Aurelian Townesend’.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 74-7.

f. 30r

• CwT 1182: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Mole in Celias bosome (‘That lovely spot which thou dost see’)

Copy, headed ‘A mole betwixt Celias breasts’.

This MS collated in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1642). Dunlap, pp. 113-14.

f. 30v

• CwT 952: Thomas Carew, Song. To one that desired to know my Mistris (‘Seeke not to know my love, for shee’)

Copy, headed ‘To a gent. curious to know his Mris’.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

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

ff. 30v-1

• CwT 202: Thomas Carew, Epitaph on the Lady S. Wife to Sir W.S. (‘The harmony of colours, features, grace’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on the Lady Psalter’.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 241. Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 55.

f. 31r-v

• CwT 444: Thomas Carew, Maria Wentworth, Thomae Comitis Cleveland, filia praemortua prima Virgineam animam exhalauit (‘And here the previous dust is layd’)

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 56. Inscribed on the tomb of Maria Wentworth in the Church of St George, Toddington, Bedfordshire (1633): see Dunlap. pp. 242-3.

ff. 31v-2r

• CwT 594: Thomas Carew, The prologue to a Play presented before the King and Queene, att an Entertanement of them by the Lord Chamberlaine in Whitehall hall (‘Sir, Since you haue beene pleas'd this night to vnbend’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 143-4. Dunlap. p. 127.

f. 32r-v

• CwT 198: Thomas Carew, The Epilogue to the same Play (‘Hunger is sharp, the Sated Stomack dull’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Dunlap. Facsimile in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 144-5. Dunlap. pp. 127-8.

ff. 32v-3

• CwT 920: Thomas Carew, Song. To a Lady not yet enjoy'd by her Husband (‘Come Celia, fixe thine eyes on mine’)

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 36.

f. 33r-v

• CwT 527: Thomas Carew, On the Duke of Buckingham (‘When in the brazen leaves of Fame’)

Copy, headed ‘The Inscription on the Tombe of the Duke of Buckingham’.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 57.

f. 33v

• CwT 1: Thomas Carew, An other (‘Reader, when these dumbe stones have t’)

Copy of lines 1-2; imperfect, lacking the remainder.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1640 (1969).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 58-9.

f. 34r

• DnJ 3860: John Donne, Variety (‘The heavens rejoyce in motion, why should I’)

Copy of lines 53-82 (beginning ‘Formlesse at first but growing on it fashions’).

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1650). Grierson, I, 113-16. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 104-6 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 23. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 393-4.

Probably by Nicholas Hare (1582-1622), Clerk of the Court of Wards and Liveries.

ff. 37v-9v

• BcF 721: Francis Bacon, An Essay on Death

Spedding, VI, 600-4; discussed p. 594.

Spedding, VI, 600-4 (discussed p. 594).

ff. 50r-5v, 59r-61v

• DnJ 4083: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems

Copy of 8 Paradoxes and 9 Problems, imperfect, beginning ‘Laughing thou must knowe...’.

This MS described by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 3 (1927), 129-45. Facsimile of f. 59 in the Scolar Press facsimile of the 1640 edition of Thomas Carew, Poems (Menston, 1969).

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.

f. 56r-v

• DnJ 3601: John Donne, To the Lady Bedford (‘You that are she and you, that's double shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie to the Lady Bedford’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross. Facsimile in the Scolar Press facsimile of the 1640 edition of Thomas Carew, Poems (Menston, 1969).

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 227-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 94-5. Shawcross, No. 148.

ff. 56v-7v

• BmF 1: Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae (‘Madam, so may my verses pleasing be’)

Copy, untitled.

Facsimile of this MS in the Scolar Press facsimile of the 1640 edition of Thomas Carew, Poems (Menston, 1969).

First published, as ‘An Elegie by F. B.’, in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.

ff. 57v-8v

• DnJ 3194: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross. Facsimile in Scolar Press facsimile of the 1640 edition of Thomas Carew, Poems (Menston, 1969).

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.

MS Don. b. 33

Annotated exemplum of Britannia, newly translated...by Edmund Gibson (London, ‘1695’), viii + 529 leaves, in contemporary reversed calf (rebacked). With annotations to the text, maps and plates by William Stukeley (1687-1765), antiquary and natural philosopher. 1694/5-c.1714.

CmW 13.5: William Camden, Britannia

Originally owned in ‘1694’ by one Elias Mason, and by Stukeley in 1714. Bookplate of Charles Eve, 1 September 1767. Christie's, 9 November 1983, lot 48.

Recorded in Bodleian Library Record, 11 (1982-5), 241-2, with a facsimile of the sketch of Stukeley that appears in the MS on a flyleaf.

First published in London, 1586, with additions in 1607 and successive editions.

MS Don. c. 54

A large folio miscellany of English and Welsh poems, in occasionally alternating black and red ink, 61 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Compiled by Richard Roberts, Justice of the Peace. c.1628.

Sold by P.J. Dobell in 1936.

f. 3v

• RaW 16: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy.

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 Don. c. 55

A folio verse miscellany, in a cursive hand, i + 37 leaves, in half-calf on marbled boards (rebacked). c.1702-4.

Once owned by the Harrington family. Inscribed ‘Bought of Mr. King, Junr. Tavistock Street at the sale of Dr. Harrington's Library, 1806’. Afterwards owned by Francis Godolphin Waldron (1743-1818), actor and playwright; by Thomas Thorpe, in his sale catalogue of 1836, item 1308; and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9105. Sotheby's, 17 May 1897 (Phillipps sale), lot 372, and 5 June 1899, lot 344. Sold by P.J. Dobell in 1936.

f. 18v

• DrJ 74: John Dryden, The Lady's Song (‘A Quire of bright Beauties in Spring did appear’)

Copy, headed ‘A song by M^r Dryden May Day 1691’.

This MS collated in California.

First published in Poeticall Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1774. California, III, 223. Hammond, III, 247-8.

MS Don. c. 57

A folio songbook, 121 leaves (including c.20 blanks and an index), in contemporary calf (rebacked). Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by or attributed to Herrick, in musical settings, predominantly in a single hand (ff. 2r-63v, 92r-9r, 100r, with a change of style on ff. 64r-5v and in the index probably by the same hand), with 18th-century additions on ff. 81v-7v, 89r-v and 145v-53r, and scribbling elsewhere. c.1640s-60s.

Later owned by Colonel W.G. Probert, of Bevills, Bures, Suffolk. Sold by Quaritch in 1937.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Probert MS’: CwT Δ 4, HeR Δ 1. Discussed and analysed in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211. Also briefly discussed in George Thewlis, ‘Some Notes on a Bodleian Manuscript’, M&L, 22 (1941) 32-5, and in Willa McClung Evans, ‘Shakespeare's “Harke Harke ye Larke”’, PMLA, 60 (1945), 95-101 (with a facsimile of f. 78r). A facsimile of the volume in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 6 (New York & London, 1987).

ff. 6v-8r

• RnT 477: Thomas Randolph, Hobson and Charon (‘Charon, come hither Charon. What art thou’)

Copy, in a musical setting.

Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 96-7.

f. 11r

• HeR 49: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsay (fl.1628-44).

Edited from this MS in Major Poets of the Earlier Seventeenth Century, ed. Barbara K. Lewalski and Andrew J. Sabol (New York, 1973), pp. 1253-5; 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).

f. 14v

• PeW 130: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Amintas (‘Cloris sate, and sitting slept’)

Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘Chloris sighd & sung & wept sighing sung’, in a musical setting.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 170. Poems (1660), p. 104, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’.

f. 16r

• B&F 158: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Queen of Corinth, III, ii. Song (‘Weep no more, nor sigh, nor groan’)

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting possibly by Stephen Mace.

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 164-5.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, V, 393-486 (p. 448). Bowers, VIII, 10-93, ed. Robert K. Turner (p. 57).

f. 17v

• HeR 369: Robert Herrick, A Song (‘Loose no time nor youth but be’)

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by John Wilson.

Edited from this MS in Martin.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Martin, p. 442 (in his section ‘Not attributed to Herrick hitherto’). Not included in Patrick.

f. 19r

• PeW 168: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

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. 19v

• B&F 176: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, V, ii, 13-22. Song (‘Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes’)

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson.

Printed from this MS in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 35 (collated pp. 140-2).

Dyce, V, 297. Bullen, IV, 302. Bowers, IV, 360-1.

f. 20r

• RaW 483: Sir Walter Ralegh, A songe made by Sir Water Rawley (‘What teares (Deare Prince) can serue to water all’)

Copy of the first stanza, untitled, in a musical setting by Robert Ramsey.

Edited from this MS in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 12.

First published in Latham (1929). Latham (1951), p. 52. Rudick, No 51, p. 124.

Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, pp. 145-6, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

f. 21r

• CwT 874: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 198); recorded in Dunlap, p. 291.

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

ff. 21v-2r

• SuJ 81: John Suckling, Upon A.M. (‘Yeeld not, my Love. but be as coy’)

Copy of an untitled variant version in a musical setting.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 27.

ff. 23v-4r

• CwT 982: Thomas Carew, The tinder (‘Of what mould did nature frame me?’)

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by William Webb.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 199); recorded in Dunlap, p. 292.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 104.

ff. 24v-5r

• ShJ 121: James Shirley, ‘Would you know what's soft?’

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting.

Printed from this MS in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 199).

First published, as a ‘Song’, in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 3.

f. 26r

• CwT 675: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, untitled, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘A Bodleian Song-Book: Don. C. 57’, M&L, 34 (1953), 192-211 (p. 199); recorded in Dunlap, p. 290.

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

MS Don. d. 55

A quarto volume of 75 poems by Edmund Waller, in a single professional hand, 76 leaves (ff. 43r-76v blank), in vellum gilt, with remains of ties. With (f. 1r-v) a prose dedication ‘To the Queene’ (Henrietta Maria), an entry on f. 42v in a later hand, and f. 76v with scribbled date ‘14 of Jvne 1665’. c.1640s.

Covers inscribed on the inside at various times ‘Gentilles Colte her Book’, ‘Th Whitfield Sept^br. 18: 1764’ and ‘b[ough]t at Woodcoates sale’. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 7004). Sotheby's, 24 April 1911. lot 844. Colbeck, Radford & Co., ‘The Ingatherer’, No. 24 (June 1932), item 221. Sold by P.J. and A.E. Dobell in 1936.

Reduced facsimile of ff. 1r-41v in Poems 1645 (1971). Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Colte MS’: WaE Δ 1.

f. 2r

• WaE 116: Edmund Waller, The Miser's Speech. In a Masque (‘Balls of this metal slacked At'lanta's pace’)

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 111.

f. 2r-v

• WaE 351: Edmund Waller, On the friendship betwixt two Ladies (‘Tell me, lovely, loving pair!’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Freindshipp betwixt Zacharissa and Amorett’.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

First published, as ‘On the Friendship betwixt Sacharissa and Amoret’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 60-1.

ff. 2v-3r

• WaE 360: Edmund Waller, On the Head of a Stag (‘So we some antique hero's strength’)

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 110.

f. 3r

• WaE 458: Edmund Waller, The Story of Phoebus and Daphne, Applied (‘Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train’)

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 52.

f. 3r-v

• WaE 294: Edmund Waller, Of the Misreport of her being Painted (‘As when a sort of wolves infest the night’)

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 50.

ff. 3v-4v

• WaE 524: Edmund Waller, To Amoret (‘Fair! that you may truly know’)

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 58-60.

f. 4v

• WaE 35: Edmund Waller, Behold the Brand of Beauty Tossed. A Song (‘Behold the brand of beauty tossed!’)

Copy, headed ‘Songe’.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 126.

f. 4v

• WaE 223: Edmund Waller, Of Mrs. Arden (‘Behold, and listen, while the fair’)

Copy.

Facsimile of this MS in Poems 1645 (1971).

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 91. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

MS Don. d. 58

A folio verse miscellany, ii + 65 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Entitled Miscentur seria iocis. 1647. Elegies, Exequies, Epitaphs, Epigrams, Songs Satires and other Poems, a formal compilation entirely in the hand of the Yorkshire antiquary John Hopkinson (1610-80). 1647.

From the library of Cecil Brent, FSA. Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, January 1938.

ff. 1r-2v

• KiH 329: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

f. 4r-v

• CoR 258: Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem (‘Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on’)

Copy.

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

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

ff. 5r-6v

• CoR 138: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox (‘Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true’)

Copy.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning ‘O thou deformed unwomanlike disease’, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.

f. 6v

• CwT 1255: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Mistresse that died a little before he shold haue maried her’ and here beginning ‘Was she not wondrous faire? O but I see’.

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.

f. 8v

• BcF 6: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, headed ‘Doctor Kinge before his death’.

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.

ff. 11v-12r

• CwT 263: 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 floe’.

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

ff. 12v-13r

• StW 604: William Strode, On the death of the young Baronet Portman, dying of an Impostume in the head (‘Is death soe cunning now, that all her blow’)

Copy, headed ‘Another’ [i.e. on one who dyed of a consumption].

This MS collated in Forey.

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

f. 14r

• JnB 583: Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song (‘Still to be neat, still to be drest’)

Copy of the second stanza, headed ‘His choice’ and here beginning ‘Giue mee a forme, giue me a face’.

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

f. 15r

• HoJ 155: John Hoskyns, An Epitaphe on Mr Sandes (‘Who wo'ld live in other's breath’)

Copy, headed ‘On one Sands’.

f. 15v

• BrW 185: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy.

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.

f. 18r

• CoR 482: Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 (‘Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke’)

Copy.

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

f. 18r

• DrW 177.2: William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table (‘Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre’)

Copy of a 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.

f. 19r

• CaE 2: 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 a version headed ‘Upon the Duke of Buckingham’ and beginning ‘Reader, beneath this ground interred I am’.

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.

f. 21r

• WoH 68: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘An Ode vpon the Quene of Bohemia’.

f. 22r

• PeW 169: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)

Copy, headed ‘Cant 3.’ and here beginning ‘Why shold passion quell my mind’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

f. 22v

• RaW 504: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy of stanzas 1, 3, 4, 2 and 7, headed ‘Cant 5’.

This MS recorded 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).

f. 23r

• SoR 143: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death (‘Sith my life from life is parted’)

Copy of lines 25-30, 19-24, 13-18, headed ‘Cant 8’ and here beginning ‘With my loue my life was nestled’.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 45-6.

f. 23v

• CwT 571: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy, headed ‘Cant 10’.

Formerly owned by P.J. Dobell, this MS recorded (as ‘D2’) in Dunlap, pp. 219-20.

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

f. 26v

• JnB 13: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph (‘See the Chariot at hand here of Love’)

Copy of lines 21-30, headed ‘Cant 17’ and here beginning ‘Haue yo^u seene the white lillye grow’, with two additional stanzas.

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

f. 27r

• DnJ 454: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy, headed ‘Cant 19’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 28r

• DrM 53: Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet (‘I pray thee leave, love me no more’)

Copy, headed ‘Cant 22’.

First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 372.

f. 28r

• DyE 73: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall’

Copy, headed ‘Cant 23’ and here beginning ‘The lowest shrubs haue topps, the ant her gall’.

First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.

f. 29r

• JnB 694: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song (‘If I freely may discouer’)

Copy, headed ‘Cant 25’.

ff. 29v-30r

• CwT 104: Thomas Carew, The Complement (‘O my deerest I shall grieve thee’)

Copy, headed ‘Cant 27’.

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

f. 30v

• CwT 741: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’)

Copy of a four-stanza version, headed Cant 28.

Formerly owned by P.J. Dobell, edited from this MS (as ‘D2’) in Dunlap, pp. 263-4.

f. 35r

• HrJ 187: Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister (‘I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten’)

Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘On a maid gott w^th child’ and here beginning ‘A godlie maid w^th one of her societie’.

First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.

f. 36r

• CoR 377: Richard Corbett, Little Lute (‘Little lute, when I am gone’)

Copy, headed ‘These written upon a lute the gentlewoman being absent who was the owner’ and here beginning ‘I pray thee lute when I am gone’.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.

Some texts followed by an answer beginning ‘Little booke, when I am gone’.

f. 36v

• CmT 153: Thomas Campion, ‘When to her lute Corrina sings’

Copy, headed ‘On Corinna singing’.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. vi. Davis, pp. 28-9.

f. 37r

• CaE 3: 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 the six-line epitaph.

This MS recorded in 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.

f. 37v

• DnJ 1898: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)

Copy, headed ‘In meretricem’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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.

f. 37v

• DnJ 1753: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy, headed ‘In Claudipedem’ and here beginning ‘I can neither go nor stand, the cripple cries’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Zoppo’) and 10.

f. 43r

• CwT 69: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Mistresse’.

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

f. 44a^v

• StW 1310: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse’.

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

f. 44b^r

• StW 392: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)

Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman singing’.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

f. 44b^v

• PeW 213: 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 On a gentleman and a gentlewoman and beginning ‘Nay pish, nay phew, in faith but will yo^w? fie’.

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].

f. 45r

• CwT 219: Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence (‘You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay’)

Copy, headed ‘An excuse of absence from his Mistresse’.

This MS collated (as ‘Δ 2’) in Dunlap.

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

ff. 45v-46a^r

• MrC 9.4: Christopher Marlowe, Ovid's Elegies. II, iv (‘I meane not to defend the scapes of any’)

Copy, headed ‘Ouid Amor: Lib: 2 Eleg. 4’ and here beginning ‘I will not seek to excuse the faults of any’.

Bowers, II, 345-6. Tucker Brooke, pp. 585-6. Gill et al., I, 39-41.

f. 46a ^r-v

• MrC 9.6: Christopher Marlowe, Ovid's Elegies. III, xiii (‘Seeing thou art faire, I barre not thy false playing’)

Copy, headed ‘Ouid Amor: Lib: 3. Eleg: 13’.

Bowers, II, 390-2. Tucker Brooke, pp. 625-6. Gill et al., I, 82-3.

f. 46b^r-v

• MrC 6: Christopher Marlowe, Ovid's Elegies. I, v (‘In summers heate, and midtime of the day’)

Copy, headed ‘Corinne concubitus Aeleg 5. Lib: Amorum’.

Ten of Marlowe's Elegies (including I, v and II, iv) first published ‘Middleburg’ [i.e. London], [c.1595-6]. Bowers, II, 307-421 (p. 321). Tucker Brooke, pp. 553-627 (pp. 564-5). Gill et al., I, 13-83 (pp. 18-19).

ff. 46b^v-7r

• StW 1149: William Strode, To Mr Rives heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon. (‘Welcome abroad, o welcome from your bedd!’)

Copy, headed ‘vpon a gent who had a bone taken out of his Thighe’.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 366 et seq.

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

f. 48r-v

• DnJ 77: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon an vnhansome woman’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 48v

• PeW 142: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Apollo's Oath (‘When Phebus first did Daphne love’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon younge maides.’

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published, in a two-stanza version in a musical setting, in John Dowland, Third Booke of Aires (London, 1603), No. vi. A three-stanza version in John Philips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656), p. 31. A four-stanza version in Poems (1660), p. 115, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as probably by Charles Rives (of New College, Oxford). It is possible, however, that the poem grew by accretions in different hands, Rives perhaps being responsible for the fourth stanza.

ff. 49r-50r

• CoR 214: Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… (‘The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on’)

Copy, headed ‘An ehortacon to m^r John Hamond at Bewdley for the battring downe the Maypole’.

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

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

f. 54r

• RnT 451: Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks (‘Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name’)

Copy.

(Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17^th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.

MS Don. d. 93

Copy, headed ‘Observations politicall & civil’, subscribed ‘T. B’, v + 135 folio leaves, in calf.

RaW 1043: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Cabinet-Council: containing the Chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Thomas Bushell’. Bookplate of [E. W. Harcourt]. Acquired from Blackwell's, 1949.

A treatise beginning ‘A Commonwealth is a certain sovereign government of many families...’. First published, attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh in John Milton's preface ‘To the Reader’, as The Cabinet-Council [&c.] (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 35-150.

Widely circulated in MSS as Observations Political and Civil. The various attributions include ‘T.B.’, for whom Thomas Bedingfield (early 1540s?-1613), translator of Machiavelli, is suggested in Ernest A. Strathmann, ‘A Note on the Ralegh Canon’, TLS (13 April 1956), p. 228, and in Lefranc (1968), p. 64.

MS Don. d. 197

Autograph MS, with revisions in line 11, on one side of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1693-4.

*CgW 3.5: William Congreve, ‘Faded Delia moues Compassion’

Once owned by James Baker. Sotheby's, 26 May 1855, lot 16, to Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-85), first Baron Houghton, author and politician. Christie's, 29 June 1995, lot 327.

Edited from this MS and discussed in McKenzie. Facsimile in his article ‘Another Congreve Autograph Poem for the Bodleian’, Bodleian Library Record, 16/5 (April 1999), 399-410 (p. 402).

Four untitled quatrains. First published in D. F. McKenzie, ‘A New Congreve Literary Autograph’, Bodleian Library Record, 15/4 (April 1996), 292-9. McKenzie, Works, II, 466.

MS Don. d. 205

Autograph draft of a 16-line version, with revisions, on a single octavo leaf.

CgW 4: William Congreve, ‘False tho you've been to me & Love’

Later owned by Roger W. Barrett, Chicago lawyer. Simon Finch, Rare books Ltd, sale catalogue (1998), item 29, with facsimile.

Edited from this MS in Hodges, Man, p. 88 (with a facsimile following). Facsimiles also in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile VII, and in DLB, vol. 84, Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Dramatists. Second Series, ed. Paula R. Backscheider (Detroit, 1989), p. 77. Edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in D.F. McKenzie, ‘Another Congreve Autograph Poem for the Bodleian’, Bodleian Library Record, 16/5 (April 1999), 399-410.

A version of the first eight lines first published, as the last two stanzas of ‘The Reconciliation’, in Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 141. Dobrée, p. 241. McKenzie, II, 322. The 16-line version first published in Hodges, Man (1941), p. 88 (with the suggested title ‘A Complaint to Pious Selinda’).

MS Don. d. 209

An unbound file of MS and printed materials chiefly relating to Cowley.

Assembled by John Sparrow (1906-92).

ff. 5r-10r

• CoA 170: Abraham Cowley, A Satyre. The Puritan and the Papist (‘So two rude waves, by stormes together throwne’)

Copy, headed ‘The Puritan & y^e Papist / A Satyre’, in a MS pamphlet comprising four pairs of quarto conjugate leaves, dated on the first page ‘May. 20^th. 1643 / A.C.’

This MS briefly discussed by Sparrow in Anglia, 58 (p. 102).

First published, anonymously, [Oxford], 1643. Ascribed to Cowley in Wit and Loyalty Reviv'd (London, 1682). Waller, II, 149-57. Sparrow, pp. 17-28. J.H.A. Sparrow, ‘The Text of Cowley's Satire The Puritan and the Papist’, Anglia, 58 (1934), 78-102.

MS Don. e. 5

MS of a dramatic adaptation of Congreve's novel by Alexander Dalrymple, partly in his hand. c.1795.

CgW 54.3: William Congreve, Incognita

First published in London, 1692. McKenzie, III, 1-62.

MS Don. e. 6

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled by members of the Cartwright family, of Aynho, Northamptonshire, including (ff. 4r-7v) verse by William Cartwright (1634-76). Mid-17th century.

Inscribed names including ‘Will: Cartwright’, ‘Jo: Cartwright’, and ‘Katherin Cartwright’. Myers, sale catalogue No. 291 (1933), item 120.

ff. 4r-5v

• RnT 190: Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes (‘Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell’)

Copy, headed ‘Randolphs paying his Creditors’.

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

ff. 5v-6v

• BrW 28: William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy (‘Is Death so great a gamester, that he throws’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r. Donnes Elegy on his Wives Death’.

First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660).

f. 7r-v

• WoH 222: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Kellam Digbyes farewell to the World’.

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.

f. 15v

• ClJ 213: 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. 16r

• WoH 175: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)

Copy, untitled.

First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning ‘Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds’, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.

f. 16v

• HrG 53: George Herbert, The Church-porch (‘Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance’)

Extract.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 6-24.

f. 16v

• RaW 308: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir W. Raleigh, On the Snuff of a Candle the night before he died (‘Cowards fear to Die, but Courage stout’)

Copy.

First published in Remains (London, 1657). Latham, p. 72. Rudick, No. 55, p. 133.

f. 17r

• WoH 176: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)

Second copy, headed ‘Altero p Hen: Wootton K^t.’

First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

f. 17v

• CaW 61: William Cartwright, Women (‘Give me a Girle (if one I needs must meet)’)

First published in Works (1651), p. 218. Evans, p. 471.

f. 17v

• JnB 733: Ben Jonson, Sejanus his Fall

Copy of the couplet beginning ‘He that will thrive in state, he must neglect’ (III, 736-7).

First published in London, 1605. Herford & Simpson, IV, 327-486.

f. 18v

• JnB 268: Ben Jonson, Horace his Art of Poetry (‘If to a Womans head a Painter would’)

Long extracts, subscribed ‘Translat Ben: Johnson’, following the Latin of ‘Horace Arte Poeticâ’ (f. 18r).

First published in John Benson's 12mo edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 297-355.

f. 21r

• CaW 15: William Cartwright, Horat. Carm. lib.4. Ode 13. Audivere Lyce (‘My Prayers are heard, O Lyce, now’)

First published in Works (1651), pp. 256-8. Evans, pp. 503-4.

f. 22r

• JnB 395: Ben Jonson, On Giles and Ione (‘Who sayes that Giles and Ione at discord be?’)

Copy.

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

f. 22v

• JnB 485: Ben Jonson, To Fine Lady Wovld-Bee (‘Fine madame Wovld-Bee, wherefore should you feare’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben. Johnson on the fine Lady Would-bee’.

First published in Epigrammes (lxii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 46.

f. 22v

• JnB 473: Ben Jonson, To a Friend (‘To put out the word, whore, thou do'st me woo’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnson to a frind’.

First published in Epigrammes (lxxxiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 54.

f. 23r

• JnB 392: Ben Jonson, On English Mounsievr (‘Would you beleeue, when you this Movnsievr see’)

Copy.

First published in Epigrammes (lxxxviii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 56.

f. 23r

• RnT 499: Thomas Randolph, On Sir Hen: Leigh nere Salisburie and his Concubine pictured kneeling beside his tomb (‘Here old Sir Henry Lee doth lie’)

Copy of a variant version.

Unpublished?

f. 23v

• JnB 500: Ben Jonson, To Mary Lady Wroth (‘Madame, had all antiquitie beene lost’)

First published in Epigrammes (cv) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 67-8.

f. 24r

• JnB 123: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. (‘Would'st thou heare, what man can say’)

Copy, headed ‘Epitaph’.

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

ff. 25r-7r

• SaG 36: George Sandys, A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610

Extracts.

First published in London, 1615.

f. 28r

• SiP 63: Sir Philip Sidney, The Epitaph (‘His being was in her alone’)

Copy of lines 1-2, untitled and here beginning ‘Her being was in he alone’.

First published in Arcadia (London, 1593), a blank space having been left for this epitaph in the edition of 1590. Ringler, p. 241.

f. 29v

• ClJ 172: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)

Copy, headed ‘Cleavelands Epitaph upon the death of y^e Earle of Strafford’.

First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as ‘Internally unlike his manner’. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among ‘Poems probably by Cleveland’. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).

f. 36v

• RnT 295: Thomas Randolph, A Song (‘Musick thou Queene of soules, get up and string’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r. Randolph in Comendation of Musick’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 87.

f. 37r

• BuS 0.1: Samuel Butler, Hudibras (‘Sir Hudibras his passing worth’)

Extracts.

Part I first published in London, ‘1663’ [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, ‘1664’ [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London ‘1678’ [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).

ff. 42r-40v rev.

• WoH 259.2: Sir Henry Wotton, The Elements of Architecture

Extracts.

First published in London, 1624.

ff. 55v-48v, 45v-42v rev.

• BrT 5.1: Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths

Extracts.

First published in London, 1646. Wilkin, vols II and III, 1-374. Keynes, Vol. II. Robbins (2 vols).

See BrT 29, BrT 32, and BrT 43.

ff. 65v-63v rev.

• BcF 54.923: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning

Extracts.

First published, as The Twoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, diuine and humane, in London, 1605. Spedding, III, 253-491. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. IV (Oxford, 2000).

MS Don. e. 23

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, chiefly Advice to Painter poems, 82 leaves, in quarter-brown morocco. Late 17th century.

Sold by P.J. & A.E. Dobell, 1938.

ff. 9r-15v

• MaA 324: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)

Copy, here ascribed to Denham and the poem dated 1667.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

ff. 15v-22r

• MaA 366: Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter (‘Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love’)

Copy, here ascribed to Denham.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.

See discussions of the disputed authorship of this poem, as well as of the ‘Second Advice’, cited before MaA 314.

ff. 22v-4v

• MaA 395: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)

Copy, here ascribed to Denham.

ff. 24v-6v

• MaA 425: Andrew Marvell, The Fifth Advice to a Painter (‘Painter, where was't thy former work did cease?’)

Copy, here ascribed to Denham.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 146-52, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 35-6, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

ff. 27r-9r

• MaA 130: Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming (‘When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand’)

Copy.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir John Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 143-6. POAS, I, 88-96. Lord, pp. 144-51. Smith, pp. 358-61.

f. 29r

• MaA 283: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Grand-Children (‘Kendal is dead, and Cambridge riding post’)

Copy.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 147. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

f. 29r

• MaA 292: Andrew Marvell, Upon his House (‘Here lies the sacred Bones’)

Copy.

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.

f. 29v

• RoJ 221: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

ff. 30v-8r

• WiG 31: George Wither, Vox et Lacrimae Anglorum (‘Renowned patriots, open your eyes’)

Copy, including the prefatory poem and the postscript (beginning ‘If e'er you leave us in a lasting peace’).

First published in London, 1668. Probably not by Wither; possibly by Edward Raddon: see Stephen K. Roberts, ‘A Poet, a Plotter and a Postmaster: a Disputed Polemic of 1668’, Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, 53 (1980), 258-65. See also David Norbrook, ‘Some Notes on the Canon of George Wither’, N&Q, 241 (1996), 276-81.

MS Don. e. 24

A quarto verse miscellany, 50 pages, unbound. Late 17th century.

Once owned by one James Raine, of Durham. Sold by Blackwell's, 1938.

pp. 22-5

• DrJ 202: John Dryden, To Sir George Etherege Mr. D.- Answer (‘To you who live in chill Degree’)

Copy.

This MS collated in California.

First published at the end of The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Kinsley, II, 578-80. California, III, 224-6. Hammond, III, 21-7. The Letterbook of Sir George Etherege, ed. Sybil Rosenfeld (London, 1928), pp. 346-8. Letters of Sir George Etherege, ed. Frederick Bracher (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London, 1974), pp. 270-2.

MS Don. e. 176

An octavo verse miscellany, 148 pages (lacking pp. 55-8, 117-26). Late 17th century.

Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1284. Afterwards owned by John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector.

p. 17

• CoA 179: Abraham Cowley, Sors Virgiliana (‘By a bold peoples stubborn armes opprest’)

Copy, headed ‘English'd at y^e late Kings Comand at Oxford, by M^r Ab. Cowley; he not knowing it was y^e Kings Sors Virginiana’.

Edited from this MS in Sparrow.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman, in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677].

Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Sparrow, p. 192. Texts usually preceded by a prose introduction explaining the circumstances of composition.

pp. 21-2

• WaE 733: Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same (‘We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Ld Protectors dying in a storm by Ed. Waller’; the text followed (pp. 22-5) by Godolphin's answer.

First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As ‘Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C.’ in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.

For the ‘answer or construction’ by William Godolphin, see the Introduction.

pp. 27-39

• CoA 169: Abraham Cowley, A Satyre. The Puritan and the Papist (‘So two rude waves, by stormes together throwne’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyre. The Puritan Papist’ and here ascribed to Cowley.

This MS collated in Sparrow.

pp. 41-3

• RoJ 599: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

pp. 45-52

• DrJ 63: John Dryden, Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. (‘And now 'tis time. for their Officious haste’)

Copy, headed ‘Heroick Stanzas consecrated To y^e memory of Cromwell by J. Dryden’.

First published in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, 1659). Kinsley, I, 6-12. California, I, 11-16. Hammond, I, 18-29.

p. 54

• RoJ 268: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Women about Town (‘Too long the wise Commons have been in debate’)

Copy, headed ‘Essay. L^d R.’

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as ‘Lampoone’. Love, p. 42, as ‘Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester’.

pp. 87-97

• RoJ 165: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (‘Chloe, In verse by your command I write’)

First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

pp. 98-107

• RoJ 330: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyre. L^d Rot:’.

pp. 109-12

• RoJ 89: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems (‘Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound’)

Copy, headed ‘My L^d R. to my L^d M’; imperfect, lacking p. 113.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

p. 116

• EtG 38: Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to A Letter from Lord Buckhurst] (‘As crafty harlots use to shrink’)

Copy, headed ‘Answer by G.E.’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 38-9.

For other poems in this series, see EtG 39-43, DoC 18-22, and DoC 110-13.

pp. 132-3

• RoJ 258: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr (‘To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain’)

Copy, here ascribed to ‘L^d Dorsett’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's ‘Answer’ (‘Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me’: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

p. 135

• WoH 196: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Lady y^t dyd soon after her husband’ and here beginning ‘He first deceased she liv'd, and try'd’.

First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

pp. 138-9

• StW 505: William Strode, On his Majesties Fleete (‘Cease now the talk of Wonders nothing rare’)

Copy.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 145-6.

MS Don. e. 747

Randolph's printed exemplum. Inscribed on the title-page, undoubtedly in the poet's hand, ‘Thomas Randolph Trin: Coll: Cambridge’ and the same hand has also written the abbreviation ‘T:R:T:C:C:’ on sig. Aiiij^v. Probably three other early hands were responsible for assorted marginalia which appear elsewhere in this volume, one of them the gentleman who inscribed the last page (p. 336) ‘JosePhiper liber 1618 [or 1628] Oct^r: 28’. Early 17th century.

*RnT 594: Thomas Randolph, New Testament in Latin, with commentary by Theodore Beza (London, 1581)

Although offered in sale catalogue No. 56 (1912), item 305, by the Charing Cross Road bookseller Arthur Reader and sold at some time before then by Sotheby's, this volume seems to have escaped the attention of Randolph scholars until its acquisition by the Bodleian in 1968.

It was first effectively recorded in Davis's unpublished thesis on Randolph (1970), pp. 167-8.

MS Don. f. 29

A miscellany of academic orations, verse, satires, etc., in Latin and English, iv + 111 leaves, in limp vellum. Compiled by William Doble (1649/50-75), of Trinity College, Oxford. c.1669-74.

R.C. Hatchwell, sale catalogue No. 23 (1973), item 50.

fols 23r, 24r

• RoJ 300: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy of lines 1-28, headed ‘A satyr on man’, deleted.

fol. 24r

• SeC 50: Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia (‘As in those Nations, where they yet adore’)

Copy, headed ‘A Copy of v^rses to M^rs. M: K: from —’ and ascribed to ‘Char: Sidley’.

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.

fols 24v, 23v rev.

• RoJ 58: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee (‘As some brave admiral, in former war’)

Copy, lacking the last three stanzas.

This MS reproduced in facsimile, transcribed and discussed in Clive T. Probyn, ‘A New Draft of Rochester's Disabled Debauchee’, The Scriblerian, 8 (1975), 1-4, and see also David Vieth's corrections to Probyn's transcript in ‘Errata’, The Scriblerian, 9 (1977), 147-8; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

fols 61r, 62r, 63r, 64r, 65r, 66r

• RoJ 299: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr on Man’.

fols 69r, 70r, 71r, 72r, 73r, 74r, 75r

• RoJ 531: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells (‘At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon y^e Wells by my L^d Rocheseter’.

This MS collated in Walker.

First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.

fols 80r, 81r

• DrJ 165: John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxon. Spoken by Mr. Hart, at the Acting of the Silent Woman (‘What Greece, when Learning flourish'd, onely Knew’)

Copy, headed ‘A Prologue in y^e vniversity. By the Kings house’.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 369-70. California, I, 146-7. Hammond, I, 277-9.

fols 82r, 83r

• DrJ 160: John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxford, 1674. Spoken by Mr. Hart (‘Poets, your Subjects, have their Parts assign'd’)

Copy, headed ‘Prologue to y^e vniversity. By y^e Kings house’.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 372-3. California, I, 151-2. Hammond, I, 289-91.

fols 83r, 84r

• DrJ 26: John Dryden, Epilogue To Oxford Spoken by Mrs. Marshal (‘Oft has our Poet wisht, this happy Seat’)

Copy, headed ‘Epilogue at y^e same time’.

First published (in two versions) in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 373-4. California, I, 153-4. Hammond, I, 291-2.

fols 104r, 105r

• DoC 265: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called ‘The British Princes’ (‘Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare’)

Copy, headed ‘A Prologue to Edward Howards Utopia, made by y^e Lord Buckerst’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.

MS Don. f. 37

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in probably three hands, written from both ends, 86 leaves, in 17th-century calf. c.1648-61.

Scribbling on f. 33r rev. including the name ‘Elizabeth keech’.

fol. 12r

• CwT 114.5: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘We read of Gods & Kings, y^t kindely tooke’.

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

fol. 13r

• SuJ 44.5: John Suckling, Lutea Allison: Si sola es, nulla es (‘Though you Diana-loke have liv'd still chast’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. S.’

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 25-6.

fol. 13v

• SuJ 86.8: John Suckling, Upon Mrs. A. L. (‘Thou think'st I flatter when thy praise I tell’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. S.’

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 26-7.

fol. 14v

• SuJ 136.5: John Suckling, To the Lady Desmond (Upon the Black Spots worn by my Lady D. E.) (‘I know your heart cannot so guilty be’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. S.’

First published in Dudley, Lord North, A Forest of Varieties (London, 1645). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 92. Probably written by Peter Apsley.

fol. 15v

• SuJ 48.5: John Suckling, Prefer'd Love rejected (‘It is not four years ago’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J. S.’

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 54-5.

fol. 15v

• SuJ 86.5: John Suckling, Upon L. M. weeping (‘Whoever was the cause your tears were shed’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J.S.’

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 34-5.

fol. 48v-r rev.

• CwT 544.8: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy, untitled.

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

fols 53v-53r

• RaW 320.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen (‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r w. R. to his M^rs’, here beginning ‘Passions are likned...’.

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

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

fols 54r-53v rev.

• TiC 4: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament (‘My prime of youth is but a frost of cares’)

Copy, headed ‘Tichbourns Elegy in y^e Tower before is Execution’.

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.

fol. 58v rev.

• JnB 8.5: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph (‘See the Chariot at hand here of Love’)

Copy of lines 21-30, headed ‘On a M^rs’ and here beginning ‘Haue you seene y^e Lilly grow’, followed by the ‘Answer’ (‘Have you seene a black-head maggott’).

fol. 59r rev.

• CoR 560.5: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett (‘What I shall leave thee none can tell’)

Copy, headed ‘Bishop Corbet to his young Sonne Vincent’.

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

fol. 69r rev.

• RaW 232.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, headed ‘On Mans life’.

fol. 69v rev.

• HoJ 2: John Hoskyns, ‘A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late’

Copy, headed ‘On a Locke-smith’.

Whitlock, p. 108.

fol. 82r rev.

• CwT 1185.5: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband (‘This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Ribban giuen by his Mistris’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.

Don. b. 24 (24)

Proofsheet, of the outer forme of sheet G (G1^r .2^v .3^r .4^v), in an exemplum of the printed edition of 1639. 1639.

CaW 85: William Cartwright, The Royal Slave

Later owned by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor.

Discussed in D. F. Foxon, ‘The Varieties of Early Proof: Cartwright's Royal Slave, 1639, 1640’, The Library, 25 (1970), 151-4. Jan Moore, p. 71.

First performed at Christ Church, Oxford, 30 August 1636. First published in Oxford, 1639. Evans, pp. 193-253.

Don. d. 27, 28

A printed exemplum with (partly eroded) Milton's autograph inscription on the flyleaf, ‘Jo[:] Milton pre:[12]^s [6]^d 1634’, and numerous autograph annotations in the text among notes in other hands. c.1634.

*MnJ 121: John Milton, Euripides. Tragoediae quae extant, 2 vols (Geneva, 1602)

Including notes by Joshua Barnes, fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, and editor of Euripides in 1694). The initials ‘D S’ inscribed twice on a flyleaf apparently by Daniel Skinner.

The annotations edited in Columbia, XVIII, 304-20. Discussed in Maurice Kelley and Samuel D. Atkins, ‘Milton's Annotations of Euripides’, JEGP, 60 (1961), 680-7. Facsimile examples in Sotheby, Ramblings, pp. 108-10 (Plate XV); in Friends of the Bodleian: Ninth Annual Report (Oxford, 1933-4), after p. 4 [two full pages]; and in Kelley and Atkins, SB, 17 (1964), 77-82. Recorded in Hanford No. 2; in LR, I, 282; and in Boswell, No. 553.