CELM: Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. e. MSS

MS Eng. poet. e. 4

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, iv + 248 pages, imperfect at the end, in contemporary calf. Compiled by an Oxford University man. End of 17th century.

Sold by J.W. Jarvis & Sons, 5 December 1888.

p. 1

• MyJ 28: Jasper Mayne, Vpon Sr John Denhams Translation of the Psalms (‘In those dark Ages when the world was blind’)

Copy.

p. 34

• CaW 52: William Cartwright, To the Right vertuous the Ladie Elizabeth Powlet (‘Could wee iudge here Most vertuous Madam then’)

Copy, headed ‘part of a Large Copy, in Vniuersity Poems 1656 / On a Lady that wrought the Bible story in Needle-work’.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 195-6. Evans, pp. 459-60.

pp. 73-8

• WaE 383: Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation (‘While with a strong and yet a gentle hand’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Edmund Waller’.

First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.

pp. 78-88

• MaA 28: Andrew Marvell, The First Anniversary of the Government under O.C. (‘Like the vain Curlings of the Watry maze’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Edmund Waller’.

First published in London, 1655. Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681), but cancelled from all known exempla except one in the British Library. Margoliouth, I, 108-19. Lord, pp. 93-104. Smith, pp. 287-98.

p. 89

• WaE 709: 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, subscribed ‘Edmund Waller’. The text followed (pp. 90-1) by Godolphin's ‘Answer to the Storm’.

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. 92-6

• DrJ 51: 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 ‘On the Death of Oliver Cromwell, by John Dryden’.

This MS collated in Dearing et al., loc. cit.

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.

pp. 107-9

• MyJ 4: Jasper Mayne, On a Ladies picture (and some other pieces) drawn by herself (‘Where are you Ladies, which your morning pass’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Jasper Maine’.

pp. 109-10

• MyJ 3: Jasper Mayne, On a Garden made by Art (‘When such a Garden doth appear’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Jasper Maine’.

pp. 116-24

• CoA 162: Abraham Cowley, A Satyre. The Puritan and the Papist (‘So two rude waves, by stormes together throwne’)

Copy, subscribed ‘supposed by Abr. Cowley’.

This MS collated in Sparrow.

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.

pp. 125-41

• BuS 37: Samuel Butler, Mercurius Menippeus

Copy of the original version.

A satire first published in 1682 with the subtitle ‘The Loyal Satyrist, or, Hudibras in Prose’. Almost certainly written by Thomas Winyard (or Winnard or Winwood), Fellow of St John's College, Oxford: see De Quehen, RES, (1982), 274-5, and Lamar, pp. 347-65. Before its re-publication in Butler's Posthumous Works, it was heavily doctored with interpolated Hudibrastic verses.

p. 169

• SeC 51: Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia (‘As in those Nations, where they yet adore’)

Copy, headed ‘To M^ris Mary Napp’, subscribed ‘Sir Charles Sedley’.

Printed from this MS in Pinto, I, 274.

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.

pp. 172-3

• DrJ 116: John Dryden, Prologue to Albumazar (‘To say this Commedy pleas'd long ago’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J.D.’

This MS collated in California; recorded in Kinsley.

First published in Covent Garden Drolery (London, 1672). Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 141-2. California, I, 141-2. Hammond, I, 212-15.

pp. 173-4

• DrJ 215: John Dryden, To the Lady Castlemain, Upon Her incouraging his first Play (‘As Sea-men shipwrackt on some happy shore’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countess of Castelmaine, for procuring a Play of his might be printed’, subscribed ‘John Dryden’.

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

First published in A New Collection of Poems and Songs…Collected by John Bulteel (London, 1674). Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, I, 154-6. California, I, 45-6. Hammond, I, 81-3. Also in Paul Hammond, ‘Dryden's Revision of To the Lady Castlemain’, PBSA, 78 (1984), 81-90.

p. 175

• DrJ 170: John Dryden, The Prologue to Witt without Money being the first Play acted after the Fire (‘So shipwrack't Passengers escape to Land’)

Copy, headed ‘The Prologue at the first opening of the Dukes old Playhouse by the Kings Actors’, subscribed ‘John Dryden’.

This MS collated in California; recorded in Kinsley.

First published in Covent Garden Drolery (London, 1672). Westminster Drolery, The Second Part (London, 1672). Kinsley, I, 140. California, I, 143-4. Hammond, I, 256-7.

pp. 176-7

• SdT 15.4: Thomas Shadwell, Prologue to the Oxford Scollers at the Act there, 1671 (‘Your civil kindness last year shown’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘J. S.’

Attributed to Shadwell by W. J. Lawrence in ‘Oxford Restoration Prologues’, TLS (16 January 1930), p. 43, but though misreading a manuscript ascription to ‘J. S.’ as to ‘T .S.’ Published in Danchin, II, 414-16. Not by Shadwell.

pp. 178-9

• DrJ 158: John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxford (‘Tho' Actors cannot much of Learning boast’)

Copy, headed ‘A Prologue to the University of Oxford at the Act 1676; by his Majesties Servants’.

This MS collated in Kinsley and in California.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 375-6. California, I, 155-6. Hammond, I, 304-5.

pp. 181-6

• RoJ 302: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyr against Mankind’, the epilogue separately headed ‘Addition’, subscribed ‘John E. Rochester’.

Edited in part from this MS in Love. 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).

pp. 187-8

• RoJ 59: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee (‘As some brave admiral, in former war’)

Copy, omitting stanza 10, subscribed ‘John E Rochester’.

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.

pp. 188-9

• DoC 147: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mr. Edward Howard upon his ‘New Utopia’ (‘Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^r Edward Howards New Utopia’, subscribed ‘Charles L. Buckhurst’.

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), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.

p. 190

• DoC 269: 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 ‘To Mr edward Howard on his British Princes’, subscribed ‘Charles B. Buckhurst now E. Dorsett’.

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.

pp. 191-2

• WaE 770: Edmund Waller, To the Honourable Ed. Howard Esq. upon his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem of the British Princes (‘Sir/ You have oblig'd the British Nation more’)

Copy, headed ‘On the British Princes To the Honourable Ed. Howard Esq. vpon his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem of the British Princes’, subscribed ‘Edmund Waller’.

First published, ascribed to ‘Mr. Waller’, in The Third Part of Miscellany Poems (London, 1716), pp. 68-9. The Works of Edmund Waller, ed. Elijah Fenton (London, 1729). The Genuine Remains in Verse and Prose of Mr. Samuel Butler, ed. Robert Thyer, 2 vols (London, 1759), I, 104-6.

Because of the last publication, this poem was rejected from the Waller canon by Thorn-Drury (I, p. vii). See, however, the Introduction above and IELM, II.i, Samuel Butler, pp. 31-8.

pp. 195-6

• SdT 11: Thomas Shadwell, On the British Princes In Imitation of his most excellent Style (‘Of all great Nature fated vnto witt’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho. Shadwell’.

Edited from this MS in Bull.

First published in A. J. Bull, ‘Thomas Shadwell's Satire on Edward Howard’, RES, 6 (1930), 312-15.

pp. 213-22

• MaA 326: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)

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, 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.

pp. 229-41

• MaA 368: Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter (‘Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love’)

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, 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.

pp. 241-5

• MaA 397: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS 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. 245-8

• MaA 426: Andrew Marvell, The Fifth Advice to a Painter (‘Painter, where was't thy former work did cease?’)

Copy of lines 1-142, imperfect, lacking the rest.

Edited in part from this MS in POAS, I. Recorded in Osborne.

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.

MS Eng. poet. e. 14

An octavo verse miscellany, including 13 poems by Donne and 14 poems by Corbett, in several hands, probably associated with Oxford University, written from both ends, 102 leaves, in 17th-century calf. c.1630s.

Inscribed (f. 101v) ‘Henry Lawson’ (or just possibly ‘Lamson’). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1185. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9257. Sotheby's, 15 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 862. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (1896), item 64.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Lawson MS’: DnJ Δ 37 and CoR Δ 2.

ff. 2r-8v

• CoR 280: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r. Corbetts Journey’.

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

f. 9r

• SiP 127: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book II, No. 16 (‘Since so mine eyes are subject to your sight’)

Copy.

Ringler, p. 39; Robertson, p. 99.

Ringler, p. 39. Robertson, p. 99.

f. 9v

• CoR 390: Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham (‘When I can pay my Parents, or my King’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r: Corbett to ye Marquess of Bucking: on a New-yeares Day’.

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

f. 10r

• MoG 3: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon King James’.

A version of lines 1-22, headed ‘Epitaph on King James’ and beginning ‘He that hath eyes now wake and weep’, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

f. 10v

• CmT 54: Thomas Campion, ‘If Love loves truth, then women doe not love’

Copy, untitled.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xi. Davis, p. 146.

f. 12r

• CwT 699: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, untitled.

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 Eng. poet. e. 28

A quarto verse miscellany entitled ‘A Collection of Poems by Various Hands, but chiefly by M^r Peart, and Miss Sally Bate and Copy'd out in this Book by Miss Eleanor Peart [of Stamford, Lincolnshire] in 1768’, ii + 370 pages, in calf gilt. 1768 [-1814].

Acquired in 1924 from Falconer Madan (1851-1935), librarian and bibliographer.

pp. 346-7

• VaJ 4: Sir John Vanbrugh, To a Lady More Cruel than Fair (‘Why d'ye with such Disdain refuse’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘M^r Vanbrook’.

First published, ascribed to ‘Mr Vanbrook’, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704), pp. 245-6.

MS Eng. poet. e. 30

A quarto volume of 64 poems by Kenry King (and one by Henry Reynolds), 108 leaves (including a modern index and a few blanks). Written probably in two hands: i.e. A: ff. 5r-63v, that of King's amanuensis, Thomas Manne (1581/2-1641), in three varying styles, becoming increasingly shaky as he proceeded (c.1633-6); and B: ff. 64r-86r, in the hand of Manne's ‘imitator’ (c.1636-40); the text corrected throughout c.1636 in the hand of King himself (most notably on ff. 16v, 23r, 24r, 25r, 28r, 49r, 53v, 56r, and 65v); other items added later (c.1658) in yet another hand comprising (ff. 87v-105v) an anonymous ‘sermon Preached at the solemne Funeralls of the Right Honorable Katherine Countess of Linstr July 3. Anno Domi: 1657’ (ff. 106r-7r), King's elegy on her (KiH 167) and (f. 108r) another, anonymous elegy beginning ‘Sleepe Pretious Ashes, in thy sacred Urne’, these additions suggesting the possibility that the MS might have been originally prepared for Katherine, Countess of Leinster. c.1633-58.

Thomas Thorpe's sale ‘Catalogue of Ancient Manuscripts’, 26 June 1837, item 752 (where it is erroneously described as ‘a most beautifully written volume of Poems’ in the hand of Bishop King's ‘Daughter’). Later owned by William Pickering (1796-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 24 March 1854, (Pickering sale), lot 1864.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Hannah MS’: KiH Δ 1. Described in Percy Simpson, ‘The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King’, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (pp. 324-6); in Margaret Crum, ‘Notes on the Physical Characteristics of some Manuscripts of the Poems of Donne and of Henry King’, The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 90-1 (with a facsimile of f. 56: see KiH 496); and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6). 1837, item 752.

f. 5r-v

• KiH 478: Henry King, A Penitentiall Hymne (‘Hearken, O God! unto a wretche's cryes’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in The Psalmes of David, 2nd edition (London, 1654). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 161-2.

ff. 6r-9v

• KiH 791: Henry King, The Woes of Esay (‘Woe to the worldly men, whose covetous’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 136-9.

ff. 10r-12v

• KiH 309: Henry King, An Essay on Death and a Prison (‘A Prison is in all things like a Grave’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 139-42.

ff. 13r-15r

• KiH 706: Henry King, To his unconstant Freind (‘But say, thou very Woman, why to mee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 142-4.

ff. 15v-16v

• *KiH 409: Henry King, Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice (‘I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect’)

Copy, with a correction probably in King's autograph, untitled.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

f. 17r-v

• KiH 104: Henry King, The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

ff. 18r-19v

• KiH 663: Henry King, The Surrender (‘My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more’)

Copy headed ‘An Elegy’.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.

f. 19v

• KiH 537: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

f. 20r

• KiH 628: Henry King, Sonnet (‘When I entreat, either thou wilt not heare’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 148.

f. 20v

• KiH 514: Henry King, Sic Vita (‘Like to the Falling of a Starr’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 148-9.

f. 21r

• KiH 568: Henry King, Sonnet (‘I prethee turne that face away’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).

f. 21v

• KiH 601: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

f. 22r-v

• KiH 352: Henry King, The Farwell (‘Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.

MS Eng. poet. e. 31

Autograph poetical notebook of Octavia Walsh, written from both ends, 165 leaves (ff. 33-121 blank), in vellum. Comprising some 42 poems, largely by her and in her fair copies, the last poem unfinished, with occasional revisions, two of the poems (ff. 151r-150r rev., 143v rev.) by her brother William, with three culinary receipts added in a later hand. c.1691-1706.

*WaO 1: Octavia Walsh, Poetical notebook

Inscribed ‘Octavia Walsh her book 1694’. The MS descended through her family, Barons Ormathwaite. P.J. & A.E. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 76 (1928), item 556.

Described in detail in the online Perdita Project.

Unpublished.

MS Eng. poet. e. 32

Copy, with possibly autograph corrections, of Harington's translation of the late 11th-early 12th century poem Regimen sanitatis Salernitanum (by Joannes de Mediolano?), untitled, 28 leaves, in marbled wrappers. Early 17th century.

HrJ 1: Sir John Harington, The Englishman's Doctor, or The School of Salerne (‘The Salerne Schoole doth by these lines impart’)

J. Bindley. Used by Malone. Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1307. Formerly Phillipps MS 9132. Sotheby's, 17 May 1897 (Phillipps sale), lot 372. Sotheby's, 19 May 1913, lot 797. Bibliotheca Osleriana No. 7623. Bequeathed by Osler 1928.

This MS recorded but not collated by editors; described by H.F.B. Brett-Smith in BQR, 5 (1926-9), 307. Facsimiles of p. 1 in 1922 edition, facing p. 75, and in 1953 edition, p. 12. The variants in this MS from the early printed text are listed by Edmond Malone (1741-1812) in his exemplum of the edition of 1624 in the Bodleian, Mal. 507.

First published in London, 1607. Edited by Francis R. Packard and Fielding H. Garrison as The School of Salernum (London, 1922). Edited anonymously as The School of Salernum (Salerno, 1953). A version of lines 1-8 quoted in The Metamorphosis of Ajax (see HrJ 317-22.8).

MS Eng. poet. e. 37

A miscellany of verse and prose, in a single hand, originally in two volumes, xxiii + 158 pages, in 19th-century green morocco gilt. c.1630s.

Once owned by one C. Agard and later by F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector. The original second volume here bought from Colbeck Radford, sale catalogue No. 24 (1932), item 157.

p. 29

• BmF 117: Francis Beaumont, On Madam Fowler desiring a sonnet to be writ on her (‘Good Madam Fowler, do not trouble me’)

Copy, headed ‘Epigram’ and ascribed ‘to F.B.’.

First published in Alexander B. Grosart, ‘Literary Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere’, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (p. 8).

p. 30

• BmF 144: Francis Beaumont, ‘Why should not pilgrims to thy body come’

Copy, ascribed to ‘F.B.’.

First published in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), No. 213.

pp. 31-2

• DnJ 78: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Sat.’.

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.

pp. 33-4

• DnJ 3753: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 35-8

• BmF 28: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland (‘I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep’)

Copy.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

p. 39 et seq.

• OvT 14: Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife (‘Each woman is a brief of woman kind’)

Copy, ascribed to Sir T. O.

First published, as A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury, in London, 1614. Rimbault, pp. 33-45. Beecher, pp. 190-8.

p. 58

• DnJ 2934: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.

p. 59

• DnJ 2311: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

pp. 63-6

• DnJ 1184: John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day (‘Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is’)

Copy of lines 1-70, 85-112.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.

pp. 69-71

• DnJ 1339: John Donne, The First Anniversary. A Funerall Elegie (‘'Tis lost, to trust a Tombe with such a guest’)

Copy, headed ‘The Funerall Elegie vppon y^edeath of M^rs Elizabeth Drury’, transcribed from the edition of 1621.

This MS collated in Shawcross, recorded in Milgate, p. lvii.

First published in An Anatomie of the World (London, 1611). Grierson, I, 245-8. Shawcross, No. 156. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 35-8.

p. 72

• DrW 117.12: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Copy.

Often headed in MSS ‘The [Five] Senses’, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his ‘Poems of Doubtful Authenticity’ (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, ‘Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses’, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, ‘Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses’, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

p. 75

• CwT 221: Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence (‘You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS (recorded as ‘MS. Cosens. A. 4°’) in Hazlitt. Collated in Dunlap.

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

p. 75

• CwT 412: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes (‘In Celia's face a question did arise’)

Copy.

This MS recorded (as ‘Cosens MS. A 4°’) in Hazlitt, p. 6.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.

p. 76

• CwT 391: Thomas Carew, A Ladies prayer to Cupid (‘Since I must needes into thy schoole returne’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Dunlap. Recorded (as ‘Cosens MS. A. 4^t°’) in Hazlitt, p. 28.

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

p. 76

• CwT 864: Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested (‘How ill doth he deserve a lovers name’)

Copy.

This MS recorded (as ‘MS. Cosens. A. 4°’) in Hazlitt, p. 30.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.

p. 77

• CwT 498: Thomas Carew, On his Mistres lookeinge in a glasse (‘This flatteringe glasse whose smooth face weares’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS (recorded as ‘Cosens MS A. 4°’) in Hazlitt and in Dunlap.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 23-4. Dunlap. p. 132.

p. 78

• CwT 572: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy.

This MS (recorded as ‘Cosens MS. A 4°’) in Hazlitt, p. 13.

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

p. 79

• CwT 1146: Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse (‘Fayre copie of my Celia's face’)

Copy.

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

pp. 80-6

• JnB 229: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 9. Elegie on my Muse (‘'Twere time that I dy'd too, now shee is dead’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 283-9.

pp. 87-90

• KiH 330: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie by D^r H. Kinge vppon his Wife’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

MS Eng. poet. e. 39

A verse miscellany, i + 230 pages, in a contemporary green vellum wallet with clasps. Mid-18th century.

Donated by F.F. Madan, 1938.

pp. 28-37

• WaE 909: Edmund Waller, Extracts

Copy of, or extracts from, four religious poems by Waller.

MS Eng. poet. e. 40

A quarto verse miscellany, 171 leaves, with an index, imperfect at the beginning, in contemporary calf (rebacked). Compiled by Colonel Gabriel Lepipre, being the ‘4^th Vol’. of his compilations. c.1748-50s.

Donated in 1938 by F.F. Madan.

f. 18r

• MkM 1: Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London (‘Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ’)

Copy.

Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced ‘The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London’, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.

ff. 27r-9r

• MnJ 9.5: John Milton, An Epitaph on the Marchioness of Winchester (‘This rich Marble doth enterr’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 28-31. Darbishire, II, 133-5. Carey & Fowler, pp. 126-9.

f. 38r

• BrW 179.2: 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. 38r

• DrJ 43.2: John Dryden, Epitaph on Mrs. Margaret Paston of Barningham in Norfolk (‘So fair, so young, so innocent, so sweet’)

Copy.

Kinsley, IV, 1801. Hammond, V, 671-2.

f. 46r

• DnJ 146.5: John Donne, Antiquary (‘If in his Studie he hath so much care’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 93. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled and beginning ‘If, in his study, Hamon hath such care’), 8 (as ‘Antiquary’), and 11.

f. 100r

• CoA 262: Abraham Cowley, Extracts

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

f. 104r

• BrW 111.5: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor (‘Nature in this small volume was about’)

Copy, headed ‘177 an Epitaph on a Young Lady, writ several years past.’

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.

f. 106r

• DaJ 132.5: Sir John Davies, An Epitaph (‘Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes’)

Copy, headed ‘185 an Epitaph writ several years since by M^r John Hoskins on a Bellowes Maker at Oxford’ and here beginning ‘Here lyeth John Cruker a Maker of Bellowes’.

f. 108r

• WoH 176.8: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘She first deceased, he for a little tried’.

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. 114r

• StW 319.5: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)

Copy.

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

f. 116r

• DaJ 161.5: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy.

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

f. 118r

• RnT 202.8: Thomas Randolph, On Mr parson(s) Organist of Westminster Abbye (‘Death passing by, and hearing parsons play’)

Copy.

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

MS Eng. poet. e. 50

Copies mainly of verse, transcribed from a MS formerly owned by William, Baron Craven, and (pp. 62-148) from the ‘Fraser MS’, ii + 158 pages. Among papers of George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. c.1923.

The transcript lent to Thorn-Drury by P.J. Dobell, c.1923. Donated by Mrs Thorn-Drury, 1947.

p. 148

• DoC 326.98: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Death of the Duke of Gloucester (‘For Gloucester's death, which sadly we deplore’)

Copy.

First published in Tom Browne, Remains (London, 1720), p. 143. Edited and discussed in Harris, pp. 184-5. Possibly by another Lord Dorset.

MS Eng. poet. e. 57

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends (ff. 1-19, then ff. 82-20 rev.), the forty-three sonnets on ff. 1r-11r in a single neat secretary hand and headed ‘Sonetts by Alablaster vppo y^e ensignes of Christes Crucifyinge’, iii + 82 leaves (plus three blanks), in contemporary vellum. Early-mid-17th century.

Discovered c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), book dealer and literary scholar. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 106 (1949), item 1.

f. 1r

• AlW 25: William Alabaster, The Sponge (‘O sweet and bitter monuments of pain’)

Copy, headed ‘Son: 1’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

First published in Edmond Malone (ed.), The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare (20 vols, 1821), II, 260-3. Sonnets, p. 13 (No. 24).

f. 1r

• AlW 45: William Alabaster, Upon St. Augustine's Meditations (‘When to the closet of thy prayers divine’)

Copy, headed ‘So: 2. vppo S^t Augustines Meditationes’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

First published in J.P. Collier, A History of English Dramatic Poetry, 3 vols (London, 1831), II, 431-3. Sonnets, p. 19 (No. 35).

f. 1r

• AlW 48: William Alabaster, ‘To style Christ's praise with heavenly muse's wing’

Copy, headed ‘So: 3’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 19 (No. 36).

f. 1v

• AlW 51: William Alabaster, To the Blessed Virgin (‘Hail graceful morning of eternal day’)

Copy, headed ‘So: 4 to y^e blessed vergine’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 20 (No. 37).

f. 1v

• AlW 39: William Alabaster, Upon the Crucifix (2) (‘Behold a cluster to itself a vine’)

Copy, headed ‘So: 5 vppo y^e Crucifix’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 17 (No. 32).

f. 2r

• AlW 30: William Alabaster, Upon the Crown of Thorns (1) (‘Ay me, that thorns his royal head should wound’)

Copy, headed ‘So: 6. vppo the crowne of Thornes’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 14 (No. 25).

f. 2r

• AlW 32: William Alabaster, Another of the Same (2) (‘The earth, which in delicious Paradise’)

Copy, headed ‘An other of y^e same’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 14 (No. 26).

f. 2r-v

• AlW 41: William Alabaster, Ego Sum Vitis (‘Now that the midday heat doth scorch my shame’)

Copy, headed ‘So. 8. Ego Jam vitis’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 18 (No. 33).

f. 2v

• AlW 54: William Alabaster, The Eternity (‘Eternity, the womb of things created’)

Copy, headed ‘So. 9. The Eternety’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 20 (No. 38).

f. 2v

• AlW 56: William Alabaster, To Christ (1) (‘See how the Sun unsetting doth uphold’)

Copy, headed ‘So: 10. To Crist’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 21 (No. 39).

ff. 2v-3r

• AlW 58: William Alabaster, To Christ (2) (‘Like as thy winged spirits always stand’)

Copy, headed ‘Son: ij. To Crist’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 21 (No. 40).

f. 3r

• AlW 60: William Alabaster, ‘Lo here I am, lord, whither wilt thou send me?’

Copy, headed ‘Son: 12’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 22 (No. 41).

f. 3r

• AlW 43: William Alabaster, Upon the Crucifix (3) (‘Now I have found thee, I will evermore’)

Copy, headed ‘Son: 13. vppo the Crucifix’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

First published in J.H. Pollen, ‘William Alabaster, a newly discovered Catholic Poet of the Elizabethan Age’, The Month, Vol. 103, No. 478 (April 1904), pp. 426-30. Louise Imogen Guiney, Recusant Poets: with a selection from their work, vol. 1 (1938), p. 348. Sonnets, p. 18 (No. 34).

f. 3v

• AlW 62: William Alabaster, ‘O holy mother, New Jerusalem’

Copy, headed ‘Son: i4’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 23 (No. 42).

f. 3v

• AlW 64: William Alabaster, ‘Thrice happy souls and spirits unbodied’

Copy, headed ‘Son: 15’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 24 (No. 43).

ff. 3v-4r

• AlW 66: William Alabaster, ‘O starry temple of unvaulted space’

Copy, headed ‘Son: 16.’

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 24 (No. 44).

f. 4r

• AlW 68: William Alabaster, ‘Holy, holy, holy, lord unnamed’

Copy, headed ‘Son: 17’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 25 (No. 45).

f. 4r

• AlW 70: William Alabaster, Of His Conversion (‘Away, fear, with thy projects, no false fire’)

Copy, headed ‘Son: 18’.

Edited from this MS in Bertram Dobell, ‘The Sonnets of William Alabaster’, Athenaeum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-8. Sonnets.

First published (with errors) in J.P. Collier, A History of English Dramatic Poetry (London, 1831), II, 431-3. Sonnets, p. 26 (No. 46).

f. 4v

• AlW 75: William Alabaster, ‘Lord, I have left all and myself behind’

Copy, headed ‘Son: 19’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 27 (No. 48).

f. 4v

• AlW 77: William Alabaster, ‘Dear, and so worthy both by your desert’

Copy, headed ‘Son: 20’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 28 (No. 49).

ff. 4v-5r

• AlW 81: William Alabaster, ‘Shall I confess my sins? Then help me tell:’

Copy, headed ‘Son: 21’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 29 (No. 52).

f. 5r

• AlW 83: William Alabaster, A Preface to the Incarnation (‘I sing of Christ, O endless argument’)

Copy, headed ‘Son: 22. A preface to y^e Incarnation’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

First published in Bertram Dobell, ‘The Sonnets of William Alabaster’, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-7. Sonnets, p. 30 (No. 53).

ff. 5r, 6v

• AlW 85: William Alabaster, Incarnationem Ratione Probare Impossibile (‘Two, yet but one, which either other is’)

Copy, headed ‘Son: 23’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

f. 6v

• AlW 87: William Alabaster, Incarnationis Prufundum Mysterium (‘The unbounded sea of the Incarnation!’)

Copy, headed ‘Son: 24. Incarnationis profundu mysteriu’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

First published, as ‘The Mystery’, in Louise Imogen Guiney, Recusant Poets: with a selection from their work, vol. 1 (1938), p. 347. Sonnets, p. 31 (No. 55).

f. 6v

• AlW 89: William Alabaster, Incarnatio est Maximum Dei Donum (‘Like as the fountain of all light created’)

Copy, headed ‘Son: 25. Incarnatio est maximu Dei donu’.

Edited from this MS in Dobell and in Sonnets.

First published in Bertram Dobell, ‘The Sonnets of William Alabaster’, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-7. Sonnets, p. 31 (No. 56).

f. 7r

• AlW 91: William Alabaster, Exaltatio Humanae Naturae (‘Humanity, the field of miseries’)

Copy, headed ‘Son: 26. Exaltatio humanæ Naturæ’.

Edited from this MS in Dobell and in Sonnets.

First published in Bertram Dobell, ‘The Sonnets of William Alabaster’, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-7. As ‘Sons of God’ in Louise Imogen Guiney, Recusant Poets: with a selection from their work, vol. 1 (1938), p 347. Sonnets, p. 32 (No. 57).

f. 7r

• AlW 93: William Alabaster, Christus Recapitulatio Omnium (‘Long time the parcels of created glory’)

Copy, headed ‘Son: 27. Christus recapitulatio omniu’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 32 (No. 58).

ff. 7r-8r

• AlW 95: William Alabaster, Veni Mittere Ignem (‘God longed for man's love, and down was sent’)

Copy, headed ‘Son: 28 Veni mittere igne’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 33 (No. 59).

f. 7v

• AlW 97: William Alabaster, Convenientia Incarnationis (‘To free our nature from captivity’)

Copy, headed ‘Son: 29. Convesi dutia Incarnationis’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 33 (No. 60).

f. 7v

• AlW 99: William Alabaster, Incarnatio Divini Amoris Argumentum (‘God was in love with man, and sued then’)

Copy, headed ‘Son: 30. Incarnatio divini inporis et argumentio’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 34 (No. 61).

f. 8r

• AlW 101: William Alabaster, Omnia Propter Christum Facta (‘God and man, though in this amphitheatre’)

Copy, headed ‘Son: 31. Omnia pepter Christu facta’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 34 (No. 62).

f. 8r-v

• AlW 73: William Alabaster, ‘My friends, whose kindness doth their judgements blind’

Copy, headed ‘Son: 32’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

First published in Bertram Dobell, ‘The Sonnets of William Alabaster’, The Athenæum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-7. Sonnets, p. 27 (No. 47).

f. 8v

• AlW 103: William Alabaster, ‘The first beginning of creation’

Copy, headed ‘Son: 33’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 35 (No. 63).

ff. 8v-9r

• AlW 105: William Alabaster, ‘Jesu, the handle of the world's great ball’

Copy, headed ‘Son: 34.’

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 35 (No. 64).

f. 9r

• AlW 107: William Alabaster, ‘Why put he on the web of human nature’

Copy, headed ‘Son: 35’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 36 (No. 65).

f. 9r

• AlW 109: William Alabaster, ‘By what glass of resemblance may we see’

Copy, headed ‘Son: 36’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 36 (No. 66).

f. 9v

• AlW 111: William Alabaster, ‘That power that tied God and man in one’

Copy, headed ‘Son: 37’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 37 (No. 67).

f. 9v

• AlW 113: William Alabaster, A Morning Meditation (1) (‘Mine eyes are open, yet perceive I nought’)

Copy, headed ‘Son: 38. A morning meditatione’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 38 (No. 68).

f. 10r

• AlW 116: William Alabaster, Of the Motions of the Fiend (‘With heat and cold I feel the spiteful fiend’)

Copy, headed ‘Son: 39’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 38 (No. 69).

f. 10r

• AlW 119: William Alabaster, A Morning Meditation (2) (‘The sun begins upon my heart to shine’)

Copy, headed ‘son: 40’.

Edited from this MS in Dobell and in Sonnets.

First published in Bertram Dobell, ‘The Sonnets of William Alabaster’, Athenaeum, No. 3974 (26 December 1903), pp. 856-8. Sonnets, p. 39 (No. 70).

f. 10v

• AlW 122: William Alabaster, The Difference 'twixt Compunction and Cold Devotion in Beholding the Passion of Our Saviour (‘When without tears I look on Christ, I see’)

Copy, headed ‘Son: 41’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 39 (No. 71).

f. 10v

• AlW 125: William Alabaster, ‘Dull heart, how shall I into thee beat’

Copy, headed ‘Son: 42’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 40 (No. 72).

f. 11r

• AlW 126: William Alabaster, ‘O wretched man, the knot of contraries’

Copy, headed ‘Son: 43’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 40 (No. 73).

f. 14v

• BcF 54.924: 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).

f. 15v

• RaW 677.2: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World

Extracts.

First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

MS Eng. poet. e. 87

An octavo miscellany of poems, many on affairs of state and with Jacobite sympathies, in a single hand, with an index, iv + 182 pages, in vellum boards. c.1742.

Owned in 1742 by John Conyers, of Copt Hall, Essex. Pickering & Chatto, sale catalogue No. 353 (1953), item 490.

f. iii^r

• BuS 0.3: Samuel Butler, Hudibras (‘Sir Hudibras his passing worth’)

A six-line extract.

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).

pp. 26-7

• FrG 9: George Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem, Act III, scene iii. Song (‘A Trifling Song you shall hear’)

Copy, headed ‘The Trifle’.

First published in London, 1707. Stonehill, II, 113-92 (pp. 154-5). Kenny, II, 159-243 (pp. 197-8).

MS Eng. poet. e. 97

A quarto verse miscellany of c.150 poems, in several hands; associated with Oxford, probably Christ Church, 279 pages (plus index and blanks). Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 32 poems (plus four of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s-40s.

Thomas Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 1044. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9561. Sotheby's, 19 June 1893 (Phillipps sale), lot 628, and 21 March 1895, lot 903. Hodgson's, 23 April 1959, lot 528.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘English Poetry MS’: CoR Δ 3 and StW Δ 6.

p. 1r

• RnT 526: Thomas Randolph, On the praise of Verse above prose (‘By numbers rational (our wise clerks say)’)

Copy, ascribed to Randolph on p. 338.

First published in Francis Beaumont, Poems, 2nd edition (London, 1653).

p. 2r

• RnT 527: Thomas Randolph, On the praise of Verse above prose (‘By numbers rational (our wise clerks say)’)

Second copy, ascribed to Randolph on p. 338.

First published in Francis Beaumont, Poems, 2nd edition (London, 1653).

pp. 3-6

• RnT 245: Thomas Randolph, On the Inestimable Content He Injoyes in the Muses, To those of his Friends that dehort him from Poetry (‘Goe sordid earth, and hope not to bewitch’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 23-8.

pp. 7-9

• EaJ 12: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree (‘Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of S^r John Bourroughs killd att the Ile of Ree, by a bullet from the ffort, in the night’, ascribed to ‘John Earles’.

Edited from this MS in Doelman.

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

p. 10

• MoG 4: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy.

A version of lines 1-22, headed ‘Epitaph on King James’ and beginning ‘He that hath eyes now wake and weep’, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

p. 11

• CoR 714: Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre (‘A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne’)

Copy.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.

pp. 14-25

• CoR 281: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)

Copy.

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

p. 25

• BrW 152: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)

Copy, here ascribed to ‘D^r Corbett’.

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

p. 25

• RnT 378: Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger (‘Arithmetique nine digits, and no more’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.

pp. 26-7

• RnT 338: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet (‘I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Davis.

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

p. 28

• KiH 283: Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset (‘Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere’)

Copy, here ascribed to ‘D^r. Corbett. B: of Oxon’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

p. 29

• CoR 596: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Gentlewomen of the New dresse’.

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

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

p. 30

• StW 473: William Strode, On a watch made by a blacksmith (‘Vulcan and love of Venus seldome part’)

Copy, here beginning ‘A Vulcan and a Venus seldome part’.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

p. 30

• StW 750: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘On his M^rs walking in the Snow’.

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

p. 30

• StW 1340: William Strode, On Jealousy (‘There is a thing that nothing is’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 49. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

pp. 32-3

• StW 485: William Strode, On Faireford windores (‘I know noe paint of Poetry’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

pp. 35-6

• CoR 688: Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes (‘Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse’)

Copy, headed ‘An other on the same [i.e. Fairford Windows]’.

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

pp. 44-8

• CoR 631: Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North (‘My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes’)

Copy.

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

p. 49

• RnT 258: Thomas Randolph, On the Passion of Christ (‘What rends the temples vail, where is day gone?’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Ecclipse of the Sunne at Christs Suffering’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 57. This poem is the ‘Englished’ version of Latin verses beginning ‘Quid templum abscindit? quo luxque diesque recessit’, printed in Thorn-Drury, pp. 178-9.

p. 49

• RnT 529: Thomas Randolph, A Paralell twixt Tobacco pipes and weomen (‘Tobacco-pipes and maids are brittle ware’)

Copy.

Unpublished?

pp. 50-3

• EaJ 41: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Death of Toby Mathew, Archbishop of York. 29 March 1628 (‘And why should I not share my tears and be’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘Jo: Earles’.

Unpublished.

p. 54

• BrW 112: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor (‘Nature in this small volume was about’)

Copy, here ascribed to ‘W: Stroad’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.

p. 54

• StW 992: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

pp. 55-6

• EaJ 2: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie upon Master Francis Beaumont (‘Beaumont lies here, and where now shall wee have’)

Copy of an abridged version, ascribed to ‘Jo: Earles’.

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

pp. 57-8

• CaE 5: 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 and 44-line elegy as separate but sequential poems, subscribed ‘Docter Juxon (some say) Nondum constat’.

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.

p. 59

• PoW 80: Walton Poole, On the death of King James (‘Can Christendoms great champion sink away’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of King James’.

p. 61

• StW 117: William Strode, An Epitaph on Sir John Walter, Lord cheife Baron (‘Farewell Example, Living Rule farewell’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

p. 63

• CoR 751: Richard Corbett, On the Proctors Plotts (‘When plotts are Proctors vertues, and the gift’)

Copy, headed ‘To the intricate Example of policy, even in y^e Vniversity; The delight & defend^rs of ffactions...[etc.]’.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 100.

pp. 65-7

• CoR 127: 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.

p. 68

• StW 303: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)

Copy.

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

pp. 71-6

• JnB 233: Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan (‘Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire’)

Copy.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.

pp. 77-8

• CoR 94: Richard Corbett, An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne (‘Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you’)

Copy.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 65-7.

pp. 81-2

• StW 511: William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge (‘Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I’)

Copy of the sequence.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 335.

Sequence of three poems, the second headed ‘Consolatorium, Ad Parentes’ and beginning ‘Lett her parents then confesse’, the third headed ‘Her Epitaph’ and beginning ‘Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine’. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.

pp. 83-4

• StW 1236: William Strode, Westwell Elme (‘Prethe stand still a while, and view this Tree’)

Copy, headed ‘On An Old Decayd Vast Hollow Tree’.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

pp. 85-90

• RnT 46: Thomas Randolph, A complaint against Cupid that he never made him in Love (‘How many of thy Captives (Love) complaine’)

Copy, headed ‘Randalls Complaint against Cupid, that hee neuer yet made him Enamourd’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 35-40.

p. 93

• DaJ 44: Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion (‘Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘The Rustick Gallant's wooing’ and here beginning ‘ffaire wench, I cannot court your spritlike Eyes’.

First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (‘Middleborugh’ [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.

p. 94

• StW 98: William Strode, An Epitaph on Mr. Bridgman (‘One Pitt containes him now, who could not die’)

Copy, headed ‘On one that died of the small Poxe’.

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

p. 94

• DrW 177.4: 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.

p. 95

• StW 342: William Strode, On a Dissembler (‘Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell’)

Copy.

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

p. 96

• RnT 167: Thomas Randolph, In Natalem Augustissimi Principis Caroli. [Englished] (‘Thy first birth Mary was unto a tombe’)

Copy, following the Latin version which is headed ‘To Queene Mary on the birth of her 2^d sonne’.

First published, following a Latin version beginning ‘Prima tibi periit soboles (dilecta Maria)’, in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 78-9.

p. 96

• CoR 513: Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles (‘When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone’)

Copy.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.

p. 97

• CoR 561: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett (‘What I shall leave thee none can tell’)

Copy.

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

pp. 98-9

• RnT 170.8: Thomas Randolph, A Letter to Ben. Johnson (‘Oh strange superfluous duty! who will add’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘Tho: Randolph’.

Unpublished?

p. 99

• BrW 186: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy.

p. 100

• StW 37: William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies (‘Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

pp. 101-2

• DnJ 2225: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy of lines 1-28, 31-40, 43-6, headed ‘Doctor Donne to his m^ris’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

pp. 103-4

• DnJ 3196: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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

p. 104

• StW 1113: William Strode, To a Valentine (‘Fayre Valentine, since once your welcome hand’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 328.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 42. Forey, p. 193.

pp. 105-7

• RnT 191: Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes (‘Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell’)

Copy, headed ‘Randolphs Petition to his Creditors’.

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

p. 108

• StW 1054: William Strode, Thankes for a welcome (‘For your good Lookes, and for your Clarett’)

Copy.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, p. 102. Forey, p. 30.

p. 113

• PoW 6: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy.

p. 114

• GrF 38: Fulke Greville, Mustapha, IV, iv, 116-117 (‘Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Treason is like ye Basiliscus eye’.

Bullough, II, 118.

pp. 115-16

• StW 553: William Strode, On the death of Mr. Fra. Lancaster (‘Even so the greatest Alexander by’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 219-21.

f. 116

• StW 1252: William Strode, In eundem [the death of Mr. Fra. Lancaster] (‘To die is Natures debt. and when’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’, and here ascribed to ‘W.S.’.

This MS recorded in Forey.

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

p. 117

• BrW 79: William Browne of Tavistock, On an Infant Unborn, and the Mother Dying in Travail (‘Within this grave there is a grave entomb'd’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a woman dying in Childbed’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Brydges (1815), pp. 90-1. Goodwin, II, 255-6. Also (doubtfully) attributed to Richard Corbett and to Sir William Davenant: see Sir William Davenant, The Shorter Poems, and Songs from the Plays and Masques, ed. A.M. Gibbs (Oxford, 1972), p. lxxxvii.

p. 117

• WiG 18: George Wither, An Epitaph vpon a Woman, and her Child, buried together in the same Graue (‘Beneath this Marble Stone doth lye’)

Copy, headed ‘In eundem’.

First published in ‘A Miscelany of Epigrams [&c.]’ appended to Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), p. 915. Sidgwick, II, 177.

p. 118

• StW 575: William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham (‘Meerely for death to greive and mourne’)

Copy.

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

p. 119

• CwT 1202: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband (‘This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Riban, tyed on his Arme-wrist’ and ascribed to ‘Tho. Randolph’.

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

pp. 119, 153

• StW 666: William Strode, Poses for Braceletts (‘This keepes my hande’)

Copy of the second and third stanzas, headed ‘Another for the same’ and here beginning ‘Silke tho thou bee’, and the fourth stanza, here beginning ‘When you put on this little band’.

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

p. 120

• CwT 71: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy.

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

p. 121

• StW 928: William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment (‘Preferment, like a Game at bowles’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

p. 122

• CoR 584: Richard Corbett, To the Ghost of Robert Wisdome (‘Thou, once a Body, now, but Aire’)

Copy.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 75.

p. 131

• MoG 57: George Morley, On the Nightingale (‘My limbs were weary and my head oppressed’)

Copy, ascribed to George Morley.

p. 132

• CwT 105: Thomas Carew, The Complement (‘O my deerest I shall grieve thee’)

Copy, headed ‘A Pallinode, or Loues folly’.

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

p. 133

• StW 444: William Strode, On a good legge and foote (‘If Hercules tall Stature might be guest’)

Copy.

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

p. 134

• WiG 25: George Wither, Of the Labours of Hercules (‘First, he the strong Nemean Lyon slew’)

Copy.

p. 135

• StW 1164: William Strode, To Sir John Ferrers for a token (‘It grieves mee that I thus due thanks retayne’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 92-3. Forey, pp. 204-5.

pp. 135-6

• StW 1158: William Strode, To Sir Jo. Ferrers (‘Gold is restorative. How can I then’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 88-9. Forey, pp. 200-1.

p. 137

• StW 1153: William Strode, To Sir Edmund Ling (‘Sir, I had writt in Lattin, but I feare’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 93. Forey, p. 199.

pp. 138-9

• StW 264: William Strode, A Newyeares-gift (‘Others may give you presents out of Thrift’)

Copy.

Text from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 205-7.

pp. 139-40

• StW 1170: William Strode, To the Lady Knighton (‘Madam, due thanks are lodgde within my breast’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 94-5. Forey, pp. 53-4.

p. 140

• StW 5: William Strode, Another (‘I, your Memory's Recorder’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Register for a Bible’.

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

p. 140

• StW 694: William Strode, A Register for a Bible (‘I am the faithfull deputy’)

Copy, headed ‘Another’.

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

p. 141

• StW 539: William Strode, On the Bible (‘Behold this little Volume here inrold’)

Copy.

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

p. 142

• StW 228: William Strode, Loves Ætna. Song (‘In your sterne beauty I can see’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^ris:’.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 47. Forey, p. 93.

p. 143

• MyJ 11: Jasper Mayne, On Mris Anne King's Tablebook of Pictures (‘Mine eyes were once blessed with the sight’)

Copy, ascribed to Jasper Mayne.

Unpublished?

p. 145

• StW 634: William Strode, On Westwell Downes (‘When Westwell Downes I gan to treade’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

pp. 149-50

• BmF 100: Francis Beaumont, Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson (‘The sun which doth the greatest comfort bring’)

Copy.

First published in ‘An addition of some excellent Poems...By other Gentlemen’ in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare Gent. (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 500-3. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, XI (Oxford, 1952), 374-7.

Nearly all recorded MS texts of this poem are discussed and collated, with an edited text (pp. 170-4), in Mark Bland, ‘Francis Beaumont's Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and “The Mermaid Club”’, EMS, 12 (2005), 139-79.

p. 152

• StW 1350: William Strode, A Riddle on a Kisse (‘What thing is that, nor felt, nor seene’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Forey.

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

p. 153

• BrW 11: William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II

Copy of Book I, Song 3, lines 481-2, headed ‘On a Girdle’ and here beginning ‘This during Light I giue to Clippe your waste’.

Book I first published London, 1613. Book II first published London, 1616. Goodwin, Vol. I.

p. 153

• WoH 177: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Gent.- dying soon after his wife’ and here beginning ‘His Wife deceas'd hee after liu'd & try'de’.

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.

p. 153

• StW 1216: William Strode, A watchstring (‘Tymes picture here invites your eyes’)

Copy.

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

p. 154

• CoR 391: Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham (‘When I can pay my Parents, or my King’)

Copy, headed ‘Docter Corbett. To the Duke of Buckingham’.

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

p. 162

• StW 1067: William Strode, To a frinde (‘Like as the hande which hath bin usd to play’)

Copy.

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

p. 163

• DrM 10: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)

Copy, headed ‘An Oyes, for a lost Harte’, here beginning ‘Good ffolks for loue, or else for hire’, and ascribed to ‘Ben: Johnson’.

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

p. 164

• HoJ 311: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood’)

Copy.

Osborn, p. 301.

p. 170

• CoR 474: 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.

p. 171

• CaW 31: William Cartwright, On the great Frost. 1634 (‘Shew me the flames you brag of, you that be’)

Copy.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 204-6. Evans, pp. 457-9.

pp. 179-80

• StW 986: William Strode, A song on the Baths (‘What Angel stirrs this happy well?’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

p. 180

• ShW 58: William Shakespeare, Love's Labours Lost

Copy of Armado's couplet beginning ‘The Fox, the Ape, and the Humble-bee’ (III, i, 84-5).

First published in London, 1598.

p. 181

• StW 1259: William Strode, Jack on both Sides (‘I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes’)

Copy, untitled.

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

p. 183

• DnJ 314: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, headed ‘Sir H: Wottons Invitacon of his M^rs: to goe fish’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.

p. 185

• PeW 215: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy.

p. 187

• CwT 1257: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy, here ascribed to ‘D^r. Lewes’.

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

pp. 187-9

• CwT 645: Thomas Carew, A Rapture (‘I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come’)

Copy, headed ‘Loues rapture’.

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

p. 189

• CwT 700: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Think not’.

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 Eng. poet. e. 99

A quarto volume of 99 poems by Donne, in a single hand, 142 leaves (plus blanks), in late 19th-century red morocco gilt. c.1620-33.

Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); by Edward Dowden (1843-1913) (and sold at Hodgson's, 16 December 1913, lot 50), and by Wilfred Merton.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the ‘Dowden MS’: DnJ Δ 1.

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• DnJ 2724: John Donne, Satyre I (‘Away thou fondling motley humorist’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.

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• DnJ 2753: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.

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• DnJ 2786: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.

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• DnJ 2815: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

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• DnJ 2850: John Donne, Satyre V (‘Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.

ff. 13-14b

• DnJ 357: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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• DnJ 3155: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

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• DnJ 1668: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as ‘Elegie I’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.

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• DnJ 31: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson. 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.

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• DnJ 607: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as ‘Elegie III’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.

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• DnJ 2537: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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• DnJ 1517: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published as ‘Elegie V’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as ‘Elegie V’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.

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• DnJ 1028: John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. (‘Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as ‘A Funeral Elegy’). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as ‘Elegia’.

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• DnJ 2431: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’

Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as ‘Elegie VI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.

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• DnJ 2184: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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• DnJ 2488: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as ‘Elegie XVI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.

f. 22r-v

• DnJ 2322: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’

Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as ‘Elegie VII’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.

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• DnJ 2123: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.

ff. 24v-6r

• DnJ 1050: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

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• DnJ 994: John Donne, Elegie on M^ris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.

f. 27v

• DnJ 1121.5: John Donne, Elegie upon the untimely death of the incomparable Prince Henry (‘Looke to mee faith, and looke to my faith, God’)

Copy of the title only.

First published in Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum (London, 1613). Poems (London, 1633). Grierson, I, 267-70. Shawcross, No. 152. Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 63-6 (as ‘Elegie on Prince Henry’). Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 160-2.

f. 29r

• DnJ 3331: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘At once, from hence, my lines and I depart’)

Copy, headed ‘An Old letter’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.

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• DnJ 3474: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.

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• DnJ 3047: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.

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• DnJ 534: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

f. 33r-v

• DnJ 3270: John Donne, To M^r Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.

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• DnJ 3442: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.

ff. 34r-5r

• DnJ 3422: John Donne, To S^r Henry Goodyere (‘Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.

ff. 35r-6r

• DnJ 3390: John Donne, To S^r Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.

ff. 36r-7r

• DnJ 3516: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.

ff. 37r-8v

• DnJ 3543: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘You have refin'd mee, and to worthyest things’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 191-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 91-4. Shawcross, No. 137.

ff. 38v-40r

• DnJ 1859: John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and M^rs Essex Riche, From Amyens (‘Here where by All All Saints invoked are’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.

ff. 40r-1r

• DnJ 3575: John Donne, To the Countesse of Salisbury. August. 1614 (‘Faire, great, and good, since seeing you, wee see’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 224-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 107-10. Shawcross, No. 145.

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• DnJ 757: John Donne, La Corona (‘Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise’)

Copy of the sequence of seven sonnets.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 318-21. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 1-5. Shawcross, No. 160.

f. 43r-v

• DnJ 210: John Donne, ‘As due by many titles I resigne’

Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 322 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 6. Shawcross, No. 162. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 5, 11, 21, 103 (in four sequences).

f. 43v

• DnJ 2472: John Donne, ‘Oh, my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned’

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. II’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 323 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. IV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 163. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 21, 104 (in three sequences).

f. 44r

• DnJ 3130: John Donne, ‘This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint’

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 324 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 164. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 22, 105 (in three sequences).

f. 44r-v

• DnJ 225: John Donne, ‘At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow’

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 325 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 165. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 8, 14, 22, 106 (in four sequences).

f. 44v

• DnJ 1611: John Donne, ‘If poysonous mineralls, and if that tree’

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. V’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. IX’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 166. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 9, 15, 23, 107 (in four sequences).

ff. 44v-5r

• DnJ 875: John Donne, ‘Death be not proud, though some have called thee’

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. X’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 167. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 23, 107 (in four sequences).

f. 45r

• DnJ 3035: John Donne, ‘Spit in my face you Jewes, and pierce my side’

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 168.

f. 45r-v

• DnJ 3873: John Donne, ‘Why are wee by all creatures waited on?’

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 169.

f. 45v

• DnJ 3862: John Donne, ‘What if this present were the worlds last night?’

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. IX’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XIII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 170.

ff. 45v-6r

• DnJ 324: John Donne, ‘Batter my heart, three person'd God. for, you’

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. X’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XIV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 171. Variorum, 7, Pt 1 (2005), pp. 18, 25.

f. 46r

• DnJ 3931: John Donne, ‘Wilt thou love God, as he thee! then digest’

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. XI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 172.

ff. 46r-v

• DnJ 1288: John Donne, ‘Father, part of his double interest’

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. XII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XVI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 173. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 6, 12, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

ff. 46v-7r

• DnJ 775: John Donne, The Crosse (‘Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.

ff. 47v-8v

• DnJ 127: John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion (‘Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 334-6. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 29-30 (as ‘Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608’). Shawcross, No. 183.

ff. 48v-54r

• DnJ 1921: John Donne, The Litanie (‘Father of Heaven, and him, by whom’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.

f. 54r-v

• DnJ 1408: John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward (‘Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this’)

Copy, headed ‘Good friday 1613. Riding towards Wales’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.

f. 100r

• DnJ 2274: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

ff. 100v-1r

• DnJ 285: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.

f. 101r

• DnJ 167: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 101v-2r

• DnJ 472: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.

f. 102r-v

• DnJ 1784: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.

ff. 102v-3r

• DnJ 3710: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 103v-4r

• DnJ 2897: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.

f. 104v

• DnJ 3969: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.

ff. 104v-5r

• DnJ 943: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as ‘Elegie X’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.

ff. 105r-6r

• DnJ 3088: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)

Copy, headed ‘Ad solem’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.

f. 106r-v

• DnJ 1628: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.

ff. 106v-7r

• DnJ 2159: John Donne, Loves Usury (‘For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.

ff. 107r-8r

• DnJ 572: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

f. 108r-v

• DnJ 3603: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.

ff. 108v-9r

• DnJ 2227: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse (‘If yet I have not all thy love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.

f. 109r-v

• DnJ 2984: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.

ff. 109v-10r

• DnJ 1816: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.

f. 110r-v

• DnJ 1305: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.

f. 111r-v

• DnJ 3: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.

f. 111v

• DnJ 414: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. 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. 112r

• DnJ 2621: John Donne, The Prohibition (‘Take heed of loving mee’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.

ff. 112r-13r

• DnJ 100: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.

ff. 113r-14r

• DnJ 3764: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.

ff. 114v-15r

• DnJ 240: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie. The Autumnall’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as ‘Elegie IX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.

f. 115r-v

• DnJ 3639: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.

ff. 115v-16r

• DnJ 1124: John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford (‘That I might make your Cabinet my tombe’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.

ff. 116r-17v

• DnJ 3795: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.

ff. 117v-18r

• DnJ 645: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.

f. 118r-v

• DnJ 2093: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)

Copy, headed ‘Spring’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.

ff. 118v-19v

• DnJ 2070: John Donne, Loves exchange (‘Love, any devill else but you’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.

f. 119v

• DnJ 731: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.

f. 120r-v

• DnJ 914: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.

ff. 120v-1r

• DnJ 3823: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.

f. 121r-v

• DnJ 1947: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)

Copy, headed ‘Mummye’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.

ff. 121v-2r

• DnJ 1340: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.

f. 122r-v

• DnJ 806: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 122v-4v

• DnJ 1243: John Donne, The Extasie (‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.

ff. 124v-5r

• DnJ 3685: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.

f. 125r-v

• DnJ 1985: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.

ff. 125v-6v

• DnJ 2023: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

ff. 126v-7v

• DnJ 3885: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy of a five-stanza version.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.

ff. 127v-8r

• DnJ 1383: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.

f. 128r-v

• DnJ 335: John Donne, The Blossoms (‘Little think'st thou, poore flower’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.

f. 129r-v

• DnJ 2601: John Donne, The Primrose (‘Upon this Primrose hill’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.

ff. 129v-30

• DnJ 2678: John Donne, The Relique (‘When my grave is broke up againe’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.

f. 130r-v

• DnJ 847: John Donne, The Dampe (‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.

ff. 130v-3r

• DnJ 1160: John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day (‘Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.

ff. 133r-8v

• DnJ 973: John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 (‘Unseasonable man, statue of ice’)

Copy, complete with the 11-poem ‘Epithalamion’ (beginning ‘Thou art repriv'd old yeare, thou shalt not die’).

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as ‘Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset’). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.

ff. 138v-42v

• DnJ 2408: John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford (‘Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.

MS Eng. poet. e. 112

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in several neat hands, ii + 142 leaves (ff. 111v-42v blank), in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled in part by ‘I. N’.: i.e. John Newdegate (1600-42), of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. c.1627-35.

Formerly Long Island Historical Society MS 22, to whom it was bequeathed by Samuel Bowne Duryea. Sotheby's, 21 December 1965, lot 595.

ff. 1r-73v

• HuF 1: Sir Francis Hubert, Edward II (‘It is thy sad disaster which I sing’)

Copy of a 582-stanza version, in a neat secretary hand, headed in a later hand ‘The life of Edward the Seconde’, subscribed ‘Finis infortunio’.

First published, in an unauthorised edition as The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second. Together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gavestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Pöem, London, 1628. First authorised edition, as The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer, London, 1629. An edition of a 576-stanza version in three cantos, entitled The Life of Edward II, was printed in London 1721 from an unidentified MS.

Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed ‘The Life and Death of Edward the Second’, including ‘The Authors Preface’ beginning ‘Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so’?).

f. 79r

• BcF 54.2: Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox (‘Are all diseases dead? or will death say’)

Copy, ascribed to Donne.

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

f. 79r

• RaW 321: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen (‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled and here beginning ‘Passions are likened best to floods & streames’.

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.

f. 80r

• CwT 573: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Goe thou gentle whistling wind.’

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

ff. 83r-102r

• EaJ 72: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Microcosmography

Copy of 48 characters, in a neat secretary hand, untitled, subscribed in the hand of John Newdigate ‘The end of so many of M^r Erles caracters as were bestowed vpon me by M^r G.S. [i.e. Gilbert (later Archbishop) Sheldon] April 1627’ [‘in M^r Erles own copie’added in a different ink].

First published (anonymously), comprising 54 characters and with a preface by Edward Blount, London, 1628. 77 characters in the edition of 1629. 78 characters in the edition of 1664. Edited by Philip Bliss (London, 1811).

ff. 103r-8v

• DnJ 4084: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems

Copy, by ‘I. N.’ (John Newdigate), of 11 Paradoxes and 10 Problems, headed ‘D_r Donns Paradoxes & Problems’, subscribed ‘The end of what I tooke out of this the 2^d edition. 11 Paradoxes & 10 Problems’.

This MS recorded in De Ricci, II, 1200

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. 109r-v

• StW 45: William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies (‘Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night’)

Copy by John Newdegate, subscribed ‘Stroud of Christs Curch’.

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

MS Eng. poet. e. 113

A quarto volume of English poems and letters of Robert Southwell, largely in one neat small hand, together with sigs A-E (pp. 1-34) of a printed exemplum of Saint Peters Complaint, with other Poemes (London, 1595), vii + 80 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary vellum stamped ‘IHS’. Early 17th century.

Inscribed names (f. 79v) ‘Thomas Champney Book Anno: Domini 1677’; (f. 78v) ‘M^rs Mary Hooge Booke Anno Domini 1678’; and (elsewhere) ‘Katherine’ and ‘Laurence Champney’. 19th-century notes (ff. ii-vii) referring to this MS as ‘The Woolhampton MS’ (? from Woolhampton, Berkshire). Later in the Virtue and Cahill Library, of the Catholic Cathedral of Portsmouth. Christie's, 5 July 1967, lot 190.

Generally cited as the ‘Virtue and Cahill MS’.

ff. 1r-7v

• SoR 222: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Sequence on the Virgin Mary and Christ (‘Our second Eve puts on her mortall shroude’)

Copy of the sequence of fourteen poems, with no general heading, the first poem headed ‘The conception of our blessed Lady’.

Poems vi & xii first published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Poems i-v, vii-xi first published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Poems xiii & xiv first published in The Poetical Works of the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W. B. Turnbull (London, 1856). Brown, pp. 3-12.

f. 8r

• SoR 14: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A childe my Choyce (‘Let folly praise that fancie loves, I praise and love that child’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 13.

ff. 8v-9r

• SoR 155: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, New heaven, new warre (‘Come to your heaven you heavenly quires’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 13-15.

ff. 9v-10r

• SoR 8: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The burning Babe (‘As I in hoarie Winters night’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 15-16.

ff. 10v-11r

• SoR 160: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, New Prince, new pompe (‘Behold a silly tender Babe’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 16-17.

ff. 11v-12

• SoR 232: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Sinnes heavie loade (‘O Lord my sinne doth over-charge thy brest’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 17-18.

f. 12v

• SoR 21: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christs bloody sweat (‘Fat soile, full spring, sweete olive, grape of blisse’)

Copy.

First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 18-19.

f. 13r-v

• SoR 28: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Christs sleeping friends (‘When Christ with care and pangs of death opprest’)

Copy.

First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 19-21.

ff. 14r-15v

• SoR 82: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Josephs Amazement (‘When Christ by growth disclosed his descent’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 21-3.

ff. 16r-17r

• SoR 66: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A holy Hymne (‘Praise, O Sion, praise thy Saviour’)

Copy, headed ‘Saint Thomas of Aquines Hymne. read on corpus christy daye’.

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 23-6.

ff. 17r-19r

• SoR 166: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Of the Blessed Sacrament of the Aulter (‘In paschall feast the end of auncient rite’)

Copy.

First published as ‘The Christians Manna’ in S. Peters Complaint and Saint Mary Magdalens Fvnerall Teares ([St Omers], 1616). Brown, pp. 26-8.

ff. 19v-20r

• SoR 192: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Saint Peters Complaynte (‘How can I live, that have my life deny'de?’)

Copy.

This version first published in McDonald (1937), pp. 141-3. Brown, pp. 29-31.

f. 21r

• SoR 185: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, S. Peters afflicted minde (‘if that the sicke may grone’)

Copy.

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, p. 31.

ff. 21v-2v

• SoR 201: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, S. Peters remorse (‘Remorse upbraids my faults’)

Copy.

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 33-5.

f. 23r-v

• SoR 150: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Mary Magdalens blush (‘The signs of shame that staine my blushing face’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 32-3.

f. 24r-v

• SoR 41: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Davids Peccavi (‘In eaves, sole Sparrowe sits not more alone’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 35-6.

ff. 25r-8r

• SoR 172: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Phansie turned to a sinners complaint (‘Hee that his mirth hath lost’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint (London, 1602). Brown, pp. 36-40.

ff. 28v-30r

• SoR 250: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A vale of teares (‘A vale there is enwrapt with dreadfull shades’)

Copy.

First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 41-3.

ff. 30v-1v

• SoR 177: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The prodigall childs soule wracke (‘Disankerd from a blisfull shore’)

Copy.

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 43-5.

f. 32r-v

• SoR 137: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Marie Magdalens complaint at Christs death (‘Sith my life from life is parted’)

Copy.

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

f. 33r-v

• SoR 46: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Decease release. Dum morior orior (‘The pounded spice both tast and sent doth please’)

Copy.

First published in St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems. by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817). Brown, pp. 47-8.

f. 34r-v

• SoR 77: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, I dye without desert (‘If orphane Childe enwrapt in swathing bands’)

Copy.

First published in St. Peters Complaint, and other Poems. by the Rev. Robert Southwell, ed. W.J. Walter (London, 1817). Brown, pp. 48-9.

f. 35r-v

• SoR 130: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Mans civill warre (‘My hovering thoughts would flie to heaven’)

Copy.

First published (lines 1-12) in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 49-50.

f. 36r-v

• SoR 93: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Life is but Losse (‘By force I live, in will I wish to die’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 50-1.

f. 37r

• SoR 215: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Seeke flowers of heaven (‘Soare up my soule unto thy rest’)

Copy.

First published in Moeoniae, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 52.

f. 37v

• SoR 71: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, I dye alive (‘O life what lets thee from a quicke decease?’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 52-3.

f. 38r-v

• SoR 256: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, What joy to live? (‘I wage no warre yet peace I none enjoy’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 53-4.

f. 39r-v

• SoR 99: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Lifes death loves life (‘Who lives in love, loves least to live’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 54-5.

f. 40r-v

• SoR 2: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, At home in Heaven (‘Faire soule, how long shall veyles thy graces shroud?’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 55-6.

f. 41r

• SoR 107: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Looke home (‘Retyred thoughts enjoy their owne delights’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 57.

f. 41v

• SoR 238: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Time goe by turnes (‘The lopped tree in time may grow againe’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 57-8.

f. 42r-v

• SoR 112: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Losse in delaies (‘Shun delaies, they breede remorse’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 58-9.

ff. 43r-4v

• SoR 125: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Loves servile lot (‘Love mistris is of many mindes’)

Copy.

Lines 1-48 first published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Lines 49-76 published in 2nd edition (1595). Brown, pp. 60-2.

f. 45r-v

• SoR 87: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Lewd Love is Losse (‘Misdeeming eye that stoupest to the lure’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 62-3.

f. 46r-v

• SoR 119: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Loves Garden grief (‘Vaine loves avaunt, infamous is your pleasure’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 64.

f. 47r-v

• SoR 52: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Fortunes Falsehoode (‘In worldly meriments lurketh much miserie’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 65-6.

f. 48r

• SoR 58: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, From Fortunes reach (‘Let fickle fortune runne her blindest race’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 66-7.

ff. 48v-50r

• SoR 35: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Content and rich (‘I dwell in grace's courte’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 67-9.

f. 50v

• SoR 207: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Scorne not the least (‘Where wards are weake, and foes encountring strong’)

Copy.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 69-70.

ff. 52r-61r

• SoR 297: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Epistle unto his Father (22 October 1589)

Copy, headed ‘A certaine letter written by the same author to his father to perswade him to embrace the Catholicke religion’, subscribed ‘R. S.’

This MS collated in Brown, Two Letters.

Epistle, beginning ‘In children of former ages it hath been thought so behooveful a point of duty...’. First published as ‘An Epistle of a Religious Priest unto his Father’ in A Short Rule of Good Life ([London?, 1596-7?]). Trotman, pp. 36-64. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 1-20.

ff. 61v-2r

• SoR 292.1: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Another letter persuasory to the same [i.e. his father]

Copy, headed ‘An other letter perswasorye to the same’, subscribed ‘R. S.’

Edited in Brown, Two Letters, pp. 99-101.

A draft letter, beginning ‘Understanding that you were resolved upon a course which nearest toucheth the salvation of your soul...’. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 99-100.

f. 62v

• SoR 292.7: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Another letter written to one of his kinsmen

Copy.

A letter beginning ‘I know not how to write, because I know not to whom to write, to my cousin or to a stranger...’. Brown, Two Letters, p. 101.

ff. 63r-74v

• SoR 322: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Triumphs over Death

Copy, headed ‘A letter consolatorye for the death of a noble man his sister’, complete with dedicatory epistle to Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, the ‘Epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville’ (here beginning ‘Of Howardes stemme a glorious braunche is deade’), and the Latin epitaph ‘Clara Ducum soboles, superis nova sedibus hospes’, subscribed ‘1593 R. S.’

‘The Epitaph on Lady Margaret Sackville’ also printed and collated with the main MS copies in Brown, pp. 101-2, and the Latin epitaph printed in Brown, pp. 171-2. This MS recorded in Brown, p. xli.

First published in London, 1595. Trotman, pp. 1-35.

MS Eng. poet. e. 127

A quarto volume of 58 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat stylish hand throughout, i + 43 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1638-40.

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), second Earl de Grey, statesman, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, who was descended from the brother of Sir Charles Lucas, on whose death in 1648 King wrote an elegy (Crum, pp. 101-10). Wrest Park was earlier the seat of Anthony Grey, eighth Earl of Kent (1557-1643), and of Henry Grey (1594-1651), ninth Earl of Kent, for whom the scholar and jurist John Selden (1584-1654) served as steward. Once apparently also in the library of the Duke of Bedford, Woburn Abbey (HMC MS 51). Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 902 (1970), item 196.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Wrest Park MS’: KiH Δ 2. Recorded in HMC, 2nd Report (1871), Appendix, p. 7. Briefly described in BLR (March 1974), pp. 125-6; in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), p. 96; and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).

ff. 1r-3v

• KiH 792: Henry King, The Woes of Esay (‘Woe to the worldly men, whose covetous’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 136-9.

ff. 4r-5r

• KiH 310: Henry King, An Essay on Death and a Prison (‘A Prison is in all things like a Grave’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 139-42.

ff. 6r-7v

• KiH 707: Henry King, To his unconstant Freind (‘But say, thou very Woman, why to mee’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 142-4.

ff. 7v-8v

• KiH 410: Henry King, Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice (‘I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 9r-v

• KiH 105: Henry King, The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)

Copy, untitled.

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

ff. 9v-10v

• KiH 664: Henry King, The Surrender (‘My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.

f. 10v

• KiH 538: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes’)

Copy.

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

f. 11r

• KiH 515: Henry King, Sic Vita (‘Like to the Falling of a Starr’)

Copy.

First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 148-9.

f. 11r

• KiH 629: Henry King, Sonnet (‘When I entreat, either thou wilt not heare’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 148.

f. 11v

• KiH 569: Henry King, Sonnet (‘I prethee turne that face away’)

Copy.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).

f. 11v

• KiH 602: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move’)

Copy.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

f. 12r-v

• KiH 353: Henry King, The Farwell (‘Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.

MSS Eng. poet. e. 155-158

A collection of papers of Louise Imogen Guiney (1861-1920), poet and essayist, for her proposed edition of William Alabaster's sonnets, in four volumes, iii + 51 leaves, ii + 37 leaves, ii + 45 leaves, andi + 84 leaves. Including papers, correspondence, and transcripts of poems made by C.E. Sayle (c.1890) and Bertram Dobell (c.1904), as well as Guiney's notes. Late 19th-early 20th century.

AlW 272: William Alabaster, Editorial papers

Donated by her executor 1964.