CELM: Bodleian Library, Eng. poet. MSS, f through end

MS Eng. poet. f. 9

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising c.128 items, including 94 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems, compiled by Henry Champernowne (1600-56), of Dartington, Devon, 243 pages, dated on the first page 1623. 1623.

Afterwards owned by other members of the Champernowne family, by Sir Edward Seymour, Bart. (?the third Baronet, 1610-85). Thomas Thorpe, sale catalogue (1836), item 1030. Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872) (MS 9568). Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 749. Bookplate of C. S. Harris and bequeathed by him 1916.

Cited in IELM, I.i (190), as the ‘Phillipps MS’: DnJ Δ 20.

p. 6

• RaW 506: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116.

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

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

pp. 6-7

• DnJ 1558: John Donne, A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany (‘In what torne ship soever I embarke’)

Copy, headed ‘When he went w^th the Lo: Doncaster’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.

p. 8

• DrM 11: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)

Copy.

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

pp. 9-10

• DnJ 2040: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

Copy.

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

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

pp. 10-11

• WoH 168: Sir Henry Wotton, To J: D: from Mr H: W: (‘'Tis not a coate of gray or Shepherds life’)

Copy, untitled and here ascribed to ‘J[ohn] D[onne]:’.

This MS probably one of the two unspecified MSS known to Grierson.

First published in Herbert J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to Certain other Poems’, MLR, 6 (1911), 145-56 (p. 155).

pp. 12-13

• JnB 89: Ben Jonson, An Epistle to a Friend (‘Censure, not sharplye then, but mee advise’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

Lines 12-26 (beginning ‘Little knowe they that professe Amitye’) first published as lines 19-33 of ‘An Epistle to a friend’ in The Vnder-wood (xxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Lines 1-11 first published in William Dinsmore Briggs, ‘Studies in Ben Jonson. IV’, Anglia, 39 (1916), 209-51 (pp. 230-1). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 421-2.

pp. 13-14

• DnJ 1964: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

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

pp. 14-15

• DnJ 1683: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.

p. 17

• DnJ 861: John Donne, The Dampe (‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’)

Copy.

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

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

p. 18

• HrJ 213: Sir John Harington, Of a word in welch mistaken in English (‘An English lad long Woode a lasse of wales’)

Copy, headed ‘Nil refert loqui du vbi liceat’ and here ascribed to ‘JD’.

Kilroy, Book IV, No. 38, p. 224.

p. 19

• DnJ 2945: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Doughtie, pp. 609-11. Recorded in Gardner.

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

See also DnJ 428.

p. 19

• HoJ 312: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood’)

Copy.

Osborn, p. 301.

p. 20

• ToA 49: Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury (‘Victorious beauty, though your eyes’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Brown.

First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.

pp. 21-2

• DnJ 3839: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

pp. 22-4

• DnJ 1258: John Donne, The Extasie (‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’)

Copy.

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

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

p. 26

• DnJ 2654: John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe (‘Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 84. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

pp. 26-9

• DnJ 1154: John Donne, Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne (‘The Sun-beames in the East are spred’)

Copy, headed ‘Epithal: of y^e La: Eli:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 141-4. Shawcross, No. 106. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 3-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 87-9.

pp. 29-30

• DnJ 1358: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

Copy.

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

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

pp. 30-1

• DnJ 1399: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)

Copy.

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

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

pp. 31-3

• DnJ 3902: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy of a five-stanza version.

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

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

pp. 33-4

• DnJ 182: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)

Copy.

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

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

p. 34

• DnJ 745: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)

Copy, headed ‘To the wor: of al my lou my virtuous M^rs’.

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

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

pp. 34-5

• DnJ 3956: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture (‘I fixe mine eye on thine, and there’)

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.

pp. 35-6

• DnJ 3319: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire’)

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.

p. 36

• DnJ 155: John Donne, Antiquary (‘If in his Studie he hath so much care’)

Copy.

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

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.

p. 36

• DnJ 894: John Donne, Disinherited (‘Thy father all from thee, by his last Will’)

Copy, untitled.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 94. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled), 8 and 11.

p. 36

• DnJ 1911: John Donne, The Lier (‘Thou in the fields walkst out thy supping howers’)

Copy, untitled.

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

First published in Sir John Simeon, ‘Unpublished Poems of Donne’, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, p. 31. Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 95. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled) and 8.

p. 37

• DnJ 3656: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy.

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

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

pp. 38-9

• DnJ 258: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy, headed ‘widow’.

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.

pp. 39-41

• DnJ 3728: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegye’.

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

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

pp. 42-3

• DnJ 490: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.

p. 43

• HoJ 21: John Hoskyns, Absence (‘Absence heare my protestation’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), pp. 428-9. Osborn, No. XXIV (pp. 192-3).

pp. 44-5

• DnJ 2915: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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

pp. 45-6

• DnJ 3028: John Donne, Sonnet. The Token (‘Send me some token, that my hope may live’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

First published in Poems (1649). Grierson, I, 72-3. Gardner, Elegies, p. 107 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 78.

pp. 46-7

• DnJ 2449: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.

p. 47

• DnJ 1737: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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

pp. 47-8

• DnJ 2003: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.

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

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

pp. 48-9

• DnJ 1643: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.

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

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

pp. 49-50

• DnJ 2289: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.

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

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

pp. 50-1

• DnJ 3460: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)

Copy, headed ‘ffrom Court’.

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.

pp. 51-4

• DnJ 3489: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)

Copy, untitled.

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.

pp. 54-6

• DnJ 690: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)

Copy, untitled.

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

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as ‘Elegie VIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.

pp. 58-60

• DnJ 3593: John Donne, To the Lady Bedford (‘You that are she and you, that's double shee’)

Copy.

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

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

pp. 60-2

• DnJ 1100: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)

Copy.

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

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as ‘Elegie. Death’). Shawcross, No. 151 (as ‘Elegie: Death’). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.

pp. 62-3

• DnJ 625: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.

pp. 63-4

• DnJ 1834: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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

pp. 64-6

• DnJ 3172: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.

pp. 66-7

• DnJ 929: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)

Copy.

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

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

pp. 67-8

• DnJ 3621: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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

pp. 68-9

• DnJ 2107: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)

Copy, headed ‘The springe’.

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

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

pp. 69-70

• DnJ 2634: John Donne, The Prohibition (‘Take heed of loving mee’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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

pp. 70-1

• DnJ 3104: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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

pp. 72-3

• DnJ 1321: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)

Copy.

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

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

pp. 73-4

• DnJ 2999: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonet’.

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

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

pp. 74-5

• DnJ 2171: John Donne, Loves Usury (‘For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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

pp. 75-7

• DnJ 1225: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as ‘Elegie XV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.

pp. 77-80

• DnJ 1871: John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and M^rs Essex Riche, From Amyens (‘Here where by All All Saints invoked are’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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

pp. 80-1

• DnJ 1531: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.

pp. 81-2

• HrE 79: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne (‘Vengeance will sit above our faults. but till’)

Copy, untitled and here ascribed to ‘JD’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 350. Moore Smith, pp. 119-20.

pp. 82-3

• DnJ 3288: John Donne, To M^r Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)

Copy, untitled.

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.

pp. 83-6

• DnJ 2555: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.

pp. 87-9

• DnJ 587: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)

Copy.

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

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

pp. 89-92

• DnJ 2136: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.

p. 93

• DnJ 299: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.

pp. 93-6

• DnJ 3809: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)

Copy, headed ‘The Booke’.

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

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

pp. 96-8

• DnJ 3779: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)

Copy, headed ‘Valediction on glasse’.

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

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

pp. 99-100

• DnJ 115: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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

p. 100

• DnJ 1450: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)

Copy, untitled.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.

pp. 101-2

• DnJ 2084: John Donne, Loves exchange (‘Love, any devill else but you’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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

pp. 102-3

• DnJ 664: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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

p. 103v

• DnJ 1432: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)

Copy, untitled.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.

pp. 103-4

• DnJ 1801: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)

Copy.

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

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

pp. 104-5

• DnJ 18: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)

Copy.

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

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

pp. 105-6

• DnJ 3986: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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

p. 106

• DnJ 1197: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)

Copy, headed ‘Valedico’.

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

First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.

pp. 106-7

• DnJ 723: John Donne, The Computation (‘For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69. Gardner, Elegies, p. 36. Shawcross, No. 76.

pp. 107-8

• DnJ 3699: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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

pp. 108-10

• DnJ 3404: John Donne, To S^r Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)

Copy, untitled.

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.

pp. 110-11

• DnJ 2238: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse (‘If yet I have not all thy love’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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

pp. 111-13

• DnJ 2715: John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis (‘Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said’)

Copy of lines 1-30, 55-64.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 124-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 92-4 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 24. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 409-10.

pp. 113-14

• DnJ 960: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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

pp. 114-16

• DnJ 3382: John Donne, To M^rs M.H. (‘Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne’)

Copy, untitled.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 216-18. Milgate, Satires, pp. 88-90. Shawcross, No. 133.

pp. 116-18

• DnJ 49: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘In fflauiam’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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. 118-19

• DnJ 823: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)

Copy, headed ‘Dirae’.

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

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

pp. 119-22

• DnJ 1011: 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.

pp. 124-6

• DnJ 1067: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)

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

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

pp. 126-8

• DnJ 2503: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.

pp. 128-32

• DnJ 1171: 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’)

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.

pp. 132-3

• DnJ 2336: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.

p. 133

• PeW 30: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘If her disdain least change in you can move’

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 2, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.

p. 134

• PeW 100: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘'Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain’

Copy.

Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed ‘R’. Krueger, p. 3, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.

pp. 134-6

• DnJ 139: John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion (‘Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day’)

Copy, untitled.

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.

pp. 136-7

• BmF 118: Francis Beaumont, On Madam Fowler desiring a sonnet to be writ on her (‘Good Madam Fowler, do not trouble me’)

Copy, untitled.

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

pp. 138-9

• DnJ 1037: John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. (‘Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded 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’.

pp. 139-43

• BmF 29: 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, untitled and here ascribed to ‘J[ohn]: D[onne]:’.

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

pp. 143-7

• DnJ 2767: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)

Copy, headed ‘Law Satyre’.

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.

pp. 147-72

• DnJ 4075: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems

Copy of 10 Paradoxes and 14 Problems.

This MS discussed by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 10 (1934), 413-14.

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.

pp. 172-6

• DnJ 2737: 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.

pp. 177-81

• DnJ 2799: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyre y^esecond’.

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.

pp. 181-4

• DnJ 2862: John Donne, Satyre V (‘Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyre y^ethird’.

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

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

pp. 184-93

• DnJ 2829: 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.

pp. 193-4

• WoH 136: Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth (‘O faithless world, and thy most faithless part’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As ‘A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth’, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Sir Henry Wotton's “O Faithless World”: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition’, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.

pp. 194-9

• DnJ 3572: John Donne, To the Countesse of Huntington (‘That unripe side of earth, that heavy clime’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r wal: Ashton to y^e Countesse of Huntingtonne’.

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

First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 417-21 (in his appendix of spurious poems, but accepted into the canon in his edition of 1929). Milgate, Satires, pp. 81-5 (Donne's authorship discussed pp. 293-4). Shawcross, No. 131.

pp. 199-202

• BmF 57: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)

Copy.

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

pp. 202-6

• DnJ 1492: John Donne, His parting from her (‘Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night’)

Copy, untitled.

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

First published, in a 42-line version as ‘Elegie XIIII’, in Poems (London, 1635). Published complete (104 lines) in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 100-4 (as ‘Elegie XII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 96-100 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 21. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 332-4 (with versions printed in 1635 and 1669 on pp. 335-6 and 336-8 respectively).

pp. 206-7

• BmF 145: Francis Beaumont, ‘Why should not pilgrims to thy body come’

Copy, ascribed to ‘ff B’.

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

p. 207

• HrE 21: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Epitaph. Caecil. Boulstr. (‘Methinks Death like one laughing lyes’)

Copy, headed ‘On Mrs. Bulstreed’.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 127.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 20-1.

p. 208

• DnJ 1132: John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford (‘That I might make your Cabinet my tombe’)

Copy of the epitaph (‘Omnibus’), headed ‘Another on the same’ and beginning ‘My Fortune and my choice this custome break’.

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

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

pp. 208-9

• DnJ 432: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.

pp. 44, 209-13

• DnJ 373: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy, headed ‘The Chaine’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.

pp. 41, 213-15

• DnJ 3062: 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.

pp. 215-18

• DnJ 548: 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.

pp. 218-20

• DnJ 2202: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy, untitled.

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

First published in F. G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as ‘Elegie XX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.

pp. 220-2

• DnJ 788: 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.

pp. 222-3

• CwT 265: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 231.

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

pp. 224-31

• SiP 228: Sir Philip Sidney, Sr Philip Sidney to the Lady Penelope Rich (‘If yet a choyce more worthy, cause more new’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS, and discussed, in Roberts.

First published in Josephine A. Roberts, ‘The Imaginary Epistles of Sir Philip Sidney and Lady Penelope Rich’, ELR, 15/1 (Winter 1985), 59-77 (pp. 67-72).

p. 234 et seq.

• SiP 227: Sir Philip Sidney, The Lady Penelope Rich to S^r. Phillipe Sidney (‘Martyrd in thought but martyr'd more in soule’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Roberts.

First published in Josephine A. Roberts, ‘The Imaginary Epistles of Sir Philip Sidney and Lady Penelope Rich’, ELR, 15/1 (Winter 1985), 59-77 (pp. 73-5).

pp. 237-41

• BrW 37: William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy on the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Time hath a long course run since thou wert clay’)

Copy, lacking lines 1-52 and here beginning ‘& though thy glasse a burning one become’.

Edited from this MS in The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (London, 1912), I, 462-5.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 81-90.

p. 241

• BrW 187: 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.

MS Eng. poet. f. 10

A duodecimo notebook of verse and prose, comprising 131 interleaves in a printed exemplum of John Sansbury's Ilium in Italiam (Oxford, 1608), in contemporary calf (rebacked), blind-stamped ‘S. S.’ on the upper cover. Owned in 1619, and probably compiled, by Simon Sloper (b.1596/7), of Magdalen Hall, Oxford. c.1620s-30s.

Bought from Parker, of Oxford, 2 April 1889, by Percy Manning and bequeathed by him in 1917.

ff. 2v, 58v-66v

• BcF 205.9: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral

Extracts.

Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

fol. 70r

• RaW 677.3: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World

Extracts.

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

MS Eng. poet. f. 13

A miscellany of English and Latin verse and university orations, 196 leaves, in vellum. Compiled by William Parry (1687-1756?), Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford c.1724.

Later owned by Falconer Madan (1851-1935), librarian and bibliographer, and given to the library in 1938 by F.F. Madan.

fol. 46v

• AlW 181: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘In poyntes of faith some undermyning jarres / betwixt two brothers kindled rebell warrs’)

Copy.

A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Peter Heylyn, first published in his Cosmographie (1652), p. 257.

fols 74v-5r

• CgW 64: William Congreve, Love for Love, III, xv, lines 44-75. Ballad (‘A Souldier, and a Sailor’)

Copy of the ballad, the text accompanied by a Latin version by ‘R.D.’.

Summers, II, 141. Davis, pp. 274. McKenzie, I, 332-3.

MS Eng. poet. f. 16

An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, i + 141 leaves, in contemporary calf (rebacked). Compiled, and composed, in part by John Polwhele, of Polwhele and Treworgan, Cornwall, and of Lincoln's Inn, who notes (fol. 141v rev.) ‘Johes Polwheile Lincol ex dono chariss: amici Josephi Maynardi’. c.1623-32.

Given to Jessie Glubb by a descendant of John Polwhele in 1843. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue No. 97 (1947), item 185.

fol. 2v

• PeW 132: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Amintas (‘Cloris sate, and sitting slept’)

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

fols 5v-6r

• PoW 8: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘D^r Donne on M^rs Poole the lord Sandys his Sister On whome nature studied to make blackenesse a beauty’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

fol. 8v

• KiH 39: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘Answeare to the same tune’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

fol. 9r-v

• JnB 656: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben: Johnsons prayer for King James, a Caracter of his humours’.

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

For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

MS Eng. poet. f. 24

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a single hand, written from both ends, ii + 91 leaves, in 19th-century dark red morocco (rebacked). c.1660.

Bookplate of F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector. Sotheby's, 25 July 1890 (Cosens sale, in lot 294. Bookplate of S.G. Hamilton. Bought in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.

fol. 15r

• SuJ 69: John Suckling, Sonnet I (‘Do'st see how unregarded now’)

Copy, headed ‘Loves Ne plus Ultra’ and here beginning ‘To see how unregarded now’.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646)and in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 47-8.

fol. 31r

• ClJ 130: John Cleveland, Upon a Miser that made a great Feast, and the next day dyed for griefe (‘Nor 'scapes he so: our dinner was so good’)

Copy.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 15-18.

fol. 31r

• ClJ 141: John Cleveland, Upon Phillis walking in a morning before Sun-rising (‘The sluggish morne, as yet undrest’)

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 14-15.

fol. 31r-v

• ClJ 134: John Cleveland, Upon an Hermophrodite (‘Sir, or Madame, chuse you whether’)

Copy, headed ‘vpo a Hermaphrodite’.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 10-11.

fol. 31v

• ClJ 153: John Cleveland, A young Man to an old Woman Courting him (‘Peace Beldam Eve: surcease thy suit’)

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 18-20.

fol. 31v

• ClJ 118: John Cleveland, To Mrs. K. T. who askt him why hee was dumb (‘Stay, should I answer (Lady) then’)

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 20-1.

MS Eng. poet. f. 25

An octavo miscellany of verse and university exercises, including twelve poems by Carew, in a single hand, compiled by Edward Natley, Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, 165 leaves (including many blanks), in calf (rebacked). c.1635-44.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2592. Sotheby's, 10 June 1896 (Phillipps sale), lot 960. Owned in 1896 by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Acquired in 1950 from H.F.B. Brett-Smith, Oxford literary scholar and editor.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Natley MS’: CwT Δ 6.

fol. 10r

• StW 775: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon one M^rs Corbet walking in y^e snow’.

This MS recorded in The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), pp. 169-70.

fol. 10v

• KiH 114: Henry King, The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)

Copy, headed ‘A censure on one disproving his love’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

fol. 10v

• WoH 178: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon y^e death of a new married couple’, 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.

fol. 11r

• DnJ 455: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy, immediately following on from ‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’ (see DnJ 2957).

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

fol. 11r

• DnJ 2957: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 609-11. See also DnJ 455.

MS Eng. poet. f. 27

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by the writer Robert Codrington (1602-65) of Magdalen College, Oxford, 360 pages (including stubs of extracted leaves on pp. 297-328 and blanks, plus index), in contemporary calf. Including 16 poems by Carew and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Strode. Written in three hands: i.e. A (Codrington's hand, including his own poems) on pp. 1-283, 349-55; B on pp. 284-9; and C on pp. 289-348, 356-60; dated (pp. 1-22) ‘Anno Dom: 1638’ and ‘The 30^th of May. 1638’. c.1638.

Acquired from Blackwell's, 1962.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Codrington MS’: CwT Δ 7 and StW Δ 7.

pp. 9-11

• EaJ 44: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death (‘Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse’)

Copy.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 40-2. Extract in Bliss, pp. 227-8. Possibly written by Jasper Mayne (1604-72).

p. 12

• BcF 54.4: Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox (‘Are all diseases dead? or will death say’)

Copy.

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

p. 16

• CwT 241: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on a flye’.

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

pp. 20-1

• WoH 158: Sir Henry Wotton, Tears at the Grave of Sir Albertus Morton who was buried at Southampton (‘Silence in truth would speak my sorrow best’)

Copy, headed ‘At the tombe of S^r Albertus Morton The teares of a friende’.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 528. Hannah (1845), pp. 40-3.

p. 22

• BrW 188: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy, headed ‘An epitaph on the Countess of Pembrooke’.

p. 23

• HoJ 117: John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart (‘Reader I was born and cried’)

Copy, headed ‘One a fart lett in a parliament’.

p. 24

• CoR 504: Richard Corbett, On Mr. Rice the Manciple of Christ-Church In Oxford (‘Who can doubt Rice to which Eternall place’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of M^r Rice’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 73.

pp. 25-6

• StW 576: 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. 26

• StW 304: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)

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

p. 27

• StW 876: William Strode, Song (‘O when will Cupid shew such Art’)

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

p. 27

• B&F 177: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, V, ii, 13-22. Song (‘Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Come charming sleepe thou easer of all woes’; c. 1638.

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

p. 30

• CmT 98: Thomas Campion, ‘There is a Garden in her face’

Copy, untitled.

First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [1617]), Book IV, No. vii. Davis, pp. 174-6. Doughtie, p. 212.

pp. 32-3

• CmT 178: Thomas Campion, ‘And would you see my Mistris face?’

Copy, untitled.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. ii. Davis, p. 451.

p. 34

• CwT 449: Thomas Carew, Mediocritie in love rejected. Song (‘Give me more love, or more disdaine’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 12-13. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

p. 35

• CwT 367: Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned (‘Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)’)

Copy, untitled.

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

p. 36

• DrM 55: Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet (‘I pray thee leave, love me no more’)

Copy, untitled.

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

pp. 36-7

• CmT 245: Thomas Campion, ‘Whether men doe laugh or weepe’

Copy, untitled.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. xxi. Davis, p. 461.

p. 38

• StW 379: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)

Copy, headed ‘On a gentle woman that sunge most exquisitely’.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

pp. 39-40

• CmT 45: Thomas Campion, ‘I care not for these Ladies’

Copy, untitled.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. iii. Davis, pp. 22-3.

p. 40

• CmT 107: Thomas Campion, ‘Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white’

Copy, untitled.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xii. Davis, pp. 34-5.

p. 42

• CmT 9: Thomas Campion, Canto Tertio (‘My Love bound me with a kisse’)

Copy, untitled.

p. 47

• CwT 1246.8: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy, headed ‘M^rs: Owen of Ori: Coll.’

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

p. 50

• HrJ 131: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Lady which sate museing’.

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

pp. 51-3

• CwT 991: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^rs:’.

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

pp. 53-4

• StW 892: William Strode, A song (‘Thoughts doe not vexe me while I sleepe’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Forey, p. 209.

p. 55

• StW 751: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^rs: Duppa walking in her garden when it snowed, by W.S.’.

p. 57

• DrW 177.5: William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table (‘Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Immodest death...’.

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.

pp. 59-60

• CwT 766: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘In your faire cheekes two pitts doe lie’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.

p. 60

• B&F 193: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Women Pleased, III, iv. Song (‘Oh, fair sweet face! oh, eyes celestial bright’)

Copy of Lopez's song, untitled.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VII, 1-94 (p. 50). Bowers, V, 448-529, ed. Hans W. Gabler (p. 489).

p. 62

• CmT 30: Thomas Campion, ‘Fire, fire, fire, fire!’

Copy, untitled.

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

pp. 63-4

• KiH 41: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘The answer’.

p. 66

• JnB 275: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)

Copy, untitled.

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

pp. 66-7

• B&F 16: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Bloody Brother, V, ii, 21-32. Song (‘Take o take those lipps away’)

Copy of the song, untitled.

Dyce, X, 459. Jump, p. 67. Bowers, X, 237. The first stanza first published in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (First Folio, 1623), IV, i. Authorship discussed in Jump, pp. 105-6 (first stanza probably by Shakespeare, second by Fletcher).

p. 67

• B&F 86: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Mad Lover, IV, i, 24-41. Song (‘Orpheus I am, come from the deeps below’)

Copy of Stremon's song, untitled.

Dyce, VI, 179-80. Bullen, III, 183. Bowers, V, 66-7.

p. 68

• DyE 5: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘Amidst the fayrest mountayne topps’

Copy.

First published in The Oxford University and City Herald (4 July 1812). Sargent, No. IV, pp. 182-3. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 309-11. EV 1901.

pp. 69-70

• GrJ 46: John Grange, ‘Not that I wish my Mistris’

Copy, untitled.

First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7^v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to ‘J.G.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as by John Grange.

pp. 70-1

• CoR 734: Richard Corbett, Nonsence (‘Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches’)

Copy, headed ‘A mock song to, like to the Damaske Rose you see’ and here beginning ‘Like to the melting tone...’.

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

pp. 72-4

• RnT 339: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet (‘I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare’)

Copy, headed ‘On a deformed Gentlewoman that Sange well’.

This MS collated in Davis.

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

p. 75

• KiH 432: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy, headed ‘On Mans Life. D^r Kinge’.

First published, as ‘Man's Miserie, by Dr. K’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.

pp. 75-6

• CwT 395: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes (‘In Celia's face a question did arise’)

Copy, headed ‘On Caelias Lippes and eyes’.

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

pp. 76-7

• BcF 9: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, headed ‘On the world. S^r Francis Bacon’.

pp. 79-80

• WoH 224: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Dunne's farrewell to the world’.

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

pp. 80-2

• RnT 544: Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School (‘What heat of learning kindled your desire’)

Copy.

Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to ‘T. R.’. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.

p. 82

• StW 838: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘On womans love. To his M^rs:’.

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

p. 85

• CoR 601: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbet on weareing longe white vailes’.

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.

pp. 85-6

• GrJ 18: John Grange, ‘Black cypress veils are shrouds of night’

Copy, headed ‘The Answer’.

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

p. 91

• RaW 236: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy.

pp. 92-3

• CoR 664: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him (‘Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbet on M^rs Mallet’.

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

pp. 96-7

• JnB 696: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song (‘If I freely may discouer’)

Copy, headed ‘How to choose a M^rs’.

pp. 104-5

• CwT 25: Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon (‘Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood’)

Copy, headed ‘On a gentle-woman that was let bloud’.

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

p. 105

• StW 968: William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection (‘Like to the casting of an Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘Death and Resurrection. M^r Stroud’ and here beginning ‘Like to the rowling of an eye’.

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

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

p. 109

• BrW 113: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor (‘Nature in this small volume was about’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman dying younge’.

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

pp. 113-14

• DnJ 79: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, with some interpolated alterations in a different hand, headed ‘Vppon a deformed Gentlewoman’.

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. 114-15

• DaJ 169: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Death of an Infant’.

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

pp. 116-17

• DnJ 3198: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Dunne on his M^rs goeing to bed’.

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

pp. 120-3

• CwT 97: Thomas Carew, The Complement (‘O my deerest I shall grieve thee’)

Copy, headed ‘Pallenodia Loues song that it is a follye. Loves folly’.

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

p. 123

• DnJ 1755: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy, headed ‘On a criple’ and here beginning ‘I cannot goe, nor stand the cripple cryes’.

pp. 128-9

• PeW 172: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)

Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman vnmarriagble’.

p. 129

• RnT 379: Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger (‘Arithmetique nine digits, and no more’)

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

p. 131

• StW 86: William Strode, An Epitaph (‘Beneath this brazen plate those ashes lie’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on a gentlewoman’.

This MS collated in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, p. 128.

p. 133

• HrJ 276: Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues (‘You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young’)

Copy, headed ‘A refusall of a learned wife’ and here beginning ‘You wish me to a wife that's faire & young’.

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

pp. 134-5

• RnT 505: Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale (‘When shall we meet again and have a taste’)

Copy.

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

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

p. 135

• CoR 463: Richard Corbett, On Henry Bowling (‘If gentlenesse could tame the fates, or wit’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^r Henry Boling’.

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

p. 137

• CwT 677: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^rs.’ and here beginning ‘Thinke not deare loue that I'le reveale’

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