Bodleian Library, Malone Collection

MS Malone 2

A folio volume, 140 leaves, in contemporary vellum. 1645.

Containing (ff. 1v-13v, 138r-130v rev.) copies of letters and accounts, 1623-5, of Richard Newall, London merchant, trading with Newfoundland. A label on a rear endpaper inscribed ‘...brought by Mr Bob from Zelaste[?] near Flushing’. Inscribed by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector ‘These M.S.S. were bought at the sale of the late Samuel Ireland [i.e. Samuel Ireland (fl.1758-1800), printmaker and writer] of Norfolk St.- London 13: May 1801’.

ff. 14r-130r

• HrJ 12: Sir John Harington, Orlando Furioso (‘Of Dames, of Knights, of armes, of loves delight’)

Extensive extracts, in a single small hand.

First published in London, 1591. Edited by Robert McNulty (Oxford, 1972). Printed and manuscript exempla discussed in Gerard Kilroy, ‘Advertising the Reader: Sir John Harington's “Directions in the Margent”’, English Literary Renaissance, 41/1 (Winter, 2011), 64-110.

See also HrJ 22, HrJ 243.

MS Malone 11

Copy in a single hand, entitled ‘Triphon / A Trage-Comedy / Written by the right honourable / Roger Earle of Orrery’, 138 quarto leaves (plus title-page and blanks). c.1770-80.

OrR 37: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Tryphon

This MS collated in Clark.

MS Malone 12

Copy, in the hand of Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, x + 102 pages. Entitled ‘A Tragi-Coomedie, called the Witch: long since acted by his Maties Seruants at the Black-Friers. Written by Tho. Middleton’. c.1619-27.

MiT 28: Thomas Middleton, The Witch

Once owned by Benjamin Griffin (1680-1740), actor and playwright; by Lockyer Davis (1717-91), London bookseller; by Major Thomas Pearson; by George Steevens (1736-1800), literary editor and scholar (bought at the Pearson sale, 1787, lot 3872); and by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector (bought at the Steevens sale, 20 May 1800).

Edited from this MS, with facsimile pages, by W.W. Greg and F.P. Wilson, Malone Society (Oxford, 1950). This MS discussed in Bentley, IV, 903-5, and, with a facsimile of one page, in F.P. Wilson, ‘Ralph Crane, Scrivener to the King's Players’, The Library, 4th Ser. 7 (1926-7), 194-215. Facsimiles of the first page of text also in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 213, and of the title-page in Oxford Companion, p. 63. See also Paul Mulholland, ‘Notes on Several Derivatives of Crane's Manuscript of Middleton's The Witch’, PBSA, 78 (1984), 75-81, which includes (p. 77) a facsimile of p. 24 of the transcript of this MS made by George Steevens (now Folger MS D.a.47) for the edition of 1778.

First published in London, 1778. Bullen, V, 351-453. Oxford Middleton, pp. 1129-64.

MS Malone 13

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, ii + 318 pages (pp. 103-290 largely blank). Including many poems by Sidney Godolphin (1610-43), poet and courtier, and associated with the circle of Lucius Cary (1609/10-1643), second Viscount Falkland, politician and author, of Great Tew, Oxfordshire. c.late 1630s-early 1640s.

p. 11

• WoH 7: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘Sr H: Wotton’.

This MS collated in Hannah; recorded in Main.

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

pp. 12-13

• WaE 562: Edmund Waller, To my Lord Admiral, of his late Sickness and Recovery (‘With joy like ours, the Thracian youth invades’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Waller’.

This MS recorded in Deas, p. 324.

First published in Thomas Carew, Poems, 2nd edition (London, 1642). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 33-5. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), pp. 200-1.

p. 16

• WaE 101: Edmund Waller, In Answer to One who Writ against a Fair Lady (‘What fury has provoked thy wit to dare’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Waller’.

The text of this MS given in Deas, pp. 324-5.

First published, in a four-stanza version headed ‘In Answer to a libell against her, &c’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 24-5.

p. 20

• WaE 636: Edmund Waller, To the Queen Mother of France, upon her Landing (‘Great Queen of Europe! where thy offspring wears’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Queene Mother on her Landing’ and subscribed ‘Waller’.

This MS recorded in Deas, p. 324.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 35-6.

pp. 28-9

• WaE 203: Edmund Waller, Of His Majesty's Receiving the News of the Duke of Buckingham's Death (‘So earnest with thy God! can no new care’)

Copy, headed ‘To the king after the Death of the D. of Buckingham’ and subscribed ‘Waller’.

This MS recorded in Deas, p. 324.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 11-12.

pp. 29-30

• EaJ 38: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Epitaph on the Living Sr. Lorenza Carew (‘Here lies Lorenza, my dear brother’)

Copy of a mock epitaph, subscribed ‘Earles’.

Printed from this MS in Weber and in Hayward.

First published in K. Weber, Lucius Cary, Second Viscount Falkland (New York, 1940), pp. 42-5. Edited in Colum Hayward, John Earles (privately printed booklet, London College of Printing, 1982-3), pp. 6-7.

pp. 31-5

• SuJ 94: John Suckling, The Wits (A Sessions of the Poets) (‘A Sessions was held the other day’)

Copy, headed ‘The Witts’.

This MS collated in Clayton and in Beaurline, loc. cit.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 71-6. L.A. Beaurline, ‘An Editorial Experiment: Suckling's A Session of the Poets’, Studies in Bibliography, 16 (1963), 43-60.

pp. 47-8

• WaE 212: Edmund Waller, Of Love (‘Anger in hasty words or blows’)

Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘Waller’.

This MS recorded in Deas, p. 324.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 87-8.

p. 51

• ToA 50: Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury (‘Victorious beauty, though your eyes’)

Copy, headed in another hand ‘To the Countesse of Salisbury’ and subscribed in that same hand ‘A: Tounshend’.

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.

p. 52

• PeW 294: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A stragling Lover reclaim'd (‘Till now I never did believe’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues (1653), Part I, p. 16. John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 45. Poems (1660), pp. 90-1, superscribed ‘P.’ Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as probably by Sir Thomas Neville.

p. 53

• ToA 77: Aurelian Townshend, ‘Your smiles are not as other womens bee’

Copy, subscribed ‘Au: Townsend’.

Edited from this MS in Brown.

First published in A. H. Bullen, Speculum Amantis (London, 1889). p. 126. Chambers, p. 17. Brown, p. 23.

pp. 54-6

• BmF 101: Francis Beaumont, Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson (‘The sun which doth the greatest comfort bring’)

Copy, headed ‘To Ben: Johnson’ and subscribed ‘ff: Beaumont’.

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.

pp. 57-8

• GrJ 70: John Grange, ‘Since every man I come among’

Copy, untitled, with a deleted subscription ‘Granger’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Poems (1660), pp. 53-4. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as by John Grange.

p. 58

• GrJ 44: John Grange, ‘I said the thing for which I woe’

Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘Granger’.

Unpublished? Listed in Krueger.

pp. 59-60

• ToA 47: Aurelian Townshend, ‘Though Regions farr devided’

Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘Au: Tounsend’.

Edited from this MS in Brown.

First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 18-20. Brown, pp. 24-5.

pp. 63-4

• WaE 574: Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland (‘Brave Holland leads, and with him Falkland goes’)

Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘Waller’.

This MS recorded in Deas, p. 324.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 75-6.

See also WaE 765.

pp. 67-70

• CwT 308: Thomas Carew, Foure Songs by way of Chorus to a play, at an entertainment of the King and Queene, by my Lord Chamberlaine (‘From whence was first this furie hurld’)

Copy of the four songs; c.late 1630s.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

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

pp. 75-9

• ToA 3: Aurelian Townshend, ‘Come not to me for scarfs, nor plumes’

Copy, subscribed ‘Au: Tounsend’.

Edited from this MS in Brown.

First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 21-7. Brown, pp. 26-9.

pp. 97-8

• BmF 84: Francis Beaumont, The Examination of his Mistress's Perfections (‘Stand still, my happiness. and swelling heart’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Stand styl my happyness and swell my harte’, and subscribed ‘T. Bea:’.

First published in Poems (London, 1653). Dyce, XI, 495-6.

p. 101

• SuJ 136: John Suckling, To the Lady Desmond (Upon the Black Spots worn by my Lady D. E.) (‘I know your heart cannot so guilty be’)

Copy, headed ‘To ye Lady Desmonde’ and subscribed ‘P Apsley’.

This MS collated in Clayton.

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

pp. 291-311

• WaE 400: Edmund Waller, The Passion of Dido for Aeneas (‘Meanwhile the Queen fanning a secret fire’)

Copy, untitled, the work subscribed ‘S: Godolphin’.

Edited from this MS in Dighton.

First published complete, by Humphrey Mosley, as The Passion of Dido for Aeneas, as it is incomparably exprest in the Fourth Book of Virgil, Translated by Edmund Waller and Sidney Godolphin Esqrs (London, 1658), where it is stated that the translation was ‘done (all but a very little) by …Mr. Sidney Godolphin’. Complete text in The Poems of Sidney Godolphin, ed. William Dighton (Oxford, 1931), pp. 31-55. Godolphin was responsible for the first 454 lines. Waller for the next 131 lines (455-585), beginning ‘All this her weeping sister does repeat’ which might possibly be his revision of part of Godolphin's translation of the whole. while the last 113 lines (586-699, beginning ‘Aurora now, leaving her watry bed’) are unassigned but probably also Godolphin's. The portion definitely by Waller is reprinted separately in Waller's Poems (London, 1664), pp. 185-92, and reprinted in Thorn-Drury, II, 29-33.

MS Malone 14

A quarto volume of poems by Thomas Pestell (1586-1667), poet and clergyman, in a single Roman hand, 47 pages, in later calf. Entitled Perotti poemata varia, sed e multis pauca selectoria. c.1637.

pp. 21-2

• BeJ 52: Sir John Beaumont, To my Lorde Marques of Buckingham (‘To say to you my good Lord, I might refraine’)

Copy, headed ‘To a yong lord at Court 1623’.

Edited from this MS in Sell.

First published (?) in Sell (1974), pp. 180-1.

MS Malone 16

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, probably associated with Cambridge University, ii + 78 pages, in contemporary vellum. c.1625-31.

Inscribed (p. i) ‘Ex dono B. R. ao Jni. i625 [altered to i631] / Broughton / Thomas Gray’.

pp. 1-2

• HeR 338: Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing (‘When the monethly horned Queene’)

Copy, headed ‘The clothing of Oberon King of Fairies by Sr Simeon Steward’.

This MS collated in Farmer.

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

pp. 3-4

• HeR 179: Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast (‘A Little mushroome table spred’)

Copy, without the preliminary lines and subscribed ‘Rich: Hiericke of Clare Hall’.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

p. 4

• CwT 475: Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters (‘So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes’)

Copy, headed ‘His mistresse commanding him to returne her letters’.

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

p. 11

• CwT 575: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy, headed in another hand ‘On A Sight’ [sic].

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

p. 12

• CwT 702: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy.

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

See also Introduction.

p. 12

• KiH 433: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy, headed ‘A Midnights meditation’ and subscribed ‘ffinis JK’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

p. 13

• StW 46: William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies (‘Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night’)

Copy of the last eight lines, untitled and here beginning ‘Corruption layes on blacke. Give me the eye.’

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

p. 13

• JnB 717: Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song (‘Though I am young, and cannot tell’)

Copy, headed ‘Death & Loue Paraleld’.

First published in Workes (London, 1641). Herford & Simpson, VII, 1-49.

pp. 14-15

• CwT 106: Thomas Carew, The Complement (‘O my deerest I shall grieve thee’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon his Mres beautyes’.

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

p. 16

• CwT 267: 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 of a fly’.

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

p. 16

• StW 779: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, untitled.

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. 17

• RaW 322: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen (‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Passions are likened best to flouds & streames’.

This MS recorded in Gullans.

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.

p. 18

• FeO 24: Owen Felltham, A Farewell (‘When by sad fate from hence I summon'd am’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘When by sad fate from thee I summon'd am’.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 18.

p. 20

• CwT 1258: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy, untitled.

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. 20

• HoJ 95: John Hoskyns, A Dreame (‘Me thought I walked in a dreame’)

Copy of the shortened version of lines 43-68, headed ‘Verses presented to ye King by Mrs. Horskins in the behalfe of her husband prisoner’ and here beginning ‘The worst is told, the best is hidd’.

Edited from this MS in Hannah, p. 121. Recorded in Osborn.

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

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

p. 28

• ToA 51: Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury (‘Victorious beauty, though your eyes’)

Copy, untitled.

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.

p. 29

• CwT 169: Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned (‘Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke’)

Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘ffinis. C.’

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

pp. 30-3

• DnJ 1505: John Donne, His parting from her (‘Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night’)

Copy of a 42-line version, untitled, here beginning ‘Since thou must goe, & I must mourne, come night’, and subscribed ‘ffinis. M. & incerto authore’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and 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).

p. 34

• CwT 1147: Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse (‘Fayre copie of my Celia's face’)

Copy, headed ‘To one Like his Mres’.

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

p. 34

• FeO 56: Owen Felltham, The Sun and Wind (‘Why think'st thou (fool) thy Beauties rayes’)

Copy.

First published, in a musical setting by John Wilson, in his Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1660), pp. 96-7. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 5.

p. 35

• FeO 14: Owen Felltham, The Cause (‘Think not, Clarissa, I love thee’)

Copy.

Pebworth & Summers, p. 14.

pp. 38-9

• SuJ 102: John Suckling, The guiltless Inconstant (‘My first Love whom all beauty did adorn’)

Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘ffinis Tu.’

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 90-1.

Probably written by Walton Poole.

pp. 53-4

• StW 980: William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection (‘Like to the casting of an Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘On Death and Resurreccon’ and here beginning ‘Like to the Rowlinge of an Eye’.

Edited from this MS in Hannah.

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. 56

• SuJ 103: John Suckling, The guiltless Inconstant (‘My first Love whom all beauty did adorn’)

Copy of lines 1-19, untitled, written later.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 90-1.

Probably written by Walton Poole.

pp. 73-4

• ToA 27: Aurelian Townshend, A Paradox (‘There is no Lover, hee or shee’)

Copy, headed ‘A Paradox’.

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

pp. 74-5

• HoJ 342.5: John Hoskyns, Fustian Speech

Copy of the speech, headed ‘Refused to answer at extempore being importuned by ye prince and Sr Walter Rawlegh: Began’.

This MS collated in Osborn, pp. 258-9.

Hoskyns's ‘Fustian Speech’, or ‘Tuftaffeta Speech’, features in the Middle Temple's Christmas season revels Le Prince d'Amour alias Noctes Templariæ, the Christmas Revels of the Middle Temple in 1597-8. The entertainment was first published, as written by Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, as Le Prince d'Amour, or The Prince of Love (london, 1660), Hoskyns's speech on pp. 37-40. Hoyt, pp. 108-13. Osborn, pp. 98-102. Whitlock, pp. 121-3.

pp. 71-69 rev.

• RnT 340: 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 Lady of incomparable Sweet voice But very deformed’ and here beginning ‘Sweet Lesbias voice I chanc'd to hear’.

This MS collated in Davis.

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

MS Malone 19

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in three or more hands, probably compiled principally by a member of New College, Oxford, 163 pages, in calf-backed marbled boards. c.1620s-30s.

The name ‘George Brown’ inscribed on p. 14. Inscribed on p. i by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector ‘Feb 13. 1790. I this day purchased this Manuscript Collection of Poems, at the sale of Mr Brander's books, at the exorbitant price of Ten Guineas. EMalone’.

p. 20

• DaJ 225: Sir John Davies, An other Epitaph: of one who died with the Maple Buttons (‘Heere lieth Dick Dobson iwrapped in molde’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Heere lies old Dobson, yea cladd in molde’.

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

pp. 27-30

• CoR 352: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)

Copy, headed ‘Dr. Corbett to the Duke of Buckingham’.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 146.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

pp. 37-8

• WoH 73: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Spanish Lady’, ‘By Sr H. Wotton’ added in a later hand.

This MS collated in Hannah; recorded in Leishman.

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

p. 40

• GrF 39: Fulke Greville, Mustapha, IV, iv, 116-117 (‘Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘On Treason &’ and here beginning ‘Treason is like a Basiliscus eye’.

Bullough, II, 118.

p. 40

• HrJ 260: Sir John Harington, Of Treason (‘Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?’)

Copy, untitled (but under the general heading ‘On Treason &’).

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.

p. 44

• RaW 323: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen (‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’)

Copy, headed ‘Of Passions’ and here beginning ‘Passyns are likened best to floudes & streames’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116, and in Gullans.

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.

p. 44

• RaW 415: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘I cannot bend the bow’

Copy, headed ‘A riddle vppon the Lady Bendbowe’.

First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an ‘indecorous trifle’).

p. 44

• JnB 585: Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song (‘Still to be neat, still to be drest’)

Copy.

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

pp. 49-50

• WiG 1.5: George Wither, The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet (‘Shall I wasting in despair’)

Copy of a Latin version of the poem, headed ‘Shall I wastinge in despaire, turn'd into Latin meetr’ and beginning ‘A: Cor quid te dolore teris’.

First published in Fidelia (London, 1615). Sidgwick, I, 138-9. A version, as ‘Sonnet 4’, in Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 854-5. Sidgwick, II, 124-6.

For the ‘answer’ attributed to Ben Jonson, but perhaps by Richard Johnson, see Sidgwick, I, 145-8, and Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 439-43. MS versions of Wither's poem vary in length.

p. 50

• DyE 75: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall’

Copy, headed ‘A louers conceipt’.

This MS text collated in Sargent.

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

p. 51

• HrJ 33: Sir John Harington, Against Swearing (‘In elder times an ancient custome was’)

Copy, headed ‘The degrees of swearinge’.

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

p. 53

• RaW 341: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty’

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘The word of denyall, the figure of fiftye’, and in answer to the preceding verses (p. 52), Noel's “The offence of the stomach, & the word of disgrace” which is headed ‘Rawly’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 138.

First published, as ‘The Answer’ to ‘A Riddle’ (‘Th'offence of the stomach, with the word of disgrace’), in Works (1829), VIII, 736. Latham, pp. 47-8. Rudick, Nos 19A, 19B and 19C (three versions, pp. 28-9).

p. 54

• TiC 7: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament (‘My prime of youth is but a frost of cares’)

Copy, headed ‘Tychbornes elegie in the towr before his excecution’.

This MS text collated in Hirsch.

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

p. 55

• RaW 207: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice (‘Beefore the sixt day of the next new year’)

Copy, subscribed in another hand ‘Sr Wal: R’.

Edited from this MS in Latham and in Rudick, No. 50B, pp. 123-4.

First published as ‘A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice’ in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as ‘Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas’ and ‘On the Cardes and dice’ respectively).

p. 55

• HrJ 163: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Cobler, and an ignorant Curat (‘A Cobler, and a Curat, once disputed’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Curate & a Cobblr’.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 66. McClure No. 67, p. 173. Kilroy, Book I, No. 10, p. 97.

p. 57-8

• DnJ 1376: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon a Flea’ and subscribed ‘J. D.’

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 71-3

• HoJ 96: John Hoskyns, A Dreame (‘Me thought I walked in a dreame’)

Copy, headed ‘Mr. Hoskins his Dreame’ and subscribed ‘J. Hoskins’.

This MS cited in Osborn.

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

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

p. 75

• HrJ 132: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy.

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. 75-6

• PeW 217: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy of the shorter version, untitled and here beginning ‘Nay phew, nay pish, in faith, & will yow? fflye’.

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

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

p. 77

• EsR 2: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Happy were Hee could finish foorth his Fate’

Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘J. Deane’.

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

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

p. 79

• DnJ 1920: John Donne, The Lier (‘Thou in the fields walkst out thy supping howers’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS 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. 79

• DnJ 902: John Donne, Disinherited (‘Thy father all from thee, by his last Will’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS 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. 79

• DnJ 166: John Donne, Antiquary (‘If in his Studie he hath so much care’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘If Hammon in his studdye hath such care’.

This MS 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. 80

• DnJ 2662: 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. 80-1

• DnJ 2357: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’

Copy, headed ‘Vppon a Woeman whom the author taught to loue & complement’.

This MS 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.

pp. 81-3

• DnJ 2578: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy of lines 1-50, imperfect (the top of p. 83 excised), untitled.

This MS 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.

p. 83

• DnJ 3925: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy of lines 1-18, 28-9, imperfect (lacking the top of the page), untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 84-7

• CoR 552: Richard Corbett, A Proper New Ballad intituled The Faeryes Farewell: Or God-a-Mercy Will (‘Farewell, Rewards & Faeries’)

Copy, headed ‘The ffairies Farewell. or God haue merrye will’.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 128.

First published (omitting lines 57-64) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published complete in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 49-52.

p. 95

• HoJ 179: John Hoskyns, Mr Hoskines, his own Epitaphe when he was sicke beinge fellow in New Colledge in Oxford (‘Reader I wold not haue the[e] mistake’)

Copy, headed ‘Hoskins dreame of N. Coll’.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

p. 95

• DaJ 92: Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Mary Baker to Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London (‘The pride of Prelacy, which now longe since’)

Copy of poem 2, beginning ‘The Romane Tarquin in his folly blind’.

Edited from this MS in Tannenbaum.

First published in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, ‘Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems’, PMLA, 45.ii (1930), 809-21 (pp. 818-19). Krueger, pp. 177-9.

pp. 95-8

• JnB 629: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnson on the Peake’ and subscribed ‘R. Corbet’.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson, X, 634.

Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.

p. 101

• CoR 259: Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem (‘Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on’)

Copy, headed ‘Ad Autorem de anniversarijs eiusdem In Henricum Principem’.

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

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

pp. 101-2

• CoR 237: Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum (‘Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.

For related poems see CoR 247-78.

pp. 105-6

• HoJ 313: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet wthstood’)

Copy, headed ‘Mr <deleted> delight of <deleted> in Oxford’ and here beginning ‘O loue whose force & might / Noe power euer wthstode’.

Osborn, p. 301.

pp. 112-18

• CoR 25: Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge (‘It is not yet a fortnight, since’)

Copy.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.

Some texts accompanied by an ‘Answer’ (‘A ballad late was made’).

p. 121

• RnT 380: Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger (‘Arithmetique nine digits, and no more’)

Copy, headed ‘Randulph of Cambridge one his litle finger’.

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

pp. 121-4

• RnT 192: Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes (‘Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell’)

Copy, headed ‘Ide To his creditors 1633’.

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

p. 124

• StW 1012: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.

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

p. 137

• HoJ 171: John Hoskyns, Incipit Johannes Hoskins (‘Even as the waues of brainelesse butter'd fish’)

Copy, headed ‘Cabalisticall verses, which by transposition of wordes, syllables, & letters make excellent sense, othrwise none in laudem Coriatti’.

This MS cited in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXIX (pp. 199-202), in English and Latin.

p. 138

• JnB 259: Ben Jonson, A Grace by Ben: Johnson. extempore. before King James (‘Our King and Queen the Lord-God blesse’)

Copy of a version headed ‘A Grace said before the King by a Jester’ and beginning ‘The King, the Queene, the Prince god blesse’.

Printed from this MS in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 419 (n).

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

p. 138

• RaW 316: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Rauleigh to his sonne (‘Three thinges there bee that prosper up apace’)

Copy of lines 1-12 headed ‘Sir Walter Rauleigh to his sonne’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 140.

First published in Latham (1929), p. 102. Latham (1951), p. 49. Rudick, No. 52, p. 125.

pp. 146-7

• WoH 8: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, headed ‘Sr Hen. Wootton’.

This MS collated in Hannah; recorded in Main.

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

p. 148

• HoJ 287: John Hoskyns, Mr Hoskins wrott in the windowe when he came out of the Tower (‘Sic luo, sic merui; sed quod meruique luoque’)

Copy, headed ‘Mr Hoskins wrott in the windowe when he came out of the Tower’.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXXV (p. 208).

p. 148

• HoJ 181: John Hoskyns, Mr. Hoskins one a dull Lawyer (‘As a louse as we cracke, hath a list one his backe’)

Copy, headed ‘Mr Hoskins one a dull Lawyer’.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XL (p. 211).

p. 149

• HoJ 182: John Hoskyns, Mr. Hoskins one Mr Permenter at the Chancerye in London (‘Mr Permentor stands at ye Center’)

Copy.

Osborn, p. 211.

p. 149

• HoJ 170: John Hoskyns, Hoskins reply (‘Euen so yr dubelet is too short in the wast’)

Copy, headed ‘Hoskins reply’.

following verses As at a banaqett some meales haue sweet, some soure last.

A single line in response to the verse ‘As at a banaquett some meates haue sweet, some soure tast’. Osborn, p. 211.

p. 149

• HoJ 232: John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins (‘Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge’)

Copy, the two Latin verses first, headed ‘Mr Hoskins to his Sonne’.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).

p. 150

• HoJ 191: John Hoskyns, Of Sr Tho. Gressam (‘Here lyes Gressam under the ground’)

Copy, headed ‘On Gresham a Drunkard’ and here beginning ‘Heere lyeth Gresham vnder ground’.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

p. 150

• DnJ 401: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy of lines 27-8, headed ‘One ye ffrench Crownes’ and here beginning ‘Although ye King eclepd most Christian bee’.

This MS recorded in Shaawcross.

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.

MS Malone 20

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, with a title-page and ‘Table’ of contents in different Roman script, ii + 80 quarto leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1630s.

NaR 1: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.

Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

MS Malone 21

An octavo verse miscellany, in two or more hands, 95 leaves (plus blanks), including two ‘Indexes’, in contemporary vellum. Compiled by an Oxford University man, possibly a member of St John's College. c.1634-43.

A receipt (f. 104r) by John Weston recording payment from his ‘brother Ed: Weston’, 3 May 1714. The name ‘John Saunders’ inscribed on the final leaf.

ff. 1r-2r

• StW 497: 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.

f. 2r-v

• CoR 698: Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes (‘Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse’)

Copy, headed ‘On ye same [i.e. Fairford Windows]’.

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

f. 2v

• KiH 434: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy, headed ‘Of mans misery’ and subscribed ‘Dr John King’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

f. 3r

• CoR 649: Richard Corbett, To the New-Borne Prince, Upon the Apparition of a Starr, and the following Ecclypse (‘Was Heav'ne afray'd to be out-done on Earth’)

Copy, headed ‘On ye birth of Pr: Charles May 29, 1630 wn a star appeared next day at noone, w an Eclipse of ye Sun the next day following’.

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

ff. 5r-6r

• DaW 6: Sir William Davenant, Elegie, on Francis, Earle of Rutland (‘Call not the Winds! nor bid the Rivers stay!’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on ye Ld ffra: Mannor Earle of Rutland’ and subscribed ‘W. Davenant’.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 62-4.

f. 6r

• RnT 363: Thomas Randolph, Upon his Picture (‘When age hath made me what I am not now’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 79.

f. 7r

• MyJ 1: Jasper Mayne, An Elegy upon the King of Sweden's Death (‘Brave Prince! Although thy fate seem yet too strange’)

Copy, here ascribed to Henry King.

ff. 9r-11r

• EaJ 14: 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 ‘An Elegye upon ye Death of Sr John Burrowes’.

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).

f. 11r

• KiH 177: Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death (‘Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure’)

Copy, headed ‘On Prince Henry's Death’.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.

ff. 13v-15r

• MyJ 5: Jasper Mayne, On Dr. Donnes death: By Mr. Mayne of Christ-Church in Oxford (‘Who shall presume to mourn thee, Donne, unlesse’)

Copy, subscribed in another hand ‘Jasper Mayne’.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633), p. 393. Grierson, I, 382-4.

ff. 17v-19r

• CoR 139: 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, subscribed ‘Dr Corbett’.

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

f. 20r-v

• WaE 686: Edmund Waller, Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's (‘That shipwrecked vessel which the Apostle bore’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 16-18.

ff. 24r-6r

• CoA 130: Abraham Cowley, On the Death of Mr. William Hervey (‘It was a dismal, and a fearful night’)

Copy.

First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 32-7. Sparrow, pp. 36-41.

f. 28v

• RnT 545: Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School (‘What heat of learning kindled your desire’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘Dr. Zouch’.

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.

f. 38r

• CoA 140: Abraham Cowley, Prologue to the Guardian (‘Who says the Times do Learning disallow?’)

Copy, headed ‘The poets peticon’.

First published, under the pseudonym ‘Francis Cole’, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642). Waller, I, 31-2 (and II, 161). Autrey Nell Wiley, ‘The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian’, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).

See also CoA 68-81.

f. 45r

• CwT 978: Thomas Carew, The Spring (‘Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.

f. 45v

• CwT 134: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Copy.

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

f. 46r

• PoW 103: Walton Poole, To a Ladie which desired him to make her a copy of verses (‘Faire Madam, cast these diamonds away’)

Copy, headed ‘To his mistress’.

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

f. 46r

• KiH 547: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘To his discontented mrs’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

f. 46v

• StW 1374: William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie (‘Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Blush’.

This MS recorded in Forey.

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

ff. 46v-7r

• CoR 602: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)

Copy, headed ‘On or new-fashion'd Ladyes’ and subscribed ‘Dr Corbett’.

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.

f. 47r

• GrJ 19: John Grange, ‘Black cypress veils are shrouds of night’

Copy, headed ‘The Answer to these’.

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.

ff. 48v-9r

• CoR 665: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him (‘Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold’)

Copy, headed ‘On Mrs Mallett’ and subscribed ‘Dr Corbett’.

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

ff. 49v-50r

• StW 463: William Strode, On a good legge and foote (‘If Hercules tall Stature might be guest’)

Copy, headed ‘In praise of a handsome Leg & foot’ and subscribed ‘W Strode’.

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

ff. 50v-1v

• ShJ 107: James Shirley, Vpon the Princes Birth (‘Fair fall their Muses that in well-chim'd verse’)

Copy, headed ‘A song on Prince Charles his birth’.

This MS collated in Armstrong.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 7-8.

f. 51v

• DaJ 46: Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion (‘Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘A Rustick Gallants wooing’ and here beginning ‘Fair wench I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’.

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

f. 52r-v

• CaW 30: William Cartwright, On one weepeing (‘Sawest thou not that liquid ball’)

Copy, headed ‘On one weapeing’.

Edited from this MS in Goffin and in Evans.

First published in The Life and Poems of William Cartwright, ed. R. Cullis Goffin (Cambridge, 1918), pp. 32-4. Evans, 466-7.

ff. 53v-4r

• DeJ 29: Sir John Denham, Elegy on the Death of Judge Crooke (‘This was the Man! the Glory of the Gown’)

Copy, headed ‘Reader no superscription here I writt / Because ye verse it selfe entitles it’.

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

ff. 55r-6v

• CaW 28: William Cartwright, On Mr Stokes his Book on the Art of Vaulting (‘Reader, here is such a booke’)

Copy.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 209-12. Evans, pp. 462-5.

ff. 56v-8r

• MrJ 22: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

An anonymous copy, headed ‘On ye Duke of Buckingham returneing from the Isle of Ree’.

f. 63r

• KiH 43: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘The Answere’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

ff. 64v-6r

• RnT 341: 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 yt sunge exquisitely’ and subscribed ‘Dr Lewis’ [i.e. Dr William Lewis, Provost of Oriel College, Oxford].

This MS collated in Thorn-Drury and in Davis.

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

f. 66r

• DrM 13: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)

Copy, headed ‘The cryeres Song’.

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

f. 69r

• MnJ 2: John Milton, Another on the same [Hobson the University Carrier] (‘Here lieth one who did most truly prove’)

Copy, headed ‘On Hobson ye Cambridge carrier who died 1630 in ye vacancy of his carriage by reason of ye sicknesse then hott at Cambridge’ and here beginning ‘Here Hobson lies who did most truly prove’.

This MS collated in Columbia and in Darbishire; also in William R. Parker, ‘Milton's Hobson Poems: Some Neglected Early Texts’, MLR, 31 (1936), 395-402; recorded in John T. Shawcross, ‘A Note on Milton's Hobson Poems’, RES, NS 18 (1967), 433-7.

First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1640). Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 33-4, and XVIII, 349-50. Darbishire, II, 137-8. Carey & Fowler, pp. 125-6.

ff. 71r-2r

• CaW 32: William Cartwright, On the great Frost. 1634 (‘Shew me the flames you brag of, you that be’)

Copy, headed ‘On ye great frost’ and subscribed ‘W. Cartwrite ex Ade christi’.

This MS collated in Evans.

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

f. 74r-5r

• PeW 218: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger. anon

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

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

ff. 75r-6r

• CaW 22: William Cartwright, On a Gentlewomans Silk-hood (‘Is there a Sanctity in Love begun’)

Copy, headed ‘On Gentlewomen's silkehoods’, here beginning ‘Is there a chastity in love begun’, and subscribed ‘Mr Cartwright’.

This MS collated in Evans.

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

f. 76v

• RnT 453: Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks (‘Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name’)

Copy.

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

f. 78r

• StW 1266: William Strode, Jack on both Sides (‘I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes’)

Copy, in double columns, headed ‘The Catholique’.

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.

ff. 78r-9r

• CaW 67: William Cartwright, To his Mrs Walking in ye snow (‘See faire Splendora what a lovely bed’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs Walking in ye snow’ and subscribed ‘Dr Strode’.

First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, pp. 569-70.

f. 79r

• StW 180: William Strode, In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Dr Strode’.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

f. 79v

• StW 919: William Strode, Song (‘When Orpheus sweetly did complaine’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Dr Strode’.

First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dobell, pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 79-80. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

f. 80r

• B&F 118: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy, headed ‘Song in ye praise of Malancholye’.

This MS briefly discussed in Edward F. Rimbault, ‘Song in Fletcher's Play of “The Nice Valour”…’, N&Q, 1 (5 January 1850), 146-7.

Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.

For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

f. 80r-v

• StW 656: William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy (‘Returne my joyes, and hither bring’)

Copy, headed ‘Against Melancholly’ and subscribed ‘Dr Strode’.

This MS discussed in Edward F. Rimbault, ‘Song in Fletcher's Play of “The Nice Valour”…’, N&Q, 1 (5 January 1850), 146-7. Collated in Forey.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.

ff. 80v-2

• CoR 215: Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… (‘The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on’)

Copy, headed ‘To Mr Hammond Parson of Beaudly for ye beating downe of ye May-pole’ and subscribed ‘Dr Corb:’.

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

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

ff. 83r-4v

• BrW 30: William Browne of Tavistock, An Elegy (‘Is Death so great a gamester, that he throws’)

Copy, headed ‘On ye death of his Mrs’.

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

f. 84v

• StW 376: William Strode, On a freind's absence (‘Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay’)

Copy, headed ‘Song to his Mrs’.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 13. Forey, pp. 95-6.

f. 86v

• PeW 173: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)

Copy, headed ‘On a young Gentlewoman unmarriageable’ and here beginning ‘Why should thy passion quell thy mind’.

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

f. 86v

• CwT 893: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs’.

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

f. 86v

• PeW 174: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

f. 94r

• CoR 1.5: Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 (‘The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd’)

Copy.

First published in Poems and Songs relating to George Duke of Buckingham, Percy Society (London, 1850), p. 31. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82-3.

Most MS texts followed by an anonymous ‘Answer’ beginning ‘The warlike king was troubl'd when hee spi'd’. Texts of these two poems discussed in V.L. Pearl and M.L. Pearl, ‘Richard Corbett's “Against the Opposing of the Duke in Parliament, 1628” and the Anonymous Rejoinder, “An Answere to the Same, Lyne for Lyne”: The Earliest Dated Manuscript Copies’, RES, NS 42 (1991), 32-9, and related correspondence in RES, NS 43 (1992), 248-9.

MS Malone 22

A quarto volume of 60 poems by Henry King (plus one by Henry Reynolds), in a single neat hand, that of Thomas Manne's ‘imitator’, 46 leaves (including a few blank pages). c.1635-6 [and some later additions].

Some 18th-century additions including notes in French, some verse and the inscriptions (f. 3r) ‘Henry Dottin His Book’ and ‘Elie Dottin Her Book’. Later owned by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Malone MS’: KiH Δ 3. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1961), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 91-3 (with a facsimile of f. 17v: see KiH 321) and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see Rosemary Williams, Stoughton MS).

f. 2v

• ChM 2: Mary, Lady Chudleigh, To the Ladies (‘Wife and Servant are the same’)

Copy, in an 18th-century hand.

This MS recorded in Ezell, p. cviii.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (London, 1703). Ezell, pp. 83-4.

ff. 4r-6r

• KiH 793: Henry King, The Woes of Esay (‘Woe to the worldly men, whose covetous’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

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

ff. 6v-8r

• KiH 311: Henry King, An Essay on Death and a Prison (‘A Prison is in all things like a Grave’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

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

ff. 8v-9v

• KiH 708: Henry King, To his unconstant Freind (‘But say, thou very Woman, why to mee’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

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

f. 10r-v.

• KiH 411: Henry King, Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice (‘I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

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

f. 11r-v.

• KiH 106: Henry King, The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

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

ff. 11v-12

• KiH 665: Henry King, The Surrender (‘My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegy’.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

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

f. 12v.

• KiH 539: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes’)

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

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

f. 12v.

• KiH 630: Henry King, Sonnet (‘When I entreat, either thou wilt not heare’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

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

f. 13

• KiH 570: Henry King, Sonnet (‘I prethee turne that face away’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS 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. 13

• KiH 603: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

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

f. 13v.

• KiH 354: Henry King, The Farwell (‘Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

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

See also B&F 121-2.

f. 14

• KiH 27: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS 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).

f. 14v.

• KiH 422: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

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

f. 14v.

• KiH 516: Henry King, Sic Vita (‘Like to the Falling of a Starr’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

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

f. 15

• KiH 587: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee no more how faire shee is’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.

ff. 15v-16

• KiH 170: Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death (‘Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.

f. 16r-v.

• KiH 187: Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. (‘I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegy’.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.

f. 17

• KiH 275: Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset (‘Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

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

ff. 17v-19v.

• KiH 321: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum. Facsimile of f. 27v in Keynes, p. 93.

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

f. 20r-v.

• KiH 12: Henry King, The Anniverse. An Elegy (‘So soone grow'n old? Hast thou bin six yeares dead?’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegy’.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 72-3.

f. 21

• KiH 466: Henry King, On two Children dying of one Disease, and buryed in one Grave (‘Brought forth in Sorrow, and bred up in Care’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 72.

ff. 21v-2v.

• KiH 395: Henry King, A Letter (‘I ne're was drest in Formes. nor can I bend’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 152-4.

f. 23

• KiH 742: Henry King, To the same Lady Upon Mr. Burton's Melancholy (‘If in this Glasse of Humours you doe find’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.

f. 23

• KiH 747: Henry King, To the same Lady Upon Overburye's Wife (‘Madam, who understands you well, would sweare’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.

f. 23

• KiH 757: Henry King, Upon a Table-book presented to a Lady (‘When your faire hand receaves this Little Book’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.

f. 23v.

• KiH 685: Henry King, To a Freind upon Overburie's Wife given to Hir (‘I know no fitter Subject for your view’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 155.

f. 23v.

• KiH 695: Henry King, To A.R. upon the same (‘Not that I would instruct or tutor you’)

Copy, headed ‘To A.R. in eandem’.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 155.

f. 23v.

• KiH 752: Henry King, Upon a Braid of Haire in a sent by Mris. E.H. (‘In this small Character is sent’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 155.

f. 24

• KiH 304: Henry King, An Epitaph On Niobe turn'd to Stone (‘This Pile thou see'st, built out of Flesh not Stone’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 156.

f. 24

• KiH 735: Henry King, To One demanding why Wine sparkles (‘So Diamonds sparkle, and thy Mistriss' eyes’)

Copy of an early version, beginning ‘Wee doe not give the Wine a sparkling name’. c.1635-6.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 188-9, 243.

f. 24v.

• KiH 700: Henry King, To his Freinds of Christchurch upon the mislike of the Marriage of the Artes, acted at Woodstock (‘But is it true, the Court mislik't the Play’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 67.

ff. 25r-6r

• KiH 97: Henry King, By Occasion of the young Prince his happy Birth. May 29. 1630 (‘At this glad Triumph, when most Poëts use’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 73-5.

f. 26v.

• KiH 785: Henry King, The Vow-Breaker (‘When first the Magick of thine Ey’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 160-1.

f. 27r-v.

• KiH 480: Henry King, A Penitentiall Hymne (‘Hearken, O God! unto a wretche's cryes’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

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

ff. 27v-8v.

• KiH 764: Henry King, Upon the Death of my ever Desired Freind Dr. Donne Dean of Paules (‘To have liv'd Eminent, in a degree’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in John Donne, Deaths Duell (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 76-7.

ff. 28v-30v

• KiH 225: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus (‘Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.

f. 31r

• KiH 258: Henry King, Epigram (‘The fate of Bookes is diverse as man's Sense’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hannah and chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Hannah (1843), p. 130. Crum, p. 156.

f. 31r

• KiH 263: Henry King, Epigram (‘To what serve Lawes where only mony reignes?’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Hannah (1843), p. 127. Crum, p. 156.

f. 31r

• KiH 269: Henry King, Epigram (‘When Arria to her Paetus had bequeath'd’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Hannah (1843), p. 128. Crum, p. 156.

f. 31v.

• KiH 247: Henry King, Epigram (‘He whose advent'rous keele ploughes the rough Seas’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Hannah (1843), p. 129. Crum, p. 157.

f. 31v.

• KiH 253: Henry King, Epigram (‘I would not in my Love too soone prevaile’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in The Gentleman's Magazine, 5 (July 1735), 380. The English Poems of Henry King, ed. Lawrence Mason (New Haven, 1914), p. 174. Crum, p. 157.

f. 32r

• KiH 560: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Go Thou, that vainly dost mine eyes invite’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 162.

f. 32r

• KiH 624: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Were thy heart soft, as Thou art faire’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 158-9.

f. 32v.

• KiH 528: Henry King, Silence. A Sonnet (‘Peace my Hearte's blabb, be ever dumbe’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 159.

f. 33r

• KiH 658: Henry King, Sonnet. To Patience (‘Downe stormy Passions, downe: no more’)

Copy, headed ‘To Patience’.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 160.

f. 33v.

• KiH 489: Henry King, The Pink (‘Faire one, you did on mee bestow’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 167.

f. 34r

• KiH 689: Henry King, To a Lady who sent me a copy of verses at my going to bed (‘Lady, your art, or wit could nere devise’)

Copy of an early version, beginning ‘Doubtlesse the Thespian Spring doth overflow’; c.1635-6.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 178-9, 240.

f. 34v.

• KiH 730: Henry King, To my Sister Anne King who chid mee in verse for being angry (‘Deare Nan! I would not have thy Counsaile lost’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 166.

f. 35r

• KiH 644: Henry King, Sonnet. The Double Rock (‘Since Thou hast view'd some Gorgon, and art grow'n’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 167-8.

f. 35v.

• KiH 498: Henry King, The Retreit (‘Pursue no more (My Thoughts!) that False Unkind’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 168.

f. 36r

• KiH 403: Henry King, Love's Harvest (‘Fond Lunatick forbeare. WHy dost thou sue’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 169.

f. 36v.

• KiH 371: Henry King, The Forlorne Hope (‘How long (vaine Hope!) dost thou my joyes suspend?’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 168-9.

f. 37r

• KiH 21: Henry King, Being waked out of my Sleep by a Snuff of Candle which offended mee, I thus thought (‘Perhapps 'twas but Conceit. Erroneous Sense!’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 169-70.

ff. 37v-8v.

• KiH 137: Henry King, The Departure. An Elegy (‘Were I to leave no more than a Good Freind’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegy’.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 163-4.

f. 39r-v

• KiH 5: Henry King, An Acknowledgment (‘My best of Friends! what needes a Chaine to ty’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 164-6.

f. 40r-v.

• KiH 772: Henry King, Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland (‘So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun’)

Copy.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Crum.

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

f. 41

• KiH 208: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the Bishopp of London John King (‘Sad Relick of a Blessed Soule! whose trust’)

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 172-3.

ff. 41v-2

• KiH 378: Henry King, The Labyrinth (‘Life is a crooked Labyrinth, and wee’)

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 173-4.

ff. 42v-4

• KiH 150: Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse (‘Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?’)

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Crum.

First published in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.

ff. 44v-5v.

• KiH 384: Henry King, The Legacy (‘My dearest Love! When Thou and I must part’)

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 170-2.

MS Malone 23

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in a secretary hand, vi + 221 pages, in 18th-century diced calf gilt. c.1630s.

Inscribed (f. iiir) by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector, ‘Bought at the sale of Mr. [Jonathan] Boucher's Library in April 1806, for £2. 12. 6. E Malone’.

p. 1a

• DaJ 27: Sir John Davies, In Curionem (‘The great archpapist learned Curio’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Henry Howard Earle of Northampton. 1603’.

This MS collated in Krueger.

First published in Krueger (1975), pp. 182-3.

pp. 1b-10

• HoJ 41: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)

Copy, headed ‘The Censure of the Parliamentary Fart’.

Edited from this MS in Early Stuary Libels.

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

p. 8

• DrM 14: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)

Copy, untitled.

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

p. 23

• HoJ 215: John Hoskyns, Sr Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount St Albons (‘Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the fall of Sr, Francis Bacon Lo. verulam & viscount St: Alban Lo: Chancellour’.

Edited from this MS in Early Stuart Libels.

Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.

pp. 28-31

• DrW 117.13: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

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. 105

• MrJ 79: John Marston, Upon the Dukes Goeing into Fraunce (‘And wilt thou goe, great duke, and leave us heere’)

An anonymous copy.

pp. 106-9

• MrJ 23: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

An anonymous copy, headed ‘In Ducem Reducem’.

pp. 116-17

• CoR 2: Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 (‘The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses supposed to be made by Doctor Corbett Bishop of Oxford against the opposing the Duke in Parliament. 1628’.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82, 152.

First published in Poems and Songs relating to George Duke of Buckingham, Percy Society (London, 1850), p. 31. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 82-3.

Most MS texts followed by an anonymous ‘Answer’ beginning ‘The warlike king was troubl'd when hee spi'd’. Texts of these two poems discussed in V.L. Pearl and M.L. Pearl, ‘Richard Corbett's “Against the Opposing of the Duke in Parliament, 1628” and the Anonymous Rejoinder, “An Answere to the Same, Lyne for Lyne”: The Earliest Dated Manuscript Copies’, RES, NS 42 (1991), 32-9, and related correspondence in RES, NS 43 (1992), 248-9.

p. 121

• HrJ 75: Sir John Harington, How England may be reformed (‘Men say that England late is bankrout grown’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘England men say of late is bankerupt growne’.

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

pp. 132-3

• FeO 45: Owen Felltham, On the Duke of Buckingham slain by Felton, the 23. Aug. 1628 (‘Sooner I may some fixed Statue be’)

Copy, headed ‘In Buckinghamiæ Ducem. vltimo Aug: 1628’ and subscribed ‘per Owen Feltham’.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers. Edited from this MS in the online Early Stuart Libels.

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

pp. 134-5

• CaE 6: 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 44-line elegy beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’.

This MS recorded in Akkerman.

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

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

p. 140

• CaE 7: 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.

Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

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

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

p. 195

• ShJ 20: James Shirley, Epitaph On the Duke of Bvckingham (‘Here lies the best and worst of Fate’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Armstrong. Edited in the online ‘Earl Stuart Libels’.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 15.

p. 220

• DnJ 402: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy of lines 27-8, headed ‘Of French Crownes’ and here beginning ‘Although the French king most Christian bee’.

This MS 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.

MS Malone 24

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, 26 octavo leaves (plus blanks). c.1600.

EsR 101: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology

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

MS Malone 25

Copy of an abridged version, xii + 70 quarto leaves. In the hand of Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, with Middleton's autograph verse dedication ‘To the worthily accomplished Master William Hammond’ (‘beginning This--which nor stage nor stationer's stall can show’) subscribed ‘T. M.’ 1624.

*MiT 16: Thomas Middleton, A Game at Chess

Once owned by one ‘J. Pepys’. Sold by C.J. Stewart, bookseller, c.1860-70.

This MS collated and two scenes printed in Bald. Recorded in Harper.

Facsimile pages in Bald, facing p. 33; in F.P. Wilson, ‘Ralph Crane, Scrivener to the King's Players’, The Library, 4th Ser. 7 (1926-7), 194-215 (plate V); in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XCIV(b); and in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 220. Facsimile of the verses to Hammond on p. vii in Oxford Middleton, p. 1896.

First published in London, [1625]. Bullen, VII, 1-136. Edited by R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1929) and by J.W. Harper (London, 1966). An ‘early form’ in Oxford Middleton, pp. 1779-1824, with a ‘later form’ on pp. 1830-85.

Mal E 61-63

Exemplum of Edmond Malone's printed edition of The Critical and Miscellaneous Prose Works of John Dryden (3 vols, London, 1800, lacking Vol. I, part ii), copiously annotated by Malone in preparation for an intended second edition. c.1800s.

Vol. I, Part i, [unspecified page numbers]

• DrJ 341: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Malone's copy of a letter by Dryden to Jacob Tonson, [December 1697].

Vo. I, Part i, [unspecified page numbers]

• DrJ 350: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Malone's copy of Dryden's letter to Elizabeth Steward, ‘Candlemass-Day’ [2 February] 1698/9.

Vol. I, part i, [unspecified page numbers]

• DrJ 354: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Malone's copy of Dryden's letter to Elizabeth Steward, 23 February 1698/9.

Ward, Letter 73. NB. Ward dates this letter 23 February [1699/1700], but see W.J. Cameron, ‘John Dryden and Henry Heveningham’, N&Q, 202 (May 1957), 199-203 (p. 203).

Mal 3

An exemplum of the printed edition of 1662, with annotations (? by George Steevens (1736-1800), literary editor and scholar), including transcripts of notes made in their own exempla by Ralph Thoresby (1658-1725), Yorkshire antiquary and topographer, and by William Oldys (1696-1761), herald and antiquary. Late 18th century.

FuT 5.264: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England

See John Eglington Bailey, The Life of Thomas Fuller, D.D., with notices of his Books, his Kinsmen, and his Friends, (London, 1874), p. 742.

First published in London, 1662.

Mal. 215 (1)

A proof-sheet for the 3rd edition (1637). The outer forme of sheet G (sigs G1r, 2v, 3r, 4v), with MS proof corrections, in an exemplum of this quarto edition. c.1637.

HyT 6.5: Thomas Heywood, The Fayre Mayde of the Exchange

Discussed in Peter H. Davison, ‘The Fair Maid of the Exchange’, The Library, 5th Ser. 13 (1958), 119-20; and in James Hammersmith, ‘Early Proofing: The Evidence of Extant Proof-Sheets’, AEB, 7 (1983), 188-215 (pp. 200-1). Recorded in Jan Moore, p. 71.

First published in London, 1607. Edited by Peter Davison, Malone Society Reprints, 1962 (1963).

Mal. 225 (3)

The text of the missing first four leaves supplied in MS, as a neat facsimile, in a defective exemplum of the quarto edition of 1600. 18th century.

JnB 605.5: Ben Jonson, Every Man out of his Humour

First published in London, 1600. Herford & Simpson, III, 405-604.

Mal. 225 (4)

The text of the missing title-page and last leaf supplied in MS in a defective exemplum of the quarto edition of 1607, which also contains readers' annotations in one or more other hands. Late 17th or 18th century.

JnB 738: Ben Jonson, Volpone

This item recorded in Herford & Simpson, V, 6, and collated.

First published in London, 1607. Herford & Simpson, V, 1-137.

Mal. 235

Dekker's autograph signature, apparently cut from his entry for 5 May 1602 in the ‘Diary’ of Philip Henslowe, pasted in a printed volume of his plays. 1602.

*DkT 56: Thomas Dekker, Document(s)

Mal. 238 (10)

Fair copy, complete with dedication and the anagram from Camden, written for presentation to Lady Penelope Rich; bound in a volume of Ford's printed plays. [1606].

FoJ 2: John Ford, Fame's Memorial (‘Swift Time, the speedy pursuivant of heaven’)

This MS discussed and unpublished stanzas printed in Bertram Lloyd, ‘An Inedited MS. of Ford's Fames Memoriall’, RES, 1 (1925), 93-5. Also discussed in G. D. Monsarrat, ‘Printed Texts and Presentation Manuscripts: The Case of John Ford's Fame's Memorial and A Line of Life’, The Library, 6th Ser. 2 (1980), 80-5, and in Nondramatic Works (1991), esp.pp. 78-81, with a facsimile of ff. vv-1r on p. 84.

First published in London, 1606. Dyce, III, 277-327. Nondramatic Works (1991), pp. 61-131.

Mal. 240 (1)

A signature of Chapman on a slip cut from a page in the ‘Diary’ of Philip Henslowe (c.1555-1616), theatre financier. Extracted, probably by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, from the ‘Diary’ now at Dulwich College, and now pasted in a printed exemplum of Chapman's The Blind Beggar of Alexandria (London, 1598). c.1590s-1600s.

*ChG 30: George Chapman, Document(s)

Facsimiles in W. W. Greg, ‘Fragments from Henslowe's Diary’, Collections: Volume IV, Malone Society (Oxford, 1956), pp. 27-32, and in Cummings, p. 191.

Mal. 253 (2)

Two sets of MS annotations, one in pencil, the other in ink, in an exemplum of the first edition prepared for use as a promptbook by the Duke's Company. c.1666-7.

ShJ 206: James Shirley, The Witty Fair One

Owned, and annotated, by Edmond Malone (1741-1812), literary scholar, biographer and book collector.

This item briefly discussed in Bertram Joseph, ‘Stage-Directions in a 17th Cent. Copy of Shirley’, TN, 3 (1949), 66-7. Complete reduced facsimile in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1981), pp. 261-94 (and discussed, pp. 42-4).

First published in London, 1633. Gifford & Dyce, I, 273-362.

See also ShJ 47-9, ShJ 98.

Mal. 253 (9)

MS annotations in an exemplum of the first edition prepared for use as a promptbook by the King's Company. c.1660s.

ShJ 134: James Shirley, The Ball

This item discussed in Dana G. McKinnen, ‘A Description of a Restoration Promptbook of Shirley's The Ball’, RECTR, 10 (May 1976), 25-48; and, with a facsimile example, in Edward A. Langhans, Restoration Promptbooks (Carbondale & Edwardsville, 1981), pp. 19-23.

First published, as ‘written by George Chapman and James Shirly’, in London, 1639. Gifford & Dyce, III, 1-91. See also Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 1078.

Mal. 460

Walton's exemplum. Late 17th century.

*WtI 189: Izaak Walton, Pembroke, William Herbert, Earl of, and Benjamin Ruddier. Poems [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660)

Mal. 469

An autograph signature by Drayton, on a slip probably cut from Henslowe's ‘Diary’, formerly pasted in a printed exemplum of Mortimeriados (London, 1596). Late 16th-early 17th century.

*DrM 78: Michael Drayton, Document(s)

Currently untraced.

Facsimile in Greg, Plate VIII(b.

Mal. 792(1)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 89: Gabriel Harvey, Gascoigne, George. The Posies...Corrected, perfected, and augmented by the Authour (London, 1575)

Stern, pp. 215-16.

Mal. 792(1)

Copy in the hand of Gabriel Harvey. headed ‘The offence to the stomach’, in Harvey's annotated exemplum of George Gascoigne's Posies (London, 1575). c.1576?

RaW 358.3: Sir Walter Ralegh, Walter Rawely of the middle Temple, in commendation of the Steele Glasse (‘Swete were the sauce would please ech kind of tast’)

First published in George Gascoigne, The Steele Glas (London, 1576). Latham, p. 3. Rudick, No. 1, pp. 1-2.

Mal. 792(2)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 90: Gabriel Harvey, Gascoigne, George. The Steele Glas. A Satyr compiled by George Gascoigne Esquire. Togither with the Complaint of Phylomene. An Elegie devised by the same Author (London, 1576)