MS Rawl. poet. 2
Copy in a single hand, i + 47 large folio leaves. Including names of actors in the Dramatis Personae. c.1670.
OrR 12: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Henry the Fifth
Inscribed names of ‘Katherine Brudenell’ and ‘Josheph Allen 1706’.
This MS collated in Clark.
First performed on the London stage 13 August 1664. First published London, 1668. Clark, I, 165-224.
MS Rawl. poet. 5
Copy, in an accomplished professional hand, headed ‘The Tragædie of Mustapha’, iv + 108 large folio pages, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1670.
OrR 25: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Mustapha
Inscriptions inside the front and rear covers ‘Cæcillya Huseys Book’, ‘Cicillia Freke’, and ‘W Shaw’.
This MS collated in Clark.
First performed on the London stage 3 April 1665. First published, as Mustapha, The Son of Solyman the Magnificent, London, 1668. Clark, I, 225-304.
MS Rawl. poet. 12
A folio volume comprising three poems, 107 leaves. 1692-3.
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• CoA 56: Abraham Cowley, Davideis (‘I Sing the Man who Judahs Scepter bore’)
Copy, apparently transcribed from a printed source.
First published in Poems (London, 1656). Grosart, II, 45-115. Waller, I, 239-401.
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• DrJ 1: John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (‘In pious times, e'r Priest-craft did begin’)
Copy, transcribed from an early edition.
This MS recorded in California.
First published in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 215-43. California, II, 2-36. Hammond, I, 450-532.
MS Rawl. poet. 16
A folio volume of poems and dramatic works by Jane and Elizabeth Cavendish (chiefly the former), a formal anthology in the stylish italic hand of Sir William Cavendish's secretary John Rolleston (1587?-1681), of Sokeholme, Nottinghamshire, viii + 168 pages (including some blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt, the initials ‘W N’ [i.e. William Newcastle] in gilt on each cover. A list of contents on pp. iii-iv in the hand of Elizabeth Cavendish's husband John Egerton (1623-86), Viscount Brackley and second Earl of Bridgewater, Privy Councillor, with (p. v) a formal title-page probably also in his hand, ‘Poems Songs a Pastorall and a Play by the Rt Honble the Lady Iane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley’, a list of contents on pp. 159-62 in another hand. c.1640s.
Facsimile of the title-page in Travitsky, Subordination, p. 55.
p. 1
• C&E 22: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The Greate Example / To my Lord my ffather the Marquess of Newcastle (‘My Lord / You are the Academy of all truth’)
Copy.
p. 1
• C&E 153: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Passions Lre to my Lord my Father (‘My Lord, it is your absence makes each see’)
Copy.
p. 2
• C&E 121: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete brother Charles (‘Brother / Your face the quintecence of modestie’)
Copy.
p. 2
• C&E 123: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete brother Henry (‘Brother / your selfe the onely peece of natures pride’)
Copy.
p. 2
• C&E 109: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Lord my ffather the Marquess of Newcastle (‘My Lord / Your face is a sweete molde for modestie’)
Copy.
p. 3
• C&E 113: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Noble Vncle Sr Charles Cauendish Knight (‘Vncle / Your life's the true Example of a Saint’)
Copy.
p. 3
• C&E 145: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Passions Contemplation (‘Ther's nothing more afflicts my greiued soule’)
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p. 4
• C&E 147: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Passions Contemplation (‘The torments I receaue is thought of mind’)
Copy.
p. 4
• C&E 182: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The trueth of Pensell (‘My Lord your Picture speakes you this to bee’)
Copy.
p. 5
• C&E 175: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A Songe in answeare to yor Lops: Sayter (‘Sayter I thanke you for your declaration’)
Copy.
p. 6
• C&E 74: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On an Acquaintance (‘When looke on you then each should truely name’)
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p. 6
• C&E 64: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a Noble Lady (‘Thy selfe a sacred Church, soe each should look’)
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p. 6
• C&E 12: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The Cure (‘I'll tell thee what's the cure of Jealousy’)
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p. 7
• C&E 62: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a Noble Lady (‘Thou sent a message Late’)
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p. 7
• C&E 149: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Passions delate (‘Greife sadnes sounds what shall thee take’)
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p. 8
• C&E 163: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The reuiue (‘Greifes passion Child, this night had dyed’)
Copy.
p. 8
• C&E 54: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a false reporte of yr Lops: landinge (‘Fye false Scout doe you growe madd’)
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p. 9
• C&E 93: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On his most sacred Matie: (‘Most sacred Sr and best of humane race’)
Copy.
p. 9
• C&E 86: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On hir most sacred Matie: (‘When Mary's named, what life it giues’)
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p. 9
• C&E 88: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On his Highnes the Prince of Wales (‘Sir your lookes a Conqueror doth presage’)
Copy.
p. 10
• C&E 173: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A Songe (‘Our Eyes fix'd lookeing on thee’)
Copy.
p. 10
• C&E 125: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete Nephew Henry Harpur (‘The lookes sweete boy as if thou wouldest bee’)
Copy.
p. 11
• C&E 127: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete Sister Brackley (‘Sister / Thour't quinticence of beauty, goodnes, truth’)
Copy.
Facsimile of p. 11 in Lynn Hulse, ‘“The King's Entertainment” by the Duke of Newcastle’, Viator, 26 (1995), 355-405 (p. 367).
p. 11
• C&E 131: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete Sister Fraunces (‘Sister / Among'st our Sex sweete Pursland pure you are’)
Copy.
Facsimile of p. 11 in Lynn Hulse, ‘“The King's Entertainment” by the Duke of Newcastle’, Viator, 26 (1995), 355-405 (p. 367).
p. 11
• C&E 155: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The Peart one, or otherwise, my Sister Brackley (‘Sister / Thou art soe pritty, younge, and witty’)
Copy.
Facsimile of p. 11 in Lynn Hulse, ‘“The King's Entertainment” by the Duke of Newcastle’, Viator, 26 (1995), 355-405 (p. 367).
p. 12
• C&E 91: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On hir sacred Matie: (‘Madam / Your lookes are courage mixt wth such sweetnes’)
Copy.
p. 12
• C&E 35: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Loues Torture (‘Ther's noe such Hell as is a torter'd mind’)
Copy.
p. 12
• C&E 159: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The quinticence of Cordiall (‘Sister/ Wer't not for you I knew not how to liue’)
Copy.
p. 13
• C&E 171: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A Songe (‘Mayde, wife, or widow wch beares the graue stile’)
Copy.
p. 14
• C&E 4: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, An answeare to the verses Mr Carey made to the La: Carlile (‘What doe your thoughts begin in loue to stray’)
Copy.
p. 14
• C&E 139: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, on the least finger of hir hand (‘When on thy little Finger looke’)
Copy.
p. 15
• C&E 178: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Thankes Lre (‘My Lord / Your present to mee was soe iustly kind’)
Copy.
p. 15
• C&E 151: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Passions inuitation (‘For Gods sake come away & land’)
Copy.
p. 16
• C&E 2: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, An answeare to my Lady Alice Edgertons Songe Of I prithy send mee back my Hart (‘I cannot send you back my hart’)
Copy.
p. 16
• C&E 50: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a Chamber=mayde (‘Thou louely Bess, that art soe plumpe & young’)
Copy.
p. 17
• C&E 76: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On an Acquaintance (‘You did appeare as if that Black’)
Copy.
p. 17
• C&E 68: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On an Acquaintance (‘Each in your face this truely now doe see’)
Copy.
p. 17
• C&E 72: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On an Acquaintance (‘Thou were the prittest thinge that e'r I saw’)
Copy.
p. 17
• C&E 70: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On an Acquaintance (‘Thou art a free good soule of Innocence’)
Copy.
p. 18
• C&E 58: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, on a Noble Lady (‘Madam, I pray 'giue leaue in this’)
Copy.
last word?
p. 18
• C&E 60: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a Noble Lady (‘Madam you are soe truely noble & soe good’)
Copy.
p. 18
• C&E 56: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a Noble Lady (‘Madam, and friend, for trueth must call you soe’)
Copy.
p. 19
• C&E 141: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On the Lord Viscount Brackley (‘My Lord / You are a Husband iust as one would wishe’)
Copy.
p. 19
• C&E 129: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete Sister Brackley (‘Sister / Thy natures onely fitt for Cæsars wife’)
Copy.
p. 20
• C&E 37: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Loues Vniuerse (‘The vniuers mee thinkes I see’)
Copy.
p. 20
• C&E 6: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The captiue Buriall (‘My captiue soule, it selfe bemones’)
Copy.
p. 21
• C&E 167: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A Songe (‘I doe desire to liue’)
Copy.
p. 21
• C&E 18: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Faireings Munckey (‘The Faireinge shewed thy selfe to bee’)
Copy.
p. 22
• C&E 115: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Sister Brackleys Picture (‘Looke on this Picture where you'l see’)
Copy.
p. 22
• C&E 119: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Sister Fraunces Picture (‘Nature bids you on this Picture veiw’)
Copy.
p. 22
• C&E 66: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a worthy freind (‘Those that would chuse a patterne for a wife’)
Copy.
p. 23
• C&E 8: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The Carecter (‘Your seruants now them selues to saue’)
Copy.
p. 24
• C&E 169: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A Songe (‘I would loues language tell but soe’)
Copy.
p. 24
• C&E 186: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, ‘Your truely full of seruice this is true’
Copy.
p. 25
• C&E 1: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The angry Curs (‘Who is't that darr tell mee they'l haue a way’)
Copy.
p. 26
• C&E 166: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A Songe (‘A man and a wife when once they marry’)
Copy.
p. 26
• C&E 14: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The descoursiue Ghost (‘Clog of my Spirit prethee get thee hence’)
Copy.
p. 27
• C&E 32: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Lifes weather Glass (‘The Deuill take mee if I can tell what’)
Copy.
p. 27
• C&E 10: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The cautious man, or wits wonder (‘I wonder as those people that doe thinke’)
Copy.
p. 28
• C&E 117: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Sister Brackley (‘May all new yeares and happines, bee soe’)
Copy.
p. 28
• C&E 78: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On an Honourable Lady (‘Madam giue leaue to prayse you though you are’)
Copy.
p. 28
• C&E 52: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a Chambermayde (‘Thy presence Mary, I with trueth confess’)
Copy.
p. 29
• C&E 161: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A recruted ioj vpon a Lre from your Lopp: (‘This happy Tuesday since that now I see’)
Copy.
p. 30
• C&E 111: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Noble Grandfather Sr Charles Cauendysh (‘Sir / Your memory a Cronacle would make’)
Copy.
p. 30
• C&E 137: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, on the Lady Ogle my deare Grandmother (‘My Grandmother the onely peece of good’)
Copy.
p. 31
• C&E 95: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my deare mother the Countess of Newcastle (‘I had a mother which to speake was such’)
Copy.
p. 31
• C&E 20: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, ‘Foure Brthers & a Sister such I had’
Copy.
p. 32
• C&E 101: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Grandfather Mr Basset (‘Sir / A gallant man you were & Courtier true’)
Copy.
p. 32
• C&E 103: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Grandmother the Lady Corbett (‘When looke on you your face did teach one wealth’)
Copy.
p. 32
• C&E 133: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete Sister the Lady Harpur (‘A sister once I had which alwayes saw’)
Copy.
p. 33
• C&E 82: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, on Gilbert Earle of Shrewsbury (‘Thou wert the onely peece of noble trueth’)
Copy.
p. 33
• C&E 105: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my honble: Aunt Mary Countes of Shrewsbury (‘Madam / Your Courage, witt, & judgment this is true’)
Copy.
p. 34
• C&E 99: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my good Aunt Jane Countes of Shrewsbury (‘Madam / Your blessed selfe was euen pure vertues fame’)
Copy.
p. 34
• C&E 97: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my good & true freind Mr Henry Ogle (‘Seruant, noe, freind thou wert & truely soe’)
Copy.
p. 35
• C&E 107: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Honble: Grandmother Elizabeth Countes of Shrewsbury (‘Madam / You were the very Magazine of rich’)
Copy.
p. 36
• C&E 180: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, To Heauen or a confession to God (‘I doe confess great God my sinns are great’)
Copy.
p. 37
• C&E 80: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On Christmas day to God (‘This day a happy day for all on earth’)
Copy.
p. 37
• C&E 84: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On good Fryday (‘The remembring of this day appeareth soe’)
Copy.
p. 38
• C&E 143: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On the .30th. of June to God (‘This day I will my thankes sure now decline’)
Copy.
p. 39
• C&E 40: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The minds Saluation (‘This day I did in perspectiue one veiw’)
Copy.
p. 39
• C&E 25: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Hopes preparation (‘Now I'm prepared against my Lord doth come’)
Copy.
p. 40
• C&E 48: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, ‘Now Lord I begg of thee before I pray’
Copy.
p. 40
• C&E 184: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, ‘When I in prayer, pray God looke on mee’
Copy.
p. 41
• C&E 30: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, ‘I haue now receiu'd thy Sacrament, soe fynd’
Copy.
p. 41
• C&E 28: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, ‘I cannot speake, nor looke, nor nothing say’
Copy.
p. 42
• C&E 177: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The speakeing Glass (‘When that I looke into my Glasse’)
Copy.
p. 43
• C&E 34: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Loue conflict (‘When first I happily did heare’)
Copy.
p. 44
• C&E 136: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Worthy freind Mr Richard Pypes (‘Sir / You are soe truely Noble, and soe free’)
Copy.
p. 44
• C&E 135: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Worthy freind Mr Haslewood (‘Your pensells fanceys I dooe sweare is such’)
Copy.
p. 45
• C&E 27: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Hopes Still (‘What shall I say I am a brickle still’)
Copy.
p. 49
• C&E 42: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, ‘My Lord / After the deuty of a Verse’
Copy, subscribed ‘Jane Cauendysshe’.
p. 50
• C&E 45: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, ‘My Lord / This Pastorall could not owne weake’
Copy, subscribed ‘Elizabeth Brackley’.
pp. 52-83
• C&E 194: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A Pastorall
Copy.
A series of antemasques, songs and speaches. Unpublished.
p. 84
• C&E 44: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, ‘My Lord it is your absence makes each see’
Copy.
p. 84
• C&E 47: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, ‘My Lord your absence makes I cannot owne’
Copy.
p. 87
• C&E 158: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A Prologe to the Stage (‘Ladyes I beseech you blush not to see’)
Copy.
p. 87
• C&E 165: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The second Prologe spoke by a Woman (‘Though a second Prologue spoke to our Play’)
Copy.
p. 88
• C&E 157: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A perticuler Prologe to your Lopp: (‘My Lord / If that your iudgement doth approue of wee’)
Copy.
pp. 91-154
• C&E 193: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The concealed Fansyes
Copy.
Facsimile and transcription of p. 91 in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 430-1.
A five-act play, including songs. Unpublished.
p. 155
• C&E 17: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Epilog (‘Truely the conflicts I did see wthin’)
Copy.
p. 155
• C&E 15: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Epilog (‘And I was sent in all hast to you here’)
Copy.
p. 156
• C&E 16: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, An Epilog / In perticuler to your Lopp: (‘Now since your Excellence hath thought it fitt’)
Copy.
p. 157
• C&E 24: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, ‘Haue you now read my Lord, pray doe not speake’
Copy.
MS Rawl. poet. 19
A folio composite volume of verse, 208 leaves.
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• RoJ 22: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book (‘Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes’)
Copy on two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
Edited in part from this MS in Love. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.
f. 46r et seq.
• MaA 139.2: Andrew Marvell, A Country Clowne call'd Hodge Went to view the Pyramid, pray mark what did ensue (‘When Hodge had number'd up how many score’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Mengel.
First published, as ‘Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision’, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.
First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.
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• MaA 108: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)
Copy, headed ‘Britannia and Rawleighs Ghost’ in a quarto booklet of verse. Late 17th century.
First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, ‘Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe’, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).
f. 71r
• WaE 689: Edmund Waller, Upon our late Loss of the Duke of Cambridge (‘The failing blossoms which a young plant bears’)
Copy, headed ‘On ye Death of ye Duke of Cambridge’, the poem dated December 1677. Late 17th century.
First published in Poems, ‘Fourth’ edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 79.
f. 79r
• WaE 490: Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received the foregoing copy which for many years had been lost (‘Nothing lies hid from radiant eyes’)
Copy, headed ‘To Madam Stewart upon hir Returning a lost Letter to E: W:’, on a single quarto leaf, endorsed ‘To Mrs Stuart by Mr Waller’. Late 17th century.
First published in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 69.
ff. 138r-9r
• ClJ 161: John Cleveland, Elegy on Edward King (‘Whiles Phebus shines within our Hemisphere’)
Copy of a Latin rendition by Francis Turner (dedicatee of Clievelandi Vindicæ, 1677), headed ‘Carmina Dni Joannis Cleavland in obitum Dni Edwardi King (in mari Hiberniæ suffocati) Latine reddita’.
First published in Justa Edovardo King (1638). Morris & Withington, pp. 65-6.
f. 146
• SdT 15.6: Thomas Shadwell, Prologue to the Oxford Scollers at the Act there, 1671 (‘Your civil kindness last year shown’)
Copy, unascribed.
Attributed to Shadwell by W. J. Lawrence in ‘Oxford Restoration Prologues’, TLS (16 January 1930), p. 43, but though misreading a manuscript ascription to ‘J. S.’ as to ‘T .S.’ Published in Danchin, II, 414-16. Not by Shadwell.
f. 149r-v
• DrJ 166: John Dryden, Prologue to the University of Oxon. Spoken by Mr. Hart, at the Acting of the Silent Woman (‘What Greece, when Learning flourish'd, onely Knew’)
Copy, headed ‘Prologue’, on a folio leaf. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Kinsley and in California.
First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 369-70. California, I, 146-7. Hammond, I, 277-9.
f. 152r-v
• DrJ 41: John Dryden, Epilogue [to the University of Oxon.], Spoken by the same [Mr. Hart] (‘No poor Dutch Peasant, wing'd with all his Fear’)
Copy, headed ‘Epilogue’, on a folio leaf. Late 17th century.
This MS collated in Kinsley and in California.
First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 370-1. California, I, 147-8. Hammond, I, 279-81.
MS Rawl. poet. 20
MS of an adaptation of the play, in a single hand, with numerous deletions and revisions, untitled, possibly written for performances by the King's Company in 1662, vi + 47 folio leaves, in vellum boards. Late 17th century.
MsP 36: Philip Massinger, The Renegado
This MS discussed in Edwards & Gibson, II, 8-9; in W.J. Lawrence, ‘The Renegado’, TLS (24 October 1929), p. 846; in James G. McManaway, ‘Philip Massinger and the Restoration Drama’, Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography and Theater (New York, 1969), 3-30 (pp. 14-15); and in Bentley, IV, 814.
First published in London, 1630. Edwards & Gibson, II, 11-96.
MS Rawl. poet. 23
A folio volume of the words of anthems used in the Chapel Royal at Whitehall, 310 leaves, in contemporary brown leather stamped with the royal arms. c.1635.
Owned in 1732 by John, Earl of Leicester, Constable of the Tower. Bought by Rawlinson at an auction in St Paul's Churchyard 15 January 1742/3.
pp. 41-2
• KiH 485: Henry King, A Penitentiall Hymne (‘Hearken, O God! unto a wretche's cryes’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Crum.
First published in The Psalmes of David, 2nd edition (London, 1654). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 161-2.
pp. 125-6
• CwT 607: Thomas Carew, Psalme 91 (‘Make the greate God thy Fort, and dwell’)
Copy, subscribed ‘Henry Lawes’.
First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 180-1. Dunlap. pp. 138-9.
p. 158
• JnB 311: Ben Jonson, A Hymne to God the Father (‘Heare mee, O God!’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Vnder-wood (i.2) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 129-30.
MS Rawl. poet. 24
Copy of Psalms 1-150, in an accomplished professional secretary and roman hand, iv + 227 folio pages. in formerly half-calf marbled boards (rebacked). Entitled ‘The Psalmes of Dauid translated into diuers & sundry kindes of verse, more rare, & excellent, for the method & varietie then euer yet hath bene don in English: begun by the noble & learned gent. Sr P: Sidney Kt., & finished by the R: honnorable the Countesse of Pembroke, his Sister, & by her dirrection & appointment’. Early 17th century.
SiP 72: Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David
Inscribed on the title-page ‘W. Barkwith’.
This MS described in Ringler, p. 548. Facsimile of the title-page in Rathmell, p. xxxiii.
Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.
MS Rawl. poet. 25
Copy of Psalms 1-87, 102-30, in the small hand of Dr Samuel Woodford, lacking a title, vi + 157 folio leaves (ff. 83r-99v and 132r-45v blank), incomplete, in vellum boards. Inscribed on f. 82v, after Psalm 87, ‘But here all the leaues are torn off, to the 23 verse of the CII. Psalms, to be supplyd if possible from some other Copy, of wch ther is a fayre one in Trinity Colledg library in Cambridg, & of wch many years since I had ye sight when I first began my Paraphrase Sam: Woodforde’ and, on f. 131v, after Psalm 130, ‘But from this place to the end, my Copy is defective the leaves being torn off Ita tester Sam: Woodforde who for Sr philip Sedneys sake, & to preserue such a remaine of him undertook this tiresome task of transcribing, 1694/5’. 1694/5.
SiP 73: Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David
Also inscribed by Woodford (f. iir) ‘The Original Copy is by mee Given me by my brother Mr John Woodford who bought it among other broken books to putt up Coffee pouder as I remembr’. Inscribed (f. 146r) ‘T. W’ and ‘Mary Woodforde’.
Psalms 1-43 edited from this MS in Ringler and described pp. 547-8. Psalm 85 edited from this MS and discussed in Noel Kinnamon, ‘A Variant of the Countess of Pembroke Psalm 85’, Sidney Newsletter, 2/2 (1981), 9-12.
Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.
MS Rawl. poet. 26
A folio composite volume, chiefly of English and Latin verse, in various hands; vi + 186 leaves, in reversed calf.
Scribbling on f. iir including ‘ffor mr William Rabey in New=market...’, ‘ffor my Louing ffriend in G John westhropp at mr Rogers Reringe house Bury in S[uffolk]’, ‘ffor mr John fford at his house in Newmarket in the countey of cambridge’; notes on f. iiiv-ivr, one ‘Recd 22 July 1669’, subscribed ‘John Cooke’ and including, on f. vir, ‘ffor mr John Cocke at his howse neere the white harte in Thetford...’. Later owned, in the 1730s, by Charles Barlow, of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (his bookplate f. iiv).
f. vr
• RaW 21: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘John Cooke’. c.1620s-40s.
First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).
See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.
f. 1v
• JnB 486: Ben Jonson, To Fine Lady Wovld-Bee (‘Fine madame Wovld-Bee, wherefore should you feare’)
Copy of lines 9-12, headed ‘De abortientibus’ and here beginning ‘Why are yow barren? ô yow liue at Court’.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in Epigrammes (lxii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 46.
f. 1v
• JnB 260: Ben Jonson, A Grace by Ben: Johnson. extempore. before King James (‘Our King and Queen the Lord-God blesse’)
Copy of a version perhaps spoken at Lady Bedford's table, headed ‘A forme of a Grace’ and beginning ‘The Kinge, ye Queene, the Prince god blesse’; dated in the margin ‘1618’.
First published (?) in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), II, 14. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 418-19.
f. 1v
• WoH 10: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘sr Henry Wootton <GREEK>.’
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
f. 2r
• RaW 22: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’
Second copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh's Epitaph on his owne death - Nouemb: 1618’, subscribed ‘W.R.’.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.
First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).
See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.
f. 2r
• RaW 416: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘I cannot bend the bow’
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh to ye Lady Bend-bow’.
This MS recorded in Latham.
First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an ‘indecorous trifle’).
f. 2v
• HoJ 235: John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins (‘Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge’)
Copy, headed ‘Hoskins (imprison'd) to his Sonne’.
This MS recorded in Osborn.
Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).
f. 3v
• HrJ 168: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler (‘A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling’)
Copy, headed ‘In Johannem Sartorem’.
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.
f. 3v
• CoR 722.5: Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre (‘A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne’)
Copy of a version beginning ‘The Star that rose in virgo's train’.
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.
f. 5r
• HoJ 314: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet wthstood’)
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘Mr Lawson of St. John's Colledge his verses to his mistrisse’, followed by ‘Her answere’ (beginning ‘Yor letters I receiv'd’).
Osborn, p. 301.
f. 6r
• HrJ 230: Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches (‘Six of the weakest sex and purest sect’)
Copy, untitled.
First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.
ff. 7r-8r
• HoJ 43: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Fart lett in the Parliament house’, subscribed ‘Explicit Crepitus’.
Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of ‘Doubtful Verses’ in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
f. 8v
• HrJ 190: Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister (‘I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten’)
Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning ‘A Puritan, with one of her society’.
First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.
f. 8v
• CoR 3: Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 (‘The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd’)
Copy, headed ‘Upon the breach betweene ye King & ye Subiect, at ye dissolution of the Parliament. March. 1628’.
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.
f. 10v
• JnB 61: Ben Jonson, An Epigram on the Princes birth (‘And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest be thy birth’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the birth of ye yong Prince, eldest son to K. Charles. borne May 29. 1630’, subscribed ‘Ben: Jhonson’.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 237-8.
f. 11r
• HoJ 296: John Hoskyns, Vpon the birth of the Prince (‘Cum Rex Paulinas accessit gratus ad aras’)
Headed ‘Vpon the birth of the Said Prince’. The Latin poem followed by the English version, beginning ‘While at the Alter of St Pauls ye King’. Osborn, No. XLVII (p. 214).
Edited from this MS in Osborn.
The Latin poem followed by the English version, beginning ‘While at the Alter of St Pauls ye King’. Osborn, No. XLVII (p. 214).
f. 12v
• CoR 518: Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles (‘When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone’)
Copy.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.
f. 16r
• JnB 157: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body (‘Sitting, and ready to be drawne’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Venetia Stanley her picture’, subscribed ‘B. Jonson’.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).
ff. 16v-17r
• UdN 4: Nicholas Udall, Roister Doister
Copy of Custance's letter (III, iv, 1074-1108, here beginning ‘Sweete mistresse whereas I loue yow nothing at all’), headed ‘Theis words make twoe contrary senses according as yow distinguishe them’, transcribed from the quotation in Thomas Wilson, Rule of Reason, 3rd edition (1553).
This MS not recorded in Greg.
First published [London, 1566?]; ed. W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1935).
f. 25r
• CoR 722.8: Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre (‘A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne’)
Copy of a version beginning ‘The star that rose in Virgo's train’.
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.
ff. 26v-8
• CoR 27: 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’).
f. 39v
• MrJ 57: John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII (‘Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree’)
Copy.
f. 41r-v
• HoJ 280: John Hoskyns, Jacobo Magnæ Britanniæ Regi Maximo, Clementissimo (‘Jam mihi bis centum fluxere in carcere noctes’)
Copy, in an italic hand, subscribed in a different hand ‘presented (it seemes) a New-yeares Gift & Petition to the King’ and, in yet another hand, ‘These verses were made by Mr Hoskins Counsellor of Law, when he was a Prisoner’.
This MS cited in Osborn.
Osborn, No. XXXII (pp. 203-4).
f. 48r
• HrG 299: George Herbert, To the Right Hon. the L. Chancellor (Bacon) (‘My Lord. A diamond to mee you sent’)
Copy, headed ‘To my Ld. Chancellour Sr ffr: Bacon’.
This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
First published, ‘from a small quarto volume of MS. Latin poetry’, in J. Fry, Bibliographical Memoranda (Bristol, 1816). Hutchinson, p. 209. The authorship discussed in Fram Dinshaw, ‘A Lost MS. of George Herbert's Occasional Verse and the Authorship of “To the L. Chancellor”’, N&Q, 228 (October 1983), 423-5.
f. 48r
• HrG 303.5: George Herbert, Aethiopissa ambit Cestum Diuersi Coloris Virum (‘Qvid mihi si facies nigra est? hoc, Ceste, colore’)
Copy, subscribed ‘G. Herbert’.
First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 437. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 170-1.
ff. 51r-2v
• KiH 232: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus (‘Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death’)
Copy, untitled, later docketed ‘Dr Henry Kinge...’.
First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.
f. 57r-v
• RnT 399: Thomas Randolph, Upon the report of the King of Swedens Death (‘I'le not believe 't. if fate should be so crosse’)
Copy, headed ‘Upon the Rumor of the King of Swedens deathe reported in November and December 1632’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 94-5.
f. 60r
• CoR 400: Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham (‘When I can pay my Parents, or my King’)
Copy, headed (in margin) ‘To the Duke of Buckingham. Ld. George Villiers Rich: Corbet Christes-Church, this present New-yeares day 1621’.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.
f. 64v
• CoR 603: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)
Copy.
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. 69v
• RaW 23: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’
Third copy, headed ‘His owne Epitaph’, subscribed ‘W. Raleigh’.
First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).
See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.
f. 70v
• CoR 192: Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls (‘Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee’)
Copy.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.
ff. 72r-3r
• DrW 117.14: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)
Copy, headed ‘A Praier for the kinges five senses.1623’.
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.
f. 78r
• RaW 362: Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury (‘Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere’)
Copy, headed ‘Upon Sr Robert Cecill, Earle of Salisbury, & Ld Treasurer’, here beginning ‘Heere Hobbinall lyes, or Sheapheard while'e[re]’, and ascribed to ‘Sr Walter Raleig[h]’, with a marginal note ‘Lady Walsingham, his Concubine’.
First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.
Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.
f. 79r
• MrJ 24: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)
An anonymous copy.
f. 80v
• MrJ 80: John Marston, Upon the Dukes Goeing into Fraunce (‘And wilt thou goe, great duke, and leave us heere’)
An anonymous copy.
f. 82r
• HlJ 3.91: Joseph Hall, On Queene Elizabeths Armes (‘The lyon is the Forrest kinge’)
Copy of an unascribed version.
f. 89r-v
• HeR 265: Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack (‘So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles’)
Copy, headed ‘Herick's Welcome to Sack’.
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.
f. 91r-v
• HrE 13: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Elegy for the Prince (‘Must he be ever dead? Cannot we add’)
Copy, headed ‘An Elegie uppon ye Prince is death’.
This MS collated in Smith, pp. 127-8.
First published among ‘Sundry Funeral Elegies’ appended to Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum, 3rd edition (London, 1613). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 22-4.
f. 91v-2v
• DnJ 1122: John Donne, Elegie upon the untimely death of the incomparable Prince Henry (‘Looke to mee faith, and looke to my faith, God’)
Copy, headed ‘Another Elegie of ye Prince is death’, subscribed in a different hand ‘made by Mr Donne’, the poem deleted.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum (London, 1613). Poems (London, 1633). Grierson, I, 267-70. Shawcross, No. 152. Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 63-6 (as ‘Elegie on Prince Henry’). Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 160-2.
f. 94r-v
• ClJ 17: John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath (‘Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze’)
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue betweene 2 zelots concerning &c. in the new Oath’, subscribed ‘D. Cleueland Coll: John: Cantabr:’.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.
f. 97r-v
• CaE 8: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham (‘Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am’)
Copy of a 50-line version, in two hands, ascribed to Richard Weston, Earl of Portland.
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.
f. 105r
• StW 1270: William Strode, Jack on both Sides (‘I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes’)
Copy, in double columns, headed ‘These Verses will serue both for Protestant and Papist, as they may be diuersly read’.
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.
f. 112r-v
• DnJ 1597: John Donne, An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton (‘Whether that soule which now comes up to you’)
Copy, subscribed ‘Donne’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 288-90. Shawcross, No. 154. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 74-5. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 220-1.
f. 121r-v
• CoR 59: Richard Corbett, The Distracted Puritane (‘Am I madd, o noble Festus’)
Copy.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.
f. 127v
• DeJ 65: Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death (‘Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all’)
Copy, headed ‘In obitum Thomae Wentworth Comitis de Strafford, D. Locum: Tenent: Hiberniae, &c. qui decollatus est apud Turrem Londinens: Maij 12°. 1641’.
First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.
f. 130r-v
• StW 1181: William Strode, The Townes new teacher (‘With Face and Fashion to bee knowne’)
Copy, headed in a different hand ‘Vpon a Puritan-Preacher’.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Forey, pp. 167-9.
f. 131v
• ClJ 175: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)
Copy.
First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as ‘Internally unlike his manner’. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among ‘Poems probably by Cleveland’. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).
f. 138r
• CoA 141: Abraham Cowley, Prologue to the Guardian (‘Who says the Times do Learning disallow?’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Moore Smith.
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. 138r
• CoA 71: Abraham Cowley, The Epilogue [to the Guardian] (‘The Play, great Sir, is done. yet needs must fear’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Moore Smith.
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).Printed (with the first line: ‘The Play is done, great Prince, which needs must fear’) in The Guardian (London, 1650). Waller, I, 32 (and II, 242). Autrey Nell Wiley, ‘The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian’, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).
See also CoA 137-52.
f. 139v
• ShJ 66: James Shirley, A Songe (‘Coblers and Coopers and the rest’)
Copy, headed ‘The New-yeares-gift, or Prophesy, & Vote’.
This MS collated in Armstrong.
First published in R. G. Howard, ‘Some Unpublished Poems of James Shirley’, RES, 9 (1933), 24-9 (pp. 27-8). Armstrong, pp. 46-7.
f. 148v
• ClJ 214: John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector (‘What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing’)
Copy, ascribed to ‘Cl.’
Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 78-9. The Works of Mr. John Cleveland (London, 1687), p. 343. Berdan, p. 185, as ‘probably not genuine’. Rejected ‘as probably not Cleveland's’ by Withington, pp. 321-2.
f. 148r
• RnT 541: Thomas Randolph, Upon Dr. Rich. Love and Mrs. Grace Godman his wife (‘Is Love that conquers all o'ercome? must he’)
Copy, ascribed to ‘Randall’.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith (1927).
Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1927), p. 107.
ff. 149-50v.
• KiH 333: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)
Copy on two folio leaves, slightly imperfect; mid-17th century.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.
f. 163v
• MaA 294: Andrew Marvell, Upon his House (‘Here lies the sacred Bones’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph vpon Dunkirck house’.
First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 146-7. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.
f. 196 rev.
• HoJ 44: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)
Copy.
Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of ‘Doubtful Verses’ in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
MS Rawl. poet. 27
Copy, in an accomplished professional hand, f. 1r a tipped-in leaf in a different hand, vi + 54 folio leaves (plus eight blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt. With alterations in black ink on ff. 9v-10v and 48r, and most of four lines deleted in brown ink on f. 50r.
OrR 26: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Mustapha
Inscribed initials (f. ir) ‘D.R.’
This MS collated in Clark.
First performed on the London stage 3 April 1665. First published, as Mustapha, The Son of Solyman the Magnificent, London, 1668. Clark, I, 225-304.
MS Rawl. poet. 29
Copy, including a Prologue and Epilogue, largely in a single professional hand, with autograph deletions and revisions throughout, including additional lengthy passages or whole-page inserts, a list of Dramatis Personae with names of actors in a third hand, and also occasional comments in black ink by Richard Rawlinson, iii + 74 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1660s.
*KiW 13: Sir William Killigrew, The Siege of Urbin
First published in Four New Playes (London, 1666).
MS Rawl. poet. 31
A folio verse miscellany, entirely in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, containing some 76 poems, including eleven by Donne, later inscribed (erroneously) ‘Sir John Haringtons Poems Written in the Reign of Queen Elizabeth’, 56 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s-33.
From the library of Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755), nonjuring bishop and topographer.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Rawlinson MS’: DnJ Δ 38. Also briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 277 (No. 94), with facsimile examples on pp. 102-3.
f. 2r
• RaW 107: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 102.
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).
f. 2v
• StW 1015: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)
Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘I: and my Love ffor kysses playd’.
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).
f. 3r
• HrJ 57: Sir John Harington, The Author to Queene Elizabeth, in praise of her reading (‘For euer deare, for euer dreaded Prince’)
Copy, headed ‘Sir John Harington to Quee: Elizabeth’ and here beginning ‘Dreade, Soveraigne, and ever loueinge Prince’.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 13. McClure No. 267, p. 258. This epigram is also quoted in Breefe Notes and Remembraunces (Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 172). Kilroy, Book IV, No. 88 (p. 243).
f. 3r-v
• HrJ 34: Sir John Harington, Against Swearing (‘In elder times an ancient custome was’)
Copy, untitled.
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.
f. 3v
• HrJ 191: Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister (‘I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten’)
Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘The Godlye mayde’ and here beginning ‘A godlye Mayde wth one of her societye’.
First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.
f. 4r
• HrJ 104: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek (‘Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.
ff. 4r-5r
• HrJ 169: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler (‘A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling’)
Copy, headed ‘A Translation’.
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.
f. 5r-v
• WoH 11: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
f. 5v
• CmT 91: Thomas Campion, ‘The man of life upright’
Copy.
This MS recorded in Davis, p. 493.
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xviii. Davis, p. 43 (also p. 60).
f. 5v-6r
• WoH 137: 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.
f. 7r
• JnB 443: Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia (‘Come my Celia let vs proue’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Come: sweete (Celia) lett vs prove’.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson and in Doughtie, pp. 563-4.
First published in Volpone, III, vii, 166-83 (London, 1607). The Forrest (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 102. Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 294.
f. 7r-v
• JnB 544: Ben Jonson, To the Same (‘Kisse me, sweet: The warie louer’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
Lines 19-22 first published in Volpone, III, vii, 236-9 (London, 1607). Published complete in The Forrest (vi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 103.
ff. 7v-8v
• JnB 382: Ben Jonson, An Ode. to himselfe (‘Where do'st thou carelesse lie’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Vnder-wood (xxiii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 174-5.
f. 8v-9r
• JnB 363: Ben Jonson, Ode (‘Yff Men, and tymes were nowe’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94. Printed from this MS in Herford & Simpson.
First published in William Dinmore Briggs, ‘Did Jonson Write a Third “Ode to Himself”?’, The Athenaeum (13 June 1914), p. 828. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 419-21.
f. 9v
• JnB 586: Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song (‘Still to be neat, still to be drest’)
Copy.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94.
First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.
ff. 10v-12v
• DnJ 1497: John Donne, His parting from her (‘Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’
This MS collated in Grierson; 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).
ff. 12v-13r
• JnB 507: Ben Jonson, To Sicknesse (‘Why, Disease, dost thou molest’)
Copy.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Forrest (viii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 104-6.
f. 13v
• HrE 80: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne (‘Vengeance will sit above our faults. but till’)
Copy, ascribed to ‘Sr Edw. Herbert’.
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.
ff. 14r-15v
• HrE 3: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, A Description (‘I sing her worth and praises hy’)
Copy, headed ‘Idea: Off Sr: Edw: Harbert’.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 125.
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 2-5.
f. 15v
• HrE 55: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To her Face (‘Fatal Aspect! that hast an Influence’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 125.
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 5.
ff. 15v-16r
• HrE 53: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To her Body (‘Regardful Presence! whose fix'd Majesty’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 126.
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp 5-6.
f. 16r
• HrE 58: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To her Mind.l (‘Exalted Mind! whose Character doth bear’)
Copy, here beginning ‘Exalted minde, that guid'st thee beautious spheare’.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 126.
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 6.
f. 18r-v
• JnB 469: Ben Jonson, A speech out of Lucan (‘Just and fit actions Ptolemy (he saith)’)
Copy.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in William Dinsmore Briggs, ‘Studies in Ben Jonson. IV’, Anglia, 39 (1916), 209-51 (pp. 247-8). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 422-3.
ff. 18v-20v
• JnB 93: Ben Jonson, Epistle To Elizabeth Covntesse of Rvtland (‘Whil'st that, for which, all vertue now is sold’)
Copy, headed ‘To the Countesse Off Rutland: An Elegie’.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson. Discussed (in connection with a textual crux in line 99) in Anthony Miller, ‘Ben Jonson's Epistle to Elizabeth Countesse of Rutland: A Recovered MS Reading and Its Critical Implications’, PQ, 62 (1983), 525-30 (erroneously citing the MS as ‘Rawlinson poetry 32’).
First published in The Forrest (xii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 113-16.
ff. 20v-1r
• JnB 365: Ben Jonson, Ode Enthousiastike (‘Splendor! O more then mortall’)
Copy, headed ‘To L:C: off: B’ and here beginning ‘Beautye, more then Mortall’.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in Diuerse Poeticall Essaies appended to Robert Chester, Loues Martyr (London, 1601). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 364-5.
f. 21r
• DnJ 2534: John Donne, The Paradox (‘No Lover saith, I love, nor any other’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69-70. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 38-9. Shawcross, No. 77.
f. 22r
• DnJ 1888: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)
Copy, headed ‘Off an ould vitious man’ and here beginning ‘His hayres, and sinns, noe Man cann equall call’.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross. Facsimile of f. 22r in Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 103.
First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.
ff. 22r-3v
• DnJ 1232: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)
Copy, headed ‘An: Elegie’.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross. Facsimile of f. 22r in Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 103.
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.
ff. 23v-4r
• JnB 90: Ben Jonson, An Epistle to a Friend (‘Censure, not sharplye then, but mee advise’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94. Printed from this MS in Briggs (lines 1-11) and 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.
ff. 28r-9v
• JnB 266: Ben Jonson, <Horace. Epode 2.> The praises of a Countrie life (‘Happie is he, that from all Businesse cleere’)
Copy.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 289-91.
f. 30r
• PeW 31: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘If her disdain least change in you can move’
Copy.
This MS collated in Krueger.
First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 2, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.
f. 30v
• PeW 101: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘'Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain’
Copy.
This MS collated in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed ‘R’. Krueger, p. 3, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.
f. 31r
• PeW 85: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘Shall Love that gave Latona's heir the foyle’
Copy.
This MS collated in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 5-7. Krueger, pp. 4-5, as ‘Verses on Reason and Love’, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.
f. 31v
• PeW 62: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘No praise it is that him who Python slew’
Copy.
This MS collated in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 7-11, superscribed ‘R.’. Krueger, pp. 5-9, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.
ff. 34r-6r
• JnB 513: Ben Jonson, To Sir Robert Wroth (‘How blest art thou, canst loue the countrey, Wroth’)
Copy.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Forrest (iii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 96-100.
f. 36r
• HrE 77: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Inconstancy (‘Inconstancy's the greatest of synns’)
Copy, untitled and ascribed to ‘Sir Edw: Harbert’.
Edited from this MS in Moore Smith.
First published in Moore Smith (1923), p. 119.
f. 36r-v
• JnB 104: Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] (‘Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such’)
Copy.
This MS is in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: see Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 257, No. 94; collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John A. Harper, ‘Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.
ff. 36v-7r
• HrE 22: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Epitaph. Caecil. Boulstr. (‘Methinks Death like one laughing lyes’)
Copy, headed ‘Another Sir Edw: Harbert’.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 127.
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 20-1.
f. 37r-v
• DnJ 2643: John Donne, The Prohibition (‘Take heed of loving mee’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.
ff. 37v-9r
• BmF 3: Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae (‘Madam, so may my verses pleasing be’)
Copy.
First published, as ‘An Elegie by F. B.’, in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.
f. 39v
• DnJ 3963: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture (‘I fixe mine eye on thine, and there’)
Copy, headed ‘Songe’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.
ff. 39v-40r
• DnJ 3533: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.
f. 40r-v
• DnJ 938: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.
ff. 40v-1r
• DnJ 1137: John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford (‘That I might make your Cabinet my tombe’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.
ff. 45r-6v
• DnJ 1107: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)
Copy.
This MS 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.
ff. 46v-7r
• DnJ 3598: John Donne, To the Lady Bedford (‘You that are she and you, that's double shee’)
Copy.
This recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 227-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 94-5. Shawcross, No. 148.
f. 48r-v
• BmF 119: Francis Beaumont, On Madam Fowler desiring a sonnet to be writ on her (‘Good Madam Fowler, do not trouble me’)
Copy, headed ‘Epigrame’.
First published in Alexander B. Grosart, ‘Literary Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere’, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (p. 8).
MS Rawl. poet. 37
A folio verse miscellany, chiefly song lyrics, iv + 124 pages. Late 17th century.
Owned in 1670 by one Hilkiah Bedford.
pp. 46-7
• ShJ 142: James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song (‘The glories of our blood and state’)
Copy of the dirge, untitled.
Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).
pp. 105-9
• SuJ 21: John Suckling, A Ballade, Upon a Wedding (‘I tell thee Dick, where I have been’)
Copy, headed ‘The Wedding’.
This MS collated in Clayton.
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646): Clayton, pp. 79-84.
pp. 118-24
• WaE 384: Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation (‘While with a strong and yet a gentle hand’)
Copy, headed ‘A panygrick to Oliver Cromwell’, subscribed ‘Finis. Waller’.
First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.
MS Rawl. poet. 39
Copy, in a stylish professional hand, headed ‘Tryphon A trage=Comedie’, lacking a title-page, ii + 56 folio leaves, in contemporary black morocco gilt. c.1660s.
OrR 38: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Tryphon
This MS collated in Clark.