CELM: Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 100 through 149

MS Rawl. poet. 108

A quarto commonplace book of poems, songs, orations, etc., i + 89 leaves, in contemporary calf (with a flyleaf from a 14th-century missal). c.1570.

Inscribed names ‘Elinor Gunter’, sister of Ed. Gunter, of Lincoln's Inn, and ‘William Oldisworth’ (1680-1734), writer and translator.

Described by Philip Bliss in british Bibliography, 1817, II, 609.

f. 44v.

• ElQ 14: Queen Elizabeth I, ‘The doubt of future foes’

Copy, headed ‘Verses made by the Quenes M^atie’.

Edited from this MS in Bradner. Cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

A version first published in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589), sig. 2E2^v (p. 208). Bradner, p. 4. Collected Works, Poem 5, pp. 133-4. Selected Works, Poem 4, pp. 7-9.

MS Rawl. poet. 112

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in more than one hand, written from both ends, in vellum boards. c.1595-1600s.

ff. 9r-10r

• EsR 54: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary (‘It was a time when sillie Bees could speake’)

Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, headed ‘Verses or English poemes written by the Lo: the E: of E:’ and here beginning ‘There was a time...’.

This MS collated in May, pp. 128-32.

First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

ff. 10v-11r

• CmT 209: Thomas Campion, ‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’

Copy of a three-strophe version, headed ‘The fickle estate of our vncartayn lyfe to A pleasant new tune’.

This MS recorded in Greer, p. 305.

Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, ‘The Authorship of “What if a Day”, and its Various Versions’, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, ‘“What if a Day” — An Examination of the Words and Music’, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

MS Rawl. poet. 115

A quarto volume of two poems (the second by J. Cumberlege), in two different hands, ii + 81 leaves, in vellum boards. End of 17th century.

ff. 1r-51v

• DrJ 64: John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther (‘A milk white Hind, immortal and unchang'd’)

Copy, including the preface ‘To the Reader’, apparently transcribed from the first edition.

This MS collated in California.

First published in London, 1687. Kinsley, II, 467-537. California, III, 118-200.

MS Rawl. poet. 116

A quarto composite volume of four MSS, in English and Latin, iii + 187 leaves, in vellum boards. Part B (ff. 16d-86v): A quarto miscellany of poems and letters, in several hands, compiled by William Elyott (a nephew of Sir Simonds D'Ewes). c.1640-55.

Part C (ff. 86 bis-120r): A quarto verse miscellany compiled by Thomas Axton, M.A. (b.1699/1700), of Trinity College, Cambridge. c.1718-22.

Part C sold at the Thomas Rawlinson sale in March 1733/4, lot 289.

f. 38r

• StW 1315: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 38v

• WaE 430: Edmund Waller, Song (‘Chloris! farewell. I now must go’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). Poems, ‘Eighth’ edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 110-11.

f. 42r

• WaE 507: Edmund Waller, To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing (‘Chloris! yourself you so excel’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 105. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published, as ‘To the same Lady singing the former Song’, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

f. 42v

• StW 780: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy.

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).

ff. 45r-6r

• CwT 476: Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters (‘So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes’)

Copy.

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

f. 48r-v

• KiH 47: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘The Answeere’.

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).

f. 49v

• PeW 22: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘Had she a glass and feared the fire’

Copy, headed ‘When my Carliles Chamber was on fire’, subscribed Pembrocke.

This MS collated in Krueger.

Krueger, p. 55, among ‘Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts’.

f. 50r

• PeW 32: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘If her disdain least change in you can move’

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 50r

• PeW 102: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘'Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain’

Copy, headed ‘Pemb: answerd by S^r B: R’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

f. 50v

• JnB 15: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph (‘See the Chariot at hand here of Love’)

Copy of lines 21-30, untitled and here beginning ‘Haue you scene the white Lilly grow’, written lengthways along the inner margin.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

f. 50v

• JnB 620: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘The faery beame vppon you’)

Copy, untitled, written lengthways along the inner margin.

Herford & Simpson, lines 262-71. Greg, Burley version, lines 237-46. Windsor version, lines 231-40.

ff. 51r-2r

• DnJ 2150: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 52r

• ToA 52: Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury (‘Victorious beauty, though your eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘To my Lady salisburie’, subscribed ‘By M^r Tounsall’.

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.

f. 52v

• DaJ 171: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘one of twelue yeares old of him selfe’ and here beginning ‘As carfull mothers that to sleeping lay’.

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

f. 52v

• DnJ 3350: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘At once, from hence, my lines and I depart’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

f. 52v

• DnJ 1857: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)

Copy of lines 9-24, here beginning ‘I heard me say tell her anone’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 53r

• BrW 115: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor (‘Nature in this small volume was about’)

Copy, headed ‘of a Gentlewoman y^t dyed being 7 yeares old’.

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

f. 53r

• HrJ 133: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, untitled.

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.

f. 53r

• HrJ 105: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek (‘Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke’)

Copy, headed ‘To a proud Lady’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.

f. 53v

• PeW 1: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘Disdain me still, that I may ever love’

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded (erroneously as RP 160) in Krueger.

f. 53v

• BmF 97: Francis Beaumont, The Indifferent (‘Never more will I protest’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 492.

f. 53v

• RaW 324: 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 like to floods & streames’, written lengthways along the inner margin.

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.

f. 53v

• DaS 8: Samuel Daniel, Delia. Sonnet VI (‘Faire is my Loue, and cruell as she's faire’)

Copy of lines 13-14, untitled and here beginning ‘Ah had shee not bin faire, and soe vnkind’, written lengthways along the inner margin.

Grosart, I, 40-1. Sprague, p. 13.

f. 54r

• CwT 269: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘Of a flie’.

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

f. 54v

• GrJ 47: John Grange, ‘Not that I wish my Mistris’

Copy, headed ‘Discription of a wisht mistris’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

f. 55r

• KiH 116: Henry King, The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘H: K:’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

f. 55v

• SuJ 2: John Suckling, Against Absence (‘My whining Lover, what needs all’)

Copy, headed ‘Of Absence’.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 39-40.

f. 55v

• JnB 105: Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] (‘Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such’)

Copy, untitled, written lengthways along the inner margin.

This MS 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.

f. 56v

• CwT 776: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 56v

• StW 322: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)

Copy, headed ‘on a Buchers son, to a Tanners daughter’, written lengthways along the inner margin.

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

f. 57r

• StW 1016: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded (erroneously as MS Rawl. poet. 117) 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).

f. 57r

• CoR 723: Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre (‘A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 62r-v

• ClJ 1: John Cleveland, The Antiplatonick (‘For shame, thou everlasting Woer’)

Copy, headed ‘Against Platonick Loue -- or LDD Desire’.

First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions (1651), the edition with yet more additions. Morris & Withington, pp. 54-6.

f. 63r-v

• ClJ 49: John Cleveland, Fuscara; or the Bee Errant (‘Natures Confectioner, the Bee’)

Copy, headed ‘Fuscara stunge or the Bee Errant’, written lengthways along the outer margin, subscribed ‘Cleveland’.

First published in Poems, by J. C., with Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 58-60.

f. 64r

• WaE 141: Edmund Waller, Of a Tree cut in Paper (‘Fair hand! that can on virgin paper write’)

Copy, headed ‘Waler to a Lady who sent him a Groue of Trees cut out in white Paper’.

First published, in a fourteen-line version, in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). A 22-line version in Thorn-Drury, II, 68.

f. 66v rev.

• CwT 865: Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested (‘How ill doth he deserve a lovers name’)

Copy, headed ‘The qualitie of his loue’.

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

f. 72v rev.

• RnT 2: Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicam (‘Sweet, doe not thy beauty wrong’)

Copy, headed ‘Loues Prime’ and here beginning ‘Deare doe not y^r faire beauty wrong’.

First published, in a version beginning ‘Deare, doe not your fair beauty wrong’, in Thomas May, The Old Couple (London, 1658), p. 25. Attributed to Randolph in Parry (1917), p. 224. Thorn-Drury, p. 168.

f. 90r

• FrG 2: George Farquhar, An Epigram, on the Riding-House in Dublin, made into a Chappel (‘A Chappel of the Riding-House is made’)

Copy.

First published in Love & Business (London, 1702). Stonehill, II, 283.

f. 96v

• SeC 6: Sir Charles Sedley, Constancy (‘Fear not, my Dear, a Flame can never dye’)

Copy, headed ‘Constancy’.

First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 11.

ff. 96v-7v

• SeC 17: Sir Charles Sedley, The Indifference (‘Thanks, fair Vrania. to your Scorn’)

Copy.

First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 69-70. Sola Pinto, I, 29-30.

MS Rawl. poet. 117

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, including 37 poems by Donne, in several hands, written from both ends, 279 leaves (including numerous blanks, mostly in ff. 42r-140r), with stubs of extracted leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled in part by the Oxford printer Christopher Wase (1627-90), fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Mid-17th century.

Later owned by John Somers (1651-1716), Baron Somers, Lord Chancellor, and his brother-in-law Sir Joseph Jekyll (1662-1738), lawyer and politician.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Wase MS’: DnJ Δ 39.

f. 16r

• HoJ 236: John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins (‘Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge’)

Copy, headed ‘Hoskins in the Tower to his little sonne Beniamen’ and here beginning ‘My little Ben nowe thou art yonge’.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).

f. 16r-v

• CoR 666: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him (‘Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon M^ris Mallet’.

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

f. 17r

• RaW 417: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘I cannot bend the bow’

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘There is a bowe wherin to shoote I sue’.

The text followed by a six-line ‘Answer’ beginning ‘You bended have the bowe wherin to shute you sue’.

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

ff. 18v-19r

• CoR 140: 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, headed ‘Doctor Corbet one my Lady Haddington who dyed of the small pox’.

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. 22v

• HoJ 217: John Hoskyns, S^r Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount S^t Albons (‘Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

ff. 23v-4v

• DrW 117.15: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Copy.

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

ff. 26r-7r

• DnJ 3076: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)

Copy, headed ‘Dunne his discription of a storme suffered in the Ilande voyage. 1597 And sent to M^r Xpo: Brooke’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 27r-8r

• DnJ 561: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)

Copy, headed ‘A Caulme described’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

f. 29r

• WoH 169: Sir Henry Wotton, To J: D: from Mr H: W: (‘'Tis not a coate of gray or Shepherds life’)

Copy, headed ‘Agaynst Solitarines’.

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

ff. 29v-30r

• PeW 219: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r W^m Bakers paradox in prayse of a painted face’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

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

f. 32v

• JnB 699: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song (‘If I freely may discouer’)

Copy, untitled.

f. 149v rev.

• JnB 729: Ben Jonson, Sejanus his Fall

Extracts.

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

ff. 155r-154v rev.

• ClJ 18: John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath (‘Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Cleveland’.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.

f. 161r rev.

• RaW 137: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Hir face, Hir tong, Hir wit’

Copy of a two-stanza version, here beginning ‘Your face; your tongue; your witt’.

This MS collated in The Phoenix Nest, ed. E. H. Rollins (Cambridge, Mass., 1931), pp. 174-5; recorded in Latham, p. 160.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, p. 80. Rudick, No. 11, pp. 14-15. This poem was perhaps written jointly by Ralegh and Sir Arthur Gorges: see Lefranc (1968), p. 95.

f. 162r rev.

• ShW 107: William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Extracts.

First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

f. 163r rev.

• StW 781: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon a Ladye walkinge in Grais Inn walkes when it snowed’.

f. 163r rev.

• DkT 38: Thomas Dekker, Vpon the Queenes last Remoue being dead (‘The Queene's remou'de in solemne sort’)

Copy.

First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Grosart, I, 93.

f. 163r rev.

• DkT 7: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)

Copy.

First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, ‘Poems by William Camden’, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.

f. 163v rev.

• CwT 135: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘We read of gods…’.

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

f. 163v rev.

• CwT 894: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 164v rev.

• JnB 415: Ben Jonson, On the Vnion (‘When was there contract better driuen by Fate?’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnson vppon kinge James his vnion of England and Scotland’ and here beginning ‘Never was marriage better driven by fate’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.

f. 165 rev.

• DaW 13: Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day (‘Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present’)

Copy, headed ‘Will Dauenants Newyears=guifte to Endimion Porters wife’.

This MS collated in Gibbs.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.

f. 166r rev.

• StW 1271: William Strode, Jack on both Sides (‘I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes’)

Copy, in double columns, headed ‘Verses presented to the kinge’ and here beginning ‘We hold as faith’.

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. 168v rev.

• RaW 138: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Hir face, Hir tong, Hir wit’

Second copy of a two-stanza version, untitled, also beginning ‘Your face; your tongue; your witt’.

This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 174-5; recorded in Latham, p. 160.

f. 172r rev.

• CwT 136: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Second copy, also untitled.

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

f. 172r rev.

• CwT 895: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)

Second copy, also untitled, run on directly from CwT 136.

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

ff. 173r-172v rev.

• BcF 10: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, headed ‘The Bubble by RW’.

This MS collated in Hannah.

First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems’, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.

f. 174r rev.

• BrW 80: William Browne of Tavistock, On an Infant Unborn, and the Mother Dying in Travail (‘Within this grave there is a grave entomb'd’)

Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbett one a mother w^th hir Infant dying in travell’.

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

f. 175v rev.

• PoW 11: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘Vppon a fayre Ladye whose hayre was cole black’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published, as ‘In praise of black Women; by T.R.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as ‘On a black Gentlewoman’. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as ‘On black Hair and Eyes’ and superscribed ‘R’; in The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as ‘on Black Hayre and Eyes’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

f. 176v-r rev.

• KiH 417: Henry King, Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice (‘I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses in Comendacions of an others wife’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

f. 177v rev.

• CoR 604: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbett to the Ladyes of the new dresse Night Rayles’.

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. 177v-r rev.

• GrJ 20: John Grange, ‘Black cypress veils are shrouds of night’

Copy, headed ‘The Answer’.

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

f. 179r rev.

• HoJ 253: John Hoskyns, Vppon on of the Mayds of Honor to Queen Elizabeth (‘Here lies, the lord haue Mercie vppon hur!’)

Copy, under a general heading ‘Epitaphes’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 349. Osborn, No. VII (p. 170).

f. 182r rev.

• GrJ 48: John Grange, ‘Not that I wish my Mistris’

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

f. 182v rev.

• RnT 546: Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School (‘What heat of learning kindled your desire’)

Copy.

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

ff. 185v-184 rev.

• BmF 30: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland (‘I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegye one the death of the Lady Rutland’, ascribed to ‘M^r Donne’.

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

f. 186r rev.

• CoR 735: Richard Corbett, Nonsence (‘Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Like to the silent tone...’.

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

f. 186v rev.

• DnJ 1692: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 192r-191v rev.

• HoJ 261: John Hoskyns, Convivium philosophicum (‘Quilibet si sit contentus’)

Copy, in double columns.

This MS cited in Osborn.

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

f. 193v-r rev.

• BmF 58: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)

Copy, headed ‘The Elegye’.

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

ff. 196r-194r rev.

• HoJ 45: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)

Copy, headed ‘The Parliament fart’.

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

f. 196v rev.

• DaJ 172: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘S^r Joh Davis’.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

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

f. 199v

• PeW 103: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘'Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain’

Copy, untitled.

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

ff. 199r-198v rev.

• DnJ 2247: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse (‘If yet I have not all thy love’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 199v rev.

• PeW 33: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘If her disdain least change in you can move’

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue between S^r H Wootton and M^r Dunne’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

ff. 201r-200r rev.

• DnJ 1266: John Donne, The Extasie (‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’)

Copy, headed ‘Dunnes extasye’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 201v rev.

• DnJ 635: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Dunne’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 202r rev.

• DnJ 191: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)

Copy, subscribed ‘M Dunne’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 203r-202 rev.

• DnJ 797: John Donne, The Crosse (‘Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I’)

Copy, headed ‘Dunne of the Cross’.

This MS collated in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.

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

f. 203v rev.

• DnJ 597: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)

Copy, headed ‘Dunnes sonnett’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 204r rev.

• DnJ 306: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, headed ‘Dunnes sonnet’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 204v-r rev.

• DnJ 2051: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

Copy, headed ‘Dunnes diett for loue’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 205v rev.

• DnJ 501: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 206v-r rev.

• DnJ 703: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 207r-206v rev.

• DnJ 2347: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’

Copy, headed ‘Dunnes Elegie’.

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.

f. 208r rev.

• DnJ 835: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)

Copy, headed ‘Dunnes curse’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 209r-208v rev.

• DnJ 2215: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy, headed ‘Makinge of men’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 211r-209v rev.

• DnJ 2145: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

ff. 212r-211v rev.

• DnJ 2565: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy, headed ‘Discovered by a perfume’.

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.

ff. 213r-212v rev.

• DnJ 2458: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’

Copy, subscribed ‘Dunne’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 213v rev.

• DnJ 3010: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)

Copy of a version, headed ‘Dunnes Sonnet’ and here beginning ‘Sweet hart I goe not for weariness of the’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 214v-r rev.

• DnJ 3666: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy, headed ‘In a garden at Twicknam’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 215r-214v rev.

• DnJ 3914: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘Dunnes Legacye’.

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.

ff. 216v-215r rev.

• DnJ 1179: John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day (‘Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is’)

Copy, headed ‘Epithalamiu’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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

f. 217r rev.

• DnJ 2924: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Dunnes sonnett’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 217v rev.

• DnJ 2300: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, headed ‘Dunnes sonnett. The Message’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 218r-217v rev.

• DnJ 1367: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 218v-r rev.

• DnJ 1498: John Donne, His parting from her (‘Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night’)

Copy of a 42-line version, headed ‘His partinge w^th his M^ris’.

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).

f. 219v-r rev.

• DnJ 2513: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)

Copy, headed ‘To hir offeringe to goe w^th him as his page’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 219r-218v rev.

• DnJ 1541: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)

Copy, immediately following on from On his Mistris (see DnJ 2513).

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 220v rev.

• DnJ 2949: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

Copy, headed ‘Dunne’.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 609-11; recorded in Gardner. See also DnJ 440.

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

MS Rawl. poet. 120

A quarto composite volume of four verse MSS, in different hands, ii + 152 leaves.

f. 23r

• DaJ 39: Sir John Davies, A Lady with Two Suitors (‘A Lady faire two suiters had’)

Copy of a 28-line version, headed ‘A proper old and new Ballad’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Krueger (1975), p. 181.

ff. 92r-122r

• BmF 133: Francis Beaumont, Salmacis and Hermaphroditus (‘My wanton lines do treat of amorous love’)

Copy, complete with the prefatory poems To the true Patroness of all Poetry, Calliope (‘It is a statute in deep wisdom's lore’) and The Author to the Reader (‘I sing the fortune of a luckless pair’), the last leaf in another hand (possibly replacing a lost original leaf) and subscribed ‘Finis/ Francis Beaumont/ 1634’. c.1634.

This MS recorded in Sell.

First published (anonymously) London, 1602. Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 441-71. Elizabethan Minor Epics, ed. Elizabeth Story Donno (London, 1963), pp. 281-304. Elizabethan Narrative Verse, ed. Niel Alexander (London, 1967), pp. 168-91. Beaumont's authorship discussed by Philip J. Finkelpearl in N&Q, 214 (October 1969), 367-8, and by Roger Sell in N&Q, 217 (January 1972), 10-14.

MS Rawl. poet. 122

MS of an adaptation of Ford's play, in several hands, probably prepared for a performance at Goodman's Fields Theatre on 19 December 1745. 1745.

FoJ 15: John Ford, Perkin Warbeck

Discussed in Donald K. Anderson, Jr, ‘The Date and Handwriting of a Manuscript Copy of Ford's Perkin Warbeck’, N&Q, 208 (September 1963), 340-1, and in Margaret Crum, ‘A Manuscript of Ford's Perkin Warbeck: An additional Note’, N&Q, 210 (March 1965), 104-5.

First published in London, 1634.

MS Rawl. poet. 123

A quarto volume of poems and letters in the hand of the poet John Oldham (1653-83), vi + 310 pages. c.1675-82.

p. 105

• MaA 370: Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter (‘Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love’)

Copy of lines 395-456 on a single quarto leaf; imperfect, lacking the leaf or leaves containing the first 394 lines.

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

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

pp. 110-15

• RoJ 304: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy of lines 1-165 in the hand of the poet John Oldham (1653-83), headed ‘Satyr upon Man’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

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

pp. 116-23, 108-9

• RoJ 152: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (‘Chloe, In verse by your command I write’)

Copy in the hand of the poet John Oldham (1653-83), misbound out of sequence.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

pp. 232-5, 214

• DrJ 87: John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe (‘All humane things are subject to decay’)

Copy in the hand of the poet John Oldham, the poem dated 1678; imperfect, lacking two leaves containing lines 49-150. [1678-83].

This MS collated in California, in Blakemore Evans and in Vieth; recorded in Kinsley. The volume briefly described in Harold F. Brooks, ‘A Bibliography of John Oldham the Restoration Satirist’, Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 5 (1936-9), 1-38 (p. 10).

First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond, I, 313-36.

The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision’, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, ‘Dryden's Mac Flecknoe’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, ‘Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, ‘The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe’ in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.

MS Rawl. poet. 125

Fair copy of Books I-XXIV, partly in Harington's hand, largely in the hand of his ‘servant’ Thomas Combe, vi + 512 folio pages, in brown leather gilt. The first stanza, italic headings and sidenotes, and some corrections and additions in Harington's hand; prepared as a trial lay-out of the text before the full printing; with inserted engravings, some coloured, from both Italian and English printed editions. c.1590.

*HrJ 7: Sir John Harington, Orlando Furioso (‘Of Dames, of Knights, of armes, of loves delight’)

This MS collated in McNulty; discussed, with facsimile examples, in Kathleen M. Lea, ‘Harington's Folly’, Elizabethan and Jacobean Studies Presented to F.P. Wilson (Oxford, 1959), 42-58, and in Philip Gaskell, From Writer to Reader (Oxford, 1978), p. 11 seq. NB. this MS is not entirely autograph.

MS Rawl. poet 136, pp. 34-79

A printed exemplum of the edition of 1726, marked up as a prompt-book in two hands, including additional dialogue, partly by the prompter John Stede, for the Lincoln's Inn Fields production 19 February 1726, in a composite volume of three promptbooks. 1726.

SuT 2: Thomas Southerne, Money the Mistress

Facsimile of f. 72r in Jordan & Love, I, [356]. Annotations edited in Edward Langhans, ‘Three Eighteenth-Century Manuscript Promptbooks’, Modern Philology, 65 (1967), 114-29.

First published in London, 1726. Jordan & Love, II, 355-421.

MS Rawl. poet. 142

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, 84 leaves, in contemporary calf. Probably compiled principally by an Oxford University man. c.1630s-40s.

Names inscribed on rear flyleaf and paste-down ‘Elizabeth hosman’ and ‘William Blois’.

f. 12r

• ClJ 146: John Cleveland, Upon the death of M. King drowned in the Irish Seas (‘I like not tears in tune; nor will I prise’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon y^e death of M^r King drownd in y^e Irish Seas’.

First published in Justa Edovardo King (1638). Morris & Withington, pp. 1-2.

f. 14v

• RnT 458: Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks (‘Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name’)

Copy, ascribed to Thomas Randolph.

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

f. 15v

• ClJ 263: John Cleveland, To the Earl of Holland

Copy, headed ‘Cleueland to y^e Chauncelour’.

Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 148-9.

f. 15v

• StW 1103: William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde (‘Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye’)

Copy of lines 15-20, untitled.

Lines 15-20 (beginning ‘Oft when I looke I may descrie’) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.

f. 15v

• RnT 176: Thomas Randolph, A Maske for Lydia (‘Sweet Lydia take this maske, and shroud’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 126-7.

f. 15v

• CwT 777: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 16r

• HaW 19: William Habington, To Castara, Vpon a trembling kisse at departure (‘Th'Arabian wind, whose breathing gently blows’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 28.

f. 16r

• RnT 313: Thomas Randolph, To Mr. J. S. on his Gratefull Servant (‘I cannot fulminate or tonitruate words’)

Copy, headed ‘To His Bombasted Frind’.

First published in James Shirley, The Gratefull Servant (London, 1630). Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, p. 143.

f. 16r

• CwT 74: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy, headed ‘A Comparison’.

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

f. 16r

• HaW 41: William Habington, Vpon Cupid's death and buriall in Castara's cheeke (‘Cupids dead. Who would not dye’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Allott, p. 171.

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, pp. 24-5.

f. 16v

• DnJ 1566: John Donne, Hymne to God my God, in my sicknesse (‘Since I am comming to that Holy roome’)

Copy of lines 1-5, 21-30, headed ‘A Hyme in sickness’.

This MS collated in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 368-9. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 192.

f. 16v

• JnB 158: 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 of lines 13-28, headed ‘On M^rs Venetia Stanlye to ye paynter’ and here beginning ‘Draw first a cloud all saue her neck’.

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).

f. 16v

• RnT 267.5: Thomas Randolph, A Pastorall Courtship (‘Behold these woods, and mark my Sweet’)

Extracts from Randolph's poem, line 17 et seq., adapted into a 34-line poem headed ‘Louers’ and beginning ‘Ith Bosome of this groue lets lye’

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 109-15. Davis, pp. 77-91.

f. 17v

• ClJ 135: John Cleveland, Upon an Hermophrodite (‘Sir, or Madame, chuse you whether’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 18r

• ClJ 11: John Cleveland, The Authour to his Hermophrodite, made after M. Randolphs death, yet inserted into his Poems (‘Probleme of Sexes; must thou likewise bee’)

Copy, headed ‘Hermaphrodite vindicated by Cleaueland’.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 12-13.

f. 18v

• DnJ 3754: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy of the first stanza.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 18v

• DnJ 712: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)

Copy of lines 1-22, 33-4, 53-4, headed ‘A sweet Compariso’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 19r-v

• RnT 342: 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 Gentlewoma with a sweet Voyce’, subscribed ‘TR.’

This MS recorded in Davis.

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

f. 19v

• JnB 737: Ben Jonson, Volpone

Extracts.

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

f. 19v

• DrM 2: Michael Drayton, ‘Cleere Ankor, on whose silver-sanded shore’

Copy, headed ‘Ankor’.

This MS recorded in Hebel, V, 16.

First published as Amour 13 in Ideas Mirrour (London, 1594). Hebel, I, 104. II, 337 (sonnet 53 of Idea).

f. 20r

• ClJ 95: John Cleveland, Smectymnuus, or the Club-Divines (‘Smectymnuus? The Goblin makes me start’)

Copy, subscribed ‘J:C.’

Smectymnuus

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 23-6.

f. 20v

• BcF 11: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Bac: Vtrulamius’.

f. 21r

• PoW 81: Walton Poole, On the death of King James (‘Can Christendoms great champion sink away’)

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

First published in Oxford Drollery (1671), p. 170. A version of lines 1-18, on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, was published in The Swedish Intelligencer, 3rd Part (1633). Also ascribed to William Strode.

f. 23r-v

• DnJ 1185: John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day (‘Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is’)

Copy, headed ‘Fredirick Elizabeth on Valent: day’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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

f. 23v

• HaW 29: William Habington, To Roses in the bosome of Castara (‘Yee blushing Virgins happie are’)

Copy, headed ‘Rose in Hur bosome’.

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 12.

f. 26v

• SiP 113: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 3 (‘What length of verse can serve brave Mopsa's good to show’)

Copy, headed ‘Mopsa’, transcribed from a printed source.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 558, and in Robertson, p. 424.

Ringler, p. 12. Robertson, pp. 30-1.

f. 27r

• ClJ 150: John Cleveland, Upon the Kings return from Scotland (‘Return'd? I'le ne'r believe't; First prove him hence’)

Copy.

First published in Irenodia Cantabrigiensis (1641). Morris & Withington, pp. 2-3.

f. 27r

• PoW 12: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘Black eyd M^rs’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

f. 28r-v

• CwT 107: Thomas Carew, The Complement (‘O my deerest I shall grieve thee’)

Copy.

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

f. 29r-v

• CrR 328: Richard Crashaw, The Weeper (‘Haile Sister Springs’)

Copy of stanzas 10-16, 18-19, 21-3, here beginning ‘Not in y^e evenings eyes’, imperfect.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple, (London, 1646). 2nd edition (1648). Revised version published as ‘Sainte Mary Magdalene or The Weeper’ in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 79-83 (and later version pp. 307-14).

f. 30r

• CrR 238: Richard Crashaw, The Teare (‘What bright soft thing is this?’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 84-5.

f. 35r

• EaJ 45: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death (‘Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse’)

Copy of part of the poem, untitled, here beginning ‘Come, Pembroke liues, ôh! doe not fright our ears’, subscribed ‘M^r Earles, Merton’.

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

f. 39r

• CoR 730: Richard Corbett, A Non Sequitir (‘Marke how the Lanterns clowd mine eyes!’)

Copy.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 96-7.

f. 39v

• HoJ 315: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood’)

Copy, untitled.

Osborn, p. 301.

f. 40r

• HrJ 134: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, untitled.

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.

f. 40v

• StW 67: William Strode, A Devonshire Song (‘Thou ne'er wutt riddle, neighbour Jan’)

Copy of a version headed ‘The Devonshire Travailer’ and beginning ‘Riddle riddle, neighbar Tom’.

Edited from this MS in Dobell, pp. 117-18; collated in Forey.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, pp. 65-6. John Tuckett, ‘A Devonshire Song’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 462. Dobell, pp. 114-16. Forey, pp. 101-3.

f. 42r

• CoR 216: 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 of an abridged 38-line version, headed ‘To M^r Hamon of Beaudly. D^r Corbet’ and beginning at line 5 (here ‘My verse is gone, I haue all rimes defied’).

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

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

f. 42v

• StW 658: William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy (‘Returne my joyes, and hither bring’)

Copy, headed ‘Melancholly opposd by M^r Stroud’.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

f. 43r

• StW 1064: William Strode, Thankes for a welcome (‘For your good Lookes, and for your Clarett’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Strouds thanks for a wellcome’.

Printed from this MS in Anthony Wood, Athenae Oxonienses [1691-2], ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), III, 152.

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

f. 43r

• CwT 488: Thomas Carew, Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay (‘I heard the Virgins sigh, I saw the sleeke’)

Copy, headed ‘Th. Carew on Carlisles daughter’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 67-8.

f. 43r

• EaJ 15: 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 of part of the poem, headed ‘J. Earles on S^r John Burroughs killd by a bullet at Reez’ and beginning ‘Why did wee thus expose the; whats now all’.

Edited from this MS in Bliss.

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. 43v

• JnB 343: Ben Jonson, My Answer. The Poet to the Painter (‘Why? though I seeme of a prodigious wast’)

Copy of lines 1-15, headed ‘B. Johnson, to Burlace the Painter’ and here beginning ‘What though I be of a prodigious wast’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 226-7.

f. 44r

• CwT 1124: Thomas Carew, To Saxham (‘Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Entetainm^t at Saxham in Kent’.

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

f. 44r-v

• StW 522: William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge (‘Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I’)

Copy of the first and third poems (lines 1-44, 85-106).

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

f. 44v

• HeR 266: Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack (‘So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles’)

Copy of an abridged version, headed ‘Herricks Sack’ and here beginning ‘Springs meet with Smiles’

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 455-6; recorded in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.

f. 45r

• HeR 339: Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing (‘When the monethly horned Queene’)

Extracts, comprising twenty lines beginning at line 11 (here ‘In a Cobweb shirt most thin’), garbled with HeR 180 under the common heading ‘The Fayrie Kings diet & apparrell’.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 481; recorded 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.

f. 45r-v

• HeR 180: Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast (‘A Little mushroome table spred’)

Extracts, comprising eighteen lines beginning at line 19 (here ‘Now you must imagine first’), garbled with HeR 339 under the common heading ‘The Fayrie Kings diet, & apparrell’.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 481-2.

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.

f. 45v

• JnB 568: Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels

Extracts, including Amorphus's song beginning ‘Thou more then most sweet gloue’ (IV, iii, 305-16).

First published in London, 1601. Herford & Simpson, IV, 1-184.

f. 46r

• WoH 74: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of a six-stanza version, untitled.

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.

f. 46r-v

• HaW 46: William Habington, The Queene of Arragon. The Song in the fourth Act (‘Fine, young folly, though you were’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, anonymously, in London, 1640. The song, in a musical setting by William Tompkins, published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues, Book III (London, 1653). Allott, p. 152.

f. 48r

• JnB 763: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Robert Jermyn of Rushbrooke in St. Margaret's, Lothbury, 1623

Copy of Jonson's inscription, which was carved on a monument in a church largely destroyed in the Fire of London (1666).

f. 49v

• CwT 22: Thomas Carew, Boldnesse in love (‘Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine’)

Copy, untitled.

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

MS Rawl. poet. 147

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in two or more cursive hands, written from both ends, iv + 278 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled principally by one ‘H. S.’, a Cambridge University man. c.1640s-60s.

This MS volume edited in D.J. Rose, MS Rawlinson Poetical 147: An Annotated Volume of Seventeenth-Century Cambridge Verses (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Leicester, 1992), of which a copy is in Cambridge University Library, Manuscript Department, A8f.

p. 14

• HeR 214: Robert Herrick, To a Gentlewoman, objecting to him his gray haires (‘Am I despis'd because you say’)

Copy, headed ‘An old man to his younge M^rs’, subscribed ‘Herricke’.

This MS probably the unspecified MS from which the text printed in Hazlitt, II, 466; collated from Hazlitt in Martin, pp. 468-9.

First published, among verse ‘By other Gentlemen’, in Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 63. Patrick, pp. 91-2. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

pp. 14-15

• CrR 447: Richard Crashaw, Vpon a gnatt burnt in a candle (‘Little = buzzing = wanton elfe’)

Copy, headed ‘On a gnatt w^ch was burnt in a candle & fell into an Inkshorne’, here beginning ‘Silly Buzzing wanton Elfe’ and ascribed to ‘Tho: Vincent Coll. Trin.’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Grosart, I (1872), 284-5. Martin, pp. 413-14.

Probably spurious (see Martin, p. lxv). Also ascribed to Thomas Randolph and to Thomas Vincent.

p. 37

• CrR 278: Richard Crashaw, Upon the death of a freind (‘Hee's dead: Oh what harsh musicks there’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Grosart, I (1872), 292-3. Martin, p. 393.

p. 38

• CrR 36: Richard Crashaw, An Epitaph (‘Heere in deaths closett, Reader, know’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Martin (1927). Martin (1957), p. 405.

This poem has been erroneously attributed to Philip Cornwallis: see Introduction.

pp. 38-40

• CrR 25: Richard Crashaw, An Elegie on the death of D^r Porter (‘Stay, silver-footed Came, striue not to wed’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Grosart, I (1872), 293-4. Martin, pp. 395-6.

pp. 40-2

• CrR 27: Richard Crashaw, An Elegie on the death of the Lady Porter (‘Can such perfection fade? can Vertue die’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on y^e death of the Lady Parker’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Martin (1927). Martin (1957), pp. 403-4.

The poem has been erroneously attributed to Philip Cornwallis: see Introduction.

p. 42

• BcF 54.5: Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox (‘Are all diseases dead? or will death say’)

Copy.

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

pp. 42-4

• CrR 33: Richard Crashaw, An Elegy vpon the death of M^r W^m Carre, student in Eman: Colledge (‘Death hath drawne our golden Carre’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Cornwallis’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Martin (1927). Martin (1957), pp. 402-3.

This poem has been erroneously attributed to Philip Cornwallis: see Introduction.

pp. 47-8

• WoH 59: Sir Henry Wotton, On a Bank as I sat a-Fishing. A Description of the Spring (‘And now all nature seemed in love’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Spring’, subscribed ‘S^r H. Wotton’.

This MS collated in Hannah.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 524. Hannah (1845), pp. 32-5.

p. 48-50

• ClJ 56: John Cleveland, How the Commencement grows new (‘It is no Curranto-news I undertake’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e New Comencem^t’ and here beginning ‘No Coranto newes I undertake’.

First published in Poems, by J. C., with Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 56-7.

pp. 50-1

• CrR 172: Richard Crashaw, On the death of W^m Henshaw, student in Eman. Coll. (‘See a sweet streame of Helicon’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Cornwallis’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Martin (1927). Martin (1957), pp. 401-2.

This poem has been erroneously attributed to Philip Cornwallis: see Introduction.

p. 63

• HoJ 316: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood’)

Copy, headed ‘A songe’ and here beginning ‘O Loue whose force & might’.

Osborn, p. 301.

pp. 69-71

• CrR 31: Richard Crashaw, An Elegy upon the death of Mr. Stanninow fellow of Queenes Colledge (‘Hath aged winter, fledg'd with feathered raine’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Grosart, I (1872), 290-2. Martin pp. 394-5.

pp. 74-5

• WoH 138: Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth (‘O faithless world, and thy most faithless part’)

Copy, subscribed ‘H. Wotton’.

This MS collated in Hannah.

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

pp. 75-6

• HrE 64: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To Mrs. Diana Cecyll (‘Diana Cecyll, that rare beauty thou dost show’)

Copy, headed ‘To Lady Diana Cecill’.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 34-5.

pp. 76-7

• DeJ 66: Sir John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death (‘Great Strafford! worthy of that Name, though all’)

Copy, headed ‘On Strafford’, subscribed ‘J. Denham’.

First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 153-4.

pp. 77-8

• WaE 575: Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland (‘Brave Holland leads, and with him Falkland goes’)

Copy, subscribed ‘M^r Waller’.

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

MS Rawl. poet. 148

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 114 leaves, bound with a printed exemplum of Thomas Watson's <GREEK> or Passionate Centurie of Love (London, [1581?]). Compiled by John Lilliat (c.1550-c.1599). c.1590s.

This MS volume printed in full, with facsimile examples, in Liber Lilliati: Elizabethan Verse and Song (Bodleian MS Rawlinson Poetry 148), ed. Edward Doughtie (Newark, DE, 1985).

f. 1r

• RaW 344: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty’

Copy, headed ‘The answer’, subscribed ‘id. est. Nowell’, following ‘Th'offence of the stomacke, with the woord of disgrace’, which is headed ‘A Ridle’ and subscribed ‘id est. Rawly’.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 19A, p. 28.

f. 3v

• ElQ 35: Queen Elizabeth I, Verse Exchange between Queen Elizabeth and King Philip of Spain, circa Spring 1588 (‘When Greeks do measure months by the moon’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works.

First published in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), p. 227. Bradner, p. 7, one line as ‘A Latin Hexameter’, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. Collected Works, Poem 13, pp. 409-10. Autograph Compositions, pp. 85-94.

f. 3v

• DaJ 16: Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 14. In Leucam (‘Leuca in presence once a fart did let’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 423.

Krueger, pp. 134-5.

f. 3v

• DaJ 18: Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 29 (‘Haywood which did in Epigrams excell’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger, p. 423.

Krueger, p. 141.

f. 4r

• DaJ 124: Sir John Davies, Davis beinge committed to prison for a quarrell betweene him and Martin, wrote as ensueth (‘Now Davis for a birde is in’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

First published in Krueger (1975), p. 303.

f. 4r

• RaW 418: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘I cannot bend the bow’

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘The bow is not yet bent, wherin to shoot I sue’.

The text followed by a six-line ‘Answer’, beginning ‘The man that sued to shoote, in this well bended Bow’.

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

f. 4v

• DaJ 126: Sir John Davies, An Epitaph (‘Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘I: D’.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.

f. 4v

• DaJ 226: Sir John Davies, An other Epitaph: of one who died with the Maple Buttons (‘Heere lieth Dick Dobson iwrapped in molde’)

Copy, ascribed to D[avies].

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

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

f. 5v

• SiP 165: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book IV, No. 68 (‘Who hath his hire, hath well his labour plast’)

Copy, transcribed from the edition of 1598.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 558, and in Robertson, p. 466.

Ringler, p. 108. Robertson, p. 265.

f. 5v

• WiT 0.5: Thomas Wilson, ‘Who, what, and Wher; by what helpe and by whose’

Copy.

A mnemonic couplet, first published in Wilson's The Arte of Rhetorique ([London], 1553).

ff. 34r-5r

• EsR 55: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary (‘It was a time when sillie Bees could speake’)

Copy, imperfect, lacking the first four stanzas, here beginning ‘But from those leaues no dram of sweet I drayne’, subscribed ‘quod Mr Iohn Lilly’.

Printed from this in Doughtie, No. [103], pp. 96-8; discussed pp. 178-80. Recorded in May, p. 111.

First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

ff. 65r-6r

• DyE 6: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘Amidst the fayrest mountayne topps’

Copy, subscribed ‘qd M^r Dier’.

Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.

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

ff. 67r-7v

• EsR 23: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, The Right Honourable Robert, earle of Essex: Earle Marshall of England (‘Change thy minde since she doth change’)

Copy, with (f. 113r) a musical setting.

First published, with a musical setting, in Robert Dowland, A Musicall Banquet (London, 1610). May, Poems, No. 4, pp. 45-6. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 252-3. EV 4594.

f. 75v

• PlG 14: George Peele, A Sonet (‘His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd’)

Copy of the last stanza (beginning ‘And when he saddest sits in homely Cell’) written as the last stanza of a poem headed ‘In yeeldinge up his Tilt staff: hee sayd’, beginning ‘Tymes eldest sonne, old age the heire of ease’, and subscribed ‘q^d S^r Henry Leigh’.

This MS recorded in Horne, p. 170.

First published as an appendix to Polyhymnia (London, 1590). Edited by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 244. The sonnet probably written by Sir Henry Lee: see Horne, pp. 169-70, and Thomas Clayton, ‘“Sir Henry Lee's Farewel to the Court”: The Texts and Authorship of “His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned”’, ELR, 4 (1974), 268-75.

f. 86r

• SiP 35: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 15 (‘Like as the Dove which seeled up doth flie’)

Copy, transcribed from the edition of 1598.

This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 424, 558.

Ringler, p. 144.

ff. 87r-8r

• EsR 56: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary (‘It was a time when sillie Bees could speake’)

Copy.

This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.

First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.

f. 96v

• MrC 11: Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love (‘Come live with mee, and be my love’)

Copy of a four-stanza version, untitled.

Edited from this MS in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999), No. 45A, p. 116. Collated in Bowers.

First published in a four-stanza version in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). Printed in a six-stanza version in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Bowers, II, 536-7. Tucker Brooke, pp. 550-1. Gill et al., I, 215. For Ralegh's ‘Answer’ see RaW 189-99.

ff. 96v-7r

• RaW 190: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard (‘If all the world and loue were young’)

Copy, headed ‘Her answer’.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 45A, p. 117. Recorded in Latham, p. 112.

One stanza published in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). First published complete in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Latham, pp. 16-17. Rudick, Nos 45A and 45B, pp. 117, 119-20 (two versions, as ‘Her answer’ to Marlowe's poem on p. 116 and as ‘The Milk maids mothers answer’) respectively. For the companion poem by Marlowe, which accompanies most of the texts of Ralegh's ‘reply’, see MrC 10-19.

ff. 99v-100r

• SiP 132: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book II, No. 21 (‘Over these brookes trusting to ease mine eyes’)

Copy, transcribed from the edition of 1598.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 558, and in Robertson, p. 440.

Ringler, pp. 41-2. Robertson, p. 118.

f. 103r

• DyE 76: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall’

Copy, subscribed ‘Incerto. Sir Edward DIER’.

Edited from this MS in Sargent.

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

f. 109v

• CmT 210: Thomas Campion, ‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’

Copy of a two-strophe version.

Edited from this MS in Greer, p. 305.