CELM: Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 150 through 199

MS Rawl. poet. 152

A folio composite volume of verse, in various hands, i + 250 leaves. Collected by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729). Some pages in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.

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• WaE 283: Edmund Waller, Of the last Verses in the Book (‘When we for age could neither read nor write’)

Copy, untitled, on a single small leaf; end of 17th century.

First published in Poems, ‘Fifth’ edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 144.

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• MiT 3: Thomas Middleton, Petition to King James (‘A harmless game raised merely for delight’)

Copy, headed ‘The petition of poet Midleton Autho^r of y^e Game at Chess, to King Iames’.

Edited from this MS in Wagner, PQ, 14 (1935), 288. Facsimile in Oxford Middleton, p. 1895.

First published in Edward Capell, The School of Shakespeare, III (London, [1780]), p. 31. Bullen, I, lxxxiii. A Game at Chesse, ed. R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1929), p. 166. Oxford Middleton, p. 1895.

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• CoR 401: Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham (‘When I can pay my Parents, or my King’)

Copy, untitled, on two quarto leaves.

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

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• MsP 23: Philip Massinger, The Fatal Dowry, IV, ii 71-86. Song (‘Poore Citizen, if thou wilt be’)

Copy.

Edwards & Gibson, I, 72.

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• ShW 29: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 128 (‘How oft when thou, my music, music play'st’)

Copy, in a non-professional hand, among other verses on both sides of a leaf, untitled and here beginning ‘how oft when thow, deere deerist musick plaiest’.

This MS edited and discussed in R.H.A. Robbins, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Shakespeare's Sonnet 128’, N&Q, 212 (April 1967), 137-8. Facsimile in Bruce R. Smith, ‘Shakespeare's Sonnets and the History of Sexuality: A Reception History’, in A Companion to Shakespeare's Works, Vol. IV, ed. Richard Dutton and Jean E. Howard (Oxford, 2003), pp. 4-26 (p. 8).

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• RoJ 153: 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 on eight quarto leaves.

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.

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• DoC 314: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Debauchee (‘I rise at eleven, I dine about two’)

Copy, headed ‘The Debauch’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, p. 411; collated in Walker, pp. 221-2.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). Vieth, Attribution, pp. 169-70. The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Keith Walker (Oxford, 1984), p. 130 (as ‘Regime d'viver’ among ‘Poems possibly by Rochester’). Discussed in Harris, pp. 186-7.

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• DrJ 177: John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (‘Still shall I hear, and never quit the Score’)

Copy of the Sixth Satyr [of Juvenal], beginning ‘In Saturn's Reign, at Nature's Early Birth’; end of 17th century-early 18th century.

First published (‘…together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus’) in London, ‘1693’ [i.e. 1692] (as ‘By Mr. Dryden, and Several other Eminent Hands’, Dryden's contribution being the prefatory ‘Discourse concerning Satire’ and Satires I, III, VI, X and XVI). Kinsley, II, 599-740 (Dryden's contributions). California, IV, 2-252 (Dryden's contributions). Hammond, IV, 3-137.

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• CgW 2: William Congreve, The Eleventh Satyr of Juvenal (‘If Noble Atticus makes plenteous Feasts’)

Copy.

First published in John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (London, 1693 [i.e. 1692]). Summers, IV, 10-22. Dobrée, pp. 254-69. McKenzie, II, 337-47.

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• BrW 12.5: William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II

Copy of Book I, song 3, ‘knot’ poem at the end (beginning ‘This is love and worth commending’).

Goodwin, I, 103.

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

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• RoJ 222: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

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• CgW 46: William Congreve, To Mr. Dryden, On his Translation of Persius (‘As when of Old Heroique Story tells’)

Copy.

First published in John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (London, 1693 [i.e. 1692]). Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, IV, 23-4. Dobrée, pp. 252-3. McKenzie, II, 335-6.

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• DrJ 46: John Dryden, The Fourth Satyr of Aulus when Flaccus (‘Who-e're thou art, whose forward years are bent’)

Copy.

First published in The Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus together with The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (London, ‘1693’ [i.e. 1692]). Kinsley, II, 765-71. California, IV, 311-21. Hammond, IV, 172-8.

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• SeC 79: Sir Charles Sedley, To Maximina (‘Ovid, who bid the Ladies laugh’)

Copy, headed ‘To Mary Snow’, on a quarto leaf. Early 18th century.

First published in The Gentleman's Journal (September 1693), p. 297. Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 51.

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• CoR 28: 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, untitled, on two quarto leaves; imperfect, lacking the ending.

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’).

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• DeJ 52: Sir John Denham, On Gondibert The Preface, being Published before the Booke was Written, Upon the Preface (‘Room Room for the best of Poets heroick’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Three Praises of Gondibert not then Published’, on a single quarto leaf.

First published, as ‘Vpon the Preface’, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 3-4. Banks, p. 313.

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• DeJ 2: Sir John Denham, ‘After so many sad mishaps’

Copy on two quarto leaves.

First published, as ‘To Sir W. Davenant’, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 5-7. Banks, pp. 313-16.

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• RnT 96: Thomas Randolph, An Elegie (‘Love, give me leave to serve thee, and be wise’)

Copy, headed ‘A true M^ris’ on a single quarto leaf.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 66-7.

MS Rawl. poet. 153

A quarto composite volume comprising three independent MSS bound together, i + 78 leaves. The first MS a verse miscellany, in an italic hand, 29 leaves. c.1640.

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• SaG 24: George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Song of Solomon (‘Join thy life-breathing lips to mine’)

Copy, heavily dust-stained.

This MS discussed in Davis, loc. cit., p. 333 et seq.

First published in London, 1641. Hooper, II, 335-56. Dedicatory verses ‘To the Queen’ first published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1676). Hooper, II, 338.

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• StW 782: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman walkinge in the snow’.

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

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• DkT 8: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Transportation of Q. Elizabeths dead body from Richmond to Whitehall Camd: Rem:’

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.

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• BrW 190: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, ‘Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha’, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.

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• StW 1316: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, headed ‘A fancy on his beutifull M^rs:’.

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

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• CaE 9: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham (‘Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am’)

Copy of the six-line epitaph and 44-line elegy as separate but sequential poems.

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.

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• B&F 123: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy, headed ‘Melancholy’.

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

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

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• CwT 413: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes (‘In Celia's face a question did arise’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Cælias face’.

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

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• CwT 1260: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy, headed ‘On his M^rs:’.

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

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• WoH 226: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘A Poeme made by D^r: Donne a little befor his death’.

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

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• LoR 31: Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song (‘When Love with unconfined wings’)

Copy, headed ‘A Songe’.

First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, ‘Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of “To Althea, from Prison”’, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).

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• LoR 13.5: Richard Lovelace, The Scrutinie. Song (‘Why should you sweare I am forsworn’)

Copy, headed ‘Another’ and here beginning ‘Why didst thou say, I am forsworne’.

This MS recorded in Dosia Reichardt, ‘Some Unnoticed Lovelace Manuscripts’, N&Q, 247 (2002), 336-8.

First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 24. (1930), pp. 26-7. A musical setting by Thomas Charles published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

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• StW 855: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘A Denyed Louer to his Loue’.

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

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• RaW 110: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)

Copy, headed ‘A ffancy’.

This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 178-9; 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).

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• JnB 126: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. (‘Would'st thou heare, what man can say’)

Copy of lines 3-6, headed ‘An Epitaph’ and beginning ‘Here vnderneath this stone doth ly’.

First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.

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• FoJ 8: John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy, III, ii. Song (‘They that will learn to drink a health in hell’)

Copy of Cuculus's song, headed ‘On dispraise of Tabacco’ and here beginning ‘He that will learn to drink a health in hell’.

First published London, 1629; Dyce, I, 1-106p. (p. 66); Bang, pp. 1-86 (p. 67, lines 1629-33).

Dyce, I, 66. Bang, p. 67 (lines 1629-33).

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• CmT 108: Thomas Campion, ‘Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white’

Copy of the first strophe, untitled.

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

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• BrW 154: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)

Copy.

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

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• BrW 81: 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 ‘On a woman dyinge in Travell the child vnborne’.

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.

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• CaW 53: William Cartwright, To the Right vertuous the Ladie Elizabeth Powlet (‘Could wee iudge here Most vertuous Madam then’)

Copy.

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

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• CaW 56: William Cartwright, To Venus (‘Venus Redress a wrong that's done’)

Copy.

First published in Works (1651), p. 219. Evans, p. 472.

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• CaW 50: William Cartwright, To Cupid (‘Thou, who didst never see the Light’)

Copy.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 218-19. Evans, pp. 471-2.

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• WaE 589: Edmund Waller, To one Married to an old Man (‘Since thou wouldst needs (bewitched with some ill charms!)’)

Copy, headed ‘One Marryed to a Old man’.

First published, as ‘To the wife being marryed to that old man’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 2.

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• DaJ 121: Sir John Davies, Verses given to the Lord Treasuer upon Newyeares Day upon a Dosen of Trenchers, by Mr. Davis (‘Longe have I servd in Court, yet learned not all this while’)

Copy of lines 1-2 of poem 10, headed ‘A new married Bride’.

This MS recorded in Doughtie, p. 597.

First published as ‘Yet other 12. Wonders of the World never yet published’ in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rhapsody (London, 1608). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 381-4. Krueger, pp. 225-8.

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• HoJ 118: John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart (‘Reader I was born and cried’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r F^s Epitaph’ and here beginning ‘Reader it was borne and cryd’.

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• StW 1272: William Strode, Jack on both Sides (‘I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes’)

Copy, in two columns, headed ‘The Church Papist’, slightly imperfect.

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.

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• WoH 226.5: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy. Eighteenth-century.

MS Rawl. poet. 154

A quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, v + 159 leaves, in half-calf.

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• HlJ 7: Joseph Hall, To William Bedell (‘Willy, thy Rhythms so sweetly run and rise’)

Copy of Hall's commendatory verses, headed ‘Ad Autorem’, prefixed to a copy of William Bedell's poem A Protestant Memorial (here ‘The Shepheards Tale of the Powderplot’, ff. 11r-25r) and subscribed ‘Joseph Hall’. c.1620s-30s.

This MS recorded in Wynter, IX, 707.

First published in William Bedell, A Protestant Memorial: or, The Shepherd's Tale of the Pouder-Plott (London, 1713). Davenport, p. 123.

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An autograph manuscript of sixteen poems by Mary Astell, in her semi-calligraphic script, a presentation copy with (f. 50v) a title-page, ‘A Collection of Poems humbly presented and Dedicated To the most Reverend Father in God William [Sancroft] By Divine Providence Lord Archbishop of Canterbury &c 1689’, (f. 51r-v), a prose dedicatory epistle to Archbishop Sancroft, and (f. 94r) an address leaf ‘To the most Reverend his Grace the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury These humbly present’, 49 quarto leaves, bearing traces of a red wax seal. c.1689.

This MS discussed in Ruth Perry, ‘A seventeenth-century feminist poet’, TLS, 20 August 1982, p. 911. It is described also in the online Perdita project.

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• *AsM 18: Mary Astell, Dedicatory epistle to Sancroft

Autograph.

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• *AsM 11: Mary Astell, The Invitation (‘Come Muse, and leave those wings that soar’)

Autograph, the poem ‘made June 28 1683’.

Unpublished.

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• *AsM 10: Mary Astell, In emulation of Mr Cowley's Poem called the Motto page 1 (‘What shall i do? not to be Rich or great’)

Autograph, the poem dated 7 January 1687/8.

Unpublished.

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• AsM 6: Mary Astell, Enemies (‘I love you whom the World calls Enemies’)

Autograph, the poem dated 18 March 1683.

Unpublished.

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• *AsM 2: Mary Astell, Ambition (‘What's that with such vigour fills my breast?’)

Autograph, the poem dated 30 March 1684.

Unpublished.

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• *AsM 14: Mary Astell, Solitude (‘Now I with generous Cowley see’)

Autograph, the poem dated 8 April 1684.

Unpublished.

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• *AsM 5: Mary Astell, Death (‘It was a glorious and a cheerful day’)

Autograph.

Unpublished.

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• *AsM 12: Mary Astell, Judgement (‘Tis said: the sacred word is past’)

Autograph.

Unpublished.

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• *AsM 7: Mary Astell, Heaven (‘In a poor simple Girl 'tis a bold flight’)

Autograph.

Unpublished.

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• *AsM 9: Mary Astell, Hell (‘With a short line, and scanty wit’)

Autograph.

Unpublished.

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• *AsM 16: Mary Astell, Virtue (‘Go despicable Virtue go’)

Autograph.

Unpublished.

ff. 86r-7r

• *AsM 4: Mary Astell, The Complaint (‘What dost thou mean my God (said I’)

Autograph.

Unpublished.

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• *AsM 1: Mary Astell, Affliction (‘I know not what Affliction means’)

Autograph.

Unpublished.

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• *AsM 15: Mary Astell, The Thanksgiving (‘Hence you complaining thoughts away’)

Autograph.

Unpublished.

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• *AsM 3: Mary Astell, ‘Awake my lute, daughters of Musick come’

Autograph.

Unpublished.

f. 95r-v

• *AsM 13: Mary Astell, ‘Since Praise is nauteous to a modest ear’

Autograph.

Unpublished.

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• *AsM 8: Mary Astell, Heaven (‘In a poor simple Girl 'tis a bold flight’)

Autograph of a shorter version of the poem.

Unpublished.

MS Rawl. poet. 155

A quarto volume of poems on affairs of state entitled A Collection of loyal Poems Satyrs and Lampoons In the Reign of Taurus [i.e. ? George I], vol. 1, viii + 256 pages. c.1712-20.

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• DoC 213: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Statue in the Privy Garden (‘When Israel first provoked the living Lord’)

Copy, headed ‘The Second Saul’ and here beginning ‘When Israel disobey'd their sovereign Lord’.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 57-60.

MS Rawl. poet. 159

A quarto composite volume chiefly of poems on affairs of state, largely in professional hands, iii + 242 leaves, in vellum boards.

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• DoC 311: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Conditional Recantation or A Dialogue between the Oracle of St. Patrick and King James After his Abdication (‘If both the Indies were my own’)

Copy, in a professional hand, on three quarto leaves, endorsed ‘Conditional Recantation. 1689/90’. c.1690.

This MS recorded in Harris.

Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, p. 187.

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• MaA 109: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘Marvel’ and the poem dated 1676, on four quarto leaves. 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).

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• MaA 221: Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross (‘What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross’)

Copy, in a professional hand, on two quarto leaves, endorsed on a blank leaf (f. 120v) ‘On the Statue at Charing Cross 1676’.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.

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• WoH 75: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘S^r. Hen: Wooton on his Mistress, The Queen of Bohemia’ and here beginning ‘You meanest Beautyes of the Nigh’t, on one side of a quarto leaf. Late 17th century.

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.

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• DoC 329: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Absence (‘When Portsmouth did from England fly’)

Copy, in a professional hand, in a quarto booklet of verse (ff. 156-69). Late 17th century.

First published (in part) in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, IV (Hertford, 1883), 286. Discussed in Harris, p. 194.

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• WhA 59: Anne Wharton, To Mr. Wolesly (‘To you, this Generous Task belongs alone’)

Copy, dated 1685.

Edited from this MS in Greer & Hastings.

First published in Lycidus (London, 1688), pp. 95-6. Greer & Hastings, No. 23, p. 189.

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• MaA 163.4: Andrew Marvell, The Dream of the Cabal: A Prophetical Satire Anno 1672 (‘As t'other night in bed I thinking lay’)

Copy, ascribed to Marvell. 1672.

A lampoon sometimes called The Gamball or a dreame of y^e Grand Caball. First published in A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Edited in POAS, I (1963), pp. 191-203, as possibly by John Ayloffe. Ascribed to Marvell in two MS copies (MaA 163.4 and MaA 163.92).

MS Rawl. poet. 160

A folio verse miscellany, including eleven poems by Carew, in a single professional secretary hand (adopting a different style on ff. 176r-8r), ii + 231 leaves (including numerous blanks), the date 1633 occurring on f. 55r. c.1630s.

The name Edward Michell inscribed later inside the rear cover. Afterwards owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Michell MS’: CwT Δ 8. Briefly discussed (in connection with the poem ‘Shall I die?’ attributed to Shakespeare) by Gary Taylor in The Sunday Times (24 November 1985, pp. 1, 3, with a facsimile example) and by Peter Beal in TLS (3 January 1986, p. 13); and see also letters on 24 January 1986, pp. 87-8.

f. 12v

• JnB 64: Ben Jonson, An Epigram on the Princes birth (‘And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest be thy birth’)

Copy.

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. 14v

• DrW 117.16: 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.

f. 15v

• CoR 536: Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella (‘How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power’)

Copy.

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

ff. 20v-1v

• BmF 31: 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, subscribed ‘Fran: Beamaunt’.

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

ff. 22r-3r

• EaJ 16: 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.

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. 25v

• JnB 106: Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] (‘Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of Mistris Boulstead’.

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. 25v

• JnB 127: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. (‘Would'st thou heare, what man can say’)

Copy, headed ‘An other’ [i.e. epitaph on Mrs Bulstrode] and here beginning ‘Wilt thou heare w^t. man can saye’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.

f. 27r

• BrW 191: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy, each stanza separately headed ‘Aliud’ [i.e. epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke] and the whole subscribed ‘Browne’.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

ff. 27v-8r

• BmF 59: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)

Copy.

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

f. 28r-v

• HeR 406: Robert Herrick, Upon a Cherrystone sent to the tip of the Lady Jemmonia Walgraves eare (‘Lady I intreate yow weare’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Delattre and in Martin; edited in part from this MS in Patrick.

First published in Delattre (1912), 519-21. Martin, pp. 417-18. Patrick, pp. 547-8.

ff. 29v-30v

• DnJ 1186: 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 ‘An Epithalamie Or Nuptiall Hymne vpon the Marriage of the Paltsgraue & the Ladye, Elizabeth’.

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. 30v

• HoJ 297: John Hoskyns, Vpon the birth of the Prince (‘Cum Rex Paulinas accessit gratus ad aras’)

Copy of a Latin and an English version, the former headed ‘30^o: May 1630’, here beginning (correctly) ‘Dum Rex Paulinas accessit Gratus ad Aras’, subscribed ‘Ser: Hoskins; Med: Temp’; the latter headed ‘In English thus’, and here beginning ‘Where as o^r gratefull king went to Paules shrine’.

This MS cited in Osborn.

The Latin poem followed by the English version, beginning ‘While at the Alter of S^t Pauls y^e King’. Osborn, No. XLVII (p. 214).

ff. 31r-3r

• RnT 84: Thomas Randolph, An Eglogue to Mr Johnson (‘Under this Beech why sit'st thou here so sad’)

Copy, headed ‘An Eclogue To his worthy father Mr. Benjamin Johnson’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 104-9.

f. 33r-v

• BcF 12: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, headed ‘The Lo Keepers verses on the life of man’.

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. 34v

• JnB 416: Ben Jonson, On the Vnion (‘When was there contract better driuen by Fate?’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Was ever contract driven by better fate’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

f. 37v

• BrW 155: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)

Copy, headed ‘In Nive Tumulatu Tumul:’.

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

ff. 39v-41r

• KiH 233: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus (‘Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie vpon the Victorious King of Sweden’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

ff. 41v-2v

• KiH 334: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r: Kinge On his deceased Wife’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

ff. 45r-6r

• FlJ 10: John Fletcher, Upon An Honest Man's Fortune (‘You that can look through heaven, and tell the stars’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, appended to The Honest Man's Fortune, in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, III, 453-6.

ff. 46v-7v

• HeR 361: Robert Herrick, M^r Robert Hericke his farwell vnto Poetrie (‘I have behelde two louers in a night’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Euen as yow see two lovers in a night’.

This MS collated in Martin and in Patrick.

First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 439-42. Martin, pp. 410-12. Patrick, pp. 543-5.

ff. 47v-8v

• HeR 201: Robert Herrick, The parting Verse, or charge to his supposed Wife when he travelled (‘Go hence, and with this parting kisse’)

Copy, headed ‘R: Herrick: his charge vnto his wife’ and here beginning ‘Go & with...’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 174-6. Patrick, pp. 233-5.

ff. 48v-9r

• SuJ 7: John Suckling, Against Fruition I (‘Stay here fond youth and ask no more, be wise’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Edmund Waller: Workes (London, 1645). Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 37-8. See also WaE 93-5.

ff. 48v-9r

• WaE 95: Edmund Waller, In Answer to Sir John Suckling's Verses (‘Stay here, fond youth! and ask no more. be wise’)

Copy of lines 1-39, headed ‘Against & For Fruition’.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 116-19. The Works of Sir John Suckling: The Non-Dramatic Works, ed. Thomas Clayton (Oxford, 1971), pp. 181-3.

MS Rawl. poet. 166

A folio volume of largely amatory verse, iv + 92 pages, in a recycled vellum deed between John and Thomas Godfrey relating to land in Bury St Edmunds, 1567. Possibly compiled and written in part by one ‘Alphonso Mervall’. The front cover is inscribed, however, ‘English verse by J. Cobbes’, and some notes and Latin poems are added by one James Harvey. c.1629.

p. 83

• WoH 200: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour (‘Dazzled thus with the height of place’)

Copy, headed ‘By y^e moste Illustrious Prince George Duke of Buckingham &c.’ and here beginning ‘Dazeled w^th y^e height of place’.

Printed from this MS in Pebworth, pp. 154-5. On p. 82 of the MS are three Latin versions added later by one James Harvey.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Sir Henry Wotton's “Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place” and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.

pp. 83-5

• JnB 372: Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe (‘Come leaue the lothed stage’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Davis.

First published, with the heading ‘The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe’, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.

pp. 85-6

• JnB 160: 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 ‘The same Ben: Jhonsons description of m^rs Venetia Stanly, since wife of S^r. kel: Digby’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

pp. 86-9

• JnB 199: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind (‘Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

MS Rawl. poet. 170

A folio composite volume of verse, in various hands and paper sizes, 87 leaves, in early 18th-century half calf.

ff. 75r-7r

• RnT 181: Thomas Randolph, Necessary observations (‘First worship God, he that forgets to pray’)

Copy of precepts 1-36, untitled, on three folio leaves, endorsed (f. 77v) ‘Instruccions’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 57-66.

ff. 79r-80v

• HuF 4: Sir Francis Hubert, Edward II (‘It is thy sad disaster which I sing’)

Fragment of a copy, stanzas 129-44 only, here beginning ‘My Sonne (quoth hee) for in that name of zeale’, in an italic hand, on two folio leaves, imperfect.

This MS collated in Mellor.

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

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

MS Rawl. poet. 171

A folio composite volume of verse, in English, Latin and Italian, in various hands, i + 284 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.

f. 10v

• MaA 90: Andrew Marvell, Bludius et Corona (‘Bludius, ut ruris damnum repararet aviti’)

Copy, headed ‘In Bludius’, written in the margin on the last page of two conjugate folio leaves of Latin verse on writing and printing.

First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.

For the English version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 253-80.

f. 10v

• MaA 261: Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (‘When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd’)

Copy, headed ‘Englisht’, written in the margin on the last page of two conjugate folio leaves.

First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.

This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

For the Latin version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 85-97.

f. 26r

• CoA 121.2: Abraham Cowley, Ode. Sitting and Drinking in the Chair, made out of the Reliques of Sir Francis Drake's Ship (‘Chear up my Mates, the wind does fairly blow’)

Copy. 1662.

First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 411-13.

Musical setting by Pelham Humfrey published in Choice Songs and Ayres for One Voyce (London, 1673).

MS Rawl. poet. 172

A folio composite volume of verse and some prose, in various hands, v + 179 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf.

With a few additions in Rawlinson's hand.

f. 2r

• JnB 444: Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia (‘Come my Celia let vs proue’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS 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. 2r

• HrJ 135: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, headed ‘A Ladies Answere to...’ and here beginning ‘A beutuouse ladie sittinge in a muse’.

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. 2r

• CmT 184: Thomas Campion, ‘As on a day Sabina fell asleepe’

Copy, untitled, imperfect.

First published in Vivian (1909), p. 356. Davis, p. 479.

f. 2v

• PlG 5: George Peele, The Hunting of Cupid, Song: (‘What thing is love for (wel I wot) love is a thing’)

Copy of an 11-line version, headed ‘A Discription of loue’ and here beginning ‘What thinge is loue for sure loue is a thinge’.

This MS collated in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 546-7.

Prouty, lines 12-20, 25-6. This song published separately, in an eight-line version, in The Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll (London, 1600), and in John Bartlet, A Book of Ayres (London 1606).

f. 3v

• GaG 3.5: George Gascoigne, A Ryddle (‘A lady once did aske of me’)

This MS collated in Pigman, p. 624.

First published in A Hundreth sundrie Flowres (London, [1573]).Cunliffe, I, 340. Prouty. p. 139. Pigman, No. 43, pp. 257-8.

f. 3v

• WyT 4: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘A Ladye gave me a gyfte she had not’

Copy, headed ‘A ridle of a gifte giuen by a ladie’.

This MS collated in Hughey, II, 126.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Muir & Thomson, pp. 238-9.

f. 4v

• HoJ 317: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood’)

Copy, headed ‘Carelesse Affection’ and here beginning ‘O loue whose force and might’.

This MS cited in Osborn.

Osborn, p. 301.

f. 6r

• SiP 124: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book II, No. 15 (‘Let not old age disgrace my high desire’)

Copy, headed ‘Ould age’.

This MS recorded in Ringler, pp. 558-9, and in Robertson, p. 437.

Ringler, p. 38-9. Robertson, p. 95.

f. 6r

• GaG 1.5: George Gascoigne, The constancie of a lover hath thus sometymes ben briefly declared (‘That selfe same tonge which first did thee entreat’)

Copy of lines 1-8, 13-14, headed ‘To a frend & lover’.

This MS collated in Pigman, pp. 615-16.

First published in A Hundreth sundrie Flowres (London, [1573]). Cunliffe, I, 92. Prouty, p. 74. Pigman, No. 32, p. 245.

f. 6v

• OxE 36: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘If woemen coulde be fayre and yet not fonde’

Copy, headed ‘The follie of men’.

This MS collated in May.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). May, Poems, No. III (pp. 40-1). May, Courtier Poets, p. 284. EV 11604.

f. 7r

• TiC 8: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament (‘My prime of youth is but a frost of cares’)

Copy, headed ‘Tichbourne’ and here beginning ‘My prime of youth is but a fast of cares’.

This MS text recorded in Hirsch.

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

f. 8r

• RaW 240: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, headed ‘Mans life compared to a stageplay’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, ‘The Text of Ralegh's Lyric “What is our life?”’, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

ff. 8r-9v

• HoJ 47: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)

Copy, headed ‘The Parliament fart’ and here beginning ‘Downe came graue auncient Sergeant Crooke’.

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

f. 9v

• DaJ 110: Sir John Davies, Upon a Coffin by S.I.D. (‘There was a man bespake a thing’)

Copy, headed ‘A Riddle’.

This MS collated in Krueger.

First published in William Parkes, The Curtaine-Drawer of the World (London, 1612). Krueger, p. 243.

f. 9v

• HrJ 291: Sir John Harington, Of writing with double pointing (‘Dames are indude with vertues excellent?’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in 1618, Book I, Nos. 33 and 35. McClure Nos. 34 and 36, pp. 161-2. Kilroy, Book I, No. 65, pp. 116-17.

f. 12r

• HrJ 192: Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister (‘I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten’)

Copy of a variant 16-line version, headed ‘A saintlike sister’ and here beginning ‘A saintlike sister late turnd votarie’.

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. 12r

• HrJ 170: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler (‘A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling’)

Copy, headed ‘A precise Taylor’ and here beginning ‘A Taylor tane to be of vpright dealinge’.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.

f. 12v

• RaW 153: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)

Copy, with two additional stanzas, headed ‘D^r Latworthe lye to all estates’.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 129, 134-5 and in Höltgen, p. 435

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, ‘Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine’, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's ‘answer’ to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

f. 13r

• EsR 43: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Go Eccho of the minde, a careles troth protest’

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

This MS collated in May, pp. 127-8.

May, Poems, No. II, pp. 60-1.

f. 13r

• EsR 38: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Courte's skorne, state's disgracinge’

Copy, headed ‘An other aunswere by S^r Wal R’.

Edited from this MS in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999), No. 22, p. 45. Collated in May, p. 127.

As ‘The Answer to the Lie’ in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., 8 vols (Oxford, 1829), VIII, 735. May, Poems, No. I, p. 60. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 264-5. EV 5008.

ff. 13v-14r

• EsR 57: 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, headed ‘My Lord of Essex his Bee’.

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. 15v

• SiP 6: Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 37 (‘My mouth doth water, and my breast doth swell’)

Copy of lines 5-9, 12-14, headed ‘Laydie Rich:’ and here beginning ‘Towardes Auroras courte a Nymph did dwell’.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 473.

Ringler, p. 183.

f. 15v

• HoJ 254: John Hoskyns, Vppon on of the Mayds of Honor to Queen Elizabeth (‘Here lies, the lord haue Mercie vppon hur!’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Heare lyeth Lord haue mercie vppon her!’

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

f. 15v

• DaJ 135: Sir John Davies, An Epitaph (‘Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Heare lieth old Croker the mender of bellowes’.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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. 15v

• HoJ 193.5: John Hoskyns, Of the B. of London (‘I was the first that made Christendom see’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon D^r Fletcher B[...]’.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XIX (p. 189).

ff. 19r-20v

• CoA 163: Abraham Cowley, A Satyre. The Puritan and the Papist (‘So two rude waves, by stormes together throwne’)

Copy, headed ‘The puritan Papist or y^e popish puritan alias y^e Papist & y^e Puritans satyre’, on two conjugate long ledger-size leaves, imperfect, lacking the last 54 lines.

First published, anonymously, [Oxford], 1643. Ascribed to Cowley in Wit and Loyalty Reviv'd (London, 1682). Waller, II, 149-57. Sparrow, pp. 17-28. J.H.A. Sparrow, ‘The Text of Cowley's Satire The Puritan and the Papist’, Anglia, 58 (1934), 78-102.

f. 21r-v

• StW 1183: William Strode, The Townes new teacher (‘With Face and Fashion to bee knowne’)

Copy, headed ‘Y^e Lecturer o^r New preacher’, with other poems on a folio leaf.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Forey, pp. 167-9.

f. 22r-v

• CaW 33: William Cartwright, On the great Frost. 1634 (‘Shew me the flames you brag of, you that be’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e last great frost’.

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

f. 25r

• CaW 110: William Cartwright, The Royal Slave. The Epilogve to the King & Qveene (‘Those glorious Triumphs of the Persian Court’)

Copy, headed ‘The Epilogue to y^e K. & Q.’ and here beginning ‘The solemn triumphs...’, in a cursive hand, on the first page of two conjugate small quarto leaves. c. 1636.

Evans, p. 251.

f. 25v

• CaW 118: William Cartwright, The Royal Slave. The Prologve to The King and Qveene (‘From my Devotions yonder am I come’)

Copy, headed ‘Y^e Eplogue to y^e K. & Q.’, in a cursive hand, on the second page of two conjugate small quarto leaves.

Evans, p. 195.

f. 26r

• CaW 113: William Cartwright, The Royal Slave. The Epilogve to the Vniversity (‘Thus cited to a second night, wee've here’)

Copy, headed ‘The Epilogue to y^e Vty’, in a cursive hand, on the third page of two conjugate small quarto leaves.

Evans, p. 252.

f. 28r

• CaW 123: William Cartwright, The Royal Slave. The Prologue to their Majesties at Hampton-Court (‘The rites and Worship are both old, but you’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Kinge and Queene at Hampton-Court’, on a folio leaf.

Evans, p. 198.

f. 28r-v

• CaW 116: William Cartwright, The Royal Slave. The Epologue to their Majesties at Hampton-Court (‘The unfil'd Author, though he be assur'd’)

Copy, headed ‘The Epilogue’ and here beginning ‘The absent Author...’, on a folio leaf.

Evans, p. 253.

f. 30r

• CaW 96: William Cartwright, The Royal Slave, Act I, scene ii, lines 167-79. The Priest's song (‘Come from a Dungeon to the Throne’)

Copy, headed ‘In M^r Cartwrights Comedie The Preists Songe when y^e slaue was invested on the Royall Robes’, on a folio leaf. c.1636.

Henry Lawes's musical setting of the forst six lines first published in his Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659), p. 26. Evans, p. 205.

f. 30r

• StW 1482: William Strode, The Floating Island, Act V, scene vii. Song (‘Come heavy souls oppressed with the weight’)

Copy of the Attendant's song, headed ‘In M^r Strowdes: The Passions mett at Desparato's Banquett, this songe’, on one side of a folio leaf.

Dobell, pp. 228-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes first published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

f. 31r

• StW 503: William Strode, On his Majesties Fleete (‘Cease now the talk of Wonders nothing rare’)

Copy on a folio leaf.

This MS collated in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 145-6.

f. 74v

• DnJ 1377: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

Copy, headed ‘verses made by D: D: made vppon a fflea’.

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. 74v

• JnB 277: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)

Copy, headed ‘Of the Ashes of a dead Lover put in an hower glasse’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

f. 78r-v

• JnB 614: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed

Copy of the Lord Keeper's, the Lord Steward's, the Lord Treasurer's and the Lord Chamberlain's fortunes, on a folio leaf.

Herford & Simpson, lines 565-84, 631-43, 588-97, 681-97; Greg, Windsor version, lines 392-411, 455-67, 414-23, 373-89. This MS collated in Greg; recorded in Herford & Simpson, VII, 551.

First published in John Benson's 12mo edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VII, 539-622. Edited by George Watson Cole (New York, 1931). Edited by W. W. Greg as Jonson's Masque of Gipsies (London, 1952).

f. 78v

• JnB 632: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest’)

Copy of a seven-stanza version, untitled, imperfect, lacking the rest.

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

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

f. 83r

• KiH 672: Henry King, The Surrender (‘My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more’)

Copy, headed ‘On two Lou^res y^t must forsake each oth^r’, with other poems on a folio leaf.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

f. 83r

• CwT 108: Thomas Carew, The Complement (‘O my deerest I shall grieve thee’)

Copy, headed ‘On his M^ris’, with other poems, on a folio leaf.

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

f. 103r

• DoC 2: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Advice (‘Phyllis, for shame let us improve’)

Copy, untitled, on one side of a half-folio leaf, subscribed ‘L^d Buckhurst’. Late 17th century.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Westminster Drollery (London, 1671). Harris, pp. 77-8.

f. 106r

• WoH 227: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, on one side of a half-folio leaf.

ff. 131r-2r

• FrG 4: George Farquhar, On the Death of General Schomberg kill'd at the Boyn. A Pinadrick (‘What dismal Damp has overspread the War?’)

Copy, under a general heading ‘Poems By M^r Farquhar’. c.1700.

First published in Love & Business (London, 1702). Stonehill, II, 279-82.

f. 132r

• FrG 6: George Farquhar, Written on Orinda's Poem's, lent to a Lady, in imitation of Ovid (‘Me Damon sends his amorous Cause to plead’)

First published in Love & Business (London, 1702). Stonehill, II, 282.

f. 132v

• FrG 5: George Farquhar, To the Ingenious Lady, Author of the ‘Fatal Friendship’, design'd for a Recommendatory Copy to her Play (‘Let others call the sacred Nine to Aid’)

First published in Love & Business (London, 1702). Stonehill, II, 282-3.

f. 132v

• FrG 3: George Farquhar, An Epigram, on the Riding-House in Dublin, made into a Chappel (‘A Chappel of the Riding-House is made’)

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

ff. 143r-58r

• CoR 292: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)

Copy, in a professional hand, docketed ‘D^r Corbett Iter Boreale’, on sixteen quarto leaves. c.1630s.

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

ff. 175r-6v

• MaA 371: Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter (‘Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love’)

Copy, headed ‘Second Part by S^r John Denham’, on two conjugate quarto leaves.

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.

MS Rawl. poet. 173

A folio verse miscellany, entitled ‘The Muse's Magazine, or Poeticall Miscelanies, in two parts’, in a single hand, 189 leaves. Including 27 poems by Cowley; eleven poems by Katherine Philips, evidently derived from printed sources; 10 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items; twelve poems by Sedley, plus one of doubtful authorship; and 15 poems by Waller, evidently derived from printed sources. Early 18th century.

A note on a flyleaf relating to the bookseller John Dunton (1659-1733): ‘John Dunton His Book, for which Mr. Corbet at y^e Addisons Head, accepted One Half Guinea in full Payment for it, as Witness my Hand, Hannah Rakley’. A note on f. 1: ‘Since I had transcrib'd this whole Book, I met with some state Poems of these later times, mostly since K. George's Accession to the Crown [1714] which I have here inserted, as a supplement to these state Poems which make a part of this Collection by themselves’. Date at the end of the volume: ‘1718’, and some notes on a flyleaf dated ‘1724’.

The ‘M^r. Corbet’ from whom Dunton purchased this MS was evidently the bookseller Thomas Corbett (fl. 1705-43), who ran his business at the Addison's Head, next to the Rose Tavern, without Temple Bar, from 1719 until his death in 1743. Neither Dunton nor Corbett are known to have used this MS for publication purposes.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Dunton MS’: PsK Δ 8; RoJ Δ 4; SeC Δ 1; WaE Δ 10.

For John Dunton's career, see Stephen Parks, John Dunton and the English Book Trade: A Study of His Career with a Checklist of His Publications (New York & London, 1970).

ff. 8r-10v

• DrJ 44: John Dryden, The First Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses (‘Of Bodies chang'd to various Forms I sing’)

Copy of lines 7-192, headed ‘The Creation. Out of the first Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses. Together with his Four Ages of the World. Translated by M^r. Dryden’ and here beginning ‘Before the Seas, and this Terrestrial Ball’.

First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 799-828. California, IV, 362-431. Hammond, IV, 230-84.

f. 11r-v

• DrJ 85: John Dryden, Lucretius The beginning of the Second Book (‘'Tis pleasant, safely to behold from shore’)

Copy, headed ‘The Beginning of the Second Book…Nature and Right Reason, Life's best Guide’.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 403-4. Hammond, II, 312-15.

ff. 11v-15v

• DrJ 222: John Dryden, Translation of the Latter Part of the Third Book of Lucretius Against the Fear of Death (‘What has this Bugbear death to frighten Man’)

Copy, headed ‘Out of the later part of the third Book. The Epicurean Arguments against the Fear of Death’.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 405-13. Hammond, II, 317-31.

ff. 15v-19v

• DrJ 86: John Dryden, Lucretius The Fourth Book Concerning the Nature of Love (‘Thus therefore, he who feels the Fiery dart’)

Copy, headed ‘From his 4th Book…Of the Nature and Effects of Love, with Instructions and Remarks thereupon, illustrated with Examples, &c.’.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 413-21. Hammond, II, 332-44.

ff. 19v-20r

• DrJ 48: John Dryden, From Lucretius Book the Fifth (‘Thus like a Sayler by the Tempest hurl'd’)

Copy, headed ‘From his 5th. Book…Nature more, indulgent to Brutes, than Man-Kind’.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 421. Hammond, II, 345-6.

ff. 20r-1v

• DrJ 72: John Dryden, Idyllium the 23d. The Despairing Lover (‘With inauspicious love, a wretched Swain’)

Copy.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 424-7. California, III, 69-72. Hammond, II, 352-5.

ff. 21v-3r

• DrJ 11: John Dryden, Daphnis from Theocritus Idyll. 27 (‘The Shepheard Paris bore the Spartan Bride’)

Copy, headed ‘Idyll: 27. Daphins & Chloris. an amorous Dialogue’.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 427-31. California, III (1969), 73-7. Hammond, II, 356-61.

ff. 27v-8r

• DrJ 66: John Dryden, Horace Lib. I. Ode 9 (‘Behold yon' Mountains hoary height’)

Copy, headed ‘The 9^th. Ode of the first Book. by M^r. Dryden The Epicurean's Improvement of Time’.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 432-4. California, III, 79-80. Hammond, II, 366-8.

f. 30r-v

• CgW 7: William Congreve, Horace, Lib. II. Ode 14. Imitated by Mr. Congreve (‘Ah! No, 'tis all in vain, believe me 'tis’)

Copy.

First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Examen Poeticum…The Third Part of Miscellany Poems [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 3-4. Dobrée, pp. 235-7. McKenzie, II, 315-17.

ff. 31v-2v

• OtT 3: Thomas Otway, The sixteenth Ode Of the second Book of Horace (‘In Storms when Clouds the Moon do hide’)

Copy, headed ‘Book 2^d. Ode. 16…by M^r. Otway. Tranquility of mind, so much desir'd by all, is attainable only by Bridling the appetite’.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Ghosh, II, 447-8.

ff. 48v-9r

• RoJ 484: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To Love (‘O Love! how cold and slow to take my part’)

Copy, headed ‘Lib: 2. Eleg: 9^th. To Love. By L^d. Rochester’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.

f. 50r-v

• SeC 27: Sir Charles Sedley, Ovid's Amores, Book III, Elegy the Fourth. To A Man that lockt up his Wife (‘Vex not thy self and her, vain Man, since all’)

Copy, headed ‘Lib: 3. Eleg: 4. To a man that lockt up his Wife. By S^r: Ch: Sedley’.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 97-8.

f. 55v

• CoA 44.4: Abraham Cowley, The Civil War (‘What rage does England from it selfe divide’)

Copy.

Most of Book I first published as A Poem on the late Civil War (London, 1679). Waller, II, 465-81. The full text of Books I-III first published in Toronto, 1973, ed. Allan Pritchard. Collected Works, I, pp. 115-62.

ff. 26r-7v, 32v-3r, 35r-40r, 53v-6r 58v-9r, 79r-81v, 96v-7r, 98r-v, 140v-1r 159r-60v, 168v, 169v-70v

• CoA 264: Abraham Cowley, Extracts

Copies of, or extracts from, 27 poems by Cowley.

ff. 61v-2r

• DoC 115: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Madam Maintenon's Advice to the French King. Paraphrase on the French (‘In gray-hair'd Celia's wither'd arms’)

Copy, headed ‘A Catch on the French King, out of French. by M^r. Dryden’.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Harris, pp. 171-5.

f. 62r

• EtG 95: Sir George Etherege, Voiture's Urania (‘Hopeless I languish out my days’)

Copy, headed ‘Voitures Urania. Love more prevalent than Reason’.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 6.

ff. 63v-4r

• PsK 546: Katherine Philips, The Virgin (‘The things that make a Virgin please’)

Copy, headed ‘The Pleasing Virgin. by M^rs. Phillips’

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.

f. 64v

• WaE 671: Edmund Waller, Under a Lady's Picture (‘Some ages hence, for it must not decay’)

Copy of lines 3-8, beginning ‘Such Hellen was…’.

First published, in a six-line version headed ‘To be ingraven under the Queen's Picture’ and beginning at line 3 (‘Such Helen was! and who can blame the boy’), in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). An eight-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), p. 129. Thorn-Drury (1904), II, 1.

f. 64r-v

• WaE 122: Edmund Waller, The Night-Piece. or, A Picture drawn in the Dark (‘Darkness, which fairest nymphs disarms’)

Copy.

First published in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 65-6.

ff. 64v-5r

• WaE 240: Edmund Waller, Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute (‘Such moving sounds from such a careless touch!’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Isabella playing on a Lute’.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 90.

f. 65r

• WaE 498: Edmund Waller, To a Lady in a Garden (‘Sees not my love how time resumes’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 113.

ff. 65v-6v, 132r-v

• RoJ 138: 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 of lines 177-255, headed ‘The Cheating Whore. or, a Caveat to young Fops. Out of L^d Roch:'s Poems’ and here beginning ‘This in my time was an observed Rule’, and lines 147-68, headed ‘On a Witty Whore’ and here beginning ‘I took this time to think, what nature meant’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

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.

ff. 66v-7v

• EtG 2: Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet (‘How far are they deceived who hope in vain’)

Copy, headed ‘Epelia (a Deserted Lover) to Bajaset, which may serve as a Caveat to Women. By L^d R[ochester]’.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.

ff. 67v-8r

• RoJ 608: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia (‘Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat’)

Copy, headed ‘His answer’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.

ff. 69v.-70r

• DoC 164: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess Dowager of Manchester (‘Courage, dear Moll, and drive away despair’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon an affected Court Lady. By M^r. Fleetwood shepherd’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.

f. 71r

• RoJ 370: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘As Chloris full of harmless thought’)

Copy, headed ‘The Yielding Nymph’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published as a broadside, Croydon and Cloris or, The Wanton Sheepherdess [?London, ?1676]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 26-7. Walker, p. 35. Love, p. 36.

f. 71v

• RoJ 439: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘What cruel pains Corinna takes’)

Copy, headed ‘Woman's Frailty. A Song. by L^d. Ro:’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 31. Walker, p. 20, as ‘To Corinna. A Song’. Love, p. 20, as To Corinna.

ff. 71v-2r

• DoC 9: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Advice to Lovers (‘Damon, if thou wilt believe me’)

Copy, headed ‘Advise to Lovers. or, Faint Heart ne're won fair Lady. by S^r. Ch: Sedley’.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Banquet of Musick…The Fifth Book (London, 1691). Harris, pp. 83-4. Some texts are preceded by John Howe's song ‘Dy wretched Damon, Dy quickly to ease her’.

f. 72r

• DoC 247: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Song (‘Phyllis, the fairest of love's foes’)

Copy, headed ‘Catch by L^d. Dorset’.

This MS collated in in Harris.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Harris, pp. 81-2.

f. 72r

• SeC 91: Sir Charles Sedley, Against his Mistress's Cruelty (‘Love, How unequal are thy Laws’)

Copy, headed ‘The perplexed Lover to his Cruel mistress. S^r. Ch: Sedley’.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by His Grace, George, Late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704). Sola Pinto, II, 149-50.

f. 74r

• SeC 48: Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia (‘As in those Nations, where they yet adore’)

Copy, headed ‘To Celia. Fair, but not Favourable. by S^r. Ch: Sedley’.

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.

f. 74r-v

• EtG 85: Sir George Etherege, To a Lady, Asking Him How Long He Would Love Her (‘Cloris, it is not in our power’)

Copy of stanzas 1 and 3, here ascribed to Etherege.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in Catch that Catch Can (London, 1667). Thorpe, p. 2.

ff. 74v-5r

• SeC 5: Sir Charles Sedley, Constancy (‘Fear not, my Dear, a Flame can never dye’)

Copy, headed ‘Lasting Love. By S^r. Ch: Sedley’.

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

f. 75r

• EtG 70: Sir George Etherege, Song (‘Tell me no more you love. in vain’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song by S^r. Geo: Etherege. Love's last Tryall’.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Thorpe, p. 24.

f. 75r-v

• SeC 4: Sir Charles Sedley, The Complaint (‘When fair Aurelia first became’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song by S^r. Ch: Sedley, a Given Heart hardly regain'd’.

First published, in a 28-line version beginning ‘When Aurelia first became’, in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 10-11.

ff. 75v-6

• SeC 70: Sir Charles Sedley, To Cloris (‘Cloris, I cannot say your Eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘To Chloris. by S^r. Ch: Sedley. The Entire Lover’.

First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 8.

f. 76r-v

• SeC 12: Sir Charles Sedley, A Dialogue between Amintas and Celia (‘Amintas, I am come alone’)

Copy, headed ‘Amyntas Courting Caelia for her last Favour. S^r Ch: Sed:’.

First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 17-19.

f. 82r

• ClJ 3: John Cleveland, The Antiplatonick (‘For shame, thou everlasting Woer’)

Copy.

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

f. 8r

• DoC 197: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) (‘Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Countess of - Mistress to K. J. 2. 1680. by E. of Dorset’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.

f. 86r

• WaE 588: Edmund Waller, To one Married to an old Man (‘Since thou wouldst needs (bewitched with some ill charms!)’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘To the wife being marryed to that old man’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 2.

ff. 95v-6r

• WaE 76: Edmund Waller, The Fall (‘See! how the willing earth gave way’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘The Reply’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 96.

f. 96r

• WaE 192: Edmund Waller, Of her Passing through a Crowd of People (‘As in old chaos (heaven with earth confused)’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 51.

f. 97r-v

• EtG 18: Sir George Etherege, The Imperfect Enjoyment (‘After a pretty amorous discourse’)

Copy, ascribed to Etherege.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, pp. 7-8.

f. 100r-v

• WaE 357: Edmund Waller, On the friendship betwixt two Ladies (‘Tell me, lovely, loving pair!’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘On the Friendship betwixt Sacharissa and Amoret’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 60-1.

f. 100v

• PsK 3: Katherine Philips, Against Love (‘Hence, Cupid! with your cheating Toies’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 143. Saintsbury, pp. 587-8. Thomas, I, 214, poem 96.

f. 101r

• SeC 1: Sir Charles Sedley, Advice to the Old Beaux (‘Scrape no more your harmless Chins’)

Copy.

First published in The Gentleman's Journal (August 1693), p. 258. Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 35-6.

ff. 101v-2v

• PsK 103: Katherine Philips, Friendship (‘Let the dull brutish world that know not love’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 158-61. Poems (1667), pp. 78-9. Saintsbury, pp. 552-3. Thomas, I, 150-1, poem 57.

ff. 102v-3v

• PsK 95: Katherine Philips, A Friend (‘Love, nature's plot, this great Creation's soule’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 189-95. Poems (1667), pp. 94-7. Saintsbury, pp. 561-3. Thomas, I, 165-8, poem 64.

f. 107r

• ClJ 215: John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector (‘What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘M^r Cleveland’.

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. 107r-v

• WaE 703: Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same (‘We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim’)

Copy, the text followed (ff. 107v-8v) by Godolphin's answer.

First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As ‘Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C.’ in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.

For the ‘answer or construction’ by William Godolphin, see the Introduction.

ff. 108v-10

• WaE 621: Edmund Waller, To the King, upon His Majesty's happy Return (‘The rising sun complies with our weak sight’)

Copy.

First published as a broadside (London, [1660]). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 35-9.

f. 110r-v

• WaE 617: Edmund Waller, To the King, on his Navy (‘Wher'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 15-16.

MS Rawl. poet. 174

A folio volume of 50 poems by Edmund Waller, in a single professional hand, viii + 104 pages (pp. 82-92 blank and pp. 93-7 bound-in separately), in vellum. Some annotations and scribbling in an 18th-century hand; the volume now imperfect, the bottom corner of virtually every page mutilated probably by rodents. c.1640s.

Later owned by the Rev. Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as ‘Rawlinson MS’: WaE Δ 2.

pp. 1-2

• WaE 612: Edmund Waller, To the King, on his Navy (‘Wher'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 15-16.

MS Rawl. poet. 180

Copy, in a professional hand, with some corrections and additions in another hand, headed ‘Kinge Henry the Fifth’, iii + 35 folio leaves, gilt-edged, in black morocco gilt. c.1660s.

OrR 13: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Henry the Fifth

Inscribed name (f. i^r) ‘M. S. Murray’.

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. 181

A quarto composite volume of poems on affairs of state, of Jacobite sympathies, i + 88 leaves. c.1690-1720.

ff. 26r-7r

• MaA 239: Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market (‘As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon S^r Roberts setting up y^e statue’, on the rectos of two quarto leaves.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

f. 28r

• DrJ 225: John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee (‘O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain’)

Copy, at the foot of a quarto leaf.

This MS collated in California.

First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond, III, 219.

MS Rawl. poet. 185

A quarto volume of songs and ballads, in double columns, ii + 26 leaves, some imperfect or excised. c.1580-1600.

Owned c.1600 by Thomas and William Wagstaffe.

f. 22v

• DlT 1: Thomas Deloney, A song in praise of a single life (‘Some do write of bloudy warres’)

Copy.

First published in The Garland of Good Will (London, 1596?. The earliest known extant edition [exemplum at Yale] is London, 1628). Mann, pp. 328-30.

MS Rawl. poet. 194

A quarto composite volume of verse, in English, Latin and Greek, in various hands, ii + 174 leaves.

ff. 161r-3r

• EaJ 63: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Hortus Mertonensis (‘Hortus delitiae domus politae’)

Copy, on three quarto leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

First published in John Aubrey, The Natural History and Antiquities of the County of Surrey, ed. Richard Rawlinson (London, 1718-19), IV, 166-71.

MS Rawl. poet. 195

A folio composite volume of plays and poems, in various hands, ii + 171 leaves.

ff. 1r-34v

• BeA 24: Aphra Behn, The Young Brother. or, The Amorous Jilt

Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘The Younger Brother or the Amorous Jilt a Comedy acted at the Theatre royal By his Majestys Servants Written by the late Ingenious M^rs. Behn’ and with (ff. 2r-3r) [Charles Gildon's]. ‘An account of the Life of the Incomparable M^rs. Behn’, on 34 folio leaves, slightly imperfect. c.1700.

First published (in an edited version, and with a biographical preface, by Charles Gildon) London, 1696. Summers, IV, 311-99. Todd, VII, 359-417.

MS Rawl. poet. 196

A quarto miscellany of chiefly amatory verse, in several hands, i + 132 leaves. Partly in Scottish dialect, one poem by ‘mr. W. Turner’. Early 18th century.

f. 1v

• FoJ 4.5: John Ford, The Lady's Trial, II, iv. Song (‘Pleasures, beauty, youth attend ye’)

Copy of the song.

Collated in Thomas.

First published in London, 1639. Dyce, III, 1-99 (pp. 40-1). De Vocht, pp. 329-408 (p. 363, lines 1011-26).

f. 2v

• DrJ 286: John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: or, The Double Discovery, Act V, scene i, lines 64-87. Song (‘Farewell ungratefull Traytor’)

Copy of the song.

First published in London, 1681. California, XIV (1992), pp. 97-203 (pp. 182-3). Scott-Saintsbury, VI, 393-523 (p. 500). Kinsley, I, 208. Hammond, I, 420-1.

f. 5v

• OtT 7: Thomas Otway, ‘Would you know how we meet’

Copy of the song.

Recorded in Franklin B. Zimmerman, Henry Purcell: An Analytical Catalogue (London & New York, 1963), No. 290.

A song attributed to Otway in early printed sources and possibly by him. First published, in a musical setting by Henry Purcell, in The Theater of Music, The Second Book (London, 1685).

f. 13v

• MaA 57: Andrew Marvell, Senec. Traged. ex Thyeste Chor. 2 (‘Climb at Court for me that will’)

Copy, headed ‘Songs’.

First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 58. Lord, p. 51. Smith, p. 191, as ‘The Second Chorus from Seneca's Tragedy Thyestes’.

f. 14v

• ShJ 144: 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, headed ‘Songs’.

Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).

f. 15r

• HeR 65: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

f. 15v

• LeN 17: Nathaniel Lee, Theodosius: or, The Force of Love, Song [after the Third Act] (‘Hail to the Mirtle Shade’)

Copy.

Published separately, as ‘Love's boundless Power, or The Charmed Lovers' Happiness Compleated’, [in London], 1680 (only known exemplum in the Bibliotheca Lindesiana of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres). Stroup & Cooke, II, 276-7 (with Purcell's setting, II, 311-12).

f. 16r

• LeN 19: Nathaniel Lee, Theodosius: or, The Force of Love, V, i, 31-57. Song after the Fourth Act (‘Ah Cruel bloody Fate’)

Copy of the song, headed ‘A ballitt Song's’.

Published separately, as ‘The True Lovers' Tragedy’, [in London], 1680. Stroup & Cooke, II, 295 (with Purcell's setting, II, 313-14).

ff. 18v-19r

• PsK 578.8: Katherine Philips, Pompey. A Tragedy, Act III, scene iv. Song (‘From lasting and unclouded Day’)

Copy of the song, with corrections in another hand.

This MS collated in Thomas.

A recitative air sung by Pompey's ghost. Saintsbury, pp. 611-12. Thomas, I, 244-5, poem 120. Thomas, III, 55-6. This song originally set to music by Dr Peter Pett (1630-99).

f. 20v

• DrJ 193: John Dryden, The Tears of Amynta, for the Death of Damon. Song (‘On a bank, beside a Willow’)

Copy of the first stanza, subscribed ‘M[ary] N’.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 382-3. California, II, 164-5. Hammond, II, 201-2.

f. 21v

• DkT 43.5: Thomas Dekker, The Noble Soldier, I, ii, 1-17. Song (‘Oh sorrow, sorrow, say where dost thou dwell?’)

Copy. 1631.

First published in London, 1634. Bowers, IV, 242.

f. 28v

• DoC 104: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Fire of Love (‘The fire of love in youthful blood’)

Copy, headed ‘Songs’.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Thomas Shadwell, The Amorous Bigot (London, 1690). Harris, p. 86.

f. 28v

• DoC 105: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Fire of Love (‘The fire of love in youthful blood’)

Second copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Thomas Shadwell, The Amorous Bigot (London, 1690). Harris, p. 86.

f. 31

• SdT 32: Thomas Shadwell, The Squire of Alsatia, II, i. Song: The Expostulation (‘Still wilt thou sigh, and still in vain’)

Copy of the song.

First published in London, 1688. Summers, IV, 191-283 (p. 224).

f. 35v

• DrJ 247: John Dryden, Amphitryon. or, The Two Sosia's, Act III, scene i, lines 583-600. Song (‘CeIia, that I once was blest’)

Copy of the song.

First published in London, ‘1690’. California, XV (1976), 221-318 (p. 283). Kinsley, II, 560-1. Hammond, III, 238.

f. 36v

• DrJ 273: John Dryden, King Arthur: or, The British Worthy, Act V, scene ii, lines 150-65. Song (‘Fairest Isle, all Isles Excelling’)

Copy of Venus's song.

California, XVI, 63. Scott-Saintsbury, VIII, 196. Kinsley, II, 577. Hammond, III, 266-7.

f. 37r

• CoA 29.5: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. V. Age (‘Oft am I by the Women told’)

Copy.

First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 53. Sparrow, pp. 52-3.

ff. 44v-5v

• CgW 10: William Congreve, ‘How Happy's the Husband, whose Wife has been try'd’

Copy.

First published in John Dryden, Love Triumphant. or, Nature will Prevail (London, 1694). Summers, IV, 34. Dobrée, pp. 375-6. McKenzie, II, 462. Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Thesaurus Musicus, Book II (London, 1694).

f. 46v

• CgW 43: William Congreve, Song from The Maid's Last Prayer. Set by Mr. Purcell, and Sung by Mrs. Ayliff (‘Tell me no more I am deceiv'd’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘A Song set by Mr. Henry Purcell, the Words by Mr. Congreve’, in The Gentleman's Journal (January 1692/3), pp. 27-8. Thomas Southerne, The Maid's Last Prayer, or, Any, Rather than Fail (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 24. Dobrée, p. 243. McKenzie, II, 323-4. The Works of Henry Purcell, XX (London, 1916), pp. 82-3.

For the song by Etherege with the same opening line, see EtG 69.

MS Rawl. poet. 198

Copy, in a probably professional hand, with corrections, iii + 61 quarto leaves, in contemporary calf. Subscribed (f. 61v) with the printing licence ‘ffinis 8. June. 1623. Imprimatur’, signed in a different hand ‘Geo: Cottington’. 1623.

HyT 2: Thomas Heywood, Ovid's De Arte Amandi or, The Art of Love (‘If there be any in this multitude’)

This MS discussed in S. Musgrove, ‘Some Manuscripts of Heywood's Art of Love’, The Library, 5th Ser. 1 (1946-7), 106-12.

First published, anonymously, as Loues Schoole [?1600]. Edited from an early printed text (British Library, C.39.a.37) by M.L. Stapleton, as Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars Am atoria (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2000).

MS Rawl. poet. 199

A small quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 98 pages (plus some blanks), in reversed calf (rebacked). c.1620s-30s.

Inscribed (f. i^r) by Thomas Hearne (1678-1735), the date ‘1741’ added.

p. 1

• CwT 822: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘Harke how my Celia, with the choyce’)

Copy, headed ‘On his M^rs singing in the Dukes gallery at Yorkehouse’.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 231.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.

pp. 2-3

• WoH 77: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy, headed ‘On the L: Eliz.’, here beginning ‘Ye glorious trifles of the East’, and docketed in another hand ‘S^r H: W:’.

pp. 3-4

• StW 784: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman walking in a snowy morning’.

p. 4

• BrW 116: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor (‘Nature in this small volume was about’)

Copy, headed ‘On a yong Gentlewomans death’.

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

p. 4

• StW 1017: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)

Copy, headed ‘A Sonet’.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.

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

p. 5

• KiH 48: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘The Reply’.

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).

p. 6

• CwT 137: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Copy, headed ‘On an vnkind M^rs’.

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

pp. 6-7

• CaW 16: William Cartwright, Horat. Carm. lib.4. Ode 13. Audivere Lyce (‘My Prayers are heard, O Lyce, now’)

Copy, headed ‘Hor: Lib: 4^o: Ode 13’, subscribed ‘W: C:’.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 256-8. Evans, pp. 503-4.

pp. 8-9

• CaW 7: William Cartwright, Beauty and Deniall (‘No, no, it cannot be; for who e'r set’)

Copy, headed ‘Beauty and deniall’, subscribed ‘WC’.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 218-18. Evans, pp. 470-2.

p. 9

• DaJ 47: Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion (‘Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^rs’ and here beginning ‘ffaire sweet I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’.

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

pp. 10-11

• PeW 220: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy of a version headed ‘Deniall’ and here beginning ‘Nay pew, nay pish, in faith and will you? fly’.

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].

pp. 11-12

• JnB 587: Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song (‘Still to be neat, still to be drest’)

Copy of the song, headed ‘To his M^rs:’.

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

p. 12

• StW 394: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)

Copy, headed ‘On a faire woman that sung sweetly’.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.

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

pp. 12-13

• PoW 13: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘On M^rs Beata Pool with blacke eyes’.

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.

pp. 14-15

• DnJ 3200: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘On his M^rs: going to bed’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

p. 16

• CaW 78: William Cartwright, The Ordinary, Act IV, scene iii, line 1263 et seq. Song (‘Come o come, I brook no stay’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘W: C:’.

Evans, pp. 311-12.

pp. 18-23

• CoR 29: 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, subscribed ‘R: Corbet’.

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’).

pp. 28-9

• CoR 402: Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham (‘When I can pay my Parents, or my King’)

Copy, headed ‘D:C: To the D: of Buckingham’.

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

pp. 29-30

• CoR 569: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett (‘What I shall leave thee none can tell’)

Copy, headed ‘B: C: to his Sonne Vincent’.

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

pp. 30-1

• CoR 667: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him (‘Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^rs Mallet’, subscribed ‘R: Corbet’.

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

pp. 31-2

• CoR 699: Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes (‘Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse’)

Copy, subscribed ‘R: C:’.

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

pp. 32-4

• MyJ 13: Jasper Mayne, On Mris Anne King's Tablebook of Pictures (‘Mine eyes were once blessed with the sight’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^rs Anne King's tablebooke of pictures’, subscribed ‘J: M:’.

Unpublished?

pp. 36-8

• CaW 34: William Cartwright, On the great Frost. 1634 (‘Shew me the flames you brag of, you that be’)

Copy, headed ‘on the great frost and snow’, subscribed ‘W: C:’.

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

pp. 45-6

• StW 746: William Strode, Song (‘Hath Christmas furrd your Chimneys’)

Copy, headed ‘Pidgeons songe’.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 111-14. Forey, pp. 89-91.

pp. 48-9

• CaW 23: William Cartwright, On a Gentlewomans Silk-hood (‘Is there a Sanctity in Love begun’)

Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewomans silke: hoode’.

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

pp. 49-50

• MoG 58: George Morley, On the Nightingale (‘My limbs were weary and my head oppressed’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Nightingale’, subscribed ‘G: M:’.

pp. 50-2

• StW 1201: William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada (‘Now the declining Sun gan downward bende’)

Copy, headed ‘Strada's Nightgale’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 16-18. Forey, pp. 72-5.

pp. 52-3

• MaA 10: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda (‘When Death, shall part us from these Kids’)

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue’ and here subscribed ‘H: R:amsay’.

First published, in a musical setting by John Gamble, in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659). Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 19-21. Lord, pp. 261-2, as of doubtful authorship. Smith pp. 244-5. The authorship doubted and discussed in Chernaik, pp. 207-8.

pp. 53-4

• CoR 175: Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London (‘When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke’)

Copy, headed ‘On D^r Ravis Bishop of London’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.

p. 54

• PoW 82: Walton Poole, On the death of King James (‘Can Christendoms great champion sink away’)

Copy of lines 1-18.

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.

pp. 55-6

• BrW 83: 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 ‘on a woman dying in travaile with child’.

p. 56

• BrW 156: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)

Copy.

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

pp. 58-9

• EaJ 17: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree (‘Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of S^r John Burrowes’.

pp. 61-2

• MoG 5: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

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

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

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

pp. 63-5

• CoR 218: 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, subscribed ‘D^r C’.

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.

pp. 66-7

• EaJ 47: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death (‘Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of W: Earle of P:’.

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

p. 74

• JnB 16: 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, headed ‘A song’ and here beginning ‘Have you seene the lilly grow’.

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).

p. 75

• HoJ 318: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood’)

Copy, headed ‘A song’ and here beginning ‘Oh love whose force & might’.

Osborn, p. 301.

pp. 80-1

• StW 1376: William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie (‘Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke’)

Copy, headed ‘The blush’ and here beginning ‘Stay hasty bloud where canst thou seeke’.

This MS recorded in Forey.

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

pp. 81-3

• CwT 1125: Thomas Carew, To Saxham (‘Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘On an entertainement’.

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

p. 84

• StW 856: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistris’.

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

pp. 86-7

• PeW 144: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Apollo's Oath (‘When Phebus first did Daphne love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published, in a two-stanza version in a musical setting, in John Dowland, Third Booke of Aires (London, 1603), No. vi. A three-stanza version in John Philips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656), p. 31. A four-stanza version in Poems (1660), p. 115, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as probably by Charles Rives (of New College, Oxford). It is possible, however, that the poem grew by accretions in different hands, Rives perhaps being responsible for the fourth stanza.

p. 94

• KiH 436: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘D^r: J:K:’.

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

p. 94

• StW 207: William Strode, Justification (‘See how the rainbow in the skie’)

Copy.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.

pp. 94-5

• StW 981: William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection (‘Like to the casting of an Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘Death and Resurrection’ and here beginning ‘Like to the rolling of an eye’.

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

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

pp. 95-6

• SuJ 87: John Suckling, Upon My Lady Carliles walking in Hampton-Court garden (‘Didst thou not find the place inspir'd’)

Copy, with an additional stanza, headed ‘A Dialogue betw: T: C: and S^r: I: S:’ and subscribed ‘T: C:’.

This MS collated in Clayton. The additional stanza edited in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), p. 535.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 30-2.

pp. 97-8

• CrR 163: Richard Crashaw, On the Assumption (‘Harke shee is called, the parting houre is come’)

Copy.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). A version published, as ‘In the Glorious Assvmption of Ovr Blessed Lady’, in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 139-41 (and later version pp. 304-6).