CELM: Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 200 through end

MS Rawl. poet. 200

An octavo miscellany of religious poems, hymns and some prose, in English, French and Latin, ii + 129 leaves, in contemporary half-calf. Early 18th century.

f. 126r

• WoH 257.5: Sir Henry Wotton, ‘Rise oh my soul w^th: thy desires to heauen’

Copy, headed ‘Sursum Corda’.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 537, subscribed ‘Ignoto’, among ‘Poems Found among the Papers of S. H. Wotton’.

MS Rawl. poet. 206

A quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, vi + 98 leaves, in calf. Probably compiled by a member of New College, Oxford. c.1630s.

Some tipped-in notes by Richard Rawlinson.

pp. 1-16

• CoR 293: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)

Copy, headed ‘A iourney into the North by Ri. Corbet’.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 44.

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

p. 21

• BrW 84: William Browne of Tavistock, On an Infant Unborn, and the Mother Dying in Travail (‘Within this grave there is a grave entomb'd’)

Copy.

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.

pp. 23-4

• StW 359: William Strode, On a Dissembler (‘Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Can any shewe where Plinnies people dwell’, subscribed ‘Will: Strode Cts Church’.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.

p. 42

• RnT 446: Thomas Randolph, Against Drunkards (‘What prodigy of nature, or what evil’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘T. R.’.

Unpublished?

pp. 47-8

• StW 1150: William Strode, To Mr Rives heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon. (‘Welcome abroad, o welcome from your bedd!’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^r Rives and M^r Griffiths recovery both Fellowes of New Coll.’, subscribed ‘J[ohn]: South. N[ew] Coll[ege]’.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 95-7. Forey, pp. 11-14.

p. 52

• CoR 570: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett (‘What I shall leave thee none can tell’)

Copy, headed ‘To my sonn Vincent on his birth-day, being now 3 yeer olde’, subscribed ‘by Richard Corbet L^d B of Oxford’.

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

pp. 52-3

• StW 1392: William Strode, Ad Filiolum Vincentium, in ipsius Natalem 10^ime: Novembris, Anno aetatis 3^to. 1630 (‘Scit nemo quid Opum Tibi relinquam’)

Copy, headed ‘Idem’, subscribed ‘W Strode his Chaplaine’.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349. In MS sources the poem is invariably preceded by the English poem by Richard Corbett on his son, of which Strode's poem is a Latin translation (see CoR 560-83).

p. 57

• JnB 65: Ben Jonson, An Epigram on the Princes birth (‘And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest be thy birth’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Ben Johnson’.

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.

p. 58

• HrG 310.5: George Herbert, In Honorem Illustr. D.D. Verulamij, S^tⁱ Albani, Mag. Sigilli Custodis post editam ab eo Instaurationem Magnam (‘Qvis iste tandem? non enim vultu ambulat’)

Copy, possibly transcribed from a printed source.

First published in Emanuele Tesauro, Caesares, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1637). Hutchinson, pp. 436-7. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 168-71.

p. 61

• HrJ 90.5: Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man (‘There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning It is vncertaine when a Certaine Preacher, followed (pp. 61-2) by ‘The Womans answer’ (beginning ‘That in the Scripture non could ever finde’)

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.

p. 64

• KiH 49: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘His Answer’, subscribed ‘D^r Henry Kinge’.

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. 65

• BrW 117: 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 the Death of a Gentlewoman’.

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. 65

• DaJ 173: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘On an Infant’ and here beginning ‘As Carefull Mothers to their Bedds do laye’.

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

pp. 66-7

• HeR 407: Robert Herrick, Upon a Cherrystone sent to the tip of the Lady Jemmonia Walgraves eare (‘Lady I intreate yow weare’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Cherrie-stone having a Deaths-head on y^e one side and a Gentlewomans on the other’.

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

pp. 67-8

• StW 564: William Strode, On the death of Mistress Mary Prideaux (‘Weepe not because this Child hath died soe young’)

Copy.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 58-9. Forey, p. 111.

pp. 68-71

• EaJ 18: 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 Burghus’.

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).

pp. 71-2

• StW 1317: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy.

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

p. 73

• PeW 175: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)

Copy, headed ‘A Ditty’ and here beginning ‘Why should my passion lead mee blind’.

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

pp. 73-4

• CwT 384: Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned (‘Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)’)

Copy, headed ‘One to his M^rs that card not for him’.

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

pp. 74-5

• StW 523: William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge (‘Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I’)

Copy of the first poem (lines 1-44), headed ‘On the Death of M^rs Mary Priduax’.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

pp. 75-6

• CoR 605: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon the Ladyes of Honour’, subscribed ‘By my L. of Norwidge’.

First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.

This poem is usually followed in MSS by ‘The Ladyes Answer’ (‘Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night’): see GrJ 14.

p. 76

• GrJ 21: John Grange, ‘Black cypress veils are shrouds of night’

Copy, headed ‘The Ladyes Answer’.

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

p. 77

• DyE 77: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall’

Copy of the first stanza, headed ‘On the same’ [i.e. love] and here beginning ‘The lowest shrubs have tops, the Ant her gall’.

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

p. 77

• PeW 160: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Dream (‘When as the cheerful Light was over-spread’)

Copy, headed ‘A Dreame’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 113-14, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’.

MS Rawl. poet. 208

A quarto verse miscellany, i + 23 leaves, in contemporary vellum. compiled by one John Hooper of Devon. c.1665.

The binding is a recycled vellum legal document between Christopher and Katherine Mason.

f. 1r

• WoH 13: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy.

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

f. 2r

• TiC 9: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament (‘My prime of youth is but a frost of cares’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses of the little Estate of man’.

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. 3r

• RaW 24: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, untitled.

First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

MS Rawl. poet. 209

An octavo verse miscellany, 49 leaves; in contemporary calf gilt. Including 14 poems by Carew; the main text (ff. 1r-27r) in a non-professional mixed hand of the 1630s (but for later scribbling); the remaining leaves filled by later hands; notes on family history from 1647 to 1664 on ff. 28r-9r. c.1630s[-75].

Inscribed on f. 29v ‘John Peverell Booke 1674’ and his name also on ff. 1r and 49r. Fol. 48v containing a receipt dated 30 June 1653 ‘by me Francis Blackitt of bro. William of Hoodcroft, Co. Durham’. Other names inside the front cover including ‘John Peves’ and ‘Railphe Hogwood’ and, inside the back cover, ‘James Portington’, ‘William Steadman 1675’, ‘Thomas Meeres’, ‘William Diton’ and ‘Ramond Swift’.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Peverell MS’: CwT Δ 9.

f. 1r

• CwT 1113: Thomas Carew, To Saxham (‘Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes’)

Copy of the last twelve lines, here beginning ‘There'es none observes much lesse repines; imperfect, lacking the rest.’

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

ff. 1r-2r

• CwT 460: Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters (‘So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs Commaunding him to returne her letters’.

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

ff. 2v-3v

• CwT 189: Thomas Carew, An Elegie on the La: Pen: sent to my Mistresse out of France (‘Let him, who from his tyrant Mistresse, did’)

Copy, subscribed ‘T: C:’.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 222.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 19-21.

ff. 3v-4v

• CwT 484: Thomas Carew, Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay (‘I heard the Virgins sigh, I saw the sleeke’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘T: C:’.

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

f. 4v

• CwT 210: Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence (‘You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.

f. 4v

• CwT 389: Thomas Carew, A Ladies prayer to Cupid (‘Since I must needes into thy schoole returne’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap, p. 131.

f. 5r

• CwT 242: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy.

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

f. 5r-v

• CwT 551: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy.

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

ff. 5v-6r

• CwT 315: Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid (‘When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.

f. 6r

• CwT 1187: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband (‘This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.

f. 8r

• RnT 381: Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger (‘Arithmetique nine digits, and no more’)

Copy, headed ‘Randol vpon y^e Losse of his finger’.

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

f. 8r-v

• CoR 260: Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem (‘Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on’)

Copy, headed ‘On D^r P: Price his 3 Anniversary vpon y^e death of prince Henry’.

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

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

ff. 8v-9r

• KiH 178: Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death (‘Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure’)

Copy, headed ‘On Prince Henries death’.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

f. 9r

• KiH 285: Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset (‘Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on his most honour'd freind Richard Earle of Dorset’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

f. 9v

• KiH 195: Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. (‘I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne’)

Copy, headed ‘on S^r Walter Rawleigh’.

This MS collated in Crum.

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

ff. 10r-11r

• EaJ 48: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death (‘Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon y^e death of y^e Earle of Pembrocke’.

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

ff. 11r-12r

• JnB 373: Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe (‘Come leaue the lothed stage’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben: Johnsons Ode to his selfe’.

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.

ff. 12r-13r

• CwT 1025: Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (‘'Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.

ff. 13r-15r

• HoJ 262: John Hoskyns, Convivium philosophicum (‘Quilibet si sit contentus’)

Copy, as ‘autore doctore Rodolpho Colfabio Æneonasensi’.

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

ff. 16r-18v

• CoR 30: 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, heaed ‘A Certaine graue poeme...’.

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’).

ff. 18v-19v

• ToA 11: Aurelian Townshend, Elegy on the death of the King of Sweden: sent to Thomas Carew (‘I had and have a purpose to be kind’)

Copy, headed ‘Aurelian Townesends elegie on y^e death of y^e King of Sweden sent to T: Carewe’, subscribed ‘A: T:’.

Edited from this MS text in Brown.

Brown, pp. 48-9.

ff. 19v-20v

• CwT 351: Thomas Carew, In answer of an Elegiacall Letter upon the death of the King of Sweden from Aurelian Townsend, inviting me to write on that subject (‘Why dost thou sound, my deare Aurelian’)

Copy, headed ‘His Answer’, subscribed ‘Thomas Carewe’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 74-7.

f. 21r-v

• RnT 207: Thomas Randolph, On six maids bathing themselves in a River (‘When bashfull day-light now was gone’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon y^e Bathing of six virgins sean by a yong gentleman’.

This MS collated in Davis.

First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 138-40. Davis, pp. 56-62.

f. 21v

• RnT 474: Thomas Randolph, Epigram (‘Heavens decreed, before the world begun’)

Copy.

Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, II, 655. Parry, p. 219. Rejected from the canon in Thorn-Drury, p. xxii.

f. 22r-v

• RnT 415: Thomas Randolph, Ionson's Ode to Himself, translated (‘Eho jam satis & super Theatro’)

Copy, headed ‘Carmina p BenJohnsonem anglice expressa p Thomam Randolphu Latina exclusa’.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

First published in S.R., A Crew of kind London Gossips …to which is added ingenious Poems or Wit and Drollery (London, 1633). Thorn-Drury, pp. 149-51. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, Volume X (Oxford, 1950), pp. 336-7.

MS Rawl. poet. 210

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small hand, written from both ends, 25 leaves (foliated 44r-68v), bound with a MS by ‘W. C.’ (ff. 1r-43v) dated 1653, i + 68 leaves in all, in 18th-century half-calf. c.1630s.

Possibly connected with the Darell family, some of the poems relating to Sir Samuel Darell and the death of Elizabeth Darell.

f. 57r

• CrR 448: Richard Crashaw, Vpon a gnatt burnt in a candle (‘Little = buzzing = wanton elfe’)

Copy, headed ‘On a gnatt w^ch was burnt in a candle & fell into an Inkehorne’, here beginning ‘Silly, buzzing, wanton elfe’, subscribed ‘Thomas Vincent’.

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

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

MS Rawl. poet. 212

A small octavo miscellany of verse and prose, written from both ends, i + 155 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum. Compiled by an Oxford University man. Early 17th century.

ff. 66v-57r rev.

• DaJ 5: Sir John Davies, Epigrammes

Copy of 46 epigrams (Nos. 1-4, 6-7, 10-11, 13, 15-19, 21-3, 25-7, 29-43, 49-59), headed ‘English Epigrammes much like Buckminsters Almanacke, servinge for all England, but especially for y^e Meridian of y^e honorable cittye of London calculated by John Davis of Grayes Inne gentleman An ^o 1594 in November’.

Epigrammes 50-2, 54-9 first pub. (from this MS) in Percy Simpson, ‘Unprinted Epigrams of Sir John Davies’, RES, NS 3 (1952); 49-50; Epigrammes 49 and 53 first pub. (from this MS) in R.F. Kennedy, ‘Unprinted Epigrams by Davies’, TLS (7 August 1959), p. 459. This MS collated and Epigrammes 49-50 printed from it in Krueger; described in Krueger, pp. 337, 443, and in RES, NS 13 (1962), 118.

58 Epigrammes first published in ‘Middleborugh’ [i.e. London?], [1595-6?]. Krueger, pp. 127-51. Fourteen additional Epigrammes printed from MSS in Krueger, pp. 153-9.

f. 87v

• HrJ 76: Sir John Harington, How England may be reformed (‘Men say that England late is bankrout grown’)

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

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

f. 87v

• HrJ 304: Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram (‘When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘When doome of death by Judgment foreappointed’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).

ff. 88r-90r

• RaW 154: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)

Copy, headed ‘W R farewell made by D: Lat:’.

This text accompanied by Latewar's answer. Edited from this MS in Höltgen, pp. 435-8; in Rudick, No. 20B, pp. 34-41; and in online Early Stuart Libels. Recorded in Latham, pp. 129-30.

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.

ff. 90r-1r

• EsR 44: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Go Eccho of the minde, a careles troth protest’

Copy, headed ‘Another answere made by an vnknowne author’.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, pp. 38-40, and in online ‘Early Stuart Libels’.

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

f. 91r-v

• EsR 39: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Courte's skorne, state's disgracinge’

Copy, headed ‘Another answeare thought to be made by R Essex’.

Edited fom this MS in Rudick, p. 41, and in online Early Stuart Libels. Collated in May, Poems, 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. 100v-1r

• DaJ 94: Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Mary Baker to Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London (‘The pride of Prelacy, which now longe since’)

Copy of poems 4 and 5, headed ‘In Episcopum London’.

This MS recorded in Krueger, pp. 398, 443.

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

f. 101r-v

• HrJ 171: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler (‘A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling’)

Copy, headed ‘Of A Puritane taylour made by S^r JH:’ and here beginning ‘A Taylor held a man 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. 149v-r rev.

• CoR 60: Richard Corbett, The Distracted Puritane (‘Am I madd, o noble Festus’)

Copy.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 56-9.

f. 150r rev.

• WoH 14: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, untitled.

Printed from this MS in Norman Ault, Elizabethan Lyrics, 4th edition (London, 1966), pp. 459-60; recorded in Main.

f. 152v-151v rev.

• DnJ 404: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy, headed ‘Ad amica de perditione armillae suis’.

This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Eleg. XII. The Bracelet’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as ‘Elegie XI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.

MS Rawl. poet. 213

An octavo miscellany of principally religious and moralistic verse, in a minute hand, written from both ends, in contemporary calf. Compiled by Robert Fleming. 8°, 82 leaves; verse miscellany, including portions of 17 poems by Cowley (on inside of front cover and ff. 2, 4-5v, 30, 47v-50, 66v); compiled by Robert Fleming (probably a Scotsman), who explains on f. 30v: ‘In this Manuscript, there is a confused casting together of several Miscellaneous things. Yet there is something here to denott many or most of the year sof my youth. Viz. these years; A°. 1670, 1673,1674, 1675, 1676, 1678, 1679, 1680, 1681, 1682, 1683, 1684, 1685. So that from the 9 year of my age, which is A° 1670 (for I was born May 16, A° 1661) until my 24 year, no year is undistinguished, but two years’. c.1670-85.

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

f. 2r

• CoA 113.5: Abraham Cowley, Ode VI. Vpon the shortness of Man's Life (‘Marke that swift Arrow how it cuts the ayre’)

Copy.

First published in Sylva (London, 1636). Grosart, I, 31.

f. 49v rev.

• CoA 100.2: Abraham Cowley, Life and Fame (‘Oh Life, thou Nothings younger Brother!’)

Extract.

First published, among Pindarique Odes, in Poems (London, 1656).

f. 57v rev.

• HrG 141: George Herbert, Home (‘Come Lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick’)

Copy, headed ‘Home, out of Herbert’.

This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 107-9.

f. 57v rev.

• HrG 29: George Herbert, Bitter-sweet (‘Ah my deare angrie Lord’)

Copy, headed ‘Bitter-sweet, out of Herbert’.

This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 171.

f. 58r rev.

• DrW 20: William Drummond of Hawthornden, The Praise of a Solitarie Life (‘Thrice happie hee, who by some shadie Groue’)

Copy, headed ‘Another Poem in praise of Solitude or Retirement, by S. Will. Drumond of Hauthornden; a little altered’.

This MS not recorded in Kastner.

First published in Flowres of Sion ([Edinburgh?], 1623). Kastner, II, 30.

f. 64v-r

• CoA 113: Abraham Cowley, Ode II, That a pleasant Poverty is to be preferred before discontented Riches (‘Why ö doth gaudy Tagus ravish thee’)

Copy, a heading deleted.

First published in Sylva (London, 1636). Waller, II, 60-1.

MS Rawl. poet. 214

An octavo miscellany of drama and amatory songs, in at least three hands, written from both ends, in contemporary panelled calf (rebacked). Mid-late 17th century.

ff. 1r-65r

• FlP 19: Phineas Fletcher, Sicelides, A Piscatory

Copy, in a small secretary hand.

This MS discussed in Boas, I, xvi-xix, and collated I, 288-309.

Performed at King's College, Cambridge, 13 March 1614/15. First published in London, 1631. Boas I, 187-264.

f. 66r-v

• CoA 31: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. IX. Another (‘Underneath this Myrtle shade’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘M^r Tho Head’.

First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 56. Sparrow, p. 56.

Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1692). Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 100-3.

f. 81v rev.

• DnJ 2959: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

Copy of a 13-line version, subscribed ‘Verses I had of M^rs. S. H’ [or ‘S. L’] here beginning ‘Ly still my deare; why shouldst thou rise’, and incorporating lines 1-5 of Breake of day.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 610-11.

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

MS Rawl. poet. 216

An oblong octavo volume of amatory poems, in at least three hands, 119 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked, traces of clasps). Early 17th century.

Inscribed names: ‘Matt Postlethwayt His Book August y^e 1^st 1697’, ‘Henerie Price’, and ‘Eyaly Johnes’.

ff. 2r-91r

• HyT 3: Thomas Heywood, Ovid's De Arte Amandi or, The Art of Love (‘If there be any in this multitude’)

Copy, largely in a neat secretary hand, with corrections; imperfect, lacking the first 56 lines and here beginning ‘More eares of ripe corne growes not in the feildes’.

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).

ff. 96r-106v, 94r

• NaT 2: Thomas Nashe, The choise of valentines (‘It was the merie moneth of Februarie’)

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed ‘Nash his Dildo’, with the dedicatory sonnet (‘Pardon sweet flower of Matchless poesye’) and ‘The Epilogue’ (‘Thus hath my pen presum'd to please my frind’).

This MS collated in Farmer and in McKerrow.

Lines 1-17 first published in The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe, ed. A.B. Grosart (London, 1883-4), I, lx-lxi. The complete text published in London, 1899, ed. John S. Farmer (privately printed), and in McKerrow, III, 397-416.

MS Rawl. poet. 219

A quarto miscellany, comprising four items of religious verse, compiled possibly by one ‘D. C:’, iv + 45 leaves. Early 17th century.

ff. 1r-14r

• SoR 267.1: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Foure-fold Meditation: of the foure last things (‘O wretched man, which louest earthlie thinges’)

Copy, entitled on a detached slip of paper ‘A poeme of the contempte of the world and an exhortacion to prepare to dye made by Phillipe earle of Arundell after his attaynder’.

First published, as ‘By R: S. The author of S. Peters complaint’, in London, 1606. The poem is more commonly ascribed to Philip Howard (1557-95), first Earl of Arundel, Catholic Saint, with whom Southwell was acquainted (see McDonald, pp. 6-7, 121-2). EV17760.

MS Rawl. poet. 222

A folio verse miscellany, 38 leaves. Compiled by a Cambridge University man, much of the contents transcribed ‘from a book of poems that m^r. Head lent me’. c.1730.

f. 4r-v

• OtT 1: Thomas Otway, The Complaint. A Song To a new Scotch Tune of Mr. Farmers, By Mr. T.O. (‘I love, I dote, I rave with pain’)

Copy.

First published in Miscellany, Being a Collection of Poems, ed. Aphra Behn (London, 1685). Ghosh, II, 470-1.

f. 28r

• SeC 108: Sir Charles Sedley, Song The Prodigal's Resolution (‘I am a lusty lively Lad’)

Copy, headed ‘The Exravagant’ and marked ‘From S^r Charles Sedley's Poem's’.

First published in the second part of Jane Barker's Poetical Recreations (London, 1688), pp. 150-1. The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), II, 7-8, as ‘The Extravagant’. Sola Pinto, II, 145-6.

f. 28r

• SeC 109: Sir Charles Sedley, To Clarissa Upon dirtying her Lodgings (‘Dust from my earthy Surface fell’)

Copy.

First published in The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), II, 19. Sola Pinto, II, 194-5.

f. 28v

• SeC 110: Sir Charles Sedley, To Phillis: Who Slighted him (‘Since you no longer will be kind’)

Copy.

First published in The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), II, 16-17. Sola Pinto, II, 193.

f. 29v

• SeC 94: Sir Charles Sedley, The Fall (‘As Chloe o'er the Meadow past’)

Copy, here ascribed to ‘S^r. Charles Sedley’.

First published, as ‘By Sir Charles Sidley’, in The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), II, 15-16. Sola Pinto, II, 192.

f. 30r-v

• SeC 111: Sir Charles Sedley, Upon a Gentlewomans Refusal of a Letter from One She was Ingaged to (‘Not hear my Message, but the Bearer shun!’)

Copy, apparently transcribed ‘from a book of poems that M^r Head lent me’ (see f. 1).

First published, as ‘By Sir C. S.’, in the second part of Jane Barker's Poetical Recreations (London, 1688), pp. 122-5. The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), II, 2-4.

f. 33r

• SeC 94.2: Sir Charles Sedley, The Lover's Will (‘Let me not sigh my last, ere I bequeath’)

Copy.

First published in The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), II, 1-2.

f. 37r

• SeC 94.5: Sir Charles Sedley, An Ode (‘Oh Ye blest Pow'rs, propitious be’)

Copy, as ‘By R. D. of Cambridge’.

First published, as ‘An Ode By Mr. R. D of Cambridge’, in the second part of Jane Barker's Poetical Recreations (London, 1688), pp. 137-8. The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), II, 4-5.

f. 38r

• SeC 107: Sir Charles Sedley, Song The Doubtfull Lover Resolv'd (‘Fain wou'd I love, but that I fear’)

Copy, headed ‘The Resolve’ and including ‘The Reply’.

First published in the second part of Jane Barker's Poetical Recreations (London, 1688), pp. 151-2. The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), II, 8, as ‘The Resolve’. Sola Pinto, II, 146.

MS Rawl. poet. 246

An octavo verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in a minute cursive hand, ii + 78 leaves, in early 18th-century half-calf. Compiled by a Cambridge University man, possibly of King's College, and formerly at Eton. c.1648-60.

Inscribed names: ‘Hennericus Some’, ‘Johannes Chase’, ‘Jacobus Chase’.

f. 13v

• RnT 531: Thomas Randolph, A Paralell twixt Tobacco pipes and weomen (‘Tobacco-pipes and maids are brittle ware’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘T R.’.

Unpublished?

f. 14r

• StW 957: William Strode, A Song of Capps (‘The witt hath long beholding bin’)

Copy, headed ‘Of Capps’.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.

f. 16r

• HlJ 5: Joseph Hall, ‘On the Altar Royall Melvin frownes to fynde’

Copy, here beginning ‘On y^e Altar Royall, Melvjn frowns to find’, subscribed ‘Bp Hall’, following a Latin ‘Responsio’ (‘Hic liber Angloru Regalj clausis on'arâ’) subscribed ‘Epus Hall’.

Edited from this MS in Dinshaw.

First published in Fram Dinshaw, ‘Two New Epigrams by Joseph Hall’, N&Q, 227 (October 1982), 422-3.

f. 46r

• HrG 302: George Herbert, Ad Autorem Instaurationis Magnae (‘Per strages licet autorum veterúmque ruinam’)

Copy, headed ‘Ad Eundem’.