CELM: Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Collection, Rawl. poet. 50 through 99

MS Rawl. poet. 58

An octavo miscellany of religious verse, vii + 84 leaves. Late 17th century.

Once owned or used by one Stephen Thompson and probably also by one Sarah Lucas of Arkesden, Essex.

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• BuJ 1: John Bunyan, One Thing is Needful: or, Serious Meditations upon the Four Last Things (‘These Lines I at this time present’)

Copy, evidently transcribed from a printed source.

First published in 1665 [no extant exemplum]. The Poems, ed. Graham Midgley (Oxford, 1980), pp. 53-102.

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• BuJ 2: John Bunyan, Prison Meditations (‘Friend, I salute thee in the Lord’)

Copy, headed ‘Prison Meditations, Directed to the heart of Suffering Saints and Reigning Sinners by John Bunyan in prison 1665’, evidently transcribed from a printed source (the broadside of 1665).

First published in Christian Behaviour; or the Fruits of True Christianity (London?, 1663); The Poems, ed. Graham Midgley (Oxford, 1980), pp. 37-51.

MS Rawl. poet. 60

An autograph translation or paraphrase of variousPsalms by Francis Knollys, preceded by two poems by Herbert, iii + 178 octavo pages (pp. 94-175 blank). 1660-70.

p. 1

• HrG 66: George Herbert, Constancie (‘Who is the honest man?’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 72-3.

p. 3

• HrG 270: George Herbert, A true Hymne (‘My joy, my life, my crown!’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 168.

MS Rawl. poet. 61

An octavo volume of religious works, in a single professional hand, i + 102 leaves. Compiled and transcribed by Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe. c.1626.

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• CwT 608: Thomas Carew, Psalme 91 (‘Make the greate God thy Fort, and dwell’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p.lxxi.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 180-1. Dunlap. pp. 138-9.

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• DnJ 2646.61: John Donne, Psalme 137 (‘By Euphrates flowry side’)

Copy in Ralph Crane's hand, headed ‘137. Psalme (aliter)’, the poem here ascribed to ‘Fra. Da:’.

This MS collated in Grierson.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 424-6 in his Appendix B, as ‘Probably by Francis Davison’. Discussed, and the case for Donne's authorship reviewed, in Lara Crowley, ‘Donne, not Davison: Reconsidering the Authorship of “Psalme 137”’, Modern Philology, 105, No. 4 (May 2008), 603-36.

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• MsP 4: Philip Massinger, Londons Lamentable Estate, in any great Visitation (‘O London. Where are now those powerfull Charmes’)

Copy, containing a dedication to John Piers dated 23 October 1626.

Edited from this MS in Edwards & Gibson, IV, 399-405.

First published in H.W. Garrod, Genius Loci and other Essays (Oxford, 1950). Edwards & Gibson, IV, 399-405.

MS Rawl. poet. 62

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in a single small hand, 54 leaves, in vellum boards. Compiled by a Cambridge University man. c.1640s.

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• RnT 441: Thomas Randolph, Oratio praevaricatoria Thomae Randolphi. 1632

Copy of the concluding poem, headed ‘Tho: Randall in Comitjs Praevaricator. 1632’ and here beginning ‘Nunc sileat Jack Drum, taceat Miracula Tom Thumb’.

First published in Hazlitt (1875), II, 671-80.

f. 6r

• AlW 214: William Alabaster, Francisci Baconi Novvm Organvm Dr. Gvliel. Alabaster. Coll. Trin. (‘Quam celeri scribit calamo velamina nubis’)

Copy, headed ‘Francisco Baconi Novum Organum’, with a sidenote ‘D^r Gulielm Alablaster Coll Trin’.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, pp. 40-3 (No. XXXI), with translation.

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• HrG 324: George Herbert, Memoriae Matris Sacrum. II. (‘Corneliae sanctae, graues Semproniae’)

Copy of lines 1-51, headed ‘In Mortem [deleted]’, and docketed ‘G. Herbert on his mother. / Edited’.

This MS recorded in Hutchinson.

First published in A Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Dauers. By John Donne. together with other Commemorations of Her (London, 1627). Hutchinson, pp. 422-31 (pp. 422-4). McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 122-9.

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• RnT 218: Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge (‘Lament, lament, ye Scholars all’)

Copy, headed ‘The Down-fall of the Miter’.

This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.

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• JnB 630: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest’)

Copy, headed ‘The Devills Arse a' Peake, alias Satans tayle in y^e Peake’, the name ‘Ben. Johnson’ added in the margin in another hand.

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

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

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• DaW 87: Sir William Davenant, Love and Honour, Act IV, scene i. Song (‘No morning red, and blushing faire’)

Copy of the boy's song.

First published in London, 1649. Dramatic Works, III, 91-192 (pp. 155-6). Gibbs, pp. 208-9.

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• StW 1182: William Strode, The Townes new teacher (‘With Face and Fashion to bee knowne’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘W. Strode’.

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

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• RnT 449: Thomas Randolph, The City of London (‘O fortunate Citie reioyce in thy Fate’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘Randall’.

Edited from this MS in Parry.

First published in Parry (1917), pp. 231-2. Omitted in Thorn-Drury.

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• JnB 371: Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe (‘Come leaue the lothed stage’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnsons discontented Soliloquy, vpon y^e sinister Censure of his Play, call'd y^e New Inne; Answerd verse for verse by Tho Randall’, here beginning ‘Ben leaue y^e loathed Stage’, each stanza alternating with Randolph's answer (RnT 27).

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.

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• RnT 27: Thomas Randolph, An answer to Mr Ben Johnson's Ode to perswade him not to leave the stage (‘Ben doe not leave the stage’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnsons discontented Soliloquy, vpon y^e sinister Censure of his Play, call'd y^e New Inne; Answerd verse for verse by Tho Randall’, Randolph's poem here beginning ‘Ben do not leaue y^e stage’, each stanza alternating with Jonson's original poem (JnB 371).

This MS collated in Davis.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 82-4. Davis, pp. 63-76.

For the poem by Ben Jonson, which appears with Randolph's ‘answer’ in many of the MSS, see JnB 367-81.

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• RnT 414: Thomas Randolph, Ionson's Ode to Himself, translated (‘Eho jam satis & super Theatro’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben: Johnsons Ode turn'd into Latine by T. Randall’.

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. 65

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single informal hand, a member of St John's College, Oxford, i + 99 leaves, in half-vellum marbled boards. Including 19 poems by Habington and (ff. 8r-21r, 28v) 21 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source. Late 17th century.

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as ‘Rawlinson MS I’: PsK Δ 6.

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• PsK 567: Katherine Philips, The World (‘Wee falsly think it due unto our friends’)

Copy of lines 45-96, here beginning ‘Our thoughts though nothing can be more our own’, imperfect, the first 44 lines torn out.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 217-22. Poems (1667), pp. 111-13. Saintsbury, pp. 569-71. Thomas, I, 182-5, poem 72.

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• PsK 433: Katherine Philips, To my Lord Biron's tune of — Adieu Phillis (‘Tis true, our life is but a long disease’)

Copy, headed ‘Song to the tune of Adieu Phillis’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published, as ‘Song to the Tune of Adieu Phillis’, in Poems (1667), p. 127. Saintsbury, p. 578. Thomas, I, 198, poem 81.

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• PsK 340: Katherine Philips, The Soule (‘How vaine a thing is man, whose noblest part’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 222-8. Poems (1667), pp. 114-17. Saintsbury, pp. 571-3. Thomas, I, 185-8, poem 73.

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• PsK 125: Katherine Philips, Happyness (‘Nature courts happiness, although it be’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 228-31. Poems (1667), pp. 118-19. Saintsbury, pp. 573-4. Thomas, I, 188-90, poem 74.

f. 10v

• PsK 2: 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.

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• PsK 53: Katherine Philips, Death (‘How weak a Star doth rule mankind’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 232-4. Poems (1667), pp. 119-20. Saintsbury, p. 574. Thomas, I, 190-1, poem 75.

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• PsK 348: Katherine Philips, Submission (‘'Tis so. and humbly I my will resign’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 209-13. Poems (1667), pp. 108-10. Saintsbury, pp. 567-9. Thomas, I, 178-81, poem 70.

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• PsK 202: Katherine Philips, L'accord du bien (‘Order, by which all things were made’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 195-203. Poems (1667), pp. 98-103. Saintsbury, pp. 563-4. Thomas, I, 169-73, poem 65.

f. 14r

• PsK 11: Katherine Philips, Against Pleasure. set by D^r Coleman (‘There's no such thing as pleasure here’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 135-7. Poems (1667), pp. 66-8. Saintsbury, pp. 546-7. Thomas, I, 137-8, poem 47.

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• PsK 40: Katherine Philips, A Countrey life (‘How sacred and how innocent’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 177-82. Poems (1667), pp. 88-91. Saintsbury, pp. 588. Thomas, I, 159-62, poem 61. Anonymous musical setting published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1691).

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• PsK 180: Katherine Philips, La Grandeur d'esprit (‘A chosen privacy, a cheap content’)

Copy, headed ‘A Resvery. K.P.O.’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published, as ‘La Grandeur d'esprit’, in Poems (1664), pp. 171-6. in Poems (1667), pp. 86-8, as ‘A Resvery’. Saintsbury, pp. 556-8. Thomas, I, 157-9, poem 60.

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• PsK 221: Katherine Philips, An ode upon retirement, made upon occasion of Mr. Cowley's on that subject (‘No, no, unfaithfull World, thou hast’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon M^r Abraham Cowleys retirement, Ode’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published, as ‘Ode. On Retirement’, in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663), pp. 45-8 [apparently unique extant exemplum Folger C6681.5]. as ‘Upon Mr. Abraham Cowley's Retirement. Ode’ in Poems (1664), pp. 237-42. Poems (1667), pp. 122-4. Saintsbury, pp. 575-7. Thomas, I, 193-5, poem 77.

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• PsK 135: Katherine Philips, In memory of F.P. who dyed at Acton 24 May.1660 — 13th of her age (‘If I could ever write a lasting verse’)

Copy, headed ‘In Memory of F.P. who died at Acton Aged 12 & ½ 24 Mars — 60’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 75-80. Poems (1667), pp. 39-42. Saintsbury, pp. 530-1. Thomas, I, 109-11, poem 30.

f. 18v

• PsK 76: Katherine Philips, Epitaph. On Hector Phillips at S^t Sith's Church (‘What on Earth deserves our Trust?’)

Copy, headed ‘His Epitaph’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published, as ‘Epitaph. On her Son H.P. at St. Syth's Church where her body also lies Interred’, in Poems (1667), p. 134. Saintsbury, p. 582. Hageman (1987), pp. 598-9. Thomas, I, 205, poem 88.

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• PsK 247: Katherine Philips, On the death of my first and dearest childe, Hector Philipps, borne the 23d of Aprill, and dy'd the 2^d of May 1655, set by Mr Lawes (‘Twice Forty moneths in wedlock I did stay’)

Copy of the first two stanzas, headed ‘Orinda upon little Hector Philips’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published, as ‘Orinda upon little Hector Philips’, in Poems (1667), pp. 148-9. Saintsbury, pp. 590-1. Hageman (1987), p. 599. Thomas, I, 220, poem 101.

f. 19r

• PsK 282: Katherine Philips, On the Welch Language (‘If honour to an ancient name be due’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 131-2. Saintsbury, pp. 580-1. Thomas, I, 202-3, poem 86.

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• PsK 229: Katherine Philips, On Controversies in Religion (‘Religion, which true policy befriends’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 120-4. Poems (1667), pp. 59-61. Saintsbury, pp. 542-3. Thomas, I, 130-2, poem 44.

f. 20r

• PsK 561: Katherine Philips, Wiston=Vault (‘And why this Vault and Tomb? alike we must’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 68-70. Poems (1667), p. 36. Saintsbury, p. 528. Thomas, I, 105-6, poem 28.

f. 21r

• PsK 545: Katherine Philips, The Virgin (‘The things that make a Virgin please’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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

f. 21v

• KiH 596: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee no more how faire shee is’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘by Jer: Savill’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

f. 22r

• CnC 115: Charles Cotton, Song. Set by Mr. Coleman (‘Bring back my Comfort, and return’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘by D^r Coleman’.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 370-1. Beresford, pp. 127-8.

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• CwT 170: Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned (‘Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 26r

• DaW 83: Sir William Davenant, The Law against Lovers, III, i. Song (‘Wake all the dead! what hoa! what hoa!’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Works (London, 1673). Dramatic Works, V, 109-211 (pp. 152-3). Gibbs, p. 260.

f. 26r

• WaE 604: Edmund Waller, To Phyllis (‘Phyllis! why should we delay’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, as ‘The cunning Curtezan’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 84.

f. 26v

• B&F 18: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Bloody Brother, V, ii, 21-32. Song (‘Take o take those lipps away’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Ignoto’.

Dyce, X, 459. Jump, p. 67. Bowers, X, 237. The first stanza first published in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (First Folio, 1623), IV, i. Authorship discussed in Jump, pp. 105-6 (first stanza probably by Shakespeare, second by Fletcher).

f. 26v

• WaE 743: Edmund Waller, ‘While I listen to thy voice’

Copy, untitled.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 127. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

f. 27r

• JnB 697: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song (‘If I freely may discouer’)

Copy.

f. 27v

• DaW 98: Sir William Davenant, Macbeth, II, [v]. Song (‘Let's have a dance upon the Heath’)

Copy, untitled.

Dramatic Works, V, 348. Gibbs, pp. 263-4. Spencer, pp. 105-6.

f. 28v

• PsK 332: Katherine Philips, Song, to the tune of, Sommes nous pas trop heureux (‘How prodigious is my Fate’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), p. 202.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 126. Saintsbury, p. 577. Thomas, I, 196-7, poem 79.

f. 29r

• CwT 705: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Doubt not my Dear that I'll reveal’.

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

MS Rawl. poet. 66

A quarto miscellany of verse and anecdotes, i + 93 leaves. c.1650-75.

f. 55r

• WoH 12: 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).

MS Rawl. poet. 71

A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single stylish cursive hand, ii + 176 pages, in contemporary calf gilt bearing a V within a lozenge. c.1640s.

p. 4

• HoJ 120: John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart (‘Reader I was born and cried’)

Copy, headed ‘On a fart lett in the Parliament house’.

pp. 95-6

• CoA 142: Abraham Cowley, Prologue to the Guardian (‘Who says the Times do Learning disallow?’)

Copy, headed ‘Prologue to the Prince’.

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

MS Rawl. poet. 81

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, i + 66 leaves. c.early 1700s.

Inscribed name (f. i^r) ‘Nathaniell Spinxs’.

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• MaA 445: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Osborne.

First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by ‘A-M-l, Esq’. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

f. 22r

• RoJ 60: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee (‘As some brave admiral, in former war’)

Copy, headed ‘My L^d Rochest^rs’. The text followed by a Latin translation.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

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• RoJ 303: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy of lines 1-173, headed ‘A satyr on Man’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

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

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• DrJ 27: John Dryden, Epilogue To Oxford Spoken by Mrs. Marshal (‘Oft has our Poet wisht, this happy Seat’)

Copy, headed ‘Epilogue to y^e University’.

First published (in two versions) in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 373-4. California, I, 153-4. Hammond, I, 291-2.

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• MaA 8: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda (‘When Death, shall part us from these Kids’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Margoliouth.

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.

MS Rawl. poet 82

A quarto MS, partly drawn up by Gabriel Harvey, i + 4 leaves, in marbled boards. Late 16th century.

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• *HvG 51: Gabriel Harvey, [Cheke, Sir John?]. Totus mundus jn maligno politus (‘Complain we may much is amisse’)

Copy (f. 1r-2r) of an anonymous poem, in a small neat secretary hand, beginning ‘Complaine we may, much is a miss’, the heading in Harvey's hand, followed on f. 3r by five lines in his hand beginning ‘Who can persuade, where treson is aboue reson’, headed ‘Sir John Cheek’, subscribed with the signature ‘Gabriel Harvey’.

Stern, p. 243.

First published in Songs and Sonnetts (1587).

MS Rawl. poet. 84

A quarto verse miscellany and masque, in at least three hands, written from both ends, i + 123 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid-late 17th century.

Including (f. 1r) an anagram on Frances Pawlett. Inscribed in red ink (f. 123v) ‘Egigius Frampton hunc librum jure tenet non est mortale quod opto: 1659’: i.e. by Giles Frampton, who is perhaps responsible for some of the later poems. Also inscribed [?]‘R. N. 1663’. Some later notes in the hand of Richard Rawlinson.

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• MaA 399: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)

Copy.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

f. 28v rev.

• WaE 491: Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received the foregoing copy which for many years had been lost (‘Nothing lies hid from radiant eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘On Madame Stuart now Duchess of Richmond’.

First published in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 69.

f. 35v-r rev.

• CoA 100: Abraham Cowley, The Incurable (‘I Try'd if Books would cure my Love, but found’)

Copy, headed ‘A song’.

First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 143-4. Sparrow, pp. 143-4. Collected Works, II, No. 78, pp. 115-16.

f. 40r rev.

• B&F 121: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy, with an additional stanza by Henry King.

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

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

f. 41 rev.

• KiH 435: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy, headed ‘A song’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

ff. 44v-43v rev.

• DaJ 117: 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 poems 2-4, 12, here ordered ‘The Mayde’, ‘The Lawyer’, ‘The Divine’, and ‘The Souldier’, the first beginnng ‘I marriage would forsweare’.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 597-601; recorded in Krueger, p. 414.

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.

f. 46r

• WoH 181: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)

Copy.

First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning ‘Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds’, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.

f. 54r-52b^v rev.

• BrW 63: William Browne of Tavistock, Lydford Journey (‘I oft have heard of Lydford law’)

Copy, headed ‘Lydford Law’.

First published in John Phillips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656).Goodwin, II, 305-9.

f. 58v-r rev.

• RaW 108: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)

Copy, headed ‘A ffancy’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 102.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).

ff. 59r-58v rev.

• DnJ 315: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, headed ‘An Invitation to his M^rs to Come & fish’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 59v-60v rev.

• MoG 88: George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt (‘Well fare those three that where there was a dearth’)

Copy, headed ‘The Crowne of a hatt drunke in’.

ff. 60r-59v rev.

• StW 738: William Strode, Song (‘As I out of a Casement sent’)

Copy, headed ‘On a strange Gentlewoman passing by his Window’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 11-12. Forey, pp. 77-9.

f. 60v-r rev.

• CoR 567: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett (‘What I shall leave thee none can tell’)

Copy, headed ‘To his son Vincent Corbett on his birthday Nov 10 1630, being then 3 yeeres of age’.

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

f. 60v rev.

• StW 563: 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.

f. 61r-60v rev.

• JnB 62: Ben Jonson, An Epigram on the Princes birth (‘And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest be thy birth’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Princes Birth’.

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.

ff. 65v-64v rev.

• StW 120: William Strode, An Epitaph on Sir John Walter, Lord cheife Baron (‘Farewell Example, Living Rule farewell’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of S^r Jn Walter: L: cheife Baron’.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 73-5. Forey, pp. 130-2.

f. 66r rev.

• HaW 45: William Habington, The Queene of Arragon. The Song in the fourth Act (‘Fine, young folly, though you were’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistrisse’.

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

f. 66r-65v rev.

• B&F 122: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Second copy, headed ‘A Song’, also with an additional stanza by Henry King.

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

f. 68v-r rev.

• RaW 208: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice (‘Beefore the sixt day of the next new year’)

Copy, headed ‘A Prophesie’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.

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

ff. 72r-71v rev.

• CoR 5: Richard Corbett, Against the Opposing the Duke in Parliament, 1628 (‘The wisest King did wonder when hee spy'd’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Parliament 1628’.

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

f. 72v

• RaW 342: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty’

Copy.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 138.

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

ff. 80v-79v rev.

• ClJ 116: John Cleveland, To Julia to expedite her promise (‘Since 'tis my Doom, Love's under-Shreive’)

Copy, headed ‘To Julia to expedite Hir promise’ and here beginning ‘Sure Tis my doome Loues Vndershreive’.

First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions never before Printed (1653). Morris & Withington, pp. 60-2.

f. 83v rev.

• ClJ 74: John Cleveland, On Princess Elizabeth born the Night before New-Years Day (‘Astrologers say Venus, the same starr’)

Copy, headed ‘On Princesse Elizabeth borne The night before new yearesdaye’.

First published in Poems, Characters, and Letters. By J. C. With Additions never before Printed (1658). Morris & Withington, p. 62.

f. 85r rev.

• DaJ 170: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Death of a Childe’.

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

f. 85r rev.

• StW 424: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox (‘A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that had The Small Pox’.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.

f. 85v-r rev.

• CwT 268: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Fly drowned in a Ladys Eye’.

This MS (erroneously cited as ‘Rawl. MS 34’) recorded in Hazlitt, p. 48.

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. 85r-84v rev.

• ClJ 162: John Cleveland, Elegy on Edward King (‘Whiles Phebus shines within our Hemisphere’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^r Edward King drowned in the Irish Seas’, under a general heading ‘Cleuelands Poems’.

First published in Justa Edovardo King (1638). Morris & Withington, pp. 65-6.

ff. 86-85v rev.

• StW 1357: William Strode, A Riddle on a Kisse (‘What thing is that, nor felt, nor seene’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Kisse’.

This MS recorded in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 48-9. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 340.

f. 86r rev.

• KiH 46: 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).

f. 86v rev.

• CwT 41: Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon (‘Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood’)

Copy, headed ‘A Lover on his Mistriss being Let blood’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.

f. 87r rev.

• ClJ 81: John Cleveland, Parting with a Freind upon the Rode (‘I'me rent in 'twayne, your horses turning thus’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Parting with a Freinde on the way’, here beginning ‘The Horse at their sudden turning’.

Recorded in Morris

Morris & Withington, p. 63.

ff. 87r-86v rev.

• StW 1314: 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.

f. 87v rev.

• ClJ 75: John Cleveland, On Princess Elizabeth born the Night before New-Years Day (‘Astrologers say Venus, the same starr’)

Copy.

First published in Poems, Characters, and Letters. By J. C. With Additions never before Printed (1658). Morris & Withington, p. 62.

f. 87v-r rev.

• StW 220: William Strode, A Letter impos'd (‘Goe, happy paper, by commande’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Letter’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 100-1. The Poems and Amyntas of Thomas Randolph, ed. John Jay Parry (New Haven & London, 1917), pp. 219-20. Forey, pp. 32-3.

f. 90v-r rev.

• CaW 54: William Cartwright, To the Right vertuous the Ladie Elizabeth Powlet (‘Could wee iudge here Most vertuous Madam then’)

Copy, headed ‘On my Lady Powletts needle worke’.

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

ff. 92v-91v rev.

• StW 47: William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies (‘Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Praise of a grey Eye.’

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

f. 92v rev.

• StW 393: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

ff. 93v-2v rev.

• CwT 1095: Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence (‘Though I must live here, and by force’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 27.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 22.

f. 93v rev.

• CwT 1259: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy, headed ‘A Lovers Song’.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

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.

f. 94r rev.

• HoJ 203: John Hoskyns, On Dreames (‘Yo^u nimble dreames w^th cob webb winges’)

Copy, headed ‘On Dreames’.

Osborn, No. XXI (p. 189).

ff. 94r-93v rev.

• RnT 364: Thomas Randolph, Upon his Picture (‘When age hath made me what I am not now’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Picture by Randolph’.

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

ff. 106r-105v rev.

• CoA 14: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking (‘The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song by A Cowley’.

This MS (erroneously cited as ‘Rawl. Poet. MS. 4’) recorded in Sparrow, p. 203.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 51. Sparrow, p. 50.

Musical setting by Silas Taylor published in Catch that Catch Can: or the Musical Companion (London, 1667). Setting by Roger Hill published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

ff. 111r-109v rev.

• CrR 87: Richard Crashaw, A Letter from M^r. Crashaw to the Countess of Denbigh, Against Irresolution and Delay in matters of Religion (‘What Heav'n-besieged Heart is this’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘To the Noblest & best of Ladyes, the Countesse of Denbigh. Perswading her to Resolution in Religion’, in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 236-8. Revised version published separately in London, [1653]. Martin, pp. 347-50.

f. 113v-r rev.

• WaE 140: Edmund Waller, Of a Tree cut in Paper (‘Fair hand! that can on virgin paper write’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Lady Isabella Thynn on Her exquisite Cutting trees in paper’.

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

ff. 114r-13v rev.

• WaE 552: Edmund Waller, To My Lady Morton, on New-Year's Day, 1650. At the Louvre in Paris (‘Madam! new years may well expect to find’)

Copy, headed ‘A new yeares gift to the Countesse of Moorton, (fformerly Lady del: Keith; and first of all the Lady (Villiers) on her stealing away into France with the Kings younger daughter disguis'd in the habitt of a milke=mayde’.

First published as a broadside (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 6-7.

MS Rawl. poet. 85

A quarto miscellany chiefly of verse, largely in a single secretary hand, compiled by a Cambridge student, vii + 130 leaves, in later calf. c.1586-91.

This volume is edited in Cummings, who suggests that the compiler is Sir John Finett (1571-1641), of Fordwich, Kent: hence it is often cited as ‘The John Finett miscellany’. The hands do not appear to be his, however, and this attribution is questionable.

f. 1r

• ElQ 40: Queen Elizabeth I, ‘When I was fair and young, and favor graced me’

Copy, the heading (deleted) ‘Verses made by the queen when she was supposed to be in love with mounsyre’, subscribed ‘Elysabetha regina’.

Edited from this MS (as Version 2) in Collected Works. Collated in Bradner. Cited in Selected Works.

Collected Works, Poem 10, pp. 303-4 (Version 1), 304-5 (Version 2). Selected Works, Poems Possibly by Elizabeth 2, pp. 26-7. Bradner, p. 7, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship.

ff. 1v-2

• BrN 12: Nicholas Breton, Astrophell his Song of Phillida and Coridon (‘Faire in a morne (o fairest morne)’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis. Britton’.

This MS collated in Rollins, England's Helicon, II, 110-11.

First published in Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 33>, ascribed to ‘N. Breton’ (‘S. Phil. Sidney’ cancelled). Grosart, I (t), p. 8.

f. 3r

• BrN 60: Nicholas Breton, ‘Pawse awhile my prittie muse’

Copy.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 22. Authorship unknown.

f. 3r

• BrN 62: Nicholas Breton, Phillida and Coridon (‘In the merry moneth of May’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Britton’.

This MS collated in Rollins, England's Helicon, II, 90-1.

First published as ‘The Plowmans Song’ in The Honorable Entertainment at Elvetham (London, 1591). Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 12>, ascribed to ‘N. Breton’; Grosart, I (t), p. 7. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 29. A musical setting first published in Michael East, Madrigals to Three, Four, and Five Parts (London, 1604).

f. 4r

• PeW 221: 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 an untitled twenty-nine-line version beginning ‘Naye, phewe nay pishe? nay faythe, and will ye, flye’, subscribed ‘Finis S.P.S.’[i.e. Sir Philip Sidney].

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

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

f. 5v

• SiP 141: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 38 (‘Phaebus farewell, a sweeter Saint I serve’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Ringler, p. 72. Robertson, p. 177.

f. 6r

• DyE 29: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘I woulde it were not as it is’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis M^r Dier’.

This MS text collated in Sargent.

First published in Sargent (1935). Sargent, No. III, pp. 180-1. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 299-300. EV 10542.

f. 7r

• DyE 63: Sir Edward Dyer, The Song in the Oak (‘The man whose thoughts against him doe conspire’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘M^r Dier’.

This MS text collated in Sargent.

First published in The Queenes Maiesties entertainment at Woodstocke (London, 1585), pp. C2-C3. Sargent, No. VI, p. 188. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 288-9. EV 23394.

f. 7v

• DyE 8: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘As rare to heare as seldome to be seene’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘M^r Dier’.

This MS text collated in Sargent.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593), p. 75. Sargent, No. IX, p. 191. May, Courtier Poets, p. 309. EV 2856.

f. 7v

• SpE 2: Edmund Spenser, Amoretti. Sonnet VIII (‘More then most faire, full of the liuing fire’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis M^r Dier’.

Edited from this MS in L. Cummings, ‘Spenser's Amoretti VIII: New Manuscript Versions’, SEL, 4 (1964), 125-35 (p. 127).

Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 198.

f. 8r

• DyE 66: Sir Edward Dyer, Sonnet (‘Prometheus, when first from heuen hie’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis M^r Dier’.

This MS text collated in Sargent.

First published in The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia, 3rd edition (London, 1598). Sargent, No. I, p. 176. May, Courtier Poets, p. 302. EV 19124.

f. 8v

• SiP 37: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 16 (‘A Satyre once did runne away for dread’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis S. P. S.’

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, p. 145.

f. 9r

• SiP 150: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 51 (‘Locke up, faire liddes, the treasures of my harte’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis S. P. S.’

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Ringler, p. 79. Robertson, pp. 200-1.

f. 9r

• SiP 89: Sir Philip Sidney, ‘The darte, the beames, the stringe so stronge I prove’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis S. P. S.’.

Edited from this MS in Ringler, pp. 344-5.

First published in [Philip Bliss], Bibliographical Miscellanies (Oxford, 1813), p. 63. Ringler, pp. 344, in his ‘Poems Possibly by Sidney’ No. 2.

f. 9v

• SiP 25: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 3 (‘The fire to see my wrongs for anger burneth’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis S. P. S.’

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, pp. 136-7.

f. 10r-v

• BrN 83: Nicholas Breton, Quatuor elementa (‘The Aire with swete my sences doe delight’)

Copy, untitled.

First published as ‘Of the foure Elements’ in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 55>. Authorship unknown.

f. 11r

• OxE 45: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘Sittinge alone upon my thought in melancholye moode’

Copy, headed ‘Verses made by the earle of Oxforde’ [‘and M^rs Ann Vauesor’deleted].

This MS collated in May.

May, Poems, No. I (pp. 38-9). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 282-3. EV 20459.

f. 11v

• SiP 40: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 19 (‘If I could thinke how these my thoughts to leave’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, pp. 147-8.

f. 12r

• SiP 44: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 21 (‘Finding those beames, which I must ever love’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis. M^r Nowell’.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, p. 149.

ff. 12v-13r

• SiP 47: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 23 (‘Who hath his fancie pleased’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, pp. 151-2.

f. 13r

• PlG 4: George Peele, The Hunting of Cupid, Song: (‘What thing is love for (wel I wot) love is a thing’)

Copy of an eleven-line version, untitled, here beginning ‘What thinge is loue? for since loue is a thinge’, subscribed ‘Finis M G. Peelle’.

Edited from this MS in Greg, p. 313; recorded in Horne, pp. 153-276.

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. 14r

• BrN 91: Nicholas Breton, ‘Sitting late with sorrow sleepinge’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis. Britton’.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 17.

f. 14v

• OxE 8: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘The Lyvely Larke stretcht forth her wynge’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis Earle of Oxforde’.

This MS collated in May.

First published, headed ‘The iudgement of desire’ and subscribed ‘E. O.’, in The Paradyse of Daynty Deuises (London, 1576). May, Poems, No. 8 (pp. 30-1). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 275-6. EV 23217.

f. 15v

• OxE 17: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘When werte thow borne desyre?’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis. Earle of Oxenforde’.

This MS collated in May.

First published, as ‘Of the birth and bringing vp of desire’, subscribed ‘E. of Ox.’, in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). May, Poems, No. 11 (pp. 33-4). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 277-8. EV 30058.

f. 16r

• OxE 35: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘If woemen coulde be fayre and yet not fonde’

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘If woemen coulde be fayre and yet not loude’, subscribed ‘Finis y^e Earle of Oxenforde’.

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

f. 16v

• OxE 29: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘Who taught the first to sighe alas my Harte?’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis Earle of Oxenforde’.

This MS collated in May.

First Published in The Tears of Fancie, Or, Loue Disdained (London, 1593). May, Poems, No. 15 (p. 37). May, Courtier Poets, p. 281. EV 31001.

ff. 17v-18r

• GgA 88: Sir Arthur Gorges, ‘The gentell Season of the yeare’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in B.M. Wagner, PMLA, 53 (1938), 123. Recorded in Sandison.

First pub in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593), p. 87. Sandison, No. [1], pp. 3-4.

f. 19r-v

• DyE 39: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘My mynde to me a kyngdome is’

Copy of the 48-line version, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis E Dier’.

Edited from this MS in Sargent.

First published, as two poems (one comprising stanzas 1-4, 6 and 8. the other stanzas 9-12) in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). Sargent, No. XIV, pp. 200-1. The uncertain authorship of this poem and its textual history are discussed in Steven W. May, ‘The Authorship of “My mind to me a kingdom is”’, RES, NS 26 (1975), 385-94. EV 15376.

ff. 20r-1v

• SiP 166: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Fourth Eclogues, No. 71 (‘Yee Gote-heard Gods, that love the grassie mountaines’)

Copy, headed ‘Strephon Sklayne’, subscribed ‘Finis S P. S.’

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Ringler, pp. 111-13. Robertson, pp. 328-30.

f. 21v

• SiP 142: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 41 (‘Like those sicke folkes, in whome strange humors flowe’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Ringler, p. 74. Robertson, p. 181.

f. 22r-v

• SiP 122: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. First Eclogues, No. 13 (‘Lady, reservd by the heav'ns to do pastors' company honnor’)

Copy of lines 113-39, 141-4, 146-54, here beginning ‘When I behoulde the trees in the earthes fayre lyuerye clothed’.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Ringler, pp. 31-7. Robertson, pp. 82-8.

f. 23r

• SiP 135: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book II, No. 22 (‘Wyth two strange fires of equall heate possest’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Ringler, p. 42. Robertson, p. 123.

f. 23v

• SiP 131: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book II, No. 21 (‘Over these brookes trusting to ease mine eyes’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

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

f. 24r

• SiP 137: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Second Eclogues, No. 33 (‘Reason, tell me thy mind, if here be reason’)

Copy, with deleted heading ‘Carmen phalemia’.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Ringler, pp. 67-8. Robertson, pp. 165-6.

f. 24v

• RaW 355: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Those eies that holds the hand of every hart’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in The Phoenix Nest, ed. H. E. Rollins (Cambrdige, Mass., 1931), p. 183; recorded in Latham, p. 162.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, p. 83.

f. 25r

• BrN 30: Nicholas Breton, ‘Faire, fairer then the fairest’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis. Britton’.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 16.

f. 25v

• RaW 179: Sir Walter Ralegh, Like to a Hermite poore (‘Like to a Hermite poore in place obscure’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Hughey, II, 314; recorded in Latham, p. 104.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, pp. 11-12. Rudick, Nos 57A and 57B (two versions, pp. 135-6).

ff. 25v-6r

• BrN 20: Nicholas Breton, ‘At my harte there is a paine’

Copy, subscribed ‘S. P. S.’ [i.e. Sir Philip Sidney].

Edited from this MS in Ringler, op.cit., pp. 354-5.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), pp. 18-19. Authorship unknown.

f. 26v

• BrN 89: Nicholas Breton, S^r. Ph. Sydney's Epitaph (‘Deepe lamenting losse of treasure’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘finis Britton one. S. P. S.’.

First published in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 17.

ff. 27r-34v

• BrN 8: Nicholas Breton, Amoris Lachrimae: For the Death of Sir Philip Sidney (‘Emonge the woes of those vnhappie wightes’)

Copy in two hands, headed ‘Amoris lachrimae on the deathe of S^r. P. Sidneye’, subscribed ‘Finis BRJTON on S.P.S.’

This MS collated in Rolins, Bowre, pp. 65-71; recorded in Grosart.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 1>. Breton's authorship acknowledged in his Pilgrimage to Paradise (London, 1592).

ff. 34v-6v

• SiP 11: Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Song viii (‘In a grove most rich of shade’)

Copy of lines 1-36, 41-104, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis S^r P. Sydneye’.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, pp. 217-21.

ff. 37v-8r

• ElQ 147: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Oration at Cambridge University, August 7, 1564

Copy, headed ‘Oratio Illustrissimæ reginæ Elizabetha apud Cantabrigienses in [heclæ?] beatæ Maria habita’.

This MS selectively collated in Autograph Compositions.

Beginning ‘Etsi foeminilis pudor, (subditi fidelissimi, et Academia clarissima) rudem et incultum sermonem prohibet...’, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 123-5. An English translation, beginning ‘Although feminine modesty, and most faithful subjects and most celebrated university, prohibits the delivery of a rude and uncultivated speech...’, in Collected Works, Speech 7, pp. 87-9.

ff. 38v-9a^r

• ElQ 151: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Oration at Oxford University, September 5, 1566

Copy, headed ‘Oratio sereniss: Reginæ Elizabethæ Academiæ Oxoniensi habita’.

Beginning ‘Qui male agunt oderunt lucem et idcirco...’, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 125-6. An English translation, beginning ‘Those who do bad things hate the light...’, in Collected Works, Speech 8, pp. 89-91.

ff. 40r-1r

• DyE 13: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘Divide my times, and rate my wretched howres’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis. M^r Dier’.

This MS text collated in Sargent.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593), p. 88. Sargent, No. II, pp. 177-9. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 297-9. EV 5400.

f. 42r-v

• SiP 8: Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Song iv (‘Onely joy, now here you are’)

Copy, headed ‘A song’, subscribed ‘Finis. S. P. S.’.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, pp. 210-11.

ff. 43v-4r

• RaW 381: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Fayne woulde I but I dare not’

Copy, untitled, subscribed in a different ink to ‘W. R.’.

Edited from this MS in Works (1829) and in Latham (1929), pp. 72-3. Listed but not edited in Latham (1951), pp. 172-3.

A verse exchange, with Queen Elizabeth's answer “If thou art afraid climb not at all”. First published in Works (1829), VIII, 732-3. Latham (1929), pp. 72-3 (listed but not printed in her 1951 edition, p. 172). Queen Elizabeth I: Selected Works, Poems Possibly by Elizabeth I, pp. 24-5. Bradner, p. 7, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. May, Courtier Poets, p. 313-14, among ‘Poems possibly by Dyer’. Rudick, No. 14, pp. 18-19 (32-line version) and No. 41, p. 111 (one line, and with the Queen's one-line reply).

f. 45r

• BrN 48: Nicholas Breton, ‘Oh eies, leave of your weepinge’

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Myne eyes leaue of your weepynge’.

First published in Robert Dowland, A Musicall Banquet (London, 1610), No. 3. Authorship unknown.

f. 46r

• GgA 118: Sir Arthur Gorges, ‘Woolde I were changde into that golden Showre’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Sandison.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593), p. 81. Sandison, No. [46], pp. 55-6. Latham, pp. 81-2. The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999)Rudick, No. 8, p. 8.

f. 47r-v

• BrN 95: Nicholas Breton, ‘Some men will saie, there is a kinde of muse’

Copy of lines 1-36, 43-8, untitled.

Edited from this MS in The Complete Works of John Lyly, ed. R. Warwick Bond (Oxford, 1902), III, 499.

Lines 37-66 (beginning ‘Who can delight in suche a wofull sounde’) first published as ‘Of a wearie life’ in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 23>. Lines 49-66 are lines 13-18, 25-36 of ‘A most excellent passion set downe of N.B. Gent.’ in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). First published complete in Grosart (1879), I (t), p. 20.

f. 48r-v

• RaW 125: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Farewell to false Love (‘Farewell false loue, the oracle of lies’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in The Complete Works of John Lyly, ed. R. Warwick Bond (Oxford, 1902), III, 471-2; collated in Hughey, II, 384-5; recorded and the last stanza edited in Latham.

First published, in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & songs (London, 1588). Latham, pp. 7-8. Rudick, Nos 10A (complementing Sir Thomas Heneage's verses beginning ‘Most welcome love, thow mortall foe to lies’) and 10B, pp. 11-13.

The poem based principally on a poem by Philippe Desportes: see Jonathan Gibson, ‘French and Italian Sources for Ralegh's “Farewell False Love”’, RES, NS 50 (May 1999), 155-65, which also cites related MSS.

ff. 48v-9r

• OxE 31: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘Wing'de with desyre, I seeke to mount on hyghe’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in May.

May, Poems, No. 12 (pp. 34-5). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 278-9. EV 31543.

ff. 51r-3r

• OxE 43: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘In Pescod time when hownd to horne gives eare while Bucke is kild’

Copy, headed ‘A dreame’.

This MS cited in May.

Largely by Thomas Churchyard. First published, headed ‘A matter of fonde Cupid, and vain Venus’, in his A pleasaunte Laborinth called Churchyardes Chance (London, 1580). May, Poems, No. IVa and IV (pp. 41-2). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 284-6. EV 12112.

ff. 55r-6r

• SiP 33: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnets 8-11 (‘The scourge of life, and death's extreame disgrace’)

Copy of four sonnets, headed ‘These 4 Sonnets followinge wer made by S^r. P: Sidney when his Ladye hadd a payne [the small pox added in another hand] in her face’ and subscribed ‘finis. S^r P: S:’.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, pp. 140-2.

f. 65v

• SiP 121: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. First Eclogues, No. 7 (‘Come Dorus, come, let songs thy sorowes signifie’)

Copy of lines 152-6, untitled and here beginning ‘My earthy moulde doth melt in watry teares’.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Ringler, pp. 14-20. Robertson, pp. 58-64.

f. 65v

• SiP 51: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 25 (‘When to my deadlie pleasure’)

Copy of lines 27-34, untitled and here beginning ‘Thus do I fall to ryse thus’.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, pp. 154-5.

ff. 98v-101v

• DyE 1: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘Amarillis was full fayre, the goodliest mayde was she’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis: E: Dier’.

This MS text collated in Sargent.

First published in Sargent (1935). Sargent, No. X, pp. 192-5. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 303-5. EV 1870.

ff. 102r-3v

• SiP 45: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 22. The 7. Wonders of England (‘Neere Wilton sweete, huge heapes of stones are found’)

Copy, headed ‘loue fashyoned to 7: Wonders of Englande’, subscribed ‘finis: Incertus author’.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, pp. 149-51.

f. 104r

• RaW 486: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The state of Fraunce as nowe it standes’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Steven W. May, ‘“The French Primero”: A Study in Renaissance Textual Transmission and Taste’, ELN, 9 (1971-2), 102-8.

First published in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1808), III, 78. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172. Rudick, No. 30, p. 71. EV 24294.

f. 104v

• RaW 109: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)

Copy, untitled.

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).

f. 106r

• OxE 23: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘Wheras the Harte at Tennysse playes and men to gaminge fall’

Copy.

This MS collated in May.

First published in John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). May, Poems, No. 13 (p. 35). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 279-80. EV 30349.

ff. 107v-8r

• SiP 16: Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Song x (‘O deare life, when shall it be’)

Copy of lines 1-20, 25-48, untitled, subscribed ‘finis: Britton’.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, pp. 225-7.

f. 108v

• RaW 1: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘A Secret murder hath bene done of late’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘finis: Goss^r:’.

This MS collated in The Phoenix Nest, ed. H. E. Rollins (Cambridge, Mass., 1931), p. 173; recorded in Latham, p. 159.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, pp. 78-9.

ff. 109r-12v

• DyE 16: Sir Edward Dyer, A Fancy (‘Hee that his mirth hath loste, whose comfort is dismaid’)

Copy, with alterations, untitled, subscribed ‘E. dier’.

This MS text collated in Sargent.

First published, in a garbled version, in Poems by the Earl of Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660), pp. 29-31. Sargent, No. V, pp. 184-7. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 290-2. EV 8529.

f. 113v

• BrN 80: Nicholas Breton, A pretie fancie (‘Who takes a friend and trusts him not’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 17>. The Arbor of Amorous Deuises (London, 1597), <No. 41>. Grosart, I (d), p. 13. Authorship unknown.

f. 114v

• BrN 41: Nicholas Breton, A Metaphor (‘A little fire doth make the fagot burne’)

Copy of the first stanza, untitled.

This MS collated in Rollins, p. 94.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 39>. Attributed to Breton by F.H. McCloskey. See Rollins, Bowre, p. xviii.

f. 115v

• SuH 36.5: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, ‘The longer lyfe the more offence’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis E. of Surr.’.

Edited from this MS in Edwards.

First published in A. S. G. Edwards, ‘Manuscripts of the Verse of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey’, HLQ, 67/2 (2004), 283-93 (p. 291).

f. 116r

• RaW 2: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Advice (‘Many desire, but few or none deserve’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis written to M^rs. A.V.’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 110.

First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660). Latham, pp. 14-15. Rudick, No. 18, pp. 27-8.

f. 123r-v

• RaW 4: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘As you came from the holy land’

Copy, of an untitled version beginning ‘As you went to Walsingam’, with four lines beginning ‘As you came from the holy land’ added at the top right hand margin in a different hand, subscribed ‘to S^r W. R:’.

Edited from this MS in Latham, pp. 22-3.

First published in Thomas Deloney, The Garland of Good-Will (London, 1596? first extant edition 1628). Latham, pp. 22-3. Rudick, No. 13, pp. 16-17.

f. 125r

• EsR 22: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, The Right Honourable Robert, earle of Essex: Earle Marshall of England (‘Change thy minde since she doth change’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS text collated in May, pp. 123-4.

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

MS Rawl. poet. 88

Rawlinson MS. 4°, 78 pages (plus vi pages of preliminaries, pp. 79-88 blank); neat calligraphic MS of largely early versions of 36 poems by Shirley; the main text from p. 3 to p. 76 in an ornamented and flourished calligraphic script; a less elaborate script, certainly that of Shirley himself, appearing on pp. 77-8; titles added on pp. 12, 33 and 66, and some spaces left for other titles not filled; margins ruled throughout; the poems each signed ‘J: S:’; signed at the end (p. 77) ‘J. Shirley’. Greg and Armstrong considered the whole MS to be autograph, Croft only the last two pages: see discussion in Introduction above. c.1640-3.

A note on p. 1 in the hand of Thomas Hearne (1678-1735) ‘Octob. 17. 1719. This MS. was given me by M^r Ardern Battine, B.A. of Balliol College’ [i.e. Arden Battine (b. c.1694), of Wimmering, Hampshire, who matriculated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, in 1714 and transferred to Balliol, gaining his B.A. in 1718 and M.A. in 1721]; names on p. 82 of Andrew Wall, Joseph Wall and ‘Ro: Doyley’; later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755); c.1640-3 (and most probably 1642).

Recorded in IELM as ShJ Δ 1. Collated, and sometimes used as copy-text, in Armstrong; some poems also edited from it in Gifford & Dyce (1833), the transcript of the MS by Alexander Dyce (1798-1869) being in the Victoria and Albert Museum, Dyce Collection (Cat. No. 48; Pressmark D.25. F. 43). Complete, slightly reduced, facsimile of pp. 1-78 in Poems 1646 (1970). Facsimiles of pp. 77-8 in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1; of f. 78 in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in Alfred Murnau, John Webster. Teufel Wörter (Nordlingen, 1986), before p. 49 (see ShJ 192).

pp. 3-5

• ShJ 86: James Shirley, To the Honourable Lady, Diana Curson at his departure (‘Madam whose first stile is good’)

Copy of a 28-line version headed ‘To th[e R]ight Ho:^bl sisters The Ladie B[isshop] and Ladie Dia[na] Curs[on]’ and beginning ‘Ladies, whose first stile is Good’.

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 94.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 10.

pp. 5-6

• ShJ 103: James Shirley, Vpon the death of Sr. Th. Nevill (‘Swelling Eyes forbear to weep’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon S^r Thomas Neuill. Kn^t.’.

This MS collated in Armstrong.

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

pp. 6-7

• ShJ 120: James Shirley, ‘Would you know what's soft?’

Copy of an untitled twelve-line version.

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 90.

First published, as a ‘Song’, in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 3.

pp. 8-10

• ShJ 85: James Shirley, To the Earl of Stafford upon his recovery (‘My Lord, the voice that did your sicknes tell’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon the Lord of S: his recouerye’

This MS recorded in Armstrong.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 8-9.

pp. 10-12

• ShJ 50: James Shirley, A Lover that durst not speak to his Mistris (‘I can no longer hold, my body growes’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Armstrong.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 4.

pp. 12-13, 16

• ShJ 98: James Shirley, Vpon his Mistris sad (‘Melancholy hence, and get’)

Copy, written as two separate poems, the first headed (afterwards) ‘To A Gentlewoman Melancholy’, the second untitled.

This MS collated in Armstrong.

First stanza first published as the Maid's song in Changes, or Love in a Maze, Act IV, scene i (London, 1632). Gifford & Dyce II, 269-364 (p. 327). Second stanza (beginning ‘Love a thousand sweats distilling’) first published as a song in The Witty Fair One, Act IV, scene iii (London, 1633). Gifford & Dyce, I, 273-362 (p. 335). Published as a composite poem in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 5.

pp. 13-15

• ShJ 43: James Shirley, Love for Enjoying (‘Fair Lady, what's your face to me?’)

Copy of an untitled 28-line version beginning ‘Ladie: what's your fface to me?’

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 92.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 7.

pp. 17-18

• ShJ 23: James Shirley, Friendship, Or Verses sent to a Lover, in Answer of a Copie which he had writ in praise of His Mistris (‘O how I blush, to have ador'd the face’)

Copy of an untitled eighteen-line version beginning ‘I haue noe humour to adore the fface’.

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 97.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 16.

pp. 18-19

• ShJ 16: James Shirley, Dialogue (‘I prethee tell me what prodigious fate’)

Copy of an early version of stanzas 2-4, untitled and here beginning ‘Her haires are Cupids, w^ch when she spreads’.

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 98.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 18.

pp. 20-1

• ShJ 41: James Shirley, The Kisse (‘I could endure your Eie, although it shott’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.

First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 499. Armstrong, p. 34.

pp. 21-2

• ShJ 58: James Shirley, Orpheus (‘ffrom the Stigian Abisse’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.

First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 499-500. Armstrong, p. 34.

pp. 23-5

• ShJ 47: James Shirley, Loves Hue and Cry (‘In Loves name you are charg'd, oh fly’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. xxvi.

First published as Treedle's verses in The Witty Fair One, Act III, scene ii (London, 1633). Gifford & Dyce, I, 273-362 (pp. 311-12). As ‘The Hue and Cry’ in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 2.

pp. 25-6

• ShJ 104: James Shirley, Vppon the Ladye Ryuers Who dyed wth greife. Epitaph (‘Gentle Eies, your teares distill’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.

First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 500. Armstrong, p. 34.

pp. 27-8

• ShJ 59: James Shirley, Paranimphi (‘Come away, Hymen doth stay’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.

First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 501. Armstrong, p. 34.

pp. 28-9

• ShJ 92: James Shirley, Vpon a Gentlewoman that died of a Fever (‘Death, time, and sicknes, had been many a day’)

Copy of an eighteen-line version headed ‘Vppon S^r. G: Ca: Ladie: Ep:’ and beginning ‘Death (that on humaine fflesh doth vse to feed)’.

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 95.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 13-14.

f. 30

• ShJ 99: James Shirley, Vpon M: E: S: Epitaph (‘If to maintaine the vse I must’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.

First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 501. Armstrong, p. 34.

pp. 30-3

• ShJ 81: James Shirley, To his Mistris confined (‘Think not my Phebe, cause a cloud’)

Copy of a four-stanza version beginning ‘O thinke not Phebe, cause a cloud’.

This MS collated and the additional stanza edited from it in Armstrong, pp. 88-9.

First published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (London, 1639). Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 2.

pp. 33-4

• ShJ 29: James Shirley, A Gentleman in Love with two Ladies (‘If Love his arrowes shoot so fast’)

Copy, headed (afterwards) ‘One that lou'd two Mistresses at once’.

This MS collated in Armstrong.

First published as the Servant's song in Changes, or Love in a Maze, V, iii (London, 1632). Gifford & Dyce, II, 269-364 (pp. 354-5). Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 5.

f. 34

• ShJ 78: James Shirley, To his Mistris (‘I would the God of Love would die’)

Copy of an untitled early version of the first stanza beginning ‘O would to God, the god of Loue would dye’.

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 89.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 1.

pp. 35-6

• ShJ 95: James Shirley, Vppon a Parson (‘For them, that leaue noe monument’)

Copy, including the ‘Epitaph inscribed in a small peice of Marble’ (beginning ‘Noe more marble lett him haue’).

Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.

First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 501-2. Armstrong, pp. 34-5.

pp. 37-9

• ShJ 8: James Shirley, The Common-wealth of Birds (‘Let other Poets write of dogs’)

Copy of a 36-line version beginning ‘Lissen (Gallants) to my words’.

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 93.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 9.

pp. 40-5

• ShJ 106: James Shirley, Vpon the Princes Birth (‘Fair fall their Muses that in well-chim'd verse’)

Copy of a seven-stanza version.

This MS collated in Armstrong.

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

pp. 46-54

• ShJ 101: James Shirley, Vpon the death of K. James (‘When busie Fame was almost out of breath’)

Copy of a 110-line version beginning ‘Is the Sea richer for a dropp of Raine?’.

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, pp. 95-6.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 14.

pp. 54-5

• ShJ 14: James Shirley, The Curtizane (‘Cupid calls o Younge men Come’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Armstrong.

First published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (London, 1639). Adapted as part of ‘Cupids Call’ (‘Ho! Cupid calls, come Lovers, come’) in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 89.

pp. 56-7

• ShJ 1: James Shirley, Another (‘Harke, harke how in euery groue’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Armstrong.

First published, adapted as stanzas 3 and 4 of ‘Cupid's Call’ (‘Ho! Cupid calls, come Lovers, come’), in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 89.

pp. 57-8

• ShJ 30: James Shirley, Good Morrow (‘Good morrow unto her, who in the night’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Armstrong.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 1.

p. 59

• ShJ 19: James Shirley, Epitaph On the Duke of Bvckingham (‘Here lies the best and worst of Fate’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon the Duke of Buckingham, Epitaph’.

This MS collated in Armstrong.

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

p. 60

• ShJ 97: James Shirley, Vpon his Mistris Dancing (‘I stood and saw my Mistris dance’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Armstrong.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 5.

pp. 61-2

• ShJ 84: James Shirley, To his unkind Mistris (‘Sure thy heart was flesh at first’)

Copy of an untitled sixteen-line version.

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 89.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 1.

pp. 62-4

• ShJ 90: James Shirley, To the proud Mistris (‘Proud woman, know I am above’)

Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘Know coye disdaine, I am aboue’.

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, pp. 97-8. Some lines in this MS version incorporated in ‘To a Beautiful Lady’ (‘Away with handsome faces, let me see’) in Poems (1646): see Armstrong, p. 97.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 17.

pp. 64-5

• ShJ 60: James Shirley, The Passing Bell (‘Hark, how chimes the Passing bell’)

Copy of a twenty-line version.

This MS collated in Armstrong.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 16.

pp. 66-9

• ShJ 88: James Shirley, To the Painter preparing to draw M.M.H. (‘Be not too forward, Painter: 'tis’)

Copy, headed (afterwards) ‘To the Painter vpon his preparation to draw M^rs M.H. Picture’ and here beginning ‘Be not too dareing Painter, 'tis’.

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, pp. 90-1.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 3-4.

pp. 69-70

• ShJ 91: James Shirley, Two Gentlemen that broke their promise of a meeting, made when they drank Claret (‘There is no faith in Claret, and it shall’)

Copy of an early ten-line version headed ‘To E: H: &: W: H:’ and beginning ‘There is noe ffaith in Clarett, now I see’.

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 95.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 13.

pp. 71-4

• ShJ 38: James Shirley, A Hymne to God (‘Canst thou (deare God) forgiue so soone’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong.

First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 502-3. Armstrong, p. 35.

pp. 74-7

• *ShJ 94: James Shirley, Vppon a Gentlewoman that died with Child, by blood Letting (‘Teares are too late, (sad ffreinds to her that's gone’)

Copy, lines 1-34 in the calligraphic hand of the main scribe, lines 35-42 in Shirley's hand.

Edited from this MS in Gifford & Dyce and in Armstrong. Facsimile of p. 77 also in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 30, and see Introduction.

First published in Gifford & Dyce (1833), VI, 503-4. Armstrong, p. 35.

pp. 77-8

• *ShJ 13: James Shirley, Curse (‘Woman, I cannot call thee worse’)

Autograph copy.

Edited from this MS in Armstrong, p. 97.

Facsimiles also in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 40-1, and (part of p. 78) in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(a), and in DLB, vol. 58, Jacobean and Caroline Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers (Detroit, 1987), p. 257. See Introduction.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 17.

MS Rawl. poet. 90

A quarto verse miscellany entitled A Collection of Verses Fancyes and Poems, Morrall and Devine, in a single hand, i + 180 leaves, (including index), in contemporary calf. Including 15 poems (and a second copy of one poem) by Cowley and 15 poems by Katherine Philips transcribed from a edited source. Early 18th century.

Later owned by Richard Rawlinson (1690-1755).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as ‘Rawlinson MS II’: PsK Δ 7.

ff. 1r, 2r

• WoH 225.8: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘A Farewell to ffollye’.

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.

ff. 2r, 3r

• PsK 12: Katherine Philips, Against Pleasure. set by D^r Coleman (‘There's no such thing as pleasure here’)

Copy, headed ‘Against Pleasure’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 135-7. Poems (1667), pp. 66-8. Saintsbury, pp. 546-7. Thomas, I, 137-8, poem 47.

f. 3r-v

• PsK 41: Katherine Philips, A Countrey life (‘How sacred and how innocent’)

Copy, headed ‘In praise of a Countrye Life’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

ff. 4r-5r

• PsK 349: Katherine Philips, Submission (‘'Tis so. and humbly I my will resign’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 209-13. Poems (1667), pp. 108-10. Saintsbury, pp. 567-9. Thomas, I, 178-81, poem 70.

f. 5r

• PsK 434: Katherine Philips, To my Lord Biron's tune of — Adieu Phillis (‘Tis true, our life is but a long disease’)

Copy, headed ‘The Trouble’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published, as ‘Song to the Tune of Adieu Phillis’, in Poems (1667), p. 127. Saintsbury, p. 578. Thomas, I, 198, poem 81.

ff. 5v-6v

• PsK 222: Katherine Philips, An ode upon retirement, made upon occasion of Mr. Cowley's on that subject (‘No, no, unfaithfull World, thou hast’)

Copy, omitting the last eight lines and headed ‘Retirement’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

ff. 6v-7v

• PsK 126: Katherine Philips, Happyness (‘Nature courts happiness, although it be’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 228-31. Poems (1667), pp. 118-19. Saintsbury, pp. 573-4. Thomas, I, 188-90, poem 74.

ff. 7v-9r

• PsK 94: 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. 9rv

• PsK 102: 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. 32v-3r

• FeO 68: Owen Felltham, True Happiness (‘Long have I sought the wish of all’)

Copy of stanzas 1-4, 7-12, headed ‘A Description of true happynesse’.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

First published, in a six-stanza version headed ‘Vpon the Vanitie of the World’, in Edward Benlowes, Theophila, Or Loves Sacrifice. A Divine Poem (London, 1652), p. 175. The twelve-stanza version in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 1-3.

f. 41r-v

• ShJ 143: 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 ‘The vanitye of greatnesse’.

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

ff. 77r-9r

• PsK 181: Katherine Philips, La Grandeur d'esprit (‘A chosen privacy, a cheap content’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published, as ‘La Grandeur d'esprit’, in Poems (1664), pp. 171-6. in Poems (1667), pp. 86-8, as ‘A Resvery’. Saintsbury, pp. 556-8. Thomas, I, 157-9, poem 60.

f. 79r-v

• PsK 311: Katherine Philips, A Retir'd friendship, to Ardelia. 23d Augo 1651 (‘Come, my Ardelia, to this bowre’)

Copy, headed ‘A retir'd freinship. to a friende’ and here beginning ‘Come, my deare friende, into this Bower’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 56-9. Poems (1667), pp. 28-9. Saintsbury, p. 524. Hageman (1987), pp. 592-3. Thomas, I, 97-8, poem 22.

ff. 80r-1r

• PsK 32: Katherine Philips, Content, to my dearest Lucasia (‘Content, the false world's best disguise’)

Copy, headed ‘Content, to my dearest Friend.’

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 45-50. Poems (1667), pp. 22-5. Saintsbury, pp. 520-2. Thomas, I, 91-4, poem 18.

ff. 81v-2 r

• PsK 529: Katherine Philips, 2 Corinth. 5. 19. v. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. 8^to Aprilis 1653 (‘When God, contracted to humanity’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 214-16. Poems (1667), pp. 110-11. Saintsbury, p. 569. Thomas, I, 181-2, poem 71.

ff. 82r-4r

• PsK 568: Katherine Philips, The World (‘Wee falsly think it due unto our friends’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 217-22. Poems (1667), pp. 111-13. Saintsbury, pp. 569-71. Thomas, I, 182-5, poem 72.

f. 105v

• CrR 105: Richard Crashaw, Luk. 15. On the Prodigall (‘Tell me bright Boy, tell me my golden Lad’)

Copy.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 86.

f. 105v

• CrR 178: Richard Crashaw, On the Miracle of Loaves (‘Now Lord, or never, they'l beleeve on thee’)

Copy.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 88.

f. 105v

• CrR 266: Richard Crashaw, Vpon Lazarus his Teares (‘Rich Lazarus! richer in those Gems, thy Teares’)

Copy.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 89.

f. 106r

• CrR 331: Richard Crashaw, The Widowes Mites (‘Two Mites, two drops, (yet all her house and land)’)

Copy.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 86.

ff. 106r-7v

• RoJ 577: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.

First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

ff. 107v-8r

• DnJ 1578.5: John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father (‘Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 369 (and variant text p. 370). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 193. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

f. 108r

• CrR 98: Richard Crashaw, Luke 10. And a certaine Priest comming that way looked on him and passed by (‘Why dost Thou wound my wounds, ô Thou that passest by’)

Copy.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 94.

f. 108r

• CrR 226: Richard Crashaw, Sampson to his Dalilah (‘Could not once blinding me, cruell, suffice?’)

Copy.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 102.

f. 108r

• CrR 258: Richard Crashaw, Two went up into the Temple to pray (‘Two went to pray? ô rather say’)

Copy.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 89.

ff. 108r-10v

• CoA 2: Abraham Cowley, Against Hope (‘Hope, whose weak Being ruin'd is’)

Copy of the two poems.

A pair of poems comprising Against Hope by Cowley and the answer For Hope (‘Dear hope! earth's dowry, & heaun's debt!’) by Richard Crashaw, both first published as ‘On Hope, By way of Question and Answer, betweene A. Cowley, and R. Crashaw’ in Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Published separately as ‘Hope’ and ‘M. Crashaws Answer For Hope’ in Crashaw, Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). The Poems…of Richard Crashaw, ed. L. C. Martin, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1957), pp. 143-5 and 344-6.

Cowley's poem only also published separately in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 109-10. Sparrow, pp. 107-8. Collected Works, II, No. 3, pp. 23-5. See also Clarence H. Miller, ‘The Order of Stanzas in Cowley and Crashaw's “On Hope”’, SP, 61 (1964), 64-73.

ff. 111r-12v

• RnT 180: Thomas Randolph, Necessary observations (‘First worship God, he that forgets to pray’)

Copy of precepts 1-17.

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

f. 132r-v

• ShJ 177: James Shirley, Cupid and Death, lines 265-80. Song (‘Victorious Men of Earth, no more’)

Copy of the second song, headed ‘Death's Triumph’.

Gifford & Dyce, VI, 355. Harris, pp. 388-9. Armstrong, p. 53.

f. 132v

• RoJ 179: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life (‘All my past life is mine no more’)

Copy, headed ‘(Joyes Past)’, lacking the last stanza.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.

First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

ff. 134v-5v

• HrG 224.5: George Herbert, Repentance (‘Lord, I confesse my sinne is great’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 48-9.

f. 135v

• HrG 238.5: George Herbert, Sinne (II) (‘O that I could a sinne once see!’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 63.

ff. 135v-6r

• HrG 43.5: George Herbert, Church-lock and key (‘I know it is my sinne, which locks thine eares’)

Copy, headed ‘Lock and Key’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 66.

ff. 136v-7r

• HrG 67.5: George Herbert, Content (‘Peace mutt'ring thoughts, and do not grudge to keep’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 68-9.

f. 137r

• HrG 61.4: George Herbert, Coloss. 3. 3. Our life is hid with Christ in God (‘My words & thoughts do both expresse this notion’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 84-5.

f. 137r

• HrG 81.8: George Herbert, Deniall (‘When my devotions could not pierce’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 79-80.

f. 138r

• HrG 14.2: George Herbert, Ana-{MARY/ARMY} gram (‘How well her name an Army doth present’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 77.

f. 138r-v

• HrG 83.2: George Herbert, A Dialogue-Antheme (‘Alas, poore Death, where is thy glorie?’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 169.

ff. 138v-9r

• HrG 63.8: George Herbert, Confession (‘O what a cunning guest’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 126.

f. 139r-v

• HrG 262.5: George Herbert, Time (‘Meeting with Time, Slack thing, said I’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 122-3.

f. 139v

• HrG 173.5: George Herbert, Love-joy (‘As on a window late I cast mine eye’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 116.

f. 140r

• HrG 147.8: George Herbert, Jesu (‘Jesu is in my heart, his sacred name’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 112.

f. 141v-2r

• HrG 25.5: George Herbert, The Bag (‘Away despair! my gracious Lord doth heare’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 151-2.

f. 142r-v

• HrG 202.8: George Herbert, The Posie (‘Let wits contest’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 182-3.

ff. 142v-3r

• HrG 124.3: George Herbert, Grief (‘O who will give me tears? Come all ye springs’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 164.

f. 143r-v

• HrG 211.5: George Herbert, Prayer (II) (‘Of what an easie quick accesse’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 103.

ff. 143v-4r

• HrG 192.8: George Herbert, An Offering (‘Come, bring thy gift. If blessings were as slow’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 147-8.

ff. 144r-5v

• HrG 164.8: George Herbert, Longing (‘With sick and famisht eyes’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 148-50.

f. 146r

• HrG 89.5: George Herbert, Dotage (‘False glozing pleasures, casks of happinesse’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 167.

f. 163v

• TaJ 18: Jeremy Taylor, The Golden Grove

Extracts.

First published in London 1655. Edited by L.P. Smith (Oxford, 1930).

f. 164v

• PsK 136: Katherine Philips, In memory of F.P. who dyed at Acton 24 May.1660 — 13th of her age (‘If I could ever write a lasting verse’)

Copy of a version comprising lines 1-4 and four additional lines followed by lines 85-90, headed ‘(Upon a dear Friend dead:)’.

This MS collated in Thomas and the four additional lines edited, I, 276.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 75-80. Poems (1667), pp. 39-42. Saintsbury, pp. 530-1. Thomas, I, 109-11, poem 30.

f. 165r-v

• MaA 56: Andrew Marvell, Senec. Traged. ex Thyeste Chor. 2 (‘Climb at Court for me that will’)

Copy, headed ‘The honest Country Man’.

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. 167r

• DrJ 247.4: John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe

Extracts.

First published in London, 1676. California, XIII (1994), pp. 147-250.

f. 165v

• PsK 186: Katherine Philips, La Solitude de St. Amant. Englished (‘O! Solitude my sweetest choice’)

Copy of a twelve-line version (as incorporated in Purcell's song-version), headed ‘On Solitude’.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 170-83. Saintsbury, pp. 601-4. Thomas, III, 94-102.

A musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Comes Amoris…The First Book (London, 1687), p. 18. The Theater of Music…The Fourth and Last Book (London, 1687), p. 57. The Works of Henry Purcell, XXV, ed. Arthur Somervell (London, 1928), pp. 137-40; revised edition, ed. Margaret Laurie (1985), pp. 75-9.

ff. 168v-9v

• MaA 9: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda (‘When Death, shall part us from these Kids’)

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue between Thyrsis & Dorinda concerning Eternity’.

ff. 169v-75r

• DrJ 221: 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.

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

ff. 176r-7v

• DrJ 70: John Dryden, Horat. Ode 29. Book 3 Paraphras'd in Pindarique Verse. and Inscrib'd to the Right Honourable Lawrence Earl of Rochester (‘Descended of an ancient Line’)

Copy of lines 45-104, headed ‘Fates Incertainty’ and here beginning ‘God has most Wisely hid from Human Sight’.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 434-7. California, III, 81-4. Hammond, II, 369-76.

ff. 177v-8r

• DrJ 84: John Dryden, Lucretius The beginning of the Second Book (‘'Tis pleasant, safely to behold from shore’)

Copy, headed ‘Natures Content’.

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

MS Rawl. poet. 98

Copy, untitled, iii + 48 quarto leaves, slightly imperfect, lacking the last leaf, in contemporary vellum boards. A 440-stanza version, in a professional secretary hand, with marginal notes in italic. c.1620s.

HuF 3: Sir Francis Hubert, Edward II (‘It is thy sad disaster which I sing’)

Inscribed in a roman hand (f. 29v, lengthways along the margin) ‘Thomas Higgons his pen’ (this is not in the hand of the scribe).

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’?).