CELM: The British Library: Additional MSS, numbers 15000 through 16999

Add. MS 15116

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, 39 folio leaves, in modern half brown calf on marbled boards. Early 17th century.

BcF 168: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching a War with Spain

Acquired from Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller, on 13 April 1844.

A tract dedicated to Prince Charles, beginning ‘Your Highness hath an imperial name. It was a Charles that brought the empire first into France...’. First published in Certaine Miscellany Works, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, XIV, 469-505.

Add. MS 15214

Autograph MS of John Florio's Giardino di recreatione, including related poems in Italian and Latin by Florio and others in different hands, one (f. 12v) in the hand of the playwright Matthew Gwinne (1558-1627), and (ff. 6r-10r) Florio's dedication to Sir Edward Dyer dated 12 November 1582, 145 octavo leaves, in modern half blue morocco. 1582.

Once owned by Katherine Philips, the ‘Matchless Orinda’ (see PsK 589.5) from whom the MS passed to her sister-in-law M. Philips, who presented it to Phineas Fowke (1639-1710), physician. Inscribed (f. 3r) ‘Ex dono Gul: Oldys / Isaac Hard’: i.e. given by William Oldys (1696-1761), Norroy King of Arms, antiquary, to Sir Isaac Heard (1730-1822), Clarenceux King of Arms (and with his bookplate). Then owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 98. Inscribed (ff. 1r-2r) by the Rev. Joseph Hunter (1783-1861), antiquary, on 13 September 1858.

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• PsK 589.5: Katherine Philips, Florio, John. Giardino di recreatione

Inscribed ‘Katharine Philips’, another page containing later notes about her by Phineas Fowke, M.D.:‘This book I suppose was presented by y^e Author to y^e famous Orinda’ [hardly likely since Florio died in 1626 before she was born], ‘being found among her bookes of Italian & ffrench in w^ch she was admirably skilled, & was prsented me by her most deserveing Sister in law, M^ris M. Philips. at Cardigan. A.D. 83’.

It is not clear how this volume came into Katherine Philips's hands, but it is a reminder of her knowledge of Italian (to her improvements in which in 1662-3 her letters refer repeatedly, while at least one of her songs — Amanti ch'in pianti &c. — is translated from that language). Moreover, (as Claudia Limbert has shown in Restoration, 13 (1989), 62-7) Philips's close friend Regina Collyer (whose mother's name was Anna Semiliano) was Italian.

This volume recorded in both Souers and Thomas. Facsimile of the inscribed pages in Hageman & Sununu, EMS, 4 (1993), p. 187.

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• *FloJ 1: John Florio, Giardino di recreatione

Autograph MS of the complete work, with a title-page.

This MS recorded in Yates.

First published in Second Fruits (London, 1591).

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• DaS 18: Samuel Daniel, In prouerbia Italica Johannis Flori Tetrastichon Samuelis Danielis (‘Italicos poterit flores cum nectere Florus’)

Copy of a four-line Latin commendatory poem by Daniel, in an italic hand.

Edited from this MS in Sellers.

First published in H. Sellers, ‘Samuel Daniel: Additions to the Text’, MLR 11 (1916), 28-32 (p. 31).

Add. MS 15225

A quarto miscellany of largely religious ballads, in one or possibly more cursive secretary hands, 60 leaves, in modern half black morocco. c.early 1600s.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 188.

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• AlW 151: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres’)

Copy.

First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, p. 12-13 (No. XVI).

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• AlW 172: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘Between two Bretheren Civil warres and worse’)

Copy, headed ‘Engl: by Ben: Johnson’.

A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Hugh Holland. Sutton, p. 13.

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• HyJ 15: John Heywood, A song in praise of a Ladie (‘Giue place, yea ladies, and be gone’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Milligan, pp. 252-4.

First published in Songes and Sonettes, ed. Richard Tottel (London, 1557).

Add. MS 15226

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, in several largely secretary hands, written from both ends over a long period, 149 leaves, in modern half blue morocco. c.1627-c.1673.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 190, to Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller.

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• ShW 20: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 8 (‘Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?’)

Copy, headed ‘In laudem Musice et opprobrium Contemptorij eiusdem’, subscribed ‘W: Shakespeare’.

Printed from this MS in Alden, pp. 33-4, and in The Shakespeare Allusion-Book (London, 1932), I, 211; recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.

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• MoG 10: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed ‘In obitum Jacobi Regis’.

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

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

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• B&F 124: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy, headed ‘In laudem Melancholie’.

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

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

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• DnJ 1580: John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father (‘Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne’)

Copy, untitled, headed ‘P Doctor Donne’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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).

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• TiC 53: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Speech at his Execution

Copy, headed ‘The Oration of chidiake Thickbarne at his executon’.

First published in George Whetstone, The Censure of a Loyall Subiecte (London, 1587). Hirsch, p. 313.

Add. MS 15227

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled Juvenilia Ludicra, in a single small mixed hand, 103 leaves, all now window mounted in a quarto volume, in 19th-century half morocco. Probably compiled by a Cambridge University man. c.1630s.

Inscribed in engrossed lettering (f. 1r) ‘E Libris Richard Sutclif’. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 194.

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• DkT 10: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)

Copy, headed ‘On the careying of Q: Elizab: dead body to Whitehall’.

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

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• DnJ 1759: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy, headed ‘In Claudum Epig:’ and here beginning ‘I cannot goe, nor stand, the Cripple cries’.

First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Zoppo’) and 10.

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• HeR 67: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)

Copy, headed ‘In perjuratum amatorculum’, subscribed ‘R. Ramsey’: i.e. Robert Ramsey (c.1595-1644), composer and organist.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

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• BrW 194: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy, headed ‘In Comitissam Sussexiae’ and here beginning ‘Vnder this cold marble hearse’.

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

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• HeR 209: Robert Herrick, The Present: or, The Bag of the Bee (‘Fly to my Mistresse, pretty pilfring Bee’)

Copy, headed ‘Nuncius amoris Apes’ and here beginning ‘Fly to my Mistresse yellow footed Bee’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 100. Patrick, p. 140.

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• StW 787: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘De perambulante puella’, here beginning ‘I saw faire Locris walke alone’ and ascribed to ‘Joh: Earles’.

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

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• HrJ 36: Sir John Harington, Against Swearing (‘In elder times an ancient custome was’)

Copy, headed ‘Juramenta antiqua’, subscribed ‘S^r John Har:’.

First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.

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• HrJ 58: Sir John Harington, The Author to Queene Elizabeth, in praise of her reading (‘For euer deare, for euer dreaded Prince’)

Copy, headed ‘Ad. reg: Elizab:’, subscribed ‘S^r John Harri:’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 13. McClure No. 267, p. 258. This epigram is also quoted in Breefe Notes and Remembraunces (Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 172). Kilroy, Book IV, No. 88 (p. 243).

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• HrJ 137: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r John Harrington on his wife’.

First published in ‘Epigrammes’ appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

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• HrJ 222: Sir John Harington, Of Blessing without a crosse (‘A Priest that earst was riding on the way’)

Copy, headed ‘Sacerdotis benedictio’ and here beginning ‘A certaine preist once riding on the way’, subscribed ‘Ibid’.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 17. McClure No. 18, p. 155. Kilroy, Book I, No. 30, p. 104.

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• HrJ 164: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Cobler, and an ignorant Curat (‘A Cobler, and a Curat, once disputed’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Curate and a Cobler’.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 66. McClure No. 67, p. 173. Kilroy, Book I, No. 10, p. 97.

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• AlW 152: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres’)

Copy, headed ‘Epigr: in duos fratres disputantes, alterum Papistam, Protestante alterum, et sese inuicem convertentes’.

First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, p. 12-13 (No. XVI).

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• HoJ 321: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood’)

Copy, headed ‘Juuenis delicantem quandam ancillam illudens’ and here beginning ‘O Loue whose forces might none euer yet withstood’.

Osborn, p. 301.

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• KiH 52: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘The Answer’.

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. 8v

• StW 1019: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)

Copy, headed ‘Lusus amatorius’.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.

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

f. 8v

• JnB 417: Ben Jonson, On the Vnion (‘When was there contract better driuen by Fate?’)

Copy, headed ‘In Vnionem Angliae & Scotiae’ and here beginning ‘Was ever Contract better drawne by fate?’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

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• HoJ 148: John Hoskyns, An Ep: one a man for doyinge nothinge (‘Here lyes the man was borne and cryed’)

Copy, untitled but inscribed ‘Ignoti cuiusdam’.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XII (p. 171).

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• HrJ 173: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler (‘A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling’)

Copy, headed ‘The Taylors reformation’.

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

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• RaW 242: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, headed ‘Vita Fabula’, subscribed ‘Tho: Dod, Jesu’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

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

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• HrJ 193: Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister (‘I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten’)

Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘Parturiens Puritana’ and here beginning ‘A godly sister, by one of her Society’.

Edited partly from this MS in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), p. 174.

First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.

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• DaJ 137: Sir John Davies, An Epitaph (‘Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Bellowes maker’ and here beginning ‘Here lieth John Ellowes the King of good Fellowes’.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

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• HrJ 91: Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man (‘There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher’)

Copy, headed ‘On Quidam Homo’ and here beginning ‘There was not certaine, when a Certaine Teacher’.

This MS text followed by ‘The Answ: to it by the Lady cheeke’ (here beginning ‘That noe man yet could in the Bible find’).

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

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• RnT 423: Thomas Randolph, Aristippus, or The Jovial Philosopher

Copy of the catch sung by Simplicius in praise of Aristippus, headed ‘In laudem Aristippi’ and beginning ‘Aristippus is better in every letter’.

First published in London, 1630. Hazlitt, I, 1-34.

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• HoJ 55: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Fart let in the Parliament house’, here beginning ‘Downe came Graue ancient Serjeant Crooke’.

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

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• EaJ 20: 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 ‘An Elegie upon the Death of S^r John Burrowes who was slaine by an unfortunate bullet at the seidge of the Fort in the Isle of Ree 1627’.

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).

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• OvT 1: Sir Thomas Overbury, The Authours Epitaph (‘The span of my daies measur'd, here I rest’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Thomas Overburys epitaph upon himself’.

First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbault, p. 46.

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• HoJ 298: John Hoskyns, Vpon the birth of the Prince (‘Cum Rex Paulinas accessit gratus ad aras’)

Copy of both Latin and English versions, headed ‘Certaine verses sent from Serjeant Hotchkins to one M^r Hyrne of Bramford who then preached at Pauls crosse, on that day the King came thither to offer up his oblation at the altar for the birth of his sonne’, inscribed in the margin ‘Mar: 30 Ano: 1630’.

This MS cited in Osborn.

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

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• CoR 378: Richard Corbett, Little Lute (‘Little lute, when I am gone’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses inscript upon a Lute’ and here beginning ‘Pretty Lute when I am gone’.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.

Some texts followed by an answer beginning ‘Little booke, when I am gone’.

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• RaW 397: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘ICUR, good Mounser Carr’

Copy, headed ‘In Robertum Car, comitem Somersetensem, postquam Essex: vxorem dixit’.

Edited partly from this MS in Beatrice White.

First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as ‘Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr’).

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• EaJ 66: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Ode ad B: J: (‘Quin te Theatri sordibus, et magis’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Jo: Earles’.

First published in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford & Percy and Evelyn Simpson, X (Oxford, 1950), 333-4.

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• HoJ 278: John Hoskyns, In Syllabam Cos; in Pentecost Dom. in Schola Wintoniensi (‘Dic mihi Semesas Lipsi serutate figuras’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Hosequinus’.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

Osborn, No. II (pp. 168-9).

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• StW 959: William Strode, A Song of Capps (‘The witt hath long beholding bin’)

Copy, headed ‘The Capps’.

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

f. 56

• RnT 412.8: Thomas Randolph, Cantabrigiensium oenopoliorum Fatum miserabile (‘Triste nefas morbo languent sitiente taberna’)

Copy. 1626.

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• RnT 383: Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger (‘Arithmetique nine digits, and no more’)

Copy, headed ‘One upon y^e losse of his finger’, the poem followed by a Latin translation beginning ‘Ter ternes tantum numerandi novimus arte’.

This MS (the English poem) collated in Thorn-Drury.

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

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• HrG 314.5: George Herbert, In obitum integerrimi pharmacopoloe Hadleiensis, Edvardi Gale febre extincti Carmen (‘Anglici numquid pars regni nulla vacabit?’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘G: H’.

Unpublished?

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• DnJ 458: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy of lines 1-12, headed ‘Amator’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.

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• B&F 125: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy, headed ‘Melancholicus’.

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

f. 76r

• WoH 82: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy, headed ‘An ode upon y^e Lady Elizab: Qu: of Bohemia’, subscribed ‘S^r Hen: Wotton’.

First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, ‘“You Meaner Beauties of the Night” A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification’, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

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• HrJ 87: Sir John Harington, In Romam (‘Hate, and debate, Rome through the world hath spread’)

Copy, headed ‘Roma, Amor’.

First published in 1618, Book IV, No. 92. McClure No. 346, p. 286. Authorship uncertain.

f. 79r

• HoJ 123: John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart (‘Reader I was born and cried’)

Copy, headed ‘The Parliament Farte’.

f. 81v

• ElQ 36: Queen Elizabeth I, Verse Exchange between Queen Elizabeth and King Philip of Spain, circa Spring 1588 (‘When Greeks do measure months by the moon’)

Copy of the Latin lines only, headed ‘Papa ad reginam Elizabetham’.

This MS cited in Collected Works.

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

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• StW 395: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)

Copy, headed ‘On a faire Woman that sung excellently’.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.

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

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• CwT 1244: Thomas Carew, A Health to a Mistris (‘To her whose beautie doth excell’)

Copy, headed ‘An health to his M^ris’, subscribed ‘R: clerke’.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap. p. 192. Possibly by Richard Clerke.

f. 82v

• JnB 569: Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, IV, iii, 242-53. Song (‘O, That ioy so soone should waste!’)

Copy of Hedon's song, headed ‘On a Kisse’.

f. 82v

• CoR 413: Richard Corbett, On Francis Beaumont's death (‘He that hath Youth, and Friends, and so much Wit’)

Copy, headed ‘Epitaph: on Beamont’.

First published in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 23.

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• CoR 519: Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles (‘When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon y^e Prince’.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.

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• RaW 139: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Hir face, Hir tong, Hir wit’

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘Vnto his Loue’.

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

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

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• RaW 111: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Loue’, subscribed ‘S^r Walt: Raleigh’.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 9B, p. 10. Collated in Rollins, pp. 178-9. Recorded in Latham, p. 101.

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

f. 88v

• JnB 326: Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue (‘Come, with our Voyces, let us warre’)

Copy, headed ‘Cantilena’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.

f. 89r

• JnB 8: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph (‘See the Chariot at hand here of Love’)

Copy, headed ‘In Dominam amatoriam’ and here beginning ‘See now y^e chariot at hand heere of Loue’, subscribed ‘B: Johnson’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

f. 89r

• BrW 118: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor (‘Nature in this small volume was about’)

Copy, headed ‘On a childe’.

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

f. 90v

• HrJ 65: Sir John Harington, A good answere of a Gentlewoman to a Lawyer (‘A vertuous Dame, that saw a Lawyer rome’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in 1618, Book III, No. 39. McClure No. 240, pp. 248-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 90, p. 224.

f. 91r

• BcF 14: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy headed ‘Humani casus’.

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

f. 91v

• MoG 11: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon K: James’.

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

ff. 92v-3v

• RnT 586: Thomas Randolph, Verses upon the Vicechaun: pulling downe ye signes (‘The Vicechauncelour doth like y^e sunne appeare’)

Copy.

Tentatively attributed to Randolph in Moore Smith (1927), p. 113.

f. 95v

• HeR 7: Robert Herrick, The admonition (‘Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares’)

Copy, headed ‘On a dressing of hayre stucke w^th jewels’ and here beginning ‘Seest thou those rubies that shee weares’.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.

f. 96r

• StW 1318: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^ris’.

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

f. 96r

• PeW 205: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, On the Countess of Pembrokes Picture (‘Here (though the lustre of her youth be spent)’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), p. 26, superscribed ‘R.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’.

f. 96v

• CwT 222: Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence (‘You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay’)

Edited from this MS in Dunlap.

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

f. 96v

• JnB 279: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)

Copy, headed ‘Of Sand in an houreglasse’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

f. 97r

• BcF 54.6: Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox (‘Are all diseases dead? or will death say’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Duke of Lennox y^t died the day hee should goe to Parliament. 1624’.

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

f. 97v

• JnB 128: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. (‘Would'st thou heare, what man can say’)

Copy of lines 1-8, headed ‘On a Gentlewom: Tomb’ and here beginning ‘Wilt thou heare what wee can say’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

f. 97v

• RnT 324.5: Thomas Randolph, To Time (‘Why should we not accuse thee of a crime’)

Copy.

First published in Moore Smith (1925), pp. 254-5. Thorn-Drury, p. 163.

f. 98r

• DaJ 178: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘On an Infants tombe.’

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

Add. MS 15228

A small quarto verse miscellany, including translations from Boethius, Martial, Horace, etc., in at least two secretary hands, one predominating, 73 leaves, in modern quarter-morocco. c.1630s.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Sotheby's, 19 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 195, to Thomas Rodd.

ff. 35v-6r

• RnT 400: Thomas Randolph, Upon the report of the King of Swedens Death (‘I'le not believe 't. if fate should be so crosse’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Newes of the King of Sweden's death’.

This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 94-5.

Add. MS 15230

Copy, in one professional secretary hand, 28 folio leaves, in marbled boards. c.1620s.

HoJ 340: John Hoskyns, Directions for Speech and Style

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 217, to Thomas Rodd (1796-1849), bookseller.

First published, as Directions for Speech and Style by John Hoskins, ed. Hoyt H. Hudson (Princeton, 1935). Osborn (1937), pp. 114-66.

Add. MS 15232

A quarto verse miscellany, in nine secretary and italic hands, 42 leaves (including blanks), in old marbled boards within modern reversed calf. Late 1580s.

Inscribed names (on front pastedown) ‘John [?]roper’ and (f. 40r) ‘ffraunces [?]ington of the [?]’. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author (with a note by him on f. 39r). Sotheby's, 18 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 240.

This MS (the ‘Bright MS’) described in Ringler, pp. 538-9.

f. 1

• *PeM 11: Mary Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to the Countess's sister-in-law Barbara, Lady Sidney, from Wilton, 9 September 1590 (altered from 1591). 1591.

Edited in Collected Works, I, p. 286. Facsimile in W.W. Greg et al., English Literary Autographs, 1550-1650, 3vols (Oxford, 1925-32), No. XLII(a).

ff. 21r-38r

• SiP 1: Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella

Copy of sonnets 1-20, 105-8, and songs viii and xi, in a predominantly roman hand, f. 31r in another roman hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Louing in [truth and faine] in verse my loue to shou’.

This MS collated in Ringler.

First published in London, 1591. Ringler, pp. 163-237.

Add. MS 15233

An oblong quarto miscellany of music, a play, and verse by John Redford and others, in several secretary hands, written largely across the width of the page with the spine uppermost, 63 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf with initials ‘S B’ on both covers. c.1530s-40s.

Scribbling (f. 63v) including ‘M^r Heyborne’ [possibly Edward Heyborn].and ‘Ann Chuntle is my name’. Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1830-84), merchant and author. Sotheby's, 18-19 June 1844 (Bright sale), lot 245, to Thomas Rodd.

This MS discussed and largely edited in Arthur Brown, An Edition of the Play of Wit and Science by John Redford, from British Museum Additional Manuscript 15233, with a preliminary investigation of the manuscript and its remaining contents (unpublished MA thesis, University of London, 1949).

ff. q^v-r

• GaG 2.5: George Gascoigne, Gascoignes good morrow (‘You that have spent the silent night’)

Copy.

This MS discussed in Pigman, pp. 646-8.

First published in A Hundreth sundrie Flowres (London, [1573]). Cunliffe, I, 55-7. Prouty, pp. 161-3. Pigman, No. 64, pp. 286-8.

f. 31v

• HyJ 9: John Heywood, ‘I desyre no number of manye thynges for store’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffynis qd Jhon Heywoode’.

Edited from this MS in Milligan, p. 254.

First published (from this MS) in Halliwell (1848), pp. 61-2.

f. 41r-v

• HyJ 13: John Heywood, ‘Man, for thyne yll lyfe formerly’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis qd Jhon Heywood’.

Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.

First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 77-8. Milligan, pp. 255-6.

f. 44r-v

• HyJ 17: John Heywood, ‘What hart can thynk or toong expres’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis qd Jhon Heywood’.

Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.

First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 79-80. Milligan, pp. 256-7.

f. 43r-v

• HyJ 12: John Heywood, ‘Long haue I bene a singynge man’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘John Redford’.

Edited from this MS in Milligan.

First published in John Payne Collier, The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare: and Annals of the Stage to the Restoration (London, 1831), I, pp. 70, 72. Milligan, pp. 275-7. Possibly written by John Redford.

f. 46r-v

• HyJ 5: John Heywood, ‘All a gene wyllow is my garland’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffinis qd Jhon Heywood’.

Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.

First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 86-8. Milligan, pp. 257-9.

ff. 56r-7r

• HyJ 6: John Heywood, ‘Be merye, frendes, take ye no thowghte’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘finis qd m^r Haywood’.

Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.

First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 104-6. Milligan, pp. 259-61.

f. 57r-v

• HyJ 10: John Heywood, ‘Yf loue for loue of long tyme had’

Copy, plus the first stanza mistakenly copied in “Be merye, frendes” (see HyJ 6) and deleted, untitled, subscribed ‘ffnis qd m^rHaywood’.

Edited from this MS in Milligan, p. 261.

First published (from this MS) in Halliwell (1848), pp. 106-7.

ff. 59v-60r

• HyJ 19: John Heywood, ‘Ye be wellcum, ye be wellcum’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘fynis qd Jhon Haywood’.

Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.

First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 111-13. Milligan, pp. 261-3.

ff. 60v-1v

• HyJ 8: John Heywood, ‘Gar call hym downe’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘fynis qd Jhon Heywood’.

Edited from this in Milligan

First published as a broadside entitled A ballad against sklander and detraccion (London, [1562]). Milligan, pp. 236-7.

f. 62r-v

• HyJ 14: John Heywood, ‘Man, yf thow mynd heuen to obtayne’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘finis qd Jhon Haywoode’.

Edited from this MS in Halliwell and in Milligan.

First published in Halliwell (1848), pp. 118-19. Milligan, pp. 268-9.

Add. MS 15476

A quarto volume of verse and prose relating to the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury in 1613, almost entirely in a single largely italic hand, 94 leaves, with (f. 2r) a title-page and list of contents, in modern quarter-vellum boards. Compiled by Nicholas Oldisworth, who records (f. 2v) ‘that I Nicholas Oldisworth who wrote this Booke...did deliberately reade it over, on thursday the ix^th of October 1637, and in the Hearing of my old grandfather Sir Nicholas Overbury...’. c.1637-40.

Ourchased at Southgate's saleroom, 12 March 1845, lot 131.

f. 1r

• RaW 398: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘ICUR, good Mounser Carr’

Copy, added to Oldisworth's compilation in a different hand.

Edited partly from this MS in Beatrice White.

Add. MS 15664

A folio composite volume of state and miscellaneous documents, in several professional hands, 230 leaves.

ff. 168r-71r

• EsR 206: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy, in a neat italic hand. 18th century?

Add. MS 15858

A folio composite volume of correspondence of John Evelyn and Sir Richard Brown (d.12 February 1682/3), 246 leaves, in 19th-century half morocco marbled boards.

Later in the possession of William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector, and with his index (ff. 1r-4r). Upcott sale (22 June 1846), lot 27.

f. 241r-v

• *EvJ 59: John Evelyn, Domestic Accounts, Inventories, Instructions, and Estate Papers

Autograph, headed ‘A Note of Writings & Original Papers & matters of state, Accompts, Letters, Petititons, Grants &c. Relating to S^r: R^d. Browne M^r: Evelyn &c. Concerning ther Title to the pastures & other estate of Saye-Court’, on both sides of a folio leaf.

ff. 244r-6r

• *EvJ 80: John Evelyn, Epitaphs and Funeral Inscriptions

Draft of a prose epitaph for the proposed monument of Evelyn's father-in-law, Sir Richard Browne (d.12 February 1682/3) at Deptford Church, with a drawing of it and a list of Browne's children.

Add. MS 15891

A large square-shaped folio letterbook, in several secretary hands, 248 leaves, in embossed calf. Comprising copies of letters principally received by Sir Christopher Hatton (c.1540-91), Vice-Chamberlain of the Household and Lord Chancellor. c.1640.

Later in the possession of William Upcott (1779-1845), antiquary and autograph collector. Upcott sale (22 June 1846), lot 83.

f. 4r-v

• BcF 575: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Bacon to Queen Elizabeth.

f. 148r

• ElQ 202: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Closing of Parliament, March 29, 1585

Copy, headed ‘Her Ma^tes speche in the parliamete howse at the progation of the laste Session 29 Martij 1584’, with sidenotes.

Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Partly collated in Hartley.

Beginning ‘My lords and you of the Lower House: My silence must not injure the owner...’. Hartley, II, 31-3. Collected Works, Speech 16, pp. 181-3.

ff. 198r-9r

• ElQ 184: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Close of the Parliamentary Session, March 15, 1576

Copy of Version I, headed in another hand ‘A speache of Quene Elizabethe in Pliament’.

This MS collated in part in Collected Works. Cited in Hartley, in Selected Works, and in Heisch.

First published (from a lost MS) in Nugae Antiquae, ed. Henry Harington (London, 1804), I, 120-7.

Version I. Beginning ‘Do I see God's most sacred, holy Word and text of holy Writ drawn to so divers senses...’. Hartley, I, 471-3 (Text i). Collected Works, Speech 13, pp. 167-71. Selected Works, Speech 7, pp. 52-60.

Version II. Beginning ‘My lords, Do I see the Scriptures, God's word, in so many ways interpreted...’. Hartley, I, 473-5 (Text ii).

f. 200r

• RaW 859: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Ralegh to Sir Robert Carr, [December 1608].

ff. 244v-5v

• EsR 64: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary (‘It was a time when sillie Bees could speake’)

Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, untitled, here beginning ‘There was a time when silly bees could speake’.

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

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

Add. MS 15948

A folio composite volume of Evelyn family correspondence, in various hands, c.156 leaves.

f. 156r

• *EvJ 34: John Evelyn, Books, Manuscripts and Libraries

Autograph ‘Note of the Books, Prints, Letters, Mapps, Papers of state & particulars, Lent to M^r. Sam: Pepys, Late Secretary to y^e Admiralty to be all returned me againe’, on a single folio leaf; 5 December 1681. 1681.

Add. MS 15950

Composite volume of papers by and associated with Evelyn collected by William Upcott.

This volume lot 586 in the Upcott sale on 24 June 1846.

ff. 76r-80v

• *EvJ 35: John Evelyn, Books, Manuscripts and Libraries

Autograph lists of books and manuscripts belonging to and written by Evelyn.

ff. 81r-7v

• *EvJ 101: John Evelyn, Grammar

Autograph Latin notes, headed ‘Brevissimae Graecae Grammatices Institutiones’, on seven quarto leaves.

ff. 88r-93v.

• *EvJ 102: John Evelyn, Grammar

Autograph draft of ‘A Compendium of the Pronunciation of the ffrench toung’, on six quarto leaves. Notes on French vocabulary also occur on ff. 31, 59, 69 among historical notes chiefly written by John Evelyn Jr.

ff. 94r-105r

• *EvJ 103: John Evelyn, Grammar

Autograph drafts of ‘The English Grammer’ and ‘The Latine Grammar’, on 12 quarto leaves.

ff. 106r-7v

• *EvJ 146: John Evelyn, OEconomics To a newly Married Friend

Fragment of an autograph draft on two folio leaves.

First published in Sampson (1939), Appendix.

ff. 108r-10v

• *EvJ 147: John Evelyn, OEconomics To a newly Married Friend

Fragment of an autograph draft on three quarto leaves apparently cut from EvJ 145.

This MS printed in Sampson, Appendix B1, pp. 218-23; recorded in Hiscock (1951), p. 167, and in Hiscock (1955), p. 244.

First published in Sampson (1939), Appendix.

ff. 112r-21r

• *EvJ 127: John Evelyn, Miscellaneous Notes, Drafts and Extracts

Autograph notes from John Willis, The arte of Stenographie, or Shortwriting (London, 1628) on ten quarto leaves.

ff. 122r-4r

• EvJ 128: John Evelyn, Miscellaneous Notes, Drafts and Extracts

Portion of a copy of an essay in Latin in praise of Pliny and Juvenal, imperfect, on three quarto leaves.

f. 125r

• *EvJ 129: John Evelyn, Miscellaneous Notes, Drafts and Extracts

Autograph fragment of a treatise on metaphysics, on a single folio leaf.

ff. 142r-74r

• *EvJ 74: John Evelyn, Elysium Britannicum

Autograph collections and notes, together with a printed prospectus.

The prospectus printed in Bray, II, part i, pp. 107-9.

Intended to be Evelyn's magnum opus on horticulture, this work remained unfinished: see Keynes, p. 236. Edited by John E. Ingram, as Elysium Britannicum, or the Royal Gardens (University of Pennsylvania, 2001).

f. 177r

• *EvJ 214: John Evelyn, Thersander. A Tragi-Comoedy

Autograph cancelled draft of part of Act I, scene ii, on a single quarto leaf, with an autograph drawing on the verso.