CELM: The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 3000 through 3999

Harley MS 3142

A folio volume of state tracts and speeches, in Latin and English, in several probably professional predominantly italic hands, 78 leaves, in modern quarter crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1640.

ff. 49v-50r

• BcF 347: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy.

ff. 50v-1r

• BcF 705: Francis Bacon, An Essay of a King

Copy.

Essay, beginning ‘A king is a mortal god on earth...’. Spedding, VI, 595-7 (discussed pp. 592-4).

ff. 64r-7r

• CtR 41: Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer to Certain Arguments raised from Supposed Antiquity, and urged by some Members of the lower House of Parliament, to prove that Ecclesiasticall Lawes ought to be Enacted by Temporall Men

Copy, subscribed ‘Robertus Cotton Bruceus’.

Tract beginning ‘What, besides self-regard, or siding faction, hath been...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [203]-217.

ff. 67v-9r

• CtR 111: Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature

Copy, headed ‘To my worthy ffreind and Brother S^r Edward Mountague Knight’, subscribed ‘Ro: Cot: Bruc:’.

Tract, the full title sometimes given as A Brief discourse prouinge that the house of Comons hath Equall power with the Peeres in point of Judicature written by S^r Rob: Cotton to S^r Edward Mountague An^o Dni. 1621, beginning ‘Sir, To give you as short an accompt of your desire as I can...’. First published in London, 1640. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [341]-351.

Harley MS 3196

Autograph, with a dedicatory verse epistle to Prince Charles (ff. 4r-5r) after a preliminary largely prose epistle to the Prince's tutor, Thomas Murray (ff. 2r-3v), signed ‘Phinees Fletcher’, the text in a formal italic script throughout, on 32 octavo leaves, in modern morocco gilt. c.1612-13.

*FlP 6: Phineas Fletcher, Locustae, vel pietas Jesuitica (‘Panditur Inferni limen, patet intima Ditis’)

This MS discussed in Boas, I, x-xvi, and collated I, 279-87.

Facsimile of part of the epistle to Murray in Boas, I, following p. 96, and in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 140.

First published in Cambridge, 1627. Boas, I, 97-123.

Harley MS 3357

An octavo verse miscellany, comprising chiefly religious poems, in a semi-calligraphic secretary hand, 101 leaves, in contemporary vellum elaborately gilt. A formal presentation copy produced by Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, with a title-page ‘A Handfull of Celestiall Flowers...composed by diuers worthie & Learned Gentlemen: Manuscrib'd by R. Cr:’, and with his dedication to the lawyer Sir Francis Ashley (1569-1635), for whom Crane served as a clerk or secretary for seven years, dated ‘Decemb: 1632’. 1632.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Hennarletta Holles her book Giuen by her Father’, with an addition in another hand ‘John Hollis y^e last Duke of that name [i.e. John Hollis (1662-1711), Duke of Newcastle] She married y^e Late Edw^d Harley L^d Oxford - son of Robert Harley first L^d of Oxford of that family’.

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• DnJ 2646.54: John Donne, Psalme 137 (‘By Euphrates flowry side’)

Copy in Ralph Crane's hand, headed ‘Psal. 137 (’ [sic], subscribed ‘Fr: Da:’.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Crowley.

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.

ff. 88r-91r

• RnT 77: Thomas Randolph, An Eglogue occasion'd by two Doctors disputing upon predestination (‘Ho jolly Thirsis whither in such hast?’)

Copy, headed ‘A diuine Pastorall Eglogue’, subscribed ‘T. Randolph gent.’

This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 101-4.

Harley MS 3360

Copy. Copy of a two-part treatise on optics, A Minute or first Draug[h]t of the Optiques, the first part ‘On Illumination’, the second part ‘On Vision’, complete with diagrams and a dedication to the Marquess of Newcastle, in the hand of an amanuensis, with some autograph corrections by Hobbes, on 193 quarto pages. Paris, 1646. 1646.

*HbT 65: Thomas Hobbes, A Minute or first Draug[h]t of the Optiques

NB. Hobbes is known to have used as his amanuensis for this treatise William Petty (1623-87): see Charles Cavendish's letter of 11 November 1645 to William Pell (British Library, Add. MS 4278, f. 207) and John Aubrey (Clark, I, 368).

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 40. A Latin version of the second part of this work was incorporated in De Homine (see HbT 17). The dedication and closing passage of the treatise are printed from this MS in Molesworth, English, VII, 467-71. The treatise is discussed in Franco Alessio, ‘De Homine e A Minute or First Draught of The Optiques di Thomas Hobbes’, Rivista critica di storia della filosofia, 17 (Florence, 1962), 393-410.

An unpublished two-part treatise on optics, the first part ‘On Illumination’, the second part ‘On Vision’, dedicated to the Marquess of Newcastle.

Harley MS 3499

Copy, in probably a single professional small secretary hand, 387 quarto leaves, lacking a title but inscribed in a later hand (f. 1r) ‘The argum^ts & obiections for the laws salick...wherby Englands right to fra is confirmed...42. Eliz’. 1st half 17th century.

WoH 296: Sir Henry Wotton, The State of Christendom

A lengthy treatise, beginning ‘After that I had lived many years in voluntary exile and banishment...’. First published in London, 1657. Wotton's authorship is not certain.

Harley MS 3511

A quarto verse miscellany, in two styles of italic, the last poem (f. 93v) added in a later hand, 93 leaves (plus ten blanks), in modern quarter-morocco gilt. Including 14 poems by Donne, six poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Carew, ten poems by Habington and 13 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Randolph. Owned and possibly compiled by Arthur Capell (1631-83), second Earl of Essex, whose name is inscribed in red ink (1*), in a similar roman hand to that on ff. 1r-19r. He married (1653) Elizabeth Percy (1636-1718), daughter of Algernon, tenth Earl of Northumberland; she was therefore the great niece of Habington's mother-in-law, Eleanor Percy, sister of the ninth Earl of Northumberland. Mid-17th century.

Later among the collections of Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son, Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II, i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Capell MS’: DnJ Δ 43, CwT Δ 17, and RnT Δ 3. Discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91.

f. 1r-v

• RaW 251: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Mans life’.

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.

f. 1v

• CaW 48: William Cartwright, The Teares (‘If Souls consist of water, I’)

Copy of lines 7-15, headed ‘Song’ and here beginning ‘O now the certaine Cause I know’.

This MS collated in Evans.

First published in Works (1651), p. 214. Evans, pp. 465-6.

f. 2v

• SuJ 129: John Suckling, Song (‘I prethee send me back my heart’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes (1592-1662), in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues in Three Bookes (London, 1653). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 89-90.

Probably written by Henry Hughes.

f. 4r-v

• CoR 743: Richard Corbett, Nonsence (‘Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches’)

Copy, headed (possibly in another hand) ‘Noncense verses’, here beginning ‘Like to the silent tone of unspoke speeches’.

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

ff. 4v-5r

• ClJ 43: John Cleveland, A Faire Nimph scorning a Black Boy Courting her (‘Stand off, and let me take the aire’)

Copy, headed ‘On a faire maid & a black a more’.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 22-3.

f. 12v

• KiH 60: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, untitled.

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).

ff. 12v-13r

• RaW 517: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy of stanzas 1, 3, 4, 6-8, untitled.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116, and in Gullans.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by ‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’ (see RaW 320-38) and headed ‘To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh’. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).

This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).

f. 14r

• StW 797: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed (possibly in another hand) ‘On his M^rs walking in y^e snow’.

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

f. 18r

• KiH 618: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

f. 19r

• ClJ 190: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)

Copy, headed ‘On Straford’.

First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as ‘Internally unlike his manner’. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among ‘Poems probably by Cleveland’. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).

ff. 19v-20r

• DnJ 798: John Donne, The Crosse (‘Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I’)

Copy of lines 19-24, headed in the margin ‘Crosses’, here beginning ‘Swime, & at every stroke, thou art thy crosse’).

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

ff. 19v-20r

• DnJ 3077: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)

Copy of lines 25-74, here beginning ‘Then like two mighty Kings which dwelling farre’.

This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (pp. 387-8); recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

f. 20r-v

• DnJ 562: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)

Copy of lines 7-56, here beginning ‘As steady as I could wish my thoughts were’.

This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (pp. 388); recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 20v-2v

• DnJ 1180: John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day (‘Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (p. 388); recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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

f. 23v

• HaW 30: William Habington, To Roses in the bosome of Castara (‘Yee blushing Virgins happie are’)

Copy, headed ‘Roses in her besom’.

This MS recorded in Allott, p. 164.

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

f. 24r

• CwT 445: Thomas Carew, Maria Wentworth, Thomae Comitis Cleveland, filia praemortua prima Virgineam animam exhalauit (‘And here the previous dust is layd’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of a Lady’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 56. Inscribed on the tomb of Maria Wentworth in the Church of St George, Toddington, Bedfordshire (1633): see Dunlap. pp. 242-3.

f. 25v

• CwT 17: Thomas Carew, Boldnesse in love (‘Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine’)

Copy.

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

f. 26r-v

• ClJ 110.5: John Cleveland, A Song of Marke Anthony (‘When as the Nightingall chanted her Vesper’)

Copy, untitled.

Recorded in Morris

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 40-1.

ff. 26v-7r

• CwT 1192: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband (‘This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Powell, p. 293.

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

f. 28r-v

• DrM 18: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)

Copy, subscribed ‘M: D.’

This MS recorded in Hebel, V, 147.

First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.

ff. 28v-9r

• DrM 60: Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet (‘I pray thee leave, love me no more’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J: D:’.

This MS recorded in Hebel, V, 147.

First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 372.

ff. 29r-30v

• ClJ 100: John Cleveland, Smectymnuus, or the Club-Divines (‘Smectymnuus? The Goblin makes me start’)

Copy.

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

f. 30v-2r

• JnB 637: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest’)

Copy.

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

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

ff. 32v-3v

• ClJ 148: John Cleveland, Upon the death of M. King drowned in the Irish Seas (‘I like not tears in tune; nor will I prise’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegy’, subscribed ‘J:C.’

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

ff. 35v-6v

• PoW 87.5: Walton Poole, On the death of King James (‘Can Christendoms great champion sink away’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Death of K^g James’.

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

f. 36v

• DrM 3: Michael Drayton, ‘Cleere Ankor, on whose silver-sanded shore’

Copy, headed ‘Ankor’.

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

f. 37r-v

• DnJ 3740: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy, headed ‘Valediction to mourning’.

This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (p. 389); recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 37v

• RnT 283: Thomas Randolph, A Pastoral Ode (‘Coy Coelia dost thou see’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 86-7.

ff. 37v-8r

• RnT 301: Thomas Randolph, The Song of Discord (‘Let Linus and Amphions lute’)

Copy, headed ‘Discord’.

This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 87.

ff. 38r-9r

• RnT 330: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet (‘I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare’)

Copy, headed ‘On a deform'd Gentle woman w^th a sweet voice’.

This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

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

f. 39r-v

• RnT 213: Thomas Randolph, On the Death of a Nightingale (‘Goe solitary wood, and henceforth be’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 93.

ff. 39v-40r

• DnJ 443: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (p. 389); 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.

f. 40r-v

• DnJ 3667: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (p. 389); recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 40v

• RnT 118: Thomas Randolph, An Epitaph upon M^rs. I.T. (‘Reader if thou hast a teare’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^rs. J.T.’, ‘who died in labour’ added in probably a different hand.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 53.

ff. 40v-1r

• DnJ 1543: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (p. 389); recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 41r-v

• DnJ 2459: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’

Copy, headed ‘Elegy’.

This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (p. 389-90); recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 42r-5r

• RnT 268: Thomas Randolph, A Pastorall Courtship (‘Behold these woods, and mark my Sweet’)

Copy, with four lines deleted and added later in a different hand.

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

f. 45r-v

• RnT 250: Thomas Randolph, On the losse of his Finger (‘How much more blest are trees then men’)

Copy.

First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 135-6.

ff. 45v-6r

• DnJ 1693: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)

Copy.

This MS collated (no variants) in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (p. 390); recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 46r-v

• RnT 292: Thomas Randolph, A Song (‘Musick thou Queene of soules, get up and string’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 87.

ff. 46v-7r

• RnT 404: Thomas Randolph, The wedding Morne (‘Arise, come forth, but never to return’)

Copy.

First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 140-1.

f. 47r-v

• DnJ 3850: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (p. 390); recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.

ff. 47v-8r

• DnJ 307: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy.

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. 48r-v

• HeR 151: Robert Herrick, Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse (‘Among the Mirtles, as I walkt’)

Copy, headed ‘The Enquiry’ and here beginning ‘Amidst the mirtles as I walkt’.

First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 106-7. Patrick, p. 147. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

f. 48v

• RnT 312: Thomas Randolph, To Mr. J. S. on his Gratefull Servant (‘I cannot fulminate or tonitruate words’)

Copy.

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

ff. 48v-9r

• RnT 308: Thomas Randolph, The Song of Orpheus (‘Haile sacred Deserts, whom kind nature made’)

Copy, headed ‘Orpheus Song’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 125.

f. 49r

• DnJ 1138: John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford (‘That I might make your Cabinet my tombe’)

Copy of a sixteen-line version, headed ‘Elegy’.

This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (p. 390); recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.

f. 49r-v

• HaW 7: William Habington, To Castara. A Sacrifice (‘Let the chaste Phoenix from the flowry East’)

Copy, headed ‘Sacrifice’.

This MS recorded in Allott, p. 164.

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 11.

ff. 49v-50r

• JnB 167: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body (‘Sitting, and ready to be drawne’)

Copy, headed ‘[On M^rs Venetia Stanly deleted] The body’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).

ff. 50r-1v

• JnB 205: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind (‘Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone’)

Copy, headed ‘The mind’, subscribed ‘B. J’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

f. 52v

• HaW 16: William Habington, To Castara, Of his being in Love (‘Where am I? not in Heaven: for oh I feele’)

Copy, headed ‘Of being in Love’.

This MS recorded in Allott, p. 165.

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 13.

ff. 52v-3r

• HaW 18: William Habington, To Castara, Softly singing to her selfe (‘Sing forth sweete Cherubin (for we have choice)’)

Copy, headed ‘M^rs. Singing’.

This MS recorded in Allott, p. 166.

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 15.

f. 53r

• HaW 20: William Habington, To Castara, Vpon a trembling kisse at departure (‘Th'Arabian wind, whose breathing gently blows’)

Copy, headed ‘On a trembling kisse at parting’.

This MS recorded in Allott, p. 172.

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

f. 53r-v

• HaW 42: William Habington, Vpon Cupid's death and buriall in Castara's cheeke (‘Cupids dead. Who would not dye’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Allott, p. 171.

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

ff. 53v-4r

• DnJ 192: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (pp. 390-1); recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 54r

• HaW 39: William Habington, Vpon Castara's frowne or smile (‘Learned shade of Tycho Brache, who to us’)

Copy of a garbled version, untitled.

Printed from this MS in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (p. 386); recorded in Allott, p. 169.

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 20.

f. 54r-v

• HaW 9: William Habington, To Castara, Intending a journey into the Country (‘Why haste you hence Castara? can the earth’)

Copy, headed ‘Intending a journey’.

This MS recorded in Allott, p. 172.

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 27.

ff. 54v-5r

• HaW 31: William Habington, To the Dew, In hope to see Castara walking (‘Bright Dew which dost the field adorne’)

Copy, headed ‘To the dew’.

This MS recorded in Allott, p. 174.

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 38.

f. 55r-v

• HaW 38: William Habington, Vpon Castara's departure (‘Vowes are vaine. No suppliant breath’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Allott, p. 174.

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 40.

f. 55v

• CwT 971: Thomas Carew, The Spring (‘Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.

ff. 55v-6r

• CwT 403: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes (‘In Celia's face a question did arise’)

Copy.

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

f. 56r

• CwT 123: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Copy.

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

f. 56v

• CwT 56: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Powell, p. 287.

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

f. 57r

• CwT 421: Thomas Carew, A Looking-Glasse (‘That flattring Glasse, whose smooth face weares’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 19.

f. 57r-v

• RnT 493: Thomas Randolph, On Michaell Drayton (‘Do pious marble let thy readers know’)

Copy.

Unpublished? Generally attributed to Francis Quarles.

f. 57v

• StW 1106: William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde (‘Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye’)

Copy of lines 15-20, headed ‘The dart’.

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

f. 57v

• HeR 211: Robert Herrick, The Primrose (‘Ask me why I send you here’)

Copy.

First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640) and, among verse ‘By other Gentlemen’, in Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 208. Patrick, pp. 276-7. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

f. 58r

• CwT 514: Thomas Carew, On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water (‘Stand still you floods, doe not deface’)

Copy, headed ‘M^rs face in y^e Water’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.

f. 58r-v

• CwT 1170: Thomas Carew, The tooth-ach cured by a kisse (‘Fate's now growne mercifull to men’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 109-10.

ff. 58v-9r

• CwT 235: Thomas Carew, A Fancy (‘Marke how this polisht Easterne sheet’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1642). Dunlap, p. 117.

f. 60r

• CwT 490: Thomas Carew, On a Damaske rose sticking vpon a Ladies breast (‘Let pride grow big my rose, and let the cleare’)

Copy, headed ‘Damaske rose in M^rs brest’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 108.

ff. 60v-1r

• JnB 437: Ben Jonson, Song. That Women are bvt Mens shaddowes (‘Follow a shaddow, it still flies you’)

Copy, headed ‘Women’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in The Forrest (vii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 104.

f. 61r

• JnB 455: Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia (‘Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in The Forrest (ix) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 106.

f. 61r-v

• ShJ 125: James Shirley, ‘Would you know what's soft?’

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

This MS recorded in Armstrong.

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

f. 61v

• CwT 4: Thomas Carew, An other (‘The purest Soule that e're was sent’)

Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on a Lady’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 54.

f. 62r

• CwT 1184: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Mole in Celias bosome (‘That lovely spot which thou dost see’)

Copy, headed ‘Mole in M^rs Bosome’.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Poems (1642). Dunlap, pp. 113-14.

ff. 63v-5r

• DrM 67: Michael Drayton, To His Valentine (‘Muse, bid the Morne awake’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Hebel, V, 146.

First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 352-4.

f. 65r-v

• CwT 558: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy.

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

f. 65v

• CwT 1045: Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship (‘Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.

ff. 65v-6r

• CwT 28: Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon (‘Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood’)

Copy, headed ‘Bleeding, to y^e Surgeon’.

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

f. 66r-v

• CwT 1138: Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse (‘Fayre copie of my Celia's face’)

Copy, headed ‘To one resembling his M^rs.’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.

ff. 66v-7r

• CwT 360: Thomas Carew, In the person of a Lady to her inconstant servant (‘When on the Altar of my hand’)

Copy, headed ‘To her vnconstant servant, a Lady’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

f. 67r-v

• CwT 658: Thomas Carew, Red, and white Roses (‘Reade in these Roses, the sad story’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 46-7.

ff. 67v-8r

• CwT 1212: Thomas Carew, Vpon Master W. Mountague his returne from travell (‘Leade the black Bull to slaughter, with the Bore’)

Copy, headed ‘Friend return'd from Travell’.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 77-8.

f. 68r-v

• CwT 1214: Thomas Carew, Vpon my Lord Chiefe Iustice his election of my Lady A.W. for his Mistresse (‘Heare this, and tremble all’)

Copy, headed ‘Chief Justice M^rs.’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 83-4.

ff. 68v-9r

• ShJ 48: James Shirley, Loves Hue and Cry (‘In Loves name you are charg'd, oh fly’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Armstrong.

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.

f. 69r-v

• CwT 1275: Thomas Carew, The mistake (‘When on faire Celia I did spie’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 284.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 187-8. Possibly by Henry Blount.

ff. 69v-70r

• CwT 769: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye’)

Copy.

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

f. 70r-v

• CoR 613: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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

f. 70v

• GrJ 28: John Grange, ‘Black cypress veils are shrouds of night’

Copy, headed ‘The Ladies answer to D^r Corbet’.

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

f. 71v

• HoJ 309: John Hoskyns, Impossibilities (‘Embrace a Sun-beame, and on it’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

Osborn, p. 299.

ff. 71v-2r

• BrW 122: 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 Young Gentlewoman’.

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

f. 72v

• CwT 248: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘On a fly’.

Printed from this MS in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-91 (pp. 384-5).

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. 73r

• DnJ 1761.3: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy, headed ‘A Criple’, here beginning ‘Nor stand, no sit, nor goe y^e criple 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.

f. 73r-v

• CwT 728: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’)

Copy, headed ‘Ode’.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 264.

First published in a five-stanza version beginning ‘Aske me no more where Iove bestowes’ in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. ‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’).

For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, ‘Manuscript Evidence and the Author of “Aske me no more”: William Strode, not Thomas Carew’, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, ‘“Aske me no more” and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany’, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.

ff. 73v-4r

• BcF 19: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘F: B.’

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. 74r

• CwT 320: Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid (‘When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see’)

Copy, headed ‘A caveat to a young maid’.

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

ff. 74v-5r

• SiP 134: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book II, No. 21 (‘Over these brookes trusting to ease mine eyes’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 556, and in Robertson, p. 440.

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

ff. 77v-80v

• BrW 14: William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II

Copy of versions of the epitaph in Book II, Song 1, and of most of the lyrics in Songs 2-5 (i.e. Song 1, lines 312-18; Song 2, lines 103-22, 193-222; Song 3, lines 645-96, 1029-58; Song 4, lines 551-62; Song 5, lines 229-64), with no general heading and here beginning ‘In depth of waves long hath Alexis slept’.

This MS discussed in Geoffrey Tillotson, ‘The Commonplace Book of Arthur Capell’, MLR, 27 (1932), 381-92 (pp. 385-6).

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

f. 81r-v

• RnT 172: Thomas Randolph, A Maske for Lydia (‘Sweet Lydia take this maske, and shroud’)

Copy.

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

f. 82r-v

• RnT 370: Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger (‘Arithmetique nine digits, and no more’)

Copy, headed ‘Randolph on his finger cut off’.

This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

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

ff. 83r-4v

• KiH 156: Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse (‘Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published 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. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.

ff. 85r-7v

• ClJ 123: John Cleveland, To P. Rupert (‘O that I could but vote my selfe a Poet!’)

Copy.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 33-8.

ff. 88r-9r

• ClJ 70: John Cleveland, The Mixt Assembly (‘Fleabitten Synod: an Assembly brew'd’)

Copy, headed ‘The Synod’.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 26-8.

ff. 89v-90r

• ClJ 151: John Cleveland, Upon the Kings return from Scotland (‘Return'd? I'le ne'r believe't; First prove him hence’)

Copy.

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

f. 90r

• StW 1278: William Strode, Jack on both Sides (‘I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes’)

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

First published, as ‘The Church Papist’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as ‘The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed’ by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, ‘The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

ff. 91r-3r

• ClJ 86: John Cleveland, The Rebell Scot (‘How? Providence? and yet a Scottish crew?’)

Copy.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 29-32.

Harley MS 3614

A folio volume of monumental inscriptions, 1651-75, in a single neat hand, with an Index in double columns (ff. 84v-7r), 87 leaves (plus many blanks), in modern mottled calf gilt. Compiled by, and entirely in the hand of, John Le Neve (1679-1741), antiquary. Early 18th century.

f. 5v

• MaA 43: Andrew Marvell, Janae Oxenbrigiae Epitaphium (‘Juxta hoc Marmor, breve Mortalitatis speculum’)

Copy in the hand of the antiquary John Le Neve (1679-1741), headed ‘In Eton College Chapel was this Inscription upon a black Marble Stone near Luptons Chapel’ and subscribed ‘MS. Woodward’.

Edited from this MS in John Le Neve, Monumenta Anglicana, 5 vols (London, 1718), II, 18-19; recorded in Kelliher, BLJ, 4, 137.

First published, as prose, in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 139-40. This inscription, in lapidary verse, was on a memorial formerly in Eton College Chapel and several extant texts recorded below were transcribed from a transcript of it made by one ‘Taffy’ Woodward, Chapel Clerk at Eton. See the discussion and reconstructed text in Kelliher (1978), pp. 72-3, and in Kelliher, ‘Some Notes on Andrew Marvell’, British Library Journal, 4 (1978), 122-44 (pp. 134-9). Smith, pp. 193-4, with English translation.

Harley MS 3638

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, in several hands, 189 leaves, in old calf gilt.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘E libris Abr. Pry[son?] D. J. e. e. 1690’.

ff. 100r-1v

• SiP 180.7: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter of Advice to Robert Sidney

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sr Phillip Sydney his lre to S^r Robert Sydney touching his Travell’. c. 1630.

A letter beginning ‘My most deere Brother. You have thought unkindness in me, I have not written oftner unto you...’. First published in Profitable Instructions. Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 74-103. Feuillerat (as Correspondence No. XXXVIII), III, 124-7.

Harley MS 3783

A folio composite volume of letters to William Sancroft (1617-93), Archbishop of Canterbury and manuscript collector.

f. 10r

• *HlJ 85: Joseph Hall, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to Mrs Goring [or possibly Coring], 15 August [1608-16]. [1608-27].

Facsimile in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXXIX.

ff. 41r-2v

• *CoR 783: Richard Corbett, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to William Sancroft, from Norwich, 27 February [1632/3-1634/5]. 1633-1635.

ff. 101r-2v

• *HlJ 136: Joseph Hall, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to William Sancroft, 19 February [c.1655?]. c.1655.

Facsimile example in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXXIX.

ff. 239r-40v

• *EaJ 98: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to William Sancroft, from Brussels, 30 June 1659. 1659.

Quoted in Darwin, pp. 174-5.

Harley MS 3787

A folio composite volume of state tracts, papers and speeches, in various hands, 215 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

ff. 1r-32r

• HkR 13: Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book VI

Copy of a text deriving from HkR 12, in a professional secretary hand. Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Keble.

First published (with Book VIII) in London, 1648. Keble, III, 1-107. Folger edition, Volume III, pp. 1-103.

ff. 33r-80v

• HkR 16: Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book VIII

Copy, transcribed from HkR 19, in a professional secretary hand (different from HkR 13), headed ‘M^r Hookers L .8. of Ecclical Politie’.

First published in an incomplete form (with Book VI) in London, 1648. Some additions published in Nicholas Bernard, Clavi Trabales (London, 1661), and in John Gauden's ‘complete’ edition of the Polity (London, 1662). Keble, III, 326-455 (and pp. 456-60 for a passage found in MSS but not in the first edition, possibly part of a Sermon on Civil Disobedience). Edited by Raymond Aaron Houk, Hooker's Ecclesiastical Polity Book VIII (New York, 1931). Folger edition, Volume III, pp. 315-448.

ff. 110r-31r

• NaR 7: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

Copy, in a mixed hand. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.

Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

f. 179r-v

• EsR 280: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, closely written in a secretary hand, headed ‘The executinge of the Erle of Essex’, on a single folio leaf with fold marks. c. Early 1600s.

Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

f. 182r-v

• RaW 737: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Speech found in Sir Walter Rawleighes pockett after his Execution Written by him in the Gatehouse y^e night befores dea[th]

Copy, in a secretary hand, subscribed ‘finis Walter Rawleigh’, on a single leaf. c.1620.

A prayer, beginning ‘I owe to god a death because his sonne died for me…’ and ending ‘…I am willing help my vnwillingnes.’ Unpublished.

f. 183r

• RaW 891: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, in a secretary hand.

f. 184r

• SpE 44: Edmund Spenser, A Brief Note of Ireland

Copy of part of the third section, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Certen poinctes to be considered in the recovering of of Ireland’, docketed at the top ‘Spensers discours breifly of Irelande’, on one side of a long ledger-size leaf. Early 17th century.

This MS collated in Variorum. Facsimile in Jean R. Brink, ‘Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser’, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S. K. Heninger, Jr., ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136 (p. 133).

First published in The Complete Works Verse and Prose of Edmund Spenser, ed. Alexander B. Grosart ([Manchester], 1882-4), I, 537-55. Spenser's authorship of this brief tract is now generally rejected: see Jean Brink's discussion of the MSS in ‘Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser’, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S. K. Heninger, Jr., ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136.

f. 214v

• RaW 489: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The state of Fraunce as nowe it standes’

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on a leaf following (on f. 214r-v) ‘A coppy of a lettre sent by the great lord to the Kinge of Nauarr. translated out of greekento ffrenche and soe into Englishe’. c.1600.

Printed from this MS in Catalogue of Harleian Manuscripts (1808); collated in May; recorded in Latham.

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.

Harley MS 3795

A large folio composite volume of ecclesiastical tracts and papers, in various hands, 100 leaves, in half red morocco on cloth boards gilt.

ff. 20r-1r

• AndL 26: Lancelot Andrewes, Form for Consecrating Church Plate

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘The order of Consecrateinge plate for the Altar’, unascribed, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s.

This MS collated in LACT.

First published in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 159-63.

ff. 22r-24r

• AndL 27: Lancelot Andrewes, Form for Consecrating Church Plate

Copy, in a roman hand, headed ‘Order of Consecrating Plate for the Altar’, unascribed, on five pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Mid-17th century.

First published in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 159-63.

ff. 63r-72v

• BcF 68: Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching the Controversies of the Church of England

Copy, in a professional roman hand, on ten quarto leaves (plus three blanks). Early 17th century.

This MS collated in Spedding.

A tract beginning ‘It is but ignorance if any man find it strange that the state of religion (especially in the days of peace) should be exercised...’. First published as A Wise and Moderate Discourse concerning Church-Affaires ([London], 1641). Spedding, VIII, 74-95.

Harley MS 3821

Copy, in a roman hand, on vellum throughout (c.13.5 x 11 cm), 54 pages, closely cropped at the head, in modern morocco gilt. Early-mid-16th century.

BaJ 30: John Bale, The Vocacyon of Ioha Bale to the Bishoprick of Ossorie in Ireläde

A transcript of this MS made by William Reeves (1815-92), Bishop of Down, Connor and Dromore, is Trinity College Dublin MS 1090.

First published in ‘Rome’, 1533. Reprinted in Harleian Miscellany (London, 1745), VI, 402-28 (1810 edition, VI, 437-64).

Harley MS 3838

A quarto formally prepared volume of three works by John Bale, 256 leaves, in modern green half morocco gilt.

ff. 3r-117r

• *BaJ 2: John Bale, Anglorum Heliades

Copy, in a humanistic italic hand, with rubrication, with occasional neat autograph insertions by Bale, the work beginning with a dedicatory epistle to John Leland, ff. 3r-4v dated 1536, subscribed (f. 112v) ‘Finis Autore Ioanne Bale’, and with an index (ff. 113r-17r). c.1539-40.

Brief extracts from this MS printed in Monumenta historica Carmelitana, pp. 341-2, 365-6. Recorded and discussed in Davies, p. 237 (x); in Harris, p. 137; in McCusker (1942), pp. 99-101; and in Fairfield, pp. 161-2. Facsimile of ff. 11v-12v (Bale's account of himself) in Harris, pp. 131-4. A complete transcript made by Thomas Baker (1656-1740) is in the British Library (Harley MS 7031, ff. 144-98v).

Unpublished (complete).

ff. 118r-55v

• *BaJ 24: John Bale, Perpaucorum carmeli scriptorum ab helia thesbite, ad bertoldum primum ecrum magistrum generalem, Cathalogus

Autograph throughout, with rubrication, beginning ‘Presens cathalogus paucos admodu…’, with an index on ff. 154r-5v. c.1537-39.

This MS recorded and discussed in Davies, p. 236 (vii); in McCusker (1942), pp. 99-101; and in Fairfield, pp. 162-3.

Unpublished. This work corresponds to the ‘Scriptores ab Helia...’ recorded in Bale's Scriptorum illustrium (1557), I, 703.

ff. 156r-256

• *BaJ 18: John Bale, De preclaris ordinis Carmeli scriptoribus ac theologis, cathalogus

Autograph throughout, with rubrication, beginning ‘Caeteraru militantis ecclte religionu…’, with an index on ff. 250r-6v. c.late 1520s-early 1530s.

This MS recorded and discussed in Davies, p. 236 (viii); in McCusker (1942), pp. 99-101; and in Fairfield, p. 163.

Unpublished. This work corresponds to the ‘Scriptores a Bertoldo...’ recorded in Bale's Scriptorum illustrium (1557), I, 703.

Harley MS 3865

A formal copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page (f. 1v) framed by coloured decorative borders, The morall fabilis of Esope compylit be Maister Robert Heusoun Scholmaister of Dufermling: 1571, engrossed, coloured and decorated initial letters (on ff. 2r, 3v, 12v, 18r, 23r, 31v, 36r, 43r, 51v, 58r, 63v, 67r, and 71r) and coloured vignettes (on ff. 3v, 43v, and 75r), 75 folio leaves, in modern morocco gilt. 1571.

HnR 10: Robert Henryson, The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian (‘Thocht feinyeit fabils of ald poetre’)

This MS collated in Wood and in Fox. Facsimiles of various pages in Wood, facing pp. xiv, 5; in Gregory Smith, II, facing pp. x, 7, 121; and in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), pp. 42-3.

A transcript of the MS made by John Dougald (1821) is in the National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 19. 3. 5.

First published in Edinburgh, 1570. Wood, pp. Murdoch, IV, 855-66, 898-922, 946-88. Ritchie, IV, 116-28, 158-82, 206-451-102. Fox, pp. 3-110.

Harley MS 3889

A quarto verse miscellany, probably in a single hand, written largely on rectos only and from both ends, 44 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in calf gilt (rebacked). Mid-17th century.

Inscribed (f. [ii^r]) ‘Edward Pulton / Aprill 1645’, and (f. 44v rev.) ‘Edwardus Jackson 1687’.

ff. 7r-12r

• DeJ 113: Sir John Denham, Verses on the Cavaliers Imprisoned in 1655 (‘Through the gover[n]inge part cannot finde in their heart’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, and attributed to Denham, by C. H. Firth in N&Q, 7th Ser. 10 (19 July 1890), 41-2. Banks, pp. 135-41. Denham's authorship rejected in O Hehir, Harmony, pp. 117-19.

f. 23r

• DaW 47: Sir William Davenant, Song. The Dying Lover (‘Dear Love let me this Evening dy!’)

Copy of the first two stanzas, headed ‘The Broken heart’.

First published (in Lawes's musical setting) in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 168-70, 311-12.

f. 27r

• SuJ 130: John Suckling, Song (‘I prethee send me back my heart’)

Copy of lines 1-12, untitled.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes (1592-1662), in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues in Three Bookes (London, 1653). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 89-90.

Probably written by Henry Hughes.

ff. 28r-31v

• SuJ 161: John Suckling, Aglaura

Copy of part of the play, containing the dramatis personae, the first prologue, Act I scene i and scene ii, lines 1-16.

This MS collated in Beaurline.

First published in London, 1638. Beaurline, Plays, pp. 33-119.

Harley MS 3910

An octavo verse miscellany, in several largely italic hands, closely written, 148 leaves (plus blanks), in modern quarter morocco gilt. Probably compiled by university or inns of court men. c.1620s-30s.

ff. 1r-3v

• BrW 64: William Browne of Tavistock, Lydford Journey (‘I oft have heard of Lydford law’)

Copy.

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

f. 4r

• BrW 123: 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 m^rs. E P’.

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. 11r-v

• DaJ 28: Sir John Davies, In Curionem (‘The great archpapist learned Curio’)

Copy, headed ‘In Hen Com. North’.

This MS collated in Krueger.

First published in Krueger (1975), pp. 182-3.

ff. 15v-16v

• BmF 8: Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae (‘Madam, so may my verses pleasing be’)

Copy, subscribed ‘ffr: B’.

This MS collated in Dyce.

First published, as ‘An Elegie by F. B.’, in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.

f. 17r

• BmF 123: Francis Beaumont, On Madam Fowler desiring a sonnet to be writ on her (‘Good Madam Fowler, do not trouble me’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ffr. B’.

First published in Alexander B. Grosart, ‘Literary Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere’, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (p. 8).

ff. 19r-20r

• BmF 90: Francis Beaumont, A Funeral Elegy on the Death of the Lady Penelope Clifton (‘Since thou art dead, Clifton, the world may see’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Fr Beamont last’.

This MS collated in Dyce.

First published in Poems (London, 1653). Dyce, XI, 511-13.

ff. 20v-1v

• PeW 229: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy, with the first three lines anf half of line 12 deleted, headed ‘A Paradox on a painted face by my lo: of Cuntfolower M^r Baker’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

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

f. 22r-v

• DnJ 3602: John Donne, To the Lady Bedford (‘You that are she and you, that's double shee’)

Copy, headed ‘An Eligie to the Lady Bedford’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 227-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 94-5. Shawcross, No. 148.

ff. 22v-3r

• PeW 38: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘If her disdain least change in you can move’

Copy, headed ‘Earle of Pembroke’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

f. 23r-v

• PeW 107: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘'Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain’

Copy, headed ‘Answer by Ben: Rudyard’.

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

f. 23v

• CwT 780: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye’)

Copy, headed ‘Peregrine’ and here beginning ‘In your faire cheeks two pitts there lye’.

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

f. 24r

• BeJ 49: Sir John Beaumont, Epitaphe (‘Tis not a safe conjecture more or lesse’)

Copy, headed ‘Epitath’, subscribed ‘J. B.’

This MS collated in Sell.

First published (?) in Sell (1974), p. 181.

f. 24r-v

• BeJ 51: Sir John Beaumont, ‘Gazer reade and take to harte’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J. B.’

This MS collated in Sell.

First published (?) in Sell (1974), p. 181.

f. 28r-v

• KiH 198: Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. (‘I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne’)

Copy, headed ‘On S^r Walter Raleigh by W. R.’

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

ff. 33v-5r

• CoR 146: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox (‘Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie vpon the Lady Haddington’, subscribed ‘A R C’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning ‘O thou deformed unwomanlike disease’, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.

ff. 38v-9r

• DaJ 300: Sir John Davies, Unidentified Entertainment. The Complaint of the Five Satyres against the Nymphes (‘Tell me, O Nymphes, why do you’)

Copy, headed ‘Satires’.

This MS collated in Krueger, pp. 308-9.

Krueger, pp. 308-9. This ‘complaint’ has sometimes been considered part of the Entertainment at Harefield but belongs to some other entertainment.

ff. 46r-7r

• BeJ 8: Sir John Beaumont, Against the desire of greatnesse, thoughte M^r John Beaumonts (‘Thou woldst be greate and to that heighte wouldst rise’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Sell (1974), pp. 178-80.

f. 49r-v

• BeJ 55: Sir John Beaumont, To my Lorde Marques of Buckingham (‘To say to you my good Lord, I might refraine’)

Copy, here beginning ‘To say to him good lord I might refraine’, subscribed ‘John Beaumont’.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published (?) in Sell (1974), pp. 180-1.

f. 50r

• DnJ 1582: John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father (‘Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne’)

Copy, headed ‘Christo Saluatori’.

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).

f. 50v

• CoR 540: Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella (‘How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Lady Arabella’.

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

f. 51r

• DnJ 4065.6: John Donne, Epitaph for Ann Donne (‘Fæminæ lectissimæ, dilectissimæque’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Variorum.

Donne's Latin epitaph on his wife Ann More, who died 15 August 1617. First published in John Stow, The Survey of London (London, 1633). Edited and discussed in M. Thomas Hester, ‘“miserrimum dictu”: Donne's Epitaph for His Wife’, JEGP, 94/4 (October 1995), 513-29. Variorum, 8 (1995), 187.

f. 51v

• AlW 155: 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, untitled, subscribed ‘Allablaster’.

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

f. 52r

• AlW 174: 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.

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

f. 53v-4r

• HrG 293: George Herbert, A Paradox. That the Sicke are in better State then the Whole (‘You whoe admire yourselues because’)

Copy, subscribed ‘George Herbert’.

This MS collated in Hutchinson.

First published in Works of George Herbert, ed. William Pickering, II (London, 1835). Hutchinson, pp. 209-11.

f. 54v

• HoJ 169: John Hoskyns, Hoskins conualescens ad Giffordu medicinæ Doctorem et suum (‘Docte Jacoboru decimas Gifforde meorum’)

Copy, in an uneven italic hand.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XLV (p. 213).

f. 55v

• CoR 466: Richard Corbett, On Henry Bowling (‘If gentlenesse could tame the fates, or wit’)

Copy.

First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.

f. 57r

• HoJ 277: John Hoskyns, In eundem Audoenum (‘Non expers salis ambulator audi’)

Copy, in an uneven italic hand, headed ‘In eundem Audoenum Joh. Hoskins’.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXXVIII (p. 210).

ff. 58r-9r

• CoR 334: Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 (‘My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine’)

Copy, in an uneven italic hand, headed ‘To my Lord Admiralls m^r Alesbury vppon the Comet R Corbet’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.

ff. 59v-60r

• HrE 68: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To Mrs. Diana Cecyll (‘Diana Cecyll, that rare beauty thou dost show’)

Copy, in an uneven italic hand, untitled, subscribed ‘S^r Ed: Harbert’.

This MS collated in Smith, p. 129.

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

ff. 60v-4v

• JnB 237: Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan (‘Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.

f. 65r-v

• WoH 160.2: Sir Henry Wotton, Tears at the Grave of Sir Albertus Morton who was buried at Southampton (‘Silence in truth would speak my sorrow best’)

Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘At the Tombe of S^r Albertus Morton the Teares of a friend’.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 528. Hannah (1845), pp. 40-3.

f. 112r

• BrW 203: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy, in a cursive italic hand.

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.

ff. 112v-13r

• ToA 57: Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury (‘Victorious beauty, though your eyes’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘By the Earle of Pemb:’.

This MS text collated in Brown.

First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.

ff. 113v-17r

• StW 1203: William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada (‘Now the declining Sun gan downward bende’)

Copy, with the original Latin on facing pages, in a formal italic and mixed hand respectively, headed ‘Ex Libro secundo Famiani Stradæ prolu: sexta’.

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

f. 118v

• DnJ 1627.5: John Donne, Ignatij Loyolae Apotheosis (‘Qui sacer ante fuit, sanctus nunc incipit esse’)

Copy, in a formal italic hand, headed ‘De Ignatij Loyolæ Apotheosi’, and here beginning ‘Qui fuit ante sacer, sanctus nunc incipit esse’, unascribed.

This MS cited in Beal & Kelliher.

First published in P.G. Stanwood, ‘A Donne Discovery’, TLS (19 October 1967), p. 984. Reprinted in John Donne, Ignatius his Conclave, ed. T. S. Healy, S.J. (Oxford, 1969), pp. 174-5, and in Shawcross, pp. 505-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 253, as ‘Dubium’.

This Latin poem is not by Donne but by the physician and poet Raphael Thorius (d.1625): see Peter Beal and Hilton Kelliher, ‘John Donne’, TLS (12 February 1982), p. 162.

ff. 119v-20v

• HrE 16: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Elegy for the Prince (‘Must he be ever dead? Cannot we add’)

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘One Prince Henery an Elegy by S^r Ed: Her:’.

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

First published among ‘Sundry Funeral Elegies’ appended to Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum, 3rd edition (London, 1613). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 22-4.

ff. 121r-2r

• HrG 297: George Herbert, To the Queene of Bohemia (‘Bright soule, of whome if any countrey knowne’)

Copy, in an italic hand, complete with ‘L'Envoy’, docketed ‘G. H.’.

Edited from this MS in Hutchinson. Collated in Pebworth.

First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), pp. [186-92]. Hutchinson, pp. 211-13. Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘George Herbert's Poems to the Queen of Bohemia: A Rediscovered Text and a New Edition’, ELR, 9/1 (Winter 1979), 108-20 (pp. 117-20). Herbert's authorship supported in Kenneth Alan Hovey, ‘George Herbert's Authorship of “To the Queene of Bohemia”’, RQ, 30/1 (Spring 1977), 43-50, and in Pebworth.

Harley MS 3991

A quarto verse miscellany, including (ff. 113r-15r) copies of, or brief extracts from, 30 poems by Donne (plus two apocryphal poems), in a single hand, transcribed from the 1635 or 1639 edition of Donne's Poems, headed ‘Donnes quaintest conceits’ in several hands, 156 leaves (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Late 17th century.

Once owned by Thomas Rawlinson (1681-1725) and afterwards among the collections of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741).

Cited in IELM I.i (1980) as the ‘Harley Rawlinson MS’: DnJ Δ 64.

ff. 13v-15r

• DeJ 114: Sir John Denham, Verses on the Cavaliers Imprisoned in 1655 (‘Through the gover[n]inge part cannot finde in their heart’)

Copy, headed ‘S^t Jame's prisoners 1655’.

First published, and attributed to Denham, by C. H. Firth in N&Q, 7th Ser. 10 (19 July 1890), 41-2. Banks, pp. 135-41. Denham's authorship rejected in O Hehir, Harmony, pp. 117-19.

ff. 22r-3v

• JnB 638: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest’)

Copy.

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

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

f. 32v

• HaW 48: William Habington, The Queene of Arragon. The Song in the fourth Act (‘Fine, young folly, though you were’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Fine young folly if you are’.

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. 34v

• CmT 109: Thomas Campion, ‘Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white’

Copy.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 492.

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

f. 35r

• SuJ 113: John Suckling, Inconstancie in Woman (‘I am confirm'd a woman can’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 96-7.

Henry Lawes's musical setting published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652).

f. 36r

• ToA 88: Aurelian Townshend, Upon Kinde and True Love (‘'Tis not how witty, nor how free’)

Copy.

This MS cited in Chambers.

Published in John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 4. Chambers, p. 53.

f. 38r

• WaE 432: Edmund Waller, Song (‘Chloris! farewell. I now must go’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 41r

• ToA 79: Aurelian Townshend, La Boivinette (‘She's not the fairest of her name’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Chambers.

First published in John Cotgrave, Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), p. 55. Chambers, p. 51.

f. 43r

• HeR 152: Robert Herrick, Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse (‘Among the Mirtles, as I walkt’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Within the mirtles as I walkt’.

ff. 44v-5r

• SuJ 235: John Suckling, Upon Sir John Sucklings most warlike preparations for the Scotish Warre (‘Sir John got him on an ambling Nag’)

Copy.

First published in Sir John Mennes and James Smith, Musarum Deliciæ (London, 1655). Clayton, pp. 208-9. Sometimes improbably ascribed to Sir John Mennes.

f. 46r

• CwT 710: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’ and here beginning ‘Doubt not…’.

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

Harley MS 3998

A quarto composite volume of chiefly ecclesiastical tracts and papers, in various hands, 218 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

Various contents inscribed by Wanley with dates of accession to the Harley Library from ‘16 October 1725’ (including f. 154r) to ‘20 October 1725’.

ff. 63r-7v

• WoH 304: Sir Henry Wotton, Table Talk

A series of untitled notes, anecdotes and sayings, similar in nature to WoH 303 (including references to Venice and to ‘Sr H: W.’), also in the hand of William Parkhurst. c.1610.

Unpublished.

First published in Pearsall Smith (1907), II, 489-500 (his Nos. 35-145).

ff. 154r-67r

• DnJ 1666: John Donne, Infinitati Sacrum. 16 Augusti 1601 Metempsychosis (‘I sing the progresse of a deathlesse soule’)

Copy, in three italic hands, headed ‘Poema Satiricum Metempsychosis’, subscribed ‘Edward Smith’. c.1620s.

This MS collated in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 293-316. Milgate, Satires, pp. 25-46. Shawcross, No. 158.