Harley MS 4011
A folio volume of poems by John Lydgate and others.
ff. 169v-70v
• SkJ 18: John Skelton, Of the Death of the Noble Prince, Kynge Edwarde the Forth (‘Miseremini mei, ye that be my frendis!’)
Copy, untitled. c.1575.
Edited from this MS in Carleton Brown, Religious Lyrics of the XVth Century (Oxford, 1939), pp. 250-3. Collated in Kinsman.
Canon, D53, pp. 16-17. First published (lacking lines 37-48) in Certaine bokes copyled by mayster Skelto (London, c.1545). Complete in Dyce (1843), I, 1-5, and in Robert S. Kinsman, ‘“A lamentable of Kyng Edward the III”’, HLQ, 29 (1966), 95-108.
Harley MS 4012
A miscellany or religious works, in verse and prose, on vellum.
f. 109r-v
• SkJ 25: John Skelton, ‘Wofully araid’
Copy of a short version in the form of a prayer, on vellum. Early-mid-16th century.
Edited from this MS in Carleton Brown, Religious Lyrics of the XVth Century (Oxford, 1939), pp. 156-8.
Skelton wrote a “Wofully araid” but it is uncertain whether his version can be identified with any extant poem incorporating these words: see Canon, L118, pp. 32-3. First published in Sir John Hawkins, General History of the Science and Practice of Music (London, 1776), III, 2. Dyce (1843), I, 141-3.
Harley MS 4020
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page (undated), 158 leaves (plus some blanks), in panelled calf gilt. c.1620s.
LeC 18: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.
First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
Harley MS 4064
An independent quarto verse miscellany, including 47 poems by Donne, in two secretary hands. Constituting ff. 230r-99v in a quarto composite volume of verse and prose, in various hands, 308 leaves, in modern half green morocco gilt. c.1620-33.
Among the collections of Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724), and his son, Edward, second Earl of Oxford (1681-1741), and acquired in 1722 from the bookseller Nathaniel Noel (fl.1681-c.1753).
Cited in IELM I.i as the ‘Harley Noel MS’: DnJ Δ 2.
f. 232v
• RaW 112: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 178-9. Recorded in Latham, p. 102.
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).
f. 232r
• StW 1024: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘I and my loue, for kisses playd’.
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. 233r
• HrJ 59: Sir John Harington, The Author to Queene Elizabeth, in praise of her reading (‘For euer deare, for euer dreaded Prince’)
Copy, headed ‘Sr John Harrington to Queene Elizabeth’ and here beginning ‘Dread Soveraigne and ever loving Prince’.
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).
f. 233r
• HrJ 39: Sir John Harington, Against Swearing (‘In elder times an ancient custome was’)
Copy, untitled.
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.
f. 233v
• HrJ 175: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler (‘A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling’)
Copy, headed ‘A Translation’.
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.
f. 234v
• WoH 25: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
f. 235r
• CmT 93: Thomas Campion, ‘The man of life upright’
Copy; untitled.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 493.
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xviii. Davis, p. 43 (also p. 60).
f. 235r-v
• WoH 143: Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth (‘O faithless world, and thy most faithless part’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As ‘A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth’, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Sir Henry Wotton's “O Faithless World”: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition’, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.
ff. 235v-6r
• DnJ 286: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Gardner; recorded 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.
ff. 236r-7r
• JnB 384: Ben Jonson, An Ode. to himselfe (‘Where do'st thou carelesse lie’)
Copy, headed ‘Ode’.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Vnder-wood (xxiii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 174-5.
f. 237r-v
• JnB 364: Ben Jonson, Ode (‘Yff Men, and tymes were nowe’)
Copy, headed ‘Ode’.
Edited from this MS in Briggs. Collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in William Dinmore Briggs, ‘Did Jonson Write a Third “Ode to Himself”?’, The Athenaeum (13 June 1914), p. 828. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 419-21.
ff. 238v-40r
• DnJ 1488: John Donne, His parting from her (‘Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.
Edited from this MS in Variorum, 2. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published, in a 42-line version as ‘Elegie XIIII’, in Poems (London, 1635). Published complete (104 lines) in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 100-4 (as ‘Elegie XII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 96-100 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 21. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 332-4 (with versions printed in 1635 and 1669 on pp. 335-6 and 336-8 respectively).
ff. 240v-1r
• JnB 508: Ben Jonson, To Sicknesse (‘Why, Disease, dost thou molest’)
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Forrest (viii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 104-6.
f. 241v
• HrE 81: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne (‘Vengeance will sit above our faults. but till’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 350. Moore Smith, pp. 119-20.
f. 243r-v
• JnB 470: Ben Jonson, A speech out of Lucan (‘Just and fit actions Ptolemy (he saith)’)
Printed from this MS in Briggs and in Herford & Simpson.
First published in William Dinsmore Briggs, ‘Studies in Ben Jonson. IV’, Anglia, 39 (1916), 209-51 (pp. 247-8). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 422-3.
ff. 243v-5v
• JnB 94: Ben Jonson, Epistle To Elizabeth Covntesse of Rvtland (‘Whil'st that, for which, all vertue now is sold’)
Copy of the complete version, headed ‘To the Countesse of Rutland An Elegie’.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson. Discussed in Anthony Miller, ‘Ben Jonson's “Epistle to Elizabeth Countesse of Rutland”: A Recovered MS Reading and its Critical Implications’, PQ, 62 (1983), 525-9.
First published in The Forrest (xii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 113-16.
ff. 245v-6r
• DnJ 2523: John Donne, The Paradox (‘No Lover saith, I love, nor any other’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross; recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69-70. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 38-9. Shawcross, No. 77.
ff. 246r-7r
• DnJ 1215: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as ‘Elegie XV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.
ff. 250r-1v
• JnB 267: Ben Jonson, <Horace. Epode 2.> The praises of a Countrie life (‘Happie is he, that from all Businesse cleere’)
Copy, headed ‘An ode in Horrace in prayse of a Countrry lief, translated’.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 289-91.
f. 252r-v
• PeW 39: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘If her disdain least change in you can move’
Copy, untitled but headed ‘P’.
This MS collated in Krueger.
First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 2, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.
ff. 252v-3r
• PeW 108: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘'Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain’
Copy, untitled but headed ‘R’.
This MS collated in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed ‘R’. Krueger, p. 3, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.
ff. 253r-4r
• PeW 86: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘Shall Love that gave Latona's heir the foyle’
Copy, untitled but headed ‘P’.
This MS collated in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 5-7. Krueger, pp. 4-5, as ‘Verses on Reason and Love’, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.
ff. 254r-6r
• PeW 63: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘No praise it is that him who Python slew’
Copy, untitled but headed ‘R’.
This MS recorded in Krueger
Poems (1660), pp. 7-11, superscribed ‘R.’. Krueger, pp. 5-9, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.
f. 256r-v
• DnJ 1785: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.
ff. 257r-9r
• JnB 514: Ben Jonson, To Sir Robert Wroth (‘How blest art thou, canst loue the countrey, Wroth’)
Copy, headed ‘To Sr Robt Wroth in praise of a Cuntry lief, Epode’.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Forrest (iii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 96-100.
f. 259r-v
• DnJ 3640: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
f. 259v
• HrE 78: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Inconstancy (‘Inconstancy's the greatest of synns’)
Copy, untitled.
Printed from this MS in Frank J. Warnke, ‘Two Previously Unnoted MSS. of Poems by Lord Herbert of Cherbury’, N&Q, 199 (April 1954), 141-2.
First published in Moore Smith (1923), p. 119.
ff. 260r-1r
• DnJ 995: John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.
f. 261v
• JnB 109: Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] (‘Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such’)
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John A. Harper, ‘Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.
ff. 261v-2r
• HrE 23: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Epitaph. Caecil. Boulstr. (‘Methinks Death like one laughing lyes’)
Copy, headed ‘Another’.
This MS collated in Smith, p. 127.
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 20-1.
f. 262v
• DnJ 415: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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.
ff. 262v-3v
• DnJ 573: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.
ff. 263v-4v
• DnJ 2228: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse (‘If yet I have not all thy love’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.
ff. 264v-5v
• DnJ 1051: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)
Copy, headed ‘An Eligye on ye Lady Marckhm’.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.
f. 266r
• DnJ 3824: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)
Copy, headed ‘A Valediction:’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.
f. 266v
• DnJ 4: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.
f. 267r
• DnJ 944: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as ‘Elegie X’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.
f. 267v
• DnJ 2622: John Donne, The Prohibition (‘Take heed of loving mee’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.
ff. 268r-9r
• BmF 9: Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae (‘Madam, so may my verses pleasing be’)
Copy, headed ‘To the countesse of Rutland’.
First published, as ‘An Elegie by F. B.’, in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.
f. 270r-v
• DnJ 3711: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
ff. 270v-1r
• DnJ 3604: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.
ff. 271r-2r
• DnJ 241: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)
Copy, headed ‘Eligy Autumnall’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie. The Autumnall’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as ‘Elegie IX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.
f. 272r-v
• DnJ 1817: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.
ff. 273r-4r
• DnJ 3796: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.
f. 274r-v
• DnJ 1433: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
ff. 274v-5r
• DnJ 3271: John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)
Copy, headed ‘A Letter’.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.
ff. 275v-6v
• DnJ 3765: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.
f. 277r-v
• DnJ 473: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)
Copy, headed ‘Songe’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.
ff. 277v-8r
• DnJ 807: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.
f. 278r-v
• DnJ 3945: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture (‘I fixe mine eye on thine, and there’)
Copy, headed ‘Songe’.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.
ff. 278v-9r
• DnJ 2160: John Donne, Loves Usury (‘For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.
f. 279r-v
• DnJ 1306: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.
ff. 279v-81r
• DnJ 3544: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘You have refin'd mee, and to worthyest things’)
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 191-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 91-4. Shawcross, No. 137.
f. 281r-v
• DnJ 1629: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)
Copy, headed ‘A Song’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.
ff. 281v-2r
• DnJ 1125: John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford (‘That I might make your Cabinet my tombe’)
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph’.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.
f. 282r-v
• DnJ 168: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)
Copy, headed ‘An Apparition’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
ff. 284r-5v
• DnJ 1090: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)
Copy, headed ‘of Mrs Boulstred’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross; recorded in Milgate.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as ‘Elegie. Death’). Shawcross, No. 151 (as ‘Elegie: Death’). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.
ff. 285v-6v
• DnJ 3586: John Donne, To the Lady Bedford (‘You that are she and you, that's double shee’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie To the Countes of Bedford’.
This MS collated in Grierson; recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 227-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 94-5. Shawcross, No. 148.
ff. 286v-7r
• DnJ 2898: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
f. 287r-v
• DnJ 646: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.
f. 287v-8r
• DnJ 101: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.
f. 288v
• DnJ 3970: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.
ff. 288v-9r
• DnJ 2985: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.
f. 289v
• DnJ 1341: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)
Copy, untitled, inscribed in the margin in another hand ‘J D’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
f. 290r-v
• DnJ 2071: John Donne, Loves exchange (‘Love, any devill else but you’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.
f. 291r
• DnJ 1948: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)
Copy, headed ‘Mummie’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.
f. 292r-v
• BmF 124: Francis Beaumont, On Madam Fowler desiring a sonnet to be writ on her (‘Good Madam Fowler, do not trouble me’)
Copy, headed ‘Epigram’.
First published in Alexander B. Grosart, ‘Literary Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere’, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (p. 8).
f. 293v-5r
• DnJ 1244: John Donne, The Extasie (‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’)
Copy, headed ‘Extasie’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.
f. 295r-v
• DnJ 3686: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.
ff. 295v-6r
• DnJ 1986: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.
ff. 296v-7r
• DnJ 2024: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
ff. 297r-8r
• DnJ 3886: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)
Copy of a five-stanza version.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
ff. 301r-8v
• OvT 15: Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife (‘Each woman is a brief of woman kind’)
Copy, in an accomplished predominantly secretary hand.
First published, as A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury, in London, 1614. Rimbault, pp. 33-45. Beecher, pp. 190-8.
Harley MS 4107
A folio composite volume of state and antiquarian tracts, in several professional hands, 133 leaves, in modern calf gilt.
ff. 1*r-17v
• CtR 286: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a formal title-page, in italic with partly engrossed lettering, ‘Extracts of Records where in may be collected by what meanes the Kings of England haue and may raise moneys. Written by Sr Robert Cotten knt: & Barronet’, with related tables on f. 18r. c.1620s.
Tract beginning ‘The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates...’. First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-‘200’[i.e. 202].
Harley MS 4153
A small quarto volume of tracts and papers, in a professional semi-calligraphic secretary hand, with rubrication, 143 leaves, bound with Harley MS 7375, in modern black morocco gilt. c.1630.
ff. 1r-5v
• SpE 69: Edmund Spenser, Sir Kenelm Digby's Discourse concerning Edmund Spenser
Copy.
One of the earliest critiques of Spenser, beginning ‘Whosoever will deliver a well grounded opinion and censure of any learned man...’. First published in E.W. Bligh, Sir Kenelm Digby and his Venetia (London, 1932), pp. 277-80.
Harley MS 4174
An octavo notebook of extracts, in a cursive mixed hand, 13 leaves (plus numerous blanks), written from both ends, in modern panelled speckled calf gilt. Early-mid 17th century.
ff. 2r-11r
• LeJ 41.5: John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]
Extracts, headed ‘Ex collectan Johis Lelandi in Biblioth: Bodl: Autograph’.
Harley MS 4176
A folio volume of antiquarian tracts, in several professional hands, 208 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Late 17th century.
Inscribed (f. 1*r) by Wanley with date of accession into the Harley Library ‘4 May 1721’. An affixed slip inscribed ‘Ane baryngton’, ‘Robarts’, and ‘The Lady Robarts’, all in the same hand.
ff. 1r-5v
• CtR 256: Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Off the Offyce of the Lord Steward of England, Written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronnett
Copy, headed ‘Seneschallus Angliæ / Of the office of Steward of England’, subscribed ‘Robert Cotten’.
Tract beginning ‘For the Clearinge whereof wee will intreate off the name...’. Hearne (1771), II, 1-12.
ff. 6r-7r
• CmW 39: William Camden, The Antiquity, Authority, and Succession of the High Steward of England
Copy, headed ‘Steward of England’, subscribed ‘Wm Camden’.
A tract beginning ‘Whom we call in English steward, in Latine is called seneschallus...’. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 38-40.
ff. 7r-8r
• CtR 241: Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Offyce of the Lord Highe Connstable of England, written by Sr: Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Robert Cotton’.
Tract beginning ‘Yff wee curiouslye will looke the Roote of this question...’. Hearne (1771), II, 65-7.
f. 11r
• CtR 211: Sir Robert Cotton, A Discovre of Lawfvllnes of Combats to be performed in the presence of the King, or the Constable and Marshall of England. Written...1609
Copy of the beginning, untitled, subscribed ‘R: Cott: B: 1609’.
Tract beginning ‘Where difference could not be determined...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [59]-[71]. Hearne (1771), II, 172-80.
ff. 11v-16r
• DaJ 250: Sir John Davies, Of the Antiquity, Use, and Ceremony of Lawful Combats in England
Copy.
Paper delivered to the Society of Antiquaries, beginning ‘Our Question is of the antiquity and manner of lawful combats...’, dated 22 May 1601. First published in Hearne (1771), II, 180-7. Grosart, III, 293-302.
ff. 19v-30r
• HoH 62: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Duello Foiled
Copy.
A discourse, with a dedicatory epistle to ‘my very good Lord’, beginning ‘Reasons moving me to write this thing which handleth not the whole matter...’, the tract beginning ‘The two parties between whom this single fight was appointed...’. Published in Thomas Hearne, A Collection of Curious Discourses written by Eminent Antiquaries (London, 1771), II, 223-42, where it is attributed to Sir Edward Coke. It is not certain whether this tract is by Howard or simply annotated by him as a reader.
ff. 40r-3v
• CtR 58: Sir Robert Cotton, The Antiquitye and Offyce of Earle Marshall of England, Written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, and Baronett
Copy, subscribed ‘Ro Cotton’.
Tract beginning ‘The plentye of this discourse, the last question of Highe Connstables, whereto...’. Hearne (1771), II, 97-103.
ff. 44r-5r
• CtR 223: Sir Robert Cotton, A Discourse Of the Antiquitye, and Offyce of the Earle Marshall of England, written by Sr Robte Cotton, knight, Att the request of the Lord Henrye Howard, Earle of Northampton [25 November 1602]
Copy of the dedicatory epistle, untitled, subscribed ‘Ro. Cotton’.
A dedicatory epistle beginning ‘Sir, Yor small tyme, I must Ballance, wth as sclendr Aunswere...’ followed by a tract beginning ‘Because the Jurisdiction att the Comon Lawe was vncertayne...’.
ff. 119v-25r
• CmW 29: William Camden, The Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England
Copy, headed ‘The Etimologie Antiquitie and office of Earle Marshall of England’, unascribed.
A tract beginning ‘Such is the vncertainety of etimologyes...’ and sometimes entitled in manuscripts ‘The Etymology, Antiquity and Office of the Earl Marshall of England’. First published, as ‘Commentarius de etymologia, antiquitate, & officio Comitis Marescalli Angliae’, in Camdeni epistolae (London, 1691), Appendix, pp. 87-93. Hearne (1771), II, 90-7.
Harley MS 4196
MS of Middle English religious verse, including the Gospel of Nichodemus and the Prick of Conscience, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Wm Browne 1622’. 1622.
*BrW 267: William Browne of Tavistock, Northern Homily Cycle, etc.
Edwards, No. 4.
Harley MS 4235
Copy in the hand of an amanuensis… Copy in the hand of an amanuensis, the dedication to the Earl of Newcastle signed by Hobbes and with Hobbes's autograph corrections, revisions and marginal sidenotes in the text (particularly on ff. 16, 21, 62, 64, 102, 110v, 112, 113v, 114v, 116v), also with some marginal notes in another hand, on 143 folio leaves. c.1640.
*HbT 19: Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
Edited largely from this MS in Tönnies's edition.
First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, in two parts, as Humane Nature: Or, The fundamental Elements of Policie, (London, [1649]-1650), and as De Corpore Politico: or The Elements of Law, Moral and Politick (London, 1650). Molesworth, English, IV, 1-76, 77-228. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with an introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969).
Harley MS 4236
Copy, including the dedication, in a scribal hand, with some corrections in another hand, on 166 large folio pages. c.1640s.
HbT 25: Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic
This MS recorded in Tönnies.
First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, in two parts, as Humane Nature: Or, The fundamental Elements of Policie, (London, [1649]-1650), and as De Corpore Politico: or The Elements of Law, Moral and Politick (London, 1650). Molesworth, English, IV, 1-76, 77-228. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with an introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969).
Harley MS 4261
Copy, headed An argument vppon the question of imposicons...by Sr John Davies knighte one of his Maties learned Counsell in Ireland, 95 folio leaves, in modern mottled calf gilt. In a professional secretary hand up to f. 94v, the last page (f. 95r) in another secretary hand, perhaps a replacement for a lost leaf. c.1620s-30s.
DaJ 265: Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions
A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning ‘The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely...’. First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.
Harley MS 4282
A folio volume comprising two independent MSS, in different hands, 135 leaves, in modern mottled leather gilt.
ff. 70v-135v
• LeC 19: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a formal title-page in italic script, undated, the last leaf imperfect. Late 16th-early 17th century.
This MS recorded in Peck, p. 225.
First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.
Harley MS 4286
A folio volume of historical collections, largely in a single small hand, with an Index (ff. 2r-5v), 178 leaves, in leather gilt. Compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1600s.
According to two long notes (ff. 6r, 178v) by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), herald and antiquary, identifying the hand as Kniveton's, the MS was ‘after possest by the Lord Chaworth [i.e. George Chaworth (d.1639), first Viscount Chaworth] who gaue this & severall other books to Doctor Thoreton of Carcolston in the County of Nottingham whose grandson Robert Sherard gave this & 8o others’ in Kniveton's handwriting to Le Neve, 21 March 1712.
f. 56v rev.
• CmT 179: Thomas Campion, ‘And would you see my Mistris face?’
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled.
This MS collated in Davis, p. 506.
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. ii. Davis, p. 451.
f. 57v rev.
• OxE 18: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘When werte thow borne desyre?’
Copy, untitled, in an italic hand.
This MS collated in May.
First published, as ‘Of the birth and bringing vp of desire’, subscribed ‘E. of Ox.’, in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). May, Poems, No. 11 (pp. 33-4). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 277-8. EV 30058.
f. 71v rev.
• OxE 16: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘What cunning can express’
Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘What sheppard can express’, subscribed ‘Erle of Oxenforde’.
First published, as ‘The Sheepheards commendation of his Nimph’ and subscribed ‘E. O.’, in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). May, Poems, pp. 35-7. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 280-1. EV 28545.
Harley MS 4287
A copy of two tracts, the second about the Earl of Essex's voyage in 1597, in a single professional secretary hand, 15 folio leaves, bound with two other independant MSS (Harley MSS 4302 and 6029), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1620s-30s.
Bookplate (f. 1*v) of John Holles (1662-1711), Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, politician.
ff. 1r-8r
• WoH 268.5: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham
Copy, unascribed.
First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).
Harley MS 4294
A 15th-century folio book of verse questions and answers, in a professional secretary hand, partly rubricated, 82 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.
f. 80r
• HaS 2: Stephen Hawes, The Conversion of Swearers (‘The fruytfull sentence & the noble werkes’)
Copy of lines 234-89, untitled and here beginning ‘Worth your harts so planted in pryde’), added to the volume in a secretary hand, with other verses, at the end of the volume. Early 16th century.
This MS recorded in Gluck & Morgan, p. xx.
First published in London, 1509. Gluck & Morgan, pp. 73-84.
Harley MS 4307
A folio volume comprising two separate tracts by Sir Robert Cotton, each in a different secretary hand, bound together, i + 45 leaves, in modern leather gilt. c.1620s.
Bookplate (f. 1*v) of John Holles (1662-1711), Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, politician.
ff. 1r-v
• CtR 112: Sir Robert Cotton, A Briefe Discovrse concerning the Power of the Peeres and Commons of Parliament in point of Judicature
Copy of the opening only, as ‘written by Sr Robt: Cotten to Sr Edward Mountague’, incomplete.
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 Sr Rob: Cotton to Sr Edward Mountague Ano 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.
See also the Introduction.
Harley MS 4311
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘by Sir Arthur Gorge’ and dedicated to Prince Henry, on six folio leaves. Bound with three other MSS (Harley MSS 4133, 4271, 6014), in modern half crushed morocco gilt. c.1612-19.
RaW 686: Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations concerning the Royal Navy and Sea-Service
This MS recorded in Sandison (1928), p. 671.
A tract dedicated to Prince Henry and beginning ‘Having formerly, most excellent prince, discoursed of a maritimal voyage, and the passages and incidents therein...’. First published in Judicious and Select Essayes and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 335-50. These notes probably written by Ralegh but usually appended to Sir Arthur Gorges, A larger Relation of the...Iland Voyage, printed in Purchas his Pilgrimes (London, 1625). Glasgow edition, XX (1907), 34-129. See Helen Estabrook Sandison, ‘Manuscripts of the “Islands Voyage” and “Notes on the Royal Navy”’, Essays and Studies in Honor of Carleton Brown (New York, London & Oxford, 1940), 242-52, and Lefranc (1968), pp. 53, 58-9.
Harley MS 4324
Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, 118 leaves (48 x 79 mm.). A presentation MS to Sir David Murray of Gorthy, with a prose Dedication to him in French, in a small Roman script, with colour and gold arms and decoration. 1614.
*InE 48: Esther Inglis, [Quatrains de Pybrac] Les Quatrains de Guy de Faur, Sieur de Pybrac, Ensemble Les cinquante octonaires sur la vanité et inconstance du monde, ecrites par Esther Inglis, 1614
Later owned by Richard Fleming (1688) and by D. Hackluith (1693). In the Harleian Library formed by the politician and book collector Robert Harley (1661-1724), first Earl of Oxford, and his son Edward (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford.
Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 40 (pp. 70-1).
Quatrains in French by Guy du Faur, Sieur de Pybrac (1529-84), first published in 1576, and verse ‘Octonaires’ in French by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu (1534-91), first published in Paris, 1586.
Harley MS 4604
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page, ascribed to ‘Jo: Hoskins’, on 28 folio leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. c.1630.
HoJ 342: John Hoskyns, Directions for Speech and Style
Inscribed in red pencil (f. 1*r)‘D. M. Dan: Manwaring's Booke. Ao. Domini MDCXXX’.
Edited from this MS in Hudson edition and in Osborn, with a facsimile of f. 7r facing p. 125. Facsimiles of f. 7r also in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 181, and in DLB, vol. 281, British Rhetoricians and Logicians 1500-1660. Second Series, ed. Edward A. Malone (Detroit, 2003), p. 158.
First published, as Directions for Speech and Style by John Hoskins, ed. Hoyt H. Hudson (Princeton, 1935). Osborn (1937), pp. 114-66.
Harley MS 4647
A folio composite volume of state papers and tracts, many relating to Mary Queen of Scots, in a single professional cursive mixed hand, 172 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on marbled boards. A transcript of British Library, Cotton MS Caligula D. I before it was partly burnt in the 1732 fire. Mid-17th century.
ff. 143v-63v
• PtG 4.2: George Puttenham, An Apology or True Defence of Her Majesty's Honourable and Good Renown
Copy, headed ‘A Discourse plainly proveing that as well the Sentence of Death lately given agt. that vnfortunate Lady Marie late Q. of Scots as also the execution of the same sentence, were honble: just necessary & Lawfull. March 1587’, here beginning ‘There hath not happened since the memory of man…’, transcribed from PtG 3.5.
A treatise on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, beginning ‘There hath not happened since the memorie of man…’. First published, as ‘A Justification of Queene Elizabeth in relation to the Affaire of Mary Queene of Scottes’, in Accounts and Papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots, ed. Allan J. Crosby and John Bruce, Camden Society, 93 (1867), pp. 67-134.
Harley MS 4659
A quarto miscellany of verse lampoons, in a single cursive hand, 14 leaves, bound with two separate verse MSS (Harley MSS 393 and 4907), in modern half black morocco gilt. Late 17th century.
f. 1v
• MaA 84.8: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad called The Haymarket Hectors (‘I sing a woeful ditty’)
Copy.
Published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704); Thompson, I, xxxix-xli.
Sometimes called Upon the cutting of Sr John Coventry's nose. First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Thompson, I, xxxix-xli (from ‘Marvell's writing’). Grosart, I, 456-8. Edited in POAS, I (1963), 168-71, as doubtfully by Marvell.
ff. 7r-8r
• MaA 449: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Osborne.
First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by ‘A-M-l, Esq’. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.
Harley MS 4685
A folio composite volume of tracts, in various hands, 158 leaves, in modern green half crushed morocco gilt.
Inscribed on the last page Bought of ‘Mrs G: Pauls landlady’.
ff. 1r-28r
• RaW 1070: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Military Discourse
Copy, in the same professional secretary hand as in Dulwich College, MSS 29, incomplete. Early 17th century.
A treatise beginning ‘Forasmuch as in every doubtfull and questionable matter, it is familiar and common amongst men to be diverse...’. First published in London, 1734. It was probably written by Sir Thomas Wilford (1541-1601?), or possibly by Sir Francis De Vere or Nathaniel Boothe. See Lefranc (1968), pp. 64-5.
ff. 31r-49v
• WoH 271: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham
Copy, in a professional secretary hand. c.1620s-30s.
First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).
ff. 115r-26v
• RaW 577: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace
Fragment of a copy, in a professional secretary hand, comprising only the last portion, imperfect. c.1620s.
A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning ‘Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ...’, the dialogue beginning ‘Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?...’. First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (‘Midelburge’ and ‘Hamburg’ [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.
Harley MS 4761
A folio composite volume of state letters, in vavious professional hands, 194 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Early-mid-17th century.
ff. 13r-25v
• RaW 892: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Copy of letters by Ralegh, to Winwood, to James I (2), to Lady Ralegh (2), and to Sir Robert Carr.
f. 22r
• RaW 42: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘verses found in Sr walter Rayleighs Bible in the Gatehouse’. c.1620s.
First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).
See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.
ff. 102r-13r
• SpE 75: Edmund Spenser, Sir Kenelm Digby's Observations on the 22 Stanza in the 9th. Canto of the 2d. book of Spensers Faery Queen
Copy.
One of the earliest commentaries on The Faerie Queene, including quotations, dated 13 June 1628, addressed to Sir Edward Stradling, and beginning ‘My much honored freind, I am too well acquainted with the weaknes of my abillities...’. First published in London, 1643. Variorum, II, 472-8.
ff. 156r-64v, 170v-90v
• BcF 586: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
Copies of several letters by Bacon, to Essex, Cecil, Northampton, Davies and others, in two secretary hands.
ff. 164v-70v
• BcF 181: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland
Copy.
First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.
Harley MS 4771
A folio volume comprising proceedings and speeches in Parliament, 17 March to 22 May 1628, in two or more professional mixed hands, 201 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Mid-17th century.
Bookplate of John Holles (1662-1711), Duke of Newcastle upon Tyne, politician.
ff. 17v-18v
• RuB 16: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.20-22 March 1627/8
Copy, headed in the margin ‘Sr Ben. Ruddyer’.
Speech. Yale 1628, II, 58-60, two parallel versions: (1) beginning ‘This is the crisis of parliaments...’; (2) beginning ‘It is the goodness of God and the favour of the King...’; II, 68, third version, beginning ‘If we be thankful, all is well. By this we shall know whether parliaments will live or die...’; II, 73, fourth, brief reported version, beginning ‘We are not now upon the bene esse of our kingdom but the esse...’.
f. 60v
• RuB 54: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?4 April 1628
Copy, headed in the margin ‘Sr Ben Rudyard’.
Speech beginning ‘We have received many gracious messages from His Majesty. It is now high time to give thanks...’. Yale 1628, II, 297 and 317; variant versions II, 303, 309, 313-14.
ff. 118v-20r
• RuB 62: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 28 April 1628
Copy, headed in the margin ‘Sr Ben Rudyard’.
Speech beginning ‘We are here upon a great business...’. Yale 1628, III, 127-9 and 133-4. Variants: III, 138-9, 141, 143, and 161. Variant version in Manning, pp. 126-8.
ff. 124v-5r
• RuB 84: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, c.30 April 1628
Copy, headed in the margin ‘Sr Ben: Rudyer at a Comittee of the whole howse’.
Speech beginning ‘We have been long about framing of words for a strong law...’. Yale 1628, III, 172. Variant versions: III, 175, 179, 180, 181-2.
f. 138r
• HoJ 353: John Hoskyns, Speech in the House of Commons, 6 May 1628
Copy of an eight-line summary, ascribed to ‘Seriant Hoskins’.
Speech, beginning ‘The question is not what we have now more then before...’.
Harley MS 4808
A folio volume of state papers and speeches, in a single accomplished cursive hand, 235 leaves, in later vellum boards gilt. Mid-late-17th century.
Inscribed (f. [ir] ‘Mr Noel from Lord Fitz-Williams. A.D. 1719’.
ff. 106v-12v
• RaW 893: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife.
ff. 205v-16r
• ElQ 189: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Close of the Parliamentary Session, March 15, 1576
Copy of Version I, headed ‘Queen Elizabeths Speech in the Parliament house the 13th: of March 1575’.
This MS cited in Selected Works.
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).
ff. 221v-32r
• ElQ 268: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601
Copy of Version IV, headed ‘The Queens speech’.
This MS cited (as first Version) in Hartley.
First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).
Version I. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate...’. Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.
Version II. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me...’. Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).
Version III. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent...’. Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.
Version IV. Beginning ‘Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved...’. Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).
Harley MS 4872
A folio composite miscellany of genealogical and antiquarian tracts, in various hands, 341 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.
ff. 35r-51v
• RaW 678.2: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World
Extracts, with various emendations and deletions, headed ‘Out of sr wa: Rauleighs book entituled The History of the World, wherof the first part Containing fiue Bokes is printed ao Dni. 1614: are best notes taken &c’. Early 17th century.
First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.
See also RaW 728.
Harley MS 4888
A folio composite volume of state tracts, speeches and miscellaneous papers, in several hands, vi + 361 leaves, in modern half morocco gilt.
f. 18r-v
• ElQ 206: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Speech at the Closing of Parliament, March 29, 1585
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Her Mates Speche delyred by her owne mowthe in the Parlamt Last holde at Westmr’. c.1585.
This MS 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. 20r-2v
• EsR 166: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland
Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘The Earle of Essex his aduise to the Earle of Rutland in his Journey’. Early 17th century.
The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning ‘My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state...’.
First published, as ‘The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels’, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.
Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in ‘The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars’, SP. 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in ‘Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments’, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.
ff. 66r-73r
• HkR 29: Richard Hooker, Walter Travers's Supplication to the Council
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with alterations in another hand, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Folger edition, Volume V, with facsimile of f. 66r and 69v on pp. 188 and 199.
First published in Oxford, 1612. Keble, III, 548-9. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 189-210.
ff. 74v-85r
• HkR 39: Richard Hooker, Hooker's Answer to Walter Travers's Supplication to the Council
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Mr Hookers answer to the Supplication’. Late 16th century.
This MS collated in Folger edition, Volume V.
First published, with Travers's Supplication, in Oxford, 1612. Keble, III, 570-96. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 225-57.
ff. 92r-117r
• HkR 4: Richard Hooker, A Learned Discourse of Justification, Works, and How the Foundation of Faith is Overthrown
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Abak. 1. 4.’. Late 16th century.
This MS collated in Folger edition, Vol. V.
First published in Oxford, 1612. Keble, III, 483-547. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 105-69.
f. 253r
• DnJ 459: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled. c.1620s.
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.
f. 253r
• DnJ 3638: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled. c.1620s.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.
f. 254r
• DnJ 3756: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)
Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, subscribed ‘John Donne. 22. Novembris 1622’, on one side of a single folio leaf. 1622.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
ff. 287r-9v
• ClE 77: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon in 1667
Copy.
Petition beginning ‘I cannot express the insupportable trouble and grief of mind I sustain...’. Published as To the Right Honourable the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament Assembled: The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon, [in London, 1667?] and subsequently reprinted widely, sometimes under the title News from Dunkirk-house: or, Clarendon's Farewell to England Dec 3 1667.
Harley MS 4889
A folio composite volume of state tracts, in professional hands, 199 leaves, in panelled leather.
The wrapper f. 11r is inscribed by Wanley with the date of accession to the Harley Library ‘16 October 1725’.
ff. 1r-10v
• CtR 377: Sir Robert Cotton, A Remonstrance of the Treaties of Amitie and Marriage before time, and of late, of the House of Austria and Spaine, with the Kinges of England, to advance themselves to the Monarchy of Europe
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘written by Sr Robert Cotton Knight and Baronett’. c.1620s-30s.
Tract beginning ‘Most excellent Majesty, Wee your Lords Spirituall and Temporal, and the Commons of your Realm assembled...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [91]-107.
ff. 11r-60r
• CtR 84: Sir Robert Cotton, A Breife Abstract of the Question of Precedencie between England and Spaine: Occasioned by Sir Henry Nevill the Queen of Englands Ambassador, and the Ambassador of Spaine, at Calais Commissioners appointed by the French King...
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, as ‘Collected by Robert Cotton Esquire at the comaundmt of her Matie’. c.1620s-30s.
Tract, relating to events in 1599/1600, beginning ‘To seek before the decay of the Roman Empire...’. First published in London, 1642. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [73]-‘79’ [i.e. 89].
art. 4
• BcF 735: Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations
Copy.
A tract, beginning ‘All the finances of revenues of the imperial crown of this realm of England...’. Discussed in Spedding, IX, 120-1. By William Lambarde (1536-1601), whose partly autograph MS (1590) is in the Folger (MS V.a.208), but the work is frequently ascribed to Bacon, who may have used and adapted it at the time of the debate on alienations in October 1601.
Harley MS 4931
A folio composite volume of state papers, parliamentary speeches, and verse, in various hands, with an alphabetical Index (ff. 1r-6v), 144 leaves, in modern mottled leather gilt.
f. 9r
• MrJ 63: John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII (‘Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree’)
Copy.
f. 10r
• HoJ 63: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)
Copy of a 34-line version, n an italic hand, headed ‘A Censure upon a fart, let in the House of Comons, in a Parliamt towards the beginning of King James his raign, by Sr Henry Ludlow’, incomplete. c.1640s.
Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of ‘Doubtful Verses’ in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
f. 15r
• BrW 65: William Browne of Tavistock, Lydford Journey (‘I oft have heard of Lydford law’)
Copy, in an italic hand, in double columns, on a single leaf, endorsed (f. 15v) ‘Lydford Law. By Mr Browne follower of the Earle of Pembrooke’. c.1640s.
First published in John Phillips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656).Goodwin, II, 305-9.
f. 16r
• HrG 312: George Herbert, In Honorem Illustr. D.D. Verulamij, Sti Albani, Mag. Sigilli Custodis post editam ab eo Instaurationem Magnam (‘Qvis iste tandem? non enim vultu ambulat’)
Copy, in an italic hand, subscribed ‘G. Herbert Orat. pub. in Acad. Cant.’, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves of verse. c.1640s.
This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.
First published in Emanuele Tesauro, Caesares, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1637). Hutchinson, pp. 436-7. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 168-71.
ff. 16v-17v
• ClJ 101: John Cleveland, Smectymnuus, or the Club-Divines (‘Smectymnuus? The Goblin makes me start’)
Copy, in an italic hand. c.1640s.
First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 23-6.
ff. 18r, 19r
• HoJ 263: John Hoskyns, Convivium philosophicum (‘Quilibet si sit contentus’)
Copy, in a small italic hand, in double columns, as ‘Autore Rodulpho Golfabio’, subscribed ‘Joh. Reinoles’. c.1640s.
Osborn, No. XXVIII (pp. 196-9), with an English version (beginning ‘Whosoever is contented’), on pp. 288-91.
f. 20r
• RnT 553: Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School (‘What heat of learning kindled your desire’)
Copy.
Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to ‘T. R.’. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.
ff. 92r-3r
• RuB 152: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640
Copy, in a small hand, headed ‘Sr Beniamin Rydier his speech in the House of Comons Novemb. 7th. 1640’. c.1640s.
Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning ‘We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's...’. First published in The Speeches of Sr. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.
f. 103r-v
• RuB 194: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 7-9 February 1640/1
Copy, headed ‘A Speech of Sr Beniamin Rudyer in the H. of Comons concerning Bishops. ffeb. 9. 1640’.
Speech beginning ‘I doe verily beleeue that there are manie of the Clergie in one Church who doe thinke...’. First published in The Speeches of Sr. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 15-‘12’ [i.e. 20]. Manning, pp. 185-7.
f. 136r
• ClJ 191: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)
Copy, in a small italic hand, headed ‘Verses vpon Straffords death by Cleueland’. c.1640s.
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).
Harley MS 4955
A folio volume of works in verse and prose, including (ff. 88r-144v) 98 poems by Donne and (among ff. 2r-56v, 173r-88v, 192r-204r) various masques and poems by Ben Jonson, 208 leaves. Compiled for Sir William Cavendish (1592-1676), first Duke of Newcastle, of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. Written principally in the semi-calligraphic hand of Cavendish's secretary John Rolleston (1597?-1681), of Sokeholme, Nottinghamshire, and including (ff. 57r-87v, 145r-72r, 189r-90v) some 85 poems by Dr Richard Andrews (d.1634), Rhetoric Reader at St John's College, Oxford, and physician, who has revised some six of the poems in his own hand, with one poem (f. 87r) by his daughter Francisca dated 14 August 1629. c.1620s-34.
After 1718 among the collections of Edward Harley (1689-1741), second Earl of Oxford (who married in 1713 Newcastle's great granddaughter).
Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Newcastle MS’: DnJ Δ 3. Extensively discussed, and the main scribe identified, in Hilton Kelliher, ‘Donne, Jonson, Richard Andrews and the Newcastle Manuscript’, EMS, 4 (1993), 134-73, with facsimiles of ff. 2r, 55r, 84r and 88r. Facsimiles of ff. 1r and 6r also in Jonson's Masque of Gipsies, ed W.W. Greg (London, 1952), Plates X-XI, and of f. 172r in Lynn Hulse, ‘“The King's Entertainment” by the Duke of Newcastle’, Viator, 26 (1995), 355-405 (p. 365).
ff. 2r-30r
• JnB 611: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed
Copy of a composite text representing both the version used for the performances at Burley-on-the Hill and Belvoir in August 1621 and that used for the performance at Windsor c. September 1621
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson and in Greg; facsimiles of ff. 1 and 6 in Greg, plates X-XI; f. 2 in Hilton Kelliher, ‘Donne, Jonson, Richard Andrews and The Newcastle Manuscript’, EMS, 4 (1993), 134-73 (p. 146).
First published in John Benson's 12mo edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VII, 539-622. Edited by George Watson Cole (New York, 1931). Edited by W. W. Greg as Jonson's Masque of Gipsies (London, 1952).
f. 31r-4r
• JnB 92: Ben Jonson, An Epistle to a Friend. to perswade him to the Warres (‘Wake friend, from forth thy Lethargie: the Drum’)
Copy, headed ‘To a Freind’.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Vnder-wood (xv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 162-8.
ff. 34v-5r
• JnB 45: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 9. Her man described by her own Dictamen (‘Of your Trouble, Ben, to ease me’)
Copy, headed ‘The Man’.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
Herford & Simpson, VIII, 140-2.
f. 35v
• JnB 151: 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’)
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. 36r-7r
• JnB 194: 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’)
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.
ff. 37v-8v
• JnB 265: Ben Jonson, <Horace. Epode 2.> The praises of a Countrie life (‘Happie is he, that from all Businesse cleere’)
First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 289-91.
f. 39r
• JnB 82: Ben Jonson, An Epigram. To William Earle of Newcastle (‘They talke of Fencing. and the use of Armes’)
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lix) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 232-3.
f. 40r
• JnB 85: Ben Jonson, An Epigram. To William, Earle of Newcastle (‘When first, my Lord, I saw you backe your horse’)
Copy, headed ‘To the Right Honorable William viscount Mansfield: On his Horsemanship, and Stable’.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (liii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 288.
ff. 40v-1r
• JnB 735: Ben Jonson, The Vision of Delight
Copy of the speeches of Phantasy (lines 57-125, beginning ‘Bright Night, I obey thee, and am come at thy call’), transcribed probably from a text used at the original performance in 1617.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VII, 461-71.
f. 42r
• JnB 341: Ben Jonson, My Answer. The Poet to the Painter (‘Why? though I seeme of a prodigious wast’)
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 226-7.
f. 42v
• JnB 100: Ben Jonson, Epistle. To my Lady Covell (‘You won not Verses, Madam, you won mee’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Vnder-wood (lvi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 230-1.
ff. 43r-6r
• JnB 230: Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan (‘Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire’)
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.
ff. 46v-7r
• JnB 564: Ben Jonson, Christmas his Masque, lines 71-8, 93-101, 172-9, 182-245. Song (‘Now God preserve, as you well doe deserve’)
Copy of the song of Christmas.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
f. 47v
• JnB 353: Ben Jonson, My Picture left in Scotland (‘I now thinke, Love is rather deafe, then blind’)
Copy, headed ‘Verses on his Picture’.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (ix) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 149-50.
f. 47v
• JnB 472: Ben Jonson, This was Mr Ben: Johnsons Answer of the suddayne (‘Il may Ben Johnson slander so his feete’)
Printed from this MS in Briggs and in Herford & Simpson.
First published in William Dinsmore Briggs, ‘Studies in Ben Jonson’, Anglia, 37 (1913), 463-93 (p. 470). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 418.
ff. 48r-52v
• JnB 574: Ben Jonson, An Entertaimnent at the Blackfriars
Printed from this MS in The Monthly Magazine and in Herford & Simpson, with a facsimile of f. 48 facing p. 768.
First published in The Monthly Magazine. or British Register, Part I (February 1816). Herford & Simpson, VII, 765-86.
f. 52v
• JnB 432: Ben Jonson, A Song of Welcome to King Charles (‘Fresh as the Day, and new as are the Howers’)
Copy, untitled.
Printed from this MS in Gifford and in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. William Gifford, 9 vols (London, 1816). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 416.
f. 53r-v
• JnB 431: Ben Jonson, A Song of the Moon (‘To the wonders of the Peake’)
Copy, untitled.
Printed from this MS in Gifford and in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. William Gifford, 9 vols (London, 1816). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 416-18.
f. 54r
• JnB 528: Ben Jonson, To ye memorye of that most honoured Ladie Jane, eldest Daughter, to Cuthbert Lord Ogle: and Countesse of Shrewsbury (‘I could begin with that graue forme, Here lies’)
Printed from this MS in Gifford and in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. William Gifford, 9 vols (London, 1816). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 394.
f. 54v
• JnB 47: Ben Jonson, Charles Cauendish to his posteritie (‘Sonnes, seeke not me amonge these polish'd stones’)
Printed from this MS in Gifford and in Herford & Simpson, and collated with the monument at Bolsover.
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. William Gifford, 9 vols (London, 1816). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 387-8.
f. 55r
• JnB 137: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Katherine, Lady Ogle (‘T'is a Record in heauen, You, that were’)
Copy in the hand of John Rolleston, with a faintly pencilled rough sketch of a design for a memorial tablet.
Printed from this MS in Gifford and in Herford & Simpson. Facsimile in Hilton Kelliher, ‘Donne, Jonson, Richard Andrews and The Newcastle Maniuscript’, EMS, 4 (1993), 134-73 (p. 157).
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. William Gifford, 9 vols (London, 1816). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 399-400.
f. 81r
• RaW 401: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘ICUR, good Mounser Carr’
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’).
ff. 88r-9r
• DnJ 2725: John Donne, Satyre I (‘Away thou fondling motley humorist’)
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.
ff. 89r-90v
• DnJ 2754: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.
ff. 90v-1r
• DnJ 2787: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.
ff. 91v-4v
• DnJ 2816: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.
ff. 94r-5v
• DnJ 358: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Eleg. XII. The Bracelet’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as ‘Elegie XI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.
ff. 95v-6r
• DnJ 3156: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as ‘Elegie XIX. Going to Bed’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.
The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, ‘Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's “To his mistress going to bed”’, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.
f. 96r-v
• DnJ 1669: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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.
ff. 96v-7r
• DnJ 32: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published as ‘Elegie II’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as ‘Elegie II’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
f. 97r-v
• DnJ 608: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as ‘Elegie III’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.
ff. 97v-8v
• DnJ 2538: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as ‘Elegie IV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.
f. 98v
• DnJ 1518: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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.
ff. 98v-9r
• DnJ 1029: John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. (‘Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as ‘A Funeral Elegy’). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as ‘Elegia’.
f. 99r-v
• DnJ 2432: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’
Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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. 99v-100r
• DnJ 2185: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in F. G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as ‘Elegie XX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.
f. 100r-v
• DnJ 2489: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as ‘Elegie XVI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.
ff. 100v-1r
• DnJ 2323: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’
Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as ‘Elegie VII’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.
ff. 101r-2r
• DnJ 2124: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.
ff. 102r-3r
• DnJ 3048: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.
First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.
f. 103r-v
• DnJ 535: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.
ff. 103v-4v
• DnJ 3475: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.
ff. 104v-5r
• DnJ 776: John Donne, The Crosse (‘Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.
f. 105r-v
• DnJ 1052: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.
f. 106r-v
• DnJ 996: John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.
ff. 106v-7r
• DnJ 3423: John Donne, To Sr Henry Goodyere (‘Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare’)
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.
f. 107v
• DnJ 3272: John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.
f. 108r
• DnJ 3443: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.
f. 108r-v
• DnJ 3517: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.
ff. 108v-9v
• DnJ 3545: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘You have refin'd mee, and to worthyest things’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 191-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 91-4. Shawcross, No. 137.
ff. 109v-10r
• DnJ 3391: John Donne, To Sr Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.
f. 110r-v
• DnJ 128: John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion (‘Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 334-6. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 29-30 (as ‘Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608’). Shawcross, No. 183.
f. 110v-11r
• DnJ 1409: John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward (‘Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this’)
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.
f. 111r-v
• DnJ 2275: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
f. 111v
• DnJ 287: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and Gardner; recorded 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. 112r
• DnJ 169: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
f. 112v
• DnJ 1786: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.
f. 112r-v
• DnJ 474: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.
ff. 112v-13v
• DnJ 3712: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
f. 113v
• DnJ 2899: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
f. 113r-v
• DnJ 1434: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
f. 114r
• DnJ 945: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as ‘Elegie X’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.
f. 114r
• DnJ 3971: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.
f. 114v
• DnJ 3089: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)
Copy, headed ‘Ad Solem’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.
ff. 114v-15r
• DnJ 1630: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.
f. 115r
• DnJ 2161: John Donne, Loves Usury (‘For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.
ff. 115v-16r
• DnJ 574: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.
f. 116r
• DnJ 3605: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)
Copy headed ‘Song’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.
f. 116r-v
• DnJ 2229: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse (‘If yet I have not all thy love’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.
ff. 116v-17r
• DnJ 2986: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.
f. 117r
• DnJ 1818: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)
Copy headed ‘Song’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.
f. 117r-v
• DnJ 1307: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.
ff. 117v-18r
• DnJ 5: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.
f. 118r
• DnJ 416: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded 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. 118r-v
• DnJ 2623: John Donne, The Prohibition (‘Take heed of loving mee’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.
f. 118v
• DnJ 102: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.
ff. 118v-19v
• DnJ 3766: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.
ff. 119v-20r
• DnJ 242: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie. The Autumnall’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as ‘Elegie IX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.
f. 120r-v
• DnJ 3641: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
f. 120v
• DnJ 1126: John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford (‘That I might make your Cabinet my tombe’)
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.
ff. 120v-1v
• DnJ 3797: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.
f. 121v
• DnJ 647: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.
ff. 121v-2r
• DnJ 2094: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)
Copy, headed ‘Springe’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.
f. 122r-v
• DnJ 2072: John Donne, Loves exchange (‘Love, any devill else but you’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.
f. 122v
• DnJ 732: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.
ff. 122v-3r
• DnJ 915: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.
f. 123r-v
• DnJ 3825: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.
f. 123v
• DnJ 1949: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)
Copy, headed ‘Mummye’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.
f. 124r
• DnJ 1342: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
f. 124r-v
• DnJ 808: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.
ff. 124v-5v
• DnJ 1245: John Donne, The Extasie (‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.
ff. 125v-6r
• DnJ 3687: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.
f. 126r-v
• DnJ 1987: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.
f. 126v
• DnJ 2025: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
f. 127r-v
• DnJ 3887: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)
Copy of a five-stanza version.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
f. 127v
• DnJ 1384: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.
ff. 127v-8v
• DnJ 1860: John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mrs Essex Riche, From Amyens (‘Here where by All All Saints invoked are’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.
ff. 128v-30r
• DnJ 1161: 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’)
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 130r
• DnJ 3332: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘At once, from hence, my lines and I depart’)
Copy, headed ‘An Old Letter’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.
f. 130 r-v
• DnJ 336: John Donne, The Blossoms (‘Little think'st thou, poore flower’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.
ff. 130v-1r
• DnJ 2602: John Donne, The Primrose (‘Upon this Primrose hill’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.
f. 131r-v
• DnJ 2679: John Donne, The Relique (‘When my grave is broke up againe’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.
f. 131v
• DnJ 848: John Donne, The Dampe (‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.
ff. 132-5r
• DnJ 974: John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 (‘Unseasonable man, statue of ice’)
Copy, complete with the 11-poem ‘Epithalamion’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Shawcross, and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as ‘Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset’). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.
ff. 135r-8v
• DnJ 1922: John Donne, The Litanie (‘Father of Heaven, and him, by whom’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.
ff. 138v-9v
• DnJ 758: John Donne, La Corona (‘Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise’)
Copy of the sequence of seven sonnets.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 318-21. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 1-5. Shawcross, No. 160.
f. 139v
• DnJ 211: John Donne, ‘As due by many titles I resigne’
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 322 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 6. Shawcross, No. 162. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 5, 11, 21, 103 (in four sequences).
ff. 139v-40r
• DnJ 2473: John Donne, ‘Oh, my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned’
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. II’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 323 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. IV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 163. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 21, 104 (in three sequences).
f. 140r
• DnJ 226: John Donne, ‘At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow’
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 325 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 165. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 8, 14, 22, 106 (in four sequences).
f. 140r
• DnJ 3131: John Donne, ‘This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint’
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 324 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 164. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 22, 105 (in three sequences).
f. 140v
• DnJ 876: John Donne, ‘Death be not proud, though some have called thee’
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. X’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 167. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 23, 107 (in four sequences).
f. 140v
• DnJ 3036: John Donne, ‘Spit in my face you Jewes, and pierce my side’
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 168.
f. 140r-v
• DnJ 1612: John Donne, ‘If poysonous mineralls, and if that tree’
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. V’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. IX’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 166. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 9, 15, 23, 107 (in four sequences).
ff. 140v-1
• DnJ 3874: John Donne, ‘Why are wee by all creatures waited on?’
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 169.
f. 141r
• DnJ 325: John Donne, ‘Batter my heart, three person'd God. for, you’
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. X’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XIV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 171. Variorum, 7, Pt 1 (2005), pp. 18, 25.
f. 141r
• DnJ 3863: John Donne, ‘What if this present were the worlds last night?’
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. IX’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XIII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 170.
f. 141r-v
• DnJ 3932: John Donne, ‘Wilt thou love God, as he thee! then digest’
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. XI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 172.
f. 141v
• DnJ 1289: John Donne, ‘Father, part of his double interest’
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner; recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. XII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XVI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 173. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 6, 12, 26, 110 (in four sequences).
ff. 141v-2r
• DnJ 3576: John Donne, To the Countesse of Salisbury. August. 1614 (‘Faire, great, and good, since seeing you, wee see’)
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 224-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 107-10. Shawcross, No. 145.
ff. 142v-4v
• DnJ 2409: John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford (‘Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee’)
This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate; recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.
f. 173r
• JnB 532: Ben Jonson, To the right Honourable, the Lord Treasurer of England. An Epigram (‘If to my mind, great Lord, I had a state’)
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 260-1.
f. 173v
• JnB 501: Ben Jonson, To my Detractor (‘My verses were commended, thou dar'st say’)
Printed from this MS in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 408-9.
f. 174r
• JnB 540: Ben Jonson, To the Right Honourable, the Lord high Treasurer of England. An Epistle Mendicant (‘Poore wretched states, prest by extremities’)
Copy, headed ‘To my Lord Weston, Lo: Treasurer. A Letter’.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 248.
ff. 174v-5v
• JnB 249: Ben Jonson, An Expostulacon wth Inigo Iones (‘Mr Surueyr, you yt first begann’)
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, 7 vols, ed. Peter Whalley (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 402-6.
f. 176r
• JnB 475: Ben Jonson, To a ffreind an Epigram Of him (‘Sr Inigo doth feare it as I heare’)
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 407-8.
f. 176r
• JnB 489: Ben Jonson, To Inigo Marquess Would be A Corollary (‘But cause thou hearst ye mighty k. of Spaine’)
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 406-7.
ff. 176v-9r
• JnB 145: Ben Jonson, Epithalamion. or, A Song: Celebrating the Nvptials of Hierome Weston with Frances Stuart (‘Though thou hast past thy Summer standing, stay’)
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 252-8.
ff. 180r-1v
• JnB 520: Ben Jonson, To the immortall memorie, and friendship of that noble paire, Sir Lvcivs Cary, and Sir H. Morison (‘Brave infant of Saguntum, cleare’)
Copy, headed ‘To Sr Lucius Carey, on the death of his Brother Morison’.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 242-7.
f. 182r
• JnB 747: Ben Jonson, Letter(s)
Copy of a letter by Jonson, to the Earl of Newcastle, dated 4 February 1631[/2].
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, I, 210.
f. 192r
• JnB 606: Ben Jonson, The Fortunate Isles, and their Union, lines 586 et seq. Song (‘Come, noble Nymphs, and doe not hide’)
Copy, headed ‘A Song at Court to inuite the Ladies to Dance’.
First published in London, 1625. Herford & Simpson, VII, 701-29 (p. 727).
f. 192v
• JnB 78: Ben Jonson, An Epigram. To our great and good K. Charles On his Anniversary Day (‘How happy were the Subject, if he knew’)
Copy, headed ‘To the great and Gratious King Charles. On the Vniuersary day of his Raigne. 1629’.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in The Vnder-wood (lxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 236-7.
f. 193r
• JnB 59: Ben Jonson, An Epigram on the Princes birth (‘And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest be thy birth’)
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 237-8.
f. 193r
• JnB 79: Ben Jonson, An Epigram to the Queene, then lying in (‘Haile Mary, full of grace, it once was said’)
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxvi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 238.
ff. 194r-8v
• JnB 676: Ben Jonson, The King's Entertainment at Welbeck
Copy, transcribed from the acting copy (1633).
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson, with a facsimile of f. 194 facing p. 790.
First published in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VII, 789-803.
ff. 199r-202r
• JnB 680: Ben Jonson, Love's Welcome at Bolsover
Copy, transcribed from the acting copy (1634)
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson, with a facsimile of f. 199 facing p. 806.
First published in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VII, 805-14.
f. 202v
• JnB 748: Ben Jonson, Letter(s)
Copy of a letter by Jonson, to the Earl of Newcastle, undated.
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, I, 211.
f. 203r
• JnB 749: Ben Jonson, Letter(s)
Copy of a letter by Jonson, to the Earl of Newcastle, undated. c.1620s-30s.
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, I, 212.
f. 203v
• JnB 750: Ben Jonson, Letter(s)
Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, I, 213-14.
f. 205r-v
• CwT 1032: Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (‘'Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.
ff. 205v-6r
• CwT 1167: Thomas Carew, To the New-yeare, for the Countesse of Carlile (‘Give Lucinda Pearle, nor Stone’)
This MS collated in Dunlap.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 91-2.
f. 206r-v
• CwT 1168: Thomas Carew, To the Queene (‘Thou great Commandresse, that doest move’)
Copy, headed ‘The Preist's to the Queene’.
This MS collatd in Dunlap, pp. 91, 258.
p. 90-1.
Harley MS 4969
A formal copy, in an accomplished secretary hand, with some rubrication, with a title-page ‘Certein Devovte Meditations of the Love of God’, and with an eight-page ‘Table’ at the end, i + 315 quarto leaves, in old calf. Early 17th century.
SoR 339.5: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Hundred Meditations of the Love of God
An English translation of Diego de Estella's Meditaciones devotissimas del amor de Dios. First published in London, 1873, ed. John Morris, S.J.