The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 6000 through 6999

First published in Further Correspondence of Samuel Pepys 1662-1679, ed. J.R. Tanner (London, 1929), pp. 83-111.

Treatise, written c.1614 and ‘Presented to King James’, beginning ‘Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...’. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).

This MS recorded in Hartley.

First published in Richard Grafton, An Abridgement of the Chronicles of England (London, 1563), 179v-80.

Version I. Beginning ‘As I have good cause, so do I give you all my hearty thanks...’. Hartley, I, 44-5. Collected Works, Speech 3, pp. 56-8 (Version 1).

Version II. Beginning ‘In a thing which is not much pleasing unto me...’. Collected Works, pp. 58-60 (Version 2).

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.

A tract beginning ‘It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels...’. First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VIII, 146-208.

A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589, ‘A Letter on the Queen's religious policies’, was later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, and first published in Cabala, sive scrinia sacra (London, 1654), pp. 38-41.

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

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

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

Edited from this MS in Whitlock and in Doelman.

A twelve-line epitaph. First published in Baird W. Whitlock, ‘The Authorship of the Couplet on Sir Albertus Morton and His Wife’, N&Q, 226 (December 1981), 523-4, where (through a misreading of ‘G. H.’ in HrG 290.6 as ‘J. H.’) it is attributed to John Hoskins. Edited and attributed to George Herbert in James Doelman, ‘Herbert's couplet?’, TLS, 19 February 2010, p. 15.

For lines 5-6, beginning ‘The first deceased. He for a little try'd’, a couplet which in various forms circulated independently for many years and has traditionally, though uncertainly, been associated with Sir Henry Wotton, see WoH 175-198.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

Osborn, p. 302.

The text followed on f. 16 by an English version (see HrG 318).

An untitled eight-line poem on the visit of Frederick, the Elector Palatine, to the University of Cambridge. First published in James Duport, Ecclesiastes Solomonis (Cambridge, 1662). Hutchinson, p. 416. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 102-3.

First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.

Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72, 143.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.

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

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

This MS cited in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXXII (pp. 203-4).

This MS cited in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXXIII (pp. 205-6). Whitlock, pp. 483-4.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

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

The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning ‘I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...’); 22 April 1621 (beginning ‘It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...’); and 30 April 1621 (beginning ‘Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...’), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.

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’).

This MS collated in Pebworth, p. 161 seq. The text accompanied by two Latin versions.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Sir Henry Wotton's “Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place” and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.

This MS cited (as his ‘third 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).

Cited in Kelliher, p. 14.

First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 21. Walker, p. 121, as ‘[On Louis XIV]’. See also A. S. G. Edwards, ‘Rochester's “Impromptu on Louis XIV”’, N&Q, 219 (November 1974), 418-19.

Edited from this MS in Kelliher, pp. 15-16.

First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond, III, 219.

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

First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 62-89. O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks.

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

First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

A six-line satirical epitaph on Henry Savile (1642-87), courtier and diplomat. Unpublished.

First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

Part I first published in London, ‘1663’ [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, ‘1664’ [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London ‘1678’ [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).

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

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 62.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

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

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.

This MS collated in Dunalp; recorded in Hazlitt, p. 69.

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

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 33.

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

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 23-4. Dunlap. p. 132.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 115, and in Gullans.

First published, prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 500-42) and headed ‘To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh’, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.

For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, ‘Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of “Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart”’, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.

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

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Krueger.

First published, as ‘In praise of black Women; by T.R.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as ‘On a black Gentlewoman’. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as ‘On black Hair and Eyes’ and superscribed ‘R’; in The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as ‘on Black Hayre and Eyes’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

This MS (erroneously cited as Harley MS ‘4057’) recorded in Hazlitt, p. 9.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

Edited from this MS in The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. W. Carew Hazlitt ([London], 1870), pp. 101-3; recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 142-4.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 262.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.

This MS collated in Grierson.

First published, as ‘a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will’, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

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

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

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

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 6. Forey, p. 76.

This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.

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

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

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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).

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.

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.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 249.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxviii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 262-3.

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.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 141-2.

First published with Daiphantvs or The Passions of Loue (London, 1604). Latham, pp. 49-51. Rudick, Nos 54A, 54B and 54C (three versions, pp. 126-33).

This poem rejected from the canon and attributed to an anonymous Catholic poet in Philip Edwards, ‘Who Wrote The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage?’, ELR, 4 (1974), 83-97.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.

This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 104-9.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 565-6.

First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.

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

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury; collated in Davis.

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

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.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.

Dyce, VI, 179-80. Bullen, III, 183. Bowers, V, 66-7.

Edited from this MS in Dyce.

First published in Dyce (1843), I, liii-liv.

Dyce, X, 248-9; Bullen, II, 57-8.

First published in London, 1637. Dyce, X, 197-292. Bullen, II, 1-100, ed. W. W. Greg. Bowers, IX, 469-545, ed. Fredson Bowers.

This MS recorded in Crum.

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

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

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

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 21-4. Forey, pp. 1-5.

First published in Le Prince d'Amour (London, 1660).

Edited in part from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.

First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hazlitt, II, 433-6. Martin, pp. 404-6. Patrick, pp. 549-51.

This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 127-8.

This MS recorded in Powell, p. 290.

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

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

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

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

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

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.

This MS cited in Osborn.

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

Malcolm, Correspondence, II, 776, Letter 62A.

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 41. This MS quoted in part in Jean Jacquot, ‘Sir Charles Cavendish and his Learned Friends’, Annals of Science, 8 (1952), 13-27, 175-91 (p. 189).

Unpublished.

Part of this MS printed in Jean Jacquot, ‘Un document inédit: les notes de Charles Cavendish sur la première version du “De corpore” de Hobbes’, Thalès, 8 (1952), 33-86. Discussed and collated in part in Arrigo Pacchi, ‘Ruggero Bacone e Roberto Grossatesta in un inedito Hobbesiano del 1634’, Rivista critica di storia della filosofia, 20 (1965), pp. 15, 18-23, and in Jacquot & Jones (1973), pp. 83-8, 461-513.

First published in London, 1655. Molesworth, Latin, I, 1-431.

Edited from this MS in Sell.

First published in Ethel M. Portall, ‘The Academ Roial of King James I’, Proceedings of the British Academy, 1915-1916, pp. 189-208. Sell, pp. 176-7.

This MS collated in Hitchcock and briefly described, pp. xii-xiii.

First published in London, 1626. Edited, as The Lyfe of Sir Thomas Moore, knighte, written by William Roper Esquire, by Elsie Vaughan Hitchcock (EETS, London, 1935).

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.

Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980) as LeJ 28.

Edited from this MS in Nichols and in Grosart, II (v). Mistakenly described as autograph in Grosart and in Robertson, p. cxv.

A prose character, beginning ‘In the yere of o^r Lord 1534: Sept: 7: in the pallace of Greenw^ch...’. First published in John Nichols, The Progresses and Public Processions of Queen Elizabeth, III (London, 1805).

Probably the MS once owned by Thomas Rawlinson. Ballard's sale, 4 March 1733/4, lot 725.

First published in London, 1654. Molesworth, English, IV, 229-78.

This MS collated in Yale.

First published in Workes (London, 1557), pp. 1264-9. Yale, Vol. 13, pp. 189-204.

First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As ‘Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C.’ in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.

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.

Tract beginning ‘As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine...’. First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

Speech beginning ‘The best thanks we can return his Ma^tie for his gracious and religious answer...’.

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.

Speech beginning ‘Of the mischiefs that have lately fallen upon us by the late distractions here is every man sensible...’.

Kiernan, p. lv.

Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

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.

First published in London, 1549, ed. John Bale.

This MS recorded in Smith, I, xxviii-xxix.

A tract beginning ‘To obey commandment of my lord the prince, I have sent you my opinion of the match lately desired by the duke of Savoy...’. First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses: 1) Concerning a match propounded by the Savoyan, between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 223-36. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

A tract beginning ‘There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke...’. First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

A tract addressed to the monarch and beginning ‘According to my duty, I am emboldened to put your majesty in mind, that about fourteen or fifteen years past...’. First published, as by Sir Walter Ralegh, in London, 1653. Works (1829), VIII, 351-76.

Written by John Keymer (fl.1584-1622). See Adolf Buff, ‘Who is the author of the tract intitled “Some observations touching trade with the Hollander”?’, ES, 1 (1877), 187-212, and Lefranc (1968), p. 64.

A tract beginning ‘The ordinary theme and argument of history is war...’. First published (in part), as ‘The Misery of Invasive Warre’, in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London 1650). Published complete in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 253-97.

This MS collated in Brown, I, 309-14.

First published, anonymously, in London, 1694. Foxcroft, II, 454-65. Brown, I, 296-308.

This MS recorded in Tanner (1929).

First published in Further Correspondence of Samuel Pepys 1662-1679, ed. J.R. Tanner (London, 1929), pp. 83-111.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in The Psalmes of David, 2nd edition (London, 1654). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 161-2.

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

Edited partly from this MS in Spedding.

First published in Spedding, XIV (1874), 22-8.

Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.

First published in Opuscula varia, ed. William Rawley (London, 1658). Spedding, VI, 281-303. His translation pp. 305-18.

This MS text identified and discussed in Shami.

First published in Six Sermons (Cambridge, 1634). Fifty Sermons (London, 1649), No. 35. Potter & Simpson, II, No. 8, pp. 180-96.

This MS text identified and discussed, with a facsimile of ff. 133v-4r, showing the change of hand, in Shami.

First published in Sapientia Clamitans (London, 1638). XXVI Sermons (London, 1661), No. 13. Potter & Simpson, II, No. 11, pp. 235-49.

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.

This MS recorded in Akkerman.

A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to ‘the Countesse of Faukland’ in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.

Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.

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

Most MS texts followed by an anonymous ‘Answer’ beginning ‘The warlike king was troubl'd when hee spi'd’. Texts of these two poems discussed in V.L. Pearl and M.L. Pearl, ‘Richard Corbett's “Against the Opposing of the Duke in Parliament, 1628” and the Anonymous Rejoinder, “An Answere to the Same, Lyne for Lyne”: The Earliest Dated Manuscript Copies’, RES, NS 42 (1991), 32-9, and related correspondence in RES, NS 43 (1992), 248-9.

First published in The Jealous Lovers (Cambridge, 1632). Hazlitt, I, 57-8.

First published in The Jealous Lovers (Cambridge, 1632). Hazlitt, I, 58-9.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Waller.

First published in Grosart (1881), I, cxxxix-cxl. Waller, II, 483.

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

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.

First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, 7 vols, ed. Peter Whalley (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 402-6.

First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 406-7.

First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 407-8.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxviii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 262-3.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 89.

Seven speeches in The Works of Sir Charles Sedley, [London, 1702], pp. 1-21 (second pagination). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 225-38.

Seven speeches in The Works of Sir Charles Sedley, [London, 1702], pp. 1-21 (second pagination). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 225-38.

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

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

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

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

Edited from this MS in Gilchrist, p. 233.

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

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

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

This MS collated in Clayton.

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

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

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.

First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.

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

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

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 52-3.

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

First published, under the pseudonym ‘Francis Cole’, in The Prologue and Epilogue to a Comedie, presented, at the Entertainment of the Prince His Highnesse, by the Schollers of Trinity Colledge in Cambridge, in March last, 1641 (London, 1642).Printed (with the first line: ‘The Play is done, great Prince, which needs must fear’) in The Guardian (London, 1650). Waller, I, 32 (and II, 242). Autrey Nell Wiley, ‘The Prologue and Epilogue to the Guardian’, RES, 10 (1934), 443-7 (pp. 444-5).

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

Treatise, written c.1614 and ‘Presented to King James’, beginning ‘Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...’. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).

Edited from this MS in Stephens and in Spedding.

First published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, III, 199-252.

This MS recorded in Spedding, III, 523.

First published in Francisci Baconi...Scripta in naturali et universali philosophia, [ed. Isaac Gruter](Amsterdam, 1653). Spedding, III, 521-39.

This MS discussed in S. Musgrove, ‘Some Manuscripts of Heywood's Art of Love’, The Library, 5th Ser. 1 (1946-7), 106-12.

First published, anonymously, as Loues Schoole [?1600]. Edited from an early printed text (British Library, C.39.a.37) by M.L. Stapleton, as Thomas Heywood's Art of Love: The First Complete English Translation of Ovid's Ars Am atoria (Ann Arbor, Michigan, 2000).

A treatise in ten chapters, beginning ‘There is nothing more becoming any wise man than to make choice of friends...’. First published in London, 1632. Works (1829), VIII, 557-70. Edited by Louis B. Wright in Advice to a Son (Ithaca, 1962), pp. 15-32.

Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 309.

First published in The Elements of the Common Lawes of England (London, 1630). Spedding, VII, 307-87.

Bacon claimed to have collected ‘300 of them’, of which only ‘some few’ (25 maxims) were subsequently published. For an attempt to track down the ‘missing’ maxims, see John C. Hogan and Mortimer D. Schwartz, ‘On Bacon's “Rules and Maximes” of the Common Law’, Law Library Journal, 76/1 (Chicago, Winter 1983), 48-77.

Edited partly from this MS in Spedding.

First published as The Learned Reading of Sir Francis Bacon...upon the Statute of Uses (London, 1642). Spedding, VII, 389-450.

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 42. Extracts edited from this MS in The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic, ed. Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889; reprinted 1969), Appendix II, pp. 211-26. Discussed in Jean Bernhardt, ‘La polémique de Hobbes contre la Dioptrique de Descartes dans le Tractatus Opticus II (1644)’, Revue internationale de philosophie, 129 (1979), 432-42, and in Raylor, EMS 12, with a facsimile of f. 201r on p. 202.

An untitled treatise in Latin, a modified and expanded version of the Tractatus opticus published in 1644 (see HbT 39). Unpublished complete.

Edited in Molesworth, English, VII, 455-62, and in Mersenne, Correspondance, X (1967), 501-6. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 80-5, Letter 31.

Facsimiles of f. 291r in Isographie des hommes célèbres ou collection de fac-simile de lettres autographes et de signatures, 3 vols (Paris, 1828-30), Vol. II; of f. 292v in Raylor, Historical Journal (2001), p. 36; and of f. 293v in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate LXXXVI.

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 43. Edited from this MS, as if a Hobbes holograph, in Tönnies. Facsimile of f. 297r, in Raylor, p. 40.

First published, as ‘A Short Tract on First Principles’, and attributed to Hobbes, in The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic, ed. Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889; reprinted 1969), Appendix I, pp. 193-210. The authorship subsequently disputed and the tract attributed to Robert Payne: see Timothy Raylor, ‘Hobbes, Payne, and A Short Tract on First Principles’, The Historical Journal, 33 (2001), 29-58.

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 44. This MS recorded in Jean Jacquot, ‘Sir Charles Cavendish and his Learned Friends’, Annals of Science, 8 (1952), 13-27, 175-91 (p. 21). Erroneously once thought to be in Hobbes's hand. Facsimile of f. 310v in Raylor, Historical Journal (2001), p. 38.

Unpublished.

Formerly cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as HbT 45. This MS recorded in Jean Jacquot, ‘Sir Charles Cavendish and his Learned Friends’, Annals of Science, 8 (1952), 13-27, 175-91 (p. 21). Facsimile of f. 324r, wrongly identified as in Hobbes's hand, in IELM, II.i (1987), Facsimile XXIV, after p. xxiv.

Unpublished translation.

The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning ‘I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...’); 22 April 1621 (beginning ‘It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...’); and 30 April 1621 (beginning ‘Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...’), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

A discourse beginning ‘Your Majesty's desire of proceeding towards the union of this whole island...’. First published in Cases of Treason (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 731-43 (and see p. 775 et seq.).

Edited from this MS in Stephens (1734) and in Spedding, VIII, 123-43.

The third and fourth speeches first published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, VIII, 123-43. A defective text of the whole entertainment, with missing text conjecturally supplied, published as A Conference of Pleasure, composed for some festive occasion about the year 1592 by Francis Bacon, ed. James Spedding (London, 1870). Full text edited in Francis Bacon: A Critical Edition of the Major Works, ed. Brian Vickers (Oxford, 1996), pp. 22-51.

Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

Edited from this MS in Spedding, VII, 69-71.

First published with Essayes (London, 1597). Spedding, VII, 65-92. Spedding, VII, 67-8.

This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 775.

A discourse beginning ‘Your Majesty's desire of proceeding towards the union of this whole island...’. First published in Cases of Treason (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 731-43 (and see p. 775 et seq.).

This MS recorded in Spedding, p. 775.

First published in Cases of Treason (London, 1641). Spedding, VII, 776-8.

This MS recorded in Spedding, VII, 775.

First published in Cases of Treason (London 1641). Spedding, VII, 745-54.

Spedding, VII, 778-81 (discussed pp. 773-4). An adaptation of part of Sir John Doddridge, History of the Principality of Wales, possibly used by Bacon and printed with works by him in Cases of Treason (London, 1641).

Edited from this MS in Spedding, VI, 281-303 (translation pp. 305-18).

First published in Opuscula varia, ed. William Rawley (London, 1658). Spedding, VI, 281-303. His translation pp. 305-18.

First published in Resuscitatio, ed. William Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VI, 519-20.

Spedding, VII, 567-611.

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, XI, 116-26.

Edited from this MS in Stephens and in Spedding.

First published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, III, 493-504.

The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning ‘I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...’); 22 April 1621 (beginning ‘It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...’); and 30 April 1621 (beginning ‘Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...’), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

Written c.January 1611/12. First published in Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 265-70. Spedding, XI, 249-54.

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.

First published, as ‘A larger Relation of the...Iland Voyage’ (but without any dedicatory epistle), in Hakluytus Posthumus or Purchas his Pilgrimes (London, 1625). Glasgow edition of Purchas, XX (1907), 34-129. According to Purchas the work was written in 1607 and dedicated to Prince Henry.

Edited from this MS, discussed and the hand identified in Janet M. Green, ‘“I My Self”: Queen Elizabeth's Oration at Tilbury Camp’, Sixteenth Century Journal, 28 (1997), 421-45. Edited from this MS in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

Facsimiles of the first page in Felix Pryor, Elizabeth I: Her Life in Letters (British Library, London, 2003), No. 42, p. 98, and in Henry VIII Man and Monarch, ed. Susan Doran (British Library, London, 2009), p. 268.

Beginning ‘My loving people, I have been persuaded by some that are careful of my safety to take heed. how I committed myself to armed multitudes...’. Collected Works, Speech 19, pp. 325-6. Selected Works, Speech 10, pp. 77-83. The Queen's authorship supported in J.E. Neale, Essays in Elizabethan History (London, 1958), pp. 103-6.

Beginning ‘Oh quam decepta fui: Expectaui Legationem tu vero querelam, mihi adduxisti...’, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 168-9. An English version, beginning ‘O how I have been deceived! I expected an embassage, but you have brought to me a complaint...’, in Collected Works, Speech 22, pp. 332-4.

This MS cited in Collected Works.

Inscribed in a later hand ‘Giuen by M^r Geo. Holmes’.

Beginning ‘Oh quam decepta fui: Expectaui Legationem tu vero querelam, mihi adduxisti...’, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 168-9. An English version, beginning ‘O how I have been deceived! I expected an embassage, but you have brought to me a complaint...’, in Collected Works, Speech 22, pp. 332-4.

A tract beginning ‘These three great kingdoms as they now stand are to be compared to the election of a king of Poland...’. First published in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90. The attribution to Ralegh subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (private communication). If the tract dates from 1623, as appears in one MS, it could not have been weitten by Ralegh.

Speech beginning ‘We are bound to bless God that we are mett againe in this place. And we ought to acknowledge his Ma^ts favour towards vs...’.

Speech beginning ‘We are bound to bless God that we are mett againe in this place. And we ought to acknowledge his Ma^ts favour towards vs...’.

Speech beginning ‘We are bound to bless God that we are mett againe in this place. And we ought to acknowledge his Ma^ts favour towards vs...’.

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...’.

Tract beginning ‘As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine...’. First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

Speech beginning ‘Of the mischiefs that have lately fallen upon us by the late distractions here is every man sensible...’.

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.

Speech beginning ‘The best thanks we can return his Ma^tie for his gracious and religious answer...’.

Speech beginning ‘The best thanks we can return his Ma^tie for his gracious and religious answer...’.

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.

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.

Speech beginning ‘I did not think to have spoken...’. First published, as Sir Benjamin Rudierd His speech in Behalfe of the Clergie and of Parishes destitute of Instruction through want of Maintenance, Oxford, 1628. Manning, pp. 135-8. Yale 1628, III, 17-19, where it is dated probably 21 April 1628.

Speech beginning ‘I did not think to have spoken...’. First published, as Sir Benjamin Rudierd His speech in Behalfe of the Clergie and of Parishes destitute of Instruction through want of Maintenance, Oxford, 1628. Manning, pp. 135-8. Yale 1628, III, 17-19, where it is dated probably 21 April 1628.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 306.

A speech beginning ‘I will use no preface, as they do who prepare men to something to which they would persuade them...’ First published in two variant editions, as A Worthy Speech Made in the house of commons this present Parliament 1641 and as An Honorable and Learned Speech made by Mr Waller in Parliament respectively (both London, 1641). In Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), pp. 306-8. It is doubted whether Waller actually delivered this speech in Parliament, though ‘He may have prepared and circulated the speech in manuscript to impress contemporaries’.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

Speech beginning ‘There is a great dore now opened unto us of doing good...’. Variant version in Manning, pp. 148-51.

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 S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.

A treatise beginning ‘Frames of Policy, as well as works of Nature, are best preserved from the same grounds...’., written in 1609. First published London, 1655. Also published as Warrs with Forregin Princes Dangerous to oyr Common-Wealth: or, reasons for Forreign Wars Answered (London, 1657); as An Answer to such Motives as were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect Arms more than Peace... (London, 1665); and as A Discourse of Foreign War (London, 1690).

First published as introduced ‘...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe’ and beginning ‘Heere lies the woorthy warrier’, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, ‘1592’), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.

First published as introduced ‘...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe’ and beginning ‘Heere lies the woorthy warrier’, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, ‘1592’), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.

First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning ‘No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale...’. Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some ‘MSS and editions’ of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).

First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning ‘No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale...’. Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some ‘MSS and editions’ of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).

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

This MS collated in LACT.

First published in Opuscula quaedam posthuma (London, 1629). LACT, Opuscula (1852), pp. 117-50.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).

This MS collated in Spedding.

First published in London, 1641. Spedding, VII, 217-26.

This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.

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

Speech beginning ‘We are now upon a very great business, so great indeed as it requires our soundest and saddest consideration...’. Manning, pp. 188-92.

This MS collated in Feuillerat, III, 325 et seq. Recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 17.

First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.

This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).

A tract beginning ‘To obey commandment of my lord the prince, I have sent you my opinion of the match lately desired by the duke of Savoy...’. First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses: 1) Concerning a match propounded by the Savoyan, between the Lady Elizabeth and the Prince of Piedmont (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 223-36. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

A tract beginning ‘There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke...’. First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.

A compilation, beginning with ‘Trin. 2. Iacobi en Leeschecquer. Le Case de Praxiet’, the main part an epistlolary tract by Davies to Lord Ellesmere. First published as Le Primer Report des Cases en Matters en Ley (Dublin, 1615). Grosart, II, 243-357.

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 S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.

Edited in Freeman, pp. 182-3. Facsimile example in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XV(b). Discussed, and the identity of the handwriting questioned, in Freeman, p. 30; in Robert D. Parsons, ‘Thomas Kyd's Letters’, N&Q, 225 (April 1980), 140-1; and in Rebekah Owens, ‘Thomas Kyd and the Letters to Puckering’, N&Q, 250 (December 2006), 458-61.

Edited, with a facsimile of one page, in Boas, pp. cx-cxiii. Facsimile of another page in Wraight & Stern, p. 239.

Tract beginning ‘Since at these Assemblies few Diaries, or exact Iournall Books are remaining...’. First published as A Treatise, shewing that the Soveraignes Person is Required in the great Councells or Assemblies of the State, aswell at the Consultations as at the conclusions, London, 1641. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [41]-57.

Edited in Boas, pp. cviii-cx, and in Freeman, pp. 181-3. Facsimile examples in Boas, frontispiece; in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XV(a); in Wraight & Stern, p. 314; and in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 32.

Beginning ‘Most omnipotent Maker and Guider of all our world's mass, that only searchest and fathomest...’. Collected Works, Prayer 38, pp. 425-6. Selected Works, Prayer 4, pp. 254-6 (as ‘For the success of the expedition against Spain, June 1596’).

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

Letters by Clarendon to his daughter Anne (who died on 31 March 1671 before the letter arrived) and to her husband, the Duke of York (later James II), on the occasion of her conversion to Roman Catholicism. The original letters, which received particular attention by his contemporaries because of their subject matter, are not known to survive.

These were first published in Two Letters written by…Edward Earl of Clarendon…one to His Royal Highness the Duke of York, the other to the Dutchess, occasioned by her Embracing the Roman Catholic Religion (London, [1680?]) and were reprinted in State Tracts (1689), in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (Oxford, 1724), pp. 313-24, and elsewhere.

First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), where it is ascribed to Sir Henry Wotton. First ascribed to Clarendon in the third edition (1672). First published separately as The characters of Robert Earl of Essex…and George Duke of Buckingham (London, 1706). Reprinted in An Appendix to the History of the Grand Rebellion (London, 1724), pp. 247-71, and in A Collection of several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727), I, 247-71.

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

This MS collated in Spedding.

A tract beginning ‘It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels...’. First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VIII, 146-208.

A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589, ‘A Letter on the Queen's religious policies’, was later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, and first published in Cabala, sive scrinia sacra (London, 1654), pp. 38-41.

Edited from this MS in Stephens and in Spedding.

First published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chacellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, III, 557-85.

Edited from this MS in Stephens and in Spedding.

First published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, III, 641-52.

First published in LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 106-10.

Facsimile of the last page in Beal, ‘Checklist’, p. 124.

Unpublished disquisition on Prudence, in seventeen chapters, addressed to an unidentified person by ‘Yo^r S^ruito^r Alex^r Dicsone’. Beal, ‘Checklist’, p. 123.

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

Advice beginning ‘Most Gracious Soveraign and most worthy to be a Soveraign / Care, one of the natural and true-bred children of unfeigned affection...’. First published in The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1651), pp. 121-56. Spedding, VIII, 43-56.

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).

This MS discussed in Van Strien.

First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).

This MS collated in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 24-7. Poems (1667), pp. 12-13. Saintsbury, pp. 514-15. Thomas, I, 81-2, poem 10.

This MS collated in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation. Facsimile of f. 69r in Elizabeth H. Hageman and Andrea Sununu, ‘“More Copies of it abroad than I could have imagin'd”: Further Manuscript Texts of Katherine Philips, the “Matchless Orinda”’, EMS, 5 (1995), 127-69 (p. 142).

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 22-4. Poems (1667), pp. 11-12. Saintsbury, pp. 513-14. Thomas, I, 80, poem 9.

Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 221-2.

Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 204.

An epistolary essay beginning ‘My good Cousin, according to the request of your letter, dated the 19. of October, at Orleance...’, dated from Hackney, 20 November 1609. First published in Certaine Learned and Elegant Workes (London, 1633). Grosart, IV, 301-6. This essay perhaps originally written by Thomas Bodley and possibly also used by Francis Bacon and/or the Earl of Essex. Also perhaps sent by Greville to John Harris rather than Greville Varney: see Norman K. Farmer, Jr., ‘Fulke Greville's Letter to a Cousin in France and the Problem of Authorship in Cases of Formula Writing’, RQ, 22 (1969), 140-7.

This MS recorded in Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.

First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 103-40.

This MS recorded in Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.

First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 59-79.

First published in Complaints (London, 1591); Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.

First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.

This MS recorded in Minor Poems, II, 678, 687; described in The Poetical Works of Spenser, ed. E. de Sélincourt, III (Oxford, 1910), pp. xviii-xix.

First published (with a separate title-page dated 1590) in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 157-73.

This MS recorded in Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.

First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 35-56.

First published in Complaints (London, 1591); Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 141-54. This MS recorded in Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.

First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 141-54.

This MS recorded in Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.

First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 174-8.

This MS recorded in Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.

First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 179-85.

This MS recorded in Minor Poems, II, 678, 687.

First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 186-8.

First published in London, 1594. Bartlett, pp. 17-45.

First published in London, 1596. Edited by Elizabeth Story Donno (New York, 1962).

First published London, 1595. Brown, pp. 75-100.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. 146.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 57-8.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. 146.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 57.

This MS recorded in Brown, p. 152.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 69-70.

First published in 1595.

First published in Euphves Shadow, The Battaile of the Sences (London, 1592). EV 23951.

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

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

This MS collated in Rollins, England's Helicon, II, 111.

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

First published in London, 1592. McKerrow, I, 149-245.

This MS collated in May.

First published in John Mundy, Songs and Psalmes composed into 3. 4. and 5. parts (London, 1595). May, Poems, No. 16 (p. 37). May, Courtier Poets, p. 281. EV 28428.

This MS collated in Sargent.

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

This MS recorded in Hirsch.

First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also ‘The Text of “Tichborne's Lament” Reconsidered’, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the ‘answer’ to this poem, see KyT 1-2.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 131.

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, ‘Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine’, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's ‘answer’ to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

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).

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.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Ringler, p. 12. Robertson, pp. 30-1.

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

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

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

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, pp. 151-2.

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

Edited from this MS in Vivian and in Davis.

First published in Vivian (1909), p. 356. Davis, p. 475.

Printed from this MS in Davis, p. 476.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xviii. Davis, p. 154.

Edited from this MS in Davis, p. 476.

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

This MS collated in May, p. 123.

May, Poems, No. 1, pp. 43-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 250-1EV 14991.

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

This MS recorded in Latham.

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

This MS collated in Sargent.

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

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Ringler, p. 38-9. Robertson, p. 95.

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

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 480-2. Recorded in McKerrow.

First published in ‘Poems and Sonets of sundrie other Noble men and Gentlemen’ appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). McKerrow, III, 396 (in poems of doubtful authorship). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 104-5.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 491.

First published among ‘sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen’ appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Davis, p. 10.

This MS collated in Sargent.

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

This MS collated in Robertson, pp. l-li. Recorded in Grosart.

First published in The Historie of the life and fortune of Don Frederigo di terra Nuoua (London, 1590); Grosart, I (u), p. 10.

First published, anonymously and dedicated to Lord Burghley, in London, 1589. Edited by Gladys Doidge Willcock and Alice Walker (Cambridge, 1936). Edited by Frank Whigham and Wayne A. Rebhorn (Ithaca & London, 2007).

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

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

This MS collated in Sargent.

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

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, pp. 217-21.

First published in Bernard M. Wagner, ‘New Poems by Sir Edward Dyer’, RES, 11 (1935), 466-71 (p. 470). May, Courtier Poets, p. 312, among ‘Poems possibly by Dyer’. EV 6219.

This MS collated in Sargent.

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

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Ringler, pp. 94-7. Robertson, pp. 249-53.

This MS collated in California, in Blakemore Evans and in Vieth.

First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond, I, 313-36.

The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision’, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, ‘Dryden's Mac Flecknoe’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, ‘Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, ‘The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe’ in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.

A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, ‘Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire’, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that ‘Mulgrave had by far the major hand’. Recorded in Hammond, V, 684, in an ‘Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition’.

Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

Edited from this MS in POAS.

First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being ‘probably by the L^d Dorset’ in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

First published in The Genius of True English-men (London, 1680). Love, p. 55 (21-line version) and pp. 257-8 (30-line version). Also attributed to Robert Wolseley.

First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.

Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as ‘obviously not by Dorset’.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…Buckingham, Vol. I (London, 1704). Thorpe, pp. 62-4.

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

First published in Vieth, pp. 129-30. Walker, pp. 102-3. Love, p. 91, as ‘Dialogue L: R.’

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; edited in Walker.

First published, in a version headed ‘Posted on White-Hall-Gate’ and beginning ‘Here lives a Great and Mighty Monarch’, in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon (London, 1707). Vieth, p. 134. Walker, p. 122, as ‘[On King Charles]’.

Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Harris (1979), p. 49.

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; edited in Walker.

First published, in shortened form, in Johannes Prinz, Rochesteriana (Leipzig, 1926), p. 56. Vieth, pp. 130-1. Walker, p. 103. Love, pp. 42-3.

Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as ‘obviously not by Dorset’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published (lines 1-16 only) in Choice Ayres and Songs, Fourth Book (London, 1683). Published complete in Lycidas (London, 1688). Thorpe, pp. 11-12.

Edited from this MS in Ebsworth and in Harris; collated in Wright & Spears.

First published in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, V (Hertford, 1885), p. 219. The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1971) II, 778 (among ‘Works of Doubtful Authenticity’). Harris, pp. 101-2.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Harris, pp. 81-2.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.

Recorded in Harris.

Edited in Harris (1940), pp. 152-3. Discussed in Harris (1979), p. 188. Unlikely to be by Dorset.

Edited from this MS in Harris; collated in Wright & Spears.

First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). The Literary Works of Matthew Prior, ed. H. Bunker Wright and Monroe K. Spears, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1971), II, 777-8 (among ‘Works of Doubtful Authenticity’). Harris pp. 93-4.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.

First published in London, 1660.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 41.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 32-3.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 43.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 34.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 34-5.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 46.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 36.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 52.

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

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 53.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 53.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 55.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 42-4.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 58.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 45-6.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 60.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 47.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 18-20.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published, as ‘In praise of black Women; by T.R.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as ‘On a black Gentlewoman’. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as ‘On black Hair and Eyes’ and superscribed ‘R’; in The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as ‘on Black Hayre and Eyes’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 448-55; collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 112-16. Patrick, pp. 154-8.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 107-8.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 7.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 7. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 18.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 15-16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 19.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 16-17. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 38.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 30-1.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 61.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 48.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 62.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 48-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 70.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 53-4.

Lines 5-10 edited from this MS in Dunlap, p. 240.

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

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 71.

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

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 242.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 55.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 72.

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

This MS collated in Dunlap. Edited from this MS in the online Early Stuart Libels.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 57.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 75. Edited from this MS in the online Early Stuart Libels.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 58-9.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 77.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 59-62.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 82.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 63.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 83.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 63-4.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 69-71.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 16.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 14.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 86.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 66.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 138.

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

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

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt and in Thorn-Drury.

First published in Hazlitt (1875). Thorn-Drury, pp. 168-9.

Edited, and tentatively attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1927), p. 115.

Edited from this MS in Moore Smith (1925).

Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1925), p. 257.

This MS recorded in Krueger and in Moore Smith (1927).

Poems (1660), pp. 38-9, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 32, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’. Edited, and tentatively attributed to Randolph, in G.C. Moore Smith, ‘Thomas Randolph’ (Warton Lecture on English Poetry, read 18 May 1927), Proceedings of the British Academy, 13 (1927), 79-121 (pp. 115-16).

Edited from this MS in Berry and in Gibbs, p. 275.

First published in Herbert Berry, ‘Three New Poems by Davenant’, PQ, 31 (1952), 70-4. Gibbs, pp. 317-21.

Edited from this MS in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 90 (p. 98).

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

This MS collated in Krueger and in The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts ([revised paperback edition], Baton Rouge and London, 1983), pp. 217, 231.

Krueger, pp. 53-4, among ‘Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts’. Edited, as a ‘Poem Possibly by William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke’, in The Poems of Lady Mary Wroth, ed. Josephine A. Roberts ([revised paperback edition], Baton Rouge and London, 1983).

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.

Edited from this MS in Clayton.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 43-4.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 109. Musical setting by Nicholas Lanier published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

Edited from this MS in Berry and in Gibbs.

First published in Herbert Berry, ‘Three New Poems by Davenant’, PQ, 31 (1952), 70-4. Gibbs, pp. 275-6. A variant version, beginning ‘Sing fair Clorinda’, published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Gibbs, pp. 303-8.

Edited from this MS in Berry and in Gibbs.

First published in Herbert Berry, ‘Three New Poems by Davenant’, PQ, 31 (1952), 70-4. Gibbs, p. 276.

First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 489-90.

Edited from this MS in Bullen (1889); in Latham; and in Rudick, No. 43B, pp. 113-14.

First published in A.H. Bullen, Speculum Amantis (London, 1889), pp. 76-7. Latham, pp. 21-2. Rudick, Nos 43A and 43B (two versions, pp. 112-14).

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, II, 463-4; collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 156-7. Patrick, pp. 211-12.

Dobell, pp. 215-16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes first published in his Ayres and Dialogues…The Third Book (London, 1658).

Edited from this MS in Haworth and in Berry, p. 26; collated in Clayton.

First published in Minor Poets of the Seventeenth Century, ed. R.G. Haworth (London, 1931). Clayton, p. 36.

Edited from this MS in Martin.

First published in L.C. Martin, ‘A Hitherto Unpublished Poem by (?) Richard Crashaw’, LM, 8 (June 1923), 159-66. Martin (1952), pp. 406-9.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 183-5.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 181-2.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 166-7.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 175.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, p. 174 (and later version pp. 399-400).

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Wits Recreations, 2nd edition (London, 1641). Among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 195-8.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 116-17, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by Strode. Authorship unknown.

First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

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

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.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 75.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 73.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 72-3.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 72.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 152-4.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 67.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 73-5.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in The Psalmes of David, 2nd edition (London, 1654). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 161-2.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 162.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 160.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 159.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 167.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 168-9.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 168.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 163-4.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 164-6.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 173-4.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 172-3.

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

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

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

Edited from this MS in Dunlap.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 99-100. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), p. 130. Forey, p. 31.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 23.

First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, p. 564.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, p. 565.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, pp. 565-6.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, p. 567.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, p. 568.

Edited from this MS by editors.

First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, pp. 568-9.

Edited from this MS in Hazlitt, in Martin, and in Patrick.

First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 446-7. Martin, p. 414. Patrick, p. 552.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Epigrammes (ci) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 64-5.

This MS collated in Davis, pp. 497-8.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xx. Davis, p. 156-8. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 2.

Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

First published (‘from MSS (not in a public library)’) in Eu. Hood [i.e. Joseph Haslewood], ‘Bishop Corbet's Poems’, Gentleman's Magazine, 93.i (April 1823), 308-9. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 89-90.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 12-13.