CELM: The British Library: Harley Collection, numbers 7000 through end

Harley MS 7000

A folio composite volume of state letters, most addressed to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, in various hands, 483 leaves (plus list of contents), in modern half-morocco.

f. 146r-v

• *CoR 776: Richard Corbett, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed, to George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, from Christ Church, 26 February [1623/4]. 1624.

Edited in Cabala (London, 1663), p. 220; in Gilchrist, pp. xx-xxi, and in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xxvi.

ff. 193r-4v

• *AndL 85: Lancelot Andrewes, Document(s)

A joint letter to Lord Burghley, concerning ‘M^r Mountagues booke’, signed by Andrewes and other bishops, 16 January 1625/6. 1626.

Harley MS 7002

A large folio composite volume of original state letters, in various hands, iv + 488 leaves (plus blanks), in half morocco gilt.

f. 324r-5r

• BcF 588: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Bacon.

f. 325r-v

• HoJ 222: John Hoskyns, S^r Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount S^t Albons (‘Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling’)

Copy, in a cursive italic hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Great Verulam is very lame, the Gout of go=out feeling’, subscribed ‘ffranciscan Martir’. Mid-17th century.

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

f. 420r-3v

• RaW 817: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

An account of Ralegh's speech and execution, in a letter written by Thomas Lorkin to Sir Thomas Puckering, from London 3 November 1618, with a postscript ‘When you have read this side I should esteem it a fauo^r, if yow burnt it.’. 1618.

Later inscription (f. 423v) ‘Bought of M^r Baker’.

This MS printed in V.T. Harlow, Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 311-14.

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.

Harley MS 7003

A large folio composite volume of original state and miscellaneous letters, in various hands, 391 leaves, in modern brown morocco gilt. Inscribed by Wanley with date of acquisition ‘27 August, 1724’.

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• *RoJ 648: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Letter(s)

Forty autograph letters by Rochester--addressed chiefly to his wife, some to his mother, son, and father-in-law, and to his friend Henry Savile. Late 17th century.

Facsimiles of various of these letters appear in Lawrence B. Phillips, The Autographic Album (London, 1866), p. 231; in Prinz (1927), after pp. 252, 262 and 272; in Vivian de Sola Pinto, Rochester: Portrait of a Restoration Poet (London, 1935), after p. 52; in The Rochester-Savile Letters 1671-1680, ed. John Harold Wilson (Columbus, 1941), frontispiece; in Greene, pp. 51, 151; and in Treglown (two on the endpapers of the 1980 edition).

f. 183r

• RoJ 649.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Letter(s)

Copy of Rochester's letter of repentance on his death-bed, to Gilbert Burnet, 25 June 1680. c.1680.

f. 191r

• CoA 104: Abraham Cowley, Martial. Lib. 2. Vota tui breviter, &c. (‘Well then, Sir, you shall know how far extend’)

Copy of lines 13-16, here beginning ‘Is there a man yee gods whome I doe hate’. In the hand of John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, quoted in a letter by him to his wife, on the first page of a quarto leaf, the address and impressions in red wax of his seal on the verso. c.1680.

Edited from this MS in David M. Vieth, ‘Rochester and Cowley’, TLS (12 October 1951), p. 645, and in The Letters of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Jeremy Treglown (Oxford, 1980), p. 242.

First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 386-7.

f. 260r

• RoJ 649.8: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Rochester, to his nephew, the Earl of Lichfield, 23 December 1677. c.1677.

Treglown, pp. 176-7 (not signaled as a copy).

ff. 293r-4v

• *DrJ 304: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to John Wilmot, second Earl of Rochester, [c.summer 1673]. 1673.

Ward, Letter 4 (and see also Ward, Life, p. 348). Facsimile example of f. 294r (erroneously dated 1682-7) in T.J. Brown, ‘English Literary Autographs: III’, The Book Collector, 1 (Autumn 1952), 180.

Harley MS 7017

A large folio composite volume of miscellaneous letters and tracts, in various hands, 360 leaves, in modern morocco gilt.

ff. 25r-33r

• RaW 1122: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Scepticke

Copy.

Edited principally from this MS in Hamlin.

A tract beginning ‘The Scepticke doth neither affirm nor deny any position...’. First published, as by Sir Walter Ralegh, in London, 1651. Works (1829), VIII, 548-56. William M. Hamlin, ‘A Lost Translation Found? An Edition of The Sceptick (c.1590)’, ELR, 31/1 (Winter 2001), 34-51 (pp. 42-51).

A translation of extracts from the Hypotyposes of Sextus Empiricus. See S.E. Sprott, ‘Ralegh's “Sceptic” and the Elizabethan Translation of Sextus Empiricus’, PQ, 42 (1963), 166-75, and Lefranc (1968), pp. 66-7.

ff. 34v-34*

• HaG 1: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Anatomy of an Equivalent

List of headings relating to this work, with corrections, extrapolated from a printed edition, on a single folio leaf and a small slip. Late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Brown, I, 398.

First published, anonymously, [in London, 1688]. Foxcroft, II, 425-6. Brown, I, 265-90.

f. 80r-v

• HaG 32: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Maxims of the Great Almansor

Copy of 24 maxims, headed ‘The following Maximes found by a Jew among the papers of y^e Great Almansor and though they must loose a good deal of Their Originall Spirit by y^e: Translation yet they seem to be so applicable to all Times that it is thought no disservice to Mankind to make them publick’, on a single folio leaf. c.1700.

This MS collated in Brown, I, 398-401.

First published, anonymously, under the heading The following Maxims were found amongst the Papers of the Great Almanzor…[&c] (London, 1693). Foxcroft, II, 447-53. Brown, I, 292-5.

ff. 83r-129v

• *BcF 269: Francis Bacon, Promus of Formularies and Elegancies

Miscellaneous autograph notes and drafts, in English and Latin (incorporating BcF 85 and BcF 305); f. 85r dated 5 December 1594, and f. 114r dated 21 January 1595. c.1594-7.

Extracts edited from this MS in Spedding. Edited complete (with facsimile examples of f. 85r) in Durning-Lawrence.

Extracts in Spedding, VII, 187-211. Complete in Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence, Bacon is Shake-speare (London, 1910), pp. 190-275.

Harley MS 7021

A folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various hands, 432 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt.

ff. 1r-11v

• BcF 729: Francis Bacon, Notes on the Present State of Christendom [1582]

Copy. Early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

Beginning ‘In the consideration of the present estate of Christendom...’. Spedding, VIII, 18-30 (discussed pp. 16-17).

ff. 25r-42v

• *BcF 232: Francis Bacon, Of the True Greatness of the Kingdom of Britain

Copy, in the secretary hands of two amanuenses, with Bacon's autograph corrections and revisions, unfinished. c.1608.

Edited from this MS in Spedding.

First published in Letters and Remains of the Lord Chancellor Bacon, ed. Robert Stephens (London, 1734). Spedding, VII, 45-64.

ff. 54r-64r

• CtR 400: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England

Copy, in an accomplished secretary hand, subscribed ‘Written by S^r. Robert Coton knight Anno 1614 and presented to the kinge’. c.1620s.

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).

ff. 65r-122r

• HoH 75: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women

Copy of the Dedication to the Queen only, in a professional hand with a title-page: ‘An aunswere to the Coppie of a Rayleing Invectiue, against the Regement, of woemen in generall, w^th certaine, Malliparte exceptions, to diuers, and sundrie matters of State; Written vnto Queene Elizabeth; by the Right Honnorable Henrye Lord Howard late Earle of Northampton &c’. c.1620s-30s.

An unpublished answer to, and attack upon, John Knox's ‘railing invective’ against Mary Queen of Scots, First Blast of the Trumpet against the Monstrous Regiment of Women (1558). Written, Howard claims in his Dedication, some thirteen years after he was asked to do so by a Privy Councillor [i.e. c.1585-90]. The Dedication to Queen Elizabeth beginning ‘It pricketh now fast upon the point of thirteen years (most excellent most gratious and most redoubted Soveraign...’; the main text, in three books, beginning ‘It may seem strange to men of grounded knowledge...’, and ending ‘...Sancta et individuae Trinitati sit omnis honor laus et gloria in secula seculorum. Amen.’

ff. 230r-4v

• CtR 165: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, in a secretary hand, unascribed. c.1620s.

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.

Harley MS 7030

Copy, in the hand of Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary, transcribed from MrT 98. c.1700.

MrT 95: Sir Thomas More, William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More

Recorded in Hitchcock, p. xvii.

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).

Harley MS 7033

A folio volume of historical and academic papers, entirely in the hand of Thomas Baker (1656-1750), Cambridge antiquary. c.1707.

ff. 259r-94r

• FuT 8: Thomas Fuller, Historical and Chronological Account of the University of Cambridge and its Colleges

Copy of a draft chronological account in Latin of the University of Cambridge, in Thomas Baker's hand, the notes ascribed by him to Fuller (‘Auctor hujus MS^ti: est Tho: Fuller, ut perhibent, et uti patet ex Fol: 276: 275 ubi Robertus Tounson Auunculus, et Johannes Davenant Auunculus et Dominus Auctoris designatur’), though he adds that many additions appear in another hand (‘Plurima tamen adduntur aliâ manu’). Baker testifies that the original manuscript which he was transcribing (albeit while making editorial alterations) was at Jesus College, Cambridge (‘Transcripta ex Codice MS: Coll: Jesu Cant:/Cl: F: E: 15:/ordine mutato [o]missisq. nonnullis, quae vel impressa sunt, vel alibi certius et melius habentur’).

Bailey, discussing these notes (pp. 503-4, 752), observes that ‘A comparison of some of the pages with Fuller's History [of the Worthies of England] serves to show that they were undoubtedly the rough notes that he had before him when writing it’, but that Fuller's original manuscript is no longer to be traced at Jesus College.

First published, edited by the Rev. Marmaduke Prickett and Thomas Wright (Cambridge, 1840).

ff. 340r-50r

• CmW 163: William Camden, Collectanea

Copy of some of Camden's historical notes and lists in CmW 161.

Harley MS 7034

A folio volume of historical collections, entirely in the hand of Thomas Baker (1656-1750), Cambridge antiquary. Early 18th century.

pp. 312r-13r

• MaA 44: Andrew Marvell, Janae Oxenbrigiae Epitaphium (‘Juxta hoc Marmor, breve Mortalitatis speculum’)

Copy in the hand of the antiquary Thomas Baker (1656-1740), without heading.

This MS recorded in Margoliouth and in Kelliher, BLJ, 4, 137.

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

Harley MS 7042

A tall folio volume of state letters and papers, in the hand of Thomas Baker (1656-1750), Cambridge antiquary, with some tipped-in inserts, 247 leaves, in 19th-century half-morocco gilt. Early 18th century.

ff. 65r-8v.

• BcF 589: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copies of various letters by Bacon, to Lord Keeper Puckering, from 5 April 1594 to 3 July 1595.

Harley MS 7048

A folio volume of historical collections, in a single hand, 282 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco gilt. Compiled entirely by Thomas Baker (1656-1740), Cambridge antiquary, being Volume XXI of his collections. Early 18th century.

ff. 34r-v

• LeJ 11.5: John Leland, Antiphilarchia

Extracts, in Baker's hand.

An unpublished treatise in Latin, dedicated to Henry VIII.

Harley MS 7056

A folio composite volume of letters and tracts, in various hands, 49 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Collected by James Butler (1610-88), first Duke of Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

ff. 49r-50v

• RaW 763: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Copy, in a secretary hand, of ‘S^r Walter Rawleighs Wordes at his Death, taken exactly by Tho: Aylsbury Esqr. [i.e. Sir Thomas Aylesbury (1579/80-1658), patron of mathematics] 1618’. c.1618.

f. 50v

• RaW 43: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘By S^r W: Rawleigh the morn a little before he was ledd from y^e Gatehouse’. c.1618.

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).

Harley MS 7162

A folio composite volume of speeches in Parliament 1639-41, in several professional hands, 356 leaves, in old calf gilt (rebacked).

ff. 108r-9v

• RuB 187: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 20 January 1640/1

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘S^r Beniamin Ridyard his Speech in the howse of Comons Concerning the Bill for the Queenes Joynture’, on two once conjugate folio leaves. c.1640s.

Speech beginning ‘God hath blessed the Queenes Ma^tie with a blessed and hopefull progenie alreadie...’. Manning, p. 213.

ff. 110r-12r

• RuB 179: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 29 December 1640

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Sir Beniamyn Rudgiers second Speech 29^o: Dec: 1640’. c.1640s.

Speech beginning ‘The principal part of this business is money...’. Manning, pp. 166-7.

ff. 113r-18r

• RuB 189: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 21-22 January 1640/1

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed S^r Benjamine Rudiarde speech in the Parliament 21^th of Januarie 1640. c.1640s.

Speech beginning ‘It well becometh vs thankefully to acknowledge the prudent & painfull endeuours of my Lords the Peers Comissioners...’. First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 11-‘18’ [i.e. 14]. Manning, pp. 169-72.

ff. 119r-36v

• RuB 155: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with a title-page ‘S^r Beniamyn Ridgeard his Speech in y^e Comons house of Parlim^t in Nouember 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 S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.

ff. 323r-5v

• WaE 790.5: Edmund Waller, Speech in the House of Commons, 22 April 1640

Copy.

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’.

Harley MS 7170

A thick folio volume of proceedings in Parliament.

ff. 36r-7r

• ClE 110: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Impeachment Proceedings against Clarendon in 1667

Copy. Late 17th century.

Articles of Treason exhibited in Parliament against Clarendon, 14 November 1667 published in London, 1667. The Proceedings in the House of Commons touching the Impeachment of Clarendon 1667 published in London, 1700.

ff. 38r-41r

• ClE 78: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, The Humble Petition and Address of Clarendon in 1667

Copy. Late 17th century.

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 7188

A folio composite volume of state and parliamentary papers, in various hands, 296 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

f. 235r

• ElQ 106: Queen Elizabeth I, On the Sailing of the Azores Expedition, July 1597

Copy, in a neat hand, headed ‘Queen Elizabeth's Prayer, at the going out of her Navy (upon the Expedition called the Islands Voyage) A^o. 1597’, on one side of a single folio leaf. 1st half 18th century.

Beginning ‘O God, All-maker, Keeper, and Guider, inurement of thy rare-seen, unused and seld-heard-of goodness...’. Collected Works, Prayer 39, pp. 426-7. Autograph Compositions, pp. 104-5. Selected Works, Prayer 5, pp. 257-9.

Harley MS 7203

A folio volume comprising a parliamentary journal for 1601, in a professional hand, 397 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. c.1690s.

A note of receipt for half a guinea, 13 July 1727, on p. 278.

ff. 362r-7v

• ElQ 270: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601

Copy of Version I, introduced ‘...And her Ma^tie beganne thus to answere her Selfe: vizt.’

This MS cited 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 7267

MS of the Duke of Newcastle's comedy The Humorous Lovers. Late 17th century.

The MS as a whole

• SdT 26.5: Thomas Shadwell, The Humorous Lovers

A neat professional copy of the Duke of Newcastle's comedy, with occasional corrections and emendations in a second hand which also seems to have been that responsible for a Latin inscription on the title-page: ‘Humores, Mores, Res, judicat hicce libellus, / Omnis in hoc vno Scenograpia patet / W.B.’, 44 folio leaves.

A comedy by Sir William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, in which Shadwell may have had a hand. First published in London, 1677.

Harley MS 7311

A printed Book of Common Prayer (1625), with a note (f. 9r) in the hand of Humphrey Wanley (1672-1726) claiming (erroneously) that the volume is annotated by Bishop John Cosin. Mid-17th century.

Once owned by Thomas Baker (1656-1740).

ff. 226r-300r

• AndL 36: Lancelot Andrewes, Notes on the Book of Common Prayer

Copy in two hands, headed ‘Notes found in B^p. Andrews Seruice-booke: written with his owne hand’, on leaves bound at the end.

This MS described and collated in LACT.

First published in William Nicholls, A Comment on the Book of Common Prayer (London, 1710). LACT, Minor Works (1854), pp. 141-58.

Harley MS 7312

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 151 pages (plus 128 blank pages), with a table of contents (f. 1*^r), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. End of 17th century.

pp. 5-10

• RoJ 535: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells (‘At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head’)

Copy, headed ‘Observacons on Tunbridge Wells’.

Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.

pp. 11-17

• RoJ 309: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyr against Man by the E— of R—r’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

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

pp. 45-7

• LeN 2: Nathaniel Lee, To the Prince and Princess of Orange, upon Their Marriage (‘Hail, happy Warriour! hail! whose Arms have won’)

Copy of the 85-line version, headed ‘On the Prince and Pricess of Orange’ and beginning ‘Haile happy Warriour whose Armes have won’.

First published, possibly as a broadside, 1677 [no exemplum known]. 85-line version in Examen Poeticum: being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems (London, 1693), pp. 168-74. Stroup & Cooke, II, 553-4. Earlier, 65-line version, headed ‘On the Marriage of the Prince and Princess of Orange’ and beginning ‘Hail happy Warrior! whose Arms have won’, published in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Stroup & Cooke, II, 555-6.

pp. 85-7

• RoJ 112: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Imperfect Enjoyment (‘Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms’)

Copy, headed ‘The imperfect enjoyment by E: R--r’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 37-40. Walker, pp. 30-2. Love, pp. 13-15.

pp. 90-5

• BuS 22: Samuel Butler, Dildoides (‘Such a sad Tale prepare to hear’)

Copy.

Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.

pp. 96-9

• DoC 75: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel of the Crabs (‘In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple’)

Copy, headed ‘The duell of the Crablice’.

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.

p. 107

• RoJ 504: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To the Postboy (‘Son of a whore, God damn you! can you tell’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in John D. Patterson, ‘Another Text of Rochester's “To the Post Boy”’, Restoration, 4 (1980), 14-16; collated 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.

pp. 118-48

• RoJ 640: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Sodom and Gomorah

Copy, with a title-page ‘Sodom or The Quintessence of Debauchery By E of R Written for the Royall Company of Whore masters’, in five Acts with the various prologues and epilogues.

This MS discussed, with a facsimile of p. 134 in Edwards, BC (1976). Text of the two prologues, two epilogues and final speech in this MS collated in Danchin, Prologues & Epilogues, II, 475-86.

First published (?) at ‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], (?)1684. The only known extant early printed exemplum is a probably early 18th-century octavo entitled Sodom, or the Gentleman Instructed. A Comedy. By the E. of R., sold at Sotheby's 16 December 2004, lot 54 (with facsimile pages in the sale catalogue), now in private ownership.

Edited from MS copies as Rochester's Sodom, ed. L.S.A.M. von Römer (Paris, 1904), and as Sodom (Olympia Press, Paris, [1957]). Love, pp. 302-33.

Of uncertain authorship. For discussions of authorship and texts, see notably Rodney M. Blaine, ‘Rochester or Fishbourne: A Question of Authorship’, RES, 22 (1946), 201-6; J. Thorpe, ‘New Manuscripts of Sodom’, PULC, 13 (1951-2), 40-1; A.S.G. Edwards, ‘Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401’, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and ‘The Authorship of Sodom’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 208-12; Larry Carver, ‘The Texts and The Text of Sodom’, PBSA, 73 (1979), 19-40; John D. Patterson, ‘Does Otway ascribe Sodom to Rochester?’, N&Q, 225 (August 1980), 349-51; and J.W. Johnson, ‘Did Lord Rochester Write Sodom?’, PBSA, 81 (1987), 101-53.

Harley MS 7315

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in two or more professional hands, 303 leaves, in modern black morocco gilt. In two parts: Part I on ff. 1r-149r (followed by blanks and then an index on ff. 150-1); Part II, on ff. 152-302 (with an addition in another hand on f. 303), entitled A Collection of the most choice and Private Poems, Lampoons &c from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701 Collected by a Person of Quality. c.1703.

A note of payment (f. 1r) for purchase on 25 March 1703. Owned by Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the ‘Harley MS’: MaA Δ 6. Marvell recorded and selectively collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I and II.

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• MaA 317: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)

Copy, as ‘supposed to be written by S^r J. Denham’.

This MS collated in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, ‘Two New Poems by Marvell?’, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, ‘The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

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• MaA 363: Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter (‘Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love’)

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.

See discussions of the disputed authorship of this poem, as well as of the ‘Second Advice’, cited before MaA 314.

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• MaA 391: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

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

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• MaA 128: Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming (‘When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand’)

Copy, headed ‘The House warming to the Chancellour’.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir John Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 143-6. POAS, I, 88-96. Lord, pp. 144-51. Smith, pp. 358-61.

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• MaA 438: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy, with a note in a later hand ‘By H. Savil. printed: 1679’.

This MS collated in POAS, I; 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.

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• MaA 235: Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market (‘As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon S^r Robert Viners setting up the Kings Statue’.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

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• MaA 163.7: Andrew Marvell, The Dream of the Cabal: A Prophetical Satire Anno 1672 (‘As t'other night in bed I thinking lay’)

Copy.

A lampoon sometimes called The Gamball or a dreame of y^e Grand Caball. First published in A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Edited in POAS, I (1963), pp. 191-203, as possibly by John Ayloffe. Ascribed to Marvell in two MS copies (MaA 163.4 and MaA 163.92).

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• MaA 303: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty (‘The Londoners Gent’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 190-4. POAS, I, 237-42. Lord, pp. 196-201, as ‘Upon the Citye's going in a body…’.

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• MaA 65: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn (‘I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene’)

Copy, with ‘The Answer’.

Edited from this in Margoliouth; collated in POAS, I.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

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• MaA 218: Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross (‘What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross’)

Copy, headed ‘On King Charles the First his Statue Why it is so long before it is put up at Chareing Crosse’.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.

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• MaA 144: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses (‘Wee read in profane and Sacred records’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as ‘probably Marvell's’. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

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• RoJ 104.28: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids (‘Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second’)

Copy.

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

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• MaA 102: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy, inscribed in another hand ‘By A. Marvell’.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, ‘Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe’, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

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• RoJ 348: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II (‘I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.

Edited from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth and in Walker. Facsimiles of both pages in Harold Love, ‘Rochester's ‘I' th' isle of Britain’: Decoding a Textual Tradition’, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223. (pp. 176-7).

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, ‘Rochester's “I' th' isle of Britain”: Decoding a Textual Tradition’, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.

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• MaA 84.88: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad called The Haymarket Hectors (‘I sing a woeful ditty’)

Copy.

Sometimes called Upon the cutting of S^r 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.

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• MaA 255: Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (‘When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd’)

Copy, headed ‘On Blood's stealing the Crowne’, inscribed in another hand ‘By A. Marvell’.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.

This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

For the Latin version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 85-97.

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• MaA 510: Andrew Marvell, His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, 13 April 1675

Copy, headed ‘His Majesties Speech’.

This MS recorded in Kelliher.

A mock speech, beginning ‘I told you last meeting the winter was the fittest time for business...’. First published, and ascribed to Marvell, in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 36-43. Grosart, II, 431-3. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (London, 1905), pp. 200-2. Discussed in Legouis, p. 470, and in Kelliher, pp. 111-12.

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• DrJ 57: John Dryden, Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. (‘And now 'tis time. for their Officious haste’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon Oliver Cromwell late Lord Protector. By John Dryden’.

This MS collated in Dearing et al., loc. cit.

First published in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, 1659). Kinsley, I, 6-12. California, I, 11-16. Hammond, I, 18-29.

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• WaE 716: Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same (‘We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim’)

Copy, headed ‘On the same Subject By M^r Waller’.

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.

For the ‘answer or construction’ by William Godolphin, see the Introduction.

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• MaA 139.6: Andrew Marvell, A Country Clowne call'd Hodge Went to view the Pyramid, pray mark what did ensue (‘When Hodge had number'd up how many score’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Mengel.

First published, as ‘Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision’, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.

First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.

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• DoC 343: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)

Copy, headed ‘The Lord Rochesters Farewell’ and here beginning ‘Fill'd with the noisome Folly of the Age’.

This MS collated 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.

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• DoC 321: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Deist: A Satyr on the Parsons (‘Religion's a politic law’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on the Parsons’, inscribed in a different ink ‘By the L^d. Dorset: or Cha: Blount’.

This MS recorded in Harris.

Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, pp. 189-90.

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• DrJ 228: John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee (‘O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain’)

Copy, headed ‘On Dundee, 1689 By M^r Dryden’.

This MS collated in California.

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.

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• DoC 291: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd ‘The Female Nine’ (‘When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines’)

Copy, with corrections in another hand, headed ‘An Excellent new Ballad giving a True Account of the Birth & Conception of a Late famous Poem call'd The Female Nine To the Tune of Packingtons Pound’, inscribed afterwards ‘By E. Dorset. 1690’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

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

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• DoC 175: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (II) (‘Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Countess of’ [‘Dorchester 1694 by E: Dorset’added in another hand].

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.

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• DoC 188: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (III) (‘Proud with the spoils of royal cully’)

Copy, untitled, as stanzas 3 and 4 of DoC 175.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384-5. Harris, pp. 43-4. In most texts the poem runs directly on from the previous poem on the Countess of Dorchester (DoC 173-85).

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• DoC 200: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) (‘Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay’)

Copy, headed ‘Another on the same Lady’, inscribed afterwards ‘By E Dorset’.

Edited from this MS in Harris; collated in POAS.

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

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• CgW 11: William Congreve, A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret (‘Fair Amoret is gone astray’)

Copy, the poem here dated ‘1696’, inscribed afterwards ‘By E D’ and corrected in another hand.

This MS recorded in Harris.

First published, in a musical setting by John Eccles and attributed to Congreve, in a broadsheet (1698). Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 74. Dobrée, p. 284 (as ‘Amoret’). McKenzie, II, 369.

Also attributed to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset: see The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York and London, 1979), pp. 182-3.

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• VaJ 1: Sir John Vanbrugh, The Rival (‘Of all the Torments, all the Cares’)

Copy, the poem here dated ‘1698’.

First published in A Collection of New Songs, Second Book (London, 1699). Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704), p. 317. Possibly by William Walsh (but not included in his Works (London, 1736)). Also attributed (less likely) to Sir George Etherege. Thorpe, p. 61.

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• VaJ 6: Sir John Vanbrugh, To a Lady More Cruel than Fair (‘Why d'ye with such Disdain refuse’)

Copy, the poem here dated ‘1698’, corrected and inscribed afterwards in another hand ‘By S^r John Vanburgh’.

First published, ascribed to ‘Mr Vanbrook’, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704), pp. 245-6.

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• SeC 95: Sir Charles Sedley, On the Happy Corydon and Phillis (‘Young Coridon and Phillis’)

Copy, headed ‘Song By a Lady. 1698’.

First published in Poetical Works (London, 1707). Sola Pinto, II, 151-2.

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• DoC 326.993: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Death of the Duke of Gloucester (‘For Gloucester's death, which sadly we deplore’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Harris.

First published in Tom Browne, Remains (London, 1720), p. 143. Edited and discussed in Harris, pp. 184-5. Possibly by another Lord Dorset.

Harley MS 7316

A folio miscellany of largely poems on affairs of state, in two professional hands, with others on six tipped-in leaves at the end, 205 leaves (plus blanks), in black morocco gilt. c.1730.

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• RaW 401.8: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘ICUR, good Mounser Carr’

Copy, untitled.

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

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• DaJ 187.8: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘In Juvenem abortiva morte peremptum’, here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses in their beds do Lay’.

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

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• BrW 205.5: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy, headed ‘Lady Pembrokes Epitaph’.

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

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• MrT 34.5: Sir Thomas More, The Life of John Picus, Earl of Mirandula

Copy of a hymn by Picus Mirandula, beginning ‘Almighty God whom majesty alone...’.

First published in London, [1510?]. Yale, Volume 1, pp. 51-123.

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• MaA 70: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn (‘I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene’)

Copy of ‘The Answer’ only, headed ‘On King Charles the Seconds Pension Parliament’ and here beginning ‘Curse on our Representatives’.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

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• RoJ 497: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To My More than Meritorious Wife (‘I am, by fate, slave to your will’)

Copy, headed ‘To his more than meritorious Wife’, as ‘By Wilmot E. of Rochester’.

Edited from this MS in Walker and in Love. Recorded in Vieth.

First published in The Museum: or, The Literary and Historical Register, Vol. III, No. 31 (23 May 1747), p. 156. Vieth, p. 23. Walker, p. 121. Love, p. 31.

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• RoJ 460: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Spoken Extempore to a Country Clerk after Having Heard Him Sing Psalms (‘Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms’)

Copy, headed ‘Lord Rochester upon hearing y^e singing in a Country Church.’

This MS recorded in Vieth; edited in Walker, p. 219.

First published in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon, 3rd edition (London, 1709). Vieth, p. 22. Walker, p. 122. Love, p. 301, as ‘Lord Rochester upon hearing the singing in a Country Church’.

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• RoJ 132: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on the English Court (‘Here's Monmouth the witty’)

Copy of a version headed ‘Lord Rochesters Character of the Court of K: Ch: II^d’ and beginning ‘Lauderdale the pretty’.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 135. Walker, p. 123, as ‘A Lampoon upon the English Grandees’.

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• StW 755.5: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy.

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

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• RoJ 72: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Epistle (‘Could I but make my wishes insolent’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 52. Vieth, p. 33. Walker, pp. 17-18. Love, p. 11, as ‘[Draft of a love poem]’.

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• RoJ 400: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘How happy, Chloris, were they free’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘How perfect Cloris & how free’.

This MS recorded (as text B1) in Vieth, art. cit., pp. 151-2; recorded in Walker as a copy of RoJ 396.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 83-4. Walker, pp. 39-40, and the version ‘How perfect Cloris, and how free’ on pp. 40-1, and in Love, pp. 23-4. See also David Vieth, ‘A Textual Paradox: Rochester's “To a Lady in a Letter”’, PBSA, 54 (1960), 147-62 (and sequel in Vol. 55 (1961), 130-3).

For the even later version of this lyric, see RoJ 482.

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• RoJ 436: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘'Twas a dispute 'twixt heaven and earth’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 51. Vieth, p. 3. Walker, p. 27. Love, p. 31, as ‘[Love poem]’.

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• RoJ 373: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘At last you'll force me to confess’)

Copy.

First published, as an additional stanza to the Song ‘While on those lovely looks I gaze’, in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Vieth, p. 13. Walker, p. 22. Love, p. 32. An eight-line version beginning ‘Too late, alas! I must confess’ published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693), in Vieth, p. 174, and in Walker, p. 22.

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• RoJ 544: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Under King Charles II's Picture (‘I, John Roberts, writ this same’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

First published in Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1953), p. xlv. Vieth, p. 20. Walker, p. 121.

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• DoC 335.4: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Revolution in 1688 (‘Of a splenetic nation I sing’)

Copy, untitled.

Recorded in Harris.

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

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• DoC 326.994: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Death of the Duke of Gloucester (‘For Gloucester's death, which sadly we deplore’)

Copy, untitled.

Recorded in Harris.

First published in Tom Browne, Remains (London, 1720), p. 143. Edited and discussed in Harris, pp. 184-5. Possibly by another Lord Dorset.

Harley MS 7317

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Satyrs & Lampoons, in a single neat hand, i + 130 leaves, subscribed (f. 130v) ‘Finis. 25, March 1691-2.’, in modern black morocco gilt. c.1692.

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• DoC 344: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS.

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• DrJ 43.78: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)

Copy.

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’.

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• MaA 450: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy, as ‘p Marvell’.

This MS collated in POAS, I; recorded in Osborne.

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• MaA 166: Andrew Marvell, An Historical Poem (‘Of a tall Stature and of sable hue’)

Copy.

First published in The Fourth (and Last) Collection of Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 218-23, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, II, 154-63, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

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• MaA 110: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy, as ‘p Marvill’.

This MS collated in Margoliouth and in POAS, I.

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• DoC 43: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Dutchess of Portsmouth's place expos'd to Sale’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

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

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• RoJ 363: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Signior Dildo (‘You ladies all of merry England’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Oh all ye fair Ladies of merry England’.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 54-9. Walker, pp. 75-8.

The poem discussed, texts collated, and the attribution to Rochester questioned, in Harold Love, ‘A Restoration Lampoon in Transmission and Revision: Rochester's(?) “Signior Dildo”’, SB, 46 (1993), 250-62. Love (two versions and added stanzas), pp. 248-9, 250-2, 252-3, 253-7, among Disputed Works.

ff. 68v-9r

• RoJ 349: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II (‘I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyr’.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

Harley MS 7318

A folio miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, i + 131 leaves, in half black morocco gilt. c.1730s.

ff. 49r-50v

• CgW 28: William Congreve, Letter to Viscount Cobham (‘Sincerest Critick of my Prose, or Rhime’)

Copy, headed ‘Albi nostrum Sermonum Candide Judex. An Epistle to my Lord Cobham, by M^r Congreve’, subscribed in a different hand ‘Note this is one of the last Copies of Verses M^r. Congreve wrote before he died’.

First published, as ‘Of Improving the Present Time’, London, 1729. Summers, IV, 177-8. Dobrée, pp. 400-2. McKenzie, II, 486-8.

Harley MS 7319

A large quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, entitled Collection of Choice Poemes, in a single neat hand, with a ‘Catalogue’ of contents (ff. 382v-6v), 387 leaves, in half brown morocco gilt. c.1703.

Note of purchase (f. 1r) ‘p^d - 6 - 9 -/ April 24 1703’.

f. 3r-v

• WoH 88.8: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Hen: Wootton on his Mistress The Queen of Bohemia’.

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

ff. 4r-6v

• RoJ 364: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Signior Dildo (‘You ladies all of merry England’)

Copy, the poem here dated 1674.

Edited from this MS in Court Satires of the Restoration, ed. John Harold Wilson (Columbus, 1976), pp. 15-18; recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 54-9. Walker, pp. 75-8.

ff. 7r-11r

• BuS 23: Samuel Butler, Dildoides (‘Such a sad Tale prepare to hear’)

Copy, dated ‘1675’.

Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.

ff. 18r-22v

• MaA 71: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn (‘I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene’)

Copy, without ‘The Answer’, subscribed ‘Andrew Marvel’ [‘or by Mr Hen. Savile.’added in pencil in another hand] and the poem dated in pencil 1673.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

f. 23r-4v

• CaW 25: William Cartwright, On a Gentlewomans Silk-hood (‘Is there a Sanctity in Love begun’)

Copy, headed ‘The Veil 1675’.

This MS collated in Evans.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 232-4. Evans, pp. 483-4.

ff. 31v-3r

• WaE 772: Edmund Waller, To the Prince of Orange, 1677 (‘Welcome, great Prince, unto this land’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Edmund Waller of Beaconsfield’.

First published in The Works of the English Poets, ed. Alexander Chalmers, 21 vols (London, 1810), VIII, 68-9. Thorn-Drury, II, 82-3.

f. 57r

• WhA 10: Anne Wharton, Elegie on John Earle of Rochester (‘Deep Waters silent roul, so greifs like mine’)

Copy of a 33-line version.

This MS collated in Greer and Hastings.

First published in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685). Greer & Hastings, No. 7, pp. 140-2.

ff. 83r-5r

• EtG 102: Sir George Etherege, Mrs. Nelly's Complaint (‘If Sylla's ghost made bloody Catiline start’)

Copy, the poem dated 1682.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

f. 103r-v

• DoC 326.6: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Dorsetts Lamentation for Moll Howards Absence (‘Dorset no gentle Nimph can find’)

Copy.

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

ff. 103v-4r

• DoC 128: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion (‘After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory’)

Copy, the poem dated 1682.

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.

f. 107v

• DoC 330: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Absence (‘When Portsmouth did from England fly’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Dutchess of Portsmouth's absence 1682’.

This MS (incorrectly cited as Harley MS 7315) recorded in Harris.

First published (in part) in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, IV (Hertford, 1883), 286. Discussed in Harris, p. 194.

ff. 237r-49r

• DoC 93: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Faithful Catalogue of our Most Eminent Ninnies (‘Curs'd be those dull, unpointed, doggerel rhymes’)

Copy, the poem here dated 1687.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset (London, 1707). POAS, IV (1968), 189-214. Harris, pp. 136-67.

ff. 331r-3r

• DoC 313: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Conditional Recantation or A Dialogue between the Oracle of St. Patrick and King James After his Abdication (‘If both the Indies were my own’)

This MS recorded in Harris.

Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, p. 187.

f. 371r

• DoC 201: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) (‘Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Countess of Dorchester’.

Edited from this MS in POAS; collated in Harris.

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

Harley MS 7332

A folio composite volume of verse, in various hands, 280 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt. Incorporating (ff. 40r-51v) a quarto verse miscellany compiled allegedly ‘for the mendinge of his hand in wrighting’, when ‘Idle and wanting Employment’, by Feargod Barbon of Daventry, Northamptonshire (? a relation of the Anabaptist politician Praisegod Barbon (1598-1679/80)).

In preliminary verses (f. 40r), Barbon records that ‘This Booke [i.e. presumably the exemplar for his verse transcripts] was giuen me by A frende / To reade and overlooke’.

f. 45r

• HrJ 215: Sir John Harington, Of a word in welch mistaken in English (‘An English lad long Woode a lasse of wales’)

Copy by Barbon, headed ‘Epigr.’ and here beginning ‘And English lad long woed A lasse of Wales’. Early 17th century.

Kilroy, Book IV, No. 38, p. 224.

f. 46r

• HrJ 141: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy by Barbon, with general heading in the margin ‘Epigramata’. Early 17th century.

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

f. 198r

• DrJ 284: John Dryden, Secret-Love, or The Maiden-Queen, Act IV, scene ii, lines 23-38. Song (‘I feed a flame within which so torments me’)

Copy, headed ‘Grideline, or Secret Love’, on a single quarto leaf. c.1700.

This MS collated in California; recorded in Day, p. 143.

California, IX (1966), p. 177. Kinsley, I, 108. Day, pp. 6-9. Hammond, I, 105.

f. 199r-v

• SeC 29: Sir Charles Sedley, A Pastoral Dialogue between Thirsis and Strephon (‘Strephon, O Strephon, once the jolliest Lad’)

Copy of a 49-line version on a quarto leaf. c.1700.

This MS collated in Sola Pinto.

First published, in an abbreviated version, in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 3-6.

f. 215r

• RaW 253: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses Syr Walt. Rauleigh made the Same morning he was executed’, following ‘Verses made upon him since his death’ (‘Great heart, who taught y^e so to die?’), on one side of a half-folio leaf. c.1620s-30s.

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.

ff. 262r-80v

• DaS 4: Samuel Daniel, The Civile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke

Copy of an early version of Book III, in a professional secretary hand, on nineteen quarto leaves. c.early 1600s.

This MS discussed in Cecil Seronsy and Robert Krueger, ‘A Manuscript of Daniel's Civil Wars, Book III’, SP, 63 (1966), 157-62.

Books I-IV first published in London, 1595. Grosart, Vol. II. Edited by Laurence Michel (New Haven, 1958).

Harley MS 7368

A folio composite MS, thirteen remaining leaves, originally bound with Harley MS 7367, in a vellum wrapper (recycled from a 15th-century Latin breviary) inscribed ‘The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore’, now disbound, comprising a play largely in the hand of Anthony Munday (1560-1633), playwright, with additions and contributions in five other hands. c.mid-1590s.

The play edited from this MS by all editors. Reproduced in facsimile by John S. Farmer, Tudor Facsimile Texts (London, 1910).

Discussions of the various hands in the MS, generally with facsimile examples, include those in Greg's Malone Society edition; in Greg, Dramatic Documents, I, 224-5, and II, Plate 2; in R.C. Bald, ‘The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore and its Problems’, SS, 2 (1949), 44-65; in Peter W.M. Blayney, ‘The Booke of Sir Thomas Moore Re-Examined’, SP, 69 (1972), 167-91; in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 23; in Michael L. Hays, ‘Shakespeare's Hand in Sir Thomas More: Some Aspects of the Paleographic Argument’, SSt, 8 (1975), 241-53; in Paul Ramsey, ‘Shakespeare and Sir Thomas More Revisited: or, A Mounty on the Trail’, PBSA, 70 (1976), 333-46; in Giles E. Dawson, ‘Theobald, table/babbled, and Sir Thomas More’, TLS (22 April 1977), p. 484; in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 36; in Giles E. Dawson, ‘Shakespeare's Handwriting’, Shakespeare Survey, 42 (1990), 119-28; in Grace Ioppolo, Dramatists and their Manuscripts in the Age of Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton and Heywood (London & New York, 2006), pp. 100-9; and elsewhere.

Facsimiles of f. 9r also in English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), No. 6; in Hilton Kelliher and Sally Brown, English Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 1986), No. 11, p. 23; in Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers, DLB, 62 (Detroit, 1987), p. 407; in William Shakespeare: A Documentary Volume, ed. Catherine Loomis, DLB, 263 (Detroit, 2002), p. 33; in Chris Fletcher et al., 1000 Years of English Literature: A Treasury of Literary Manuscripts (British Library, 2003), p. 55; and elsewhere.

f. 7r

• *HyT 12: Thomas Heywood, Sir Thomas More

A short scene on f. 7r, and additions on f. 11r, in a hand generally known as ‘Hand B’ and identified as probably that of Thomas Heywood.

First published in London, 1844, ed. Alexander Dyce, Shakespeare Society. Edited by W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1911).

ff. 8r-9r

• *ShW 88: William Shakespeare, Sir Thomas More

One scene on ff. 8r-9r in a hand generally known as ‘Hand D’ identified as probably that of William Shakespeare.

By several dramatists, including Anthony Munday, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Heywood, and probably Shakespeare. First published in London, 1844, ed. Alexander Dyce, Shakespeare Society. Edited by W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1911; reprinted 1961).

f. 13r

• DkT 45: Thomas Dekker, Sir Thomas More

Half a page of text on f. 13v in a hand generally known as ‘Hand E’ and identified as that of Thomas Dekker's.

Facsimile example of f. 13v in Elizabethan Dramatists, ed. Fredson Bowers, DLB 62 (Detroit, 1987), p. 48.

First published in London, 1844, ed. Alexander Dyce, Shakespeare Society. Edited by W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1911). Bowers, I, 3-5.

For facsimiles and discussions see ShW 88.

Harley MS 7375

Copy, headed ‘S^r Kenelm Digbys remarks on Spencers Fairy Queen’, on 13 quarto leaves, bound with Harley MS 4153. c.1630.

SpE 77: Edmund Spenser, Sir Kenelm Digby's Observations on the 22 Stanza in the 9th. Canto of the 2d. book of Spensers Faery Queen

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.

Harley MS 7381

A folio composite volume of state tracts, in several hands, 110 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

ff. 72r-104v

• CtR 506: Sir Robert Cotton, Twenty-four Argvments, Whether it be more expedient to suppress Popish Practises against the due Allegeance of His Majesty, by the Strict Execution touching Jesuits and Seminary Preists? Or, to restraine them to Close Prisons, during life, if no Reformation follow?

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Consideracons for the repressing of Preists Jesuits Semynaries, and Recusants without draweing of blood by S^r Robert Cotton’. c.1620s-30s.

Tract beginning ‘I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads...’, dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.

Harley MS 7388

Copy. 1596-early 17th century.

SpE 50: Edmund Spenser, A View of the Present State of Ireland

This MS collated in Variorum.

First published in Sir James Ware, The Historie of Ireland (Dublin, 1633). Variorum, Prose Works (ed. Rudolf Gottfried), pp. 39-231.

Spenser's authorship of this ‘View’ is generally accepted, especially in light of the comparable views about Ireland in The Faerie Queene. A cautionary note about authorship is sounded, however, in Jean R. Brink, ‘Constructing the View of the Present State of Ireland’, Spenser Studies, 11 (1994), 203-28; in her ‘Appropriating the Author of The Faerie Queene: The Attribution of the View of the Present State of Ireland and A Brief Note of Ireland to Edmund Spenser’, in Soundings of Things Done: Essays in Early Modern Literature in Honor of S.K. Heninger, Jr., ed. Peter E. Medine and Joseph Wittreich (Newark, Delaware, 1997), 93-136. See also, inter alia, Andrew Hadfield, ‘Certainties and Uncertainties: By Way of Response to Jean Brink’, Spenser Studies, 12 (1998), 197-202, and Jean R. Brink, ‘Spenser and the Irish Question: Reply to Andrew Hadfield’, Spenser Studies, 13 (1999), 265-6.

Harley MS 7392

A quarto composite verse miscellany, comprising three miscellaneous MSS in different hands, 151 leaves, in modern half-morocco gilt. Fols 11r-78r, largely in a single secretary hand, comprising a verse miscellany compiled by the antiquary St Loe Kniveton, of Gray's Inn. c.1585-90s.

ff. 12r-15r

• DyE 19: Sir Edward Dyer, A Fancy (‘Hee that his mirth hath loste, whose comfort is dismaid’)

Copy, headed ‘Ferendo Vinces’, subscribed ‘fynys q^d DYER’.

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.

ff. 15r-18v

• DyE 3: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘Amarillis was full fayre, the goodliest mayde was she’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘FYNIS DYER’.

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

ff. 18v-19r

• OxE 20: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘When werte thow borne desyre?’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis LO. OX.’

Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets. Collated in May, Poems.

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. 21v

• ElQ 41: Queen Elizabeth I, ‘When I was fair and young, and favor graced me’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘FINIS. Ely’.

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

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

f. 22r-v

• RaW 383: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Fayne woulde I but I dare not’

Copy, headed ‘Ferenda Natura’, subscribed ‘Fynys. DY.’[i.e. Dyer], with an additional couplet as ‘Lenuoy’.

Edited from this MS in Wagner and in May. Recorded in Latham, pp. 172-3.

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

ff. 22v-3r

• DyE 12: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘Before I dy faire dame of me receave my last adieu’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘fynys. DY’.

Edited from this M S in Wagner (1935) and in May, Courtier Poets.

First published in Wagner (1935), pp. 467-8. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 295-6. EV 3510.

f. 23r

• DyE 10: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘As rare to heare as seldome to be seene’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘fynis DY’ [i.e. Dyer].

Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.

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

ff. 23v-4r

• DyE 31: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘I woulde it were not as it is’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘FYNJS DY’ [i.e. Dyer].

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

f. 25r

• DyE 69: Sir Edward Dyer, Sonnet (‘Prometheus, when first from heuen hie’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘FYNIS. DY.’ [i.e. Dyer].

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

f. 25r-v

• SiP 38: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 16 (‘A Satyre once did runne away for dread’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘FYNIS. SY’.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, p. 145.

f. 27v

• ElQ 19: Queen Elizabeth I, ‘The doubt of future foes’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘FINIS EL’.

This MS cited in Bradner and in Selected Works.

A version first published in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589), sig. 2E2^v (p. 208). Bradner, p. 4. Collected Works, Poem 5, pp. 133-4. Selected Works, Poem 4, pp. 7-9.

f. 27v

• GgA 120: Sir Arthur Gorges, ‘Woolde I were changde into that golden Showre’

Copy of lines 1-4, untitled, cancelled.

This MS text recorded in Sandison.

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

ff. 27v-8r

• GgA 5: Sir Arthur Gorges, ‘But this and then no more’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘FYNIS. G O R’.

This MS collated in Sandison. Edited from this MS, and misattributed to Edward Dyer, in Bernard M. Wagner, ‘New Poems by Sir Edward Dyer’, RES, 11 (1935), 466-71 (pp. 468-9).

The incipit first published, in a musical setting, in W. Barley, A new Booke of Tabliture (London, 1596), sig. Dv of the third part. Sandison, No. [25], pp. 26-7. May EV 4157.

f. 28r

• SpE 4: Edmund Spenser, Amoretti. Sonnet VIII (‘More then most faire, full of the liuing fire’)

Copy of lines 1-4, untitled.

Printed from this MS in Cummings, p. 129.

Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 198.

f. 28r

• RaW 128: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Farewell to false Love (‘Farewell false loue, the oracle of lies’)

Copy of the final couplet, here beginning ‘ffalse love; Desire; and Bewty fraile, Adiew’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 100.

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

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

f. 33v

• OxE 37: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘If woemen coulde be fayre and yet not fonde’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘FINIS RW’.

This MS collated in May.

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

f. 34v

• DyE 65: Sir Edward Dyer, The Song in the Oak (‘The man whose thoughts against him doe conspire’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Dyer’.

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

f. 35r

• OxE 25: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘Wheras the Harte at Tennysse playes and men to gaminge fall’

Copy, subscribed ‘FINIS. therle of Ox.’

This MS collated in May.

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

f. 35r-v

• SiP 56: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 30 (‘Ring out your belles, let mourning shewes be spread’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Ringe forth yo^r Belles, let morninge tunes be spred’, subscribed ‘FINIS q^d S^r. Ph. Syd’.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, pp. 159-61.

f. 36r

• RaW 339: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Sweete ar the thoughtes, wher Hope persuadeth Happe’

Copy, subscribed ‘RA.’

Edited from this MS by all editors.

First published in Hoyt T. Hudson, ‘Notes on the Ralegh Canon’, MLN, 46 (1931), 386-9 (p. 387). Latham, p. 4. Rudick, No. 7, p. 7.

f. 36v

• GgA 121: Sir Arthur Gorges, ‘Woolde I were changde into that golden Showre’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘FINIS. RA.’

This MS collated in Sandison .Edited from this MS in Hoyt H. Hudson, MLN, 46 (1931), 386, and in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999), p. 8.

ff. 36v-7r

• RaW 114: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘FINIS. RA’.

Edited from this MS in Rudick (No. 9A), p. 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. 37r-v

• RaW 127: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Farewell to false Love (‘Farewell false loue, the oracle of lies’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘FINIS. RA’.

Edited from tis MS in Rudick, No. 10B, pp. 12-13. Collated in Hughey, II, 384. Recorded in Latham, p. 100.

ff. 37v-8r

• SiP 91.5: Sir Philip Sidney, ‘Singe neighbours singe, here yow not Say’

Copy, subscribed ‘FINIS. S^r P Sy.’

Edited from this MS in Wagner and in Ringler.

First published in Bernard Mathias Wagner, ‘New Poems by Sir Philip Sidney’, PMLA, 53.i (1938), 118-24. Ringler, pp. 357-8, as ‘Wrongly Attributed Poems’, AT 21. This poem belongs to the same Accession Day tournament as SiP 91.2-3 and SiP 91.8 and was possibly by Sidney.

f. 38v

• SiP 151: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 51 (‘Locke up, faire liddes, the treasures of my harte’)

Copy, subscribed ‘FINIS. Sy’.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

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

f. 38v

• SiP 41: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 19 (‘If I could thinke how these my thoughts to leave’)

Copy, subscribed ‘FINIS. Syb’.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, pp. 147-8.

f. 39r

• SiP 26: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 3 (‘The fire to see my wrongs for anger burneth’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘FINIS. S^r P. Sy.’

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, pp. 136-7.

ff. 48v-9r

• SiP 91.2: Sir Philip Sidney, ‘Philisides, the Shepherd good and true’

Copy, subscribed ‘P. Sidney’.

Edited from this MS in Wagner and in Ringler.

First published in Bernard Mathias Wagner, ‘New Poems by Sir Philip Sidney’, PMLA, 53.i (1938), 118-24. Ringler, pp. 356-7, as ‘Wrongly Attributed Poems’, AT 19. This poem belongs to the same Accession Day tournament as SiP 91.5-6 and SiP 91.8 and was possibly by Sidney.

ff. 49v-50r

• ElQ 4: Queen Elizabeth I, ‘Now leave and let me rest. Dame Pleasure, be content’

Copy, untitled, subscribed in a different ink (after deleted words) ‘Regina’.

This MS collated in Bradner and in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

Selected Works, Poems Possibly by Elizabeth 3, pp. 28-30. Bradner, pp. 8-10, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. Collected Works, Poem 11, pp. 305-6.

f. 51r

• OxE 44: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘In Pescod time when hownd to horne gives eare while Bucke is kild’

Copy, untitled, with an addition by Edward de Vere, subscribed ‘FINIS. p Ox.’

This MS collated in May.

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

f. 51r

• OxE 42: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘I do increase their wandring wits, till that I dim their sight’

Edited from this MS in May.

May, Poems, No. IV (pp. 41-2).

See also ‘In Pescod time when hownd to horne gives eare while Bucke is kild’: OxE 43-44.

f. 51v

• DyE 27: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘Fancy farwell, that fed my fond delight’

Copy, subscribed ‘FINIS. H O Dyer’.

Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.

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.

ff. 52v-3r

• OxE 32: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘Wing'de with desyre, I seeke to mount on hyghe’

Copy, subscribed ‘FINIS. Lo. Ox.’

This MS collated in May.

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

f. 62v

• RaW 490: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The state of Fraunce as nowe it standes’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in May; recorded in Latham.

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

f. 63r

• OxE 46: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘Sittinge alone upon my thought in melancholye moode’

Copy, subscribed ‘A. Vauasoure’.

This MS collated in May.

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

ff. 63v-4r

• GgA 89: Sir Arthur Gorges, ‘The gentell Season of the yeare’

Copy, untitled, subscribed in different ink ‘S: P. Sidney’ added afterwards.

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

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

ff. 64v-5r

• BrN 77: Nicholas Breton, A pleasant Sonet (‘I will forget that ere I sawe thy face’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Rollins, pp. 98-9.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 41>. Attributed to Breton by F.H. McCloskey: see Rollins, Bowre, p. xviii.

f. 65v

• RaW 305: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Poem put into my Lady Laiton's pocket by Sir W. Rawleigh (‘Lady farwell whom I in Sylence serve’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Latham, pp. 4-5, and in Rudick, No. 12A, p. 15.

First published in Hannah (1870), p. 57. Rudick, Nos 12A (eighteen-line version) and 12B (six-line version), pp. 15-16.

f. 66r

• SiP 154: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 60 (‘Vertue, beawtie, and speach, did strike, wound, charme’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Ringler, p. 84. Robertson, pp. 229-30.

f. 66r

• SiP 90: Sir Philip Sidney, ‘The darte, the beames, the stringe so stronge I prove’

Copy.

This MS collated in Ringler.

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

f. 66v

• RaW 142: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Hir face, Hir tong, Hir wit’

Copy of a six-stanza version, subscribed in different ink ‘Raley’.

Edited from this MS in Sandison, pp. 210-11m and in Rudick, No. 11, pp. 14-15.. Recorded in Latham, p. 160.

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

f. 67r

• OxE 9: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘The Lyvely Larke stretcht forth her wynge’

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets. This MS collated in May.

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

f. 68r

• SiP 146: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 45 (‘My true love hath my hart, and I have his’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

Ringler, p. 75-6. Robertson, pp. 190-1.

f. 68v

• BrN 85: Nicholas Breton, Quatuor elementa (‘The Aire with swete my sences doe delight’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Rollins, Bowre, p. 107.

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

f. 69r

• PlG 6: George Peele, The Hunting of Cupid, Song: (‘What thing is love for (wel I wot) love is a thing’)

Copy of an eleven-line version, untitled and here beginning ‘What thinge is loue? for sure loue is a thinge’.

Prouty, lines 12-20, 25-6. This song published separately, in an eight-line version, in The Wisdom of Doctor Dodypoll (London, 1600), and in John Bartlet, A Book of Ayres (London 1606).

ff. 69v-70r

• DyE 14: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘Divide my times, and rate my wretched howres’

Copy, subscribed ‘FINIS.’ and, in different ink, ‘Dier’.

Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.

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

f. 70v

• SiP 49: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 23 (‘Who hath his fancie pleased’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, pp. 151-2.

f. 70v

• OxE 30: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘Who taught the first to sighe alas my Harte?’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Ball’.

Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets. Collated in May, Poems.

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

ff. 73v-4r

• DyE 43: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘My mynde to me a kyngdome is’

Copy, subscribed ‘FINIS. BAll’[?].

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

f. 75r

• SiP 115: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 3 (‘What length of verse can serve brave Mopsa's good to show’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘S^r Phyll Sydn’.

This MS collated in Ringler and in Robertson.

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

ff. 76v-7r

• BrN 97: Nicholas Breton, ‘Some men will saie, there is a kinde of muse’

Copy of lines 37-66, untitled.

This MS recorded in Rollins, Bowre, p. 85.

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.

Harley MS 7393

A quarto composite volume of four tracts, in different hands, i* + 210 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards gilt.

ff. 1*-19v

• NaR 10: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

Copy, in a small secretary hand, as ‘By S^r Rob. Naunton Master of the Court of Wards’. c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Cerovski, p. 87.

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

Harley MS 7553

A quarto composite volume of papers relating to religious matters, in various hands, 42 leaves, in moderrn crushed morocco gilt. Incorporating (ff. 31r-40r) a series of seventeen ‘Spirituall Sonnettes To the honour of God: and hys Sayntes. by H: C:’[i.e. Henry Constable], in a single secretary hand of the late 16th-early 17th century.

Facsimile of the first page of the Spiritual Sonnets in DLB, vol. 136, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Second Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1994), p. 50

f. 32r

• CoH 84: Henry Constable, To God the Father (‘Greate God: within whose symple essence, wee’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Heliconia and in Grundy. Facsimile example of f. 32r in Grundy, facing p. 183.

First published in Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnetts, p. 3. Grundy, p. 183.

f. 32v

• CoH 88: Henry Constable, To God the Sonne (‘Greate Prynce of heaven begotten of that kyng’)

Copy.