MS Add. 7112
A quarto composite miscellany of poems and songs, the greater part in a single cursive hand, 35 leaves, in modern cloth. c.1692.
f. 2r
• B&F 5.5: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, II, i, 143-64. Song (‘Cast our Caps and cares away!’)
Copy, headed ‘1. Song’, under the general heading ‘Songs to the play called Beggars Bush’.
Bowers, III, 264-5. This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).
f. 2r
• B&F 11.5: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, III, i, 20-37. Song (‘Take her and lug her’)
Copy, headed ‘2. Song’.
Bowers, III, 278.
f. 2r-v
• B&F 13.5: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, III, i, 97-113. Song (‘Bring out your Cony-skins, faire maids to me’)
Copy, headed ‘3. Song’.
Bowers, III, 281.
f. 24r
• CoA 20: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking (‘The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 51. Sparrow, p. 50.
Musical setting by Silas Taylor published in Catch that Catch Can: or the Musical Companion (London, 1667). Setting by Roger Hill published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
ff. 25v-6r
• RnT 227: Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge (‘Lament, lament, ye Scholars all’)
Copy, headed ‘On the Downfall of the Miter Taverne in Cambridg by T.R.’.
First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.
f. 35r
• CoA 21: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking (‘The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain’)
Second copy, also untitled.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 51. Sparrow, p. 50.
Musical setting by Silas Taylor published in Catch that Catch Can: or the Musical Companion (London, 1667). Setting by Roger Hill published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
MS Add. 7196
An octavo notebook of extracts in verse and prose, in a small untidy hand, written from both ends, 42 leaves (plus three blanks), badly worn, remains of boards and green ties. c.1640.
Includes (f. [31r rev.] a reference to ‘my brother Capstons account book after his death 1632’. Given to the library by H.L. Pink, Assistant Under-Librarian, 22 November 1948.
f. [1r]
• DkT 19: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)
Copy, headed ‘Verses made of her’.
First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, ‘Poems by William Camden’, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.
f. [8r rev.]
• RaW 464: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Say not you love, unless you do’
Copy, headed ‘his Mrs:’.
First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.
f. [8v rev.]
• DrM 20: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)
Copy.
First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.
ff. [8v-9r rev.]
• RaW 521: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’
Copy, untitled.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by ‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’ (see RaW 320-38) and headed ‘To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh’. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).
This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).
f. [9v]
• RaW 115.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)
Copy of the last two lines, untitled and here beginning ‘But whe I saw myselfe to you was true’.
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).
ff. [18v-19r rev.]
• DrM 61: Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet (‘I pray thee leave, love me no more’)
Copy.
First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 372.
f. [19r rev.]
• JnB 705: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song (‘If I freely may discouer’)
Copy, untitled.
f. [19v rev.]
• DnJ 2966: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J.D.’
First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her ‘Dubia’). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.
See also DnJ 428.
ff. [19v-20r rev.]
• HoJ 326: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet wthstood’)
Copy, headed ‘To his mistriss’.
Osborn, p. 301.
f. [21r rev.]
• RaW 47: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’
Copy, headed ‘Verses made by Sr Waltr Rawly at his beheading’.
First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).
See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.
f. [24r]
• StW 1322: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)
Copy, headed ‘On his mistress’.
First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
f. [24v rev.]
• CwT 278: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a fly yt hapned in his mistres eye’ and here beginning ‘While ye fly liu'd it vs'd to play’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
f. [25v rev.]
• HoJ 172: John Hoskyns, Incipit Johannes Hoskins (‘Even as the waues of brainelesse butter'd fish’)
Copy, headed ‘Cabilisticall verses wch by transpocitio of words, letters, & syllables make excellent sence other wise none at all in laude Coriati’.
Osborn, No. XXIX (pp. 199-202), in English and Latin.
f. [26r rev.]
• BrW 8: William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II
Copy of Book I, Song 3, lines 477-8, headed ‘his mistress’ and here beginning ‘Nature Hath fram'd a Gem beyod copare’.
Book I first published London, 1613. Book II first published London, 1616. Goodwin, Vol. I.
f. [30v rev.]
• CmT 48: Thomas Campion, ‘I must complain, yet doe enjoy my Love’
Copy, headed ‘A sonnet’.
This MS recorded in Doughtie, p. 517.
First published in John Dowland, Third Book of Aires (London, 1603). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book IV, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 184-5. Doughtie, p. 179.
MS Add. 7316
Copy of a lengthy letter in English by ‘R.C.’, evidently Crashaw, [to Joseph Beaumont], from Leiden, 20 February 1643/4. 1644.
CrR 454: Richard Crashaw, Letter(s)
Edited in Martin, pp. xxvii-xxxi, with a facsimile after p. xxx. Believed by him to be ‘almost certainly’ autograph (even ‘though cramped and hurried’). The recipient was identified by Elsie Duncan-Jones.
MS Add. 7489
Autograph letter signed by Bale, to Matthew Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, 30 July 1560. Lamenting the dispersal of books and manuscripts after the Dissolution of the Monasteries and recording books Bale had found in Cambridge college libraries (a list largely corresponding to items in his Index Britanniae scriptorum). 1560.
*BaJ 43: John Bale, Letter(s)
Edited in H. R. Luard, ‘A Letter from Bishop Bale to Archbishop Parker’, Cambridge Antiquarian Society, Antiquarian Communications, III (1878), 157-73. Edited, with a facsimile of the first page, in Timothy Graham and Andrew G. Watson, The Recovery of the Past in Early Elizabethan England (Cambridge, 1998), pp. 16-30. Recorded in McCusker (1942), p. 109. Discussed in David N. Dumville, ‘John Bale, Owner of St Dunstan's Benedictional’, N&Q, 239 (September 1994), 291-5, where it is suggested that the benedictional mentioned in the letter (‘the oldest book that euer I sawe yet’) may be that now in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, fonds latin no 943. Also discussed in Yoko Wada, ‘Bale to Parker on British Historical Texts in Cambridge College Libraries’, Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society, 10 (1994), 511-19.
MS Add. 7565
A MS volume. ?17th century.
[unspecified page numbers]
• BcF 602: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)
Copy of letter(s) by Bacon.
MS Add. 7569
A folio composite volume of state letters and tracts, in various hands and paper sizes, 332 pages, in (deteriorated) old half-calf boards.
Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Dr Williams's Papers wch We brought from Barrow’. Bequeathed by J.M. Edwards, MA, 18 March 1958.
pp. 87-90
• WaE 791: Edmund Waller, Speech in the House of Commons, 22 April 1640
Copy, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘Mr Wallers Speech’, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1640.
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’.
MS Add. 7958
A folio miscellany of tracts, letters, plays and verse, for the most part in a single secretary hand, partly on inserted sheaves of long narrow ledger-size leaves, written from both ends, 248 leaves, in contempoary vellum with metal clasps. Compiled by a University of Cambridge man. Early 17th century.
Inscribed at the end ‘Josephus Diggins me possedit’: i.e. by Joseph Diggins, of Clare Hall, Cambridge (matric. 1607, d.1658). Christie's, 5 December 1973, lot 84, to Hofmann & Freeman.
ff. 1r-12r
• CtR 406: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England
Copy, on twelve of 23 long narrow ledger-size leaves.
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. 12v-14v
• SiP 180.9: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter of Advice to Robert Sidney
Copy, headed ‘A letter written by Sr Phillip Sidney to his brother Robt Sidney (now Lord Lisle) shewing what course was fittest for him to hold in his travailes’, the first of ‘Three Letters conserning one subiect...All giueing directions to their said frinds how to make the best of their Travailles’.
A letter beginning ‘My most deere Brother. You have thought unkindness in me, I have not written oftner unto you...’. First published in Profitable Instructions. Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 74-103. Feuillerat (as Correspondence No. XXXVIII), III, 124-7.
ff. 14v-18r
• EsR 168: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland
Copy, headed ‘A letter written by the late Earle of Essex to the late Earle of Rutland, wherein he giues him directions how to make the best vse of his travailes’, the second of ‘Three Letters conserning one subiect...All giueing directions to their said frinds how to make the best of their Travailles’.
The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning ‘My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state...’.
First published, as ‘The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels’, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.
Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in ‘The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars’, SP. 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in ‘Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments’, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.
ff. 18v-19v
• GrF 18: Fulke Greville, Letter to Grevill Varney on his Travels
Copy, headed ‘A Letter written by Sr ffulke Greuill to his cousin Grevill Varney then residing in ffrance, wherein are set downe certaine directions, how he may make the best vse of his travailes’, the third of ‘Three Letters conserning one subiect...All giueing directions to their said frinds how to make the best of their Travailles’.
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.
ff. 25r-48r
• MrT 97: Sir Thomas More, William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More
Copy.
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).
ff. 83v-7r
• BcF 141: Francis Bacon, Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592
Copy, headed ‘Certaine notes and observations vpon a most infamous and knowen Trayter and Intituled A declaration of the causes of the troubles presupposed to bee against England Ao. Dni. 1592’, incomplete.
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.
For the Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (also known as Cecil's Commonwealth), the ‘Libel’ that Bacon answered, see RaW 383.8.
ff. 160v-124r rev.
• CvG 24: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey
Copy, among other texts on a sheaf of long narrow ledger-size leaves.
Recorded in Edwards (No. 1).
First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).
MS Add. 8273
A quarto notebook of academic and devotional material, probably associated with Cambridge University, in three or more hands, written from both ends, 346 pages, in contemporary vellum. Possibly compiled in part by Thomas Belke (d.1712), of The Queens' College, Cambridge (in 1654/5-76), Rector of Wickhambreux, Kent, and Prebendary of Canterbury. c.1670-80.
pp. 124-7
• DnJ 4052.5: John Donne, A Sermon of Commemoration of the Lady Danvers, Late Wife of Sir John Danvers, 1627
Extracts, headed ‘Notes out of Dr. Donnes serm at Chelsey, July: 1627. in Commemorat of the pious Lady the Wife of Sr John Danvers, & Mother of the famous Mr Geo: Herbert. / Text 2: Pet: 3: 13.’
First published in London, 1627. Potter & Simpson, VIII, 61-93.
MS Add. 8447
A duodecimo miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, written from both ends, i + 74 leaves, in contemporary calf. Owned (inscription f.[ir]), and possibly partly compiled, by Sir Henry Rainsford (1599-1641), of Clifford Chambers, near Stratford-upon-Avon. c. late 1630s-40s.
Bookplate of Edward Greenfield Doggett and Hugh Greenfield Doggett, of Bristol, 1893. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 15. Discussed in Peter Davidson, ‘The Notebook of Henry Rainsford’, N&Q, 229 (June 1984), 247-50.
f. [18r]
• WaE 698: Edmund Waller, Upon the Death of my Lady Rich (‘May those already cursed Essexian plains’)
Copy, headed ‘on death’.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 37-40.
ff. [23r, 24r]
• SuJ 3: John Suckling, Against Absence (‘My whining Lover, what needs all’)
Copy, subscribed ‘J. S.’
First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 39-40.
[25r]
• WaE 301: Edmund Waller, Of the Misreport of her being Painted (‘As when a sort of wolves infest the night’)
Copy, headed ‘Upo ye Lad: Sydw: paynting’ and here beginning ‘Just as a sort of Wolves infest ye night’, subscribed ‘EW’.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 50.
f. [26r]
• WaE 195: Edmund Waller, Of her Passing through a Crowd of People (‘As in old chaos (heaven with earth confused)’)
Copy, headed ‘Upon the Crowde’ and here beginning ‘As in old chaos all things were Confus'd’, subscribed ‘EW’.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 51.
f. [27r]
• JnB 297: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoma working by an houreglass’, subscribed ‘BJ’.
Formerly owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici No. 15.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
f. [28r]
• JnB 726: Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song (‘Though I am young, and cannot tell’)
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet’, subscribed ‘BJ’.
Formerly owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici No. 15.
First published in Workes (London, 1641). Herford & Simpson, VII, 1-49.
f. [29r]
• BrW 173: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)
Copy, headed ‘On a ma drowned in ye snow’, subscribed ‘JR’.
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.
f. [31r]
• WaE 234: Edmund Waller, Of Mrs. Arden (‘Behold, and listen, while the fair’)
Copy, headed ‘On a good voyce & a handsome face’, subscribed ‘EW’.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 91. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
See also WaE 759.
ff. [41r, 42r]
• KiH 64: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)
Copy, headed ‘A.’
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) ‘A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds’ (‘Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee’). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
ff. [43r, 44r, 45r]
• WaE 311: Edmund Waller, Of the Queen (‘The lark, that shuns on lofty boughs to build’)
Copy, headed ‘On ye Queen’ and here beginning ‘The lark yt shuns her humble nest to build’, subscribed ED.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 77-9.
ff. [45v-7v]
• HoJ 69: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)
Copy, headed ‘Verses giuen mee of Mr St John Hoskins Composure / A censure of a fart that was lett in the Parliament howse 3o Car by a worpll Jury each speaking in their order as followeth’ and here beginning ‘Downe came graue auncient reurend Sr John Crook’.
Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of ‘Doubtful Verses’ in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
ff. [47v-50r]
• HoJ 264: John Hoskyns, Convivium philosophicum (‘Quilibet si sit contentus’)
Osborn, No. XXVIII (pp. 196-9), with an English version (beginning ‘Whosoever is contented’), on pp. 288-91.
MS Add. 8451
A duodecimo commonplace book of extracts from philosophical works, under headings, in a single minute hand, xx + 327 pages (including a number of blanks), with an index, in modern calf gilt. 1687-8.
Formerly owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 19.
[Unspecified page numbers]
• BcF 283.8: Francis Bacon, Sylva Sylvarum: or A Natural History
Extracts.
First published in London, 1626. Spedding, II, 323-680.
[Unspecified page numbers]
• BcF 206.2: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral
Extracts.
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).
[Unspecified page numbers]
• BrT 5.7: Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: or, Enquiries into very many received Tenents, and commonly presumed Truths
Extracts.
First published in London, 1646. Wilkin, vols II and III, 1-374. Keynes, Vol. II. Robbins (2 vols).
See BrT 29, BrT 32, and BrT 43.
[Unspecified page numbers]
• BrT 5.94: Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
Extracts.
First published (unauthorised edition) [in London], 1642. Authorised edition published [in London], 1643. Wilkin, II, 1-158. Keynes, I, 1-93. Edited by Jean-Jacques Denonain (Cambridge, 1953). Martin, pp. 1-80. Endicott, pp. 1-89.
[unspecified page numbers]
• FuT 5.233: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War
Extracts.
First published in Cambridge, 1639.
[Unspecified page numbers]
• FuT 5.27: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England
Extracts.
First published in London, 1662.
[Unspecified page numbers]
• FuT 6.3: Thomas Fuller, The Holy State
Extracts.
First published in London, 1642. Edited by M.G. Walten, 2 vols (New York, 1938).
p. 69
• BuR 1.215: Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
Extracts.
First published in Oxford, 1621. Edited by A.R. Shilleto (introduced by A.H. Bullen), 3 vols (London, 1893). Edited variously by Thomas C. Faulkner, Nicolas K. Kiessling, Rhonda L. Blair, J.B. Bamborough, and Martin Dodsworth, 6 vols (Oxford, 1989-2000).
pp. 293-9
• DaW 39: Sir William Davenant, The Philosophers Disquisition directed to the Dying Christian (‘Before by death you newer knowledge gain’)
Copy of a 57-stanza version, headed ‘Ratio et Fides Sr: Wm Davents Addition to Gondibert’ and beginning at stanza 24 (here ‘Tell if you found yr faith ere you it sought’), followed by an explanation: ‘Among some Notes of my Ld Mordants [i.e. John, Viscount Mordaunt (1627-75)] I found this. S Wm Davenets out of Complemt sent me severall Canto's of ye 2d part of Gondibert...[&]’, this followed by ‘The Argument’ and first stanza (‘The griefe of Astragon & whence it springs’) and lines 1-3 of stanza 24 again.
First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 182-96. The poem originally intended to form part of Gondibert (see Gibbs, pp. lii et seq., 431).
MS Add. 8460
A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, predominantly in one female roman hand, written from both ends, 174 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled by members of Sir Thomas Browne's family, chiefly his daughter Elizabeth Lyttelton (b. c.1648), containing various works in verse and prose including copies of a passage by Sir Thomas on consumptions (p. 43), a list of books which he had Elizabeth read out to him (pp. 44-5), copies of notes by him (pp. 77-76 rev.), his poem ‘Upon a Tempest at Sea’ (pp. 94-93 rev.) and verses beginning ‘the Almond flourisheth ye Birch trees flowe’ (p. 72); some of the verses in other hands including poems by Donne, Corbett, Wotton, Cartwright, William Browne, Ralegh, Katherine Phillips and others. Late 17th century.
Inscriptions (p. 1) ‘Mary Browne’ (who d.1676) and ‘James Dodsley’ and (p. 174) ‘Mar. 11th 1713/4 The gift of Mrs Lyttelton to Edward Tenison’. Percy Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1240. Bookplate of the Royal College of Medicine, London. Owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (Bibliotheca Bibliographici, No. 1301).
This MS volume described in [Geoffrey Keynes], ‘A Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne’, TLS (4 September 1919), p. 420. Discussed in Victoria E. Burke, ‘Contexts for Women's Manuscript Miscellanies: The Case of Elizabeth Lyttelton and Sir Thomas Browne’, Yearbook of English Studies, 33 (2003), 316-28. Edited selectively by Geoffrey Keynes as The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne (Cambridge, 1919). The passages by Browne also edited in Keynes, I, 120-1, and III, 236-7, 331-2.
• BrT 53: Sir Thomas Browne, Remains and Collectanea
The volume as a whole.
p. 8
• DkT 19.5: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)
Copy, headed ‘upon the remoue of the body of Queen Elizabeth from Richmond where she dyed the 24 of March 1602, the 45 year of her Raign, & seventy of her age’.
This MS text printed in Keynes, The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, pp. 24-5.
First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, ‘Poems by William Camden’, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.
p. 17
• ElQ 29: Queen Elizabeth I, ‘Twas Christ the Word that spake it’
Copy, here beginning ‘Christ was the word who spake it’, headed in another hand ‘Queen Elizas answer to Bishop Gardner’.
First published in Alexander Huish, Lectures upon the Lord's Prayer (London, 1626), sig. Y2v of his sermon on ‘Give us this day our daily bread’. Bradner, p. 6, as ‘Christ was the Word’, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. Collected Works, Poem 3, p. 47. Selected Works, among Wrongly Attributed Works 1, p. 330. The authorship discussed with scepticism also in J.E. Neale, Essays in Elizabethan History (London, 1958), pp. 102-3.
A version headed ‘On the Sacrament’ and beginning ‘He was the Word that spake it’ published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 427, among ‘Poems attributed to John Donne’.
pp. 47-46 rev.
• MoG 20: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)
Copy, headed ‘King James his Epitaph by Bishop Corbet’ and here beginning ‘Those that haue Eyes a wake and weep’.
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.
p. 49 rev.
• RaW 47.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Raleigh, a man of such Admirable Parts that he is More to be admired then sufficiently praised, this following Epitaph was made by himself’.
First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).
This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).
See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.
p. 50 rev.
• CoR 575: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett (‘What I shall leave thee none can tell’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Geoffrey Keynes, The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, Daughter of Sir Thomas Browne (Cambridge, 1919).
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.
pp. 53, 52, 51 rev.
• CoR 88: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of his owne Father (‘Vincent Corbet, farther knowne’)
Copy, headed ‘Dr R. Corbet's Elegy on his own Father’.
First published (omitting the last four lines) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published with the last four lines in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 67-9.
pp. 55-54 rev.
• WoH 160.5: Sir Henry Wotton, Tears at the Grave of Sir Albertus Morton who was buried at Southampton (‘Silence in truth would speak my sorrow best’)
Copy, headed ‘Tears wept at the Graue of Sr Albertus Morton by Henry Wotton’.
First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 528. Hannah (1845), pp. 40-3.
p. 62 rev.
• DnJ 1582.5: John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father (‘Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 369 (and variant text p. 370). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 193. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 26, 110 (in four sequences).
p. 68 rev.
• AlW 183: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘In poyntes of faith some undermyning jarres / betwixt two brothers kindled rebell warrs’)
Copy, headed ‘Dr Alablasters verses vpon Dr Reynolds & his Brother’.
A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Peter Heylyn, first published in his Cosmographie (1652), p. 257.
p. 70 rev.
• PsK 551: Katherine Philips, The Virgin (‘The things that make a Virgin please’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS text printed in Keynes, The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttleton, p. 26.
First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.
p. 72 rev.
• BrT 0.1: Sir Thomas Browne, ‘The Almond flourisheth, the Birch trees flowe’
Copy.
Edited from this MS in both Keynes volumes.
Anonymous. First published in The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (Cambridge, 1919), p. 27. Keynes, III, 236.
p. 75 rev.
• CaW 128: William Cartwright, Extracts
Extract, headed ‘A good wish to a new born Child out of Cartwrite’ and beginning ‘I wish Religion timely be’.
p. 80 rev.
• BrW 206.5: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)
Copy of the first stanza only, headed ‘An Epitaph upon Queen Elizabeth’.
This MS edted in Keynes, The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttleton, p. 24.
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.
p. 82 rev.
• WoH 209.5: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour (‘Dazzled thus with the height of place’)
Copy, untitled, docketed ‘F B’.
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.
pp. 84-83 rev.
• WoH 30.5: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
pp. 94-93 rev.
• BrT 0.96: Sir Thomas Browne, Upon a Tempest at Sea (‘Whither yea angry winds? What beath’)
Copy of the complete poem, subscribed ‘Writt by my Father at the Crowe Inne in Chester at his Coming from Ireland’.
Edited from this MS in Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, p. 21, and in Keynes, III, 236-7.
First published in The Commonplace Book of Elizabeth Lyttelton, ed. Geoffrey Keynes (Cambridge, 1919), p. 21. Keynes, III, 236-7.
pp. 173-171 rev.
• RaW 904: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)
Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, 1603.
MS Add. 8466 [1]
Autograph Latin epigram, inscribed on the flyleaf of Donne's annotated printed exemplum of Joseph Scaliger, De emendatione temporum (Paris, 1583). After 1583.
*DnJ 1: John Donne, Ad Autorem (‘Emendare cupis Joseph qui tempora, Leges’)
Formerly owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar and book collector.
Edited from this MS in Keynes, TLS. Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1948. Facsimile in English Poetical Autographs, ed. Desmond Flower and A.N.L. Munby (London, 1938), p. 7.
First published in Geoffrey Keynes, ‘Dr. Donne and Scaliger’, TLS (21 February 1958), p. 108 (with a facsimile on p. 93). reprinted in Milgate, Satires, p. 111. Shawcross, No. 104. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 12.
MS Add. 8466 [2]
Autograph Latin inscription signed by Donne, on page 59 detached from the album amicorum of Michael Corvinus, dated 17 September 1623. 1623.
*DnJ 4150: John Donne, Document(s)
Formerly owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar and book collector.
Facsimile in Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), facing p. 190. Edited in Milgate, Epithalamions (1978), p. 80, and in Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 211.
MS Add. 8467
A quarto volume of 83 poems by Donne, ii + 118 leaves (plus some blanks), in later calf. In a single virtually calligraphic roman hand (that also responsible for four leaves in Conway MS (DnJ Δ 40)), with two other poems by Donne (ff. 63v-4v) in another hand; also with corrections in a later hand and an index at the end; the text possibly derived from the same source as the ‘Cambridge Balam MS’ (DnJ Δ 4). c.1620-32.
Probably owned by, and perhaps compiled for, Henry Percy, ninth Earl of Northumberland (1564-1632). Formerly Leconfield MS 118 at Petworth House, Sussex. Sotheby's 23 April 1928 (Leconfield sale), lot 41, to Dobell. Bought by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Cited in IELM, I.i, as the ‘Leconfield MS’: DnJ Δ 5. This MS recorded in HMC, 6th Report (1877), Appendix, p. 312. For facsimile pages see DnJ 850, DnJ 1344, and DnJ 3768. Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1860.
ff. 1r-3v
• DnJ 2727: John Donne, Satyre I (‘Away thou fondling motley humorist’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.
ff. 3v-6v
• DnJ 2756: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.
ff. 6v-9r
• DnJ 2789: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.
ff. 9r-15v
• DnJ 2818: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.
ff. 15v-17v
• DnJ 2852: John Donne, Satyre V (‘Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.
ff. 17v-20v
• DnJ 360: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie. 1st’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Eleg. XII. The Bracelet’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as ‘Elegie XI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.
ff. 20v-2r
• DnJ 3158: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie. 2d’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as ‘Elegie XIX. Going to Bed’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.
The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, ‘Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's “To his mistress going to bed”’, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.
ff. 22r-3r
• DnJ 1671: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie. 3d’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as ‘Elegie I’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.
ff. 23r-4v
• DnJ 34: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie. 4th’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published as ‘Elegie II’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as ‘Elegie II’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
ff. 24v-5r
• DnJ 610: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie 5th’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as ‘Elegie III’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.
ff. 25v-7r
• DnJ 2540: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie 6th’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as ‘Elegie IV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.
f. 27r-v
• DnJ 1520: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie 7th’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published as ‘Elegie V’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as ‘Elegie V’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.
ff. 27v-8
• DnJ 1031: John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. (‘Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie 8th’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as ‘A Funeral Elegy’). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as ‘Elegia’.
ff. 28v-9v
• DnJ 2434: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’
Copy, headed ‘Elegie 9th.’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as ‘Elegie VI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.
ff. 29v-30v
• DnJ 2187: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie 10th’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in F. G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as ‘Elegie XX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.
ff. 30v-2r
• DnJ 2491: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie 11th’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as ‘Elegie XVI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.
ff. 32r-3r
• DnJ 2325: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’
Copy, headed ‘Elegie 12th’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as ‘Elegie VII’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.
ff. 33r-5v
• DnJ 2126: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie 13’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.
ff. 35v-7r
• DnJ 3050: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.
ff. 37r-8v
• DnJ 537: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.
ff. 38v-40r
• DnJ 3477: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.
ff. 40r-1v
• DnJ 778: John Donne, The Crosse (‘Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.
ff. 41v-3r
• DnJ 1054: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.
ff. 43r-4v
• DnJ 998: John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.
ff. 45r-6r
• DnJ 3425: John Donne, To Sr Henry Goodyere (‘Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.
ff. 46r-7r
• DnJ 3274: John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.
f. 47r-v
• DnJ 3445: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.
f. 48r-v
• DnJ 3519: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.
ff. 48v-50v
• DnJ 3547: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘You have refin'd mee, and to worthyest things’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 191-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 91-4. Shawcross, No. 137.
ff. 50v-1v
• DnJ 3393: John Donne, To Sr Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.
ff. 51v-2v
• DnJ 130: John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion (‘Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 334-6. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 29-30 (as ‘Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608’). Shawcross, No. 183.
ff. 52v-3v
• DnJ 1411: John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward (‘Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.
ff. 53v-5v
• DnJ 1862: John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mrs Essex Riche, From Amyens (‘Here where by All All Saints invoked are’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.
ff. 55v-7r
• DnJ 3578: John Donne, To the Countesse of Salisbury. August. 1614 (‘Faire, great, and good, since seeing you, wee see’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 224-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 107-10. Shawcross, No. 145.
ff. 57r-63r
• DnJ 1924: John Donne, The Litanie (‘Father of Heaven, and him, by whom’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.
ff. 63v-4r
• DnJ 3946: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture (‘I fixe mine eye on thine, and there’)
Copy, untitled, not in the hand of the main scribe.
This MS collated in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.
f. 64r-v
• DnJ 650: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)
Copy, untitled, not in the hand of the main scribe.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.
f. 69r-v
• DnJ 2277: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
ff. 69v-70r
• DnJ 289: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.
f. 70r-v
• DnJ 171: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
ff. 70v-1v
• DnJ 476: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.
ff. 71v-2r
• DnJ 1788: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.
ff. 72r-3r
• DnJ 3714: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)
Copy, headed ‘A Valediction’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
f. 73r-v
• DnJ 1436: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
ff. 73v-4v
• DnJ 2901: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
f. 74v
• DnJ 3973: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.
f. 75r-v
• DnJ 947: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as ‘Elegie X’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.
ff. 75v-6r
• DnJ 3091: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)
Copy, headed ‘To the Sunne’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.
ff. 76r-7r
• DnJ 1632: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.
f. 77r-v
• DnJ 2163: John Donne, Loves Usury (‘For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.
ff. 77v-8v
• DnJ 576: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.
ff. 78v-9r
• DnJ 3607: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.
ff. 79r-80r
• DnJ 2231: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse (‘If yet I have not all thy love’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated by Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.
f. 80r-v
• DnJ 2988: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.
ff. 80v-1r
• DnJ 1820: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.
ff. 81-2
• DnJ 1309: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.
f. 82r-v
• DnJ 7: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.
ff. 82v-3r
• DnJ 418: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
f. 83r-v
• DnJ 104: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.
ff. 84r-5v
• DnJ 3768: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Greirson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross. Facsimile of f. 84r in Keynes, Bibliography (1958), facing p. 147.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.
ff. 85v-6v
• DnJ 244: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie Autumnal’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published, as ‘Elegie. The Autumnall’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as ‘Elegie IX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.
ff. 86v-7r
• DnJ 3643: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
ff. 87r-9r
• DnJ 3799: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.
f. 89r-v
• DnJ 649: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.
ff. 89v-90r
• DnJ 2096: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)
Copy, headed ‘Spring’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.
ff. 90r-1r
• DnJ 2074: John Donne, Loves exchange (‘Love, any devill else but you’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.
f. 91r-v
• DnJ 734: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.
f. 92r-v
• DnJ 917: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.
ff. 92v-3r
• DnJ 3827: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)
Copy, headed ‘A Valediction’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.
f. 93r-v
• DnJ 1951: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)
Copy, headed ‘Mummie’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.
f. 94r-v
• DnJ 1344: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner. Facsimile of f. 94r in Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), facing p. 192.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
ff. 94v-5r
• DnJ 810: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.
ff. 95v-7r
• DnJ 1247: John Donne, The Extasie (‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.
f. 97r-v
• DnJ 3689: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.
ff. 97v-8v
• DnJ 1989: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.
ff. 98v-9r
• DnJ 2027: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
ff. 99r-100r
• DnJ 3889: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)
Copy of a five-stanza version.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
f. 100r-v
• DnJ 1386: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.
f. 101r-v
• DnJ 338: John Donne, The Blossoms (‘Little think'st thou, poore flower’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.
f. 102r-v
• DnJ 2604: John Donne, The Primrose (‘Upon this Primrose hill’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.
ff. 102v-3v
• DnJ 2681: John Donne, The Relique (‘When my grave is broke up againe’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.
ff. 103v-4r
• DnJ 850: John Donne, The Dampe (‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross. Facsimile of f. 103v in Keynes, Bibliography (1973), facing p. 185.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.
ff. 104r-6v
• DnJ 1163: John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day (‘Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.
ff. 106v-13r
• DnJ 976: John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 (‘Unseasonable man, statue of ice’)
Copy complete with the 11-poem ‘Epithalamion’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as ‘Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset’). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.
ff. 113r-18v
• DnJ 2411: John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford (‘Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.
MS Add. 8468
A quarto volume of 140 poems by Donne plus his epitaph on his wife and a letter to Sir Robert Carr, together with a few poems by others, 125 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. In a single neat secretary hand, one other poem by Donne (f. 104r) added in a later hand, the MS entitled ‘A Collection of Poems & Songs on sevrall occasions’ and perhaps prepared for an intended edition. c.1632.
Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Nar. Luttrell His Book 1680’: i.e. owned by Narcissus Luttrell (1657-1732), annalist and book collector. Sotheby's, 4 May 1936, lot 74. Then in the library of Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Luttrell MS’: DnJ Δ 18. For facsimile pages, see DnJ 860, DnJ 1421. Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1861.
ff. 1r-5v
• DnJ 1934: John Donne, The Litanie (‘Father of Heaven, and him, by whom’)
Copy, headed ‘A Letany’.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.
f. 6r-v
• DnJ 1421: John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward (‘Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner. Facsimile of f. 6 in Keynes, Bibliography (1958), facing p. 150.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.
ff. 6v-7v
• DnJ 787: John Donne, The Crosse (‘Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I’)
Copy, headed ‘Of the Cross’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.
ff. 10r-11v
• DnJ 2765: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.
ff. 12r-13v
• DnJ 2735: John Donne, Satyre I (‘Away thou fondling motley humorist’)
Copy, headed ‘Satyr 2’.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.
ff. 14r-15v
• DnJ 2797: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.
ff. 16r-19v
• DnJ 2827: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.
ff. 20r-1v
• DnJ 2860: John Donne, Satyre V (‘Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.
ff. 24r-5r
• DnJ 2553: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye 2.’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as ‘Elegie IV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.
f. 25r-v
• DnJ 1681: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegy. 3’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as ‘Elegie I’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.
ff. 25v-6v
• DnJ 2447: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’
Copy, headed ‘Elegye: 4’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as ‘Elegie VI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.
ff. 26v-7r
• DnJ 2334: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’
Copy, headed ‘Elegye: 5’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as ‘Elegie VII’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.
f. 27r-v
• DnJ 2200: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye 6’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in F. G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as ‘Elegie XX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.
f. 28r-v
• DnJ 3170: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye. 7’.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as ‘Elegie XIX. Going to Bed’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.
The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, ‘Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's “To his mistress going to bed”’, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.
ff. 28v-9r
• DnJ 623: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie 8’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as ‘Elegie III’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.
ff. 29v-30r
• DnJ 2501: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye: 9. On his mistrisse desiring to bee disguis'd & travaile with him like a Page’.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as ‘Elegie XVI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.
f. 30v
• DnJ 1529: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye 10’.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published as ‘Elegie V’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as ‘Elegie V’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.
ff. 30v-1v
• DnJ 47: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye: 11’.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published as ‘Elegie II’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as ‘Elegie II’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
ff. 31v-2v
• DnJ 257: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye: 12: On the Lady Herbert afterwards Danuers’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie. The Autumnall’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as ‘Elegie IX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.
ff. 32v-4r
• DnJ 2135: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.
ff. 34v-6r
• DnJ 1491: John Donne, His parting from her (‘Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegy: 14’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, in a 42-line version as ‘Elegie XIIII’, in Poems (London, 1635). Published complete (104 lines) in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 100-4 (as ‘Elegie XII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 96-100 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 21. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 332-4 (with versions printed in 1635 and 1669 on pp. 335-6 and 336-8 respectively).
ff. 36v-7v
• DnJ 3126: John Donne, A Tale of a Citizen and his Wife (‘I sing no harme good sooth to any wight’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegy: 15’.
This MS recorded in Gardner.
First published, as ‘Eleg. XVI’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 105-8 (as ‘Elegie XIV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 101-3 (among her ‘Dubia’). Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 437-8, among ‘Dubia’. Not in Shawcross.
ff. 38v-9v
• DnJ 1224: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye: 17’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as ‘Elegie XV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.
f. 41r-v
• DnJ 1710: John Donne, Julia (‘Harke newes, o envy, thou shalt heare descry'd’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner.
First published, as ‘Eleg. XV’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 104-5 (as ‘Elegie XIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 100-1 (among her ‘Dubia’). Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 435, among ‘Dubia’. Not in Shawcross.
f. 42v
• DnJ 2890: John Donne, Selfe Love (‘He that cannot chuse but love’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1650). Grierson, I, 73-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 107-8 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 80.
ff. 43r-4v
• DnJ 371: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye. To a Ladye whose chaine was lost. The bracelett Armilla’.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published, as ‘Eleg. XII. The Bracelet’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as ‘Elegie XI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.
f. 45
• DnJ 1131: John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford (‘That I might make your Cabinet my tombe’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.
ff. 45v-6
• DnJ 1066: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.
f. 46v
• DnJ 1035: John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. (‘Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye funer:’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as ‘A Funeral Elegy’). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as ‘Elegia’.
ff. 47-8
• DnJ 1010: John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.
ff. 48v-9v
• DnJ 1099: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)
Copy, headed ‘Another upon the same’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as ‘Elegie. Death’). Shawcross, No. 151 (as ‘Elegie: Death’). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.
f. 49v
• JnB 118: Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] (‘Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the same’.
First published in John A. Harper, ‘Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.
ff. 50r-4r
• DnJ 2419: John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford (‘Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee’)
Copy, including Donne's prose epistle to Lady Bedford.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.
ff. 54v-5r
• DnJ 1591: John Donne, An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton (‘Whether that soule which now comes up to you’)
Copy, including the epistle to Sir Robert Carr.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 288-90. Shawcross, No. 154. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 74-5. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 220-1.
ff. 55r-6v
• DnJ 1120: John Donne, Elegie upon the untimely death of the incomparable Prince Henry (‘Looke to mee faith, and looke to my faith, God’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye on Prince Henry, since imprinted but out of print’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum (London, 1613). Poems (London, 1633). Grierson, I, 267-70. Shawcross, No. 152. Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 63-6 (as ‘Elegie on Prince Henry’). Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 160-2.
f. 57r
• DnJ 4065.5: John Donne, Epitaph for Ann Donne (‘Fæminæ lectissimæ, dilectissimæque’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Variorum, 8.
Donne's Latin epitaph on his wife Ann More, who died 15 August 1617. First published in John Stow, The Survey of London (London, 1633). Edited and discussed in M. Thomas Hester, ‘“miserrimum dictu”: Donne's Epitaph for His Wife’, JEGP, 94/4 (October 1995), 513-29. Variorum, 8 (1995), 187.
f. 58r-v
• DnJ 3434: John Donne, To Sr Henry Goodyere (‘Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.
ff. 58v-9v
• DnJ 3513: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Honour is so sublime perfection’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 218-20. Milgate, Satires, pp. 100-2. Shawcross, No. 136.
ff. 60r-1r
• DnJ 3554: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘You have refin'd mee, and to worthyest things’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 191-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 91-4. Shawcross, No. 137.
f. 62v
• DnJ 3317: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire’)
Copy, headed ‘A letter. Incerto’.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.
f. 63r-v
• DnJ 3286: John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.
ff. 63v-4r
• DnJ 3458: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.
ff. 64r-5r
• DnJ 3487: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.
f. 65r-v
• DnJ 3528: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.
f. 66r-v
• DnJ 3403: John Donne, To Sr Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.
ff. 66v-7v
• DnJ 3592: John Donne, To the Lady Bedford (‘You that are she and you, that's double shee’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 227-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 94-5. Shawcross, No. 148.
ff. 67v-8v
• DnJ 1870: John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mrs Essex Riche, From Amyens (‘Here where by All All Saints invoked are’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.
ff. 69v-70r
• DnJ 3343: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘At once, from hence, my lines and I depart’)
Copy, headed ‘Lre Incerto’.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.
f. 70r
• DnJ 3358: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘Hast thee harsh verse, as fast as thy lame measure’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 205. Milgate, Satires, pp. 60-1. Shawcross, No. 115.
f. 70r-v
• DnJ 3225: John Donne, To Mr B.B. (‘Is not thy sacred hunger of science’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 212-13. Milgate, Satires, pp. 67-8. Shawcross, No. 126.
f. 70v
• DnJ 3234: John Donne, To Mr C.B. (‘Thy friend, whom thy deserts to thee enchaine’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 208. Milgate, Satires, p. 63. Shawcross, No. 120.
f. 71r
• DnJ 3366: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘Pregnant again with th' old twins Hope, and Feare’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206. Milgate, Satires, p. 61. Shawcross, No. 116.
f. 71r
• DnJ 3306: John Donne, To Mr S.B. (‘O Thou which to search out the secret parts’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 211. Milgate, Satires, pp. 66-7. Shawcross, No. 124.
f. 71v
• DnJ 3253: John Donne, To Mr I.L. (‘Of that short Roll of friends writ in my heart’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 212. Milgate, Satires, p. 67. Shawcross, No. 125.
ff. 71v-2
• DnJ 3261: John Donne, To Mr R.W. (‘If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 209-10. Milgate, Satires, pp. 64-5. Shawcross, No. 122.
f. 72r-v
• DnJ 3244: John Donne, To Mr I.L. (‘Blest are your North parts, for all this long time’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 213-14. Milgate, Satires, pp. 68-9. Shawcross, No. 127.
ff. 72v-3r
• DnJ 3418: John Donne, To Sir H.W. at his going Ambassador to Venice (‘After those reverend papers, whose soule is’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 214-16. Milgate, Satires, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 129.
ff. 73r-4v
• DnJ 3542: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘T' have written then, when you writ, seem'd to mee’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 195-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 95-8. Shawcross, No. 138.
ff. 74v-5v
• DnJ 3565: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford. On New-yeares day (‘This twilight of two yeares, not past nor next’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 198-201. Milgate, Satires, pp. 98-100. Shawcross, No. 139.
ff. 75v-6v
• DnJ 3570: John Donne, To the Countesse of Huntingdon (‘Man to Gods image. Eve, to mans was made’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 201-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 85-8. Shawcross, No. 141.
f. 77r-v
• DnJ 2714: John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis (‘Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 124-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 92-4 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 24. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 409-10.
f. 78r-v
• DnJ 3584: John Donne, To the Countesse of Salisbury. August. 1614 (‘Faire, great, and good, since seeing you, wee see’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 224-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 107-10. Shawcross, No. 145.
ff. 79r-80r
• DnJ 3060: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)
Copy, headed ‘To Mr Christopher Brooke from the Iland voyage with the Earle of Essex. The Storme’.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.
ff. 80r-1r
• DnJ 547: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.
f. 81r-v
• DnJ 3381: John Donne, To Mrs M.H. (‘Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 216-18. Milgate, Satires, pp. 88-90. Shawcross, No. 133.
ff. 82r-3v
• DnJ 1170: John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day (‘Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.
ff. 84v-5v
• DnJ 1152: John Donne, Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne (‘The Sun-beames in the East are spred’)
Copy, headed ‘Epithalamion on a Citizen’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 141-4. Shawcross, No. 106. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 3-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 87-9.
ff. 86r-9v
• DnJ 985: John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 (‘Unseasonable man, statue of ice’)
Copy, complete with the 11-poem ‘Epithalamion’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as ‘Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset’). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.
f. 90r
• DnJ 2706: John Donne, Resurrection, imperfect (‘Sleep sleep old Sun, thou canst not have repast’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 333-4. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 28. Shawcross, No. 182. The MS texts discussed in Lara M. Crowley, ‘A Text of “Resurrection. Imperfect”’, John Donne Journal, 29 (2010), 185-98.
ff. 90v-1r
• DnJ 138: John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion (‘Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 334-6. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 29-30 (as ‘Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608’). Shawcross, No. 183.
ff. 92r-3v
• DnJ 769: John Donne, La Corona (‘Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise’)
Copy of the sequence of seven sonnets, headed ‘The Crowne’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 318-21. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 1-5. Shawcross, No. 160.
f. 93v
• DnJ 1576: John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father (‘Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne’)
Copy, headed ‘Christo Saluatori’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 369 (and variant text p. 370). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 193. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 26, 110 (in four sequences).
f. 94r
• DnJ 3148: John Donne, ‘Thou hast made me, And shall thy worke decay?’
Copy under a general heading ‘Diuine Meditations’ and numbered 1.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 322 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’). Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 12-13. Shawcross, No. 174. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 5, 11, 103 (in three sequences).
f. 94r
• DnJ 222: John Donne, ‘As due by many titles I resigne’
Copy, numbered 2.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 322 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 6. Shawcross, No. 162. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 5, 11, 21, 103 (in four sequences).
f. 94v
• DnJ 2392: John Donne, ‘O might those sighes and teares return againe’
Copy, numbered 3.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. III’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 323 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. III’). Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 176. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 6, 12, 104 (in three sequences).
f. 94v
• DnJ 1299: John Donne, ‘Father, part of his double interest’
Copy, numbered 4.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. XII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XVI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 173. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 6, 12, 26, 110 (in four sequences).
f. 95r
• DnJ 2484: John Donne, ‘Oh, my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned’
Copy, numbered 5.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. II’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 323 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. IV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 163. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 21, 104 (in three sequences).
f. 95r
• DnJ 3142: John Donne, ‘This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint’
Copy, numbered 6.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 324 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 164. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 22, 105 (in three sequences).
f. 95v
• DnJ 1602: John Donne, ‘I am a little world made cunningly’
Copy, numbered 7.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. V’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 324 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. V’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 13. Shawcross, No. 175. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 8, 14, 105 (in three sequences).
f. 95v
• DnJ 237: John Donne, ‘At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow’
Copy, numbered 8.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 325 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 165. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 8, 14, 22, 106 (in four sequences).
f. 96r
• DnJ 1623: John Donne, ‘If poysonous mineralls, and if that tree’
Copy, numbered 9.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. V’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. IX’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 166. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 9, 15, 23, 107 (in four sequences).
f. 96r
• DnJ 1608: John Donne, ‘If faithfull soules be alike glorifi'd’
Copy, numbered 10.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VIII’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 325 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VIII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 14. Shawcross, No. 177.
f. 96v
• DnJ 887: John Donne, ‘Death be not proud, though some have called thee’
Copy, numbered 11.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. X’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 167. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 23, 107 (in four sequences).
f. 96v
• DnJ 3942: John Donne, ‘Wilt thou love God, as he thee! then digest’
Copy, numbered 12.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. XI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 172.
f. 97r
• DnJ 3045: John Donne, ‘Spit in my face you Jewes, and pierce my side’
Copy, untitled but under a general heading ‘Other Meditationes’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 168.
f. 97r
• DnJ 3883: John Donne, ‘Why are wee by all creatures waited on?’
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 169.
f. 97v
• DnJ 3871: John Donne, ‘What if this present were the worlds last night?’
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. IX’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XIII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 170.
f. 97v
• DnJ 333: John Donne, ‘Batter my heart, three person'd God. for, you’
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. X’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XIV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 171. Variorum, 7, Pt 1 (2005), pp. 18, 25.
f. 98r
• DnJ 1557: John Donne, A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany (‘In what torne ship soever I embarke’)
Copy, headed ‘At the Sea-side, going ouer with the Ld Doncaster. 1619’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.
f. 99r-v
• DnJ 3727: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the parting from his mistresse. Valediction. 1’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
ff. 99v-100r
• DnJ 3838: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)
Copy, headed ‘Valediction: 2: of Teares’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.
f. 100r-v
• DnJ 3808: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)
Copy, headed ‘Valediction: 3: of the Booke’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.
ff. 101r-2r
• DnJ 3778: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)
Copy, headed ‘Valediction. 4: of a Glasse. Vpon the Engrauing of his name with a Diamond in his Mistrisse window when he was to Travell’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.
f. 102r
• DnJ 1963: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)
Copy, headed ‘Mumy’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.
f. 102v
• DnJ 3655: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
f. 103r
• DnJ 3620: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)
Copy, headed ‘A Songe’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.
f. 103v
• DnJ 3985: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.
f. 103r-v
• DnJ 181: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
f. 104r
• DnJ 722: John Donne, The Computation (‘For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69. Gardner, Elegies, p. 36. Shawcross, No. 76.
f. 104r
• DnJ 431: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)
Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
ff. 104v-5r
• DnJ 586: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.
f. 105r-v
• DnJ 3103: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)
Copy, headed ‘Ad Solem. To the Sunne. Song’.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.
f. 105v
• DnJ 1833: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)
Copy, headed ‘Songe’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.
f. 106
• DnJ 489: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.
f. 106v
• DnJ 2288: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)
Copy, headed ‘Songe’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
f. 107r
• DnJ 959: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as ‘Elegie X’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.
f. 107v
• DnJ 2039: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
f. 108r
• DnJ 2002: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.
ff. 108v-9r
• DnJ 3901: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
f. 109v
• DnJ 2366: John Donne, Negative love (‘I never stoop'd so low, as they’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 66. Gardner, Elegies, p. 56. Shawcross, No. 74.
f. 109v
• DnJ 1703: John Donne, A Jeat Ring sent (‘Thou art not so black, as my heart’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 65-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 38. Shawcross, No. 73.
f. 110r
• DnJ 928: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.
f. 110v
• DnJ 1320: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)
Copy, headed ‘The Fever’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.
f. 111r
• DnJ 1357: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
f. 111v
• DnJ 1800: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)
Copy, headed ‘The Shaddow’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.
f. 112r
• DnJ 2106: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)
Copy, headed ‘The Spring’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.
f. 112v
• DnJ 17: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.
f. 113r
• DnJ 3955: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture (‘I fixe mine eye on thine, and there’)
Copy, headed ‘Picture’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.
f. 113r
• JnB 298: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)
Copy.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
ff. 113v-14v
• DnJ 1257: John Donne, The Extasie (‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.
f. 114v
• DnJ 1398: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.
f. 115r
• DnJ 2691: John Donne, The Relique (‘When my grave is broke up againe’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.
f. 115v
• DnJ 822: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.
f. 115ar
• DnJ 348: John Donne, The Blossoms (‘Little think'st thou, poore flower’)
Copy, headed ‘The Blossome’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.
f. 115av
• DnJ 2614: John Donne, The Primrose (‘Upon this Primrose hill’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.
f. 116r
• DnJ 860: John Donne, The Dampe (‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross. Facsimile in Keynes, Bibliography (1973), facing p. 186.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.
f. 116v
• DnJ 912: John Donne, The Dissolution (‘Shee is dead. And all which die’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 64. Gardner, Elegies, p. 86. Shawcross, No. 72.
f. 117r-v
• DnJ 2388: John Donne, A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day, Being the shortest day (‘'Tis the yeares midnight, and it is the dayes’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 44-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 84-5. Shawcross, No. 82.
f. 117v
• DnJ 1196: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)
Copy, headed ‘Valediction’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.
f. 117v
• DnJ 2944: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)
Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’.
First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her ‘Dubia’). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.
See also DnJ 428.
f. 118r
• DnJ 1449: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
f. 118r-v
• DnJ 2998: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.
ff. 118v-19r
• DnJ 2083: John Donne, Loves exchange (‘Love, any devill else but you’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.
f. 119v
• DnJ 2170: John Donne, Loves Usury (‘For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.
ff. 119v-20r
• DnJ 2633: John Donne, The Prohibition (‘Take heed of loving mee’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.
f. 120r
• DnJ 2914: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
f. 120v
• DnJ 1642: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.
ff. 120v-1r
• DnJ 114: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.
f. 121r-v
• DnJ 744: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.
f. 121v
• DnJ 663: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.
f. 122r
• DnJ 298: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)
Copy, headed ‘Songe’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.
f. 122v
• DnJ 3698: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.
f. 123r
• DnJ 2237: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse (‘If yet I have not all thy love’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.
f. 124r
• JnB 709: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song (‘If I freely may discouer’)
Copy, headed ‘Sonnet. quaere, if Donnes’.
f. 124r-v
• DnJ 2531: John Donne, The Paradox (‘No Lover saith, I love, nor any other’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69-70. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 38-9. Shawcross, No. 77.
ff. 124v-5r
• HrG 196: George Herbert, A Parodie (‘Souls joy, when thou art gone’)
Copy, headed ‘Songe’.
First published in The Temple (1633). John Donne, Poems, By J.D. (London, 1635). Hutchinson, pp. 183-4.
Herbert's poem is a ‘Parodie’ of a poem by William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, first published in John Donne, Poems (2nd edition, London, 1635). Entries below include both poems indiscriminately.
MS Add. 8469
4°, composite volume of MSS in several hands, including (items 4, 9, 10, 16, 17, 21, 24) eight sermons by Donne in six hands; used by members of the Egerton family, Earls of Bridgewater. The Ellesmere MS. in contemporary calf. c.1620-30s.
Bridgewater Library. Sold at Sotheby's, 19 March 1951, lot 174. Owned in 1957 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes.
Described in Geoffrey Keynes, ‘John Donne's Sermons’, TLS (28 May 1954), p. 351, and in Potter & Simpson, II, 365-71. Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1862.
Item 4
• DnJ 3999: John Donne, Sermon preached at Denmark-House, December 14, 1617, on Proverbs 8.17
Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, on 18 leaves.
This MS collated in Potter & Simpson.
First published in XXVI Sermons (London, 1661), No. 18. Potter & Simpson, I, No. 5, pp. 236-51.
Item 6
• FeO 89: Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries
Copy, headed ‘Thre Moneths obseruacons of ye [Low] Countries especially Holland’, in a cursive secretary hand, on nine leaves, imperfect, gnawed at the top outer corner by rodents.
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).
Item 9
• DnJ 4012: John Donne, A Sermon of Valediction at my going into Germany, at Lincoln's Inn, April 18, 1619, on Ecclesiastics 12.1
Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, on fifteen leaves.
This MS collated in Potter & Simpson.
First published in XXVI Sermons (London, 1661), No. 19. Potter & Simpson, II, No. 11, pp. 235-49.
Item 10
• DnJ 4033: John Donne, Sermon preached at the marriage of Mistress Margaret Washington, May 30, 1621, on Hosea 2.19
Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, with corrections in another hand, docketed at the top ‘By mr Dr D at ye mariage of mris washington’, on eighteen leaves.
This MS collated in Potter & Simpson.
First published in Six Sermons (Cambridge, 1634). Fifty Sermons (London, 1649), No. 3. Potter & Simpson, III, No. 11, pp. 241-55.
Item 16
• DnJ 4046: John Donne, Sermon preached to the Nobility, on Luke 23.24
Copy, in a probaly professional cursive hand, on eleven leaves.
This MS collated in Potter & Simpson.
First published in Fifty Sermons (London, 1649), No. 34. Potter & Simpson, V, No. 12, pp. 231-44.
Item 17
• DnJ 4041: John Donne, Sermon preached at Whitehall, March 8, 1621/22, on I Corinthians 15.26
Copy, in a mixed hand, on sixteen leaves.
This MS collated in Potter & Simpson.
First published in LXXX Sermons (London, 1640), No. 15. Potter & Simpson, IV, No. 1, pp. 45-62.
Item 18
• RaW 677.9: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World
A Latin translation of a passage from Ralegh's work made in the 1630s by Thomas Egerton, younger son of John Egerton (1579-1649), first Earl of Bridgewater.
First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.
See also RaW 728.
Item 21, ff. 1r-10r
• DnJ 4016: John Donne, Sermon preached at Lincoln's Inn [January 30, 1619/20], on John 5.22
Copy, in a professional secretary hand.
This MS collated in Potter & Simpson.
First published in Six Sermons (Cambridge, 1634). Fifty Sermons (London, 1649), No. 12. Potter & Simpson, II, No. 15, pp. 311-24.
Item 21, ff. 10r-16v
• DnJ 4020: John Donne, Sermon preached at Lincoln's Inn [the evening of January 30, 1619/20], on John 8.15
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The Sermon in ye eueninge of the same daie’, subscribed ‘Att Lincolnes Inne. 30o January 1619’.
This MS collated in Potter & Simpson.
First published in Six Sermons (Cambridge, 1634). Fifty Sermons (London, 1649), No. 13. Potter & Simpson, II, No. 16, pp. 325-34.
Item 24
• DnJ 4037: John Donne, Sermon preached at Lincoln's Inn, on Colossians 1.24
Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on twelve leaves.
This MS collated in Potter & Simpson.
First published in Fifty Sermons (London, 1649), No. 16. Potter & Simpson, III, No. 16, pp. 332-47.
MS Add. 8470
A small quarto verse miscellany, comprising approximately 80 poems, including eleven poems by Donne, 21 poems by Strode, and one poem of doubtful authorship, in several hands, one small neat hand predominating (ff. 1r-34r), with later receipts for 1658-62 at the end, 161 leaves (including numerous blanks). c.1630s-40s.
Inscriptions include ‘Edwardus Hyde’ (at the end) and (f. [ir]) ‘Edward Hyde is a knave’: i.e. probably Edward Hyde (1607-59), royalist divine, who may be the ‘E. H.’ responsible for a poem ‘To his Wife’ (f. 34r) and the ‘Ned Hide’ who is subject of an ‘Epitaph’ (f. [18r rev]). Later inscribed ‘Robertus Walker’ and ‘Elizabeth Walker’. Early 18th- century bookplate of Baron Aston of Forfar. Percy Dobell, sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 345. Later owned by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Discussed in Geoffrey Keynes, ‘A Footnote to Donne’, The Book Collector, 22 (Summer 1973), 165-8, with a facsimile of the page with Hyde's ‘signature’ (which does not correspond to the main handwriting). Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 1863.
f. 2r
• RaW 272: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)
Copy, headed ‘Mans life’.
First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, ‘The Text of Ralegh's Lyric “What is our life?”’, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
f. 2v
• WoH 113: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)
Copy, headed ‘On the Q. 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. 2v-3r
• DnJ 2464: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’
Copy, headed ‘To his vnconstant Mrs’, subscribed ‘J.D.’
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as ‘Elegie VI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.
f. 3r-v
• DnJ 2353: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs’ and here beginning ‘Ideot, I taught thee nature law to loue’, subscribed ‘J. D.’
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as ‘Elegie VII’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.
ff. 3v-4r
• DnJ 66: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)
Copy, headed ‘To a Louer’, subscribed ‘J. D.’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published as ‘Elegie II’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as ‘Elegie II’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
ff. 4r-5r
• DnJ 1236: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia’, subscribed ‘J. D.’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as ‘Elegie XV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.
f. 5v
• StW 999: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)
Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.
First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).
f. 6r-v
• DnJ 272: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon an old handsome Lady’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie. The Autumnall’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as ‘Elegie IX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.
f. 6v
• DnJ 1141: John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford (‘That I might make your Cabinet my tombe’)
Copy of lines 1-6, headed ‘To a Lady’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.
f. 6v
• DnJ 2306: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)
Copy, untitled, run on directly from DnJ 1141.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
ff. 6v-7r
• DnJ 3744: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
ff. 7r-8r
• DnJ 393: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)
Copy, headed ‘On a chaine’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Eleg. XII. The Bracelet’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as ‘Elegie XI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.
f. 8r
• CwT 79: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)
Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs Amatoria’, subscribed ‘J. D.’
This MS collated (as ‘D8’) in Dunlap.
First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
f. 8v
• HrJ 284: Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues (‘You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young’)
Copy, headed ‘A refusall of a learned wife’ and here beginning ‘You wish mee to a wife that's faire & young’.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.
f. 8v
• StW 1046: William Strode, A Superscription on Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia sent for a Token (‘Whatever in Philoclea the Faire’)
Copy, subscribed ‘W.S.’
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 43. Forey, p. 18.
f. 9r-v
• StW 1091: William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde (‘Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye’)
Copy, headed ‘To a Gentwoman for a freinde’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
This MS collated in Forey.
Lines 15-20 (beginning ‘Oft when I looke I may descrie’) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.
ff. 9v-10r
• StW 579: William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham (‘Meerely for death to greive and mourne’)
Copy, subscribed ‘W.S.’
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.
f. 10r
• StW 1058: William Strode, Thankes for a welcome (‘For your good Lookes, and for your Clarett’)
Copy, here beginning ‘ffor thy good lookes, and for your Clarret’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, p. 102. Forey, p. 30.
f. 10r
• CwT 417: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes (‘In Celia's face a question did arise’)
Copy, headed ‘On Lips, and eyes’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.
f. 10r-v
• StW 1173: William Strode, To the Lady Knighton (‘Madam, due thanks are lodgde within my breast’)
Copy, subscribed ‘W.S.’
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 94-5. Forey, pp. 53-4.
f. 10v
• HoJ 8: John Hoskyns, ‘A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late’
Copy, headed ‘On a locke smith’.
Whitlock, p. 108.
ff. 10v-11r
• DnJ 802: John Donne, The Crosse (‘Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I’)
Copy of lines 31-48, 51-4, 57-8, 61-2, headed ‘A Crucifix’ and here beginning ‘When ere this crosse ungrudg unto thee sticks’, subscribed ‘J. D.’
This MS collated in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.
f. 11r
• DkT 27: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)
Copy, headed ‘On Q. Elizabeth’.
First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, ‘Poems by William Camden’, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.
ff. 11v-12r
• CwT 1236: Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) (‘Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus’)
Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs sickness’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 31-2.
f. 12r-v
• CwT 712: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs’ and here beginning ‘Thinke not deare loue that Ile reveale’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).
See also Introduction.
f. 12v
• StW 1295: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
f. 12v
• CoR 716.5: Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre (‘A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne’)
Copy, headed ‘On the Commet’ and subscribed ‘D.R.C.’
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.
f. 12v
• StW 616: William Strode, On three Dolphins sewing down Water into a white Marble Bason (‘These Dolphins, twisting each on others side’)
Copy, headed ‘On a fountaine’.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] Sr Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660). Dobell, p. 46. Forey, p. 185.
ff. 12v-13r
• StW 231: William Strode, Loves Ætna. Song (‘In your sterne beauty I can see’)
Copy, headed ‘On a kisse leauing blood behind it’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 47. Forey, p. 93.
f. 13r
• StW 1117: William Strode, To a Valentine (‘Fayre Valentine, since once your welcome hand’)
Copy, headed ‘On a knife sent to his valentine’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 42. Forey, p. 193.
f. 13r
• StW 1072: William Strode, To a frinde (‘Like as the hande which hath bin usd to play’)
Copy, here beginning ‘Like to the hand which hath beene vsd to play’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
This MS collated in Forey.
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.
f. 13v
• CwT 1151: Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse (‘Fayre copie of my Celia's face’)
Copy, headed ‘Of one like his Mrs’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.
ff. 13v-14r
• StW 450: William Strode, On a good legge and foote (‘If Hercules tall Stature might be guest’)
Copy, subscribed ‘W.S.’
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.
f. 14v-16r
• StW 516: William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge (‘Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I’)
Copy of the sequence, headed ‘On Mrs Mary Preas dying young’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
This MS recorded in Forey, p. 335.
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.
f. 16r
• StW 1248: William Strode, With Pen, Inke and paper these to a distressed &c. (‘Here is paper, pen and Inke’)
Copy, headed ‘With pen, inke & paper to a distressed lover’, subscribed ‘W.S.’
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 101-2. Forey, pp. 15-16.
f. 16r-v
• StW 638: William Strode, On Westwell Downes (‘When Westwell Downes I gan to treade’)
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 20-1. Four Poems by William Strode (Fransham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 5-7.
ff. 16v-17r
• StW 568: William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Leigh (‘You that affright with lamentable Notes’)
Copy, subscribed ‘W.S.’
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 71-3. Forey, pp. 118-21.
f. 17r-v
• CwT 1237: Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) (‘Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus’)
Second copy, headed ‘On his Mrs sicke of a Calenture’ and here beginning ‘And must shee languish, and mee sorrow thus’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 31-2.
f. 17v
• StW 309: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)
Copy, headed ‘On a butcher married to a farmers daughter’ and here beginning ‘A fitter match was never seene’.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.
f. 18r
• CwT 962: Thomas Carew, Song. To one that desired to know my Mistris (‘Seeke not to know my love, for shee’)
Copy, headed ‘To one that desird to know his Mrs’.
A facsimile of f. 18r in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 39-40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
f. 18r-v
• CwT 1174.5: Thomas Carew, Truce in Love entreated (‘No more, blind God, for see my heart’)
Copy, headed ‘A louer to Cupid’, here beginning ‘Noe more blind God, for soe my heart’.
This MS recorded in Dunlap. A facsimile of f. 18r in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 99).
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.
ff. 18v-19r
• HeR 83: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)
Copy, headed ‘A forsaken lady yt dyed for loue’.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
f. 19r
• KiH 364: Henry King, The Farwell (‘Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp’)
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet’.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.
See also B&F 121-2.
f. 19v
• CwT 326.5: Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid (‘When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see’)
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet’.
This MS collated in Dunlap.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.
f. 19v
• CwT 523: Thomas Carew, On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water (‘Stand still you floods, doe not deface’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the seeing his Mrs face in the Water’.
This MS apparently collated in part in Dunlap, p. 263.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.
f. 20r
• StW 200: William Strode, Justification (‘See how the rainbow in the skie’)
Copy, headed On Justification.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.
f. 20r
• StW 972: William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection (‘Like to the casting of an Eye’)
Copy, headed ‘Of death, and resurrection’ and here beginning ‘Like to the rowling of an eye’.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Poems and Psalms by Henry King, ed. John Hannah (Oxford & London, 1843), p. cxxii. Dobell, pp. 50-1. Forey, pp. 107-8.
MS texts usually begin ‘Like to the rolling of an eye’.
ff. 21v-2r
• KiH 444: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)
Copy, headed ‘Mans miserie’.
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.
f. 22r
• BrW 135: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor (‘Nature in this small volume was about’)
Copy, headed ‘On the death of a young Gentlewoman’.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.
ff. 22v-9r
• CoR 301.5: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)
Copy, subscribed ‘Dr Rich. Corbet’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.
f. 29r-v
• StW 165: William Strode, In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)
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).
f. 29v-30v
• StW 990: William Strode, A song on the Baths (‘What Angel stirrs this happy well?’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Forey.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 9-10. Forey, pp. 99-101.
f. 30r-v
• DnJ 2222: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in F. G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as ‘Elegie XX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.
ff. 30v-1r
• DnJ 1848: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia’, subscribed ‘J. D’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.
ff. 31r-2v
• DnJ 1157: John Donne, Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne (‘The Sun-beames in the East are spred’)
Copy, headed ‘Epitaphium’, subscribed ‘J. D.’
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 141-4. Shawcross, No. 106. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 3-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 87-9.
f. 33r
• BrW 215: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)
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.
f. 33r
• StW 1221: William Strode, A watchstring (‘Tymes picture here invites your eyes’)
Copy of the second couplet, headed ‘On a watch string’ and here beginning ‘My strings can doe what no man could’.
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 44. Forey, p. 210.
MS Add. 8471
A quarto volume of 78 poems by Henry King (and one by Henry Reynolds) on pp. 1-159, 166 pages (plus a four-page index and blanks), in grained leather gilt. In a single neat probably professional hand, c.1646; poems on pp. 102 and [160-6], as well as corrections throughout the volume, added c.1648; a poem by Edmund Waller written on an added flyleaf [f. iii] in another later hand. c.1646-8.
Later owned (before 1819) by George Spencer (1766-1840), fifth Duke of Marlborough and Marquess of Blandford, of White Knights, near Reading (catalogue of 7 and 22 June 1819, item No. 3370); by Thomas Thorpe in 1836; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9325; by Sir John Arthur Brooke (sold at Sotheby's, 30 May 1925, lot 705); and by Richard Jennings (sold at Sotheby's, 28 April 1952, lot 13). Owned by 1952 by Sir Geoffrey Keynes (1887-1982), surgeon, literary scholar, and book collector.
Cited in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Phillipps MS’: KiH Δ 5. Discussed by Margaret Crum in The Library, 5th Ser. 16 (1981), 121-32. Described in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King D.D. Bishop of Chichester (London, 1977), pp. 92-5 (with a facsimile of p. 57: see KiH 589), in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), No. 2960 (with a facsimile of p. 37 in Plate XXXIV, after p. 298: see KiH 323), and in Mary Hobbs's thesis (see KiH Δ 6).
f. [iii]
• WaE 286: Edmund Waller, Of the last Verses in the Book (‘When we for age could neither read nor write’)
Copy, headed ‘A Poem found in Antient Writing’, inscribed in a later hand.
Edied from this MS in Sir Geoffrey Keynes, A Bibliography of Henry King (London, 1977), p. 94.
First published in Poems, ‘Fifth’ edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 144.
pp. 1-6
• KiH 795: Henry King, The Woes of Esay (‘Woe to the worldly men, whose covetous’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 136-9.
pp. 7-11
• KiH 313: Henry King, An Essay on Death and a Prison (‘A Prison is in all things like a Grave’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 139-42.
pp. 12-15
• KiH 710: Henry King, To his unconstant Freind (‘But say, thou very Woman, why to mee’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 142-4.
pp. 16-18
• KiH 413: Henry King, Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice (‘I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 144-5.
pp. 18-19
• KiH 108: Henry King, The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.
pp. 20-1
• KiH 667: Henry King, The Surrender (‘My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more’)
Copy headed ‘The Surrender: An Elegy’.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.
p. 22
• KiH 541: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 147-8.
p. 23
• KiH 632: Henry King, Sonnet (‘When I entreat, either thou wilt not heare’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 148.
p. 24
• KiH 518: Henry King, Sic Vita (‘Like to the Falling of a Starr’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 148-9.
p. 25
• KiH 572: Henry King, Sonnet (‘I prethee turne that face away’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.
Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).
p. 26
• KiH 605: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.
pp. 27-8
• KiH 356: Henry King, The Farwell (‘Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.
See also B&F 121-2.
p. 30
• KiH 29: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum. Edited in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 13 (p. 9).
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) ‘A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds’ (‘Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee’). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
pp. 31-2
• KiH 172: Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death (‘Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Prince Henryes Death’.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.
pp. 33-4
• KiH 189: Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. (‘I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne’)
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy’.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.
pp. 35-6
• KiH 277: Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset (‘Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.
pp. 37-42
• KiH 323: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum. Edited in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 14 (pp. 9-13). Facsimile of p. 37 in Keynes, Bibliotheca Bibliographici (London, 1964), facing p. 298.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.
p. 43
• KiH 468: Henry King, On two Children dying of one Disease, and buryed in one Grave (‘Brought forth in Sorrow, and bred up in Care’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 72.
pp. 44-7
• KiH 397: Henry King, A Letter (‘I ne're was drest in Formes. nor can I bend’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 152-4.
p. 48
• KiH 759: Henry King, Upon a Table-book presented to a Lady (‘When your faire hand receaves this Little Book’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.
p. 48
• KiH 749: Henry King, To the same Lady Upon Overburye's Wife (‘Madam, who understands you well, would sweare’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.
p. 49
• KiH 744: Henry King, To the same Lady Upon Mr. Burton's Melancholy (‘If in this Glasse of Humours you doe find’)
Copy, headed ‘To a Lady vpon Mr Burtons Melancholly’.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 154.
p. 50
• KiH 687: Henry King, To a Freind upon Overburie's Wife given to Hir (‘I know no fitter Subject for your view’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 155.
p. 51
• KiH 697: Henry King, To A.R. upon the same (‘Not that I would instruct or tutor you’)
Copy, headed ‘To A.R: in eandem’.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 155.
p. 51
• KiH 737: Henry King, To One demanding why Wine sparkles (‘So Diamonds sparkle, and thy Mistriss' eyes’)
Copy of an early version, beginning ‘Wee doe not give the Wine a sparkling name’; c.1646.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 188-9, 243.
p. 52
• KiH 306: Henry King, An Epitaph On Niobe turn'd to Stone (‘This Pile thou see'st, built out of Flesh not Stone’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 156.
p. 52
• KiH 754: Henry King, Upon a Braid of Haire in a sent by Mris. E.H. (‘In this small Character is sent’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 155.
p. 53
• KiH 424: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)
Copy.
This MS collated 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.
pp. 54-5
• KiH 702: Henry King, To his Freinds of Christchurch upon the mislike of the Marriage of the Artes, acted at Woodstock (‘But is it true, the Court mislik't the Play’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 67.
p. 56
• KiH 626: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Were thy heart soft, as Thou art faire’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 158-9.
p. 57
• KiH 589: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee no more how faire shee is’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum. Facsimile in Keynes, p. 95.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.
pp. 58-9
• KiH 14: Henry King, The Anniverse. An Elegy (‘So soone grow'n old? Hast thou bin six yeares dead?’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 72-3.
pp. 60-3
• KiH 99: Henry King, By Occasion of the young Prince his happy Birth. May 29. 1630 (‘At this glad Triumph, when most Poëts use’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 73-5.
pp. 64-5
• KiH 787: Henry King, The Vow-Breaker (‘When first the Magick of thine Ey’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 160-1.
pp. 66-7
• KiH 482: Henry King, A Penitentiall Hymne (‘Hearken, O God! unto a wretche's cryes’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in The Psalmes of David, 2nd edition (London, 1654). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 161-2.
pp. 68-70
• KiH 766: Henry King, Upon the Death of my ever Desired Freind Dr. Donne Dean of Paules (‘To have liv'd Eminent, in a degree’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in John Donne, Deaths Duell (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 76-7.
p. 71
• KiH 562: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Go Thou, that vainly dost mine eyes invite’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 162.
pp. 72-8
• KiH 227: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus (‘Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.
p. 79
• KiH 265: Henry King, Epigram (‘To what serve Lawes where only mony reignes?’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Hannah (1843), p. 127. Crum, p. 156.
p. 79
• KiH 255: Henry King, Epigram (‘I would not in my Love too soone prevaile’)
Copy.
First published in The Gentleman's Magazine, 5 (July 1735), 380. The English Poems of Henry King, ed. Lawrence Mason (New Haven, 1914), p. 174. Crum, p. 157.
p. 80
• KiH 249: Henry King, Epigram (‘He whose advent'rous keele ploughes the rough Seas’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Hannah (1843), p. 129. Crum, p. 157.
p. 81
• KiH 660: Henry King, Sonnet. To Patience (‘Downe stormy Passions, downe: no more’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 160.
p. 82
• KiH 491: Henry King, The Pink (‘Faire one, you did on mee bestow’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 167.
p. 83
• KiH 530: Henry King, Silence. A Sonnet (‘Peace my Hearte's blabb, be ever dumbe’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 159.
p. 84
• KiH 271: Henry King, Epigram (‘When Arria to her Paetus had bequeath'd’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Hannah (1843), p. 128. Crum, p. 156.
p. 84
• KiH 260: Henry King, Epigram (‘The fate of Bookes is diverse as man's Sense’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Hannah (1843), p. 130. Crum, p. 156.
p. 85
• KiH 691: Henry King, To a Lady who sent me a copy of verses at my going to bed (‘Lady, your art, or wit could nere devise’)
Copy of the revised version.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 178-9, 240.
pp. 86-8
• KiH 139: Henry King, The Departure. An Elegy (‘Were I to leave no more than a Good Freind’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 163-4.
pp. 89-91
• KiH 7: Henry King, An Acknowledgment (‘My best of Friends! what needes a Chaine to ty’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 164-6.
p. 92
• KiH 731: Henry King, To my Sister Anne King who chid mee in verse for being angry (‘Deare Nan! I would not have thy Counsaile lost’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 166.
p. 93
• KiH 646: Henry King, Sonnet. The Double Rock (‘Since Thou hast view'd some Gorgon, and art grow'n’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 167-8.
p. 94
• KiH 500: Henry King, The Retreit (‘Pursue no more (My Thoughts!) that False Unkind’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 168.
p. 95
• KiH 405: Henry King, Love's Harvest (‘Fond Lunatick forbeare. WHy dost thou sue’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 169.
pp. 96-8
• KiH 774: Henry King, Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland (‘So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 81-2.
p. 99
• KiH 373: Henry King, The Forlorne Hope (‘How long (vaine Hope!) dost thou my joyes suspend?’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 168-9.
p. 100
• KiH 22: Henry King, Being waked out of my Sleep by a Snuff of Candle which offended mee, I thus thought (‘Perhapps 'twas but Conceit. Erroneous Sense!’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 169-70.
pp. 101-2
• KiH 210: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the Bishopp of London John King (‘Sad Relick of a Blessed Soule! whose trust’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 172-3.
p. 102
• KiH 24: Henry King, Bishop John King The Latine Epitaph hanging over His Grave-stone Translated (‘No Pyramids, nor Panegyrick Verse’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Sparrow and in Crum.
First published in The Poems of Bishop Henry King, ed. John Sparrow (London, 1925), p. 69. Crum, p. 186. Other English versions are in Bodleian, MS Rawl. D. 317, f. 171 (in John King's hand), in the Thomas Manne MS (KiH Δ 7), pp. [185-6], and in the Calfe MS (KiH Δ 9, part ii), f. 8v: see Crum, pp. 241-2, and Percy Simpson, ‘The Bodleian Manuscripts of Henry King’, BQR, 5 (1929), 324-40 (p. 329).
For the original Latin epitaph, see KiH 803.
pp. 103-4
• KiH 380: Henry King, The Labyrinth (‘Life is a crooked Labyrinth, and wee’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 173-4.
pp. 105-9
• KiH 151: Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse (‘Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.
pp. 110-13
• KiH 386: Henry King, The Legacy (‘My dearest Love! When Thou and I must part’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 170-2.
pp. 114-17
• KiH 476: Henry King, Paradox. That it is best for a Young Maid to marry an Old Man (‘Fair one, why cannot you an old man love?’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 180-2.
pp. 118-22
• KiH 473: Henry King, Paradox. That Fruition destroyes Love (‘Love is our Reason's Paradox, which still’)
Copy, headed ‘The Paradoxe’.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 182-5.
pp. 123-4
• KiH 144: Henry King, The Dirge (‘What is th' Existence of Man's Life?’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 177-8.
pp. 125-31
• KiH 726: Henry King, To my Noble and Judicious Friend Mr Henry Blount upon his Voyage (‘Sir I must ever owne my self to be’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 83-7.
pp. 132-8
• KiH 723: Henry King, To my honourd friend Mr. George Sandys (‘It is, Sir, a confess'd intrusion here’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 89-92.
pp. 139-41
• KiH 720: Henry King, To my Dead Friend Ben: Johnson (‘I see that Wreath, which doth the Wearer arme’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Jonsonus Virbius, or the Memorie of Ben Johnson Revived by the friends of the Muses, ed. Brian Duppa (London, 1638). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 87-8.
pp. 142-3
• KiH 509: Henry King, A Salutation of His Majestye's Shipp The Soveraigne (‘Move on thou Floating Trophee built to Fame!’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 92-3.
pp. 144-7
• KiH 219: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the immature losse of the most vertuous Lady Anne Riche (‘I envy not thy mortall triumphes, Death!’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 93-5.
pp. 148-50
• KiH 739: Henry King, To the Queen at Oxford (‘Great Lady! That thus quite against our use’)
Copy, headed ‘To the Queene’; c.1646.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 97-8.
pp. 151-2
• KiH 162: Henry King, An Elegy Upon Mrs. Kirk unfortunately drowned in Thames (‘For all the Ship-wracks, and the liquid graves’)
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy: Vpon a Lady vnfortunately drowned in the Thames’.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 96-7.
pp. 153-4
• KiH 216: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the death of Mr. Edward Holt (‘Whether thy Father's, or Disease's rage’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 98-9.
pp. 155-6
• KiH 513: Henry King, The short Wooing (‘Like an Oblation set before a Shrine’)
Copy, headed ‘The Wooing’; c.1646.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 179-80.
pp. 157-9
• KiH 463: Henry King, On the Earl of Essex (‘Essex twice made unhappy by a Wife’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph Vpon the Erle of Essex’; c.1646.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (London, 1664). Crum, pp. 99-100.
p. [160]
• KiH 244: Henry King, Epigram (‘Hammond his Master's Cabbanet broke ope’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Sparrow and in Crum.
First published in The Poems of Bishop Henry King, ed. John Sparrow (London, 1925), p. 154. Crum, p. 101.
pp. [161-2]
• KiH 103.5: Henry King, The Change (‘We lov'd as friends now twenty years and more’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 186-7.
pp. [163-4]
• KiH 507: Henry King, St. Valentine's Day (‘Now that each feather'd Chorister doth sing’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 187-8.
pp. 165-6
• KiH 738: Henry King, To One demanding why Wine sparkles (‘So Diamonds sparkle, and thy Mistriss' eyes’)
Copy of the revised version: c.1648.
This MS collated in Crum.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 188-9, 243.
MS Add. 8540
Autograph letter signed by Taylor, to John Evelyn, 15 November 1656. 1656.
*TaJ 50: Jeremy Taylor, Letter(s)
Possibly the letter in Thomas Thorpe's sale ‘Catalogue of Autograph Letters’ for 1836, lot 1051, which is dated there 15 October 1656. Sotheby's, 14 April 1875, lot 840, 13 June 1911, 19 February 1913, 24 July 1916, and 23 April 1923, lot 274, to Baker.
Edited in Eden, I, lv-lvi. Wheatley, III, 217-19.
MS Add. 8684
An octavo verse miscellany, originally written in two hands (A: ff. 1r-22r, 27v-8v; B: ff. 22r-7v, predominantly italic), with late 17th-century additions in three other hands on ff. 28v-33v, 52r and f. 34r, associated with Cambridge, 35 leaves (plus 17 blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Including 13 poems by Randolph, plus three of doubtful authorship. Initials stamped on both covers of ‘F R’ and the inside of the cover inscribed ‘Francis Rolfe Anno dni 1637’: i.e. Francis Rolfe (1618-78), Town Clerk of [King's] Lynn, Norfolk. c.1637.
Sotheby's, 21 July 1988, lot 18.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Rolfe MS’: RnT Δ 5. Briefly described in E.S. Leedham-Green, ‘Francis Rolfe's poetical miscellany: Add.Ms 8684’, Bulletin of the Friends of Cambridge University Library, 9 (1988), 20-2. A facsimile of f. 9v in Sotheby's sale catalogue: see RnT 123, RnT 239. For the Rolfe family (whose later papers are in the Norfolk Record Office, NRS 27114, 404 x 3), see R.T. and A. Gunther, Rolfe Family Records, 2 vols (London & Aylesbury, 1914), and Veronica Berry, The Rolfe Papers: The Chronicle of a Norfolk Family 1559-1908 (Brentwood, Essex, 1979; 2nd impression 1986).
ff. 1r-4v
• RnT 179: Thomas Randolph, Necessary observations (‘First worship God, he that forgets to pray’)
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolphe’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 57-66.
ff. 5r-6v
• RnT 139: Thomas Randolph, In Anguem, qui Lycorin dormientem amplexus est. Englished thus παραψρ (‘The Spring was come, and all the fields growne fine’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a snake which did Imbrace Licoris as she slept’Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolphe’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 28-34, following a Latin version beginning ‘Ver erat, & flores per apertum libera campum’.
ff. 7r-9v
• RnT 239: Thomas Randolph, On the Inestimable Content He Injoyes in the Muses, To those of his Friends that dehort him from Poetry (‘Goe sordid earth, and hope not to bewitch’)
Copy, subscribed ‘TR’.
Facsimiles of f. 9v in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 21 July 1988, lot 18, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 241.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 23-8.
ff. 9v-10v
• RnT 123: Thomas Randolph, A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son (‘I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare’)
Copy, subscribed ‘T Rand’.
Facsimiles of f. 9v in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 21 July 1988, lot 18, and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 241.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.
f. 10v
• RnT 74: Thomas Randolph, ‘Ὴ εὐφυοῦς ἡ ποίησις ἢ μανικοῦ’ Arist. (‘From witty men and mad’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Poetry’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 96-7.
f. 11r
• RnT 361: Thomas Randolph, Upon his Picture (‘When age hath made me what I am not now’)
Copy, headed ‘Verses made upon his owne Picture’, subscribed ‘T R.’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 79.
f. 11r
• RnT 255: Thomas Randolph, On the Passion of Christ (‘What rends the temples vail, where is day gone?’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Eclips of the Sun when Christ suffered’, subscribed ‘T R.’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 57. This poem is the ‘Englished’ version of Latin verses beginning ‘Quid templum abscindit? quo luxque diesque recessit’, printed in Thorn-Drury, pp. 178-9.
f. 11r-v
• CrR 449: Richard Crashaw, Vpon a gnatt burnt in a candle (‘Little = buzzing = wanton elfe’)
Copy, here beginning ‘Silly buzzing wanton elfe’, subscribed ‘T R.’.
First published in Grosart, I (1872), 284-5. Martin, pp. 413-14.
Probably spurious (see Martin, p. lxv). Also ascribed to Thomas Randolph and to Thomas Vincent.
f. 11v
• RnT 430: Thomas Randolph, The Muses' Looking-Glass, Act I, scene iv. Song (‘Say in a dance how shall we go’)
Copy, headed ‘The maske of vices before the king’, subscribed ‘T: R:.’
First published (with Poems) Oxford, 1638. Hazlitt, I, 173-266 (p. 192).
f. 12r
• RnT 317: Thomas Randolph, To one Overhearing his private discourse (‘I wonder not my Laeda farre can see’)
Copy, headed ‘To Mr Swan overhearing his private discourse’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 88.
f. 12r-v
f. 12v
• RnT 371: Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger (‘Arithmetique nine digits, and no more’)
Copy, headed ‘Verses made by Mr Randolph when his finger was cut of’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.
f. 13v
• StW 801: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman walking in the snow’.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
ff. 14r-15r
• RnT 206: Thomas Randolph, On six maids bathing themselves in a River (‘When bashfull day-light now was gone’)
Copy, headed ‘One Six Cambridge Lasses Bathing themselues in a River and espied by a scholler’.
First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 138-40. Davis, pp. 56-62.
f. 15r
• RnT 16: Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicum Litigantem (‘Would you commence a Poet Sr, and be’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Poetts’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolphe’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 97-8.
f. 15v
• HoJ 130: John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart (‘Reader I was born and cried’)
Copy, headed ‘On a fart in the Parliament howse’.
ff. 18v-20r
• RnT 187: Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes (‘Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Cambridge donne’, subscribed ‘T Randolph’.
First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.
f. 21r
• HrJ 209.7: Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister (‘I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten’)
Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘Vpon a woman gotten with child by a Scholler’ and here beginning ‘A puritane maide with her society’.
First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.
f. 21r
• RnT 532: Thomas Randolph, A Paralell twixt Tobacco pipes and weomen (‘Tobacco-pipes and maids are brittle ware’)
Copy.
Unpublished?
ff. 21v-2r
• RaW 212.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice (‘Beefore the sixt day of the next new year’)
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawley his provesie’.
First published as ‘A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice’ in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as ‘Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas’ and ‘On the Cardes and dice’ respectively).
f. 23v
• CrR 300.5: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the faire Ethiopian sent to a Gentlewoman (‘Lo here the faire Chariclia! in whom strove’)
Copy of a version headed ‘Vpon the faire Aethiopian prnted to a gentlewoma’ and beginning ‘Sweetest Chariclia in whom sweetly stroue’.
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 183.
f. 24r
• CrR 41: Richard Crashaw, An Epitaph. Vpon Doctor Brooke (‘A Brooke whose streame so great, so good’)
Copy, under a general heading ‘2 Elegyes’ and then ‘i Vpon ye reurend Dr Brookes Mr of Trin: Col. Camb.’
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 175.
ff. 24r-5r
• CrR 292: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the death of the most desired Mr. Herrys (‘Death, what dost? ô hold thy Blow’)
Copy of a version headed ‘2 Vpon his most accomplished freind Mr Harris of ye Society of Pembroke Hall Cantabr’, beginning at line 5 (here ‘This is hee whos rare frame’) and immediately followed by the further elegy ‘If eur pitty were acquainted’ (see CrR 10).
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 168-170.
ff. 25r-6v
• CrR 10: Richard Crashaw, Another (‘If ever Pitty were acquainted’)
Copy of an untitled version run-on immediately after Crashaw's elegy on Harris (CrR 292).
First published in The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 170-2.
ff. 26v-7v
• CrR 59: Richard Crashaw, His Epitaph (‘Passenger who e're thou art’)
Copy.
First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 172-4.
ff. 27v-8r
• WoH 257.2: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)
Copy, headed ‘The Pilgrim’.
First published, as ‘a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. 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.
MS Add. 8945
Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘A brief Declaracon of the vse of the Lawe by Justice ffoster’, 27 quarto leaves, in paper wrapper. Late 16th-early 17th century.
BcF 755: Francis Bacon, The Use of the Law
From the papers of the Gell family, of Hopton Hall, Derbyshire.
A discourse beginning ‘The use of the Law consisteth principally in these two things...’. Spedding, VII, 459-504 (and discussed pp. 302, 453-7). Probably by Sir Robert Forster (1589-1663), judge.
MS Add. 9221
A large quarto commonplace book of extracts, proverbs, etc. under headings, chiefly in Latin, largely in a cursive secretary hand, with additions in italic script, possibly associated with Cambridge, 116 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1630s.
f. 83r
• HrJ 59.5: Sir John Harington, The Author to Queene Elizabeth, in praise of her reading (‘For euer deare, for euer dreaded Prince’)
Copy, under a general heading ‘Epigrammata’, with a sidenote ‘Sr Jo: Har: to ye late Q:’.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 13. McClure No. 267, p. 258. This epigram is also quoted in Breefe Notes and Remembraunces (Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 172). Kilroy, Book IV, No. 88 (p. 243).
f. 83r
• HrJ 164.3: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Cobler, and an ignorant Curat (‘A Cobler, and a Curat, once disputed’)
Copy, with a sidenote ‘Sr JH of a cobler & curate’.
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 66. McClure No. 67, p. 173. Kilroy, Book I, No. 10, p. 97.
f. 83r
• HrJ 211.5: Sir John Harington, Of a sawcy Cator (‘A Cator had of late some wild-fowle bought’)
Copy, docketed ‘Sr J.H. of a Cater’.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 22. McClure No. 276, p. 261. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 82, p. 239.
f. 84r
• DnJ 1763.5: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)
Copy, headed ‘On a Begger’ and here beginning ‘I cannot goe nor stand the Begger Cries’.
First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Zoppo’) and 10.
MS Add. 9276
A folio composite volume of seventeen state tracts, in the hands of professional scribes, nearly 600 pages, in half-calf marbled boards. c.1620s-30s.
Once owned by Sir Richard Betenson, Bt (? the first Baronet, d.1679, of Hatton Garden, Holborn); by Thomas Brooke, F.S.A., of Armitage Bridge; by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 2402; and later by Lord Fairfax of Cameron. Sotheby's, 14 December 1993 (Fairfax sale), lot 30 (unsold), and 13 December 1994, lot 538 (with facsimile examples in both sale catalogues).
Recorded in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), pp. 214-15 (No. 3), with facsimile examples on pp. 64, 65, 84-6.
item 1
• BcF 370: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)
Copy of Bacon's speech on the naturalization of the Scots, 24 leaves.
Item 7
• HoH 77: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A dutiful defence of the lawful regiment of women
Copy of the dedication to the Queen only; with a formal title-page in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’: ‘An Aunswere, to, the, Coppye of a Rayleinge Invectyve (against, the Regyment of woemen in generall) wth Certayne Malliparte, exceptions, to dyvers, and sundrye matters, of State, Wrytten, to Queene Elizabeth, By the Right honnoble: Henrye Lord Howard, Late Earle, of Northampton:’; the text in the hand of another scribe, on 60 leaves. c.1620s-30s.
Some notes on the final blank verso of the tract by a near-contemporary reader (also responsible for notes in item 2 in the volume, a tract of 1642) remark on ways in which English queens furthered the causes of religion in England.
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 215 (No. 3.1), with a facsimile of the title-page on p. 64.
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.’
item 12
• RaW 1048.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Cabinet-Council: containing the Chief Arts of Empire and Mysteries of State
Copy, with a title-page ‘Obseruations Politicall: And,: Civill; Wrytten, by: Sr: ffrauncis Bacon: knight, &c’, the title-page and three-line heading of the table of contents in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, the remainder in another professional secretary hand, c.100 folio pages.
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 215 (No. 3.2), with facsimile examples on pp. 84-6.
A treatise beginning ‘A Commonwealth is a certain sovereign government of many families...’. First published, attributed to Sir Walter Ralegh in John Milton's preface ‘To the Reader’, as The Cabinet-Council [&c.] (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 35-150.
Widely circulated in MSS as Observations Political and Civil. The various attributions include ‘T.B.’, for whom Thomas Bedingfield (early 1540s?-1613), translator of Machiavelli, is suggested in Ernest A. Strathmann, ‘A Note on the Ralegh Canon’, TLS (13 April 1956), p. 228, and in Lefranc (1968), p. 64.
Item 13
• BcF 159.5: Francis Bacon, A Confession of Faith
Copy, on fifteen leaves. c.1620s-30s.
First published in London, 1641. Spedding, VII, 217-26.
Item 15
• RaW 634.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy
Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, with a title-page, on nineteen leaves. c.1620s-30s.
Beal, In Praise of Scribes, p. 215 (No. 3.3), with a facsimile of the last page on p. 65. Facsimile of the title-page in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 13 December 1994, lot 538.
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.
MS Add. 9277
A folio volume of state tracts, in a single professional predominantly secretary hand, with a few later annotations in an 18th-century hand, 213 leaves, in contemporary vellum.
Sotheby's, 16 February 1938 (Clumber Library sale), lot 1341. Sotheby's, 14 December 1994 (Lord Fairfax of Cameron sale), lot 29, unsold; 13 December 1994, lot 539, sold to Quaritch.
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Item 1
• WoH 277.5: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham
Copy, on 24 folio leaves. c.1620s-30s.
Reduced fasimile of the title-page in Sotheby's Fairfax sale catalogue.
First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).
Item 2
• NaR 19: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia
Copy, on 66 leaves, the title-page later inscribed ‘This treatise never printed, as Mr Bowles says-- Feb. 1721/2. B.G.’
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).
MS Add. 9327
A quarto commonplace book, in two or more hands, written from both ends, iv + 200 pages + 168 pages reversed, in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.
Owned, and possibly compiled in part, by John Branthwaite (1643-95), rector of Harrington, Cumberland. (his deleted inscription on p. 1 rev.). Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘A. G. Osaph from C W Corrie 2 Nov. 1904’.