CELM: Chetham's Library, Manchester

Halliwell-Phillipps No. 26

Copies of poems chiefly by Sir William Alexander (1577-1640), first Earl of Stirling, poet and politician, in three Scottish italic hands, on two conjugate folio leaves. Early-mid-17th century.

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• DrW 31: William Drummond of Hawthornden, To S.W.A. (‘Though I haue twice beene at the Doores of Death’)

Copy, headed ‘To Sir William Alexander’, subscribed ‘William Drumond’.

First published in A Cypresse Grove ([Edinburgh?], 1612). Kastner, II, 106.

Halliwell-Phillipps No. 1311

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘S^r Water Raulighs meditation’, on the first page of a single octavo leaf of verse probably extracted from a miscellany. c.1620s-30s.

RaW 48.8: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

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).

Halliwell-Phillipps No. 1373

Extracts. The first extract headed in the margin ‘the first booke of the fareie Queene Containing y^e legend of y^e knight of y^e red Crossse or of holinesse’, comprising the Preface to Book I (here beginning ‘Lo I the man, whose muse whilom did mask’) and Canto I, stanzas 1-5 (here beginning ‘A gentle knight was pricking on the plaine’), in an italic hand, followed (on pp. 3-4) by Canto IV, stanzas 46-51 (here beginning ‘With gentlye words he gan her fairly greet’) and Canto V, stanzas 1-32 (here beginning ‘The noble heart y^t harbors vertuous thought’), in double columns, in another predominantly italic hand, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Mid-17th century.

SpE 8: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

William Pickering, ‘Catalogue of biblical...manuscripts and...curious books’ (1834), item 37. Rodd sale catalogue, 4 February 1850, lot 731, to James Orchard Halliwell [-Phillipps].

Books I-III first published in London, 1590. Books IV-VI published in London, 1596. Variorum, Vols I-VI.

Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2216

Copy, headed ‘On his Mistris Looking in a glasse. M^r Tho: Cary’, on both sides of a single octavo leaf. This leaf is folio 8 extracted from the verse miscellany now Folger MS V.a.96. c.1630s.

CwT 500: Thomas Carew, On his Mistres lookeinge in a glasse (‘This flatteringe glasse whose smooth face weares’)

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 22.

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

Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2217

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue in song betweene A Nimph & a Shephard’, on both sides of a single trimmed and ruled octavo leaf. c.1630s.

JnB 331: Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue (‘Come, with our Voyces, let us warre’)

This leaf is folio 54 extracted from the verse miscellany now Folger MS V.a.96.

This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.

Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2220

Copy, in an italic hand, on both sides of a single quarto leaf probably extracted from a miscellany. Late 17th-early 18th century.

MaA 17: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda (‘When Death, shall part us from these Kids’)

First published, in a musical setting by John Gamble, in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659). Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 19-21. Lord, pp. 261-2, as of doubtful authorship. Smith pp. 244-5. The authorship doubted and discussed in Chernaik, pp. 207-8.

Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2757

A single ruled and trimmed octavo leaf of verse, the second (properly first) page containing a copy of William Basse's poem ‘On Mr William Shakespeare’. This leaf is folio 7 extracted from the verse miscellany now Folger MS V.a.96. c.1630s.

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• BcF 23: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy of the last couplet (beginning ‘What then remaines but that wee still should try’), subscribed ‘Lo: verulam’, deleted.

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

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• KiH 445: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Doctor King’, and deleted.

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.

Mun. A.3.47

A quarto miscellany chiefly of chiefly verse, in English and Latin, in probably a single secretary and italic hand, 50 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Recorded as being compiled by Thomas Smyth, of Manchester. c.1630.

Bookplate of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Afterwards owned by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8010.

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• DrW 117.26: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon his five senses’.

Often headed in MSS ‘The [Five] Senses’, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his ‘Poems of Doubtful Authenticity’ (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, ‘Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses’, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, ‘Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses’, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

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• DnJ 4087: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems

Copy of Paradox VI (here ‘That it is possible to finde some vertue in some Women’).

Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to ‘Dubia’) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.

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• RaW 259: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, headed ‘ffunerall Verses’.

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.

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• HeR 275: Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack (‘So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.

Mun. A.3.48

A quarto volume of Latin poems, 9 leaves, ff. 2r-9r in a single largely secretary hand, with additions in a largely roman hand on f. 9v, in modern brown calf (rebacked). Early-mid-17th century.

Later owned by the Rev. Thomas Corser, FSA (1793-1876), book collector.

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• HrG 321: George Herbert, Lucus, XXXII. Triumphus Mortis (‘O mea suspicienda manus, ventérque perennis!’)

Copy of a version headed ‘Inuenta Bellica’ and beginning ‘O mortis longæua fames, venterque perennis’.

Edited from this MS in G.M. Story, ‘George Herbert's Inventa Bellica: A New Manuscript’, MP, 59 (1962), 270-2.

First published in The Works of George Herbert, ed. William Pickering, I (London, 1836). Hutchinson, pp. 418-21. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 108-17.

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• AlW 134: William Alabaster, Elisæis (‘Virgineum mundi decus, augustamque Britannae’)

Copy of Book I, lines 1-263, with dedicatory epistle (subscribed ‘Gulielmus Alabaster’) and dedicatory verses, the sidenotes in a separate column. c.1600s.

This MS collated in O'Donnell.

Of Alabaster's unfinished epic ‘Apotheosis poetica’, written probably in 1588-91 and celebrating the reign of Queen Elizabeth, only Book I survives. The text is preceded by a dedicatory prose epistle to the Queen and by eight lines of dedicatory verse to her beginning ‘Qua sinuat tellus viridans immania terga’. First published, with an English prose translation, as The Elisæis of William Alabaster, ed. and trans. Michael O'Connell, Studies in Philology, 76, No. 5 (Early Winter 1979), 77 pp.

Mun. A.4.14

A quarto verse miscellany, inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Poems & Satires in the Time of Charles the 2^d. &c. Collected & written by Oliver Le Neve Esq^r.’, in a single rounded hand, 80 leaves, in 19th-century half brown calf. Compiled by Oliver Le Neve (d.1711), younger brother of Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary. c.1690.

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• RoJ 350: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II (‘I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown’)

Copy, headed ‘In CR’.

This MS recorded in Vieth.

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

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• MaA 153: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses (‘Wee read in profane and Sacred records’)

Copy, headed ‘A Dialoge Betwene y^e Horse att Charing cross & the Horse att Woolchurch alias Stocks market. London’.

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

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• RoJ 505: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To the Postboy (‘Son of a whore, God damn you! can you tell’)

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue w^th a Post by y^e L^d Rotchester.’

This MS recorded in Patterson, loc. cit.

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

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• DoC 45: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyr’, deleted in pencil.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, p. 350.

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

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• DrJ 16: John Dryden, The Epilogue Spoken to the King at the opening the Play-House at Oxford on Saturday last. Being March the Nineteenth 1681 (‘As from a darkn'd Roome some Optick glass’)

Copy, headed ‘The Epilogue Spoken to y^e king & Parlim^t att Oxford att y^e setting There March y^e 21 1681’.

First published (as a single half sheet) [in Oxford], 1681. Kinsley, I, 210-11. California, II, 180-1. Hammond, I, 426-7.

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• MaA 167: Andrew Marvell, An Historical Poem (‘Of a tall Stature and of sable hue’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Au: incognito’.

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

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• DrJ 24: John Dryden, Epilogue [to Mithridates] (‘Pox on this Play-House, 'tis an old tir'd Jade’)

Copy, headed ‘Prologue to y^e King opon his return from Newmarkett in y^e year 1681: …spoken by one of his Servants att his one Theatre & compos^d by M^r Dryden’.

First published (with the Prologue, on a single half sheet) in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 213-14. California, II, 186-7. Danchin, III, 325-7. Hammond, I, 440-3.

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• DrJ 112: John Dryden, A Prologue spoken at Mithridates King of Pontus, the First Play Acted at the Theatre Royal this Year, 1681 (‘After a four Months Fast we hope at length’)

Copy, headed ‘Epilogue’, subscribed ‘Dryden’.

First published (with the Epilogue, on a single half sheet) in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 212-13. California, II, 185-6. Danchin, III, 323-5. Hammond, I, 437-40.

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• RoJ 133: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on the English Court (‘Here's Monmouth the witty’)

Copy of a version headed ‘opon y^e K—g. D: of Y—k. &c:’, beginning ‘Lauderdale the witty’, and subscribed ‘L^d Rochester’.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

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

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• DoC 331: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Absence (‘When Portsmouth did from England fly’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Dutches of Portsmouths Leaving England’, subscribed ‘M^r Shepperd’.

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

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• DoC 129: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion (‘After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory’)

Copy, headed (at a later date) ‘BucKinghams Thoughts’, subscribed ‘Buckingham’.

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

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• StW 1281: William Strode, Jack on both Sides (‘I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes’)

Copy, in double columns, headed ‘A two Fac't Creed’.

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

Mun. A.4.15

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in at least seven secretary and italic hands, 118 leaves (plus some blanks), currently disbound. Possibly compiled by one or more persons connected with the Inns of Court. c.1600-1620s.

Later in the library of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8055 in the sale of his library by Thomas King, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Probably owned afterwards by James Crossley (1800-83), author and book collector. Formerly Chetham's MS 8012.

The volume edited by Alexander B. Grosart as The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS. being a Commonplace Book in the Chetham Library, Manchester, temp. Elizabeth, James I, and Charles I, Chetham Society, vols 89 and 90 (Manchester, 1873).

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• EsR 229: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy.

f. 32r-v (pp. 51-2)

• BcF 607: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Bacon to Lord Henry Howard.

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• RaW 912: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copies of two letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr and to Ralegh's wife.

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• BcF 471: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of Bacon's submissions, untitled.

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

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• RaW 913: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copies of letters by Ralegh, to James I.

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• DaJ 25: Sir John Davies, Gullinge Sonnets (‘The Lover under burthen of his Mistress love’)

Copy of a sequence of nine sonnets, with a dedicatory sonnet To his good freinde S^r Anth: Cooke (‘Here my camelian Muse her selfe doth chaunge’) which is subscribed ‘J D’, the series of ‘Gullinge Sonnets’ subscribed ‘M^r. Dauyes’.

Edited from this MS in Krueger. Facsimile of p. 69 in DLB, vol. 172, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Fourth Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1996), p. 54.

First published in Grosart, The Dr. Farmer MS (1873), I, 76-81. Krueger, pp. 161-7.

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• HrJ 111: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek (‘Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke’)

Copy, headed ‘Of a Painted Lady’.

Printed from this MS in Grosart, The Dr Farmer MS (1873), I, 82.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.

f. 50v (p. 75)

• HrJ 60: Sir John Harington, The Author to Queene Elizabeth, in praise of her reading (‘For euer deare, for euer dreaded Prince’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r John Harrington to Quee. Eliza.’ and here beginning ‘Dread Soueraigne & ever Loving Prince’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 13. McClure No. 267, p. 258. This epigram is also quoted in Breefe Notes and Remembraunces (Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 172). Kilroy, Book IV, No. 88 (p. 243).

f. 51r (p. 76)

• HoJ 201: John Hoskyns, Of y^e losse of time (‘If life be time that here is spent’)

Copy, as ‘Per J: Hoskins’.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

Osborn, No. IX (p. 170).

f. 51r (p. 76)

• DaJ 77: Sir John Davies, On Ben Jonson (‘Put off thy Buskins, Sophocles the great’)

Copy, headed ‘Of one y^t had stolne much out of Seneca’, subscribed ‘J: H’.

Edited from this MS in Grosart, The Dr. Farmer MS (1873), I, 84, and in Osborn, pp. 299-300. Collated in Krueger.

First published in Henry Parrot, Laquei ridiculosi: Or springes for woodcocks (London, 1613), No. 163. Krueger, p. 181.

f. 51v (p. 77)

• HoJ 209: John Hoskyns, On Dreames (‘Yo^u nimble dreames w^th cob webb winges’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J: H.’

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXI (p. 189).

f. 52r-v (pp. 78-9)

• HoJ 175: John Hoskyns, ‘Loue is a foolish melancholie’

Copy, headed ‘His melancholy’, subscribed ‘M^r Hoskins’.

This MS recorded in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XXII (p. 190).

f. 52v (p. 79)

• CmT 95: Thomas Campion, ‘The man of life upright’

Copy, headed ‘Who liues well’.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 493.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xviii. Davis, p. 43 (also p. 60).

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• DyE 84: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall’

Copy, headed in the margin ‘The effects of Loue’.

Grosart, I, 89. This MS collated (from Grosart's edition) in Sargent.

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

f. 55r (p. 84)

• OxE 14: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘Weare I a kinge I coulde commande content’

Copy, as ‘By y^e Earle of Oxforde’.

The Grosart text collated in May.

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

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• EsR 16: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Ingenium, studium, nummos, spem, tempus, amicos’

Copy, headed ‘Per eundem’.

Edited from this MS in Grosart, I, 97, and in May.

May, No. 9, p. 47.

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• RaW 306: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Poem put into my Lady Laiton's pocket by Sir W. Rawleigh (‘Lady farwell whom I in Sylence serve’)

Copy of the first stanza, heavily deleted.

Edited from this MS in Hannah and in Rudick, No. 12B, p. 16. Recorded in Latham, p. 96.

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

f. 56r (p. 86)

• EsR 10.5: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Happy were Hee could finish foorth his Fate’

Copy.

Grosart, I, 97. Collated in May, pp. 124-5.

May, Poems, No. 7, p. 47. May, Courtier Poets, p. 254. EV 8176.

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• RuB 2: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Epigrames p[er] B. R.

Copy of epigrams 1-5, 7-10, 14-18, and 29.

Grosart, I, 100-5. Collated in Sanderson.

A series of 31 epigrams, possibly by Rudyerd, attributed to him in James L. Sanderson, ‘Epigrames p[er] B[enjamin] R[udyerd] and Some More “Stolen Feathers” of Henry Parrot’, RES, NS 17 (1966), 241-55. Three of the epigrams first published in Henry Parrot, Laquei ridiculosi, or Springes to Catch Woodcocks (London, 1613). Sixteen of the epigrams published in The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS, ed. Alexander B. Grosart, Chetham Society, vols 89 and 90 (Manchester, 1873). These and the rest published in Sanderson.

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• DnJ 85: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, untitled.

Grosart, I, 106-8. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published as ‘Elegie II’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as ‘Elegie II’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

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• DnJ 3330: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.

f. 64r-v (pp. 101-2)

• DnJ 3758: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 64v (p. 102)

• JnB 591: Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song (‘Still to be neat, still to be drest’)

Copy, headed ‘To a curious Lady’.

First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.

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• RaW 162: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)

Copy of a fourteen-stanza version, subscribed ‘Wa: Raleigh’.

Edited from this MS in Grosart, The Dr Farmer MS (1873), I, 114-17, with a facsimile of the last page. Recorded in Latham, pp. 129, 134.

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

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

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• EsR 45: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Go Eccho of the minde, a careles troth protest’

Copy, untitled.

This MS text collated in May, pp. 127-8.

May, Poems, No. II, pp. 60-1.

f. 86r (p. 138)

• DaJ 23: Sir John Davies, Epitaph on his Son (‘Qui iacet hic fuit ille aliquid, fuit et nihil ille’)

Copy, subscribed ‘M^r Dauies’.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, The Dr. Farmer MS (1873), II, 157. Krueger, p. 299.

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• FrA 1: Abraham Fraunce, Correctio: Vixisti: Viuis: viues (‘Vixisti viuis, viues fine fine beatus’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Abrah: Frances’, following an unascribed six-line poem in Latin ‘In obitu Henrici Sydney militis’ (beginning ‘Regia Sydney facies dulceque lepores’).

Six lines in Latin. Unpublished.

ff. 89r-94r (pp. 143-53)

• BrN 9: Nicholas Breton, Amoris Lachrimae: For the Death of Sir Philip Sidney (‘Emonge the woes of those vnhappie wightes’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph composed by S^r Edward Dyer of S^r Phillipp Sidney’.

This MS collated in Rollins, Bowre, pp. 65-71, 89. Recorded in Grosart (1879).

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591), <No. 1>. Breton's authorship acknowledged in his Pilgrimage to Paradise (London, 1592).

f. 96v (p. 157)

• HoJ 168: John Hoskyns, ‘Here the bodie of that man lyes’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J: Hoskynes’.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

Osborn, No. VIII (p. 170).

f. 96v (p. 157)

• DaJ 145: Sir John Davies, An Epitaph (‘Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaphe on a Bellowesmaker’, here beginning ‘Here lyes John Goddard,maker of bellowes’, and subscribed ‘M^r Hoskynes’.

Edited from this MS in Grosart, The Dr. Farmer MS (1873), II, 182. Recorded in Osborn.

A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.

f. 96v (p. 157)

• HoJ 167: John Hoskyns, ‘Here lyeth the bodie of Hugh Poache’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘per eundem’.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

Osborn, No. III (p. 169).

f. 96v (p. 157)

• HoJ 200: John Hoskyns, Of the B. of London (‘I was the first that made Christendom see’)

Copy, subscribed ‘per eundem’.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XIX (p. 189).

f. 96v (p. 157)

• HoJ 160: John Hoskyns, An Epitaphe on Mr Sandes (‘Who wo'ld live in other's breath’)

Copy, subscribed ‘M^r Hoskynes: medij Templi’.

Grosart, II, 181.

f. 97r (p. 158)

• HoJ 184: John Hoskyns, Of a Cosener (‘And was not death a lusty struggler’)

Copy, subscribed ‘per eundem’.

Grosart, II, 185.

f. 97r (p. 158)

• HoJ 192: John Hoskyns, Of S^r Tho. Gressam (‘Here lyes Gressam under the ground’)

Copy, subscribed ‘per Eundem’ [i.e. Hoskyns].

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XIII (p. 171).

f. 97r (p. 158)

• HoJ 188: John Hoskyns, Of One y^t kepte runinge Horses (‘Here lyes that man whose horse did gayne’)

Copy, subscribed ‘per eundem’ [i.e. Hoskyns].

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XX (p. 189).

f. 97r (p. 158)

• HoJ 193: John Hoskyns, Of Swifte (‘Here lyes Swifte that swiftlie fledd’)

Copy, subscribed ‘per eundem’ [i.e. Hoskyns].

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

Osborn, No. XI (p. 171).

f. 97r (p. 158)

• HoJ 153: John Hoskyns, An Ep: one a man for doyinge nothinge (‘Here lyes the man was borne and cryed’)

Copy, subscribed ‘per Eundem’ [i.e. Hoskyns].

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. XII (p. 171).

f. 97r (p. 158)

• HoJ 166: John Hoskyns, ‘Here lyes the man w^thoute repentaunce’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

Osborn, No. IV (p. 169).

f. 97v (p. 159)

• HoJ 180: John Hoskyns, M^r Hoskines, his own Epitaphe when he was sicke beinge fellow in New Colledge in Oxford (‘Reader I wold not haue the[e] mistake’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Osborn.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Osborn, No. X (p. 171).

f. 98r (p. 161)

• DaS 15: Samuel Daniel, ‘If greatnes, wisedome pollicie of state’

Copy, headed ‘An other vpon the same subiect by M^r Daniell’. The text following a poem headed ‘In memory of the thrice noble and renowned Robert Earle of Salisburye, by the Earle of Penbrok composed’ (beginning ‘You that reade passing by’).

Edited from this MS in Grosart. Collated in Pitcher, Brotherton MS.

First published in Grosart, The Dr. Farmer MS (1873), II, 189.

f. 98v (p. 161)

• PeW 15: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Epitaph on Robert, Earl of Salisbury (‘You that read in passing by’)

Copy, headed ‘In memory of the thrice noble and renowned Robert Earle of Salisburye, by the Earle of Penbrok composed’, here beginning ‘You that reade passing by’.

Krueger, p. 57, among ‘Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts’. Also in online Early Stuart Libels.

f. 99r (p. 162)

• JnB 112: Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] (‘Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such’)

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

Edited from this MS in Harper (1863). Collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John A. Harper, ‘Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.

f. 99r (p. 162)

• RaW 49: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, headed ‘S^r Walter Raleigh’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 153.

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).

Mun. A.4.16

A quarto verse miscellany, in several largely secretary hands, 68 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1620s.

Once owned by Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector. Later in the library of the Rev. Richard Farmer, FSA (1735-97), Master of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, literary scholar. Lot 8053 in his sale, 7 May to 16 June 1798. Formerly Chetham's MS 8011.

p. 4

• CwT 80: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy, untitled and subscribed ‘Rob. [?]Gar’.

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

p. 37

• RaW 405: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘ICUR, good Mounser Carr’

Copy.

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

p. 40

• RaW 213: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice (‘Beefore the sixt day of the next new year’)

Copy, headed ‘A Prophesy giuen to the king 1618’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.

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).

pp. 47-51

• CoR 41: Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge (‘It is not yet a fortnight, since’)

Copy, headed ‘A Libill made by Oxford Men upon Cambridge mens enterteyning the king’.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.

Some texts accompanied by an ‘Answer’ (‘A ballad late was made’).

Mun. A.4.36

Copy, in a single mixed hand, 183 folio pages, in modern cloth. Mid-17th century.

ClE 35: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, A shorte view of the State and condicon of the kingdome of Ireland from the year 1640 to this tyme

First published in Dublin, 1719-20. Published in London, 1720. Incorporated into the 1816, 1826 and 1849 editions of The History of the Rebellion. Reprinted as Vol. II of A Collection of Several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727).

Mun. A.6.17

A folio volume of parliamentary proceedings in 1640-41, in a single professional mixed hand, 218 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1640s.

pp. 27-32

• RuB 161: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beniamin Ruddiards speech the 7 November 1640 in the house of Comons’.

Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning ‘We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's...’. First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.

pp. 152-4

• RuB 190: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 21-22 January 1640/1

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beniamin Ruddiards second speech January 21 vppon the giueinge the 300 thousand pounds’.

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

p. 203

• RuB 180: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 29 December 1640

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beniamin Ruddiards speech touchinge the grantinge of Subsidies’.

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

Mun. A.6.33

A folio commonplace book of entries arranged under subject headings, in a single hand, written from both ends, 652 pages (plus some unnumbered), in modern cloth. Mid-17th century.

A modern pencil note on a flyleaf claims to identify the compiler as one ‘Raworth’.

passim

• HlJ 73: Joseph Hall, Extracts

Numerous extracts from various of Hall's works, including entries on pp. 7, 12, 15bis, 29, 34, 59, 69, 69bis, 77, 79bis, 84, 85, 102, 106, 132, 146, 168, 180, 185, 198, 207-9, 212, 224, 226, 228, 232, 272, 281, 290, 310, 382, 393, 395, 397, 404, 426, 449-50, 514-15, 560, 563, 577-8, 595, 618, and 634.

passim

• RaW 678.3: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World

Numerous extracts, including entries on pp. 15, 15a, 27, 34, 60, 63, 65, 79, 96, 106, 119-21, 138, 153, 162, 201, 206-7, 226, 236, 238, 264, 266, 282, 288, 308, 321-3, 329, 332, 337-8, 362, 386, 420, 430, 442, 449, 453-4, 467, 470, 473, 492-4, 525-6, 591, 596-600, 605, 607, 613, 619-22, 624, 626, 633-4, 637, and 648 (rev.).

First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

Mun. A.6.34

A commonplace book, in English and Latin, arranged under headings, compiled over a period. Late 17th-early 18th century.

pp. 62, 65, 220

• HkR 71: Richard Hooker, Extracts

Mun. A.7.64

Copy.

BtA 3: Ann Bathurst, Rhapsodical Meditations and Visions [Volume I]

Among MSS of John Byrom (1792-1763), poet and shorthand system inventor.

Unpublished.

2.I.7.12

Copy of both Ausonius's epigram and Ralegh's translation, in a predominantly italic hand. On the final blank page in a printed exemplum of Symbolarum libri XVII quibus P Virgilii...per Jacobum Pontanum de Societate Jesu (Lyons, 1604). c.1620.

RaW 145.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘I am that Dido which thou here do'st see’

A translation of Ausonius's Epigram 117 (“Ille ego sum Dido vultu quam conspicis hospes”), first published in The History of the World (London, 1614). Rudick 36.61 (pp. 99-100).