CELM: Corpus Christi College, Oxford

Δ 10.2

Autograph inscription ‘Sum Nicolai Vdalli. 1540’ and annotations, bound with three other folio works. 1540.

*UdN 10: Nicholas Udall, d'Ailly, Pierre. Uberrimun Sphere mundi commentum intersertis etiam questionibus domini petri de aliaco Nuper magan cum diligentia castigatum (Paris, 1508)

Other inscriptions of ‘Thomas Lyfing’ and ‘Petri frij’, and by Fellows of Corpus Christi: Thomas Cole (1568); Charles Turnbull (1573); William Waterer (1576); in 1577 Sir Edwin Sandys (1561-1629), politician and colonial entrepreneur; John Seller (1568-81, or else his son, 1608); Edward Taylor; John Caius; and John Goldesbery.

Juhász-Ormsby, No. 10.

MS 37

Copy, with alterations and additions in a second hand, and marginal annotations in later hands (possibly including that of the editor William Rastell), on 207 folio leaves. c.1540-50.

MrT 29: Sir Thomas More, A Dialogue of Comfort

Probably once owned by Sir Geoffrey Pole (d.1558). Inscribed ‘ex dono Edmundi Orson’.

Edited from this MS, with several facsimile examples, in Yale, Vol. 12. Facsimile example also in J.B. Trapp and Hubertus Schulte Herbrüggen, ‘The King's Good Servant’: Sir Thomas More 1477/8-1535 (National Portrait Gallery, (London, 1977), p. 115.

First published in London, 1553. Yale, Vol. 12.

MS 176

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, predominantly in a single hand (up to f. 34v), with additions in four subsequent hands (ff. 37-50v), 50 leaves, in vellum. Compiled for the most part by a University of Oxford man, with (f. 1r-v) a list of contents. c.1640s.

Once owned by one John Faith, and by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Formerly cited as Corpus Christi College, MS E.i.33.

f. 2r

• CoR 357: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Duke of Buckingham’, subscribed ‘D^r Rich: Corbett’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

f. 2v

• StW 941: William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment (‘Preferment, like a Game at bowles’)

Copy, subscribed ‘William Stroud’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.

f. 3r-v

• EaJ 50.5: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death (‘Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Death of y^e Earle of Pembroke’, subscribed ‘Jasper Maine X' Ch: Oxon’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 40-2. Extract in Bliss, pp. 227-8. Possibly written by Jasper Mayne (1604-72).

f. 7r

• HoJ 9: John Hoskyns, ‘A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late’

Copy, headed ‘On a locksmith’.

Whitlock, p. 108.

f. 7v

• RaW 228: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e brittlety of man's 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. 8r

• HeR 85: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)

Copy, headed ‘An pjurum Amatorem’.

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. 8r

• JnB 272: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)

Copy, headed ‘One y^t sent an hour glasse to his M^rs’.

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. 8v

• GrF 36: Fulke Greville, Mustapha, IV, iv, 116-117 (‘Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘On Treason’ and here beginning ‘Treason is like y^e Basiliscus eye’.

Bullough, II, 118.

f. 8v

• HrJ 266.5: Sir John Harington, Of Treason (‘Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?’)

Copy, untitled and running directly on from Greville's epigram on the subject (GrF 36).

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

f. 9r-v

• DeJ 60: Sir John Denham, On My Lord Croft's and My Journey into Poland (‘Tole, tole Gentle Bell, for the Soul’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 107-10.

f. 10v

• CwT 749: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’)

Copy, headed ‘Aske mee no more’.

First published in a five-stanza version beginning ‘Aske me no more where Iove bestowes’ in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. ‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’).

For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, ‘Manuscript Evidence and the Author of “Aske me no more”: William Strode, not Thomas Carew’, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, ‘“Aske me no more” and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany’, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.

ff. 14v-15v

• CoR 445: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)

Copy, headed ‘On Young Tom of Ch: Ch:’, inscribed in the margin by Fulman ‘Corb.’

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 80 et seq.

First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, ‘Great Tom of Oxford’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing ‘(from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent’).

f. 15v

• StW 803: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbett on his mistresse’, inscribed by Fulman in the margin ‘Str.’

This MS recorded (as ‘B 1’) in Bennett and Trevor-Roper, pp. 169-70.

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).

f. 17r

• JnB 154: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body (‘Sitting, and ready to be drawne’)

Copy, headed ‘A Gentlewoman sitting in a chaire to have her picture drawne’.

First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).

f. 18r

• CwT 576: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy, headed ‘On a sigh’ and here beginning ‘Goe thou gentle whistling wind’.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

f. 21r

• CoR 744: Richard Corbett, Nonsence (‘Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches’)

Copy, in double columns, headed ‘Eloquent Nonesence, nonesuch’ and here beginning ‘Like to a silent Tone of vnspoke speeches’.

First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.

f. 21v

• RaW 203: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice (‘Beefore the sixt day of the next new year’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Water Rawleighs Prophecy on cards & dice’.

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).

f. 24v

• KiH 447: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy, headed ‘A Midnight Meditation by D^r Jo: king’.

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. 27v

• PeW 182: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)

Copy, headed ‘A Gentleman on his too young m^rs’ and here beginning ‘O why should passion quell my mind’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by Walton Poole.

f. 27v

• CwT 1265: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy, headed ‘On a young man thinking of his love’.

First published, as ‘The Rapture, by J.D.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.

f. 28r

• StW 426: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox (‘A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine’)

Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman y^t had y^e small pox’.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.

f. 28r

• StW 1323: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

f. 28r

• StW 1107: William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde (‘Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘On Blacke Eyes’.

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. 28v-9r

• StW 860: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^rs not to torture him’.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.

f. 29r

• BrW 150: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)

Copy, headed ‘On One drowned in snow’.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.

f. 29r-v

• StW 50: William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies (‘Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night’)

Copy, headed ‘On gray Eyes’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.

f. 29v

• HrJ 102: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek (‘Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^rs’.

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

f. 29v

• CoR 617: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbett to y^e Ldies of y^e new dresse’.

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

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

f. 29v

• GrJ 32: John Grange, ‘Black cypress veils are shrouds of night’

Copy, headed ‘Their Answere’.

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

f. 30r

• StW 185: William Strode, In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)

Copy.

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. 30r

• WoH 220: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘A Hermitts meditation in the Grote’.

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

f. 30v

• KiH 65: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘Answeare’.

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).

f. 31r

• CwT 829: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘Harke how my Celia, with the choyce’)

Copy, headed ‘On His M^rs singing in Yorkehouse Gallery’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.

p. 32r

• DkT 4: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)

Copy, headed ‘On Qu: Elizabeth carried to her buriall’.

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. 32v

• RaW 456: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Say not you love, unless you do’

Copy, headed ‘A Gentlewoman to A Gentleman’.

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. 32v

• StW 1027: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)

Copy, headed ‘Two Lovers playing for kisses’.

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. 33r

• StW 436: William Strode, On a Gentlewomans Watch that wanted a Key (‘Thou pretty Heavn, whose greate and lesser spheares’)

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 36-7. Forey, pp. 44-6.

f. 45v

• KiH 619: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

MS 196

A folio volume of papers, relating to proceedings in the Court of Star Chamber, collected by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, 204 leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

pp. 284-8

• BcF 363: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of a speech by Bacon in 1617.

MS 200

A folio volume of state tracts, in a single professional hand, 118 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1620s-30s.

f. 64v

• RaW 385.8: Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester (‘Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword’)

Copy, in a copy (on ff. 30r-79r) of Richard Verstegan's A Declaration of the Great Troubles...1592.

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

ff. 80r-118v

• BcF 136: Francis Bacon, Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592

Copy.

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.

MS 215B

Hooker's extensive autograph annotations towards a self-vindication, in his interleaved exemplum of Cartwright's printed pamphlet. This MS collated in Heber (see I, xviii-xxv). Edited from this MS in Folger edition, Volume IV, pp. 1-79, with facsimile examples on pp. 2, 12, 20, 50, 54, 56, 62, 66, and 74. c.1599.

*HkR 53: Richard Hooker, Thomas Cartwright, A Christian Letter of certaine English Protestants [Middelburg, 1599]

Independent early 17th-century transcripts of Hooker's annotations are to be found in two other interleaved exempla of this pamphlet: (i) Corpus Christi College, Oxford, MS 215A (Thomas Norgrove's transcript); (ii) Trinity College, Dublin, MS 119, ff. 20-70v (anonymous). All three texts collated in Keble (see I, xviii-xxv), and the annotations cited in footnotes, with facsimile examples of Hooker's autograph notes on pp. 20, 22, 24 of the pamphlet in I, after p. cxxii. The annotations discussed in Vincent Mahon, ‘The “Christian Letter”: Some Puritan Objections to Hooker's Work; and Hooker's “Undressed” Comments’, RES, NS 25 (1974), 305-12.

Facsimile example in DLB, 132, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. First Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1993), p. 198.

MS 216A

A transcript of Hooker's annotations in HkR 53., made by Thomas Norgrove. Early 17th century.

HkR 54: Richard Hooker, Thomas Cartwright, A Christian Letter of certaine English Protestants [Middelburg, 1599]

This MS collated in Heber (see I, xviii-xxv).

MS 258

A quarto commonplace book of verse and miscellaneous material, compiled by Robert Talbot (1505/6-58), antiquary, 204 leaves. Mid-16th century.

f. 31v

• MrT 12.6: Sir Thomas More, Epigrammata. 278. Tetrastichon ab ipso conscriptum triennio antequam mortem oppeteret (‘Moraris, si sit spes hic tibi longa morandi’)

Copy, in a copy of Talbot's treatise Aurem ex stercore.

More's verses punning on his own name. First published in Doctissima D. Thomæ Mori...Epistola (Louvain, 1568). Yale, Vol. 3, Part II, pp. 302-3, with English translation.

MS 263

An octavo volume of miscellaneous entries, 266 pages. Volume X of the miscellaneous collections of Brian Twyne (1579?-1644). Early 17th century.

ff. 114v-20r

• SiP 177: Sir Philip Sidney, A Defence of Poetry

Extracts.

Facsimile of f. 116v in Fred Schurink, ‘Lives and Letters: Three Early Seventeenth-Century Manuscripts with Extracts from Sidney's Arcadia’, EMS, 16 (2011), 170-96 (p. 182).

First published in London, 1595. Feuillerat, III, 1-46.

MS 288

A quarto composite volume of ecclesiastical and state tracts, in various hands, v + 397 leaves, in half-vellum boards.

Owned, and partly written, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

ff. 54r-62v

• *HkR 23: Richard Hooker, A Learned and Comfortable Sermon of the Certaintie and Perpetuitie of Faith in the Elect

Copy, made by two or possibly three amanuenses, with Hooker's autograph corrections and additions to the portion copied by the first amanuensis, headed ‘Whether the prophet Abacuk by admitting this cogitation into his mind, the law doth fail did therebie shew him selfe an vnbeliever’. c.1584-5.

Edited from tis MS in Folger edition, Volume V, with facsimiles of f. 59v as frontispiece and f. 55v on p. 62.

First published [in Oxford], 1612. Keble, III, 469-81. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 69-82.

ff. 207r-17r

• CtR 411: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England

Copy of a Latin version of the tract, headed ‘Contractior Speculatio Diuturni Imprij Henrici Tertij’, in a probably professional hand, the title-page in another hand, with a note in the hand of William Fulman ‘This is printed in English, Lond. 1651. in 8^vo. under the name of Sir Robert Cotton. The Latine seems to be a Translation’. Mid-17th century.

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. 223v-8r

• HkR 25: Richard Hooker, A Sermon (on Matthew vii. 7, 8) found among the papers of Bishop Andrews

Copy, in a roman hand, with a few corrections in another hand, headed ‘Ric. Hooker Math. 7. 7’, and docketed by Izaak Walton (f. 223r) ‘Sermon m^r Hooker’. c.1675.

This MS presumably Walton's copy-text in 1678. Edited from this MS in Folger edition, Volume V, with a facsimile of f. 223r on p. 382.

First published in Izaac Walton, Life of Dr. Sanderson (London, 1678). Keble, III, 700-9. Folger edition, Volume V, pp. 385-94.

ff. 290r-2r

• LeJ 34: John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]

Extracts, in the hand of William Fulman, headed ‘Leland. Collect. Vol. 1. p. 839’ and, on f. 291r, ‘Ex Nennio MS. in Bibl. Bodl. fol. 241’. Mid-late 17th century.

ff. 293r-351r

• LeJ 71: John Leland, The Itinerary of John Leland [Other transcripts and extracts]

Copy of part of the fourth volume of Leland's autograph MS, in one or more secretary hands. Early 17th century.

MS 295

Notes made by George Cranmer and [Sir] Edwin Sandys on the original version of Book VI, 18 folio leaves. A MS sent to Hooker; inscribed ‘Mr. S. and Mr. Cr. Notes upon the 6 and 7 bookes’ and by William Fulman (1632-88) ‘Written with their own hands and given me by my friend M. Isaac Walton 1673. W.F.’ c.1594-6.

HkR 11: Richard Hooker, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity, Book VI

Edited from this MS in Keble, with facsimile examples in I, after p. cxxii. Folger edition, Volume III, pp. 107-30 (Cranmer) and 130-40 (Sandys), with facsimiles of ff. 3r and 15r on pp. 109 and 131.

First published (with Book VIII) in London, 1648. Keble, III, 1-107. Folger edition, Volume III, pp. 1-103.

MS 297

A quarto composite volume of historical memorials of English affairs up to 1625, 193 leaves, in half-vellum on marbled boards. Compiled chiefly by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary. Mid-late 17th century.

f. 19r

• ElQ 150: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Oration at Cambridge University, August 7, 1564

Copy, headed ‘Elizabethæ Reginæ Oratio Cantabrigiæ publice habitæ coram vniverso Academiæ cætu anno 1564’.

Beginning ‘Etsi foeminilis pudor, (subditi fidelissimi, et Academia clarissima) rudem et incultum sermonem prohibet...’, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 123-5. An English translation, beginning ‘Although feminine modesty, and most faithful subjects and most celebrated university, prohibits the delivery of a rude and uncultivated speech...’, in Collected Works, Speech 7, pp. 87-9.

f. 25r-v

• EsR 293: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, headed ‘The Execution of the Earle of Essex’.

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

ff. 166v-7v

• RaW 743: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Copy, in the hand of William Fulman. Mid-late 17th century.

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

ff. 168v-9v

• RaW 743.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Copy, in an unidentified hand.

ff. 170r-2r

• RaW 744: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Copy in an unaccomplished non-professional hand, headed ‘S^r W. R. confession at his death. 1618’. c.1620.

f. 172v

• RaW 15: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, in an unaccomplished non-professional hand, untitled. c.1620.

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).

MS 298

A quarto composite volume of state papers, tracts and speeches, 183 leaves, in half-vellum on marbled boards. Compiled, and written, mostly by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

ff. 13r-16r

• CtR 179: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, in an unaccomplished predominantly secretary hand, the tract dated 1628.

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

ff. 32r-3v

• RuB 162: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640

Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, headed ‘S^r Beniamin Rudieards speech in parliament 1640 Nov: 7’. c.1640s.

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

f. 79r-80v

• ClE 66: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, Articles of High Treason and other hainous misdemeanours ag^st Edward, Earle of Clarendon, Lord Chancellor, exhibited by Earl of Bristol, 10 July 1663

Copy.

f. 155r-v

• ElQ 155: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Oration at Oxford University, September 5, 1566

Copy, in the hand of William Fulman, headed ‘Orat. II. Ad Oxonienses, Sept. v. M DL XVI’.

Beginning ‘Qui male agunt oderunt lucem et idcirco...’, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 125-6. An English translation, beginning ‘Those who do bad things hate the light...’, in Collected Works, Speech 8, pp. 89-91.

ff. 155v-7v

• ElQ 235: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Speech to the Heads of Oxford University, September 28, 1592

Copy, in the hand of William Fulman, headed ‘Orat. III. Ad Oxonienses M D XCVII.’

Beginning ‘Merita et gratitudo sic meam rationem captiuam duxerunt...’, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 163-5. An English translation, beginning ‘Merits and gratitude have so captured my reason...’, in Collected Works, Speech 20, pp. 327-8.

ff. 157v-8r

• ElQ 250.5: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Rebuke to the Polish Ambassador, Paul de Jaline, July 25, 1597

Copy, in the hand of William Fulman, headed ‘Orat. IV. Ad Orationem Pauli Dzialina Sigismundi Polonae Regis Legati Responsio Grenovici, Jul. XXV. M DXC VII’.

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

MS 301

A quarto volume of collections concerning Oxford, chiefly verse, 240 leaves. Compiled, and largely written, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary. Mid-late 17th century.

ff. 129r-30v

• StW 1469: William Strode, Speech to Charles I at Woodstock, 30 August 1635

Copy of Strode's Latin oration in the hand of William Fulman, headed ‘Coram Rege Carolo Acad. Oxon. Oratoris Publici Oratio 1638’ and beginning ‘Augustissime, et Christo proxime Homo-Deus, Quales pro Te ad Aras sanctissimas, tales accedimus ad Te…’.

Unpublished oration, beginning ‘Augustissime Christo proximo, homo-Deus qualis pro...’.

MS 303

A quarto volume of miscellaneous papers, collected by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, 245 leaves.

f. 208r

• HkR 57: Richard Hooker, Letter(s)

Copy of an undated letter by Hooker to John Rainolds, 5 September [c.1590], made by William Fulman. Mid-late 17th century.

Edited in Keble, in I, 112-14.

f. 210r

• HkR 58: Richard Hooker, Letter(s)

Copy of an undated letter by Hooker to Richard Rainolds, made by William Fulman. Mid-late 17th century.

Edited in Keble, in I, 109-14.

MS 306

A quarto volume of collections in the hand of William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, 127 leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

ff. 67r-8r

• HlJ 133: Joseph Hall, Letter(s)

Copy in Fulman's hand of a letter by Hall, in Latin, to Dr Henry Hammond, from Higham, 1 July 1651.

Wynter, X, 525-7.

f. 78r

• *WtI 11: Izaak Walton, Letter(s)

Autograph letter signed by Walton, to Richard Marriot, concerning Walton's proposed Life of John Hales, 24 August 1673. 1673.

Edited in Waltoniana (1878); in Keynes (1929), pp. 592-3; and in John Butt, ‘Izaak Walton's Collections for Fulman's Life of John Hales’, MLR, 29 (1934), 267-73 (pp. 267-8).

misbound between ff. 88 and 89

• *WtI 7: Izaak Walton, Life of John Hales

Autograph draft memoranda about John Hales (a continuation of WtI 11), written for William Fulman for his projected biography of Hales, on both sides of a folio leaf, 20 October 1673. 1673.

Edited and discussed in John Butt, ‘Izaak Walton's Collections for Fulman's Life of John Hales’, MLR, 29 (1934), 267-73. Facsimile page in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile XXI, after p. xxi.

Unfinished and unpublished.

MS 309

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, 129 leaves, in half-vellum on marbled boards. Compiled and largely written by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary. Mid-17th century.

f. 8r

• AlW 139: William Alabaster, ‘Seu Stillam, seu te Stellam appellare placebit’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, pp. 6-7 (No. VII), with translation.

f. 8r

• AlW 140: William Alabaster, ‘Quæ vivens omni fuerat dignissima laude’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, pp. 6-7 (No. VIII), with translation.

f. 8r-v

• AlW 141: William Alabaster, ‘Relligio, sincera fides, immobilis ardor’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, pp. 6-7 (No. IX), with translation.

f. 8v

• AlW 142: William Alabaster, ‘Cælum inter terramque gravis contentio cæpit’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, pp. 8-9 (No. X), with translation.

f. 9r

• AlW 127: William Alabaster, ‘Jesus is born. Peace, such high words forbear’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

Sonnets, p. 41 (No. 74).

f. 9v

• AlW 130: William Alabaster, A New Year's Gift to my Saviour (‘Ho, God be here, is Christ, my lord, at leisure?’)

Copy, subscribed ‘William Alabaster’.

Edited from this MS in Sonnets.

First published in Edmond Malone (ed.), The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare (20 vols, 1821), II, 260-3. Sonnets, p. 41 (No. 75).

f. 10v

• AlW 156: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Sutton.

First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, p. 12-13 (No. XVI).

f. 10v

• AlW 175: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘Between two Bretheren Civil warres and worse’)

Copy of Hugh Holland's translation, headed ‘Anglicè’.

A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Hugh Holland. Sutton, p. 13.

f. 48r-v

• MnJ 3: John Milton, Another on the same [Hobson the University Carrier] (‘Here lieth one who did most truly prove’)

Copy, headed ‘Hobson the Carrier’ and here beginning ‘Here Hobson lyes, who did most truely prove’.

This MS discussed in Shawcross, RES, 18 (1967).

First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1640). Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 33-4, and XVIII, 349-50. Darbishire, II, 137-8. Carey & Fowler, pp. 125-6.

f. 50r

• DeJ 54: Sir John Denham, On Gondibert The Preface, being Published before the Booke was Written, Upon the Preface (‘Room Room for the best of Poets heroick’)

Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

First published, as ‘Vpon the Preface’, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 3-4. Banks, p. 313.

f. 50r

• DeJ 111: Sir John Denham, Upon the Preface of Gondibert. Mars. Epig. Lasciva est nobis pagina vita proba est (‘As Martials Life was grave and sad’)

Copy in Fulman's hand-88), Oxford antiquary, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

First published in Certain Verses (1653), p. 4. Banks, p. 320.

ff. 50v-1v

• DeJ 4: Sir John Denham, ‘After so many sad mishaps’

Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

First published, as ‘To Sir W. Davenant’, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 5-7. Banks, pp. 313-16.

f. 52r

• DeJ 84: Sir John Denham, Song (‘I am old Davenant’)

Copy in Fulman's hand, headed ‘To Sir W. Davenant’, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

First published, as ‘The Author upon himself’, in Certain Verses (1653), p. 9. Banks, p. 319.

f. 52r-v

• DeJ 96: Sir John Denham, ‘Thou hadst not been so long neglected’

Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

First published, as ‘A Letter sent to the good Knight’, in Certain Verses (1653), p. 10. Banks, pp. 318-19.

f. 53v

• DeJ 38: Sir John Denham, Lord Crofts (‘Denham come helpe to laugh’)

Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

First published, as ‘Vpon the Author’, in Certain Verses (1653), p. 14. Banks, p. 321.

ff. 53v-4v

• DeJ 79: Sir John Denham, ‘Raised by a Prince of Lambard blood’

Copy in Fulman's hand, headed ‘Canto 2’, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

First published in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 15-19. Banks, pp. 316-18.

f. 56r

• DeJ 109: Sir John Denham, To the Tune of Fortunes might (‘Of all ill Poets by their Lumber known’)

Copy in Fulman's hand, headed ‘Canto 1’, transcribed from Certain Verses (1653).

First published, as ‘An Essay in Explanation of Mr. Hobbs…’, in Certain Verses (1653), pp. 21-2. Banks, p. 320.

f. 57v

• DeJ 47: Sir John Denham, An Occasional Imitation of a Modern Author upon the Game of Chess (‘A Tablet stood of that abstersive Tree’)

Copy in Fulman's hand, headed ‘Chesse’.

First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 113-14.

ff. 60r-1r

• MyJ 20: Jasper Mayne, On Mris Anne King's Tablebook of Pictures (‘Mine eyes were once blessed with the sight’)

Copy, in Fulman's hand, headed ‘On M^ris Anne Kings Table book of Pictures’.

Unpublished?

f. 68v

• ToA 82: Aurelian Townshend, Mr. Townsends Verses to Ben Johnsons, in Answer to an Abusive Copie, Crying Down his Magnetick Lady (‘It cannon move thy friend (firm Ben) that he’)

Copy, headed ‘To M^r. Ben Jonson against M^r. Alexander Gill's verses written by him against...The magnetic lady’.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656), p. 18. Chambers, p. 49. Almost certainly written by Zouch Townley.

ff. 136r-9v

• AlW 255: William Alabaster, (1) Alabaster's Four Demands and Bishop Bedell's Answer to them

Copy.

Unpublished ‘Four Demands’ by Alabaster and ‘Answer’ by William Bedell (1571-1642), Bishop of Kilmore and Ardagh.

f. 140r et seq.

• AlW 258: William Alabaster, (3) A Defence of the Answers to M^r: Alablaster's Four Demands against a Treatise Intituled The Catholic's Reply upon Bedal's Answer to M^r: Alablaster's four Demands

Copy.

A tract apparently by William Bedell, with a dedication to Ambrose Jermyn dated 25 February 1604/5.

MS 313

A quarto volume of miscellaneous collections, 211 leaves. Compiled and written by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

f. 181r -4r

• HbT 32.8: Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan

Extracts.

First published in London, 1651. Molesworth, English, III. Edited by Karl Schuhmann and G.A.J. Rogers, 2 vols (Bristol, 2003-5) [and see Noel Malcolm's review in TLS, 3 December 2004, pp. 3-4].

MS 314

A quarto composite volume of papers, in various hands, predominantly by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, iii + 240 leaves, in half-vellum boards.

f. 173r-v

• ClJ 237: John Cleveland, Oratio coram Rege, & Principe Carolo in Collegio Joannensi Cantab. habita. 1642

Copy, in Fulman's hand, subscribed ‘Dixi J. C.’ Mid-17th century.

Oration, beginning ‘Augustissime Regum, Archetype Caroli, / Quæ nupero dolore obriguit Academia...’. Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 121-3. Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 177-9.

MS 315b

The second of two octavo volumes of historical collections, 375 leaves altogether. Compiled and written by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary. Mid-late 17th century.

f. 349r-v

• CoR 511: Richard Corbett, On the Birth of Prince Charles (‘What joy that Shunamite did once inherit’)

Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from CoR 512.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 154.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), pp. 85-6.

f. 350r

• CoR 758: Richard Corbett, On the same [Dr. Leonard Hutten] (‘Great Child, who gazest on the world new-showne’)

Copy in Fulman's hand, headed ‘On the same. For D^r Leonard Hutton (being blind)’, transcribed from CoR 759.

First published, as ‘possibly written by Corbett’, in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), pp. 154-5.

f. 351v

• CoR 57: Richard Corbett, Certain true Woords spoken concerning one Benet Corbett after her death. she dyed October the Second Anno 1634 (‘Here, or not many feet from hence’)

Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from CoR 58.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 160.

First published in Gilchrist (1807), pp. 154-5. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 92.

f. 352r

• CoR 225: Richard Corbett, For Trinity Sunday, an Anthymne (‘Blessed forever may he bee’)

Copy in Fulman's hand, transcribed from CoR 226.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 161.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 93.

MS 316

A quarto volume of miscellaneous notes and letters, chiefly in the hand of William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, 120 leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

f. 99r

• CoA 190: Abraham Cowley, To my Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (‘How much you may oblige, how much delight’)

Copy, in an unidentified hand, headed ‘A terse poem on lord Strafford’.

First published in The Foure Ages of England ([London], 1648).

MS 317

A folio composite volume of state tracts and papers, 314 leaves (plus blanks), in reversed calf. Compiled, and partly written, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

ff. 146r-8r

• CtR 180: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, in a closely written secretary hand, the tract ascribed to Cotton and dated 1627, on three folio leaves, docketed by Fulman. c.1630.

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

f. 163r

• MrJ 39: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

Copy, in double columns, on one side of a folio leaf, slightly imperfect.

ff. 265r-6r

• RuB 163: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘Beniamin Ruddiards speech in Parlament’, on three pages of two folio leaves. c.1640s.

MS 318

A large folio composite volume of tracts and miscellaneous papers, in various hands and paper sizes, 229 leaves, in reversed calf. Second volume of the miscellaneous collections of Richard Davis of Sandford.

Owned by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

f. 40v

• BcF 4: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy in Fulman's hand, untitled, subscribed ‘F. B.’, followed (f. 41r) by an untitled Latin version (beginning ‘Mundus bulla levis, nec vita humana peræquat’), subscribed ‘G.S. Equit et Baronetti f. A. M.’, and (f. 42r) by an untitled adaptation beginning ‘The Worlds a Globe of State’, all in Fulman's hand.

This MS collated in Grierson, p. 148.

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.

f. 43r

• WoH 135: Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth (‘O faithless world, and thy most faithless part’)

Copy in Fulman's hand, untitled, subscribed ‘H. W.’

First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As ‘A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth’, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Sir Henry Wotton's “O Faithless World”: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition’, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.

ff. 119r-28r

• MrT 99: Sir Thomas More, William Roper's Life of Sir Thomas More

Copy, closely written in a mixed hand, headed ‘The life and death of S^r Tho: More K^t. Lo: Chancellor of England written by Willm Roper his sonne in lawe Anno Dni 1535’. Early 17th century.

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).

f. 218r

• HbT 56: Thomas Hobbes, The Last Sayings, or Dying Legacy of Mr. Thomas Hobbs of Malmesbury, who departed this life on Thursday, Decemb. 4. 1679

Copy.

Various ‘sayings’ by Hobbes chiefly taken from Leviathan. First published, as a broadside, in London, 1680.

MS 319

A folio composite volume of tracts and papers, in various chiefly professional hands, ii + 235 leaves, in reversed calf. Compiled, and partly written, by William Fulman (1632-8), Oxford antiquary.

Third volume of the miscellaneous collections of Richard Davis of Sandford.

ff. 50r-1r

• CoR 771: Richard Corbett, A speech made by Doctor Corbet Bpp of Norwich to the Clergie of his Diocesse about theire Benevolence for the repayre of S^t Paules Church London [29 April] Anno domini 1634

Copy, untitled, but subscribed ‘diu^red at Norwich to y^e cleagye att a Synode, Aprill y^e 29 1634’ and endorsed ‘B^pp Corbetts speech to the cleargy about S^t Pauls’, on two folio leaves.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. xl.

Sermon, beginning ‘My worthy freinds & brethren of the Clergy, I did not send for you before, though I had a commission...’, first published in James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, 4 vols (London, 1802-7), II (1803), 77-80. Edited (with omissions) in Gilchrist, pp. xli-xlviii.

ff. 58r-9v

• CoR 41.5: 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, in a possibly professional hand, on two conjugate folio leaves. c.1630s.

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’).

MS 325

A quarto volume of autograph poems by Strode, 130 leaves (including 31 blank leaves, plus numerous blanks, stubs of five extracted leaves, and some leaves added later). A working autograph notebook of poems by Strode, compiled and revised over a considerable period, comprising 101 English poems (including draft fragments, 66 Latin poems and 2 Greek poems by him, together with his copies of a few poems by others (generally paired with Strode's translations or answers) including Richard Corbett (2), Thomas Carew, Peter Apsley, and Henry King and Henry Reynolds, as well as a lecture in Latin by the Professor of Greek at Oxford; ff. 52r-96r written in Strode's mixed secretary and italic hand, probably early 1620s-30; ff. 96v-129v, and afterwards ff. 1-51v, written in Strode's italic hand, probably for the most part c.1635-7, with additions up to 1643; ff. 129v-30v containing rough jottings in both styles; many of the poems containing Strode's extensive revisions, probably made from the 1630s onwards. c.1620s-43.

Some scribbling on the last page including the name John Herbert. Possibly one of the MS volumes by Strode which, according to Anthony Wood (Athenae Oxonienses, ed. Philip Bliss, 4 vols (London, 1813-20), III, 152), came after Strode's death into the hands of Dr Richard Gardiner (1591-1670), canon of Christ Church, and then into those of Richard Davies, Oxford bookseller (fl.1646-88). Afterwards acquired, probably from Davies between 1665 and 1675, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, who added pagination, annotations and some further entries throughout.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Corpus MS’: StW Δ 1. Collated in part in Dobell. Identified as autograph and discussed in M.C. Crum, ‘William Fulman and an Autograph Manuscript of the Poet Strode’, BLR, 4 (1952-3), 324-35. Extensively discussed and the text edited from this MS in Forey. Facsimile of f. 94r in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 42 (see StW 641).

f. 1r

• *StW 1452: William Strode, In Patroni reditum (‘Io iam reditum tuum Patrone’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

f. 1r-v

• *StW 1458: William Strode, Itidem (‘Patronum Incolumem fenestra redde’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

f. 1v

• *StW 1445: William Strode, In Obitum M[agist]ri Carew de Anthony (‘Clauditur hac vrna Romanus, Graecus, Hebraeus’)

Autograph, the date ‘1621’ entered in the margin by William Fulman.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

f. 2r

• *StW 1448: William Strode, In Obitum Obsonatoris et Lictoris D[omi]ni Rice (‘Quadragesima quod fit hic et ingens’)

Autograph, with William Fulman's marginal note ‘Richardus Rice Superior Bedellus Juris, ob. Febr. 1622.3’.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

ff. 2v-3r

• *StW 1447: William Strode, In Obitum Nobilissimi Sackvilli Comitis Dorcet (‘Quodcunq[ue] surdis ingerit rogis laudum’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

f. 3r-v

• *StW 1436: William Strode, In Eundem, Quod eodem quo natus est, eoq[ue] Resurrectionis die Interijt (‘Signatus vigili nota Kalendas’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

f. 4r

• *StW 1438: William Strode, In M[agist]rum Somester Aulae Lateport: Praesulem (‘Rumpere qui nouit prensantis vincula fati’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

f. 4v

• *StW 1453: William Strode, In Patroni reditum (‘Justitio sterili maestae siluere Cathedrae’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

ff. 4v-5v

• *StW 1425: William Strode, In Admissione[m] Decani Corbett Oratio (‘Helicona Totum prodigus vatum furor’)

Autograph, dated in William Fulman's hand ‘Jun. 24.1620’.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

f. 5v

• *StW 1420: William Strode, Faemina nulla bona est (‘Solo si meruit Calisto crimine coelum’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

f. 5v

• *StW 1422: William Strode, ‘Fertur Amor pennis, addit Timor improb[e]s Alas’

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

f. 6r-v

• *StW 1421: William Strode, Fertilior seges est alienis semper in agris (‘Opticus vt forma maiori corpora fingit’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

f. 6v

• *StW 1441: William Strode, In Obitum Baronis (‘Honore nondum te salutatum novo’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

ff. 6v-7

• *StW 1395: William Strode, Ad mores natura recurrit Damnatos (‘Fortius in iuvenes fraenum est constrata voluntas’)

Autograph, with revisions and deletions.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

f. 7r-v

• *StW 1465: William Strode, Redeat faelix fortuna licet tamen afflictos gaudere piget (‘Non fiunt tanti fortunae dona profusae’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

f. 7v

• *StW 1464: William Strode, Pauli Epist: [1 ad Cor. 13.] Translat. (‘Si fulminati lingua Rhetorice calens’)

Autograph, the reference ‘1 ad Cor. 13’ added to the title after ‘Epist:’ in William Fulman's hand.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

f. 8r-v

• *StW 1442: William Strode, In Obitum D[octo]ris Goodwin, Aedis Ch[ris]ti Decani (‘Mutilata nunquam tecta iacuerunt prius’)

Autograph, dated by William Fulman ‘Jun. 11. 1620’.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 347.

f. 8v

• *StW 1434: William Strode, In Eundem [Obitum Doctoris Goodwin] (‘Septuaginta annos tua nondum impleuerat aetas’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 347.

ff. 8v-9

• *StW 1433: William Strode, In Eundem [Obitum Doctoris Goodwin] (‘Primum Campanae tonitru laethale sonantis’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 347.

f. 9r

• *StW 1435: William Strode, In Eundem [Obitum Doctoris Goodwin] (‘__________________________’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 352.

f. 9r-v

• *StW 1437: William Strode, In fontem hortulanu[m] (‘_____________________’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 352.

ff. 9v-10r

• *StW 1424: William Strode, Imberbis iuuenis tandem Custode remoto Gaudet Equis (‘Non vos Pierides, Te solum Pegase clamo’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

f. 10v

• *StW 1429: William Strode, IN D[octo]ris Kilbeij obitum (‘Dum Kilbeie iaces mediae sub tempore brumae’)

Autograph, dated by William Fulman ‘1620’.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

f. 10v

• *StW 1450: William Strode, In Obitum Sauillij Mathematici, qui Astronomiam et Geometria[m] publicis Lectionibus ditauit (‘Qui caelo Astronomum dedit sagacem’)

Autograph, dated by William Fulman ‘1621-2’.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

f. 11r

• *StW 1415: William Strode, Carmen Dormitorium (‘Verna dies aliquid nocturnis detrahit horis’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

f. 11r-v

• *StW 1443: William Strode, In Obitum Doctoris Rawley, Medici Peritissimi (‘Qui plena Stygij vela tardauit Senis’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

ff. 11v-12r

• *StW 1440: William Strode, In Nobilissimum Baronem Chichester de Belfast (‘Si miles acie cinctus hostili cadat’)

Autograph, dated by William Fulman ‘circ. 1625’.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

ff. 12v-13r

• *StW 1449: William Strode, In obitum Sauilij Mathematici (‘Artem superbam vidit vt mundi pater’)

Autograph.

First published, without title, in Ultima linea Savilii (Oxford, 1622), sig. D2^v. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.

ff. 13r-14r

• *StW 1417: William Strode, Ejusdem in Camd. 1624. (‘Ut ominosa fronte livorem gerans’)

Copy in the hand of William Fulman.

First published, without title, in Camdeni Insignia (Oxford, 1624), sigs. D3^v-4. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.

ff. 15r-16r

• *StW 1454: William Strode, In Reditum Charoli Principis ex Hispania (‘Noctu quantum oculi vident patentes’)

Autograph.

First published, without title, in Carolus redux (Oxford, 1623), sig. E3^v-4^v. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.

f. 18r-v

• *StW 1466: William Strode, ‘Surge Domus nuptura Deo, te tolle sacratis’

Autograph, with revisions, with William Fulman's note on f. 17v ‘Lincolne College Chapell built by D. John Williams Bishop of Lincolne, 1631’.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

ff. 18v-19v

• *StW 1386: William Strode, Ad Clarissimus Dominum Ioannem Cirenbergium, Sacrae Antiquitatis Assertorem celeberrimum (‘Praeteritum Cirenbergi qui retrahis aevum’)

Autograph.

First published, headed ‘Ad Joannem Cirenbergium, Proconsulem Gedonensem: doctum Antiquarium’, in Ad magnificum…Dominum Iohannem Cirenbergium…carmen honorarium (Oxford, 1631), pp. 1-3. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.

ff. 21r-2v

• *StW 1416: William Strode, Caroli et Mariæ Epithalamium (‘Jacobi Exequiae valete longum’)

Autograph, with revisions.

First published, without title, in Epithalamia Oxoniensia (Oxford, 1625), sigs. B1-B3. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.

f. 22v

• *StW 1467: William Strode, ‘Tergemino Sponsus muniuit Sceptra Leone’

Autograph.

First published in Epithalamia Oxoniensia (Oxford, 1625), sig. B3. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.

f. 23r

• *StW 1446: William Strode, In Obitum Nobilissimi Marchionis Hamiltonis (‘Quae bella, quaeve pestis, aut squallor famis’)

Autograph, dated by William Fulman ‘1624.5 Mar.2.’.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

f. 23v

• CoR 512: Richard Corbett, On the Birth of Prince Charles (‘What joy that Shunamite did once inherit’)

Copy in the hand of Corbet's chaplain William Strode, headed (erroneously) ‘On the birth of Prince Henry’.

Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), pp. 85-6.

ff. 24r, 25r

• *StW 1460: William Strode, Natalitium Caroli (‘Quod Sunamitae redditus Puer Matri’)

Autograph, subscribed ‘Latin'd by WS’.

First published, without title and ascribed to Richard Corbett, Bishop of Oxford, in Britanniae natalis (Oxford, 1630), sig. K4^r-^v. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346. For the original English poem by Corbett, see CoR 511-12.

f. 24v

• CoR 759: Richard Corbett, On the same [Dr. Leonard Hutten] (‘Great Child, who gazest on the world new-showne’)

Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode, headed ‘On the same’ and subscribed ‘For D^r Leonard Hutton’.

Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

First published, as ‘possibly written by Corbett’, in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), pp. 154-5.

f. 25r

• *StW 1459: William Strode, ‘Magne Puer, qui monstratum circumspicis Orbem’

Autograph.

First published, in a version beginning ‘Magne Puer, proprium qui jam circumspicis Orbem’ and ascribed to Leonard Hutton, in Britanniae natalis (Oxford, 1630), sig. K4. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346. For the original English poem probably by Richard Corbett, see CoR 758-9.

f. 25v

• CoR 577: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett (‘What I shall leave thee none can tell’)

Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.

f. 26r

• *StW 1387: William Strode, Ad Filiolum Vincentium, in ipsius Natalem 10^ime: Novembris, Anno aetatis 3^to. 1630 (‘Scit nemo quid Opum Tibi relinquam’)

Autograph, subscribed ‘Latind by WS.’.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349. In MS sources the poem is invariably preceded by the English poem by Richard Corbett on his son, of which Strode's poem is a Latin translation (see CoR 560-83).

f. 26v

• CoR 58: Richard Corbett, Certain true Woords spoken concerning one Benet Corbett after her death. she dyed October the Second Anno 1634 (‘Here, or not many feet from hence’)

Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 160.

First published in Gilchrist (1807), pp. 154-5. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 92.

f. 27r

• *StW 1439: William Strode, In Memoriam Venerabilis Matronae Dominae Benedictae Corbet, quae Spe Resurrectionis obdormivit. Oct: 2, 1634 (‘Herberti Cinis invidere noli’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

For the original English poem by Richard Corbett, see CoR 56-8.

f. 28v

• *StW 1461: William Strode, Natalitium principis Caroli (‘Num Patrem an Patriam deceant plus gaudia? Tellus’)

Autograph.

First published, ascribed to Valentine Sotherton, in Britanniae natalis (Oxford, 1630), sig. I4^v. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 346.

f. 28r-v

• *StW 1428: William Strode, In Coronationem Regis Jacobi (‘Vicini impatiens cum stringeret Anglia ferrum’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

f. 29r

• *StW 1457: William Strode, ‘In surreptu[m] Pontificis tumulu[m] ut Pons fieret’

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

ff. 32r-3v

• *StW 1444: William Strode, In Obitum Guilielmi Comitis Pembrokiae, Cancellarij Academiae Oxon. (‘Truncum vt Cadauer quaerit auulsum Caput’)

Autograph, dated by William Fulman ‘Apr. 10. 1630.’ and with a lengthy biographical note by him about Pembroke on f. 31v.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

f. 34v

• *StW 1396: William Strode, Alias (‘Altum marmoreo quiesce lecto’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

f. 34v

• *StW 1397: William Strode, Alias (‘Horruit Aliciae Mens pura & nescia labis’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

f. 34v

• *StW 1430: William Strode, In Dominam Aliciam Corbet Epitaphia. Nolo scribere, Pictor est Poeta (‘Formam Animi scribit cognata in Corpore forma’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 348.

f. 35r-v

• *StW 1431: William Strode, In Electionem Guilielmi Episcopi Londinensis in Cancellariatum Academiae Oxon. (‘Isis quod Thamisi vehit Tributum’)

Autograph, dated by William Fulman ‘1630’.

This MS recorded in The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. xxxi.

Unpublished (but see StW 1432). Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

f. 36r

• *StW 1427: William Strode, In Caecum eundem (‘Qui sacrum assidua manu volumen’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

f. 36r

• *StW 1455: William Strode, In Sepultura[m] domini Doctoris Hutton Praebendarij ex Aede Christi (‘Quà Moderatricis Cathedrae pia fraena tenentem’)

Autograph, with a lengthy biographical note by William Fulman about Hutton on f. 35v.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

f. 36v

• *StW 1426: William Strode, In Amorem Ipsius erga Literatos omnes praesertim Theologos, &c Probos. (‘Ridet Stultus Ineptias Inepti’)

Autograph, headed ‘In Memoriam Rowlandi Cottoni. De Amore Ipsius Erga Literatos omnes praesertim theologos & Probos’.

First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635), sig. B3^v. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 347.

f. 36v

• *StW 1456: William Strode, In Studia ab Eo junctim posita in Literis cum Humanis tum Divinis (‘Cottonus Christum quaerens Hominemq[ue] Deumq[ue]’)

Autograph, headed ‘In Studium Eiusdem cum Literaturae humanae tum Divinae’.

First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635), sig. B3^v. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 347.

f. 37r

• *StW 1451: William Strode, In omnigenam qua claruit Linguarum Peritiam, praecipuè Orientalium (‘Iterrumne quisquam lampade accendet diem’)

Autograph, headed ‘In Eiusdem omnigena Linguaru peritiam’.

First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635), sig. B3^v-4^r. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 347.

f. 37v

• *StW 1418: William Strode, Epitaphium In Memoriam Ricardi Swayne (‘Annos quod meritis praeoccupasti’)

Autograph, dated by William Fulman ‘1634’ and with his copy of a Latin epitaph on Swayne on f. 38.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

ff. 39r-40r

• *StW 122: William Strode, Epitaphes on the Monument of Sir William Stone (‘Tread soft, for if you wake this Knight alone’)

Copy of a series of three epitaphs, the second ‘On his Ladie Marie’ (‘Marie Incarnate Virtue, Soule and Skin’), the third ‘On his Lady Denys’ (‘Denys hath merited no slender praise’), following the Latin text of an epitaph, all in the hand of William Fulman.

Edited from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 120-1. Forey, p. 186.

f. 41r

• StW 192: William Strode, An Inscription on the Monument of Mistress Ursula Sadleir (‘Behold a Virgin free from any spot’)

Copy in the hand of William Fulman.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, p. 187.

f. 42r

• *StW 103: William Strode, An Epitaph on Mr. Dayrell Reader of Grayes Inne, and sometime Recorder of Abindon (‘Though Camden honoured Lillingston conferrd’)

Copy in the hand of William Fulman.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 187-8.

f. 43v

• *StW 1401: William Strode, An Gratia sufficiens ad salutem concedatur omnibus. Neg (‘Gratia natura est nullo discrimine totum’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

f. 43v

• *StW 1402: William Strode, An Omnis Gratia sit resistibilis. Neg (‘Condenti Adamum potuitne obsistere Limus?’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

f. 43v

• *StW 1403: William Strode, An Panis et Vinum in Eucharistia transubstantientur? Neg. (‘Gens o Sancta nimis, cui tot nascuntur in hortis’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

ff. 43v-4

• *StW 1407: William Strode, An Soli fideles Eucharistiam participent? Aff. (‘Vmbrae Christicolum Christi vescuntur et Vmbra’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

f. 44r

• *StW 1400: William Strode, An Eucharistia sub vtraq[ue] specie sit communicanda. Aff. (‘De Pane haud solo viues, satiabere Verbo’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

f. 44r

• *StW 1404: William Strode, an Scriptura contineat omnia ad Salutem necessaria. Aff. (‘Ne mirere libro tantam Latitare salutem’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

f. 44r

• *StW 1406: William Strode, An Sola Scriptura sit norma fidei? Aff. (‘Iudaei malè constantes, incredula turba’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

f. 44v

• *StW 1399: William Strode, Aliter (‘Est Lumen Christus, vult omnibus ille videri’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

f. 44v

• *StW 1405: William Strode, An Scriptura vulganda sit eo sermone quem populus intelligit. Aff. (‘Roma, sacrum populo calicem cur nemo ministrat?’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 350.

f. 45r

• StW 608: William Strode, On three Dolphins sewing down Water into a white Marble Bason (‘These Dolphins, twisting each on others side’)

Copy in the hand of William Fulman.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660). Dobell, p. 46. Forey, p. 185.

f. 49v

• CoR 226: Richard Corbett, For Trinity Sunday, an Anthymne (‘Blessed forever may he bee’)

Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode.

Edited from this MS in Bennett & Trevor-Roper.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 93.

f. 50r

• CoR 197: Richard Corbett, An Epitaph on Doctor Donne, Deane of Pauls (‘Hee that would write an Epitaph for thee’)

Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode.

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

f. 50v

• CoR 558: Richard Corbett, A small Remembrance of the great King of Sweden (‘What now! already are those wagers layd’)

Copy in the hand of Corbett's chaplain William Strode.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 90, 158.

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

f. 51r

• *StW 267: William Strode, A New yeares gift (‘Wee are prevented. you whose Presence is’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 98-9. Forey, p. 134.

f. 51v

• *StW 607: William Strode, On the Star which appeard at Prince Charles his Birth (‘Now Charles his Offspring bought with frequent Prayrs’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 133-4.

ff. 52r-8r

• *StW 1206: William Strode, Ulysses his speech translated out of the 13th book of Ovids Metamorph: (‘Ajax had made an Ende, and all the Rout’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished: Forey, pp. 55-71.

ff. 58v-9v

• *StW 483: William Strode, On Faireford windores (‘I know noe paint of Poetry’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 25-7. Forey, pp. 7-10.

ff. 59v-60r

• *StW 632: William Strode, On Westwell Downes (‘When Westwell Downes I gan to treade’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 183 (pp. 216-17).

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. 60v-1v

• *StW 1234: William Strode, Westwell Elme (‘Prethe stand still a while, and view this Tree’)

Autograph of lines 1-84, with corrections, originally headed ‘On a greate hollow Tree’, later headed by William Fulman ‘Westwell Elme’; imperfect, the last twelve lines (85-96) excised before the volume was paginated by Fulman.

Text of lines 1-84 from this MS in Forey.

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

f. 62r-v

• *StW 1139: William Strode, To Mr Rives heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon. (‘Welcome abroad, o welcome from your bedd!’)

Autograph of lines 13-66, here beginning ‘A Bone soe lockd & huggd in as a Barne’; imperfect, lacking lines 1-12.

Text of lines 13-66 from this MS in Forey.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 95-7. Forey, pp. 11-14.

f. 63r

• *StW 874: William Strode, Song (‘O when will Cupid shew such Art’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

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

f. 63r

• *StW 1245: William Strode, With Pen, Inke and paper these to a distressed &c. (‘Here is paper, pen and Inke’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 101-2. Forey, pp. 15-16.

ff. 63v-4r

• *StW 726: William Strode, Song (‘As I out of a Casement sent’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 11-12. Forey, pp. 77-9.

f. 64r

• *StW 747: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 91 (p. 99).

f. 64v

• *StW 868: William Strode, Song (‘O sing a new song to the Lord’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 130 (pp. 139-40).

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 54. Forey, p. 108.

ff. 64v-5r

• *StW 965: William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection (‘Like to the casting of an Eye’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS 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’.

f. 65r

• *StW 193: William Strode, Justification (‘See how the rainbow in the skie’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.

ff. 65v-6r

• *StW 723: William Strode, Song (‘As I my flockes lay keeping, mine Eyes fell a sleeping’)

Autograph, with corrections.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First stanza only first published in Dobell (1907), p. 130. The remaining six stanzas unpublished. Complete in Forey, pp. 80-2.

ff. 66v-7r

• *StW 28: William Strode, An Answeare to an old Soldier of the Queenes (‘With a new beard but lately trimd’)

Autograph with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey pp. 83-5.

ff. 67r-8r

• *StW 904: William Strode, Song (‘When meddow grounds wer fresh and gay’)

Autograph, with corrections.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 86-8.

ff. 68r-9r

• *StW 741: William Strode, Song (‘Hath Christmas furrd your Chimneys’)

Autograph, with one revision.

Edited from this MS in Dobell and in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 111-14. Forey, pp. 89-91.

f. 69v

• *StW 907: William Strode, Song (‘When Orpheus sweetly did complaine’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 92 (pp. 99-100).

First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dobell, pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 79-80. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

f. 70r

• *StW 835: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Forey and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 93 (p. 100).

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.

f. 70v

• *StW 924: William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment (‘Preferment, like a Game at bowles’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.

f. 71r

• *StW 300: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.

f. 71r

• *StW 442: William Strode, On a good legge and foote (‘If Hercules tall Stature might be guest’)

Autograph, partly written sideways down the margin of the page.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.

ff. 71v-2r

• *StW 1084: William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde (‘Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye’)

Autograph, with twelve lines (originally lines 39-50) heavily deleted, headed ‘To a Gentlewoman [with Black Eyes added in the hand of William Fulman] for a Frinde’.

Text from this MS in Forey; cited in Dobell.

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. 72r-3v

• *StW 1207: William Strode, Vpon Will: Bridle, who being zealous for his Sweethart never went without a blewe Eye, and one time founde noe other remedy then chalke to hide it (‘That my pen may not be idle’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 19-21.

ff. 73v-4r

• *StW 123: William Strode, For a Gentleman who kissing his frinde, at his departure out of England, left a Signe of blood upon her (‘What Mystery was this, that I should finde’)

Autograph, with extensive revisions.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

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

f. 74r

• *StW 226: William Strode, Loves Ætna. Song (‘In your sterne beauty I can see’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 47. Forey, p. 93.

ff. 74v-5v

• *StW 1189: William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada (‘Now the declining Sun gan downward bende’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Text from this MS in Forey; collated in part in Dobell.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 16-18. Forey, pp. 72-5.

f. 75a

• *StW 1065: William Strode, To a frinde (‘Like as the hande which hath bin usd to play’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS 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.

ff. 75a-77r

• *StW 17: William Strode, An Answere made to Maudlins Rimes and their Factions, concerning the Proctors (‘If Ch: church Lads were sad they spent their breath’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 26-30.

f. 77r-v

• *StW 268: William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe (‘Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.

ff. 77v-8r

• *StW 340: William Strode, On a Dissembler (‘Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell’)

Autograph, with one revision.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.

f. 78r-v

• *StW 537: William Strode, On the Bible (‘Behold this little Volume here inrold’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 51-2. Forey, pp. 46-7.

f. 79r

• *StW 2: William Strode, Another (‘I, your Memory's Recorder’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 53. Forey, p. 52.

f. 79r

• *StW 691: William Strode, A Register for a Bible (‘I am the faithfull deputy’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 52-3. Forey, p. 52.

f. 79r-v

• *StW 664: William Strode, Poses for Braceletts (‘This keepes my hande’)

Autograph of a sequence of four stanzas.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Third stanza (beginning ‘Voutchsafe my Pris'ner thus to be’) and fourth stanza (beginning ‘When you putt on this little bande’) first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 43-4. Forey, p. 34.

f. 79v

• *StW 73: William Strode, An Earestring (‘'Tis vaine to adde a ring or Gemme’)

Autograph of a sequence of four couplets.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 101. Dobell, p. 44. Forey, pp. 34-5.

f. 79v

• *StW 249: William Strode, A Necklace (‘These Vaines are Natures Nett’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First stanza first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Second stanza (‘Loe on my necke…’) first published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Complete in Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 35.

f. 80r

• *StW 1169: William Strode, To the Lady Knighton (‘Madam, due thanks are lodgde within my breast’)

Autograph of lines 21-36; imperfect, the rest of the poem excised before the volume was paginated by Fulman.

Text mainly from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 94-5. Forey, pp. 53-4.

f. 80r-v

• *StW 555: William Strode, On the death of Mistress Mary Prideaux (‘Weepe not because this Child hath died soe young’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 58-9. Forey, p. 111.

ff. 80v-1v

• *StW 597: William Strode, On the death of the young Baronet Portman, dying of an Impostume in the head (‘Is death soe cunning now, that all her blow’)

Autograph, with one revision.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 66-8. Forey, pp. 112-13.

ff. 81v-2r

• *StW 573: William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham (‘Meerely for death to greive and mourne’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.

f. 82r-v

• *StW 623: William Strode, On Twins divided by death (‘Where are you now, Astrologers, that looke’)

Autograph, the original heading ‘On the death of a Twin’ altered to ‘On Twins divided by death’.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 66. Forey, pp. 115-16.

ff. 82v-3v

• *StW 592: William Strode, On the death of Lady Caesar (‘Though death to good men be the greatest boone’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 80-2. Forey, pp. 116-18.

ff. 83v-4v

• *StW 565: William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Leigh (‘You that affright with lamentable Notes’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 71-3. Forey, pp. 118-21.

ff. 84v-5r

• *StW 1053: William Strode, Thankes for a welcome (‘For your good Lookes, and for your Clarett’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, p. 102. Forey, p. 30.

f. 85r

• *StW 1042: William Strode, A Superscription on Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia sent for a Token (‘Whatever in Philoclea the Faire’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 43. Forey, p. 18.

ff. 85v-6r

• *StW 549: William Strode, On the death of doctor Langton, President of Maudlin Colledg (‘When men for injuries unsatisfied’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 68-70. Forey, pp. 121-3.

ff. 86v-8r

• *StW 944: William Strode, A Song of Capps (‘The witt hath long beholding bin’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.

f. 88r

• *StW 410: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox (‘A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine’)

Autograph, with alterations, originally headed ‘On a Gentlewoman iniurd by the Pox’.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.

f. 88r-v

• *StW 528: William Strode, On Sir Thomas Savil dying of the smal Pox (‘Take, greedy Death, a Body here intoomd’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 86-7. Forey, p. 124.

ff. 88v-9r

• *StW 209: William Strode, A Letter impos'd (‘Goe, happy paper, by commande’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 100-1. The Poems and Amyntas of Thomas Randolph, ed. John Jay Parry (New Haven & London, 1917), pp. 219-20. Forey, pp. 32-3.

f. 89v

• *StW 89: William Strode, An Epitaph (‘Keep well this sacred Pawne, thou bed of stone’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey and in Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), No. 131 (p. 140).

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 249. Forey, p. 123.

ff. 89v-90r

• *StW 943: William Strode, A song at the Musicke Lecture in the Act (‘In Heavn when bright Apollo tund the spheres’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 96-7.

f. 90r

• *StW 96: William Strode, An Epitaph on Mr. Bridgman (‘One Pitt containes him now, who could not die’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 87. Forey, p. 123.

f. 90r

• *StW 1037: William Strode, A Souldier to Penelope (‘Penelope the faire and chast’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, p. 33.

ff. 90v-1r

• *StW 984: William Strode, A song on the Baths (‘What Angel stirrs this happy well?’)

Autograph, with extensive revisions.

Edited from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 9-10. Forey, pp. 99-101.

f. 91r-v

• *StW 60: William Strode, A Devonshire Song (‘Thou ne'er wutt riddle, neighbour Jan’)

Autograph.

Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, pp. 65-6. John Tuckett, ‘A Devonshire Song’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 462. Dobell, pp. 114-16. Forey, pp. 101-3.

ff. 92r-3r

• *StW 104: William Strode, An Epitaph on Mr. Fishborne the great London benefactor, and his executor (‘What are thy games, o death, if one man ly’)

Autograph, with corrections.

Edited from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 82-5. Forey, pp. 124-7.

f. 93r-v.

• *StW 437: William Strode, On a Glasse falling on the stones without breaking (‘How can the Embleme of Mortality’)

Autograph, with revions.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 35-7.

f. 94r

• *StW 641: William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy (‘Returne my joyes, and hither bring’)

Autograph, with extensive revisions and with an additional opening couplet beginning ‘For Business don, for strife well ended’.

Edited from this MS in Forey. Facsimiles in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 42, and in DLB, 126, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 253.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.

ff. 94v-5r

• *StW 35: William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies (‘Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night’)

Autograph, with revisions; c.1620s-30s.

Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.

f. 95r

• *StW 471: William Strode, On a watch made by a blacksmith (‘Vulcan and love of Venus seldome part’)

Autograph, the first line originally reading ‘A Vulcane and a Venus seldome part’ before emendations added in the hand of William Fulman.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 38-9. Forey, p. 44.

f. 95v

• *StW 85: William Strode, An Epitaph (‘Beneath this brazen plate those ashes lie’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, p. 128.

f. 95v

• *StW 240: William Strode, A Musical Contemplation (‘O lett me learne to be a Saint on earth’)

Autograph, originally headed ‘The diuines Commendation of a good voyce’ and the title later emended by William Fulman.

Edited from this MS in M.C. Crum, ‘William Fulman and an Autograph Manuscript of the Poet Strode’, BLR, 4 (1952-3), 324-35 (pp. 334-5). Text from this in Forey. Facsimile in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 252.

First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), pp. 40-1. Forey, pp. 109-10.

f. 96r

• *StW 26: William Strode, An Answere to a frinde (‘Have I a Corner in your memory’)

Autograph, originally headed ‘A reply to a frinde’.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey p. 43.

f. 96r

• *StW 58: William Strode, The Description of Ætna out of Claudian (‘The peake of Ætna any eie may know’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 75-6.

f. 96v

• *StW 108: William Strode, An Epitaph on Mistress Mary Nedham (‘As Sin makes grosse the Soule and thickens it’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in E. V. Lucas, [unspecified publication cited in Dobell, printing from an untraced ‘MS book of poems of Catherine Anwill’]. Dobell (1907), p. 57. Forey, pp. 128-9.

ff. 96v-7r

• *StW 91: William Strode, An Epitaph (‘Man newly borne is at full age to die’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, p. 129.

f. 97r

• *StW 1419: William Strode, ‘Exiguo contracta iacent tot iugera busto’

Autograph, with revisions.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

ff. 97v-8r

• *StW 432: William Strode, On a Gentlewomans Watch that wanted a Key (‘Thou pretty Heavn, whose greate and lesser spheares’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Text from this MS in Forey; recorded in Dobell.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 36-7. Forey, pp. 44-6.

f. 98r

• *StW 112: William Strode, An Epitaph on Sir Henry Lees 3 children (‘Three branches death here prun'd from Henry Lee’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, p. 130.

ff. 98r-9r

• *StW 115: William Strode, An Epitaph on Sir John Walter, Lord cheife Baron (‘Farewell Example, Living Rule farewell’)

Autograph.

Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 73-5. Forey, pp. 130-2.

f. 99r-v

• *StW 1210: William Strode, A wassal (‘This Jolly Boule with broided Curlings wrought’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 41. Forey, pp. 105-6.

f. 99v

• *StW 95: William Strode, An Epitaph on Mr. Blacknoll, and his Wife (‘Behold the Grave turnd Wedding bed! a payre’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, p. 173.

f. 100r

• *StW 238: William Strode, A Moderating Answere to Both (‘Ile tell you of another Sun’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Forey pp. 156-7.

f. 100v

• CwT 750: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’)

Copy in the hand of William Strode, with a note by William Fulman (1632-88) ‘But in Strodes other Copie ascr. to Shakespeare’.

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Margaret Forey, ‘Manuscript Evidence and the Author of “Aske me no more”: William Strode, not Thomas Carew’, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200 (pp. 184, 194-5).

f. 101r

• *StW 21: William Strode, Answere or Mock-song (‘Ile tell you true wheron doth light’)

Autograph with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Forey pp. 155-6.

ff. 101v-2r

• *StW 360: William Strode, On a Faire Crooked Gentlewoman, Proude and Dissembling (‘Halfe beautifull! Imperfect peice of Clay’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 135-6.

f. 107v

• *StW 1423: William Strode, ‘Hic iaceo errorum post longa pericula, fessum’

Autograph, with a correction in William Fulman's hand.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

f. 107v

• *StW 1462: William Strode, ‘Natiua docuit sacra Sandaeus Pater’

Autograph, with an emendation in William Fulman's hand.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

f. 107v

• *StW 1463: William Strode, ‘O Sophiae Antistes, Cerebri quo magna supellex!’

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

ff. 108r, 109r

• *StW 527: William Strode, On Sir Edwin Sandys (‘O Learnings Head, where is thy braynes rich might?’)

Autograph of a sequence of four poems.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 174-5.

f. 108v

• *StW 1398: William Strode, Aliter (‘Dudum sydera Sandys antecepit’)

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

f. 108v

• *StW 1408: William Strode, ‘Arripuit dudum Edwinus sibi praeuius Astra’

Autograph.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349.

ff. 109v-10v

• *StW 70: William Strode, A Dialoge on the Calott (‘Why Shoomaker, how ist I pay to You’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 150-3.

ff. 111r-12v

• *StW 32: William Strode, An answer to the song against the New-Inglanders, made at the request of a well-wisher to that side. but in a Sense Ambiguous (‘Let such as to new Ingland goe’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey pp. 163-6.

ff. 113r-14r

• *StW 34: William Strode, An Anthymne of the Prodigall (‘To raggs my Silks are turnd, to dreggs my Wine’)

Autograph

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 170-2.

ff. 114r-15r

• *StW 1178: William Strode, The Townes new teacher (‘With Face and Fashion to bee knowne’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Forey, pp. 167-9.

ff. 115v-16v

• *StW 157: William Strode, An humble Thanksgiving for a Deliverance on New yeares Eeve, under a Rock whereon these afterward were presented (‘True Votive Thankes upon this Rock weele pay’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 147-9.

f. 117r-v

• *StW 554: William Strode, On the death of Mr. Robert Horne who died of the small Poxe (‘Sweete Brother — so Ile call thee constantly’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 176-7.

f. 118r

• *StW 506: William Strode, On Mr. Ingram, a Preist that built a house for his Rectory and kept it well (‘Ingram hath left a Monument. but where?’)

Autograph.

Text from this in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, p. 178.

ff. 118r-19r

• *StW 706: William Strode, Shiptons Distraction (‘Farewell the Seate where Hospitality’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 139-41.

ff. 119v-20r

• *StW 1138: William Strode, To Mr. Butler on his Booke of Musick (‘Sweete singing Prophet, Heire of Davids parts’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 141-3.

ff. 120v-1r

• *StW 141: William Strode, For Mr. Fei: and to his Freind (‘Unreasonable Sute, yet Freindly too!’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 143-5.

ff. 121v-2r

• *StW 502: William Strode, On his Majesties Fleete (‘Cease now the talk of Wonders nothing rare’)

Autograph.

Text from this in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 145-6.

ff. 122v-3r

• *StW 676: William Strode, Prothalamium (‘No sullen Clowde with frowning seeke’)

Autograph, untitled.

Text from this MS (with title supplied) in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 157-8.

ff. 123v-4r

• *StW 606: William Strode, On the renowned Knight Sir Rowland Cotton, concerning his Agility of mind and Body. Elegy (‘Renowned Champion full of Wrestling Art’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635). Dobell, pp. 75-6. Forey, pp. 180-1.

f. 124r

• *StW 1: William Strode, Againe on the Death of Sir Rowland seconding that of Sir Robert Cotton (‘More Cottons yet? What, doth some envious Fate’)

Autograph, with one revision.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635), sig. E3^v. Dobell, p. 76. Forey, p. 182.

f. 124r

• *StW 605: William Strode, On the Old man that died by chang of Ayre (‘Here lies the Man so long forgot by Death’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in Anthony Wood, The History of the Antiquities of the University of Oxford, ed. John Gutch, 2 vols (Oxford, 1792-6), II, 348. Forey, p. 180.

f. 124v

• *StW 339: William Strode, On a Child dying at 2 yeares of Age (‘A Span in Age, and growth of 2 yeares might’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, p. 183.

f. 124v

• *StW 526: William Strode, On Mistress Withypoll, an Epitaph (‘Alass our Loss and Greife, that wee should say’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, p. 182.

ff. 125r-6r

• *StW 675: William Strode, A Prologe crownd with Flowres. On the Florists Feast at Norwich (‘If any think this dayes Solemnity’)

Autograph, with corrections.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 136-9.

f. 126r

• *StW 510: William Strode, On Mistress Jane Hele borne on the 24 of Aprill betwixt St. George's Day and St. Markes. 1637. A Calculation (‘Betwixt St. Georg and Mark the Gospeller’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, p. 149.

f. 126v

• *StW 102: William Strode, An Epitaph on Mr. Chitwood (‘Whatere hath Chitwoods powrs opprest’)

Autograph.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, p. 79.

ff. 127v-8r

• KiH 66: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, with corrections, in the hand of William Strode, untitled; c.1630s.

This MS recorded in Crum.

ff. 129r, 130r-v

• *StW 142: William Strode, Fragmentary Poems

Autograph draft verse fragments of seventeen lines, three headed ‘On Ursula Chichester’ and beginning ‘Why should these parts, no Body fairer, noe soule better’, four lines beginning ‘Her Breath is Incense, sigh'd out when’, and ten lines beginning ‘Swell siluer Tame, a lusty source downe beare’.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, p. 184.

f. 129v

• *StW 364: William Strode, On a freind's absence (‘Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay’)

Autograph of lines 9-24, the last two lines repeated among jottings; imperfect, lacking the beginning.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 13. Forey, pp. 95-6.

f. 129r-v

• *StW 469: William Strode, On a Locke burnt by the owner (‘When this Locke grew it was a Favourite’)

Autograph, subscribed ‘P[ro] P[eter]: Apsley’.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

Unpublished. Forey, pp. 97-9.

MS 327

An octavo verse miscellany, including fourteen poems by Donne, almost entirely in a single hand, 33 leaves (plus six blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1630.

Possibly associated with the Inns of Court. Later used, and annotated in the margin, by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Fulman MS’: DnJ Δ 36. Formerly Bodleian MS CCC 327.

ff. 2r-3r

• DnJ 2563: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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. 3r-v

• DnJ 2213: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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. 3v-4v

• DnJ 1231: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

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.

ff. 4v-5r

• DnJ 937: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)

Copy of lines 1-11.

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. 5r

• DnJ 384: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy of lines 111-14, headed ‘A Creditor’ and here beginning ‘Thee I forgiue repent thou honest man’.

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.

ff. 5v-6r

• DnJ 3913: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘Loves Legacye’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.

ff. 6v-7r

• DnJ 796: John Donne, The Crosse (‘Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I’)

Copy.

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. 7v-8r

• DnJ 3991: 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.

ff. 10v-11r

• RaW 502: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy of stanzas 1-7, headed ‘To his M^rs’ and here beginning ‘Wronge not deare M^rs of my harte’.

This MS recorded in Gullans.

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. 11r

• FuT 5.271: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England

Extracts.

First published in London, 1662.

f. 11v

• B&F 28: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Captain, II, ii, 160-80. Song (‘Tell me dearest what is Love?’)

Copy, headed ‘Love’.

This MS collated in Beaurline.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, III, 217-328 (pp. 258-9). Bowers, I, 550-650, ed. L. A. Beaurline (pp. 583-4). A version of this song appears in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, III, 29-42 (London, 1613).

ff. 15v-16v

• PeW 235: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy, headed ‘A Paradoxe of a Painted face’, ascribed to James Shirley.

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

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

f. 17r

• DnJ 1206: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)

Copy, headed ‘Valedictio Amoris’, subscribed ‘D’.

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. 21r

• CoR 381: Richard Corbett, Little Lute (‘Little lute, when I am gone’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘I prithee lute when I am gone’; mid-late 17th century.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.

Some texts followed by an answer beginning ‘Little booke, when I am gone’.

f. 21v

• DnJ 1366: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

Copy, headed ‘The Flea’, subscribed ‘D’.

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. 23r

• DnJ 2642: John Donne, The Prohibition (‘Take heed of loving mee’)

Copy of lines 11-24, untitled and beginning ‘Not that I shall be mine owne officer’.

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. 23r

• JnB 693: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song (‘If I freely may discouer’)

Copy.

f. 23v

• HoJ 106: John Hoskyns, A Dreame (‘Me thought I walked in a dreame’)

Copy of the six-line version, headed ‘M^rs Hoskins to his M^ty for her Husband’.

Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.

A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning ‘the worst is tolld, the best is hidd’ and ending ‘he errd but once, once king forgiue’, was widely circulated.

f. 23v

• HoJ 241: John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins (‘Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge’)

Copy, headed ‘Johnson to his sonne Benn’ and here beginning ‘Sweet Beniamin while thou art younge’.

Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).

f. 24r

• HrJ 73: Sir John Harington, How England may be reformed (‘Men say that England late is bankrout grown’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘England men say of late is banquerout growne’.

Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). McClure No. 375, p. 301. Kilroy, Book I, No. 1, p. 186.

ff. 24r-5v

• LyJ 28: John Lyly, A petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth

Copy.

Beginning ‘Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yo^r Highnes w^th many wordes...’. Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.

ff. 24r-5v

• LyJ 50: John Lyly, A second petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth

Copy.

Beginning ‘Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme...’. Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.

ff. 27v

• RaW 413: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘I cannot bend the bow’

Copy, headed ‘Rawly to y^e Lady Bendbow’.

First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an ‘indecorous trifle’).

ff. 28v-9r

• DnJ 701: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)

Copy of lines 1-32, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as ‘Elegie VIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.

f. 29r

• DnJ 2050: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

Copy of lines 23-30 (beginning ‘Convey'd by this, Ah, what doth it availe’).

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

f. 29r-v

• DaJ 87: Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Mary Baker to Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London (‘The pride of Prelacy, which now longe since’)

Copy of the series of five poems (here written as a single continuous poem).

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, ‘Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems’, PMLA, 45.ii (1930), 809-21 (pp. 818-19). Krueger, pp. 177-9.

ff. 29v-30r

• DnJ 2116: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)

Copy, headed ‘Springe’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.

f. 32v

• JnB 483: Ben Jonson, To Doctor Empirick (‘When men a dangerous disease did scape’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Epigrammes (xiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 31.

MS 328

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small neat predominantly secretary hand but for additions in a second hand on ff. 35v and 58r, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, 97 leaves (inclusing two blanks), in half-calf. Including 14 poems by Carew (and a second copy of one poem), eight poems (plus 3 of doubtful authorship) by Randolph, and 28 poems by Strode (plus a second copy of one and two of doubtful authorship). c.late 1630s.

Later used and annotated by William Fulman (1632-88), Oxford antiquary, and entries in his hand on f. 97r. Formerly Bodleian, MS CCC.328.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Fulman MS’: CwT Δ 2; RnT Δ 6; StW Δ 16.

f. 4v

• StW 1222: William Strode, A watchstring (‘Tymes picture here invites your eyes’)

Copy of the second couplet, headed ‘On A watch.string’, here beginning ‘My strings can do what no man could’.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 44. Forey, p. 210.

f. 4v

• StW 310: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)

Copy.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.

f. 5r

• RnT 512: Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale (‘When shall we meet again and have a taste’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘B. Jonson’.

First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5^v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8^v. Moore Smith (1925), pp. 252-4, and in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 92-3. Edited, discussed, and the possible attribution to Randolph supported, in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 448-9.

The poem is most commonly attributed to Ben Jonson. Also sometimes ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay, JP, and to Randolph.

f. 6r

• PoW 88: Walton Poole, On the death of King James (‘Can Christendoms great champion sink away’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of King James’, ascribed to ‘Poole’.

First published in Oxford Drollery (1671), p. 170. A version of lines 1-18, on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, was published in The Swedish Intelligencer, 3rd Part (1633). Also ascribed to William Strode.

f. 7r

• MoG 22: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon y^e same’ [i.e. the death of James I] and here beginning ‘All y^t haue eyes awake & weepe’.

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.

f. 8v

• RnT 558: Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School (‘What heat of learning kindled your desire’)

Copy.

Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to ‘T. R.’. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.

ff. 9r-11r

• RnT 240: 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.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 23-8.

ff. 11v-12r

• KiH 292: Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset (‘Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Ea: of dorsets death’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.

f. 12r-v

• CoR 672: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him (‘Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^rs Mallet’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.

ff. 12v-13r

• CoR 704: Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes (‘Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse’)

Copy, headed ‘On faireford Windowes’, subscribed ‘D. Corbet’.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.

f. 13r

• CwT 765: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye’)

Copy, headed ‘To his mrs’ and here beginning ‘In your cheekes two pits do ly’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.

f. 13v

• MoG 93: George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt (‘Well fare those three that where there was a dearth’)

Copy, headed ‘On a croune of a hat drunken in’.

f. 13v

• BrW 109: 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 y^e death of a young gentle woman’, in a verse miscellany compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Wadham College, and later used by William Fulman.

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

f. 14r

• HoJ 10: John Hoskyns, ‘A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late’

Copy.

Whitlock, p. 108.

f. 14r

• StW 1296: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy.

First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

f. 14r

• StW 382: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.

f. 14r-v

• StW 580: William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham (‘Meerely for death to greive and mourne’)

Copy.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.

ff. 14v-15r

• StW 107: William Strode, An Epitaph on Mr. Fishborne the great London benefactor, and his executor (‘What are thy games, o death, if one man ly’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 82-5. Forey, pp. 124-7.

f. 16r

• KiH 67: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘Her answer’.

f. 16r

• StW 758: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘On his M^rs walking in y^e snow’.

ff. 16v-18v

• RnT 269: Thomas Randolph, A Pastorall Courtship (‘Behold these woods, and mark my Sweet’)

Copy, headed ‘A pastoral’.

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

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

f. 19r

• RaW 229: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, headed ‘Of mans Life’.

f. 19v

• CwT 967: Thomas Carew, The Spring (‘Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Now is the winter gone…’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.

ff. 19v-20r

• CwT 545: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy, headed ‘On a sigh’ and here beginning ‘Go you gentle whistling wind’.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

f. 20r

• WoH 219.8: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy.

Possibly the MS cited in Grierson, p. 465, as ‘C.C.C. Oxon. MS. 324’.

f. 20r

• StW 1366: William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie (‘Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke’)

Copy, headed ‘A Blush’.

This MS recorded in Forey.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

f. 20r-v

• WoH 221: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Donnes farewell to y^e world’.

This MS (erroneously cited as ‘MS. 324’) collated in Grierson.

f. 21r

• CwT 114.7: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Copy of lines 5-18, headed ‘To his cruell M^rs’ and here beginning ‘A slaughter'd bull appeaseth angry Ioue’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

ff. 21v-2r

• KiH 121: Henry King, The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)

Copy, headed ‘A true louers amie’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

f. 22r

• CwT 46: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Second copy, headed ‘Beaumont to his M^rs’ and here beginning ‘Fairest thy tresses are not threads of gold’.

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

f. 22v

• CwT 854: Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested (‘How ill doth he deserve a lovers name’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.

f. 23v

• HoJ 242: John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins (‘Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge’)

Copy.

Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).

ff. 23v-5r

• RnT 41: Thomas Randolph, A complaint against Cupid that he never made him in Love (‘How many of thy Captives (Love) complaine’)

This MS collated in Thorn-Drury.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 35-40.

f. 25r

• PeW 183: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)

Copy, headed ‘On a mayd unmarriageable’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

f. 25r-v

• CoR 745: Richard Corbett, Nonsence (‘Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Like to y^e silent tone of vnspoke speeches’.

First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.

f. 26r

• KiH 448: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy, headed ‘On the life of man’ and here beginning ‘All bruised man…’.

This MS recorded in Crum.

f. 26v

• DnJ 1752: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Cripple’ and here beginning ‘I cannot go, sit, stand ye cripple cries’.

Printed from this MS in Shawcross, p. 460; recorded in Milgate.

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.

f. 28r

• CaW 64: William Cartwright, On the Prince Charles death. W.C. (‘Tis vayne to weepe; or in a riming spite’)

Copy.

First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, pp. 570-1.

f. 28r

• StW 383: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)

Second copy.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.

f. 28v-9r

• StW 557: William Strode, On the death of Mistress Mary Prideaux (‘Weepe not because this Child hath died soe young’)

Copy.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 58-9. Forey, p. 111.

f. 29r

• BrW 151: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)

Copy.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Brydges (1815), p. 76. Goodwin, II, 290.

f. 29r

• HeR 16: Robert Herrick, The admonition (‘Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Seest thou those rubies which she weares’

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.

f. 29v

• BrW 78: William Browne of Tavistock, On an Infant Unborn, and the Mother Dying in Travail (‘Within this grave there is a grave entomb'd’)

Copy.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Brydges (1815), pp. 90-1. Goodwin, II, 255-6. Also (doubtfully) attributed to Richard Corbett and to Sir William Davenant: see Sir William Davenant, The Shorter Poems, and Songs from the Plays and Masques, ed. A.M. Gibbs (Oxford, 1972), p. lxxxvii.

f. 30r-v

• StW 594: William Strode, On the death of Lady Caesar (‘Though death to good men be the greatest boone’)

Copy.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 80-2. Forey, pp. 116-18.

ff. 30v-1r

• CoR 488: Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 (‘Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 144.

First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.

f. 31r-v

• StW 349: William Strode, On a Dissembler (‘Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Can any shew…’.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.

ff. 31v-2r

• StW 166: William Strode, In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.

f. 32r

• StW 649: William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy (‘Returne my joyes, and hither bring’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.

ff. 32r-3r

• PeW 236: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy, headed ‘In y^e praise of a painted face’.

f. 32r

• PeW 237: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

f. 35v

• CoR 446: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)

Copy.

ff. 36r-7r

• RnT 188: Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes (‘Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell’)

Copy, headed ‘Randolph to his Creditors’.

This MS collated in Thorn-Drury, pp. 185-6.

First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.

ff. 39v-40r

• StW 63: William Strode, A Devonshire Song (‘Thou ne'er wutt riddle, neighbour Jan’)

Copy of a version beginning ‘Riddle, riddle, neighbour Jan’.

This MS collated in Dobell and in Forey.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, pp. 65-6. John Tuckett, ‘A Devonshire Song’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 462. Dobell, pp. 114-16. Forey, pp. 101-3.

f. 41r-v

• PeW 286: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Sonnet (‘Fye that men should so complain’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 72-3, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’.

ff. 41v-2r

• StW 949: William Strode, A Song of Capps (‘The witt hath long beholding bin’)

Copy.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.

f. 44r

• HrJ 126: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, headed ‘A Lady musinge’, with two additional lines.

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

f. 44v

• MoG 85: George Morley, To his M^rs (‘Read fayre Mayd, & know y^e heate’)

Copy, ascribed to Mr Morley of Christ Church.

f. 45r-v

• RnT 215: Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge (‘Lament, lament, ye Scholars all’)

Copy.

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

ff. 45v-6r

• JnB 369: Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe (‘Come leaue the lothed stage’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Davis, p. 411.

First published, with the heading ‘The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe’, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.

f. 46r

• SoR 228: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The Sequence on the Virgin Mary and Christ, vi. The Nativitie of Christ (‘Beholde the father, is his daughters sonne’)

Copy of lines 1-4, headed ‘Upon Christ’.

This MS not recorded in Brown.

Brown, pp. 6-7.

f. 46v

• CwT 237: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy.

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. 47r

• CwT 511: Thomas Carew, On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water (‘Stand still you floods, doe not deface’)

Copy, headed ‘on his M^ris Bathinge’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.

f. 47v

• DnJ 1897: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.

f. 47v

• DnJ 2599: John Donne, Phryne (‘Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 97. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

f. 47v

• DnJ 2955: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

Copy of a three-stanza version, here beginning ‘Lie still my dear why dost y^u rise’ and incorporating lines 1-6 of Breake of day.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 609-11.

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.

MS 333

A quarto volume of chiefly religious tracts, 216 leaves. Late 17th century.

ff. 106r, 118r-24r

• CoA 279: Abraham Cowley, Extracts

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

ff. 123r-4v

• BrT 5.8: 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.

MS 368

A quarto volume comprising two principal works (the second Sir Richard Fanshawe's translation of Guarini's Il Pastor Fido), 32 leaves. Late 17th century.

ff. 7r-33v

• DeJ 124: Sir John Denham, The Sophy

Transcript of the edition of 1642.

First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 232-309.

ff. 35v-6r

• DeJ 99: Sir John Denham, To Sir Richard Fanshaw Upon His Translation of Pastor Fido (‘Such is our Pride, our Folly, or our Fate’)

Copy, headed ‘To y^e Author of this Translation’ and transcribed from the 1660 edition of Fanshawe's Pastor Fido.

First published in Fanshawe's translation of Guarini's Il Pastor Fido (London, 1648). Banks, pp. 143-4.