CELM: Derby Central Library

275

Signed by Cotton on the title-page and inscribed by him on a flyleaf ‘Ex dono honorabilissimi Philippi Comitis de Chesterfeild’. Mid-late 17th century.

*CnC 197: Charles Cotton, Suetonius Tranquillus, Caius. Le vite dei dieci imperatori [trans. by Mambrino Roseo] (Venice, 1544)

Recorded by W.C. Hazlitt in The Antiquary, 37 (1901), 89. Also recorded in Turner, p. 445 et seq.; in Dust, p. 20; and in Parks, p. 32.

278

A printed exemplum signed by Cotton on the title-page and with an ‘Ex Dono Authoris’ inscription.

*CnC 177: Charles Cotton, Degge, Sir Simon. The Parson's Counsellor (London, 1676)

Recorded in Chapple, p. 230; in Dust, p. 21; and in Parks, p. 15.

283

An exemplum signed on the last page by Cotton and on the title-page by Catherine Cotton. Late 17th century.

*CnC 181: Charles Cotton, Flecknoe, Richard. Aenigmatical Characters (London, 1665)

Later owned by the Rev. John Mitford (1781-1859), literary scholar. Sotheby's, 24 April 1860, lot 1366.

Recorded in Turner, p. 445 et seq., and in Parks, pp. 15, 32.

550

A printed exemplum of 1678, inscribed by Cotton ‘For my deare friend M^r. [William] Whyte from His very humble Servant, Charles Cotton’. Later owned by William Pickering (1996-1854), publisher. Sotheby's, 7 August 1854, lot 1030, to Cotton. c.1678.

*CnC 159: Charles Cotton, Cotton, Charles. Scarronides

Facsimile of the inscription in Parks, p. 16.

611

Copy, on 23 octavo pages, bound with an exemplum of Cotton's Scarronides (London, 1700). Early 18th century.

CnC 143: Charles Cotton, A Voyage to Ireland in Burlesque (‘The Lives of frail men are compar'd by the Sages’)

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 168-98. Beresford, pp. 293-309.

830

An exemplum inscribed by Cotton to Captain Colles c.1670.

*CnC 156: Charles Cotton, Cotton, Charles. The History of the Life of the Duke of Espernon [trans. from Guillaume Girard] (London, 1670)

Recorded in Dust, p. 21, and in Parks, p. 15.

6221

An exemplum signed by Cotton on the title-page. Late 17th century.

*CnC 169: Charles Cotton, Burbury, John [translator]. The History of the Sacred and Royal Majesty of Christina Alessandra, Queen of Swedland (London, 1658)

Burbury (John) [translator], The History of the Sacred and Royal Majesty of Christina Alessandra, Queen of Swedland (London, 1658), signed by Cotton on the title-page (Derby Central Library, 6221).

Recorded in Chapple, p. 230, and in Dust, p. 21.

fmss 3514

Copy, in a professional hand, on 273 folio pages. c.1640s.

HbT 27: Thomas Hobbes, The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic

Later owned by Sir John Saunders Sebright, seventh Baronet, MP (1767-1846), of Beechwood, Hertfordshire. Sotheby's, 6 April 1807 (Sebright sale), lot 1154, to [Richard] Heber. Sotheby's, 10 February 1836 (Heber sale, part XI), lot 839, to Thomas Thorpe. Bought by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (unnumbered Phillipps MS). Sotheby's, 27 April to 2 May 1903 (Phillipps sale), 3rd day, lot 595, to Rylett.

First published, dedicated to William Cavendish, Earl of Newcastle, in two parts, as Humane Nature: Or, The fundamental Elements of Policie, (London, [1649]-1650), and as De Corpore Politico: or The Elements of Law, Moral and Politick (London, 1650). Molesworth, English, IV, 1-76, 77-228. Edited by Ferdinand Tönnies (London, 1889). 2nd edition, with an introduction by M.M. Goldsmith, (London, 1969).

fmss 8470

A folio volume of 124 poems by Charles Cotton (with second copies of three poems), including a few poems by others, 258 pages. Including a commendatory poem by Ralph Rawson (pp. 1-3), two poems by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 99, 182-3) and a poem by Edmund Waller (WaE 492), also with three poems by others added at a later date at the end (pp. 248-54). An inscription in Greek capital letters and Latin, incorporating a Latin couplet, on p. 4, is in Cotton's hand (see CnC 108) addressed apparently to the principal scribe of the manuscript, one ‘Posthumus’, who is described as copying poems at Cotton's dictation (‘…tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis…sunt tua scripta…’). The poems are written in several hands over a considerable period. Cotton's amanuensis (‘Posthumus’) appears on pp. 1-3, 5-107 (pp. 86-107 in a less formal style), corrections in Cotton's autograph appearing notably on pp. 34 and 39. Unidentified Amanuensis A is on pp. 107-40; Amanuensis B on pp. 140-73, 182-8; Amanuensis C (viz. almost certainly William Fitzherbert) on p. 155 (last stanza), 173-81, 188-98, 216, 217-45 (the signature ‘WF’ and date ‘1660’ appearing on p. 216 and the signature ‘WF’, the inscription ‘Vivat Poeta’ and date ‘Jan. 14 1666’ on p. 244); Amanuensis D on pp. 199-216; and Amanuensis E on p. 210 (two stanzas only). Three further hands (F, G, H) are responsible for poems by the Earl of Dorset (DoC 177), William Congreve (CgW 8) and Colonel Codrington added later, probably in the 1690s, on pp. 248-54. The first of these (by F) is signed on p. 248 ‘C. Port’ (viz. a member of the Porte family of Ilam into which William Fitzherbert's daughter, Mary, married in 1683/4). c.1651-66 [with later additions].

The MS originally contained four further leaves bearing two more poems by Cotton, which are now detached and separately located: see CnC 8 and CnC 17.

Inscriptions and scribbling on the flyleaf and an end-leaf (p. 258) include Cotton's autograph signature ‘Charles Cotton’ written twice and the inscriptions ‘Elizabeth Fitzherbert’; ‘Madam Barterenia’; ‘madam ursenia’; ‘Cathrine Cotton’ (i.e. Cotton's second daughter); ‘Madam M Fitzherbe[rt]’; ‘Frances Fitz:Herbert may y^e 23 (8i),’; ‘Mercia Fitzherbert. March y^e: 3^d: 3d: 1687’; ‘M.B. 1688’; ‘I Port his Booke’; ‘C: Port’; ‘Carolus sine sanguine vicit Laus Deo. 29 May 1660’; ‘Aug 12 [66’; and ‘M^r. D-ell upon my cousin Milwards suit at Staff’. Thus the MS almost certainly came into the hands of the family of Cotton's friend and neighbour William Fitzherbert, of Tissington, Derbyshire, who was evidently Amanuensis C (‘WF’).

The MS also passed through the hands of Ralph Rawson, who inscribed on pp. 1-3 an Ode to his ‘dear and honor'd Patron, Mr. Charles Cotton’. It later passed through Puttick & Simpson's, 1 July 1856, lot 1526; was owned in 1860 by the editor Llewellynn Jewitt (1816-86) and, in 1878, by the eleventh Duke of Devonshire (d.1891). It was at some stage priced by ‘Mr. Pickering’ at ten guineas.

Cited in IELM, II.i (1987) as the ‘Derby MS’. Often erroneously described as being in Cotton's hand throughout, this MS is the collection recorded in Nicolas (1836), I, clxviii & cxcvi. Recorded by Llewellynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and by Thomas Bateman in ‘Notes on a Few of the Old Libraries of Derbyshire, and their existing remains’, The Reliquary, 1 (January 1861), 167-74 (p. 169). Engraved facsimiles of two pages of the MS, apparently supplied by Jewitt, now in a grangerised exemplum of Cotton's The Wonders of the Peake (1683) prepared by William Bemrose in 1866, in Derby Central Library (9714). A selective transcript of the MS made in the 19th century is in Derby Central Library (9469).

The MS was not known to Beresford in 1923. It was rediscovered and recorded in Ernest M. Turner, ‘Cotton's Poems’, TLS (22 January 1938), p. 60 (and see also Beresford's reply on 29 January). Discussed and described in Turner (1954), pp. 317-34, 430-44 (with facsimiles of two pages); in Chapple, pp. 201-29; in Buxton, passim (with selected collations and some poems edited from the MS); in Parks (with a facsimile of p. 4 of the MS on p. 24; in J.A.V. Chapple, ‘Manuscript Texts of Poems by the Earl of Dorset and William Congreve’, N&Q, 209 (1964), 97-100; and in Alvin I. Dust, ‘The Derby MS Book of Cotton's Poems and “Contentation” Re-Considered’, SB, 37 (1984), 170-80.

p. 4

• *CnC 108: Charles Cotton, Scribere jussit Amor. Ad Candidum Scriptorem (‘Ut tibi versiculos recito, tu, Candide, scribis’)

Autograph copy of a version headed ‘| Otiantis Opera | Scribere jussit Amor | Ad amicum scriptorem’ and here beginning ‘Ut tibi versiculos recito, Tu Posthume, scribis’.

Edited from this MS in Nicolas (1836), I, cxcvi. Reprinted thence in Beresford, p. 413. Facsimile in Parks, p. 24 (and identified as autograph, pp. 22-3).

First published in Poems (1689), p. 338. Beresford, p. 285.

pp. 5-6

• CnC 11: Charles Cotton, Day-Break (‘Stay, Phoebus, stay, and cool thy flaming Head’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 339-40. Beresford, pp. 160-1.

pp. 6-7

• CnC 119: Charles Cotton, Song. Set by Mr. Coleman (‘Why, Dearest, should'st thou weep, when I relate’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 341. Beresford, pp. 126-7.

pp. 7-8

• CnC 101: Charles Cotton, The Picture Set by Mr. Laws (‘How, Chloris, can I e'er believe’)

Copy, headed ‘The Picture: set by M^r Laws’.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 143-4.

First published (in two versions, the second ‘Set by Mr. Laws’) in Poems (1689), pp. 9-10, 344-5. Beresford, pp. 122-3.

p. 9

• CnC 94: Charles Cotton, On One, who said, He drank to clear his Eyes (‘As Phoebus, drawing to his Western seat’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 345-6. Beresford, p. 287. Buxton, p. 229.

pp. 10-11

• CnC 109: Charles Cotton, The Separation (‘I ghess'd none wretched in his love’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 156-7.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 346-7. Beresford, pp. 147-8.

pp. 11-12

• CnC 3: Charles Cotton, Another of the same (‘At what a wild malicious rate’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 157-8.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 348-9. Beresford, pp. 148-9.

pp. 12-15

• CnC 95: Charles Cotton, On the great Eater of Grays-Inn (‘Oh! for a lasting wind! that I may rail’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 349-52. Beresford, pp. 325-7.

p. 15

• CnC 48: Charles Cotton, Martial, Epig. Lib. 1. Ep. XX (‘As I remember, Aelia cought full sore’)

Copy, headed ‘Martial: Epigr: transl: Ep 20 Lib 1’.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 542.

pp. 16-17

• CnC 26: Charles Cotton, An Epitaph on my Dear Aunt, Mrs. Ann Stanhope (‘Forbear, bold Passenger, forbear’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 134.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 352-3. Beresford, pp. 278-9.

pp. 17-18

• CnC 118: Charles Cotton, Song. Set by Mr. Coleman (‘See, how like Twilight Slumber falls’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnet: set by M^r Coleman’.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 353-4. Beresford, p. 128.

p. 19

• CnC 20: Charles Cotton, Epigram (‘What signe is that, the reeling Drunkard cries’)

Copy.

Unpublished.

pp. 19-21

• CnC 23: Charles Cotton, An Epitaph on M.H. (‘In this cold Monument lies one’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 354-6. Beresford, p. 283.

pp. 21-2

• CnC 105: Charles Cotton, The Retreat (‘I am return'd, my Fair, but see’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 158-9

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 356-7. Beresford, p. 163.

pp. 23-4

• CnC 110: Charles Cotton, The Sleeper (‘What a strange lump of Laziness here lies’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 357-9. Beresford, pp. 327-8.

pp. 24-6

• CnC 139: Charles Cotton, The Token (‘Well, cruel Mistress, though you'r too unkind’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 159-60.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 359-60. Beresford, pp. 163-4.

pp. 26-7

• CnC 113: Charles Cotton, Song. Montross (‘Ask not, why sorrow shades my brow’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 360-1. Beresford, pp. 164-5.

pp. 27-8

• CnC 112: Charles Cotton, Song (‘Pre'thee, why so angry, Sweet?’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 193.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 361-2. Beresford, pp. 165-6.

pp. 29-31

• CnC 41: Charles Cotton, A Journey into the Peak. To Sir Aston Cockain (‘Sir, Coming home into this Frozen Clime’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS by Llewelynn Jewitt in The Reliquary, 1 (October 1860), 121, and in Buxton, pp. 95-6.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 363-5. Beresford, pp. 270-2.

pp. 32-4

• CnC 80: Charles Cotton, New Prison (‘You Squires o'th' shade, that love to tread’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 229-30.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 365-7. Beresford, pp. 328-9.

pp. 34-7

• CnC 32: Charles Cotton, Her name (‘To write your Name upon the Glass’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 194-5.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 367-9. Beresford, pp. 166-7.

p. 37

• CnC 24: Charles Cotton, Epitaph On Mr. Robert Port (‘Here lies he, whom the Tyrants rage’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 137.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 370. Beresford, p. 282.

pp. 37-9

• CnC 114: Charles Cotton, Song. Set by Mr. Coleman (‘Bring back my Comfort, and return’)

Copy, headed ‘Song: set by M^r Coleman’.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 145.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 370-1. Beresford, pp. 127-8.

pp. 39-41

• CnC 43: Charles Cotton, Les Amours (‘She, that I pursue, still flies me’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 195-6.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 380-1. Beresford, pp. 167-8.

pp. 41-3

• CnC 136: Charles Cotton, To Sir William Davenant (‘Oh happy fire! whose heat can thus controul’)

Copy, headed ‘To S^r William Davenant. [In answer to the Seventh Canto of the third book of his Gondibert directed to my ffather added in a different ink]’.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 110-12.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 374-6. Beresford, pp. 273-4.

pp. 44-9

• CnC 133: Charles Cotton, To my Friend Mr. John Anderson. From the Countrey (‘You that the City Life embrace’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 45-8.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 376-80. Beresford, pp. 110-13.

pp. 49-51

• CnC 120: Charles Cotton, Stances de Monsieur Theophile (‘When thy nak'd Arm thou see'st me kiss’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 542-4.

pp. 52-5

• CnC 123: Charles Cotton, The Surprize (‘On a clear River's flow'ry side’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 180-2.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 392-5. Beresford, pp. 169-71.

pp. 55-7

• CnC 29: Charles Cotton, Forbidden Fruit (‘Pish! 'tis an idle fond excuse’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 211-12.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 342-3. Beresford, pp. 161-3.

pp. 58-61

• CnC 142: Charles Cotton, The Visit (‘Dark was the silent shade, that hid’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 182-4.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 395-7. Beresford, pp. 171-2.

p. 62

• CnC 31: Charles Cotton, Her Heart and Mine. Out of Astrea. Madrigall (‘Well may I say that our two Hearts’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 545-6.

p. 63

• CnC 12: Charles Cotton, De Lupo. Epigram (‘When Lupus has wrought hard all day’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 398. Beresford, pp. 284-5.

p. 64

• CnC 128: Charles Cotton, To Charinus, an ugly Womans Husband. Epig. out of Johannes Secundus (‘Charinus, 'twas my hap of late’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 546.

p. 65

• CnC 99: Charles Cotton, On Upstart (‘Upstart last Term went up to Town’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 398-9. Beresford, p. 286.

pp. 66, 73-4

• CnC 46: Charles Cotton, Love's World. Translated out of Astrea (‘That Artist Love another World has made’)

Copy, headed ‘Loves World. Transl: out of Astrea. To my Fair Cosen M^ris Anne Stanhope’.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 549-52.

pp. 71-2

• CnC 84: Charles Cotton, An Ode of Johannes Secundus Translated. To my dear Tutor Mr. Ralph Rawson (‘The World shall want Phoebean light’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 547-8.

pp. 72, 69, 70, 67, 68, 65

• CnC 16: Charles Cotton, Elegy (‘How was I blest when I was free’)

Copy, headed ‘[Made of y^e Lady MC: by y^e Author of this booke added in a different hand] An Elegie [uppon the Lad[ ] by Charles Cotton Esqr added in a different ink and deleted]’, with lines 6-7 also inserted in a different ink.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 168-70.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 382-5. Beresford, pp. 238-9.

p. 75

• CnC 25: Charles Cotton, Epitaph On Mrs. Mary Draper (‘Reader, if thou cast thine Eye’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 137.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 399-400. Beresford, p. 282.

p. 76

• CnC 21: Charles Cotton, Epig. Translated out of Hieron. Amaltheus (‘Acon his right, Leonilla her left Eye’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 548.

pp. 76-81

• CnC 30: Charles Cotton, O _____ _____ Her Hair. Ode (‘Welcome, blest Symptom of Consent’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 176-80.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 385-90. Beresford, pp. 230-3.

pp. 81-4

• CnC 89: Charles Cotton, An Old Man's Gift to a Fair Lady (‘Pox o' your doting Coxcomb! was there ever’)

Copy, headed ‘An old mans gvift to a young Lady’.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 451-4. Beresford, pp. 330-2.

p. 85

• CnC 111: Charles Cotton, Song (‘Join once again, my Celia, join’)

Copy, headed ‘Son[g deleted]net’.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 391-2. Beresford, pp. 168-9.

pp. 86-9

• CnC 34: Charles Cotton, Horace his second Epod Translated (‘Happy's that Man that is from City-Care’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 536-9.

p. 90

• CnC 74: Charles Cotton, [Martial], Ep. 84. Lib. 10 (‘Do'st muse to sleep, why Afer does not go?’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 553.

pp. 91-2

• CnC 37: Charles Cotton, Horat. Ode IX. Lib. III. Ad Lydiam (‘Whilst I was acceptable unto thee’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 540-1.

p. 93

• CnC 75: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Ep. 93. Lib. 11 (‘Who says, thou'rt Vitious, Zoilus, lies’)

Copy, headed ‘Martial: ep: 93. lib. 11’.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 553.

pp. 93-5

• CnC 6: Charles Cotton, Caelia's Fall (‘Caelia, my fairest Caelia, fell’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 400-2. Beresford, pp. 173-4.

pp. 96-9

• CnC 15: Charles Cotton, Eclogue. Damon. C.C. Thyrsis. R.R. (‘Thyrsis, whil'st our Flocks did bite’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 38-40.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 403-4. Beresford, pp. 96-8.

pp. 100-1

• CnC 33: Charles Cotton, Her Sigh (‘She sighs, and has blown over now’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 196-7.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 407-8. Beresford, pp. 174-5.

pp. 102-3

• CnC 106: Charles Cotton, A Rogue (‘Reader, read this Man, than whom’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 428-30. Beresford, pp. 329-30.

p. 103

• CnC 50: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Ep. 58 Lib. 1. Ad Flaccum (‘Flaccus, thou ask't, what kind of Girl I prize?’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 553.

p. 104

• CnC 47: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 1. Ep. 3. Ad Velocem (‘My Epigrams are long thou dost report’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 555.

p. 104

• CnC 49: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Ep. 48 Lib. 1. De Diaulo Medico Paraph. (‘Diaulus, Sextan from Physitian is’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 554.

p. 104

• CnC 51: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 1. Ep. 65. Ad Fabullam ambitiosam (‘Thou'rt fair, we know't, a Maid, 'tis true’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 554.

p. 104

• CnC 52: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 2. Ep. 88. In Mamercum (‘Thou nought repeat'st, yet Poet wouldst be thought’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 555.

p. 104

• CnC 76: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Ep. 93. Lib. 11 (‘Who says, thou'rt Vitious, Zoilus, lies’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 553.

p. 105

• CnC 53: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 3. Ep. 9. In Cinnam (‘Cinna writes Verses against me, 'tis said’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 556.

p. 105

• CnC 54: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 3. Ep: 26. In Candidum (‘Thou, Candidus, alone enjoy'st th'estate’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 557.

p. 105

• CnC 55: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 3. Ep. 28. In Nestorem (‘Thou wondrest, Marius has a stinking Ear’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 556.

p. 105

• CnC 57: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 3. Ep. 52. Ad Chloen (‘Chloe, thy Face I do not prize’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Chloe, thy face I well could misse’.

Edited from this MS in Wallis.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 558. The Valiant Knight: or, The Legend of Sr. Peregrine, [ed. Alfred Wallis] (privately printed, 1888), p. 15.

p. 106

• CnC 56: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 3. Ep. 32. In Matriniam (‘Thou say'st, I cannot fit an Old Wife's Bed’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 557.

p. 106

• CnC 58: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 4. Ep. 78. In Varum (‘Varus of late to Supper did me call’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 558-9.

p. 106

• CnC 59: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 4. Ep. 86. In Ponticum (‘We drink in Glass, thou Myrrh, Ponticus. why?’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 559.

pp. 106-7

• CnC 60: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 5. Ep. 44. De Thiade, & Lecania (‘Thais her Teeth are black, as jet, or Crow’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 560.

p. 107

• CnC 61: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 5. Ep. 46. In Bassam (‘Bassa, thou say'st, thou'rt fair, and a Maid too’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 559.

p. 107

• CnC 62: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 7. Ep. 32. In Cinnam (‘Since thy dagg'd Gown's so dirty, when thy Shoe’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 560.

pp. 107-8

• CnC 73: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 10. Ep. 47. Ad Seipsum (‘These, pleasant Martial, are the things’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 561.

pp. 108-10

• CnC 64: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 3. Ad Musam (‘It was enough five, six, seven Books to fill’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 562-3.

p. 110

• CnC 65: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 19. De Cinna (‘Cinna would fain be thought to need’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 563.

p. 110

• CnC 67: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 23. Ad Rusticum (‘To thee I gluttonous and cruel seem’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 564.

p. 110

• CnC 70: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 47. In variè se tondentem (‘Part of thy Beard is clipt, part shav'd, another place’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 564.

p. 111

• CnC 66: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 21. Ad Luciferum (‘Phospher, appear. why dost our joys delay’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 565.

p. 112

• CnC 68: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 35. In pessimos Conjuges (‘Since y'are a-like in Manners, and in Life’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 566.

p. 112

• CnC 71: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 53. In Catullam (‘The Fair'st of Women, that have been, or are’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 566.

p. 112

• CnC 72: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 59. In Vacerram (‘But Antick Poets thou admirest none’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 567.

p. 113

• CnC 63: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 7. Ep. 100. De Vetula (‘Thou'rt soft to touch. charming to hear. unseen’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 567.

p. 113

• CnC 69: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 8. Ep. 41. Ad Faustinum (‘Sad Athenagoras nought presents me now’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 568.

p. 113

• CnC 77: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 11. Ep. 103. In Lydiam (‘He did not lye, that said, thy Skin was fair’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 568-9.

p. 114

• CnC 78: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 12. Ep. 7. De Ligia (‘If by her Hairs Ligia's Age be told’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 569.

p. 114

• CnC 79: Charles Cotton, [Martial] Id. Lib. 12. Ep. 20. Ad Fabullam (‘That Themison has no Wife, how't comes to pass’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 569.

pp. 114-15

• CnC 35: Charles Cotton, Horat. Lib 1. Carmin. Ode 8. Ad Lydia (‘Tell me, for God's sake, Lydia, why’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 570.

p. 115-16

• CnC 36: Charles Cotton, [Horace] Id. Lib. [1] Ep. 15. In Neaeram (‘'Twas Night, and Phoebe in a Heaven bright’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 572-3.

pp. 117-19

• CnC 96: Charles Cotton, On the Lamented Death of my Dear Uncle, Mr. Radcliff Stanhope (‘Such is th'unsteddy state of humane things’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 135-6.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 409-10. Beresford, pp. 279-80.

pp. 119-22

• CnC 97: Charles Cotton, On the Lord Derby (‘To what a formidable greatness grown’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 129-31.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 411-13. Beresford, pp. 241-3.

pp. 122-6

• CnC 93: Charles Cotton, On Marriot. Tempus edax rerum (‘Thanks for this rescue Time. for thou hast won’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 414-17. Beresford, pp. 323-5.

pp. 127-9

• CnC 127: Charles Cotton, To Caelia's Ague. Ode (‘Hence, fond Disease, I say forbear’)

Copy, the heading in another hand.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 198-9.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 418-20. Beresford, pp. 175-7.

pp. 130-5

• CnC 140: Charles Cotton, A Valediction (‘I go, I go, Perfidious Maid’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 200-2.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 420-4. Beresford, pp. 177-80.

pp. 135-8

• CnC 45: Charles Cotton, Love's Triumph (‘God Cupid's Power was ne'er so shown’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 184-6.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 425-8. Beresford, pp. 194-6.

pp. 138-40

• CnC 10: Charles Cotton, The Contest (‘Come, my Corinna, let us try’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 203.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 430-1. Beresford, pp. 180-1.

pp. 140-1

• CnC 107: Charles Cotton, A Rogue (‘Reader, read this Man, than whom’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 428-30. Beresford, pp. 329-30.

pp. 141-2

• CnC 28: Charles Cotton, The False One (‘Behold, False Maid, yon horned Light’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 204-5.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 432-4. Beresford, pp. 181-2.

pp. 142-3

• CnC 87: Charles Cotton, Ode Valedictory (‘I go: but never to return’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 149-50.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 434-6. Beresford, pp. 183-4.

pp. 143-5

• CnC 134: Charles Cotton, To my friend Mr. Lely, on his Picture of the Excellently Virtuous Lady, the Lady Isabella Thynn (‘Nature, and Art are here at strife’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 109-12.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 436-8. Beresford, pp. 275-6.

pp. 145-6

• CnC 129: Charles Cotton, To Chloris. Ode (‘Farewel, My Sweet, until I come’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 148-9.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 439-40. Beresford, pp. 184-5.

pp. 146-7

• CnC 124: Charles Cotton, Taking Leave of Chloris (‘She sighs. as if she would restore’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 147-8.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 440-2. Beresford, pp. 133-4.

pp. 147-9

• CnC 81: Charles Cotton, Ode (‘Come, let us drink away the time’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 220-2.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 443-5. Beresford, pp. 358-9.

pp. 149-50

• CnC 83: Charles Cotton, Ode (‘The Day is sett did Earth adorn’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 223-4.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 446-8. Beresford, pp. 360-1.

p. 151

• CnC 82: Charles Cotton, Ode (‘Fair Isabel, if ought but thee’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 146-7.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 449-50. Beresford, pp. 185-6.

pp. 152-3

• CnC 90: Charles Cotton, An Old Man's Gift to a Fair Lady (‘Pox o' your doting Coxcomb! was there ever’)

Copy, headed ‘An ould mans Guift to a ffayre Lady’.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 451-4. Beresford, pp. 330-2.

p. 153

• CnC 38: Charles Cotton, In Amorem Medicum. Epig. (‘For cares whilst Love prepares the Remedies’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 454. Beresford, p. 285.

pp. 154-5

• CnC 42: Charles Cotton, The Legend of the Famous, Furious, Expert, and Valiant Gittar-Masters, Caveliero Comer, and Don Hill. Ballad (‘You, that love to read the Tracts’)

Copy, by Amanuensis B, the last stanza by Amanuensis C (i.e. William Fitzherbert).

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 454-6. Beresford, pp. 332-4.

p. 156

• CnC 91: Charles Cotton, On Annel-seed Robin, the Hermophrodite. Epitaph (‘Here, Reader, lies bereft of life’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 457-8. Beresford, p. 288.

p. 157

• CnC 85: Charles Cotton, Ode. To Chloe (‘False one, farewell, thou hast releast’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 205-6.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 458-60. Beresford, pp. 186-7.

pp. 158-9

• CnC 86: Charles Cotton, Ode. To Chloris from France (‘Pitty me, Chloris, and the flame’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 154-6.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 460-3. Beresford, pp. 197-9.

pp. 160-2

• CnC 40: Charles Cotton, An Invitation to Phillis (‘Come live with me, and be my love’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 41-3.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 463-7. Beresford, pp. 98-101.

pp. 162-4

• CnC 19: Charles Cotton, The Entertainment to Phillis (‘Now Phaebus is gone down to sleep’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 43-5.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 467-70. Beresford, pp. 101-3.

pp. 164-5

• CnC 126: Charles Cotton, To Caelia. Ode (‘When Caelia must my old Days set’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 192.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 471-2. Beresford, pp. 132-3.

pp. 165-6

• CnC 130: Charles Cotton, To Cupid. Ode (‘Fond Love, deliver up thy Bow’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 187-8.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 472-4. Beresford, pp. 149-50.

p. 167

• CnC 125: Charles Cotton, The Tempest (‘Standing upon the Margent of the main’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 474-6. Beresford, pp. 68-9.

pp. 168-70

• CnC 44: Charles Cotton, The Litany (‘From a Ruler that's a curse’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 224-7.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 476-80. Beresford, pp. 334-6.

p. 170

• CnC 137: Charles Cotton, To some Great Ones. Epigram (‘Poets are great Mens Trumpets, Poets fein’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 480. Beresford, p. 286.

pp. 171-2

• CnC 138: Charles Cotton, To the Memory of my worthy Friend Colonel Richard Lovelace (‘To pay my Love to thee, and pay it so’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 112-13.

First published in ‘Elegies Sacred to the Memory of the Author’ appended to Richard Lovelace, Lucasta, Posthume Poems (London, 1660). Poems (1689), pp. 481-3. Beresford, pp. 240-1.

pp. 172-3

• CnC 135: Charles Cotton, To Poet E[dmund]. W[aller]. Occasion'd for his Writing a Panegyric on Oliver Cromwell (‘From whence, vile Poet, did'st thou glean the Wit’)

Copy, headed ‘To Poet E:W:’.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 113-14.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 483-5. Beresford, pp. 276-7.

p. 173

• CnC 100: Charles Cotton, A Paraphrase (‘The Beauty that must me delight’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 591-2. Beresford, p. 196.

p. 174

• CnC 27: Charles Cotton, An Epitaph on Robert Port, Esq., designed for a Monument (‘Virtue in these good times that bred good men’)

Copy, headed ‘Jan: 59 An Epitaph on my uncle Port’.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, p. 136.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 492-3. Beresford, p. 281.

pp. 175-7

• CnC 92: Charles Cotton, On Christmas-day. Hymn (‘Rise, happy Mortals, from your sleep’)

Copy, headed ‘[C - An Anthem for Xmas day. 59 smudged over in ink] On Christmas day 1658’.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 25-7.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 219-24. Beresford, pp. 103-6.

p. 179

• CnC 1: Charles Cotton, Ad Furium, Ep.23. Ex Catullo (‘Though Furious Servant have, nor Chest’)

Copy, headed ‘Transl: ex Catallu’.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 608-9.

pp. 183-216

• CnC 4: Charles Cotton, The battail of Yvry (‘High are his thoughts, whose Buskin'd Mistress sings’)

Copy, preceded by a title-page (p. 181) and by a commendatory poem by Thomas Bancroft (pp. 182-3), dated at the end (deleted) ‘29 May 1660 Actum est in Anglia Gloria Deo’ and some scribbling ‘Carolus sine sans W.F. James sine sans cc’.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 657-729.

p. 217

• CnC 39: Charles Cotton, In Mendacem. Epig. (‘Mendax, 'tis said th'art such a Lyar grown’)

Copy of the first two lines, headed ‘Epigram In Mendacem’ and here beginning ‘Menda - th'art such a liar growne’, deleted.

First published in Poems (1689), p. 338.

pp. 217-23

• CnC 141: Charles Cotton, The Valiant Knight: or, the Legend of S^r Peregrine (‘Listen yong lordlings with attention’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Peregrines Travells or y^e legend of S^r Peregrine’.

Edited from this MS in Wallis.

First published London, 1663. The Valiant Knight: or, The Legend of Sr. Peregrine…Now first printed from an original manuscript in the autograph of Charles Cotton, [ed. Alfred Wallis] (privately printed, 1888), pp. 5-13.

pp. 224-7

• CnC 14: Charles Cotton, Dialogue. Geron and Amarillis (‘Stay, stay, fair Nymph! oh! whither Flies’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 485-91. Beresford, pp. 336-40.

pp. 228-36

• CnC 7: Charles Cotton, Cn. Cornelii Galli. vel potius Maximiani Elegia 1. Trans. (‘Why, envious Age, dost thou my End delay?’)

Copy, headed ‘Ex Catullo Transl: The first Elegy of Cornelius Gallus or rather of Maximanus’.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 594-608.

pp. 237-8

• CnC 132: Charles Cotton, To Mr. Alexander Brome. Epode (‘Now let us drink, and with our nimble Feet’)

Copy, headed ‘Ad Sodales Epode’.

Edited from this MS in Buxton, pp. 278-9.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 511-14. Beresford, pp. 361-3. Buxton, pp. 227-9.

p. 239

• CnC 13: Charles Cotton, De Vita beata. Paraphras'd from the Latin (‘Come y'are deceiv'd, and what you do’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 613-14. Beresford, p. 95.

p. 239

• CnC 103: Charles Cotton, Q. Cicero de Mulierum levitate. Translat. (‘Commit a Ship unto the Wind’)

Copy.

First published (two texts) in Poems (1689), pp. 296, 614-15.