MS 12-14-71
A folio verse miscellany, in two hands, possibly compiled principally by Robert Clarke of Wadham College, Oxford. c.1663.
pp. 2-4
• HrG 55: George Herbert, The Church-porch (‘Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance’)
Copy of various stanzas, beginning with stanza 2 (‘Beware of lust: it doth pollute and foul’).
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 6-24.
p. 4
• HrG 216: George Herbert, Providence (‘O sacred Providence, who from end to end’)
Copy of part of the poem, beginning at line 61 (‘Each creature hath a wisdome for his good’).
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 116-21.
p. 23
• HrG 282: George Herbert, Vertue (‘Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 87-8.
pp. 23-4
• HrG 142: George Herbert, Home (‘Come Lord, my head doth burn, my heart is sick’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 107-9.
p. 24
• HrG 193: George Herbert, An Offering (‘Come, bring thy gift. If blessings were as slow’)
Copy of lines 25-42, beginning ‘Since my sadnesse’.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 147-8.
p. 92
• SeC 106: Sir Charles Sedley, A Song (‘Prithee tell me, faithless Swain’)
Copy, untitled.
First published, in a version beginning ‘Tell me prethee faithless swain’, in Windsor Drollery (London, 1671). Oxford Drollery (London, 1671). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 3. Sola Pinto, II, 153.
p. 93
• StW 861: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)
Copy, headed ‘To A Lady putting off her veile’, here beginning ‘Keep on your vaile and hide your eye’.
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.
p. 94
• DaW 106: Sir William Davenant, The Rivals, V. Song (‘My lodging it is on the Cold ground’)
Copy, headed ‘The Slighted Maid’.
Dramatic Works, V, 282. Gibbs, p. 267.
p. 96
• SeC 56: Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia (‘As in those Nations, where they yet adore’)
Copy.
First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Bat (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.
pp. 150-1
• HrG 191: George Herbert, The Odour. 2. Cor. 2. 15 (‘How sweetly doth My Master sound! My Master!’)
Copy.
First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 174-5.
R.B.R., W822S
Copy of two different versions of stanza 30 on folio 85, beginning ‘And being met to praise thee’, in a contemporary hand, on a blank page in an exemplum of the printed edition of 1660. Late 17th century.
WiG 27.8: George Wither, Speculum Speculativum (‘Our Modern Prophet (so did Paul)’)
First published, with preliminary material including a prose dedication to James I, in London, 1660. Miscellaneous Works of George Wither. Fifth Collection, Spenser Society No. 22 (1877; reprinted in New York, 1967), item 5 (pp. 1-176).