CELM: Edinburgh University Library, Laing Collection

MS La. II. 69

An unbound folder of verse and miscellaneous MSS, in various hands and paper sizes, 46 leaves.

f. 24r

• TiC 30: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament (‘My prime of youth is but a frost of cares’)

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, subscribed ‘finis q^d Chidiok Ticburne’, on the recto side of a single folio leaf. c.1586-early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Hirsch.

First published in the single sheet Verses of Prayse and Joy Written Upon her Maiesties Preseruation Whereunto is annexed Tychbornes lamentation, written in the Towre with his owne hand, and an answer to the same (London, 1586). Hirsch, pp. 309-10. Also ‘The Text of “Tichborne's Lament” Reconsidered’, ELR, 17, No. 3 (Autumn 1987), between pp. 276 and 277. May EV 15464 (recording 37 MS texts). For the ‘answer’ to this poem, see KyT 1-2.

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• TiC 1: Chidiock Tichborne, The Housedove (‘A silly housedove happed to fall’)

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Chidiock Ticburne’, on the recto side of a single folio leaf. c.1586-early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Hirsch.

Hirsch, p. 308.

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• TiC 47: Chidiock Tichborne, To his Friend (‘Good sorrow cease, false hope be gone, misfortune once farewell’)

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Chidiok Tichburne’, on the verso side of a single folio leaf. c.1586-early 17th century.

Edited from this MS in Hirsch.

Hirsch, p. 307.

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• DrW 16: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Polemo-Middinia inter Vitarvam et Nebernam (‘Nymphae quae colitis highissima monta Fifaea’)

Copy, in a neat mixed hand, on two pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Mid-17th century.

This MS not recorded in Kastner.

See DrW 15-18.

MS La. II. 89

An unbound folder of MSS of verse and prose, on affairs of state and other matters, in various hands.

Papers of the Lauder family of Fountainhall.

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• RoJ 433: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Quoth the Duchess of Cleveland to counselor Knight’)

Copy, untitled, among other verse on the second leaf of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th-early 18th century.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 48. Walker, p. 61. Love, p. 90.

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• RoJ 227: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses made by the Earle of Rotchester against the Popish Indulgences’, subscribed ‘For My Lord ffountan hall These’, on one side of a single folio leaf, the verso inscribed in another hand with a message to ‘My Lord’ signed ‘Ja. Nicolson’ and dated from Edinburgh 28 April 1694. c.1694.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

MS La. II. 320

Autograph, on one side of a half-folio leaf.

*DrW 95: William Drummond of Hawthornden, ‘Dum tua melliflui specto pigmenta Libelli’

Unpublished.

MS La. II. 333/2

Copy of ‘Sonnettes &c.’, in the hand of John Leyden (1775-1811), linguist and poet, made for Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector, on eight quarto leaves. Transcribed from an earlier musical partbook for the Cantus voice bearing a preface signed ‘Jo. Hiltoun’ (fl.c.1627-30) which in 1800 was ‘in the possession of M^r. Russell, Grandson of D^r Robertson, late Principal of Edinburgh College’ [i.e. William Robertson (1721-93), historian]. 26 February 1800.

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• CmT 185.5: Thomas Campion, ‘As on a day Sabina fell asleepe’

Copy, transcribed from fol. 20 of the original songbook.

First published in Vivian (1909), p. 356. Davis, p. 479.

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• CmT 189: Thomas Campion, A Ballad (‘Dido was the Carthage Queene’)

Copy, untitled, transcribed from fol. 22 of the original songbook.

First published in George Mason & John Earsden, The Ayres That Were Sung and Played, at Brougham Castle in Westmerland, in the Kings Entertainment (London, 1618). Davis, p. 467.

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• CmT 51: Thomas Campion, ‘I must complain, yet doe enjoy my Love’

Copy, untitled, transcribed from fol. 19 of the original songbook.

First published in John Dowland, Third Book of Aires (London, 1603). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book IV, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 184-5. Doughtie, p. 179.

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• CmT 240: Thomas Campion, ‘What is a day, what is a yeere’

Copy, untitled, transcribed from fol. 6 of the original songbook.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. xviii. Davis, p. 459.

MS La. II. 358

Unbound folder of MS verse. Collected by David Laing (1793-1878), Scottish antiquary, collector and librarian.

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• SpE 66: Edmund Spenser, Commendatory verses on Spenser

MS of a fourteen-line commendatory poem on The Faerie Queene, headed ‘Will: Justice:’, beginning ‘I thought no lesse but that some power divine’, and subscribed ‘Upon the Autho^r At his bookes of the ffayery Queenes first comeinge to the presse, written by a prissoner’.

Edited and discussed, with a facsimile, in Joseph Black, ‘“Pan is Hee”: Commending The Faerie Queene’, Spenser Studies, 15 (2001), 121-34, where it is suggested that the author might be the poet Thomas Watson (1555/6-92). This attribution is supported in D. Allen Carroll, ‘Thomas Watson and the 1588 MS Commendation of The Faerie Queene: Reading the Rebuses’, Spenser Studies, 16 (2002), 104-24, with another facsimile on p. 118.

MS La. II. 411

Copy, in a single hand, transcribed from a printed source, eleven quarto leaves (plus five blanks), disbound. Late 17th century.

HaG 2: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, The Anatomy of an Equivalent

This MS recorded in Brown, I, 398; also in Brown, HLQ (1972), p. 149, and in Brown, HLQ (1974), p. 334.

First published, anonymously, [in London, 1688]. Foxcroft, II, 425-6. Brown, I, 265-90.

MS La. II. 655

Fragment of a copy, in a formal secretary hand, with rubrication, comprising three unbound quarto leaves containing Book I, Chapter II, lines 13-68 (here beginning ‘With cesptoure in hand...’); Chapter III, lines 1-19, 76-100; Chapter IV, lines 1-35; and Chapter VIII, lines 7-70. c.1530.

DoG 8: Gavin Douglas, Virgil's Aeneid (‘Lawd, honour, praysyngis, thankis infynyte’)

This MS recorded in Coldwell, I, 100-1.

First published, as The xiii Bukes of Eneados of the famose Poete Virgill, London, 1553. Edited, as Virgil's Æneid Translated into Scottish Verse by Gavin Douglas, by David F.C. Coldwell, 4 vols, STS 3rd Ser. 30, 25, 27, 28 (Edinburgh & London, 1957-64).

MS La. III. 75

Autograph calligraphic MS, 35 quarto leaves (180 x 142 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt (rebound). A presentation New Year's Gift to Sir David Murray of Gorthy (1567-1629), poet and Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Prince Henry, with a prose Dedication to him in English, in italic and Roman scripts, without decoration. 1 January ‘1608’.

*InE 57: Esther Inglis, A Treatise of preparation to the Holy Supper of our only Saviour and redeemer Jes' Christ...Translated out of French in Inglishe...By Bartholomew Kello...[1608]

Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘M^r Rob^t Wonram his book’.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 34 (p. 63).

An English translation of Yves Rouspeau, Traitté de la préparation à la saincte Cène de Nostre seul Sauveur et Rédempteur Jésus Christ.

MS La. III. 249

Autograph calligraphic MS, in a principally italic script, the title-page with colour decoration, with Hume's Dedication to King James VI and Prince Henry, 38 quarto leaves (200 x 160 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt (rebacked). 12 October [i.e. 20 September] 1605.

*InE 59: Esther Inglis, Vincula Unionis sive scita Britannicae id est De Unione insulae Britannicae tractatus secundus. Per Davidem Humium Theagrium. [1605]

Owned in 1867 by David Laing.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 20 (pp. 49-50).

The second (unpublished) part of a treatise by the Latin poet and historian David Hume (1560?-1630?), the first part of which was published in 1605.

MS La. III. 256

A quarto composite volume of tracts and papers on state and ecclesiastical matters, in several largely professional secretary hands, unpaginated, in 19th-century half-calf on marbled boards.

Owned in September 1836 by David Laing.

item 13

• MnJ 51: John Milton, Of Prelatical Episcopacy

Copy, in a single mixed hand, transcribed from the printed edition of 1641, on eleven quarto leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

This MS recorded in Shawcross, Bibliography, No. 405.

First published in London, 1641. Columbia, III, Part 1, 81-104. Yale, I, 618-52.

MS La. III. 347

A quarto composite volume, comprising eleven autograph letters signed by Elizabeth Melville, in her small italic hand, on pages of various size, with address panels and traces of red wax seals, iii + 19 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. Written to the Presbyterian minister John Livingstone (8), to her son James (2) and to the Countess of Wigton (1). c.1625-31.

*MeE 4: Elizabeth Melville, Letter(s)

Inscribed (f. [i^v]) ‘Cha^s: Kirkpatrick Sharpe’, with a title-page by him (f. [iir]) dated 1826, and inscribed by Laing (f. [i^v]) ‘David Laing Nov^r 1851 / This Volume presented to me by M^rs Bedford, Sister to the late Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe Esq^r’.

MS La. III. 348

A folio volume principally of works by Francis Bacon, in a single professional secretary hand, 253 pages, in contemporary calf. c.1620s-30s.

pp. 1-31

• BcF 368: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of Bacon's speech, 7 May 1617.

pp. 33-73

• BcF 369: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of Bacon's speech at the arraignment of the Earl of Somerset.

pp. 77-99

• BcF 161: Francis Bacon, A Confession of Faith

Copy.

First published in London, 1641. Spedding, VII, 217-26.

pp. 101-72, 192-220

• BcF 610: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copies of numerous letters by Bacon, to Burghley, Robert Cecil, Ellesmere, James I, Essex, Davies, Northumberland, Edward Coke, Toby Mathew, and others.

pp. 173-92

• BcF 185: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland

Copy.

First published in Remaines (London, 1648). Spedding, X, 46-51.

pp. 221-9

• BcF 473: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621.

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

MS La. III. 365

A folio volume of transcripts made by William Drummond of letters from Queen Elizabeth to James VI of Scotland, 23 leaves, in 19th-century morocco. Early-mid-17th century.

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• *DrW 74: William Drummond of Hawthornden, ‘Circuit aboue the circle of our thoughts’

Autograph poetical jottings, beginning ‘aboue the circuit/circle of our thoughts’.

Hitherto unpublished, but see DrW 000.

MS La. III. 398

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, 70 tall folio pages, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s.

DaJ 271: Sir John Davies, The Question concerning Impositions

A treatise, with dedicatory epistle to James I, comprising 33 chapters, beginning ‘The Question it self is no more than this, Whether the Impositions which the King of England hath laid and levied upon Merchandize, by vertue of his Prerogative onely...’. First published in London, 1656. Grosart, III, 1-116.

MS La. III. 432

A sextodecimo pocket notebook, for the most part in a single small mixed hand, largely written across the page with the spine to the top, including 31 poems by George Herbert transcribed from the sixth edition of The Temple (Cambridge, 1641), 103 leaves, in 19th-century diced brown calf. Compiled by Andrew Symson (1639-1712), usher of the Grammar School of Stirling, afterwards parson of Kerkinner in Wigton. Including (ff. 21r-53v) 31 poems transcribed by him in 1671 from the sixth edition of George Herbert's The Temple (Cambridge, 1641). c.1664-91.

Inscribed (f. 1^r) ‘William Stirling’. Bookplate of John Pinkerton (1758-1826), historian and poet, and (f. 102v) his signature. Inscribed (f. [i^v]) as bought at ‘Pinkerton's sale in 1812’ (Sotheby's, April 1812). Bookplate of George Chalmers, FRSSA (1742-1825), antiquary and political writer. Inscribed by Laing ‘Bought at the Sale of M^r Chalmers's Library Nov^r 1842. N^o. 1643.’

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• JnB 592: Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song (‘Still to be neat, still to be drest’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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• HrG 55.2: George Herbert, The Church-porch (‘Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance’)

Copy of the first two stanzas, a false start, incomplete.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 6-24.

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• HrG 55.5: George Herbert, The Church-porch (‘Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance’)

Copy of the complete poem, subscribed ‘Transcripsi April. 4. 1671. Die Martis. A.’

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 6-24.

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• HrG 210.5: George Herbert, Prayer (I) (‘Prayer the Churches banquet, Angels age’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herberts. Temple pag. 43’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 51.

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• HrG 134.8: George Herbert, The H. Scriptures (‘Oh Book! infinite sweetnessse! let my heart’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb: Templ. pag. 50’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 58.

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• HrG 136.5: George Herbert, The H. Scriptures. II. (‘Oh that I knew how all thy lights combine’)

Copy, headed ‘2’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 58.

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• HrG 69.5: George Herbert, Content (‘Peace mutt'ring thoughts, and do not grudge to keep’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p. 60’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 68-9.

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• HrG 145.8: George Herbert, Humilitie (‘I saw the Vertues sitting hand in hand’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb: Temp. p. 61’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 70-1.

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• HrG 66.5: George Herbert, Constancie (‘Who is the honest man?’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb: temp. p. 63’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 72-3.

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• HrG 253.8: George Herbert, Sunday (‘O day most calm, most bright’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb: Temp: page. 66’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 75-7.

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• HrG 24.5: George Herbert, Avarice (‘Money, thou bane of blisse, & sourse of wo’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p. 69’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 77.

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• HrG 14.7: George Herbert, Ana-{MARY/ARMY} gram (‘How well her name an Army doth present’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p. 69’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 77.

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• HrG 265.5: George Herbert, To all Angels and Saints (‘Oh glorious spirits, who after all your bands’)

Copy, inscribed ‘H. T. p. 69’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 77-8.

f. 38r

• HrG 100.8: George Herbert, Employment (II) (‘He that is weary, let him sit’)

Extract, beginning at line 21 (‘Oh that I were an Orenge-tree’), subscribed ‘Transc: K^r. April. 18. 1671’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 78-9.

f. 38v

• HrG 61.8: George Herbert, Coloss. 3. 3. Our life is hid with Christ in God (‘My words & thoughts do both expresse this notion’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Templ. p. 77’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 84-5.

f. 38v

• HrG 212.8: George Herbert, Prayer (II) (‘Of what an easie quick accesse’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p. 95’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 103.

f. 39r-v

• HrG 64.8: George Herbert, Conscience (‘Peace pratler, do not lowre’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Templ. p. 98’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 105-6.

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• HrG 30.8: George Herbert, The British Church (‘I joy, deare Mother, when I view’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Tem. p. 102’, subscribed ‘Tranc: K^r. Apr. 18. 1671.’

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 109-10.

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• HrG 216.5: George Herbert, Providence (‘O sacred Providence, who from end to end’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p. 109’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 116-21.

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• HrG 116.8: George Herbert, Giddinesse (‘Oh, what a thing is man! how farre from power’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb: Temp. p. 119’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 127.

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• HrG 181.5: George Herbert, The Method (‘Poore heart, lament’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p. 126’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 133-4.

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• HrG 105.5: George Herbert, Ephes. 4. 30. Grieve not the Holy Spirit, &c (‘And art thou grieved, sweet and sacred Dove’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p. 128’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 135-6.

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• HrG 244.8: George Herbert, The Size (‘Content thee, greedie heart’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. pag. 131.’

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 137-8.

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• HrG 159.8: George Herbert, Justice (II) (‘O dreadfull Justice, what a fright and terrour’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p. 135’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 141.

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• HrG 214.5: George Herbert, The Priesthood (‘Blest Order, which in power dost so excell’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. pag. 154’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 160-1.

f. 48r-v

• HrG 124.8: George Herbert, Grief (‘O who will give me tears? Come all ye springs’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Ex Herb. Temp. p. 158’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 164.

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• HrG 89.8: George Herbert, Dotage (‘False glozing pleasures, casks of happinesse’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. pag. 161’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 167.

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• HrG 273.5: George Herbert, The 23d Psalme (‘The God of love my shepherd is’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p. 167’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 172-3.

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• HrG 191.5: George Herbert, The Odour. 2. Cor. 2. 15 (‘How sweetly doth My Master sound! My Master!’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Ex Herb. Temp. p. 169.’

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 174-5.

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• HrG 146.2: George Herbert, The Invitation (‘Come ye hither All, whose taste’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb. Temp. p 174’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 179-80.

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• HrG 27.8: George Herbert, The Banquet (‘Welcome sweet and sacred cheer’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Herb: Temp: pag. 175’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 181-2.

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• HrG 76.8: George Herbert, Death (‘Death, thou wast once an uncouth hideous thing’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Ex Herb: Temp. pag. 180’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 185-6.

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• HrG 83.8: George Herbert, A Dialogue-Antheme (‘Alas, poore Death, where is thy glorie?’)

Copy, inscribed ‘H. Temp. p. 164,’ subscribed ‘K^r: Maij. 12^o. 1671. transc. 6. fol. postere A. S.’

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 169.

MS La. III. 436

A quarto verse miscellany, in a Scottish secretary hand, paginated 5-132, bound with a later verse MS on 98 pages, in brown calf. c.1630s-40s.

Bookplate of John Pinkerton (1758-1826), historian and poet. Sotheby's, April 1812 (Pinkerton sale), lot 593, to Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector. Sotheby's, 1836 (Heber sale, Part XI), lot 1104, to Thomas Thorpe. His catalogue, 1836, bought by Laing.

pp. 5-6

• CwT 141: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnet. 2’, here beginning ‘We read of Godes, and kinges that kyndlie tooke’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

p. 6

• DnJ 993: John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 (‘Unseasonable man, statue of ice’)

Copy of poem ix of the ‘Epithalamion’, headed ‘Bryds goeing to bed’ and here beginning ‘What meanest thow bryde this companie to keepe’.

This MS recorded in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as ‘Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset’). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.

p. 7

• JnB 593: Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song (‘Still to be neat, still to be drest’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Sonnet 4’.

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

pp. 8-9

• JnB 172: 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 ‘The Bodie’.

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).

pp. 9-11

• JnB 211: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind (‘Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone’)

Copy, headed ‘The Minde’, subscribed ‘Ben: Joh:’.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

p. 15

• CwT 782: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye’)

Copy, headed ‘A graue, to bury those killed by the eye’ and here beginning ‘In your fair cheeckes two pitts there bee’.

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

p. 18

• CwT 83: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.

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

p. 20

• SuJ 82: John Suckling, Upon A.M. (‘Yeeld not, my Love. but be as coy’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 27.

pp. 20-1

• RaW 523: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy, headed ‘Songe’.

This MS collated 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).

pp. 24-5

• WoH 94: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of a version headed in another hand ‘Alterations of Sir Henry Wotton's Verses,Bal. 2. 312’, here beginning ‘Yow minor beautyes of the night’.

First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, ‘“You Meaner Beauties of the Night” A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification’, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

pp. 25-6

• MoG 23: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed ‘On the lait king James of blissed memorie’.

A version of lines 1-22, headed ‘Epitaph on King James’ and beginning ‘He that hath eyes now wake and weep’, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

Attributed to Edward Fairfax in The Fairfax Correspondence, ed. George Johnson (1848), I, 2-3 (see MoG 54). Edited from that publication in Godfrey of Bulloigne: A critical edition of Edward Fairfax's translation of Tasso's Gerusalemme Liberata, together with Fairfax's Original Poems, ed. Kathleen M. Lea and T.M. Gang (Oxford, 1981), pp. 690-1. The poem is generally ascribed to George Morley.

p. 58

• HrJ 144: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, untitled.

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.

pp. 72-3

• LoT 4: Thomas Lodge, An Ode (‘Now I find thy lookes were fained’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Now I see thy Loue is fained’.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Phillis: Honoured with Pastorall Sonnets, Elegies, and amorous delights (London, 1593). Gosse, II, (p. 58). The song-version beginning ‘Now I see thy looks were feigned’ first published in Thomas Ford, Musicke of Sundrie Kindes (London, 1607).

pp. 75-6

• CmT 190: Thomas Campion, A Ballad (‘Dido was the Carthage Queene’)

Copy, headed ‘Dido’, here beginning ‘Dido was a Carthage queene’.

First published in George Mason & John Earsden, The Ayres That Were Sung and Played, at Brougham Castle in Westmerland, in the Kings Entertainment (London, 1618). Davis, p. 467.

pp. 76-7

• CmT 52: Thomas Campion, ‘I must complain, yet doe enjoy my Love’

Copy, untitled.

First published in John Dowland, Third Book of Aires (London, 1603). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book IV, No. xvii. Davis, pp. 184-5. Doughtie, p. 179.

p. 78

• FeO 30: Owen Felltham, A Farewell (‘When by sad fate from hence I summon'd am’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Absence’.

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 18.

p. 79

• HeR 86: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)

Copy, headed ‘A Curse’, here beginning ‘O periured man, and if ye ere returne’

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).

pp. 79-80

• CwT 356: Thomas Carew, In praise of his Mistris (‘You, that will a wonder know’)

Copy, headed ‘A worlds Wonder’.

First published in Poems (1651). Dunlap, p. 122.

pp. 82-3

• DaW 20: Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day (‘Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present’)

Copy, headed ‘A New years Gift’.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.

pp. 83-4

• CwT 282: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a fflie’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

p. 99

• RaW 386: Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester (‘Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword’)

Copy of an eight-line version, headed ‘Epitaph E. Lester’ and here beginning ‘Heir Lyes ane waliant Wariour | Who never drew his sworde’.

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.

p. 100

• StW 806: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, untitled.

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).

pp. 103-4

• CmT 223: Thomas Campion, ‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’

Copy, untitled.

Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, ‘The Authorship of “What if a Day”, and its Various Versions’, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, ‘“What if a Day” — An Examination of the Words and Music’, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.

MS La. III. 439

Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, 52 leaves (96 x 128 mm.). A presentation MS to Robert Cecil (1563-1612), first Earl of Salisbury, but without a Dedication, in various styles of script, with colour and gold decoration and figures, very imperfect. 1607.

*InE 42: Esther Inglis, [Quatrains de Pybrac] Les Quatrains du Sieur de Pybrac dediez a tresillustre et tresnoble Seigneur, monseigneur le Conte de Salisberrie, pour ses estrennes, de l'an 1607 Escrit et illuminé par moi Esther Inglis

Owned in 1865 by David Laing.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 30 (pp. 59-60).

Quatrains in French by Guy du Faur, Sieur de Pybrac (1529-84), first published in 1576.

MS La. III. 440

Autograph calligraphic MS, ii + 84 leaves (90 x 130 mm.), in contemporary vellum gilt. In various styles of script. 1592.

*InE 13: Esther Inglis, Livret traittant de la Grandeur de Dieu, et de la Cognoissance qu'on peut avoir de luy par ses oevres. Escrit par Esther Langlois, fille Françoise, de Dieppe. M.D.XCII.

Bought from a Leipzig bookdealer by David Laing in 1865.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 4 (pp. 30-1), with facsimiles of ff. 78r and 83r as Plates 3 and 4 (between pp. 42 and 43).

A French treatise by Pierre du Val (d.1564), Bishop of Sées, first published in 1555, with Latin verses by Nicholas Langlois.

MS La. III. 444

A folio volume of poems, in several secretary hands, one neat cursive hand predominating, 43 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary blind-stamped brown calf. Compiled by or for Lucy Hastings (née Davies, 1613-79), Countess of Huntingdon, daughter of Sir John Davies (1569-1626), her name appearing on f. 28v and that of one of her servants, Thomas Bakewell, on f. 31r. c.1625-30.

ff. 1r-25v, 29r-30v

• DaJ 102: Sir John Davies, The Psalmes

Copy of Davies's translation of Psalms 1-50, in a neat cursive secretary hand, headed ‘The Psalmes translated into verse Ano. 1624’, and of Psalms 67, 91, 95, 100, 103 and 150 in another cursive secretary hand, with a few corrections possibly in yet another hand.

Edited from this MS in Krueger, p. 245-96.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 363-443. Krueger, pp. 245-96.

f. 27r

• DaJ 75: Sir John Davies, Of Faith the First Theologicall Vertue (‘Faith is a sunbeame of th' Aeternall light’)

Copy, in a rounded secretary hand.

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 447. Krueger, p. 238.

f. 27r-v

• DaJ 103: Sir John Davies, A Songe of Contention betweene Fowre Maids Concerninge that which Addeth Most Perfection to that Sexe (‘Our fairest Garland, made of beautyes flowers’)

Copy, in a rounded secretary hand.

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 448-9. Krueger, pp. 239-40.

f. 31r

• DaJ 63: Sir John Davies, A Maids Hymne in Praise of Virginity (‘Sacred virginity, unconquered Queene’)

Copy, in a rounded secretary hand.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 449-50. Krueger, p. 240.

f. 31v

• DaJ 101: Sir John Davies, Part of an Elegie in Praise of Marriage (‘When the first man from Paradice was driven’)

Copy, in a rounded secretary hand, incomplete.

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 451-2. Krueger, pp. 241-2.

ff. 33v-4r

• DaJ 107: Sir John Davies, To the Queen (‘What Musicke shall we make to you’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘To the Q:’.

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 457-9. Krueger, pp. 242-3.

f. 34r

• DaJ 108: Sir John Davies, To the Ladyes of Founthill (‘Ladyes of Founthill, I am come to seeke’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 459. Krueger, p. 233.

f. 34r-v

• DaJ 112: Sir John Davies, Upon a Paire of Garters (‘Go loveinge woode-bynd, clip with lowly grace’)

Copy, in a secretary hand.

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 460. Krueger, pp. 233-4.

f. 34v

• DaJ 104: Sir John Davies, A Sonnet sent with a Booke (‘In this sweete booke, the treasury of witt’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 460-1. Krueger, p. 234.

f. 34v

• DaJ 20: Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 36. Of Tobacco (‘Homer of Moly, and Nepenthe sings’)

Copy of lines 1-12, in a secretary hand, untitled.

This MS collated in Krueger.

Krueger, pp. 144-5.

ff. 35r, 32r-3v

• DaJ 2: Sir John Davies, Elegies of Love (‘Like as the divers fretchled Butter flye’)

Copy of four elegies in an irregular sequence, in two hands, incomplete.

Edited from this MS inGrosart and in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 462-3, 453-7. Krueger, pp. 192-7.

ff. 39v-40r

• DaJ 36: Sir John Davies, The Kinges Welcome (‘O nowe or never gentle muse, be gaye’)

Copy of an early, 60-line version, headed ‘To the kinge. Vpon his Ma^ties first coming into England’.

Edited from this MS in Grosart. Collated in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I, (1869), 463-6. Krueger, pp. 228-30.

f. 40r-v

• DaJ 109: Sir John Davies, To the Queene at the Same Time (‘If wee in peace had not received the Kings’)

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 466-7. Krueger, p. 231.

f. 40v

• DaJ 1: Sir John Davies, Charles his Waine (‘Brittaine doth under those bright starres remaine’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 467. Krueger, pp. 231-2.

f. 40v

• DaJ 64: Sir John Davies, Mira Loquor Sol Occubuit Nox Nulla Secuta Est (‘By that Eclipse which darned our Apollo’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 467. Krueger, p. 231.

f. 40v

• DaJ 76: Sir John Davies, Of the Name of Charolus, Being the Diminative of Charus (‘The name of Charles, darlinge signifies’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Krueger, p. 232.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 468. Krueger, p. 232.

f. 41r

• DaJ 123: Sir John Davies, Verses Sent to the Kinge with Figges By Sir John Davis (‘To add unto the first mans happiness’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Grosart and in Krueger.

First published in Grosart, I (1869), 468-9. Krueger, pp. 232-3.

f. 43v

• KiH 69: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in The Works in Verse and Prose of Sir John Davies, ed. A.B. Grosart, I (London, 1869), p. 470.

MS La. III. 468

An octavo verse miscellany, in several generally italic hands, written originally on rectos only, the versos used by later hands, i + 112 leaves (ff. 93-5 excised), in old calf (rebacked). Including 26 poems by Thomas Carew and one of doubtful authorship. c.1694-1740.

Inscribed (inside the front cver) ‘Tho: Jesson His Book 1694’; (ff. i^r, 5v) ‘S Harriott 1740’, and a poem (f. 37v) subscribed ‘Sarah Harriott’.

Recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as the ‘Jesson MS’: CwT Δ 23.

f. i^v

• CwT 972: Thomas Carew, The Spring (‘Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost’)

Copy, in a small italic hand, untitled.

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

f. 1r

• CwT 884: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

f. 2v

• DrJ 276: John Dryden, King Arthur: or, The British Worthy, Act V, scene ii, lines 150-65. Song (‘Fairest Isle, all Isles Excelling’)

Copy of the song, in a cursive italic hand.

California, XVI, 63. Scott-Saintsbury, VIII, 196. Kinsley, II, 577. Hammond, III, 266-7.

f. 3r

• DrJ 272: John Dryden, King Arthur: or, The British Worthy, Act IV, scene ii, lines 57-74. Song (‘How happy the Lover’)

Copy of the song, in a cursive italic hand, untitled.

First published in London, 1691. California, XVI (1996), pp. 1-69 (pp. 57-74). Scott-Saintsbury, VIII, 123-301 (pp. 184-5). Kinsley, II, 574. Hammond, III, 263.

f. 4r

• StW 1108: William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde (‘Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye’)

Copy of lines 15-20, headed ‘The Dart’ and here beginning ‘Oft when I look I may descry’.

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.

f. 9r

• CwT 454: Thomas Carew, Mediocritie in love rejected. Song (‘Give me more love, or more disdaine’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 12-13. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

f. 39r

• BeA 22: Aphra Behn, Verses design'd by Mrs. A. Behn to be sent to a fair Lady, that desir'd she would absent herself to cure her Love. Left unfinishd (‘In vain to Woods and Deserts I retire’)

First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, VI, 389. Todd, I, No. 92, p. 356.

ff. 42r, 43r

• CgW 51: William Congreve, Upon a Lady's Singing. Pindarick Ode, By Mr. Congreve (‘Let all be husht, each softest Motion cease’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon A Lady's singing Pindarick Ode; By M^r Congreve’.

First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, IV, 7-9. Dobrée, pp. 222-4 (as ‘on Mrs. Arabella Hunt, Singing. Irregular Ode’). McKenzie, II, 300-2.

ff. 49r, 50r, 51r

• CwT 1000: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

f. 52r

• CwT 405: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes (‘In Celia's face a question did arise’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.

f. 57r

• CwT 181: Thomas Carew, A divine Mistris (‘In natures peeces still I see’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 6-7.

f. 58r

• CwT 794: Thomas Carew, Song. A beautifull Mistris (‘If when the Sun at noone displayes’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 7. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

f. 59r

• CwT 687: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

MS La. III. 483

Three small quarto musical part books of the ‘St Andrews Psalter’ (the Scottish Metrical Psalter of 1566 etc. by Thomas Wode, afterwards Vicar of St Andrews), copied c.1575-8, in formal angular roman hands, with rubrication and colour decoration, and with a series of secular songs added later in secretary and italic hands at the end, comprising (i) Treble part: iv + 214 pages (including blanks; (ii) Tenor part: iv + 200 pages; and (iii) Bassus part: 214 pages, all in 19th-century black morocco (iii incorporating an original vellum board). c.1575-early 17th century.

For a fourth (Counter-tenor) part book of this Psalter, see British Library, Add. MS 33933.

(i) pp. 189-90; (ii) pp. 178-9; (iii) pp. 183-5

• CmT 224: Thomas Campion, ‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’

Copies, in a musical setting, the lyrics in secretary script, untitled.

MS La. III. 488

An oblong quarto musical part book, for the Treble voice, the song incipits chiefly in a rounded italic hand, with (ff. 2v-4r) an index, 53 leaves, in 19th-century black calf. Inscribed (f. 1r), in a secretary hand, ‘S^r William Maur’: i.e. Sir William Mure, Bt (d.1639), of Rawallan, Ayrshire, or else his son of that name (1594-1657), writer and politician; (f. 1r) ‘Robert Muire is^t my hand’; and (f. 2r), in later red ink, ‘Thomas Lyle Surgeon’. c.1600s-20.

f. 12r

• CmT 194: Thomas Campion, ‘Do not, O do not prize thy beauty at too high a rate’

Copy of the incipit with a musical setting.

First published in Robert Jones, Ultimum Vale (London, 1605). Davis, p. 477. Doughtie, pp. 205-6.

f. 12v

• CmT 241: Thomas Campion, ‘What is a day, what is a yeere’

Copy of the incipit only, here ‘What is a day’, in a musical setting, untitled.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. xviii. Davis, p. 459.

MS La. III. 490

An oblong quarto book of mainly vocal music, the lyrics in several largely secretary hands, one predominating, 90 pages (including blanks), in contemporary brown calf, both covers stamped in gilt ‘I S’. Inscribed several times ‘John Squyer’, probably the compiler. Mid-17th century.

Also inscribed (p. 1) ‘Ane Cattologue of books 1700’, and (p. 25) ‘Joanne Squier’. Owned by David Laing in June 1855.

pp. 18-21

• CmT 225: Thomas Campion, ‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’

Copy of a five-strophe version, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 507.

MS La. III. 493

A folio composite miscellany of verse, prose, and dramatic works, in several hands, an independant unit on ff. 88r-111r, in a single hand, containing, inter alia, twenty poems by Donne, 117 leaves (plus seventeen blanks), in contemporary vellum, with remains of ties. c.1630.

Inscribed (f. 134v) ‘Anthony Methuen’. Later owned by members of the Wyndham family, including probably the Henry Penruddocke Wyndham (1736-1819), topographer. Sotheby's, 11 April 1872, lot 1331, to David Laing.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Laing MS’: DnJ Δ 47.

ff. 29r, 32r

• RaW 728.185: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

Copy of Ralegh's arraignment in 1618.

Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, ‘“The Great Day of Mart”: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603’, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

f. 32r

• RaW 54: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, in an italic hand. c.1620s.

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 La. III. 501

A folio volume principally of scullery and kitchen accounts, largely in a single secretary hand, 74 leaves, in modern calf (repaired). Probably connected with the Royal Establishment and kept by David Young, servant of the Scullery, who was presumably related to Sir Peter Young (1544-1628), royal tutor and diplomat, who is cited in the volume at least twice. c.1628-38.

ff. 65r-6v

• RaW 777: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sir walter Rauleighes speech at his execution who was beheaded at The old palleice at westminster the 28. of october 1618. betuin the hower of 8 & 9. in the morning theis Lords being pr^t...’.

ff. 66v-7v

• RaW 921: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of two letters by Ralegh, to his wife and to James I.

f. 67v

• RaW 55: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, headed in the margin ‘his Epith.’

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 La. III. 522

An oblong quarto composite autograph volume, in various styles of script, with decoration and pen-and-ink figures, 36 leaves (paper sizes varying from 110 x 150mm. to 290 x 365mm.). Late 16th-early 17th century.

*InE 55: Esther Inglis, Specimens of various styles of writing [II]

Later owned by the advocate David Constable and bought at the D. Speare sale of Constable's library, 13 December 1828, lot 2973, by David Laing.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 6 (pp. 32-3), with facsimiles of ff. 8r and 28r as Plates 7 and 8 (between pp. 42 and 43).

Letters, elaborate drawings, decoration, and moral sentences in English, French, Italian, Latin, and Greek, including texts by William Gedde, Cicero (translated into Greek by Jacobus Dorsannus), and other material.

MS La. III. 525

The octavo album amicorum of George Craig, of Edinburgh, with inscriptions in numerous hands, 182 leaves, in contemporary vellum. 1602-5.

f. 8r

• *InE 60: Esther Inglis, Inscription

Autograph inscription by Esther Inglis, in italic scripts, in French and English, addressed to her ‘intime amy et tres-aimé frere M. G. C.’, dated from London, 8 August 1604, facing one of the same date (f. 7v) by her husband Bartholomew Kello.

Edited in Laing, ‘Notes’, p. 289. Recorded in Scott-Elliot & Yeo, p. 84.

Two extracts from Psalms 145 and Ecclesiastes in French.

MS La. III. 532

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, including parliamentary speeches, in several largely secretary hands, 165 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum, stamped with the monogram ‘TSB’, within modern half-calf on marbled boards. Inscribed (inside the front cover) ‘Thomas Bowdler his booke wrytten w^th his owne bloode 1634’ and, in engrossed and decorated lettering, ‘Thomas Bowdler his booke Ao Do: 1635’, his name occurring several times elsewhere: the MS probably compiled in part by him. c.1634-43.

p. 63

• CoR 618: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r: Corbet to the Ladies of new dress’.

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.

p. 64

• GrJ 33: John Grange, ‘Black cypress veils are shrouds of night’

Copy, headed ‘The ladies answer’.

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.

p. [114]

• ClJ 196: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on y^e Earle of Strafford’.

First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as ‘Internally unlike his manner’. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among ‘Poems probably by Cleveland’. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).

pp. [141-6]

• RuB 164: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beniamin Rudiards speech’.

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.

MS La. III. 651

Bale's copious and often extensive autograph additions in his exemplum of the printed quarto edition of 1548, xi + 255 leaves now in modern calf, prepared for the enlarged edition published in 1566. [1548-58].

*BaJ 21: John Bale, Illustrium Maioris Britanniae scriptorum summarium

Bought by David Laing in London in 1819.

This volume recorded in Davies, p. 258 (16); in McCusker (1942), p. 49; and in McCusker, The Library (1936), 164-5.

First published in ‘Wesel’ [i.e. Ipswich], 1548.

MS La. III. 787

A folio volume comprising two state tracts, the first relating to France, in a single professional secretary hand, 50 unfoliated leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary reversed calf, with metal clasps. Early 17th century.

Bookplate of John Ludford Esq.

ff. [41r-50r]

• BcF 131: Francis Bacon, Certain Considerations touching the Better Pacification and Edification of the Church of England

Copy, headed ‘A discourse of Policye in Church gouernment written to his Ma^tye by S^r. Francis Bacon Knight’

First published in London, 1604. Spedding, X, 103-27. The circumstances of the original publication and the book's suppression by the Bishop of London discussed, with a census of relevant exempla, in Richard Serjeantson and Thomas Woolford, ‘The Scribal Publication of a Printed Book: Francis Bacon's Certaine Considerations Touching...the Church of England (1604)’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/2 (June 2009), 119-56.

MS La. III. 798

A quarto verse miscellany, comprising principally translations or imitations of classical authors, chiefly in a single cursive hand, a later hand writing over a number of pages, entitled ‘A Choice Collection of Miscellany Poems Upon severall Subjects. Gathered out of severall Authors, by W^m. Gordon…In the Year, M.DCC,XI’, c.260 pages (plus blanks), all independently paginated in separate sections, in half-morocco. 1711-12.

p. 10

• DrJ 194: John Dryden, The Tears of Amynta, for the Death of Damon. Song (‘On a bank, beside a Willow’)

Copy, as ‘By M^r Dryden’.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 382-3. California, II, 164-5. Hammond, II, 201-2.

p. 12

• WaE 433: Edmund Waller, Song (‘Chloris! farewell. I now must go’)

Copy, headed ‘A Copy of Verses’.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). Poems, ‘Eighth’ edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 110-11.

pp. 22-3

• DrJ 257: John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part II, Act IV, scene iii, lines 35-64. Song, In two Parts (‘How unhappy a Lover am I’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song, in two parts’.

California, XI, 166-7. Kinsley, I, 135-6. Hammond, I, 244-5.

pp. 23-4

• DrJ 254: John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part I, Act IV, scene ii, lines 122-49. Song (‘Wherever I am, and whatever I doe’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song’.

California, XI, 69-70. Kinsley, I, 132-3. Hammond, I, 239-40.

p. 34

• CoA 30.5: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. VII. Gold (‘A Mighty pain to Love it is’)

Copy, headed ‘Gold’.

First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 55. Sparrow, pp. 54-5.

Musical setting by Pietro Reggio published in Songs [London, 1680].

pp. 35-8

• CoA 54.5: Abraham Cowley, The Country Mouse (‘At the large foot of a fair hollow tree’)

Copy, headed ‘The Country Mouse A Paraphrase upon Horace, 2^d Book: Sat: 6’.

First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, II, 414-16.

pp. 34-8

• CoA 281: Abraham Cowley, Extracts

Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.

pp. 35-6

• DrJ 390: John Dryden, Extracts

Extracts from Dryden's plays.

pp. 38-9

• DrJ 296: John Dryden, Tyrannick Love: or, The Royal Martyr, Act IV, scene i, lines 125-48. Song (‘Ah, how sweet it is to love’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

This MS collated in part in California.

First published in London, 1670. California, X, 105-93 (p. 151). Kinsley, I, 121-2. Hammond, I, 231-2.

pp. 39-41

• DrJ 249: John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part I, Act II, scene i, lines 198-232. Song (‘Beneath a Myrtle shade’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

California, XI, 51-2. Song in Kinsley, I, 130-2. Hammond, I, 238-9. Songs first published in Westminster-Drollery (London, 1671).

p. 79

• BeA 35: Aphra Behn, Song (‘Ye Virgin Pow'rs, defend my Heart’)

Copy.

Written by Mrs Taylor.

pp. 81-2

• DeJ 127: Sir John Denham, The Sophy, V, iii, Song (‘Somnus, the humble God that dwells’)

Copy of the song, headed ‘Song’ and here beginning ‘Morpheus y^e humble God y^t dwells’.

Banks, pp. 296-7.

pp. 109 -15

• BeA 29: Aphra Behn, The Lamentation for Adonis (‘I mourn Adonis, fair Adonis dead’)

Copy, with full title.

pp. 115-18

• BeA 16.5: Aphra Behn, Ovid to Julia. A Letter (‘Fair Royal Maid, permit a Youth undone’)

First published in Miscellany, Being a Collection of Poems By several Hands (London, 1685). Summers, VI, 363. Todd, No. 63, pp. 182-4.

pp. 118-19

• BeA 34: Aphra Behn, Song (‘Yee happy Swains, whose Hearts are free’)

Copy.

pp. 119-21

• BeA 26: Aphra Behn, The Complaint, A Song (‘I Love, I dote, I rave with pain’)

pp. 121-8

• BeA 28: Aphra Behn, The History of Leander and Hero: From the Greek of Musæus (‘Come, sing, my Muse, y^tLamp, y^tonce did prove’)

Copy, imperfect at the end.

MS La. III. 800

A copy of ‘Hudibras’, in a single cursive hand, 100 octavo pages, in modern boards. Late 17th century.

pp. 1-99

• BuS 1: Samuel Butler, Hudibras (‘Sir Hudibras his passing worth’)

Copy of Part II.

Part I first published in London, ‘1663’ [i.e. 1662]. Part II published in London, ‘1664’ [i.e. 1663]. Part III published in London ‘1678’ [i.e. 1677]. the whole poem first published in London, 1684. Edited by John Wilders (Oxford, 1967).

p. [101]

• BuS 3: Samuel Butler, Hudibras (‘Sir Hudibras his passing worth’)

Copy of twelve untitled lines beginning ‘No Jesuit e'er took in hand’, subscribed ‘S Butler’, followed by Latin versions of three brief passages subscribed ‘Translated by D^r [John] Hanmar [1594?-1670] Greek profess: Oxon’.