CELM: Edinburgh University Library

C. 175. dd. 14

A corrected proofsheet (sigs 5A3^v-4^r: pp. 398-9) in an exemplum of The History of the World (London, ‘1617’ [i.e. 1621]). c.1621.

RaW 678.6: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World

Recorded in Jan Moore, p. 69.

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

JA 297

Exemplum of the quarto edition of 1612 with numerous minor MS annotations consisting of alterations of directions, punctuation or spelling, the deletion or insertion of single words, underlinings, and the insertion of act or scene numbers, in 19th-century half-calf on marbled boards. 17th century.

WeJ 14: John Webster, The White Devil

Later in the library of James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, in Penzance, Cornwall.

First published in London, 1612. Lucas, I. Cambridge edition, I, 139-254.

JY 438

Pages 85-100 from the Shakespeare First Folio (1623), marked up for use as a promptbook by the Hatton Garden ‘Nursery’, London. c.1672.

ShW 40.5: William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. III (Charlottesville, VA, 1964).

First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

JY 439

Pages 145-62 from the Shakespeare First Folio (1623), marked up with cuts for use by the Hatton Garden ‘Nursery’, London. c.1672.

ShW 66.5: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. III (Charlottesville, VA, 1964).

First published in London, 1600.

JY 441

Pages 145-62 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663) marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. c.1670s.

ShW 66.8: William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. VII (Charlottesville, VA, 1989).

First published in London, 1600.

JY 442

Pages 729-60 from a Shakespeare Third Folio (1663).

p. 729

• ShW 59.5: William Shakespeare, Macbeth

The last page of a promptbook of Macbeth, marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. The rest of the promptbook is ShW 59.2. c.1670s.

First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

pp. 730-60

• ShW 44.1: William Shakespeare, Hamlet

The text of Hamlet marked up for use as a promptbook by the Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin. c.1670s.

Facsimile edition in Shakespearean Prompt-Books of the Seventeenth Century, ed. G. Blakemore Evans, Vol. IV (Charlottesville, VA, 1966).

First published in London, 1603.

JY 1069

Annotations by William Drummond.

DrW 351.5: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene (London, 1609)

Discussed in Alastair Fowler and Michael Leslie, Drummond's Copy of The Faerie Queene, TLS (17 July 1981), 821-2.

MS Borl. 205

A folio volume of lecture notes on logic written in Louvain in 1477 by Magnus Makculloch, clerk to Archbishop William Schevez (d.1497), iii + 202 leaves, imperfect at the end, in modern brown calf gilt. Chiefly in one professional secretary hand, with some engrossed lettering, in double columns, another hand, one ‘Johannes’, possibly John Purde, on pages including ff. ii^v-iii^r, 86r-7r, 181v, 183v, and 200r-2r.

Owned by David Laing in 1854.

ff. ii^v-iii^r

• HnR 12: Robert Henryson, The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian. The Prolog and The Taill of the Cok, and the Jasp

Copy, in double columns, untitled, on the fly-leaves of the volume. Late 15th-early 16th century.

Edited from this MS in Stevenson. Collated in Wood.

Fox, pp. 3-9. Stevenson, pp. 3-8.

f. 87r

• HnR 18: Robert Henryson, The Prais of Aige (‘Wythin a garth, under a rede rosere’)

Copy, untitled. Late 15th-early 16th century.

Edited from this MS in Stevenson, pp. 15-16. Collated in Wood.

First published in the Chepman and Myllar Prints (Edinburgh, 1508). Wood, pp. 185-6. Ritchie, I, 73-4. Fox, pp. 165-7.

f. 181v

• HnR 24: Robert Henryson, The Ressoning betuix Aige and Yowth (‘Quhen fair flora, the godes of the flowris’)

Copy, untitled. 15th-early 16th century.

Edited from this MS in Stevenson. Collated in Wood and in Fox.

Wood, pp. 179-80. Ritchie, I, 68-71. Murdoch, II, 149-52. Craigie, I, 200-2. Stevenson, pp. 22-3. Fox, pp. 170-3.

f. 183v

• DuW 151: William Dunbar, Ros Mary: Ane Ballat of Our Lady (‘Ros Mary, most of vertewe virginale’)

Copy, untitled. Late 15th-early 16th century.

Edited from this MS in Stevenson, pp. 24-5. Recorded in Mackenzie, p. 230.

Mackenzie, No. 87, pp. 175-7. Craigie, The Asloan MS, II, 271-2.

f. 201

• SkJ 42: John Skelton, Vexilla regis

Edited from this MS in Pieces from the Makculloch and the Gray MSS, ed. George Stevenson, STS 65 (Edinburgh & London, 1918), pp. 35-6).

Canon, L117, p. 32. A lost piece; doubtfully identified by Dyce (I, 144-6; II, 199) with verses beginning ‘Now synge we, as we were wont’, first printed in Christmas Carolles [c.1550] and in MS versions including: British Library (Add. MS 37049, f. 67v; Arundel MS 285, ff. 164v-8, edited in Carlton Brown, Religious Lyrics of the XVth Century (Oxford, 1939), pp. 151-6); and Edinburgh University Library (MS Borl. 205, f. 201, edited in Pieces from the Makculloch and the Gray MSS, ed. George Stevenson, STS 65 (Edinburgh & London, 1918), pp. 35-6).

MS Dc. 1. 3/1

A long, narrow, ledger-size composite miscellany of poems on affairs of state, 112 pages (some misnumbered and pp. 45-6 excised), in 19th-century calf gilt. A compendium of several separate collections of poems, each with its general heading, including nineteen poems by the Earl of Rochester, copied in a single hand, that of Robert Mylne (1643?-1747), antiquary. c.1680s-1700s.

Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker. Recorded in IELM, II.ii as the Edinburgh MS: RoJ Δ 6.

pp. 1-3

• DrJ 43.8: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)

Copy.

A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, ‘Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire’, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that ‘Mulgrave had by far the major hand’. Recorded in Hammond, V, 684, in an ‘Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition’.

p. 11

• RoJ 568: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

Copy, headed ‘On Nothing’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.

First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

p. 13

• RoJ 243: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr (‘To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain’)

Copy, headed ‘Answer to the Defence of Satyr’, subscribed ‘Rochester’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's ‘Answer’ (‘Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me’: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

p. 16

• RoJ 106: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Imperfect Enjoyment (‘Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 37-40. Walker, pp. 30-2. Love, pp. 13-15.

p. 17

• RoJ 513: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's ‘Troades’, Act II, Chorus (‘After death nothing is, and nothing, death’)

Copy, headed ‘Post nihil Mortem &c’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as ‘Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour’.

p. 19

• RoJ 290: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy of the epilogue (lines 174-221), headed ‘Apologie’ and here beginning ‘All this with Indignation have I hurld’

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning ‘All this with indignation have I hurled’) in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as ‘Satyr’. Love, pp. 57-63.

The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, ‘A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's “A Satyr against Reason and Mankind”’, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different ‘Answer’ poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).

pp. 22-3

• EtG 5: Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet (‘How far are they deceived who hope in vain’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.

p. 23

• RoJ 609: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia (‘Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat’)

Copy, headed ‘The answer by S^r. Charles Scroope’.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.

p. 24

• RoJ 209: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Poet Ninny (‘Crushed by that just contempt his follies bring’)

Copy, headed ‘On S.C.S. For Answering Ephelia To Bajazett’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 141-2. Walker, pp. 115-16. Love, pp. 107-8.

p. 24

• RoJ 193: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, My Lord All-Pride (‘Bursting with pride, the loathed impostume swells’)

Copy, headed ‘Ansuerd againe by S^r. CR: Scroope on y^e. 1^d. Alpride’.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published, as ‘Epigram upon my Lord All-pride’, in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 142-3. Walker, pp. 116-17. Love, pp. 93-4.

p. 25 bis

• DoC 332: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Absence (‘When Portsmouth did from England fly’)

Copy, headed ‘On Portsmouths Departure’.

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

pp. 25bis-27

• RoJ 289: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyr against Mankind’, the epilogue separately headed ‘The Apology’.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

pp. 25-6

• DoC 274: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called ‘The British Princes’ (‘Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare’)

Copy of the last 16 lines incorporated in a poem headed ‘A Satyr’ beginning ‘Among y^e care of Englands modern peers’ and subscribed ‘By the L^d. Dorsett’.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.

p. 26

• DoC 149: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mr. Edward Howard upon his ‘New Utopia’ (‘Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^r. Edward Howard’.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.

p. 39

• MaA 180: Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes (‘When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb’)

Copy, headed ‘Royall Resolutions’.

First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as ‘The Vows’. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of ‘unknown’ authorship, ‘possibly Marvell's’, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.

pp. 40-1

• MaA 72: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn (‘I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene’)

Copy, without ‘The Answer’, headed ‘The Chequer Inn. or a pleasant new Ballad to the tune of I tell the Dick’.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

p. 44

• LeN 18: Nathaniel Lee, Theodosius: or, The Force of Love, Song [after the Third Act] (‘Hail to the Mirtle Shade’)

Copy.

Published separately, as ‘Love's boundless Power, or The Charmed Lovers' Happiness Compleated’, [in London], 1680 (only known exemplum in the Bibliotheca Lindesiana of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres). Stroup & Cooke, II, 276-7 (with Purcell's setting, II, 311-12).

p. 52

• RoJ 170: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life (‘All my past life is mine no more’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

pp. 53-4

• DoC 46: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)

Copy, headed ‘Colon A Satyr’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

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

pp. 54-6

• BuS 25: Samuel Butler, Dildoides (‘Such a sad Tale prepare to hear’)

Copy.

Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.

pp. 56-7

• RoJ 474: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Timon (‘What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyre’.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘Text of “Timon”’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as ‘Satyr. [Timon]’. Harold Love, ‘The Text of “Timon. A Satyr”’, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.

pp. 57-9

• DrJ 90: John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe (‘All humane things are subject to decay’)

Copy.

This MS collated in California and in Vieth.

First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond, I, 313-36.

The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision’, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, ‘Dryden's Mac Flecknoe’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, ‘Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, ‘The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe’ in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.

pp. 60-3

• RoJ 139: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (‘Chloe, In verse by your command I write’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

pp. 66-7

• RoJ 526: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells (‘At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head’)

Copy, headed ‘Observations on Tunbridge Wells’.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.

p. 67

• RoJ 6: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Against Marriage (‘Out of mere love and arrant devotion’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Out of stark Love & Arrant devotione’.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Vieth (1968), p. 159. Walker, pp. 130-1, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, pp. 40-1, as Of Marriage and beginning Out of Stark Love, and arrant Devotion.

p. 67

• RoJ 414: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Phyllis, be gentler, I advise’)

Copy, headed ‘Song By the L: Rochester’.

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.

pp. 71-2

• RoJ 340: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II (‘I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown’)

Copy, headed ‘L. Rochester on the King’ and here beginning ‘There is A monarch in an Isle say some’.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

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

p. 72

• DoC 76: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel of the Crabs (‘In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple’)

Copy, headed ‘The Duell of the Crablice’.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.

pp. 72-3

• DoC 110: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Letter from the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. George Etherege (‘Dreaming last night on Mrs. Farley’)

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 112-13) and in Harris.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). The Poems of Sir George Etherege, ed. James Thorpe (Princeton, 1963), pp. 35-7. Harris, pp. 105-8.

For other poems in this series see DoC 18-22, EtG 34-8, and EtG 39-43.

p. 73

• EtG 34: Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to A Letter from Lord Buckhurst] (‘As crafty harlots use to shrink’)

Copy, headed ‘The Answer by S^r. Geo: Etheridge’.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated, p. 113).

First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 38-9.

For other poems in this series, see EtG 39-43, DoC 18-22, and DoC 110-13.

pp. 73-4

• DoC 18: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Another Letter by the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. Etherege (‘If I can guess the Devil choke me’)

Copy, headed ‘Second Letter from the Lord Dorsett’.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated pp. 113-14. Collated in Harris.

For other poems in this series see DoC 110-13, EtG 34-8, and EtG 39-43.

p. 74

• EtG 39: Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to Another Letter from Lord Buckhurst] (‘So soft and amorously you write’)

Copy, headed ‘Answer to y^e 2^d. letter by S^r Geo: Etheridge’, lacking the end.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated, p. 114).

First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 43-5.

For other poems in this series, see EtG 34-8, DoC 18-22, and DoC 110-13.

p. 77

• RoJ 261: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Women about Town (‘Too long the wise Commons have been in debate’)

Copy, headed ‘Clanbrazill & Fox’.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as ‘Lampoone’. Love, p. 42, as ‘Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester’.

p. [75]

• DoC 326.7: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Dorsetts Lamentation for Moll Howards Absence (‘Dorset no gentle Nimph can find’)

Copy.

Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as ‘obviously not by Dorset’.

pp. 77-8

• RoJ 49: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee (‘As some brave admiral, in former war’)

Copy, headed ‘Thee Disabled Debauch’.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

p. 78

• DoC 130: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion (‘After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory’)

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

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

pp. 84-6

• MaA 155: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses (‘Wee read in profane and Sacred records’)

This MS collated in POAS, I.

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

p. 87

• MaA 455: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy, headed ‘Advice to A Painter’.

First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by ‘A-M-l, Esq’. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

pp. 90-2

• RoJ 276: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James's Park (‘Much wine had passed, with grave discourse’)

Copy, headed ‘L. Rochester on S^t James's Park’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.

p. 95

• DoC 315: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Debauchee (‘I rise at eleven, I dine about two’)

Copy, headed ‘Regine d. vive’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, p. 411. Collated in Walker, pp. 221-2.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). Vieth, Attribution, pp. 169-70. The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Keith Walker (Oxford, 1984), p. 130 (as ‘Regime d'viver’ among ‘Poems possibly by Rochester’). Discussed in Harris, pp. 186-7.

p. 98

• RoJ 262: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Women about Town (‘Too long the wise Commons have been in debate’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as ‘Lampoone’. Love, p. 42, as ‘Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester’.

p. 98

• MaA 224: Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross (‘What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Statue at Charing Cross’.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.

pp. 99-100

• MaA 116: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy, headed ‘Britannia & Rawleighs Ghost’.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, ‘Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe’, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

pp. 102-3

• DoC 346: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)

Copy, headed ‘Lord Rochesters Farrewell’.

This MS collated in POAS.

First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being ‘probably by the L^d Dorset’ in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

p. 108

• DrJ 253: 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 of the song.

This MS collated in part in California.

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

p. 108

• DrJ 281: John Dryden, Marriage A-la-mode, Act IV, scene ii, lines 47-67. Song (‘Whil'st Alexis lay prest’)

Copy, headed ‘The Lovers Frame’.

This MS collated in part in California.

California, XI, 285-6. Kinsley, I, 147. Hammond, I, 251-3.

p. 110

• RoJ 431: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Quoth the Duchess of Cleveland to counselor Knight’)

Copy, headed ‘Song by y^e D^ts. of Cleavland & M^rs Knight’.

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.

p. 110

• LeN 0.5: Nathaniel Lee, Song (‘You told me you lou'd me’)

Copy, headed ‘Song by M^r Lee’.

A song of two ten-line strophes, which might conceivably be one of Lee's incidental compositions, or perhaps a song introduced in a production of one of his plays. Unpublished.

MS Dc. 1. 43

Copy of Gavin Douglas's Aeneid, ii + 301 folio leaves, in red calf gilt (rebacked). Mid-late 16th century.

Inscribed (f. 301v) ‘Partenet Wilhelmo Dno de Ruthven’: i.e. owned by William Ruthven (1543?-84), fourth Baron Ruthven and first Earl of Gowrie, magnate and politician, executed for treason. Also inscribed ‘David Schaw’ and ‘Patrik Drumond’. Acquired by Edinburgh College in 1643.

ff. 2r-300v

• DoG 5: Gavin Douglas, Virgil's Aeneid (‘Lawd, honour, praysyngis, thankis infynyte’)

Copy of the complete translation, in a single professional secretary hand (but for subsequent unrelated additions on ff. 1r-v and 301v), untitled but with introductory rubric beginning ‘Here begynnys the buke of Virgile contenand in ye self xiii bukis translatat out of latyne in Inglis be ane reuerend fader in god galvane douglas bishop...of dunkeld’, and subscribed ‘Q Galvine douglas’.

This MS collated in Coldwell and described I, 98.

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).

f. 301v

• HnR 31: Robert Henryson, The Testament of Cresseid (‘Ane doolie sessoun to ane cairfull dyte’)

Copy of the first three stanzas, in a non-professional secretary hand.

This MS recorded in Virgil's Aeneid translated into Scottish Verse by Gavin Douglas, Bishop of Dunkeld, ed. David F. C. Coldwell, 4 vols, STS (Edinburgh & London, 1951-6), I, 98.

Possibly first published c.1508. First known publication in Workes of Geoffrey Chaucer, ed. William Thynne (London, 1532). Wood, pp. 105-26. Fox, pp. 111-31.

MS Dc. 1. 69

A folio songbook (First Treble part), in a single hand, written from both ends, viii + 213 pages (paginated 1-191, then 1-22 rev.), lacking pp. 87-8, 115-18, the first two of which are now Birmingham Central Library, Acc. No. 57316, Location No. S747.01, in modern half brown morocco marbled boards. Compiled entirely by Edward Lowe (c.1610-82), organist and composer. Mid-late 17th century.

Later owned by Edward Francis Rimbault (1816-76), organist and author.

Discussed in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94. A complete facsimile is in English Song 1600-1675, ed. Elise Bickford Jorgens, Vol. 8 (New York & London, 1987).

pp. 32-4

• ShJ 34: James Shirley, Good Morrow (‘Good morrow unto her, who in the night’)

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, subscribed ‘John Wilson’, untitled.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 181).

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 1.

pp. 42-3

• B&F 49: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess, I, ii, 29-42. Song (‘Sing his praises that doth keepe’)

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

This MS collated in Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 181); recorded in Hoy, p. 584.

Bowers, III, 505-6.

pp. 44-5

• B&F 197: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Women Pleased, III, iv. Song (‘Oh, fair sweet face! oh, eyes celestial bright’)

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 173-4.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VII, 1-94 (p. 50). Bowers, V, 448-529, ed. Hans W. Gabler (p. 489).

p. 71

• B&F 156: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Pilgrim, III, vii, 107-18. Song (‘Down, ye angry waters all!’)

Copy of a version, here beginning ‘Downe downe be still yow seas’, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 174-6.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VIII, 1-99 (p. 57). Bowers, VI, 121-205, ed. Cyrus Hoy (p. 166).

p. 75

• CmT 87: Thomas Campion, ‘So many loves have I neglected’

Copy of the first strophe, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated in Davis, pp. 494-5.

First published in Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xv. Davis, p. 105.

p. 76

• B&F 172: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, II, v, 4-23. Song (‘Now the lustry spring is seen’)

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, p. 34 (collated pp. 139-40).

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, V, 207-316 (p. 243). Bullen, IV, 207-321, ed. R.G. Martin (pp. 247-8). Bowers, IV, 276-380, ed. Robert K. Turner (pp. 307-8). The musical setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

pp. 78-9

• B&F 67: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Love's Cure, III, ii, 118-225. Song (‘Turn, turn thy beauteous face away’)

Copy in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 188-9, and in Williams, p. 108.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, IX, 105-95 (p. 149). Bowers, III, 12-93, ed. George Walton Williams (p. 48). This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

p. 81

• StW 1028: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 184).

First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).

p. 85

• LoR 38: Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song (‘When Love with unconfined wings’)

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 184).

First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, ‘Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of “To Althea, from Prison”’, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).

p. 86

• B&F 78: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Loyal Subject, III, v, 24-33. Song (‘Will ye buy any honesty? come away’)

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, p. 77 (collated pp. 166-7).

Dyce, VI, 68-9. Bullen, III, 304. Bowers, V, 217. This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

p. 89

• HeR 238: Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time (‘Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may’)

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 84. Patrick, pp. 117-18. Musical setting by William Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

p. 91

• B&F 37: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Captain, IV, iv, 85-104. Song (‘Come hither you that love, and heare me sing’)

Copy of the first stanza, in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson)

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, p. 29 (collated pp. 137-8). Collated in Beaurline.

Bowers, I, 624-5.

pp. 92-3

• B&F 11: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, III, i, 4-15. Song (‘Have ye any worke for the Sow-gelder, hoa’)

Copy, in a musical setting by Nicholas Lanier (as edited by John Wilson), untitled.

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, p. 95 (collated p. 181). Collated in Bowers, p. 352.

Bowers, III, 277.

pp. 98-9

• CwT 752: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’)

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated in John P. Cutts, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 185).

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

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

p. 103

• CmT 134: Thomas Campion, ‘Though your strangenesse frets my hart’

Copy of strophes I and III, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Davis, p. 495.

First published in Robert Jones, A Musical Dreame (London, 1609). Campion, Two Bookes of Ayres (London, [c.1612-13]), Book II, No. xvi. Davis, pp. 106-7. Doughtie, pp. 319-20.

p. 108

• LoR 9: Richard Lovelace, Ode. To Lucasta. The Rose (‘Sweet serene skye-like Flower’)

Copy of the first two stanzas, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS discussed (no variants) in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 186).

First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 21-2. (1930), pp. 23-4.

p. 112

• BrN 71: Nicholas Breton, Phillida and Coridon (‘In the merry moneth of May’)

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS recorded in Spink, p. 196.

First published as ‘The Plowmans Song’ in The Honorable Entertainment at Elvetham (London, 1591). Englands Helicon (London, 1600), <No. 12>, ascribed to ‘N. Breton’; Grosart, I (t), p. 7. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 29. A musical setting first published in Michael East, Madrigals to Three, Four, and Five Parts (London, 1604).

p. 128

• FoJ 14: John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy, V, i. Song (‘Fly hence, shadows, that do keep’)

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

Dyce, I, 95. Bang, p. 77 (lines 2437-46).

pp. 130-1

• FeO 58: Owen Felltham, The Sun and Wind (‘Why think'st thou (fool) thy Beauties rayes’)

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS cited in Pebworth & Summers.

First published, in a musical setting by John Wilson, in his Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1660), pp. 96-7. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 5.

p. 148

• B&F 190: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, V, viii, 37-46. Song (‘God Lyaeus, ever young’)

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, p. 39 (collated pp. 142-3).

Dyce, V, 313. Bullen, IV, 318. Bowers, IV, 376.

p. 150

• StW 900: William Strode, A song (‘Thoughts doe not vexe me while I sleepe’)

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 188).

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Forey, p. 209.

p. 155

• B&F 6: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, II, i, 143-64. Song (‘Cast our Caps and cares away!’)

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated in Cutts, Musique de La troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 177-9, and in Bowers, p. 352.

Bowers, III, 264-5. This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).

p. 155

• B&F 53: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess, III, i, 429-36. Song (‘Do not feare to put thy feete’)

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS recorded in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, Musica Disciplina, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 189), and in Hoy, p. 584.

Bowers, III, 545. This setting first published in John Wilson, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).

pp. 158-9

• DaW 45: Sir William Davenant, Song (‘The Lark now leaves his watry Nest’)

Copy, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled and here beginning ‘The Larke forsakes her wat'ry nest’.

First published (with the refrain) in John Wilson, Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). published (without the refrain) in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, p. 173.

pp. 160-1

• FeO 11: Owen Felltham, The Appeal (‘Tyrant Cupid! I'le appeale’)

Copy of the three-stanza version, in a musical setting by John Wilson, untitled.

This MS collated in Pebworth & Summers.

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 8.

p. 167

• StW 1361: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘Sing aloud, harmonious sphears’)

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (pp. 189-90).

First published in John Banister, New Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1678). Dobell, p. 124. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

pp. 186-9

• DrM 22: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)

Copy, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman, untitled.

First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.

p. 5 rev.

• ShJ 196: James Shirley, The Triumph of Beauty. Song (‘Cease warring thoughts, and let his brain’)

Copy of the song in a musical setting by William Lawes, scored for two voices and incomplete, untitled.

This MS collated in Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (pp. 192-3). Edited in part in Walls, pp. 62-3.

First published, usually appended to Poems, in London, 1646. Gifford & Dyce, VI, 315-41 (p. 329). The song alone also in Armstrong, pp. 51-2.

pp. 6-7 rev.

• ShJ 196.5: James Shirley, The Triumph of Beauty. Song (‘Cease warring thoughts, and let his brain’)

Copy of the complete song, in a musical setting by William Lawes, scored for three voices, untitled.

This MS collated in Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (pp. 192-3). Edited in part in Walls, pp. 62-3.

First published, usually appended to Poems, in London, 1646. Gifford & Dyce, VI, 315-41 (p. 329). The song alone also in Armstrong, pp. 51-2.

p. 12 rev.

• ShJ 201: James Shirley, The Triumph of Peace, Song 7 (‘Why do you dwell so long in clouds’)

Copy of the song, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

Edited from this MS in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth-Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 193); in Walls, loc. cit.; and in Lefkowitz, pp. 105-6. Edited in part from this MS in Sabol, 400 Songs & Dances, No. 414.

Gifford & Dyce, VI, 281-2. Leech, p. 302, lines 719-30. Lefkowitz, p. 83. Armstrong, p. 47.

pp. 13-14 rev.

• DnJ 206: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Shawcross, p. 84. Recorded in Gardner, pp. 243-4.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.

p. 15 rev.

• ShJ 35: James Shirley, Good Morrow (‘Good morrow unto her, who in the night’)

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 1.

pp. 16-17 rev.

• B&F 50: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Faithful Shepherdess, I, ii, 29-42. Song (‘Sing his praises that doth keepe’)

Copy of a version, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled and here beginning ‘Sing That doth Keep our flocks from harm’.

This MS recorded in Cutts, MD, 13 (1959), 181, and in Hoy, p. 584.

Bowers, III, 505-6.

pp. 20-1 rev.

• DaW 115: Sir William Davenant, The Triumphs of the Prince d'Amour. Song (‘Behold, how this conjunction thrives!’)

Copy, in a musical setting by William Lawes, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Sabol, No. 415. Collated in John P. Cutts, ‘Seventeenth Century Songs and Lyrics in Edinburgh University Library Music MS. Dc. 1. 69’, MD, 13 (1959), 169-94 (p. 194).

Dramatic Works, I, 338. Lefkowitz, pp. 134-5. Gibbs, p. 221.

MS Dc. 3. 76

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in one hand, with additions by others, written from both ends, material at the reverse end dated 1708-9, ii + 114 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf. Inscribed (f. [ii^r]), probably by the compiler, ‘Ex Libris Georgij Wright [b.1685/6] S^ti Johannis Collegis Cantabrigiensis Alumni, Decimo quarto Junij. Annoq. Domini 1703’. c.1703-9.

Also inscribed (f.[ii^r]) ‘M^rs Frances Wright 1708’. A postal address on f. 95r (rev.) reads: ‘Direct to Marg^tt Borrett att M^rs. Borretts In Kirkby=stephen Westmoorland p brough bag _ These’.

Recorded in IELM, II.ii, as the Wright MS: WaE Δ 12.

ff. 3r-4v

• CgW 50: William Congreve, Upon a Lady's Singing. Pindarick Ode, By Mr. Congreve (‘Let all be husht, each softest Motion cease’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^rs Arabella Hunt singing 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.

f. 8r

• SeC 7: Sir Charles Sedley, Constancy (‘Fear not, my Dear, a Flame can never dye’)

Copy, as ‘by S^r. Charles Sedley’.

First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 11.

f. 9r

• WaE 547: Edmund Waller, To Mr. Granville (Now Lord Lansdowne), on his Verses to King James II (‘An early plant! which such a blossom bears’)

Copy, headed ‘To M^r: G. Granville on his Verses to y^e King by M^r. Edmund Waller’.

First published, as ‘To Mr. G. Granville, on his Verses to the King’, in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), p. 159. The Works of Edmund Waller, ed. Elijah Fenton (London, 1729), p. 321. Thorn-Drury, II, 111.

f. 18v

• WaE 748: Edmund Waller, Written on a Card that Her Majesty tore at Ombre (‘The cards you tear in value rise’)

Copy.

First published in Poems, ‘Fourth’ edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 92.

f. 18v

• WaE 131: Edmund Waller, Of a Lady who writ in Praise of Mira (‘While she pretends to make the graces known’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 2.

f. 18v

• WaE 608: Edmund Waller, To the Duchess of Orleans, when she was taking leave of the Court at Dover (‘That sun of beauty did among us rise’)

Copy.

First published in Poems, ‘Fourth’ edition (London, 1682). Thorn-Drury, II, 72.

ff. 37r-8v

• LeN 3: Nathaniel Lee, To the Prince and Princess of Orange, upon Their Marriage (‘Hail, happy Warriour! hail! whose Arms have won’)

Copy of the 85-line version, headed ‘To the prince & princess of Orange upon their Marriage by M^r: Nat Lee’ and beginning ‘Hail, happy Warriour! hail! Those Arms have won’.

First published, possibly as a broadside, 1677 [no exemplum known]. 85-line version in Examen Poeticum: being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems (London, 1693), pp. 168-74. Stroup & Cooke, II, 553-4. Earlier, 65-line version, headed ‘On the Marriage of the Prince and Princess of Orange’ and beginning ‘Hail happy Warrior! whose Arms have won’, published in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Stroup & Cooke, II, 555-6.

f. 52v

• EtG 89: Sir George Etherege, To a Very Young Lady (‘Sweetest bud of beauty, may’)

Copy, as ‘by S^r: Geo: Etherege’.

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Thorpe, p. 1.

ff. 53r-4r

• CgW 9: William Congreve, Horace, Lib. II. Ode 14. Imitated by Mr. Congreve (‘Ah! No, 'tis all in vain, believe me 'tis’)

Copy, headed ‘An Imitation of Horace by M^r: Congreve’.

First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Examen Poeticum…The Third Part of Miscellany Poems [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 3-4. Dobrée, pp. 235-7. McKenzie, II, 315-17.

f. 54v

• WhA 43: Anne Wharton, A Song (‘How hardly I conceal'd my Tears?’)

Copy, as ‘By M^rs Wharton’.

First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 238-9. Greer & Hastings, p. 127.

f. 54v

• CoA 53.5: Abraham Cowley, The Concealment (‘No. to what purpose should I speak?’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Mistriss not Loving him by [Dryden deleted] Cowley’.

First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 119-20. Sparrow, pp. 118-19. Collected Works, II, No. 52, pp. 83-4.

Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Works of Henry Purcell, XXV (London, 1928), pp. 124-7.

f. 57v

• WaE 65: Edmund Waller, Epitaph to be written under the Latin Inscription upon the Tomb of the only Son of the Lord Andover (‘'Tis fit the English reader should be told.’)

Copy, as ‘by M^r Edmond Waller’.

First published in Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 63.

ff. 57v-60v

• WaE 912: Edmund Waller, Extracts

f. 58r-v

• WaE 644: Edmund Waller, To the Queen, upon Her Majesty's Birthday, after her happy recovery from a dangerous sickness (‘Farewell the year! which threatened so’)

Copy, as ‘by y^e. same hand’ [i.e. Waller].

First published in Poems (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 45-6.

f. 58v

• WaE 320: Edmund Waller, On a Girdle (‘That which her slender waist confined’)

Copy, as ‘by y^e. same hand’ [i.e. Waller].

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 95.

ff. 58v-9r

• WaE 229: Edmund Waller, Of Mrs. Arden (‘Behold, and listen, while the fair’)

Copy, as ‘by y^e. same hand’ [i.e. Waller].

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 91. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

MS Dc. 7. 94

A small duodecimo pocket-book volume (c.12 x 7cm) of poems by Ben Jonson, in a single small secretary hand, written from both ends, 28 leaves, in old brown calf. Transcribed principally by one ‘S. H.’ (born 20 October 1665) from John Benson's duodecimo edition of Horace: his Art of Poetry (London, 1640), the medicinal receipts on ff. 23v-8v partly in another hand. c.1680.

ff. 2r-5r

• JnB 240: Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan (‘Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire’)

Copy.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.

f. 5r-v

• JnB 527: Ben Jonson, To the King. On his Birth-day. An Epigram Anniversarie (‘This is King Charles his Day. Speake it, thou Towre’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 249.

ff. 5v-6v

• JnB 366: Ben Jonson, An Ode, or Song, by all the Muses. In celebration of her Majesties birth-day (‘Up publike joy, remember’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Queen on her Birth-day’.

First published in Benson's 4to edition (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 239-40.

f. 6v

• JnB 80: Ben Jonson, An Epigram to the Queene, then lying in (‘Haile Mary, full of grace, it once was said’)

Copy.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxvi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 238.

ff. 6v-7r

• JnB 71: Ben Jonson, An Epigram on the Princes birth (‘And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest be thy birth’)

Copy.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 237-8.

ff. 7v-9v

• JnB 56: Ben Jonson, An Elegie On the Lady Jane Pawlet, Marchion: of Winton (‘what gentle Ghost, besprent with April deaw’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 268-72.

ff. 9v-11v

• JnB 522: Ben Jonson, To the immortall memorie, and friendship of that noble paire, Sir Lvcivs Cary, and Sir H. Morison (‘Brave infant of Saguntum, cleare’)

Copy, headed ‘Ode Pindarick to y^e Noble Sir Lucius Cary’.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 242-7.

ff. 11v-12r

• JnB 531: Ben Jonson, To the Right hon^ble Hierome, L. Weston. An Ode gratulatorie, For his Returne from his Embassie (‘Such pleasure as the teeming Earth’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Benson's 4to edition (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 250-1.

f. 12r-13r

• JnB 534: Ben Jonson, To the right Honourable, the Lord Treasurer of England. An Epigram (‘If to my mind, great Lord, I had a state’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxvii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 260-1.

f. 13r

• JnB 503: Ben Jonson, To my Detractor (‘My verses were commended, thou dar'st say’)

Copy.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 408-9.

f. 13r-v

• JnB 86: Ben Jonson, An Epigram. To William, Earle of Newcastle (‘When first, my Lord, I saw you backe your horse’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (liii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 288.

ff. 13v-14r

• JnB 84: Ben Jonson, An Epigram. To William Earle of Newcastle (‘They talke of Fencing. and the use of Armes’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lix) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 232-3.

f. 14r-v

• JnB 75: Ben Jonson, An Epigram To my Mvse, the Lady Digby, on her Husband, Sir Kenelme Digby (‘Tho', happy Muse, thou know my Digby well’)

Copy, headed ‘To Sir Kenelme Digby an Epigram’.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxviii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 262-3.

ff. 14v-15r

• JnB 171: 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 ‘His Mistresse drawne’.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

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).

ff. 15r-16r

• JnB 210: 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 ‘Her Mind’.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

ff. 16v-17r

• JnB 348: Ben Jonson, My Answer. The Poet to the Painter (‘Why? though I seeme of a prodigious wast’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 226-7.

f. 17r-v

• JnB 355: Ben Jonson, My Picture left in Scotland (‘I now thinke, Love is rather deafe, then blind’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (ix) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 149-50.

f. 17v

• JnB 288: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Gentle-Woman working by an Houre-glasse’.

This MS recorded in Herford & Simpson.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.

ff. 17v-18r

• JnB 609: Ben Jonson, The Fortunate Isles, and their Union, lines 586 et seq. Song (‘Come, noble Nymphs, and doe not hide’)

Copy, headed ‘To y^e Ladies of y^e Court. An Ode’.

First published in London, 1625. Herford & Simpson, VII, 701-29 (p. 727).

ff. 18r-19r

• JnB 375: Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe (‘Come leaue the lothed stage’)

Copy.

First published, with the heading ‘The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe’, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.

f. 19r

• JnB 720: Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song (‘Though I am young, and cannot tell’)

Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet’, subscribed ‘Thus far Ben: Jonsons Works. 1680. FINIS’.

First published in Workes (London, 1641). Herford & Simpson, VII, 1-49.

f. 19v

• HrE 60: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To his Friend Ben. Johnson, of his Horace made English (‘'Twas not enough, Ben Johnson, to be thought’)

Copy.

First published in Ben Jonson, Horace: his Art of Poetry (London, 1640). Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 19-20.

De. 3. 69

Copy, chiefly in the secretary hands of two amanuenses, the list of ‘Speakers’ (f. 1v) in another cursive hand, with Daniel's signed autograph presentation inscription (f. 2r), songs (ff. 9r-v, 24r), and possibly corrections, 35 quarto leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum boards gilt. Presented to Jean (or Jane) Drummond on the occasion of her marriage to Robert Ker (1570?-1650), later first Earl of Roxburgh, in February 1613/14.

*DaS 49: Samuel Daniel, Hymens Triumph

Later given to William Drummond of Hawthornden, who presented it to Edinburgh College (his booklabel and inscription, f. 1r).

This MS recorded in Grosart, IV, lv-lvii; described and the additions printed in W.W. Greg, ‘“Hymen's Triumph” and the Drummond MS’, MLQ, 6 (1903), 59-64.

Facsimile pages in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XXI(d); in Flower & Munby, English Poetical Autographs, p. 5; in Joan Rees, Samuel Daniel (Liverpool, 1964), facing pp. 158 and 159; and in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 21.

First published in London, 1615. Grosart, III, 325-98.

MS De. 3. 70

Copy. 17th century.

MeE 1: Elizabeth Melville, Ane Godlie Dreame (‘Upon ane day as I did mourne full soir’)

First published in Edinburgh, 1603.

De. 4. 15

Copious autograph annotations by Drummond throughout, the quarto volume now in modern speckled calf gilt. c.1607.

*DrW 349: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Estienne, Robert. Les mots francois selon lordre des lettres (Paris, 1544)

MacDonald, Library of Drummond, No. 1037 (and a facsimile example on p. 133).

MS De. 5. 96

Copy of sonnets 1-66, 87-108, and songs i, ix-xi, in one or possibly two professional secretary hands, untitled, imperfect, 53 oblong quarto leaves (plus some blanks), in 19th-century brown calf gilt. Made by or for Sir Edward Dymoke (c.1559-1624), of Scrivelsby and Kyme, Lincolnshire (inscribed ‘Ed Dymoke’ on f. 3r). c.late 1580s-early 1590s.

SiP 2: Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella

Later owned by William Drummond of Hawthornden, with his title-page (‘Astrophil and Stella Written by S^r Philip Sidney Knight’, repeated on ff. 3v and blank 60r) and his record of presentation to Edinburgh College.

This MS collated in Ringler and described pp. 539-40. Facsimile of f. 10v (Sonnet 13) in H.R. Woudhuysen, Sir Philip Sidney and the Circulation of Manuscripts 1558-1640 (Oxford, 1996), Plate VIII facing p. 273.

First published in London, 1591. Ringler, pp. 163-237.

MS Dk. 2. 19

Copy of Waller's will dated 12 September 1681, with its codicil dated 9 January 1681[/2] (i.e. of WaE 858), made in 1871 when it was in the custody of Coverdale, Lee, Collyer-Bristow, Withers and Russell, of 4 Bedford Row, London, and now among papers of George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. 1871.

WaE 860: Edmund Waller, Will

MS Dk .5

Part books of David Peebles's settings of the Psalms and Canticles, and other works. Compiled by Thomas Wode, Vicar of St. Andrews. 1562-c.1592.

pp. 14-15

• CmT 53.5: Thomas Campion, ‘If any hath the heart to kill’

(ii) Treble or Cantus and (iv) Bass.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book IV, No. xxl. Vivian, pp. 185-6. Davis, p. 189.

MS Dk. 7. 49

A folio composite volume of Scottish verse, chiefly in three secretary hands, with rubrication, written from both ends (Part I: ff. 1-367; Part II: ff. 1-146, a title-page dated ‘1566’), in contemporary calf on wooden boards gilt.

Inscribed (f. 2r) ‘W. hay. 1527’; (f. 1^r) ‘This buik partinis to david andersone burger of abirdene, be gift of M^r W^m hay person of turrest. 1563.’; and (f. 2r) a record of the gift of the MS to Edinburgh College by John Aikman, son of William Aikman.

Part I, ff. 2r-367v

• DoG 4: Gavin Douglas, Virgil's Aeneid (‘Lawd, honour, praysyngis, thankis infynyte’)

Copy of the complete translation, in the secretary hand of John Elphynstoun (subscribed in red ink f. 367v ‘M Joannes Elphynstoun’), untitled but beginning ‘The proloug of ye first buik of eneados’. c.1515-20.

This MS collated in Coldwell and described I, 97-8.

Part II, ff. 1r-99r

• LiD 5: Sir David Lindsay, Ane Dialog betuix Experience and Ane Courteour of the Miserabyll Estait of the Warls (The Monarche) (‘Into that Park I sawe appeir’)

Copy, complete with the Epistle to the Reader and Prologue, in the cursive secretary hands of William Hay and David Anderson of Aberdeen, probably transcribed, from a printed edition. c.1563-6.

This MS described in Hamer, IV, 8-11.

First published [in St Andrews or Edinburgh, c.1554]. Hamer, I, 197-386.

Part II, ff. 99v-118r

• LiD 7: Sir David Lindsay, The Dreme of Schir Dauid Lyndesay (‘Me thocht ane lady, of portratour perfyte’)

Copy, complete with the Epistle and Prologue, in the cursive secretary hand of David Anderson of Aberdeen. c.1563-6.

This MS described in Hamer, IV, 8-11.

First published [in Edinburgh, 1528-30?]. Hamer, I, 3-38.

Part II, ff. 118r-24r

• LiD 1: Sir David Lindsay, The Complaynt of Schir Dauid Lindesay (‘Schir, I beseik thyne Excellence’)

Copy, in the cursive secretary hand of David Anderson of Aberdeen. c.1563-6.

This MS described in Hamer, IV, 8-11.

First published [in Edinburgh, 1529-30?]. Hamer, I, 39-53.

Part II, ff. 125r-7v

• LiD 2: Sir David Lindsay, The Deploratioun of the Deith of Quene Magdalene (‘O Cruell Deith, to greit is thy puissance’)

Copy, in the cursive secretary hand of David Anderson of Aberdeen. c.1563-6.

This MS described in Hamer, IV, 8-11.

First published [Edinburgh, 1537]. Hamer, I, 105-12.

Part II, ff. 128r-44v

• LiD 9: Sir David Lindsay, The Testament and Complaynt of the Papyngo (‘Suppose I had Ingyne Angelicall’)

Copy, in the cursive secretary hand of David Anderson of Aberdeen, subscribed (f. 144v) with his signature and (f. 145v) his inscription ‘Dauid andersone burges of Aberdene 1563’, before verses on f. 146r-v in other hands. c.1563-6.

This MS described in Hamer, IV, 8-11.

First published [in Edinburgh, 1530]. Hamer, I, 55-90.

MS H.-P. Coll. 401

A quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single cursive secretary hand, with a later title-page supplied in 1832, x + 116 leaves (plus blanks), in 19th-century black leather elaborately gilt. Inscribed (f. 1r), possibly by the compiler, ‘Richardus Jackson 1623’ and ‘Richard Jackson his booke’, who is described in a later pencil note as perhaps the brachygrapher. On ff. 113v-16r, in a later hand, is a ‘Catalogue of y^e Books lately belonging to y^e. Rev. M^r Jackson Rect^r of Tatham’. c.1628-30s.

Also inscribed (f. 1r) ‘John Pecke’. Sold by Thomas Thorpe, bookseller, in 1831-2. Among collections of James Orchard Halliwell (from 1872 Halliwell-Phillipps) (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bought by him in 1871 from Sotheran's, London.

A 247-page transcript of this volume made c.1830 is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, MS M.b.26.

f. 9v

• PoW 34: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed (slightly cropped) ‘Vpon a virtuous ...ous gentlewoman in the Defence of her blacke haire & eyes’.

First published, as ‘In praise of black Women; by T.R.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as ‘On a black Gentlewoman’. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as ‘On black Hair and Eyes’ and superscribed ‘R’; in The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as ‘on Black Hayre and Eyes’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.

f. 12r

• RaW 465: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Say not you love, unless you do’

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Dialogue’.

First published in Inedited Poetical Miscellanies, 1584-1700, ed. W.C. Hazlitt ([London], 1870), p. [179]. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 38, p. 106.

ff. 12v-13v

• HeR 121: Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack (‘Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare’)

Copy, subscribed ‘R J’.

First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 45-6. Patrick, pp. 62-3.

ff. 13v-15r

• HeR 276: Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack (‘So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles’)

Copy, subscribed ‘R. J.’

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

f. 31v

• BrW 10: William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II

Copy of Book I, Song 3, lines 479-80, headed ‘A Nosegay of Poses, w^th a Nettle in it’ and here beginning ‘Such is the poesye loue composes’.

Book I first published London, 1613. Book II first published London, 1616. Goodwin, Vol. I.

f. 36r

• JnB 573: Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels: The Epilogue (‘Gentles be't knowne to you, since I went in’)

Copy.

f. 43rbis

• HoJ 223: John Hoskyns, S^r Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount S^t Albons (‘Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Carr. l. of Somerset & S^r francis Bacon then l. keep^r lord Verulam’, here beginning ‘Great Verulame is very lame the gout of toe not feeling’.

Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.

f. 43r*bis

• RaW 406: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘ICUR, good Mounser Carr’

Copy.

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

f. 51r-v

• DrW 117.3: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the kings five Sences’.

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

f. 56r

• WiG 39: George Wither, ‘my mind's my Kdome & I will pmitt’

Copy, docketed ‘Withers verses’.

Eight lines, unpublished.

f. 56r

• StW 804: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘vpo a faire gentlewoman walking in the fields to meete her louer the heauens sowing vpo her. his verses to her therevpo’.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).

f. 56v

• HoJ 173: John Hoskyns, Incipit Johannes Hoskins (‘Even as the waues of brainelesse butter'd fish’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Nosense’ and here beginning ‘Even as the Waues of breaneles batterd fish’.

Osborn, No. XXIX (pp. 199-202), in English and Latin.

f. 61r

• WiG 41: George Wither, Withers song he made in prison (‘I who ere whiles the worelds sweet aire did draw’)

Copy.

Ten quatrains, unpublished.

f. 62r

• RnT 7: Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicam (‘Sweet, doe not thy beauty wrong’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Deere doe not yr faire beuty wrong’.

First published, in a version beginning ‘Deare, doe not your fair beauty wrong’, in Thomas May, The Old Couple (London, 1658), p. 25. Attributed to Randolph in Parry (1917), p. 224. Thorn-Drury, p. 168.

f. 62r

• BcF 25: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, headed in the margin ‘S^r fr. Baco’, with a heading at the top of the page ‘S^r fr. Bacons verses vpo mans brittle & fickle estate’.

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

f. 62v

• RaW 347: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty’

Copy of the two verses, headed ‘S^r Walter Rawleighs ieste vpo Noell & Noell vpo his name’.

First published, as ‘The Answer’ to ‘A Riddle’ (‘Th'offence of the stomach, with the word of disgrace’), in Works (1829), VIII, 736. Latham, pp. 47-8. Rudick, Nos 19A, 19B and 19C (three versions, pp. 28-9).

f. 64v

• PeW 278: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Song (‘Draw not too near’)

Copy, untitled.

Poems (1660), pp. 116-17, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by Strode. Authorship unknown.

f. 70v

• DnJ 1088: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)

Copy of lines 41-4, 17-20, 53-62, headedin the margin ‘Epitaphe’ and here beginning ‘Of what small spots pure white coplaines alas’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

f. 72v

• DaJ 192: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘in infantem’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

f. 73r

• JnB 447: Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia (‘Come my Celia let vs proue’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Volpone, III, vii, 166-83 (London, 1607). The Forrest (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 102. Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 294.

f. 73r

• JnB 438: Ben Jonson, Song. That Women are bvt Mens shaddowes (‘Follow a shaddow, it still flies you’)

Copy of lines 1-6, untitled.

First published in The Forrest (vii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 104.

f. 73r

• JnB 546: Ben Jonson, To the Same (‘Kisse me, sweet: The warie louer’)

Copy, untitled.

Lines 19-22 first published in Volpone, III, vii, 236-9 (London, 1607). Published complete in The Forrest (vi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 103.

f. 73v

• JnB 1: Ben Jonson, ‘And must I sing? what subiect shall I chuse?’

Copy, untitled.

First published in Diuerse Poetical Essaies appended to Robert Chester, Loues Martyr (London, 1601). The Forrest (x) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 107-8.