CELM: The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 1 through 99

MS V.a.70

Autograph MS, with deletions and revisions, of Thomas Traherne's The Ceremonial Law. A series of verses inspired by Genesis and Exodus, unfinished, iv + 52 duodecimo pages (plus blank pp. 53-163, 165-8 and a stub between pp. 12 and 13), in contemporary calf, with traces of metal clasps. c.1670.

An inscription in another hand (p. [i^r]) urges the author to finish the work (‘I like this mightily but I pray prosecute it...I would you would goe thorow y^e whole Sacred story. God direct & Inspire you’), and notes in yet another hand (p. 164 rev.) refer to three books by R[ichard] B[urton] (i.e. Nathaniel Crouch) published in 1681-2.

Formerly MS Add. 167.

This MS volume identified by Laetitia Yeandle and announced by her and Julia Smith in ‘Felicity Disguised in Fiery Words: Genesis and Exodus in a Newly Discovered Poem by Thomas Traherne’, TLS, 7 November 1997, p. 17. Discussed, with extracts, in Julia Smith, ‘‘The Ceremonial Law’: A New Work by Thomas Traherne (1637?-74), with Extracts from the Manuscript’, PN Review, 25/2 (November-December 1998), 22-8.

Facsimile of the first page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 144.

pp. 1-2

• *TrT 236.5: Thomas Traherne, The Introduction [to The Ceremonial Law]

Autograph, headed ‘The Ceremonial Law / The Introduction’.

An Introduction, beginning ‘Two thousand yeers before my Savior came, In Hieroglyphick Laws I see His Name...’.

pp. 2-3

• *TrT 24.5: Thomas Traherne, Adams Fall (‘The King of Glory, who on High’)

Autograph, with revisions.

pp. 3-4

• *TrT 1.8: Thomas Traherne, Abels Lamb (‘How early do I see a Sacrifice’)

Autograph, with revisions.

pp. 4-6

• *TrT 181.5: Thomas Traherne, Noahs Rainbow (‘from Earth we offer up a Sacrifice’)

Autograph.

pp. 7-8

• *TrT 174.2: Thomas Traherne, Moses Call (‘Shall I not serv & lov y^e Dietie’)

Autograph, with revisions.

pp. 9-10

• *TrT 174.6: Thomas Traherne, Moses Rod (‘'Tis strange to see how fitly things conspire’)

Autograph, with revisions.

pp. 11-13

• *TrT 184.5: Thomas Traherne, Of Israels coming out of Egypt (‘By Mighty seas Divided here I seem’)

Autograph.

pp. 13-14

• *TrT 171.8: Thomas Traherne, Israel and Egypt (‘One Lamb y^e Shepherd out of many takes’)

Autograph.

pp. 14-17

• *TrT 188.5: Thomas Traherne, The Paschal Lamb (‘The Lamb each Famelie doth take alone’)

Autograph, with revisions.

pp. 17-20

• *TrT 135.5: Thomas Traherne, Elim (‘Hail Sacred Place! Thou fair & living Tower’)

Autograph, with revisions.

pp. 21-2

• *TrT 135.8: Thomas Traherne, Elim II (‘This Sacred Plot of Beauties & Delights’)

Autograph, with revisions.

pp. 22-5

• *TrT 198.5: Thomas Traherne, A Reflexion (‘That we no fiction make, but see y^e Thing’)

Autograph, with revisions.

pp. 25-6

• *TrT 172.2: Thomas Traherne, Manna (‘The Staff of Life is gone, & nothing here’)

Autograph, with revisions.

pp. 27-9

• *TrT 172.4: Thomas Traherne, Manna II (‘As in y^e deepest Wells we better see’)

Autograph, with revisions.

pp. 30-2

• *TrT 172.6: Thomas Traherne, Manna III (‘The Ordinance about y^e Manna is’)

Autograph, with revisions.

pp. 32-3

• *TrT 172.8: Thomas Traherne, Manna IV (‘But there's a Deeper Mystery yⁿ this’)

Autograph.

pp. 33-7

• *TrT 203.5: Thomas Traherne, ‘The Rock was Christ: from whence y^t Water flows’

Autograph, with revisions.

pp. 37-9

• *TrT 215.5: Thomas Traherne, The Stone (‘When Bloody Amalock an Inroad made’)

Autograph, with revisions.

pp. 40-2

• *TrT 174.8: Thomas Traherne, Mount Sinai (‘Long time y^e World had been w^thout a Law’)

Autograph, with revisions.

pp. 42-5

• *TrT 216.5: Thomas Traherne, The 10. Comandm^ts (‘The moral Law a Gospel did implie’)

Autograph, with revisions.

Unpublished?

pp. 46-8

• *TrT 174.5: Thomas Traherne, Moses in y^e Mount (‘When God had thunderd these 10. Words aloud’)

Autograph, with revisions.

pp. 48-50

• *TrT 174.4: Thomas Traherne, Moses face (‘Instructed after forty days he came’)

Autograph, with revisions.

pp. 50-2

• *TrT 224.5: Thomas Traherne, The Vail (‘This vail of Moses y^t conceald y^e Light’)

Autograph, with revisions.

p. 52

• *TrT 169.5: Thomas Traherne, The Inside (‘When God had spoke to y^e ruder Croud’)

Autograph, probably unfinished.

An unfinished poem of eleven lines.

MS V.a.73

Copy, in a small italic hand, chiefly in double columns, on 42 quarto pages, in 19th-century half-calf on marbled boards. Probably transcribed from a (?marked-up) exemplum of the Second Folio (1632), including Hugh Holland's poem on Shakespeare and a Dramatis Personae page. Mid-17th century.

ShW 64: William Shakespeare, The Merry Wives of Windsor

Later acquired by Thomas Rodd from a Mr Proctor and in Rodd's sale catalogue of manuscripts for 1841, item 601. Owned in March 1842 by James Orchard Halliwell[-Phillipps] (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Subsequently sold by him to George Guy Greville, MP (1818-93), fourth Earl of Warwick, of Warwick Castle.

This MS described in James Orchard Halliwell, An Account of the Only Known Manuscript of Shakespeare's Plays (London, 1843). Discussed in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘The Merry Wives of Windsor: The Folger Manuscript’, in Shakespeare Text, Language, Criticism: Essays in Honour of Marvin Spevack, ed. Bernhard Fabian and Kurt Tetzeli von Rosador (Hildesheim, 1987), pp. 57-79.

First published in London, 1602.

MS V.a.75

An oblong quarto booklet of four leaves, in a single mixed hand, in double columns, entitled Hesperides or The Muses Garden, in modern half-morocco marbled boards. Comprising two pages of extracts under ‘A’ subject headings, followed by six pages of ‘A Catalogue of the Bookes from whence these Collections were extracted’, including titles of works by Shakespeare, Bacon, and many others, this being a fragment of the large anthology of dramatic extracts by John Evans dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, other portions of which are Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger MS V.a.79, and Folger MS V.a.80, with another version of the whole anthology in Folger MS V.b.93. c.1655-6.

ShW 114: William Shakespeare, Extracts

Bookplate of the Shakespeare Library at Warwick Castle.

This, Folger MS V.a.78, and Folger MS V.a.80 are recorded as Nos. 133, 173, and 313 in James O. Halliwell, A Brief Hand-list of Books, Manuscripts, etc. illustrative of the Life and Writings of Shakespeare; collected between the years 1842 and 1859 (London, 1859).

Discussed in Hao Tianhu, ‘Hesperides, or the Muses' Garden and its Manuscript History’, The Library, 7th Ser. 10/4 (December 2009), 372-404, the full catalogue printed as ‘Catalogue H’ on pp. 395-402.

MS V.a.79

A quarto scrapbook containing pasted-in cuttings from a large anthology of extracts from dramatic works in a single mixed hand, sixteen leaves, in modern half -morocco marbled boards. A fragment of the large anthology of dramatic extracts by John Evans dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, other portions of which are Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger MS V.a.75, and Folger MS V.a.80, with another version of the whole anthology in Folger MS V.b.93. c.1655-6.

Bookplate of the Shakespeare Library at Warwick Castle.

passim

• ShW 120: William Shakespeare, Extracts

The cuttings including extracts from All's Well that Ends Well, As You Like It, Loves Labours Lost, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Twelfth Night, and Two Gentlemen of Verona.

MS V.a.80

A small quarto scrapbook containing pasted-in cuttings from a large anthology of extracts from dramatic works in a single mixed hand, seventeen leaves, in modern half-morocco marbled boards. A fragment of the large anthology of dramatic extracts by John Evans dissected by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, other portions of which are Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Halliwell-Phillipps, Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Folger MS V.a.75, and Folger MS V.a.79, with another version of the whole anthology in Folger MS V.b.93. c.1655-6.

Bookplate of the Shakespeare Library at Warwick Castle.

This, Folger MS V.a.75, and Folger MS V.a.78 are recorded as Nos. 133, 173, and 313 in James O. Halliwell, A Brief Hand-list of Books, Manuscripts, etc. illustrative of the Life and Writings of Shakespeare; collected between the years 1842 and 1859 (London, 1859).

passim

• ShW 121: William Shakespeare, Extracts

The cuttings including extracts from All's Well that Ends Well, A Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, The Tempest, and A Winter's Tale.

MS V.a.85

An octavo miscellany of verse and drama, largely in a single small cursive hand, with later additions by one or two hands after p. 142, 185 pages (including blanks) plus a tipped-in leaf at the end, in brown calf. Late 17th century.

Sotheby's, 13 June 1870, lot 157, to James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector; thence, on 5 July 1870, to Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 3.4.

pp. 15-20

• CrR 135: Richard Crashaw, Musicks Duell (‘Now Westward Sol had spent the richest Beames’)

Copy, as ‘English'd by M^r Crashaw’.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 149-53.

pp. 22-40

• DeJ 12: Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill (‘Sure there are Poets which did never dream’)

Copy (on versos only), as ‘By Denham’, a version beginning ‘If they were poets who did never dream’.

First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 62-89. O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks.

pp. 23-41

• DeJ 19.4: Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill (Latin translation)

Copy of the Latin version by Moses Pengry, on rectos only.

A Latin translation of Cooper's Hill by Moses Pengry, Chaplain to the Earl of Devonshire (beginning ‘Si fuerint Vates, Parnassi nulla bicollis’), prepared for Lord William Cavendish and printed at Oxford in 1676. The text is reprinted in O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks, pp. 257-75.

p. 40

• CoA 171: Abraham Cowley, Seneca, ex Thyeste, Act. 2.Chor. (‘Upon the slippery tops of humane State’)

Copy, headed ‘Of Obscurity’.

First published, in the essay ‘Of Obscurity’, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 399-400.

pp. 50-1

• CoA 153: Abraham Cowley, Reason. The use of it in Divine Matters (‘Some blind themselves, 'cause possibly they may’)

First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 46-7.

pp. 51-6

• CoA 50: Abraham Cowley, The Complaint (‘In a deep Vision's intellectual scene’)

First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 435-40. Sparrow, pp. 169-74.

pp. 56-8

• WaE 151: Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and a Fight at Sea (‘Now, for some ages, has the pride of Spain’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Warr w^th Spain, & a Seafight’.

First published as a broadside (London, 1658). Revised version in Samuel Carrington, History of the Life and Death of Oliver, Late Lord Protector (London, 1659). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 23-7.

MS V.a.87

An octavo miscellany of extracts chiefly from plays and religious works, closely written in a predominantly italic hand, 33 leaves (plus blanks), in modern half red crushed morocco on marbled boards. Lettered on the spine ‘W. How's Common-placebook’. Mid-17th century.

Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in the Warwick Castle Library.

ff. 4v-5v

• ShW 78: William Shakespeare, Pericles

Extracts, untitled.

First published in London, 1609.

ff. 5v-6r

• ShW 63: William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice

Extracts, untitled.

First published in London, 1600.

f. 6r

• ShW 50: William Shakespeare, Henry V

Extracts, untitled.

First published in London, 1600.

ff. 11r-12r

• MrJ 1.5: John Marston, Antonio and Mellida, The First Part

Extracts.

First published in London, 1602. Bullen, I, 1-93. Edited by W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1921). Edited by G.K. Hunter (London, 1965).

ff. 12v-13v bis

• ShJ 181: James Shirley, Hyde Park

Extracts.

First published in London, 1637. Gifford & Dyce, II, 457-541.

ff. 14r-17r

• MrJ 8.5: John Marston, The Insatiate Countess

Extracts, headed ‘Insatiate Countesse’.

First published in London, 1616. Edited by Giorgio Melchiori (Manchester, 1984). The play probably drafted by Marston and completed by William Barksted and perhaps Lewis Machin.

ff. 21v-2v

• MsP 27: Philip Massinger, The Great Duke of Florence

Extracts.

First published in London, 1636. Edwards & Gibson, III, 101-80.

f. 24r

• ChG 9: George Chapman, Caesar and Pompey

Extracts.

First published in London, 1631. Edited by Thomas Marc Parrott in The Plays and Poems of George Chapman: The Tragedies (London, 1910), pp. 399-400.

ff. 24r-33r

• MsP 29: Philip Massinger, The Maid of Honour

Extracts.

First published in London, 1632. Edwards & Gibson, I, 117-97.

MS V.a.89

An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in three accomplished secretary hands, xvi + 52 pages (including blanks), being a fragment of a larger volume, now mounted in an album, in russia gilt. c.1590-1600s.

Inscribed (on an affixed slip of paper) ‘Anne Cornwaleys her booke’ [i.e. probably Anne Cornwallis (d.1635), who on 30 November 1610 became Countess of Argyll]; (p. 34) ‘E^d Philips his Book 1740’; ‘Robert Thomas not his Book 1740’; (p. [xvi]); ‘Sam: Lysons’ [i.e. Samuel Lysons (1763-1819), antiquary]. Afterwards owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Bright sale, Part II (18 June 1844), to Thorpe. Then owned by Dr Thomas Russell and his son the Rev. John Fuller Russell (1813-84), ecclesiastical historian (who has signed the MS ‘John F. Russell’ on p.[i]); by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector, and then in the Warwick Castle Library. Formerly Folger MS 1.112.

Discussed in William H. Bond, ‘The Cornwallis-Lysons Manuscript and the Poems of John Bentley’, Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948), pp. 683-93, and in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript’, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57.

p. 7

• OxE 15: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘Weare I a kinge I coulde commande content’

Copy, untitled, in a professional secretary hand, subscribed ‘Vere finis’.

This MS collated in May.

First published in John Mundy, Songs and Psalmes composed into 3. 4. and 5. parts (London, 1595). May, Poems, No. 16 (p. 37). May, Courtier Poets, p. 281. EV 28428.

pp. 9-10

• DyE 34: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘I woulde it were not as it is’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘dyer’.

First published in Sargent (1935). Sargent, No. III, pp. 180-1. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 299-300. EV 10542.

pp. 10-11

• RaW 129: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Farewell to false Love (‘Farewell false loue, the oracle of lies’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Hughey, II, 384. Recorded in Latham, p. 100.

First published, in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & songs (London, 1588). Latham, pp. 7-8. Rudick, Nos 10A (complementing Sir Thomas Heneage's verses beginning ‘Most welcome love, thow mortall foe to lies’) and 10B, pp. 11-13.

The poem based principally on a poem by Philippe Desportes: see Jonathan Gibson, ‘French and Italian Sources for Ralegh's “Farewell False Love”’, RES, NS 50 (May 1999), 155-65, which also cites related MSS.

p. 12

• ElQ 43: Queen Elizabeth I, ‘When I was fair and young, and favor graced me’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘l: of oxforde’.

This MS collated in Bradner and in Collected Works. Cited in Selected Works.

Collected Works, Poem 10, pp. 303-4 (Version 1), 304-5 (Version 2). Selected Works, Poems Possibly by Elizabeth 2, pp. 26-7. Bradner, p. 7, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship.

p. 13

• OxE 47: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘Sittinge alone upon my thought in melancholye moode’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Vavaser’.

Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets. Collated in May, Poems.

May, Poems, No. I (pp. 38-9). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 282-3. EV 20459.

p. 17

• DyE 11: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘As rare to heare as seldome to be seene’

Copy.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593), p. 75. Sargent, No. IX, p. 191. May, Courtier Poets, p. 309. EV 2856.

p. 19

• RaW 118: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 102.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).

p. 21

• DyE 71: Sir Edward Dyer, Sonnet (‘Prometheus, when first from heuen hie’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘finis Dier’.

First published in The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia, 3rd edition (London, 1598). Sargent, No. I, p. 176. May, Courtier Poets, p. 302. EV 19124.

p. 22

• DyE 98: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘Wher one woulde be ther not to be’

Copy, subscribed ‘finis Dier’.

Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.

First published in Sargent (1935). Sargent, No. VIII, p. 190. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 296-7. EV 30272.

p. 23

• SiP 39: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 16 (‘A Satyre once did runne away for dread’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘S p. Sydney’.

This MS collated in Ringler.

Ringler, p. 145.

pp. 25-6

• ShW 122: William Shakespeare, Extracts

Copy.

pp. 32-3

• RaW 492: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The state of Fraunce as nowe it standes’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in May; recorded in Latham.

First published in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1808), III, 78. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172. Rudick, No. 30, p. 71. EV 24294.

MS V.a.91

Autograph calligraphic MS, 51 leaves (113 x 161mm.), in contemporary calf gilt. In various styles of script, with colour and gold decoration and figures and with a later inserted self-portrait (1624). 1 January 1600/1.

*InE 15: Esther Inglis, [Octonaires de la Roche Chandieu] Octonaries upon the Vanitie and Inconstancie of the World. Writin by Esther Inglis, the first of Ianuar 1600

Later owners include Mr Cripps, London surgeon; Barbara Ingram; John L. Clawson, of Buffalo, New York (whose library was sold at the Anderson Galleries, New York, 1926); A.S.W. Rosenbach (1937); and Lessing J. Rosenwald (until 1946).

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 12 (pp. 41-2). Facsimile of the portrait page in Jonathan Goldberg, Writing Matter: From the Hands of the English Renaissance (Stanford, 1990), p. 152. Facsimiles of the first page of text in in Anneke Tjan-Bakker, ‘Dame Flora's Blossoms: Esther Inglis's Flower-Illustrated Manuscripts’, EMS, 9 (2000), 49-72 (Plate 5, p. 59); of ff. 30v-1r in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), pp. 102-3; and of ‘Octo III’ in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), p. 476.

The French text and facing English translation of verse ‘Octonaires’ by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu (1534-91), the original French first published in Paris, 1586.

MS V.a.92

Autograph calligraphic MS, on rectos only, 52 leaves (109 x 161 mm.), in contemporary calf gilt. A presentation MS to her ‘loving Freinde and Landlord M. William Jefferai’, with a prose Dedication to him in English dated from Mortlake, Surrey, in various styles of script and with colour and gold decoration. and figures. 23 December 1607.

*InE 20: Esther Inglis, [Octonaires de la Roche Chandieu] Octonaries upon the vanitie and inconstancie of the world, writin and limd be me, Esther Inglis the xxiii, Decemb: 1607

Later owned by Rachel Kissack; by Dyson Perrins (sold at his sale at Sotheby's, 9 December 1958, lot 44); and by Lessing J. Rosenwald.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 33 (p. 62). Facsimiles of four pages in Infinite Variety: Exploring the Folger Shakespeare Library, ed. Esther Ferington (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 86; of the title-page in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 101.

The French text and facing English translation of verse ‘Octonaires’ by Antoine de la Roche Chandieu (1534-91), the original French first published in Paris, 1586. With two sonnets in English to Esther Inglis by G.D.

MS V.a.93

Autograph calligraphic MS, 6 + 189 + 3 leaves (94 x 62 mm.), in contemporary scarlet velvet embroidered. 2 April 1599. A presentation MS to Prince Maurice of Nassau (1567-1625), with a Dedication to him, in various styles of script, with decoration and figures. For the self-portrait detached from this MS, see InE 32. 1599.

*InE 31: Esther Inglis, [Psalms] Les Pseaumes de David Escrites en Diverses sortes de lettres par Esther Anglois Françoise. A Lislebourg en Escosse, 1599

Later owned by the French surgeon Dongines (1648) and by his nephew, the Protestant refugee surgeon Thomas Michel. Maggs, sale catalogue No. 542 [1930], item 223. Owned in 1946 by Lessing Julius Rosenwald (1891-1979), Pennsylvania businessman and collector.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 8 (pp. 35-7). Facsimiles of pp. 2-3 and ff. 190v-1r, including arms and Dedication, in Georgianna Ziegler, ‘Hand-Ma[i]de Books: The Manuscripts of Esther Inglis, Early-Modern Precursors of the Artists' Book’, EMS, 9 (200), 73-87 (Plates 1, p. 78, and 2, p. 80).

The portrait in this MS has now been separated as Folger MS X.d.533.

Psalms in French, with Latin verses to Prince Maurice by Esther Inglis's husband Bartholomew Kello and to Esther Inglis by Andrew Melville, Robert Rollock, and John Johnston.

MS V.a.94

Autograph calligraphic MS, iv + 155 leaves (46 x 72 mm.), in contemporary red velvet embroidered. A presentation MS to Prince Henry, with a Dedication to him, in roman and italic scripts, with colour and gold arms and decoration. 1608.

*InE 36: Esther Inglis, [Psalms] Argumenta Psalmoru Davidis per tetrasticha manu Estherae Inglis exarata, strenae nomine Illus: Principi Henrico oblata, 1608.

Later owners include Edward Quail (sold at Sotheby's, 10 May 1901, lot 95); Ellis; J.A. Brooke (sold at the Red Cross sale, 26 April 1916); Pearson (sale catalogue, 1916, item 7A); Mortimer L. Schiff (sold at Sotheby's, 24 March 1938, lot 245); and, until 1951, by Lessing J. Rosenwald.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 36 (pp. 64-5), with a facsimile of the title-page as Plate 25 (between pp. 42 and 43). The binding is illustrated in Infinite Variety: Exploring the Folger Shakespeare Library, ed. Esther Ferington (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 49, and also on a postcard issued by the Folger Shakespeare Library.

A summary of the Psalms in Latin verse.

MS V.a.96

An octavo verse miscellany, largely in a predominantly secretary hand, another hand on ff. 85r-7v, 95v-6r, xiii pages + 104 leaves (including blanks, but lacking ff. 7-9, 54-5, 95), with a table of contents (pp. 1-6), in modern calf, gilt-edged. Compiled by University or Inns of Court men. c.1630s.

The extracted fols 7, 8 and 54 are now Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2757, Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2216, and Chetham's Library Halliwell-Phillipps No. 2217 respectively. The extracted fol. 9 is now Folger MS V.a.505, p. 27.

Inscribed (f. [104v] ‘Thomas White His Book May y^e 20 Anno Domine 1691’. Later owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps and in his library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.21.

f. 3r-v

• AlW 157: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres’)

Copy, headed ‘In fratres Reynoldos Carmen Henricium’, subscribed ‘Doctor Allablaster’.

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

ff. 3v-4r

• AlW 176: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘Between two Bretheren Civil warres and worse’)

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

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

f. 6r-v

• BcF 29: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, headed ‘Humane life Charactered’, imperfect, lacking the ending.

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. 11r

• RnT 160: Thomas Randolph, In Eandem Dystichon. Englished (‘By thy lookes Hecuba, Helen by thy songe’)

Copy, headed ‘Englished’, following the Latin version ‘In Eandem Dystichon’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.

First published, following a Latin version beginning ‘Vox Hellenum, vultus Hecubam te Lesbia clamat’, in Day (1932), p. 35.

ff. 11r-12r

• CwT 1035.5: Thomas Carew, To Celia, upon Love's Vbiquity (‘As one that strives, being sick, and sick to death’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 123-4.

ff. 15r-16v

• HeR 24: Robert Herrick, The Apparition of his Mistresse calling him to Elizium (‘Come then, and like two Doves with silv'rie wings’)

Copy, headed ‘His Mistris Shade’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among verse ‘By other Gentlemen’, in Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 205-7. Patrick, pp. 273-5.

ff. 16v-21r

• RnT 48: Thomas Randolph, A complaint against Cupid that he never made him in Love (‘How many of thy Captives (Love) complaine’)

Copy, headed ‘His complaint on Cupid that hee neuer yet made him enamor'd’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 35-40.

f. 21r

• RnT 307: Thomas Randolph, The Song of Discord (‘Let Linus and Amphions lute’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 87.

f. 21v

• RnT 436: Thomas Randolph, The Muses' Looking-Glass, Act I, scene iv. Song (‘Say in a dance how shall we go’)

Copy, headed ‘The Masque of Vices’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.

First published (with Poems) Oxford, 1638. Hazlitt, I, 173-266 (p. 192).

ff. 21v-2r

• RnT 145: Thomas Randolph, In Archimedis Sphaeram ex Claudiano (‘Jove saw the Heavens fram'd in a little glasse’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 46.

f. 22r

• RnT 411: Thomas Randolph, ‘When Jove sawe Archimedes world of glasse’

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho Randolph’.

First published in Day (1932), p. 35.

f. 22v

• ShJ 126: James Shirley, ‘Would you know what's soft?’

Copy, untitled.

First published, as a ‘Song’, in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 3.

ff. 23r-5v

• RnT 577: Thomas Randolph, Upon the First Newes of S^r Edward Burton being blind (‘Sir as for him that told me first 'twas true’)

Copy.

Recorded in Crum (S696) as being ‘amongst Randolph's poems’ in this MS, but it appears here well after a group of his poems.

Unpublished? Probably written by Burton's eldest son.

ff. 25v-6v

• RnT 581: Thomas Randolph, Upon the Newes of his Recoverie (‘Sir that same darksome cloud it is o'erpast’)

Copy.

Recorded in Crum (S745) as being ‘amongst poems by Randolph’ in this MS, but it appears here well after a group of his poems.

ff. 28v-9v

• CoR 150: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox (‘Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on the Lady Hayes her Death by D^r: Corbett’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning ‘O thou deformed unwomanlike disease’, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.

ff. 29v-32v

• KiH 340: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Doctor Hen: Kinge’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

ff. 33r-7r

• RnT 247: Thomas Randolph, On the Inestimable Content He Injoyes in the Muses, To those of his Friends that dehort him from Poetry (‘Goe sordid earth, and hope not to bewitch’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.

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

f. 37r

• RnT 60: Thomas Randolph, De Moderatione Animi in vtraque fortuna (‘Is thy poore Barke becalm'd, and forc'd to staye’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.

First published in Day (1932), p. 36.

ff. 37v-8r

• JnB 616: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Lady Purbeck's fortune (‘Helpe me wonder, here's a booke’)

Copy, untitled.

Herford & Simpson, lines 522-43. Greg, Burley version, lines 447-68.

ff. 38v-9r

• JnB 49: Ben Jonson, The Dreame (‘Or Scorne, or pittie on me take’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in The Vnder-wood (xi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 150-1.

f. 39r-v

• GrJ 72: John Grange, ‘Since every man I come among’

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Since all men that I come among’, subscribed ‘John Grange’.

First published in Poems (1660), pp. 53-4. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as by John Grange.

ff. 39v-40v

• DnJ 318: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.

ff. 41r-2r

• JnB 173: 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 Picture of the Body’.

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. 42r-4r

• JnB 212: 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 Picture of the mynd’.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

f. 44r

• HeR 390: Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris (‘Whither are all her false oathes blowne’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.

f. 45v

• HeR 89: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

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).

ff. 46v-7v

• CwT 579: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Goe thou gentle whistling wynde’

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

ff. 48r-49a^r

• BmF 105: Francis Beaumont, Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson (‘The sun which doth the greatest comfort bring’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in ‘An addition of some excellent Poems...By other Gentlemen’ in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare Gent. (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 500-3. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, XI (Oxford, 1952), 374-7.

Nearly all recorded MS texts of this poem are discussed and collated, with an edited text (pp. 170-4), in Mark Bland, ‘Francis Beaumont's Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and “The Mermaid Club”’, EMS, 12 (2005), 139-79.

ff. 49v-50r

• CwT 226: Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence (‘You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay’)

Copy.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.

f. 50v

• DnJ 2066: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

Copy of lines 1-12, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 51r-v

• JnB 356: Ben Jonson, My Picture left in Scotland (‘I now thinke, Love is rather deafe, then blind’)

Copy, untitled.

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.

ff. 51v-2r

• JnB 39: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 7. Begging another, on colour of mending the former (‘For Loves-sake, kisse me once againe’)

Copy, untitled.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 139.

f. 53r-v

• JnB 721: Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song (‘Though I am young, and cannot tell’)

Copy, untitled.

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

ff. 56r-7r

• HeR 122: Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack (‘Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Rob: Herricks Farwell to Sacke’.

This MS collated in Martin.

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

ff. 57v-9v

• HeR 277: Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack (‘So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r: Herricks welcome to Sacke’.

This MS collated in part in Martin.

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

ff. 62r-3r

• RaW 524: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘S^r: Walter Raleigh.’

This MS collated in Gullans; recorded in Latham, p. 115.

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).

ff. 63r-4v

• GrJ 52: John Grange, ‘Not that I wish my Mistris’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘M^r Jo: Grange’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7^v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to ‘J.G.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as by John Grange.

ff. 66r-7r

• CoR 105: Richard Corbett, An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne (‘Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Death of Queene Anne’.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 65-7.

ff. 67v-8r

• KiH 179: Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death (‘Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure’)

Copy, headed ‘On Prince Henries death’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.

ff. 69v-70r

• GrJ 90: John Grange, ‘What if rude nature hath less care exprest’

Copy, headed ‘On Deformitie in Man’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Poems (1660), pp. 64-5, superscribed ‘R.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as probably by John Grange.

f. 70r-v

• GrJ 83: John Grange, ‘The world created, God made man’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘M^r Jo: Grange’.

Unpublished? Listed in Krueger.

ff. 70v-1v

• BmF 138: Francis Beaumont, To M^r B.J: (‘Neither to follow fashion nor to showe’)

Copy, headed ‘To M^r: Ben: Ionson’, subscribed ‘M^r Fran: Beamont’.

First published (complete) in Sir E.K. Chambers, William Shakespeare (Oxford, 1930), II, 222-5. Reprinted from Chambers in Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, XI (Oxford, 1952), 377-9.

All recorded MS texts of this poem are discussed and collated, with an edited text (pp. 174-6), in Mark Bland, ‘Francis Beaumont's Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and “The Mermaid Club”’, EMS, 12 (2005), 139-79.

f. 72r

• HeR 391: Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris (‘Whither are all her false oathes blowne’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.

f. 72r-v

• HeR 90: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)

Copy, headed ‘The answere’, subscribed ‘M^r. Ro: Herrick’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

f. 74r

• GrJ 73: John Grange, ‘Since every man I come among’

Copy, headed ‘M^r Iohn Grange his Ballet’, subscribed ‘Jo: Grange’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Poems (1660), pp. 53-4. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as by John Grange.

f. 76r

• JnB 114: Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] (‘Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in John A. Harper, ‘Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.

ff. 76v-9r

• CoR 151: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox (‘Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Lady Harrington who dyed of the Small Pox. by D^r: Corbett’.

ff. 79v-80r

• MnJ 19: John Milton, On the University Carrier (‘Here lies old Hobson, Death hath broke his girt’)

Copy, headed ‘On Hobson who dyed in the vacany of his Carrage by reason of the Sicknes att Cambridge. 1630’.

This MS collated in Darbishire; also in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘Two New Manuscript Versions of Milton's Hobson Poems’, MLN, 57 (1942), 192-4; and The Complete English Poetry of John Milton, ed. John Shawcross (New York, 1963), p. 550. See also John T. Shawcross, ‘A Note on Milton's Hobson Poems’, RES, NS 18 (1967), 433-7; John J. Pollock, ‘“On the University Carrier”: Comments on the early Drafts’, AN & Q, 13 (1974), 36-7.

First published in Poems (1645). Columbia, I, 32-3. Darbishire, II, 136-7. Carey & Fowler, p. 124.

ff. 80v-4v

• RnT 86: Thomas Randolph, An Eglogue to Mr Johnson (‘Under this Beech why sit'st thou here so sad’)

Copy, headed ‘An Eglogue To his worthy Father M^r: Ben: Iohnson’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 104-9.

ff. 90v-3v

• JnB 251: Ben Jonson, An Expostulacon w^th Inigo Iones (‘Mr Suruey^r, you y^t first begann’)

First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, 7 vols, ed. Peter Whalley (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 402-6.

ff. 93v-4r

• JnB 492: Ben Jonson, To Inigo Marquess Would be A Corollary (‘But cause thou hearst y^e mighty k. of Spaine’)

First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 406-7.

f. 94r-v

• JnB 478: Ben Jonson, To a ffreind an Epigram Of him (‘S^r Inigo doth feare it as I heare’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.

First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 407-8.

MS V.a.97

An octavo verse miscellany, compiled by an Oxford man, possibly a member of Christ Church, pp. 1-202 in a single minute hand, written over a period, with a few later additions (including two lines on p. 7) by other hands; pp. 202-19 containing entries in later hands up to 1789, in half-calf on marbled boards, pp. 77-84 detached in the 19th century and now separately bound as Folger MS V.a.152. Including twelve poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 30 poems by Strode (one of them in V.a.152) plus one of doubtful authorship. c.late 1630s [-1789].

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe. Afterwards owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) (and No. 27 in his Catalogue of Shakespeare Reliques (Brixton Hill, 1852)) and subsequently in the library of Lord Warwick at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Thorpe-Halliwell MS’: CoR Δ 7 and StW Δ 17. Complete microfilm at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

p. 1

• DaJ 193: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘On D^r Prideax his childe’ and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers to their beds doe lay’.

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

p. 1

• BrW 207: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Under this same marble herse’, imperfect at the foot of the page.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, ‘Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha’, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.

p. 2

• StW 1297: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Baker’.

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

p. 2

• StW 311: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)

Copy, headed ‘On a butchers sonne and a Tanners daughter’.

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

pp. 3-4

• PoW 36: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘On A blacke Gentlewoman’ subscribed ‘Posuit Walton Poole’.

This MS collated in Wolf (as MS U).

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.

p. 5

• StW 806.5: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman walking in the snow a D^r courting her’.

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).

p. 7

• RaW 260: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, headed ‘On Man’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, ‘The Text of Ralegh's Lyric “What is our life?”’, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

p. 9

• DkT 20: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Q: carried to her buriall’.

First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, ‘Poems by William Camden’, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.

pp. 11-12

• CoR 657: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him (‘Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^rs Mallet B^p. Corbet’.

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

pp. 12-13

• StW 558: William Strode, On the death of Mistress Mary Prideaux (‘Weepe not because this Child hath died soe young’)

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

pp. 13-14

• BrW 164: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon one dead in the snow’.

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

pp. 14-15

• BrW 93: William Browne of Tavistock, On an Infant Unborn, and the Mother Dying in Travail (‘Within this grave there is a grave entomb'd’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Woman dying in trauell the child vnborne’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Brydges (1815), pp. 90-1. Goodwin, II, 255-6. Also (doubtfully) attributed to Richard Corbett and to Sir William Davenant: see Sir William Davenant, The Shorter Poems, and Songs from the Plays and Masques, ed. A.M. Gibbs (Oxford, 1972), p. lxxxvii.

pp. 15-16

• PoW 110: Walton Poole, Vpon a young Gentleman dying of a Plurisie in the Warres (‘Twas fatall vnto thee that in the race’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Posuit: Wal: Poole’.

Unpublished.

pp. 16-17

• SuJ 106: John Suckling, The guiltless Inconstant (‘My first Love whom all beauty did adorn’)

Copy, headed ‘On his first Loue’, subscribed ‘Posuit Wal: Poole’.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 90-1.

Probably written by Walton Poole.

p. 18

• PoW 107: Walton Poole, To a Ladie which desired him to make her a copy of verses (‘Faire Madam, cast these diamonds away’)

Copy, headed ‘To a lady which desired him to make her a copy of verses’, subscribed ‘Posuit Wal: Poole’.

First published, as anonymous, in Henry Huth, Inedited Poetical Miscellanies (1870).

pp. 18-19

• KiH 450: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy, headed ‘On Man’.

First published, as ‘Man's Miserie, by Dr. K’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.

p. 19

• CoR 692: Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes (‘Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse’)

Copy, headed ‘On Fairefoord Windowes’, subscribed ‘D^r Corbet’.

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

pp. 19-20

• StW 384: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)

Copy, headed ‘A Gentlewoman playing on the Lute’.

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

p. 20

• CoR 112: Richard Corbett, An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower (‘Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth’)

Copy, headed ‘On S^r Thomas Ouerbury’.

Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.

p. 21

• StW 843: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse’.

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

pp. 23-5

• StW 489: William Strode, On Faireford windores (‘I know noe paint of Poetry’)

Copy, subscribed ‘M^r Stroud’.

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

p. 27

• DnJ 1506: John Donne, His parting from her (‘Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night’)

Copy of a 42-line version, headed ‘D^r Corbet on his wiues departure’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, in a 42-line version as ‘Elegie XIIII’, in Poems (London, 1635). Published complete (104 lines) in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 100-4 (as ‘Elegie XII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 96-100 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 21. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 332-4 (with versions printed in 1635 and 1669 on pp. 335-6 and 336-8 respectively).

pp. 27-9

• CoR 426: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Casting of great Tom of ch; ch:’, subscribed ‘D^r Corbet’.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 149.

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

pp. 29-30

• StW 711: William Strode, A Sigh (‘O tell mee, tell, thou God of winde’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song on a sigh’.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 6-8. Forey, pp. 194-6.

p. 31

• StW 167: William Strode, In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song on Musicke’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

p. 33

• CwT 84: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Mistresse’.

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

pp. 33-4

• CwT 783: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse’ and here beginning ‘In your faire cheeks two pitts doe lie’.

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

pp. 34-5

• DnJ 283: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy, headed ‘On an aged Gentlewoman’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie. The Autumnall’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as ‘Elegie IX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.

pp. 38-9

• RnT 514: Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale (‘When shall we meet again and have a taste’)

Copy, ascribed to Ben Jonson.

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

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

pp. 42-3

• DnJ 87: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘On the prais of a brown Lasse’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published as ‘Elegie II’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as ‘Elegie II’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.

p. 43

• RaW 330: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen (‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’)

Copy, headed ‘A Louer’ and here beginning ‘Passions are likned best to flouds of streames’.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 116, and in Gullans.

First published, prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 500-42) and headed ‘To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh’, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.

For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, ‘Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of “Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart”’, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.

p. 43

• DyE 85: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall’

Copy, headed ‘A Louer’.

First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.

pp. 45-51

• CoR 284: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)

Copy, headed ‘A iourney into the North’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

pp. 52-3

• PeW 240: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy of the short version, headed ‘A gentlewoman a gentleman courting her’ and here beginning ‘Nay pish, nay pew, in faith but will you? fie’.

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

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

p. 53

• PeW 146: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Apollo's Oath (‘When Phebus first did Daphne love’)

Copy, headed ‘On Maidens’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published, in a two-stanza version in a musical setting, in John Dowland, Third Booke of Aires (London, 1603), No. vi. A three-stanza version in John Philips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656), p. 31. A four-stanza version in Poems (1660), p. 115, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as probably by Charles Rives (of New College, Oxford). It is possible, however, that the poem grew by accretions in different hands, Rives perhaps being responsible for the fourth stanza.

p. 54

• HrJ 223: Sir John Harington, Of Blessing without a crosse (‘A Priest that earst was riding on the way’)

Copy, headed ‘On A Vicar’ and here beginning ‘An honest Viccar riding by the way’.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 17. McClure No. 18, p. 155. Kilroy, Book I, No. 30, p. 104.

p. 56

• DaJ 146: Sir John Davies, An Epitaph (‘Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes’)

Copy, headed ‘A Bellows mender’ and here beginning ‘Here lies John Wills, a mender of bellow’.

A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.

p. 58

• BrW 128: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor (‘Nature in this small volume was about’)

Copy, headed ‘On D^r Prideaux his daughter 6 years old’.

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

pp. 58-9

• PoW 89: Walton Poole, On the death of King James (‘Can Christendoms great champion sink away’)

Copy, headed ‘K: James’ and here beginning ‘Can Christendoms great Monarch sink away’, subscribed ‘Posuit W: Poole’.

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

p. 60

• KiH 70: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘His Answere’.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) ‘A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds’ (‘Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee’). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

p. 61

• CwT 580: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

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

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

p. 63

• DnJ 1901: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)

Copy, headed ‘Of a bald man’ and here beginning ‘Thy haires and sinnes noe man can equall call’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross. The text followed by an answer, beginning ‘Yes, if thy haires fall as thy sinns increas’.

First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.

p. 64

• StW 416: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox (‘A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine’)

Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman iniured [by y^e pox added]’.

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

p. 64

• CwT 1250.2: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy, headed ‘On his faire Mistres’.

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

p. 65

• CwT 283: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘On a ffly drown'd in his Mistress eie’.

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

pp. 66-7

• WoH 239: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy headed ‘D^r Dunn's farewell to y^e world’.

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

p. 67

• RnT 8: Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicam (‘Sweet, doe not thy beauty wrong’)

Copy, headed ‘To his young Mistress’ and here beginning ‘Deare doe not yo^r faire beautie 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.

pp. 68-70

• DnJ 3207: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Dunne to his Mistres’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as ‘Elegie XIX. Going to Bed’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.

The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, ‘Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's “To his mistress going to bed”’, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.

p. 70

• DnJ 2967: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

Copy, headed ‘2 Louers loath to depart’ and here beginning ‘Lie still my loue, why wilt thou rise’.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 610-11. See also DnJ 461.

First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her ‘Dubia’). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.