CELM: The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 100 through 199

MS V.a.103

A quarto verse miscellany, arranged (Part I) as an anthology, under genre headings, the reverse end (Part II) largely occupied by a later series of Latin verses, epistles, and other exercises, 168 leaves, in old calf (rebacked). Part I probably in several hands, the predominant italic hand that also responsible for the ‘Welbeck MS’: DnJ Δ 57), and including 21 poems by Donne. c.1630 [-1677].

Part I inscribed (f. 1r) ‘John Smyth his Book 1640’, ‘Charles Smyth 1674’, ‘Hugh Smyth 1676’; (f. 23v) ‘J Smyth 1677 / 1676’. Part II inscribed several times ‘Thomas Smith’, on f. 19r also ‘Die: Maij 12^o Ano 1659’, with a reference on f. 58v to Balliol College, Oxford, 1659/60. Later inscribed (f. [i^r]) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), who records buying ‘this very curious and interesting MS. of Mess^rs Boone’. Afterwards in the library at Warwick Castle. Formerly Folger MS 1. 28.

Cited in IELM, I.i, as the ‘Thomas Smyth MS’: DnJ Δ 48.

Part I, f. 1r

• DaJ 194: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘On a younge man’ and here beginning ‘As carefull nurses in theire beds doe lay’.

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

Part I, f. 2v

• HrJ 309: Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram (‘When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed’)

Copy, headed ‘On the beheading of Mary Queene of Scotts’ and here beginning ‘When doome of death by judgment foreappointed’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).

Part I, f. 3r

• CoR 541: Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella (‘How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power’)

Copy, ascribed at the side to ‘D^r Corbett’.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.

Part I, f. 4r

• CoR 179: Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London (‘When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke’)

Copy, headed ‘On D^r Ravis Bishop of London’ and ascribed at the side to ‘D^r Corbett’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.

Part I, f. 4v

• CoR 467: Richard Corbett, On Henry Bowling (‘If gentlenesse could tame the fates, or wit’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^r Henry Boling his death’, ascribed at the side to ‘D^r Corbett’.

First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.

Part I, f. 10v

• PoW 90: Walton Poole, On the death of King James (‘Can Christendoms great champion sink away’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of King James’.

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.

Part I, f. 11r-v

• CoR 106: Richard Corbett, An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne (‘Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you’)

Copy.

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

Part I, f. 20r

• DrW 177.94: William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table (‘Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre’)

Copy of a version headed ‘On the same’ [i.e. Lord Buckhurst] and here beginning ‘Imodest death that would not once conferre’.

First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

Part I, f. 23r

• CoR 489: Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 (‘Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke’)

Copy, ascribed at the side to ‘M^r Strowde’.

First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.

Part I, f. 29r-v

• RaW 119: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)

Copy, headed ‘A Lover to his Mistresse’, ascribed at the side to ‘S^r W. R:’.

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).

Part I, f. 29v

• RaW 302: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Poem of Sir Walter Rawleighs (‘Nature that washt her hands in milke’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Mistresse Serena’, concluding with the final couplet of “Euen such is tyme” (here beginning ‘But from this Grave, and Earth, and dust’) with a marginal note, ‘This last staffe was saide to bee made by S^r Walter Raleigh a little before his death, w^th the additio of these two last verses’.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 119-20.

First published in A.H. Bullen, Speculum Amantis (London, 1889), pp. 76-7. Latham, pp. 21-2. Rudick, Nos 43A and 43B (two versions, pp. 112-14).

Part I, f. 30r

• RaW 331: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen (‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’)

Copy, headed ‘To the sole Governesse of His Affections’, here beginning ‘Passions are likned best to flouds and streames’ and prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 525), ascribed at the side to ‘S^r Wa: Ral:’.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 115, 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.

Part I, f. 30r

• RaW 525: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy, prefixed by ‘Passions are likned best to flouds and streames’ (see RaW 331).

This MS recorded 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).

Part I, f. 30v

• RaW 357: Sir Walter Ralegh, To his Love when hee had obtained Her (‘Now Serena bee not coy’)

Copy, ascribed at the side to ‘S^r W. Ra:’.

Edited from this MS in Latham and in Rudick.

First published in H. Harvey Wood, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others’, E&S, 16 (1930), 179-90 (pp. 181-2). Latham, p. 20. Rudick, No. 44, p. 115 (as ‘Sir W. Ra: To his Love When hee had obtained Her’).

Part I, f. 31v

• JnB 24: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph (‘See the Chariot at hand here of Love’)

Copy of lines 21-30, headed ‘A Lover to his Mistrisse’ and here beginning ‘Haue you seene the whyte lillye grow’.

First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning ‘Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light’) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).

Part I, f. 31v

• DnJ 3116: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)

Copy, headed ‘To the sunne that rise too early to call Him and his Love from bedd’, ascribed at the side to ‘M^r Dunne’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.

Part I, f. 32r

• DnJ 194: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)

Copy, headed ‘To the same’ [i.e. ‘his scornefull Mistresse’], ascribed at the side to ‘D^r Dunne’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

Part I, f. 32v

• DnJ 3014: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)

Copy, headed ‘To his loving Mistres When hee travailed’, ascribed at the side to ‘D^r Dunne’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.

Part I, f. 33r

• PeW 184: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)

Copy, headed ‘One to his Fireinde who was a Lover and, impatient to stay till his spouse was of age’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by Walton Poole.

Part I, ff. 33v-4

• CwT 85: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy, headed ‘A Lover to his Mistresse’.

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

Part I, f. 34r

• DrM 23: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)

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

Part I, ff. 34v-5v

• StW 739: William Strode, Song (‘As I out of a Casement sent’)

Copy, headed ‘A Lovers Epitaph, or rather a Complaint against Him for seeing and Loveing her knew not what’, ascribed at the side to ‘M^r Stroud’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 11-12. Forey, pp. 77-9.

Part I, f. 35v

• StW 889: William Strode, Song (‘O when will Cupid shew such Art’)

Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet’, ascribed at the side to ‘M^r Strowd’.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 6. Forey, p. 76.

Part I, f. 35v

• StW 291: William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe (‘Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill’)

Copy, ascribed at the side to ‘M^r Strowd of C. Chu:’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.

Part I, f. 36r

• StW 1126: William Strode, To a Valentine (‘Fayre Valentine, since once your welcome hand’)

Copy, headed ‘To his valentine M^ris Alice Hutton’, ascribed at the side to ‘M^r Strowd’.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 42. Forey, p. 193.

Part I, f. 36r

• StW 1251: William Strode, With Pen, Inke and paper these to a distressed &c. (‘Here is paper, pen and Inke’)

Copy, headed ‘to his M^ris With Penne, Inke, and Paper, these’, ascribed at the side to ?‘JC:’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 101-2. Forey, pp. 15-16.

Part I, f. 36v

• CwT 1012: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)

Copy, headed ‘A Lover to his M^rs’.

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

Part I, ff. 36v-7r

• DnJ 1462: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse’, ascribed at the side to ‘D^r. Donne’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.

Part I, f. 37r

• DnJ 2016: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)

Copy, ascribed at the side to ‘D^r. Donne’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.

Part I, f. 37r-v

• DnJ 1546: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r. Donne On his Picture wh^ch hee left with his M^ris [S^r George Moores daughter added in the margin] when hee went to travaile’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published as ‘Elegie V’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as ‘Elegie V’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.

Part I, ff. 37v-8r

• DnJ 1501: John Donne, His parting from her (‘Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night’)

Copy of a 42-line version, headed ‘At his mistresses departure’, ascribed at the side to ‘D^r. Donne’.

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).

Part I, f. 38r

• DnJ 1372: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

Copy, ascribed at the side to ‘D^r. Donne’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.

Part I, f. 38r-v

• DnJ 2304: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse’, ascribed at the side to ‘D^r. Donne’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

Part I, ff. 39v-40r

• DnJ 3672: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy, headed ‘A Lover in a Garden’, ascribed at the side to ‘D^r. Donne’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.

Part I, ff. 40v-1r

• DnJ 3186: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘Going to bedd’, ascribed at the side to ‘D^r. Donne’.

This MS recorded in Gardner.

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.

Part I, f. 52r

• PlG 18: George Peele, A Sonet (‘His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Henry Lea his Farewell to the Court’, under a general heading ‘Panegyricks’.

This MS collated in Clayton and in Hughey.

First published as an appendix to Polyhymnia (London, 1590). Edited by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 244. The sonnet probably written by Sir Henry Lee: see Horne, pp. 169-70, and Thomas Clayton, ‘“Sir Henry Lee's Farewel to the Court”: The Texts and Authorship of “His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned”’, ELR, 4 (1974), 268-75.

Part I, f. 52r-v

• B&F 134: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy, headed ‘The praises of melancholy’.

Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.

For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

Part I, ff. 52v-3r

• PoW 37: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘A comendation of blacke haire in a Gentlewoman’.

This MS collated in Wolf (as MS V).

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.

Part I, f. 53r

• StW 400: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that sung excellently’.

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

Part I, f. 53r-v

• WoH 97: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘On the Lady Elizabeth, when shee was first crowned Queene of Bohemia’ and here beginning ‘Yee glorious trifles of y^e East’. The text followed on ff. 53v-4 by a Latin version.

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

Part I, f. 54r-v

• DnJ 63: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘The praise of an old Woman’, ascribed at the side to ‘D^r Dunne’.

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.

Part I, f. 55v

• DnJ 639: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy, headed ‘A Paradoxe In the Praise of change in a Lover’, ascribed at the side to ‘D^r Donne’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as ‘Elegie III’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.

Part I, f. 56r-v

• DnJ 270: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy, headed ‘The elogy of an Autumnall Face’, ascribed at the side to ‘D^r. Donne’.

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.

Part I, f. 67r-v

• RaW 163: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyra Volans. A flying satyre made by D^r Lateware’, ‘S^t. Johns’ added in the margin.

This MS recorded in Latham and Höltgen, p. 435.

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, ‘Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine’, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's ‘answer’ to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

Part I, pp. 67r-8r

• EsR 46: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Go Eccho of the minde, a careles troth protest’

Copy.

This MS collated in May, pp. 127-8.

May, Poems, No. II, pp. 60-1.

Part I, f. 68r

• RaW 348: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty’

Copy, headed ‘S^r: W.R. On D^r. Noel’.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 138. Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

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).

Part I, f. 68v

• DnJ 508: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy, headed ‘Against Love’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.

Part I, f. 69r

• DnJ 3632: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)

Copy, headed ‘A Lover against himselfe’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.

Part I, f. 69r-v

• WoH 170: Sir Henry Wotton, To J: D: from Mr H: W: (‘'Tis not a coate of gray or Shepherds life’)

Copy, headed ‘A Letter Against Solitarines’.

First published in Herbert J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to Certain other Poems’, MLR, 6 (1911), 145-56 (p. 155).

Part I, ff. 70v-1r

• CoR 269: Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem (‘Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on’)

Copy, headed ‘Ad Authorem de Anniversarijs ejusdem, sive adiversarijs in Henricum Prin:’.

‘’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's ‘Answer’ (‘So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace’), and see also CoR 227-46.

Part I, f. 71r-v

• CoR 240: Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum (‘Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory’)

Copy, headed ‘Ad Poetam exeustoratum et emeritum’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.

For related poems see CoR 247-78.

Part I, ff. 71v-2r

• CoR 673: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him (‘Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r. Corbett. On M^ris Malett, an ill favour'd Creature, that would needs bee on love with the Author’.

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

Part I, ff. 73v-4r

• DnJ 2517: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)

Copy, headed ‘A Deprecatory, To his Wife Who, would have accompanied him in the disguise of a Page, when hee went to travaile’,inscribed at the side ‘D^r. Donne’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as ‘Elegie XVI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.

Part I, f. 74r

• DnJ 447: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy, headed ‘To his love who was too hasty to rise from him in the morning’, inscribed at the side ‘D^r. Donne’ and ‘(L. S.)’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.

Part I, f. 74r-v

• DnJ 2928: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

Copy, headed ‘Against the inconstancy of woman’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.

Part I, f. 76r-v

• DnJ 3296: John Donne, To M^r Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)

Copy, headed ‘A Retyring of himselfe into himselfe, Or, An Eternall Farewell to Love & Poetry’, inscribed at the side ‘D^r. Donne’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.

Part I, ff. 76v-7r

• DnJ 2219: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy, headed ‘Making of men’, inscribed at the side ‘D^r Donne’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in F. G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as ‘Elegie XX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.

Part I, f. 77r

• WoH 32: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, headed ‘A Contented Life’, inscribed at the side ‘S^r. Henry Wotton’.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

Part I, f. 77r

• JnB 417.5: Ben Jonson, On the Vnion (‘When was there contract better driuen by Fate?’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Union of great Brittaine’ and here beginning ‘Never was Union better driven by fate’.

First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.

Part II, ff. 79v-87v

• MaA 338: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)

Copy, in a cursive hand, as ‘by S^rJD’, subscribed, possibly in another hand, ‘J Smith Esq.’c.1660s.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, ‘Two New Poems by Marvell?’, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, ‘The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

MS V.a.104

Autograph manuscript of poems by Lady Mary Wroth, in her stylish italic, iv + 65 quarto leaves, in modern black leather gilt. Early 17th century.

Later owned by Isaac Reed (1742-1807), literary editor and book collector; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector (Phillipps MS 9283).

ff. 1r-63v passim

• *WrM 1: Lady Mary Wroth, Pamphilia to Amphilanthus (‘When nights black mantle could most darknes prove’)

Autograph fair copy of early versions of the sequence, with occasional revisions, comprising 102 of the 103 poems subsequently printed in 1621 (omitting Roberts's ‘[P4]’, “Forbeare darke night, my joyes now budd againe”), together with six additional poems in the sequence not printed then; headed ‘$ Pamphilia to Amphilanthus $’.

Edited from this MS in Roberts, Poems, pp. 85-142, with a facsimile of f. 43r on p. 78. Facsimile of f. 43r also in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 299. 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. 125. Discussed, with reference to the use of $-fermés, in Heather Dubrow, ‘“And Thus Leave Off”: Reevaluating Mary Wroth's Folger Manuscript, V.a.104’, Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 22 (2003), 273-91; in Susan Lauffer O' Hara, ‘Reading the Stage Rubrics of Mary Wroth's Folger Manuscript of Pamphilia to Amphilanthus’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, IV, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2006). pp. 265-77; and, comparing the MS with the 1621 edition, in Ilona Bell, ‘Mary Wroth's Revisions: Art or Cover-Up?’, The Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies Newsletter, Spring 2008, pp. 13-16.

A ‘sonnet sequence’ of 103 poems and songs, first published in The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania (London, 1621). Edited (with additional poems in MS) in Roberts, Poems (1983), pp. 85-145. Pritchard, pp. 21-126.

ff. 31r, 33v, 34v, 42r, 49v, 55r, 57r, 64r-5r

• *WrM 8: Lady Mary Wroth, The First Part of the Countess of Montgomery's Urania

Autograph fair copy of early versions of nine of the poems subsequently printed in the 1621 Urania.

Edited from this MS in Roberts, Poems (U12-14, U17-18, U24, U32, U34, and U52, on pp. 154-9, 163-4, 170-2, 183-92).

First published as The Countesse of Mountgomeries Urania (London, 1621). Edited by Josephine A. Roberts, as The First Part of the Countesse of Montgomeries Urania (Binghamton, NY, 1995). Poems alone edited in Roberts, Poems, and in Pritchard, pp. 127-99.

MS V.a.110

Copy, in a professional predominantly italic hand, with a title-page (f. 1v) ‘A Shorte View of the Raigne of King Henrie the third. 3.’, unascribed, 56 octavo pages (plus some blanks), in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards. c.1620s.

CtR 413: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England

Spedding MS 27. Bookplate of W.T. Smedley.

c. 1627.

Treatise, written c.1614 and ‘Presented to King James’, beginning ‘Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...’. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).

MS V.a.121

A quarto volume of legal tracts and papers, in one or more cursive secretary hands, 309 leaves (plus 42 blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1620s.

Bookplates of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector; of Charles H. Hayley; and of Sir Thomas Brooke, Bt, FSA (1830-1908), of Armitage Bridge, Yorkshire antiquary and book collector.

ff. 130r-7v

• BcF 246: Francis Bacon, Ordinances in Chancery

Copy of 101 Ordinances, in a secretary hand, ‘as made by the Lord Chancellor...25 January 1618’.

First published as Ordinances made by...Sir Francis Bacon Knight...being then Lord Chancellor For the better and more regular Administration of Iustice in the Chancery (London, 1642), beginning ‘No decree shall be reversed, altered, or explained, being once under the Great Seale...’. Spedding, VII, 755-74 (mentioning, on p. 757, having seen some ‘MSS and editions’ of this work but without specifying them or his copy-text).

MS V.a.124

A sextodecimo pocket miscellany, ff. 3r-53r in a single hand, other hands and scribbling on ff. 1r-2r, 54v, 87v-90v, 90 leaves in all (including blanks ff. 55r-87r), in contemporary calf, with remains of clasps. Including 12 poems by Carew. c.1650s.

Inscribed ‘Richard Archard his booke Amen 1650’; ‘Richard Archard his penn Amen 1657’; ‘to Mr Satars[?] towads the Casting of y^e lead 1657’; ‘Tho: Wise’; ‘John Smith of halmortaine and I…went to Thornebury’; and ‘Edward Watt’. Bookplate of William Harris Arnold.

Cited in IELM, II.i, as the ‘Archard MS’: CwT Δ 24.

ff. 3v-4r

• ClJ 7: John Cleveland, The Antiplatonick (‘For shame, thou everlasting Woer’)

Copy.

First published in Poems, by J. C., With Additions (1651), the edition with yet more additions. Morris & Withington, pp. 54-6.

f. 4r-v

• LoR 39: Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song (‘When Love with unconfined wings’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song’.

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).

f. 5r

• HrJ 145: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Museing lady’.

First published in ‘Epigrammes’ appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

f. 11r-v

• HaW 13: William Habington, To Castara, Looking upon him (‘Transfix me with that flaming dart’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^rs looking on him’.

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, pp. 18-19.

f. 12v

• HaW 16.5: William Habington, To Castara. Of the chastity of his Love (‘Why would you blush Castara, when the name’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^rs of the chastity of his love’.

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 50.

ff. 12v-13r

• HaW 9.5: William Habington, To Castara, Intending a journey into the Country (‘Why haste you hence Castara? can the earth’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^rs intending a journey into the country’.

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 27.

f. 13r

• HaW 20.5: William Habington, To Castara, Vpon a trembling kisse at departure (‘Th'Arabian wind, whose breathing gently blows’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a trembling kisse at departure’.

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 28.

f. 14r

• HaW 38.5: William Habington, Vpon Castara's departure (‘Vowes are vaine. No suppliant breath’)

Copy, headed ‘vpon his M^rs departure’.

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, p. 40.

f. 14v

• CwT 688: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy.

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

MS V.a.125

A quarto miscellany, in several hands, including a number of culinary receipts, 255 leaves (including over 65 blanks), written from both ends (Part I, in a rounded italic hand: ff. 1r-117r:; Part II: ff. 1*r-72r), in old calf. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1*r) ‘A booke of verses collected by mee RDungaruan’: i.e. Richard Boyle (1612-98), Viscount Dungarvon and later Earl of Burlington. c.1630s.

Also inscribed ‘Mary Helerd’. Subsequently owned by James Tyrrell (1642-1718), historical writer, and by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1782-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 15745. Formerly Folger MS 46. 2

Part I, f. 4r-v

• StW 721: William Strode, A Sigh (‘O tell mee, tell, thou God of winde’)

Copy, headed ‘On a sigh’, subscribed ‘W.S.’

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

Part I, f. 5r

• KiH 553: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed with the monogram ‘HK’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 147-8.

Part I, f. 5v

• KiH 582: Henry King, Sonnet (‘I prethee turne that face away’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed with the monogram ‘HK’.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).

Part I, ff. 5v-6r

• KiH 640: Henry King, Sonnet (‘When I entreat, either thou wilt not heare’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed with the monogram ‘HK’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 148.

Part I, f. 6r

• KiH 620: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed with the monogram ‘HK’.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

Part I, f. 7r

• B&F 136: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses made of Melancholy’.

This MS recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 186.

For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

Part I, f. 7v

• StW 621: William Strode, On three Dolphins sewing down Water into a white Marble Bason (‘These Dolphins, twisting each on others side’)

Copy, headed ‘On a fountaine’, subscribed ‘WS.’

First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660). Dobell, p. 46. Forey, p. 185.

Part I, f. 7v

• StW 16: William Strode, Another (‘I, your Memory's Recorder’)

Copy, headed ‘On a register of a Bible’, subscribed ‘W.S.’

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 53. Forey, p. 52.

Part I, ff. 8r-9v

• MyJ 22: Jasper Mayne, On Mris Anne King's Tablebook of Pictures (‘Mine eyes were once blessed with the sight’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses upon a faire layyes booke of pictures’, subscribed ‘J.M.’

Unpublished?

Part I, f. 9v

• WoH 189: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘First she deceased / Hee a little tryd’.

First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning ‘Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds’, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.

Part I, ff. 10r-19v

• CoR 303: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)

Copy, headed ‘The Northeirne voyadge’, subscribed ‘R.C.’

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

Part I, f. 20r

• CoR 447: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)

Copy, headed ‘On greate Tom’, subscribed ‘R. W.’

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 80.

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’).

Part I, ff. 20v-1r

• CoR 674: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him (‘Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses on M^rs Mallet’, subscribed ‘R. C.’

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

Part I, ff. 21v-2r

• JnB 660: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben. Jonson to King James’.

Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.

For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

Part I, ff. 22v-3v

• CoR 358: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)

Copy, headed ‘By M^r. D^r. Corbet’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

Part I, f. 24r-v

• PoW 39: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Gentlewoeman whose eyes & hayre were black’.

This MS collated in Wolf (as MS b).

Part I, f. 26r

• JnB 174: 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 ‘On the Lady Digby’.

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).

Part I, ff. 26v-9r

• CwT 652: Thomas Carew, A Rapture (‘I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come’)

Copy, headed ‘A Louers Rapture’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.

Part I, f. 29v

• MoG 65: George Morley, On the Nightingale (‘My limbs were weary and my head oppressed’)

Copy, headed ‘The Nightingale. G M’.

Part I, f. 30r-v

• MoG 95: George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt (‘Well fare those three that where there was a dearth’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon y^e crowne of a hat drunken in for wante of a cup by. G. M.’

Part I, ff. 30v-1r

• DnJ 3929: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy of lines 1-18, 28-35, subscribed ‘JD’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.

Part I, f. 31r-v

• DnJ 3209: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^is’, subscribed ‘JD’.

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.

Part I, f. 32r

• DnJ 2067: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

Copy.

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.

Part I, ff. 32v-3v

• DnJ 2580: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^rs.’

This MS recorded in Gardner.

First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as ‘Elegie IV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.

Part I, f. 42r-v

• CwT 1152: Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse (‘Fayre copie of my Celia's face’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoeman like his M^rs’, subscribed ‘T. C.’

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.

Part I, f. 43r

• JnB 459: Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia (‘Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^rs’, here beginning ‘Drinke to mee Cælia w^th thine eye’, subscribed ‘BJ.’

First published in The Forrest (ix) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 106.

Part I, ff. 47v-8r

• GrJ 74: John Grange, ‘Since every man I come among’

Copy, untitled.

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.

Part I, f. 51r-v

• PeW 42: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘If her disdain least change in you can move’

Copy, headed ‘A dialogue betweene S^r Henry Wotton and M^r Donne’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 2, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.

Part I, ff. 51v-2r

• DnJ 1507: John Donne, His parting from her (‘Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night’)

Copy of a 42-line version, headed ‘ELEGIES XIIII His parting from her’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

Part I, f. 52r

• DnJ 713: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)

Copy of lines 1-6.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as ‘Elegie VIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.

Part I, f. 54r

• JnB 427: Ben Jonson, A Satyricall Shrub (‘A Womans friendship! God whom I trust in’)

Copy of lines 17-24, untitled and here beginning ‘Aske not to know this woman She is worse’.

This MS collated in Beal.

First published (in an incomplete 24-line version) in The Vnder-wood (xx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 171-2. Complete 32-line version first published in Grace Ioppolo, ‘The Monckton-Milnes Manuscript and the “Truest” Version of Ben Jonson's “A Satyricall Shrubb”’, Ben Jonson Journal, 16 (May 2009), 117-31 (pp. 125-6). Some later texts of this poem discussed in Peter Beal, ‘Ben Jonson and “Rochester's” Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress’, RES, NS 29 (1978), 320-4. See also Harold F. Brooks, ‘“A Satyricall Shrub”’, TLS (11 December 1969), p. 1426.

Part II, ff. 1r-2v

• FeO 48: Owen Felltham, On the Duke of Buckingham slain by Felton, the 23. Aug. 1628 (‘Sooner I may some fixed Statue be’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses made upon the death of the Ducke of Buckingham’.

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 6-7.

Part II, f. 3r

• CoR 542: Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella (‘How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power’)

Copy.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.

Part II, f. 3r

• BrW 208: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Countess of Pembrocke’.

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.

Part II, f. 3v

• DaJ 195: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘On A faire child that dyed suddenly’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses in their beds doe lay’.

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

Part II, f. 4r-v

• KiH 293: Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset (‘Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere’)

Copy, headed ‘On Richard Earle of Dorset’.

First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.

Part II, f. 4v

• CoR 468: Richard Corbett, On Henry Bowling (‘If gentlenesse could tame the fates, or wit’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^r. Henry Boling’.

First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.

Part II, f. 6r-v

• KiH 180: Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death (‘Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of Prince Henry’.

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

Part II, f. 6v

• CwT 201: Thomas Carew, Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villers (‘The Lady Mary Villers lyes’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Lady Mary Villiers’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 53-4.

Part II, f. 7r-v

• KiH 202: Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. (‘I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne’)

Copy, headed ‘On S^r. Walter Rawleigh’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.

Part II, f. 8v

• CoR 508: Richard Corbett, On Mr. Rice the Manciple of Christ-Church In Oxford (‘Who can doubt Rice to which Eternall place’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of M^r. Rice Manciple’, subscribed ‘R.C.’

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 73.

Part II, f. 9v

• BrW 130: 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 a child’.

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

Part II, ff. 12v-13r

• BrW 166: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)

Copy.

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

Part II, f. 13r-v

• CoR 180: Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London (‘When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on D^r. Rauis by D^r. Corbet’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.

Part II, f. 14r-v

• CoR 122: 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 ‘M^r. D^r. Corbets Elegy on S^r. Thomas Ouerburie’.

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

Part II, ff. 14v-16v

• KiH 341: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)

Copy, headed ‘To his matchlesse neuer to bee forgotten friend’, subscribed with a monogram ‘HK’.

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

Part II, ff. 17r-18v

• EaJ 5: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie upon Master Francis Beaumont (‘Beaumont lies here, and where now shall wee have’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the death of Beaumont’.

First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640), sig. Kl^r-K2^r. Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Bliss, pp. 229-32.

Part II, f. 19r

• BmF 70.5: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)

Copy of lines 49-68, headed ‘On the Lady Markham’, here beginning ‘You wormes my riuals while shee was aliue’.

First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.

Part II, f. 20r

• ElQ 31: Queen Elizabeth I, ‘Twas Christ the Word that spake it’

Copy of a version headed ‘On y^e Sacrament’ and here beginning ‘He was the word that spake it’.

First published in Alexander Huish, Lectures upon the Lord's Prayer (London, 1626), sig. Y2^v of his sermon on ‘Give us this day our daily bread’. Bradner, p. 6, as ‘Christ was the Word’, among Poems of Doubtful Authorship. Collected Works, Poem 3, p. 47. Selected Works, among Wrongly Attributed Works 1, p. 330. The authorship discussed with scepticism also in J.E. Neale, Essays in Elizabethan History (London, 1958), pp. 102-3.

A version headed ‘On the Sacrament’ and beginning ‘He was the Word that spake it’ published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 427, among ‘Poems attributed to John Donne’.

MS V.a.128

Copy, in a single secretary hand, including dramatis personae, and a prologue and epilogue, on 38 quarto leaves, in a modern wrapper. Early-mid-17th century.

RnT 427.5: Thomas Randolph, The Fairy Knight, or, Oberon the Second

Edited from this MS in Bowers's edition.

A play once considered a possible addition to the canon, but firmly rejected by both Moore Smith and Bentley, V, 1328-30. Edited by F.T. Bowers, Chapel Hill, 1941.

MS V.a.130

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, c.170 leaves (including many numbered blanks, plus many others), written from both ends (Part I: ff. 1-260; Part II: ff. 1-82), with later 18th- and 19th-century additions, in contemporary calf. c.1620s-30s.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Thomas Medcalf His B’; (f. 1v) ‘James Calvert’.

Part I, f. 3r

• DnJ 4053: John Donne, Sermon?

A seven-line passage ascribed to ‘Dr Dunn’, beginning ‘As the hart, (the noblest part of man) is placed in the midest of the bodye…’.

Unidentified.

Part II, ff. 13r-20v

• RaW 728.205: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

Copy.

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

Part II, ff. 9v-10r

• RaW 935: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr.

MS V.a.136

Copy of Lodge's medical handbook, in a professional secretary and italic hand, with a dedicatory epistle ‘To the Right Honorable my very good Ladie the ladie Ann Mother Countesse of Arundell’, on 65 quarto leaves, ff. 65v-7v containing additional receipts in two other hands, a quarto, originally in contemporary calf gilt (now detached) and rebound in modern half-morocco on cloth boards. Probably a presentation copy to the dedicatee, the original covers bearing the Norfolk arms in gilt. c.1623.

LoT 13: Thomas Lodge, The Poore Mans Talentt

Signed (f. [iii^r]) by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who notes (f. [ii^v]) ‘This MS. I bought at the sale of the books of the late Duke of Norfolk’. Bookplate of Henry Charles Howard, of Greystock, Cumberland.

Edited from this MS in Gosse, with a facsimile of the dedicatory epistle, which he mistakenly believed to be autograph.

A medical handbook, in twelve chapters, with a dedicatory epistle to Lady Anne, Countess of Arundel. First published in Gosse, Vol. IV (1883).

MS V.a.142

Copy of Version II, following the Speaker's oration, on three of four quarto leaves, in marbled boards. In a formal roman hand, headed ‘Her Ma^ties: most Excelent Speech vnto m^r Speaker & the rest of the lower House, being knights & Burgesses, to the full nember of Eight Scoore, on Munday the 30^th of Nouember: 1601’. Early 17th century.

ElQ 282: Queen Elizabeth I, Elizabeth's Golden Speech, November 30, 1601

Sotheby's, 28 October-5 November 1902, lot 957.

First published (Version III), as Her maiesties most princelie answere, deliuered by her selfe at White-hall, on the last day of November 1601 (London, 1601: STC 7578).

Version I. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we have heard your declaration and perceive your care of our estate...’. Hartley, III, 412-14. Hartley, III, 495-6. Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 337-40 (Version 1). Selected Works, Speech 11, pp. 84-92.

Version II. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive your coming is to present thanks unto me...’. Hartley, III, 294-7 (third version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 340-2 (Version 2).

Version III. Beginning ‘Mr. Speaker, we perceive by you, whom we did constitute the mouth of our Lower House, how with even consent...’. Hartley, III, 292-3 (second version). Collected Works, Speech 23, pp. 342-4 (Version 3). STC 7578.

Version IV. Beginning ‘Mr Speaker, I well understand by that you have delivered, that you with these gentlemen of the Lower House come to give us thankes for benefitts receyved...’. Hartley, III, 289-91 (first version).

MS V.a.143

A quarto-shaped folio volume of Elizabethan parliamentary speeches, in a single professional secretary hand, 117 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. Late 16th century.

A flyleaf inscribed ‘W. Bayntun Grays Inn’. Phillipps MS 4776.

p. 116

• ElQ 141: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Answer to the Lords' Petition that she Marry, April 10, 1563, delivered by Lord Keeper Nicholas Bacon

Copy, headed ‘A Speach vsed by her Maiestie vnto my Lo. Keeper in the Parliment house in the end of a session’.

First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 107-8.

Beginning ‘Since there can be no duer debt than princes' words...’. Hartley, I, 114-15 (2 texts). Collected Works, Speech 6, pp. 79-80. Selected Works, Speech 4, pp. 42-4.

MS V.a.147

An octavo miscellany of verse and some prose, in various secretary and italic hands, iv + 119 leaves, in modern quarter green crushed morocco. A flyleaf inscribed ‘Th: Ayle 6^o. Dec 1679^o’. c.1678-1718.

f. 5r

• WoH 190: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)

Copy, headed ‘By Sir Henry Wotton, on a Lady who died p^rsently after her husband’ and here beginning ‘The first deceas'd, she for a little tri'd’.

First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

MS V.a.148

A verse miscellany, much of it in shorthand, almost entirely closely written in a small cursive mixed hand, written from both ends, in contemporary calf with initials ‘E H’ in gilt. 16°, 87 leaves (plus two paste-downs); miscellany, including portions of some 42 identifiable English poems by Crashaw, many of the lines here re-arranged in a garbled fashion; compiled by a Cambridge man, possibly a member of Christ's College; probably in a single hand throughout, with variations of style, written from both ends, about thirty pages in shorthand. c.1650s.

Later owned by Edward Hailstone (1818-90) of Walton Hall, near Wakefield, botanist and book collector. Sotheby's 23 April 1891 (Hailstone sale), probably lot 439, to Dobell). Bertram Dobell's sale catalogue No. 103 (June 1902), item 373. Formerly Folger MS 267.1.

Cited in IELM, I.ii, as the Hailstone MS: CrR Δ 6. Crashaw's work selectively collated (cited as Dobell) in Martin and discussed p. lxxxi. Facsimile of f. 22 in Dobell catalogue. The MS discussed by Dobell, in other connections, in ‘Some Unpublished Epigrams by Thomas Fuller’, The Athenaeum (27 April 1901), p. 532, and in ‘An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet’, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112. Compare CrR Δ 8.

f. 5v

• CmT 156: Thomas Campion, ‘When to her lute Corrina sings’

Copy, headed ‘Sympathy’ and here beginning ‘When to her lute Althea sings’.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. vi. Davis, pp. 28-9.

f. 6r

• StW 222: William Strode, A Letter impos'd (‘Goe, happy paper, by commande’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Lady’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 100-1. The Poems and Amyntas of Thomas Randolph, ed. John Jay Parry (New Haven & London, 1917), pp. 219-20. Forey, pp. 32-3.

f. 7r

• CwT 731.5: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’)

Copy, headed ‘Answer Affirmative’.

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.

f. 7v

• KiH 72: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed (as speaker) ‘Boy’.

f. 12r

• StW 808: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Lady walking in y^e snow’.

ff. 14r-15v, 24v-5r

• FuT 2: Thomas Fuller, Epigrams

Copy of 65 ‘Epigrams By M^r Tho Fuller’.

Six epigrams edited from this MS in Dobell, loc. cit. Variants in this MS, and also corrections of Dobell's transcripts, recorded by G. Thorn-Drury (1860-1931) in his exemplum of Grosart in University of Leeds Library (Stack English H-36).

Fifty-nine epigrams first published in Grosart (1868), pp. 217-35. A further six epigrams published in Bertram Dobell, ‘Some Unpublished Epigrams by Thomas Fuller’, The Athenaeum, No. 3835 (27 April 1901), p. 532.

f. 16r-v

• RnT 460.5: Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks (‘Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name’)

Copy, headed ‘A Terrible true troublesome tragicall Relation of A Duel fought at Wisbitch June 17 1637’, subscribed ‘R. Wilde’.

(Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17^th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.

ff. 22r-3r

• ShW 6: William Shakespeare, Sonnets

Three pages of miscellaneous quotations from the Sonnets (including items ShW 7, ShW 22, ShW 23, and ShW 27), headed ‘Shakespeare’.

This MS analysed in Tucker Brooke, pp. 68-9. Facsimile of f. 22 in Bertram Dobell sale catalogue, June 1902.

First published in London, 1609. Second edition in Poems Written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640).

f. 22r

• ShW 27: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 107 (‘Not mine own fears, nor the prophetic soul’)

Copy, headed ‘A Monument’.

This MS collated in Alden, p. 252, and in Tucker Brooke, p. 67. Facsimile in Dobell sale catalogue, June 1902.

f. 22r

• ShW 7: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 1 (‘From fairest creatures we desire increase’)

Copy of a composite version made up of lines 5-14 of Sonnet 1, here beginning ‘Thou Contracted to thine owne bright eys’, together with lines 1-4 of Sonnet 2 and line 5 of Sonnet 54, headed ‘Cruel’.

Printed from this MS in Alden, p. 23; recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 66. Facsimile in Dobell sale catalogue, June 1902.

f. 22v

• ShW 23: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 68 (‘Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Thus is thy cheeke the map of Days outworn’.

This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.

f. 23r

• ShW 22: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 33 (‘Full many a glorious morning have I seen’)

This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.

ff. 25v-7r

• CrR 132: Richard Crashaw, Musicks Duell (‘Now Westward Sol had spent the richest Beames’)

Copy.

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

ff. 27v, 32v

• CrR 66: Richard Crashaw, A Hymn to the Name and Honor of the Admirable Sainte Teresa (‘Loue, thou art Absolute sole lord’)

Extracts, comprising lines 69-96, 149-50, 143-5, headed ‘Loves victim’ and here beginning ‘Blest powers forbid thy tender life.’

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, in an early version as ‘In memory of the Vertuous and Learned Lady Madre de Teresa that sought an early Martyrdome’, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 131-6. Later version published in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 315-21.

f. 27v

• CrR 177: Richard Crashaw, On the Miracle of Loaves (‘Now Lord, or never, they'l beleeve on thee’)

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 88.

f. 27v

• CrR 248: Richard Crashaw, To the Infant Martyrs (‘Goe smiling soules, your new built Cages breake’)

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 88.

f. 28r

• CrR 4: Richard Crashaw, Act. 8. On the baptized Aethiopian (‘Let it no longer be a forlorne hope’)

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 85.

f. 28r

• CrR 95: Richard Crashaw, Luc. 7. She began to wash his feet with teares and wipe them with the haires of her head (‘Her eyes flood lickes his feets faire staine’)

Copy, headed ‘Magdalens Tears Luke 7’.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 97.

f. 28r

• CrR 167: Richard Crashaw, On the bleeding wounds of our crucified Lord (‘Iesu, no more, it is full tide’)

Copy of lines 37 onwards, headed ‘Christs Wounds’ and here beginning ‘This thy bloods deluge (a dire Chance)’.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 101-2.

f. 28r

• CrR 170: Richard Crashaw, On the Blessed Virgins bashfulnesse (‘That on her lap she casts her humble Eye’)

Copy of lines 5-8, rearranged, headed ‘Christ Incarnate’ and here beginning at line 7, here ‘This new guest to our eyes new laws hath giuen’.

This MS collated and lines 5-8 printed in Martin.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 89.

f. 28r

• CrR 273: Richard Crashaw, Vpon our Saviours Tombe wherein never man was laid (‘How life and Death in Thee Agree?’)

Copy, headed ‘Christs Tombe’.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 93.

f. 28r

• CrR 306: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Infant Martyrs (‘To see both blended in one flood’)

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 95.

ff. 28v-30v

• CrR 327: Richard Crashaw, The Weeper (‘Haile Sister Springs’)

Copy of the later version.

First published in Steps to the Temple, (London, 1646). 2nd edition (1648). Revised version published as ‘Sainte Mary Magdalene or The Weeper’ in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 79-83 (and later version pp. 307-14).

f. 30v

• CrR 237: Richard Crashaw, The Teare (‘What bright soft thing is this?’)

Copy of a garbled 13-line version including stanza 1 and stanza 8 (lines 2-6).

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 84-5.

f. 31r

• CrR 23: Richard Crashaw, Easter day (‘Rise, Heire of fresh Eternity’)

Copy, headed ‘On Christs Nativity’.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 100.

f. 31r

• CrR 224: Richard Crashaw, Sancta Maria Dolorvm or The Mother of Sorrows (‘In shade of death's sad Tree’)

Extracts from stanzas 2 and 5, beginning at line 11 (‘What kind of marble than’) and rearranged.

First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 283-7.

f. 31v

• CrR 137: Richard Crashaw, The Office of the Holy Crosse (‘Lord, by thy Sweet & Saving Sign &c’)

Brief extract (?3 lines).

First published (in a compressed form) in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 263-75.

f. 31v

• CrR 254: Richard Crashaw, To the Name above Every Name, the Name of Iesus A Hymn (‘I sing the Name which none can say’)

Extracts (? 39 lines, rearranged).

First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 239-45.

f. 32r

• CrR 61: Richard Crashaw, An Himne for the Circumcision day of our Lord (‘Rise thou first and fairest morning’)

Line 22.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 141-2.

f. 32r

• CrR 64: Richard Crashaw, A Hymne of the Nativity, sung by the Shepheards (‘Come wee Shepheards who have seene’)

Extracts, comprising lines 1-2, 31-4, 79-84.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 106-8.

f. 32r

• CrR 217: Richard Crashaw, Psalme 23 (‘Happy me! ô happy sheepe!’)

Extract (lines 13-16).

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 102-4.

f. 32r-v, 35r

• CrR 77: Richard Crashaw, In the Glorious Epiphanie of our Lord God, A Hymn: Sung as by the Three Kings (‘Bright Babe! Whose awfull beautyes make’)

Extensive extracts, rearranged.

First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 253-61.

f. 32v

• CoA 5: Abraham Cowley, Against Hope (‘Hope, whose weak Being ruin'd is’)

Extracts from the two poems, comprising lines 51-8, 72, 76, 3-4, here beginning ‘Faire Hop's our earlyer heaven hereby’.

A pair of poems comprising Against Hope by Cowley and the answer For Hope (‘Dear hope! earth's dowry, & heaun's debt!’) by Richard Crashaw, both first published as ‘On Hope, By way of Question and Answer, betweene A. Cowley, and R. Crashaw’ in Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Published separately as ‘Hope’ and ‘M. Crashaws Answer For Hope’ in Crashaw, Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). The Poems…of Richard Crashaw, ed. L. C. Martin, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1957), pp. 143-5 and 344-6.

Cowley's poem only also published separately in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 109-10. Sparrow, pp. 107-8. Collected Works, II, No. 3, pp. 23-5. See also Clarence H. Miller, ‘The Order of Stanzas in Cowley and Crashaw's “On Hope”’, SP, 61 (1964), 64-73.

f. 32v

• CrR 50: Richard Crashaw, The Flaming Heart upon the Book and Picture of the seraphicall saint Teresa (‘Well meaning readers! you that come as freinds’)

Brief extracts, comprising lines 71-4, 81-2, 24, 78, amidst other poems.

First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 324-7.

f. 32v

• CrR 145: Richard Crashaw, On a prayer booke sent to Mrs. M. R. (‘Loe here a little volume, but large booke’)

Extracts, comprising lines 48-50, 53.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 126-30 (and later version pp. 328-31).

f. 32v

• CrR 233: Richard Crashaw, Sospetto d'Herode (‘Mvse, now the servant of soft Loves no more’)

Extracts (28 lines, rearranged).

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 109-26.

f. 33r

• CrR 19: Richard Crashaw, Dies Irae Dies Illa. The Hymn. of the Chvrch, In Meditation of the Day of Ivdgment (‘Hears't thou, my soul, what serious things’)

Brief extract (lines 65, 66)

First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 298-301.

f. 33r

• CrR 148: Richard Crashaw, On a Treatise of Charity (‘Rise then, immortall maid! Religion rise’)

Extracts, comprising lines 5-11, 43, 44.

First published in Five Pious and Learned Discourses…by Robert Shelford of Ringsfield in Suffolk Priest (Cambridge, 1635). Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 137-9.

f. 33r

• CrR 162: Richard Crashaw, On the Assumption (‘Harke shee is called, the parting houre is come’)

Extracts from the later version, comprising lines 16, 17, 19, 20, 60-3.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). A version published, as ‘In the Glorious Assvmption of Ovr Blessed Lady’, in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 139-41 (and later version pp. 304-6).

f. 33v

• CrR 17: Richard Crashaw, Charitas Nimia, or the Dear Bargain (‘Lord, what is man? why should he coste thee’)

Extracts, comprising lines 33-8, 41-6, 53-62, headed ‘Condescension’.

First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 280-2.

f. 34r

• CrR 74: Richard Crashaw, In praise of Lessius his rule of health (‘Goe now with some dareing drugg’)

Brief extracts (lines 25, 41, 42).

First published (lines 15-46 only) in Leonard Leys, Hygiasticon…done into English, 2nd edition (Cambridge, 1634). Published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Reprinted, as ‘Temperance, Or the Cheap Physitian Vpon the Translation of Lessivs’, in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 156-8 (and later version pp. 342-4).

f. 34r

• CrR 142: Richard Crashaw, On a foule Morning, being then to take a journey (‘Where art thou Sol, while thus the blind-fold Day’)

Extracts, comprising lines 1, 2, 34, 4, 32, 30, 19, 20 rearranged.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 181-2.

f. 34r

• CrR 202: Richard Crashaw, Out of the Greeke Cupid's Cryer (‘Love is lost, nor can his Mother’)

Brief extract (lines 20, 21).

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 159-61.

f. 34r

• CrR 211: Richard Crashaw, Out of Virgil, In the praise of the Spring (‘All Trees, all leavy Groves confesse the Spring’)

Brief extracts (lines 13, 14, 16).

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 155-6.

f. 34r

• CrR 268: Richard Crashaw, Vpon Mr. Staninough's Death (‘Deare reliques of a dislodg'd soule, whose lacke’)

Extracts from the later version, comprising lines 8-11, 25-8.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Reprinted as ‘Death's Lectvre at the Fvneral of a Yovng Gentleman’ in Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 175-6 (and 340-1).

f. 34r

• CrR 281: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Death of a Gentleman (‘Faithlesse and fond Mortality’)

Brief extract (lines 27-30).

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 166-7.

f. 34r

• CrR 287: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Death of Mr. Herrys (‘A plant of noble stemme, forward and faire’)

Extracts, comprising lines 36, 37, 78, 47-54, rearranged.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 167-8.

f. 34r-v

• CrR 252: Richard Crashaw, To the Morning. Satisfaction for sleepe (‘What succour can I hope the Muse will send’)

Extracts, comprising lines 9, 19-29, 36, 37.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 183-5.

f. 34v

• CrR 90: Richard Crashaw, Loves Horoscope (‘Love, brave vertues younger Brother’)

Extracts, comprising lines 33-40, 18, 23-32.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 185-6.

f. 34v

• CrR 174: Richard Crashaw, On the Frontispiece of Isaacsons Chronologie explained (‘Let hoary Time's vast Bowels be the Grave’)

Brief extract (lines 9, 10).

First published in Henry Isaacson, Saturni ephemerides sive tabula historico-chronologica (London, 1633). Among The Delights of the Muses in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 191.

ff. 34v-5r

• CrR 296: Richard Crashaw, Vpon the Duke of Yorke his Birth A Panegyricke (‘Brittaine, the mighty Oceans lovely Bride’)

Extracts, comprising lines 11-14, 35-7, 68-76, 82, 83.

First published in Voces votivae ab academicis Cantabrigiensibus (Cambridge, 1640). Among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 176-81.

f. 35r

• CrR 318: Richard Crashaw, Vpon two greene Apricockes sent to Cowley by Sir Crashaw (‘Take these, times tardy truants, sent by me’)

Extract (lines 7-10).

First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 220-1.

f. 35r

• CrR 322: Richard Crashaw, Vexilla Regis, The Hymn of the Holy Crosse (‘Looke vp, languishing Soul! Lo where the fair’)

Brief extract (lines 9, 10).

First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, pp. 277-9.

f. 35r

• CrR 191: Richard Crashaw, On the wounds of our crucified Lord (‘O these wakefull wounds of thine!’)

Copy, headed ‘On Christs Wounds’, subscribed ‘Crashaw’.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 99.

f. 48r

• WoH 98: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy, untitled.

MS V.a.150

The detached cover of an octavo book, bearing inscriptions in a mixed hand, now enclosed in modern brown morocco. c.1620s-30s.

With a lengthy note by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

item 1

• ShW 1: William Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint (‘From off a hill whose concave womb reworded’)

Copy of part of lines 41-2, here beginning ‘Of monarkes hands y^t letts not bounty fall’, partly erased.

First published in Sonnets (London, 1609). The poem is discussed and attributed to John Davies (1565?-1618) of Hereford in Brian Vickers, Shakespeare, A Lover's Complaint, and John Davies of Hereford (Cambridge, 2007). The attribution disputed and debated in various subsequent letters to TLS (July-October 2007) and book reviews.

item 2

• RaW 192: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard (‘If all the world and loue were young’)

Extract.

One stanza published in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). First published complete in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Latham, pp. 16-17. Rudick, Nos 45A and 45B, pp. 117, 119-20 (two versions, as ‘Her answer’ to Marlowe's poem on p. 116 and as ‘The Milk maids mothers answer’) respectively. For the companion poem by Marlowe, which accompanies most of the texts of Ralegh's ‘reply’, see MrC 10-19.

MS V.a.152

Four octavo leaves removed fom the verse miscellany Folger MS V.a.97, bound in the order pp. 77-8, 83-4, 79-80 and 81-2, in modern half crushed morocco on marbled boards. c.late 1630s.

pp. 77-8

• JnB 376: Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe (‘Come leaue the lothed stage’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben: Johnsons ode to himself’.

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.

pp. 79-80

• StW 1409: William Strode, Ben: Johns. Ode translat. per Gu. Stroad, Proc. Oxon. (‘Scenam defere Musa nauseatam’)

Copy, headed ‘The Ode in Latine by M^r Stroude’.

First published in Ben Jonson, ed. C. H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, Volume X (Oxford, 1950), 335-6. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 351.

For Jonson's original ode, see JnB 367-381.

pp. 81-2

• RnT 417: Thomas Randolph, Ionson's Ode to Himself, translated (‘Eho jam satis & super Theatro’)

Copy, headed ‘The same by Thomas Randolph’.

First published in S.R., A Crew of kind London Gossips …to which is added ingenious Poems or Wit and Drollery (London, 1633). Thorn-Drury, pp. 149-51. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, Volume X (Oxford, 1950), pp. 336-7.

MS V.a.153

Copy of a 579-stanza version, in a professional secretary hand, lacking a title, here beginning ‘I Sing thy sad dissaster (fatall king)’, on 193 quarto pages, in calf. c.1628.

HuF 10: Sir Francis Hubert, Edward II (‘It is thy sad disaster which I sing’)

‘Balcarres’ at top of first page. Phillipps MS 9186.

First published, in an unauthorised edition as The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second. Together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gavestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Pöem, London, 1628. First authorised edition, as The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer, London, 1629. An edition of a 576-stanza version in three cantos, entitled The Life of Edward II, was printed in London 1721 from an unidentified MS.

Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed ‘The Life and Death of Edward the Second’, including ‘The Authors Preface’ beginning ‘Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so’?).

MS V.a.159

An oblong octavo miscellany of chiefly music and verse, in several secretary hands, 136 leaves (including blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. c.1559-1610.

Scribbled name (f. 22r) ‘Sarah Scalther[?]’. Sotheby's, 14 July 1887, lot 481. Formerly Folger MS 448.16.

f. 4v

• WyT 52: Sir Thomas Wyatt, ‘Blame not my lute, for he must sownd’

Copy of the incipit in a musical setting for the lute.

Edited from this MS and discussed in Ivy L. Mumford, ‘Musical Settings to the Poems of Sir Thomas Wyatt’, M&L, 37 (1956), 315-22, and in John H. Long, ‘Blame not Wyatt's Lute’, RN, 7 (1954), 127-30 (and see also Vol. 8 (1955), 12-14).

Not published in the 16th century. Muir & Thomson, pp. 212-13.

f. 13r

• SuH 32: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, ‘In winters iust returne, when Boreas gan his raigne’

Copy of the incipit in a musical setting.

This MS discussed in Mumford.

First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 24, pp. 75-7. Jones, pp. 12-14.

MS V.a.160

A quarto verse miscellany, 170 leaves, paginated 1-8 (Latin text in a small secretary hand), then pp. 1-162 (in one or possibly two largely italic hands; pp. 108-57 blanks; pp. 158-62 containing later notes), in modern red morocco gilt. The pagination cited below relates to the second, main series of pagination. c.1640.

Inscribed on a flyleaf in red ink ‘Matheus Day me suum vvst’: i.e. Matthew Day (d.1661), five times Mayor of Windsor. Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger. Collier's sale, 1884, lot 906. Formerly Folger MS 452.1.

p. 1

• RaW 420: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘I cannot bend the bow’

Copy of a six-line version, headed ‘To his loue’ and here beginning ‘There is a bow wherein to shoote I sue’. The text followed by ‘Her answere’, beginning ‘You bended have the bow’.

First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an ‘indecorous trifle’).

p. 2

• B&F 137: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy, headed ‘A Melancholy meditation’, with the second stanza placed first (here beginning ‘Welcome folded armes, and fixed eyes’).

For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

p. 2

• CoR 725.3: Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre (‘A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the comett’ and here beginning ‘A Starre of late was seene in virgoe's trayne’.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.

pp. 3-4

• DrM 24: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)

Copy, untitled.

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

pp. 10-11

• BmF 71: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)

Copy of lines 49-68, headed ‘Vpon a dead M^rs.’ and here beginning ‘Yee wormes my Riualls, whilst she was aliue’.

First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.

p. 14

• CwT 753: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’)

Copy, headed ‘Of a fayre and vertuous Mistris. A Sonett’.

pp. 14-15

• StW 25: William Strode, Answere or Mock-song (‘Ile tell you true wheron doth light’)

Copy, headed ‘An answere of a Contrary M^rs. A sonnett’.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Forey pp. 155-6.

p. 15

• KiH 653: Henry King, Sonnet. The Double Rock (‘Since Thou hast view'd some Gorgon, and art grow'n’)

Copy, headed ‘A sonnet against a Mistris’, subscribed ‘D^r. H: King’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 167-8.

pp. 16-17

• KiH 780: Henry King, Upon the King's happy Returne from Scotland (‘So breakes the Day, when the Returning Sun’)

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 81-2.

p. 18

• StW 427: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox (‘A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine’)

Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman that had the small pox’.

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

p. 18

• KiH 554: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a weeping Gentlewoeman’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 147-8.

p. 22

• HeR 221: Robert Herrick, To God: an Anthem, sung in the Chappell at White-Hall, before the King (‘My God, I'm wounded by my sin’)

Copy, headed ‘An Anthem by M^r. Herricke’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Noble Numbers (London, 1647) appended to Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 342. Patrick, p. 454.

pp. 22-3

• RnT 389: Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger (‘Arithmetique nine digits, and no more’)

Copy, headed ‘Randolph on the losse of his little finger that was cut of’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.

p. 23

• RaW 215: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice (‘Beefore the sixt day of the next new year’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r. Walter Ralegh's prophecie of Cardes & Dice’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.

First published as ‘A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice’ in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as ‘Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas’ and ‘On the Cardes and dice’ respectively).

pp. 23-5

• HeR 123: Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack (‘Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare’)

Copy, headed ‘Herrick's farewell 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.

pp. 25-6

• RnT 560: Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School (‘What heat of learning kindled your desire’)

Copy, headed ‘A Lamentation On the conflagration of the Muses habitation The burning of an Accidence’.

Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to ‘T. R.’. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.

pp. 26-35

• DkT 2: Thomas Dekker, Paul his Temple triumphant (‘O Troynouant (my mother) whoe hast tolld’)

Copy, preceded by a dedicatory epistle to ‘The iudiciouslie Learned and Excellent Latine Poett...M^r Symon English Counsellor at Law’, subscribed ‘Tho: Dekker’.

Edited from this MS in Hoeniger.

First published in F. David Hoeniger, ‘Thomas Dekker, the Restoration of St. Paul's and J.P. Collier, the Forger’, Renaissance News, 16 (1963), 181-200 (pp. 194-200).

pp. 35-6

• DkT 1: Thomas Dekker, A new Ballad of y^e dauncing on y^e ropes to y^e tune of a rich Merchant man, &c (‘I sing of a wonder strange’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Decker’.

Edited from this MS in Hoeniger.

First published in F. David Hoeniger, ‘Thomas Dekker, the Restoration of St. Paul's and J.P. Collier, the Forger’, Rennaisance News, 16 (1963), 181-200 (pp. 193-4).

pp. 39-41

• RnT 228: Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge (‘Lament, lament, ye Scholars all’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the fall of the Miter tauerne in Cambridge’.

First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.

pp. 47-50

• RnT 196: Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes (‘Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell’)

Copy, headed ‘Randolph's paying his creditours’.

First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.

pp. 50-1

• KiH 124: Henry King, The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon his choice’.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

pp. 51-2

• ToA 58: Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury (‘Victorious beauty, though your eyes’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.

pp. 54-5

• CaW 26: William Cartwright, On a Gentlewomans Silk-hood (‘Is there a Sanctity in Love begun’)

This MS collated in Evans.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 232-4. Evans, pp. 483-4.

pp. 64-6

• KiH 391: Henry King, The Legacy (‘My dearest Love! When Thou and I must part’)

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 170-2.

pp. 66-70

• RnT 461: Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks (‘Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon A Cock-fighting’.

(Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17^th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.

pp. 70-3

• BmF 150.89: Francis Beaumont, A Song in the Praise of Sack (‘Listen all I you pray’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Sack’.

Unpublished?

pp. 76-7

• SuJ 205: John Suckling, Upon Sir John Suckling's hundred horse (‘I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King’)

Copy.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.

pp. 77-9

• SuJ 224: John Suckling, Sir John Suckling's Answer (‘I tell thee foole who'ere thou be’)

Copy.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.

pp. 79-85

• HoJ 72: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the fart that was let in the Parliament house’.

Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of ‘Doubtful Verses’ in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.

pp. 89-90

• SuJ 153.8: John Suckling, A Letter to a Friend to diswade him from marrying a Widow which he formerly had been in Love with, and quitted

Copy, headed ‘Written by one to his freind that woed a widow, to whome he had foermerly bin a Suitor when she was a maide’.

Collated in Clayton.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 155-6.

pp. 90-1

• RnT 516: Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale (‘When shall we meet again and have a taste’)

Copy, ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay.

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

pp. 94-5

• DeJ 33: Sir John Denham, Elegy on the Death of Judge Crooke (‘This was the Man! the Glory of the Gown’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie on the Death of Judge Crooke. by M^r. Denham’.

This MS recorded in O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks, p. 48.

First published in The Topographer for the year 1790 (London, 1790), II, 177. Banks, pp. 156-8.

pp. 95-107

• DeJ 13: Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill (‘Sure there are Poets which did never dream’)

Copy of a 340-line version, beginning ‘Sure we have Poetts that did never dreame’, as ‘written by M^r. Denham to M^r. Waller’.

Edited from this MS (as ‘Draft II’) in O Hehir, pp. 91-105 (and collated and described pp. 48-51).

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

MS V.a.161

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and some prose, in a secretary hand, largely written in oblong format, 36 pages (including blanks), in vellum wrappers (a recycled medieval religious text). Early 17th century.

Formerly among the manuscripts of the Isham family at Lamport Hall, Northamptonshire.

Recorded in HMC, 3rd report (1872), Appendix, p. 253.

pp. 12-13

• TiC 31: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament (‘My prime of youth is but a frost of cares’)

Copy, written in oblong format, untitled.

Edited from this MS in Richard Barnfield, The Complete Poems, ed. George Klawitter (London & Toronto, 1990), p. 189. Recorded in Hirsch.

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

pp. 13-14

• KyT 1: Thomas Kyd, Hendecasyllabon T.K. in Cygneam Cantionam Chidiochi Tychborne (‘Thy prime of youth is frozen with thy faults’)

Copy, written in oblong format, headed ‘Answer’.

Edited from this MS in The Complete Poems of Richard Barnfield, ed. A.B. Grosart (London, 1876), pp. 211-12.

First published in Verses of Prayse and Ioye (London, 1586). Boas, pp. 340-1. Probably not by Kyd.

pp. 16-17

• BaR 8: Richard Barnfield, To the right Wor Sir John Spenser Knighte Alderman of the honnorable Citty of London and lorde treasurer of Lady pecunia (‘Led by the swifte reporte of winged fame’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Richard Barnfield’.

Edited from this MS in Grosart (where it is mistakenly described as autograph), with a facsimile on p. 198. Edited in Klawitter. Discussed in Morris, pp. 142-3.

First published as a dedicatory epistle to The Encomion of Lady Pecunia (London, 1605). Grosart, pp. 214-15. Arber, p. 84. Klawitter, p. 190.

pp. 20-1

• JnB 144: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on S<alomon> P<avy> a Child of Q. El<izabeths> Chappel (‘Weepe with me all you that read’)

Copy, headed ‘Epitaphium’.

Edited from this MS in The Complete Poems of Richard Barnfield, ed. A. B. Grosart (London, 1876), pp. 217-18.

First published in Epigrammes (cxx) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 77.

MS V.a.162

A quarto verse miscellany (originally in two separate volumes), including eleven poems by Donne, chiefly in two hands, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 98 leaves, one of the original vellum covers now incorporated in modern red morocco. Mid-17th century.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Stephen Wellden’ and ‘Abraham Bassano’ and (f. 98r) ‘Elizabeth Weldon’. Later owned by William John Thoms (1803-85), writer, antiquary and librarian. Sotheby's, 11 February 1887 (Thoms sale), lot 1092. Also owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.4.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Welden MS’: DnJ Δ 49.

f. 1v

• HrJ 67: Sir John Harington, A good answere of a Gentlewoman to a Lawyer (‘A vertuous Dame, that saw a Lawyer rome’)

Copy, untitled, imperfect, half a page torn away.

First published in 1618, Book III, No. 39. McClure No. 240, pp. 248-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 90, p. 224.

ff. 5r-v

• BcF 30: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, headed ‘Humaine life characted’.

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. 10r

• HyT 1: Thomas Heywood, Of Lucrece (‘If to thy bed the adulterer welcome came’)

Copy, headed ‘Of Lucrece’.

First published in Pleasant Dialogves and Dramma's (London, 1637), p. 268.

f. 11v

• DnJ 1653: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)

Copy of lines 1-9

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.

f. 12v

• HrG 13: George Herbert, The Altar (‘A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant reares’)

Copy.

This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 26.

f. 12v

• ShW 24: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 71 (‘No longer mourn for me when I am dead’)

Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet’.

This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67 (as his sonnet 75).

f. 20r

• B&F 23: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Bloody Brother, V, ii, 21-32. Song (‘Take o take those lipps away’)

Copy of the song, untitled.

Dyce, X, 459. Jump, p. 67. Bowers, X, 237. The first stanza first published in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (First Folio, 1623), IV, i. Authorship discussed in Jump, pp. 105-6 (first stanza probably by Shakespeare, second by Fletcher).

f. 20r

• RnT 8.3: Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicam (‘Sweet, doe not thy beauty wrong’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Deere doe not your faire bewty wronge’.

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.

ff. 20v-1r

• DnJ 1234: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)

Copy of lines 1-54, headed ‘A Expostulation’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as ‘Elegie XV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.

f. 23v

• SuJ 116: John Suckling, Inconstancie in Woman (‘I am confirm'd a woman can’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r John Suckling verses’. The text followed (ff. 23v-4) by ‘The Answ[er]:’.

Edited from this MS in A. D[yce], ‘Inedited Song by Sir John Suckling’, N&Q, 1st Ser. 1 (December 1849), 72. Collated in Clayton.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 96-7.

Henry Lawes's musical setting published in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652).

f. 25v

• DnJ 2929: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.

f. 26r

• DrM 44: Michael Drayton, ‘Nothing but No and I, and I and No’

Copy, headed ‘Idea’.

First published, as sonnet 8, in Idea in Englands Heroicall Epistles (London, 1599). Hebel, II, 313 (sonnet 5).

f. 26r

• ShW 21: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 32 (‘If thou survive my well-contented day’)

Copy, headed ‘A sonnet’.

This MS collated in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.

f. 31v

• TiC 32: Chidiock Tichborne, Tichborne's Lament (‘My prime of youth is but a frost of cares’)

Copy, headed ‘Tichbornes Elegy in y^e tower befors execution’.

This MS text collated in Hirsch.

f. 32r

• RaW 261: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, untitled.

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.

f. 32v

• JnB 594: Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song (‘Still to be neat, still to be drest’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 32v

• HrJ 280: Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues (‘You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘You wish mee to a wife, rich, fare, & younge’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.

f. 33r

• DnJ 160: John Donne, Antiquary (‘If in his Studie he hath so much care’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘If Hammon in his study hath such care’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 93. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled and beginning ‘If, in his study, Hamon hath such care’), 8 (as ‘Antiquary’), and 11.

f. 34r

• HrJ 224: Sir John Harington, Of Blessing without a crosse (‘A Priest that earst was riding on the way’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘An honest Vicar ridinge by the way’.

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

f. 34r

• HrJ 62: Sir John Harington, A comparison of a Booke, with Cheese (‘Old Haywood writes, & proues in some degrees’)

Copy, headed ‘Vt caseus liber’ and here beginning ‘Heywood affirmes & prooues in some degrees’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 72. McClure No. 326, pp. 276-7. Kilroy, II, Book I, No. 1, p. 130.

f. 35r

• RaW 407: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘ICUR, good Mounser Carr’

Copy, headed ‘On my Lord Carre’.

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. 35v

• GrF 41: Fulke Greville, Mustapha, IV, iv, 116-117 (‘Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘On Treason’ and here beginning ‘Treason is like the basiliscus eye’.

Bullough, II, 118.

f. 35v

• HrJ 267: Sir John Harington, Of Treason (‘Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.

f. 36r

• CoR 382: Richard Corbett, Little Lute (‘Little lute, when I am gone’)

Copy, headed ‘One wrote in his loues absence on her lute’.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.

Some texts followed by an answer beginning ‘Little booke, when I am gone’.

f. 37r

• DnJ 1742: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Begger’ and here beginning ‘The begger cannott goe, nor stand hee cryes’.

First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Zoppo’) and 10.

f. 37r

• RaW 421: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘I cannot bend the bow’

Copy, headed ‘On the lady Bendbow’.

First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an ‘indecorous trifle’).

f. 37r

• DyE 86: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall’

Copy, headed ‘A Louers conceipt’.

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

f. 38r

• CoR 756: Richard Corbett, On the Proctors Plotts (‘When plotts are Proctors vertues, and the gift’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 166.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 100.

f. 38v

• RaW 318: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Rauleigh to his sonne (‘Three thinges there bee that prosper up apace’)

Copy of lines 1-12, headed ‘S^r: Walter Rawley to his sonne’.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 140.

First published in Latham (1929), p. 102. Latham (1951), p. 49. Rudick, No. 52, p. 125.

f. 39r

• HoJ 329: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r. Poulden's delight of N: Coll. in Oxon’[i.e. ascribed to Robert Polden, who matriculated at New College, Oxford, 14 October 1597], here beginning ‘O Loue whose force & might’.

Osborn, p. 301.

f. 45r-v

• GrJ 91: John Grange, ‘What if rude nature hath less care exprest’

Copy, headed ‘On deformity’.

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. 49r-v

• DnJ 2351: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’

Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman whom the author taught to loue & complem^t’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as ‘Elegie VII’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.

f. 51r-v

• JnB 640: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnson on the Peake’.

Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.

f. 56r

• HoJ 243: John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins (‘Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge’)

Copy, following the Latin version, which is headed ‘M^r: Hoskins to his sonne’.

Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).

f. 56r

• B&F 41: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Chances, V, iii, 92-119. Song (‘Come away, thou lady gay!’)

Copy, headed ‘The coniuringe of y^e witch’.

Printed from this MS in James Orchard Halliwell, The First Sketch of Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor, Shakespeare Society (London, 1842), p. 69; recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, p. 150.

First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, VII, 211-304 (pp. 296-8). Bullen, IV, 435-531, ed. E. K. Chambers (pp. 524-5). Bowers, IV, 550-629, ed. George Walton Williams (pp. 621-2).

f. 58r

• JnB 262: Ben Jonson, A Grace by Ben: Johnson. extempore. before King James (‘Our King and Queen the Lord-God blesse’)

Copy of a version headed ‘A grace said before y^e king by his Jester’ and beginning ‘The Kinge and eke y^e Queene God blesse’.

First published (?) in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), II, 14. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 418-19.

f. 59v

• HoJ 183: John Hoskyns, Mr. Hoskins one M^r Permenter at the Chancerye in London (‘M^r Permentor stands at y^e Cent^er’)

Copy, headed ‘Hoskins on M^r Permenter at the Chancery in L:’.

Osborn, p. 211.

ff. 60r-2r

• CoR 43: Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge (‘It is not yet a fortnight, since’)

Copy, headed ‘March. 7. anno Dni. 1625. A Graue Poem as it was praesented by diuers sheepesheads before his Maiesty in Cambridge’.

A copy of ‘An answere’ to this poem is on ff. 70r-1v.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.

Some texts accompanied by an ‘Answer’ (‘A ballad late was made’).

f. 64r

• RaW 349: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty’

Copy, headed ‘Rawleys reply on Noel’, directly following ‘On S^r Walter Rawley, by one Noel’.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 138.

f. 65v

• RaW 216: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice (‘Beefore the sixt day of the next new year’)

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.

f. 65v

• HrJ 164.5: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Cobler, and an ignorant Curat (‘A Cobler, and a Curat, once disputed’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘A curate & a Cobler longe disputed’.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 66. McClure No. 67, p. 173. Kilroy, Book I, No. 10, p. 97.

f. 66r

• DnJ 310: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded 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.

f. 66v

• DnJ 1979: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)

Copy of lines 1-12, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.

ff. 66v-8r

• CoR 359: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r: Corbett: on the Princes & Duke of Buckingham goinge into Spayne’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

ff. 76v-7v

• CoR 554.5: Richard Corbett, A Proper New Ballad intituled The Faeryes Farewell: Or God-a-Mercy Will (‘Farewell, Rewards & Faeries’)

Copy, headed ‘The Fayries farwell’.

First published (omitting lines 57-64) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published complete in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 49-52.

f. 79r-v

• WoH 99: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of a version headed ‘On the Spanish Lady w^ch the prince should marry’ and beginning ‘You meaner beauty to the sight’.

f. 79v

• DnJ 1915: John Donne, The Lier (‘Thou in the fields walkst out thy supping howers’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Sir John Simeon, ‘Unpublished Poems of Donne’, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, p. 31. Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 95. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled) and 8.

f. 80r

• MrJ 70: John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII (‘Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree’)

Copy.

ff. 80v-1r

• DrM 25: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)

Copy, headed ‘On a man vppon himselfe that made this beeinge in loue.’

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

f. 81r

• StW 809: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbett, on a faire Gentlewoman walking by when it snow'd’ and here beginning ‘As I saw Clora walke alone’.

f. 81v

• BrW 167: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)

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

f. 82r-v

• CoR 448: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)

Copy, headed ‘Tom of Christchurch newly cast’.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 80.

f. 83r

• DkT 21: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)

Copy, with partly cropped heading ‘Uppon the remoove of Queene Elizabeth…Whitehall by Water’.

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.

f. 83r

• DnJ 1890: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)

Copy, headed ‘De Caluo’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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.

f. 83r

• DaJ 196: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘one a child y^t died as soone as it was borne’ and here beginning ‘As carefull nurses doe their infants lay’.

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

f. 83v

• BrW 8.5: William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Books I and II

Copy of Book I, Song 3, lines 477-8, headed ‘M^r. Browne on his mistresse’ and here beginning ‘Nature hath wrought a gemme beyond compare’.

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

f. 83v

• PoW 91: Walton Poole, On the death of King James (‘Can Christendoms great champion sink away’)

Copy, headed ‘On King James his death’.

f. 84r

• StW 329: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Noe fiter match could e're haue beene’.

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

f. 85r-v

• EaJ 53: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death (‘Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse’)

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 40-2. Extract in Bliss, pp. 227-8. Possibly written by Jasper Mayne (1604-72).

f. 85v

• CoR 526: Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles (‘When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbett B^p. of Ox: on y^e Prince's birth’.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.

f. 86r

• HoJ 133: John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart (‘Reader I was born and cried’)

Copy, headed ‘On a fart in y^e Parliam^t house’.

f. 87r-v

• StW 500: William Strode, On Faireford windores (‘I know noe paint of Poetry’)

Copy, the heading cropped.

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

f. 88v

• CoR 725.5: Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre (‘A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Blazing starre’, subscribed ‘R. C.’

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.

f. 88v

• HoJ 11: John Hoskyns, ‘A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late’

Copy, headed ‘On a Lockesmith’.

Whitlock, p. 108.

f. 88v

• StW 1029: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)

Copy.

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).

f. 89r

• MoG 25: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, the heading cropped by a binder.

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

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

f. 89r

• StW 690: William Strode, A pursestringe (‘Wee hugg, imprison, hang and save’)

Copy.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 44-5. Forey, p. 210.

f. 89v

• StW 1324: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, the heading cropped.

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

f. 89v

• RaW 120: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)

Copy, headed ‘A Fancy’.

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).

f. 90r

• CoR 509: Richard Corbett, On Mr. Rice the Manciple of Christ-Church In Oxford (‘Who can doubt Rice to which Eternall place’)

Copy, the heading cropped by a binder.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 73.

f. 90r

• DnJ 1109: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Death of M^rs Boulsted’, incomplete.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as ‘Elegie. Death’). Shawcross, No. 151 (as ‘Elegie: Death’). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.

f. 90r

• JnB 289: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)

Copy.

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.

f. 90v

• BrW 146: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Born Blind, and so Dead (‘Who (but some one like thee) could ever say’)

Copy, the heading largely cropped by a binder.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 148.

f. 90v

• StW 1381: William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie (‘Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke’)

Copy, headed ‘A Blush’.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

ff. 91v-2r

• CwT 1250.3: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy.

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.

ff. 95r-6v

• SiP 158: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 62 (‘What toong can her perfections tell’)

Copy, headed ‘In prayse of bewty’, transcribed from a printed source.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 560, and in Robertson, p. 459.

Ringler, pp. 85-90. Robertson, pp. 238-42.

MS V.a.164

A quarto volume of writings relating to the Earl of Essex and his rebellion, in two professional secretary hands, 162 leaves (including many blanks), in modern half morocco marbled boards. Early 17th century.

ff. 23r-33r

• EsR 233: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy of the 8 February arraignment, headed ‘The manner of the proceedings of Robert Earle of Essex, and Henry Earle of Southampton, with their Arreignement...Written by Francis ap. Rice, and by him aproued of’.

ff. 35r-78v

• EsR 234: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy.

ff. 86v-9r

• EsR 298: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, headed ‘The manner of Robert Ea: of Ess: his / The manner of Robert Earle of Essex his execution’.

Facsimile of ff. 86v-7r in Elizabeth I Then and Now, ed. Georgianna Ziegler (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC, 2003), p. 70.

Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

ff. 134r-44r

• BrN 53.5: Nicholas Breton, The Passion of a Discontented Minde (‘From silent night, true register of mones’)

Copy, headed ‘A repentant Poem made by Robert Earle of Essex while he was Prisonner in the Tower. 1601.’

This MS partly collated in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 613-15. Collated in May, pp. 125-7.

First published in London, 1601. Attributed to Breton in Robertson, pp. xcii-xcviii, but see also Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 613-15. Printed and firmly attributed to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, in The Poems of Edward De Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, and of Robert Devereux, Second Earl of Essex, ed. Steven W. May, Studies in Philology, 77, No. 5 (Early Winter 1980), pp. 49-59 (No. 11) and pp. 94-106.

MS V.a.169

A sextodecimo miscellany of verse and topographical prose, probably in a single small cursive hand, 78 leaves, written from both ends, Part I foliated 1r-33r, Part II foliated 1r-45r, in old calf. c.1650s-60s.

Inscribed (Part I, f. 1r) ‘M^r John Oldhams Booke’ [i.e. the poet John Oldham (1653-83)]. Inscribed (Part II, f. 1r) ‘James Bateman’ [(b.1633/4) of Christ's College, Cambridge], and ‘Robert Pierrepont’ [either the son of Col. Francis Pierrepont, M.P. (d.1659), or the third Earl of Kingston (1650/1-82), of Holme-Pierrepoint, Nottinghamshire, Oldham's patron]. Formerly Folger MS 621.1.

Described in F.P. Hammond, ‘A Commonplace Book owned by John Oldham’, N&Q, 224 (December 1979), 515-18.

Part II, f. 2r-v

• MrC 12: Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love (‘Come live with mee, and be my love’)

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘The milkemaids song’, apparently transcribed from Izaak Walton, The Compleat Angler (London, 1653).

This MS collated in Bowers.

First published in a four-stanza version in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). Printed in a six-stanza version in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Bowers, II, 536-7. Tucker Brooke, pp. 550-1. Gill et al., I, 215. For Ralegh's ‘Answer’ see RaW 189-99.

Part II, f. 2v-3r

• RaW 193: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard (‘If all the world and loue were young’)

Copy, headed ‘The milke maids mothers answer’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 112.

Part II, f. 3r-v

• DnJ 319: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded 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.

Part II, f. 4r-5r

• WoH 217: Sir Henry Wotton, A Description of the Country's Recreations (‘Quivering fears, heart-tearing cares’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 531-3, subscribed ‘Ignoto’, among ‘Poems Found among the Papers of S. H. Wotton’. Described in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 239-40, as ‘a Copy printed amongst Sir Henry Wottons Verses, and doubtless made either by him, or by a lover of Angling’. Hannah (1845), pp. 55-9.

Part II, ff. 6r-7r

• WoH 240: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, here ascribed to ‘D^r Don’.

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.

Part II, f. 7r

• CwT 912: Thomas Carew, Song. Perswasions to enjoy (‘If the quick spirits in your eye’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

Part II, f. 10v

• RaW 184: Sir Walter Ralegh, Like to a Hermite poore (‘Like to a Hermite poore in place obscure’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Like Hermit poore in pensive place obscure’.

This MS collated in Hughey, II, 314; recorded in Latham, p. 104.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, pp. 11-12. Rudick, Nos 57A and 57B (two versions, pp. 135-6).

Part II, f. 11r

• CwT 754: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Aske me no more where Jove bestowes’

This MS collated in P.F. Hammond, ‘A Commonplace Book owned by John Oldham’, N&Q, 224 (December 1979), 515-18 (p. 516).

Part II, f. 11v

• CmT 111: Thomas Campion, ‘Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white’

Copy, untitled.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xii. Davis, pp. 34-5.

Part II, f. 15r

• HeR 155: Robert Herrick, Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse (‘Among the Mirtles, as I walkt’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Amidst the mirtles as I walk’.

First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 106-7. Patrick, p. 147. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

Part II, ff. 15v-16r

• GrJ 54: John Grange, ‘Not that I wish my Mistris’

Copy, untitled.

Part II, f. 16r

• WoH 100: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of lines 1-7, untitled, deleted.

Part II, f. 17r

• HeR 218: Robert Herrick, To Anthea, who may command him any thing (‘Bid me to live, and I will live’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 108-9. Patrick, pp. 149-50. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

Part II, ff. 17v-18r

• WaE 434: Edmund Waller, Song (‘Chloris! farewell. I now must go’)

Copy, untitled.

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

Part II, f. 19v

• WoH 101: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of a four-stanza version, untitled.

Part II, f. 20r-v

• HaW 49: William Habington, The Queene of Arragon. The Song in the fourth Act (‘Fine, young folly, though you were’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, anonymously, in London, 1640. The song, in a musical setting by William Tompkins, published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues, Book III (London, 1653). Allott, p. 152.

Part II, f. 26r

• SuJ 132: John Suckling, Song (‘I prethee send me back my heart’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Clayton.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes (1592-1662), in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues in Three Bookes (London, 1653). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 89-90.

Probably written by Henry Hughes.

Part II, ff. 27v-8r

• HeR 38: Robert Herrick, Charon and Phylomel, A Dialogue sung (‘Charon! O gentle Charon! let me wooe thee’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 248. Patrick, p. 327. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

Part II, f. 28v

• CwT 1180: Thomas Carew, Truce in Love entreated (‘No more, blind God, for see my heart’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘No more blind Boy for see my heart’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.

Part II, f. 29v

• HeR 288: Robert Herrick, The Willow Garland (‘A Willow Garland thou did'st send’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 161. Patrick, p. 217. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in John Playford, Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

Part II, f. 32r

• StW 810: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, untitled.

Part II, f. 40r

• ClJ 169: John Cleveland, To his Mistress (‘Fetch me an Occulist for the Sunne’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J: Cleveland’.

Morris & Withington, pp. 71-2.

Part II, f. 44v

• BrW 168: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Boy drowned in the snow’.

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

MS V.a.170

A quarto verse miscellany, pp. 13-244 in a single largely roman hand, the remainder in varying styles in one or more other hands (up to c.1655), probably associated with Oxford University, 541 pages (of which pp. 1-12, 87-8 have been extracted and pp. 251-68, 334, 400, 410-540 are blank, with stubs of other extracted leaves at the end), in contemporary brown calf. Including 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett and 57 poems (plus a second copy of one poem and four poems of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1630s[-55].

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: possibly his MS 18123. Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), literary scholar and bookseller. Formerly MS 646.4.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Dobell MS’: CoR Δ 8 and StW Δ 18A. Discussed in Bertram Dobell in The Athenaeum, No. 4475 (2 August 1913), p. 112. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 23).

p. 13

• CoR 658: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him (‘Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold’)

Copy of the last four lines, here beginning ‘Not Tigresse like, shee feeds vpon a Man:’, under a running head ‘R: C: on M^ris. Mallet’, imperfect, lacking the rest.

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

pp. 13-14

• CoR 252: Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem (‘Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on’)

Copy, headed ‘R:C: on D^r. Price his Aniversary on Prince Henry’.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 107.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.

The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's ‘Answer’ (‘So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace’), and see also CoR 227-46.

pp. 14-15

• CoR 231: Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum (‘Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory’)

Copy, headed ‘R: C: againe, to D^r Price’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.

For related poems see CoR 247-78.

pp. 16-18

• PoW 40: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘W: P: on M^ris Poole’.

This MS collated in Wolf (as MS W).

p. 20

• DnJ 1508: John Donne, His parting from her (‘Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night’)

Copy of a 42-line version, headed ‘R.C: on his wives departure’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

p. 21

• StW 558.5: William Strode, On the death of Mistress Mary Prideaux (‘Weepe not because this Child hath died soe young’)

Copy.

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

p. 21

• StW 312: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)

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

p. 22

• StW 880: William Strode, Song (‘O when will Cupid shew such Art’)

Copy, under a general heading ‘W: S: Sonnets’.

Edited probably from this MS in Dobell.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 6. Forey, p. 76.

pp. 22-3

• StW 732: William Strode, Song (‘As I out of a Casement sent’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Dobell and in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 11-12. Forey, pp. 77-9.

pp. 23-5

• StW 712: William Strode, A Sigh (‘O tell mee, tell, thou God of winde’)

Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; text from this MS in Forey.

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

pp. 25-6

• StW 1001: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)

Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet. W: S.’

Text from this MS in Forey.

pp. 26-7

• StW 913: William Strode, Song (‘When Orpheus sweetly did complaine’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song. W: S.’

Edited in part from this MS in Dobell.

First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dobell, pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 79-80. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).

p. 27

• StW 1359: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘Sing aloud, harmonious sphears’)

Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet. W: S:’.

Printed from this MS in Dobell; recorded in Forey.

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

p. 27

• B&F 181: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, V, ii, 13-22. Song (‘Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes’)

Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet. W: S.’

Dyce, V, 297. Bullen, IV, 302. Bowers, IV, 360-1.

p. 28

• StW 370: William Strode, On a freind's absence (‘Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay’)

Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet. W: S.’.

This MS collated and the text of lines 1-8 from this MS in Forey.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 13. Forey, pp. 95-6.

p. 29

• B&F 138: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy, headed ‘Melancholly. WS’.

For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

pp. 29-30

• WeJ 9: John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi, IV, ii, 61-72. Song (‘O let us howle, some heavy note’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Come, lett vs howle some heavy Note’.

Cambridge edition, I, 541.

pp. 30-1

• JnB 25: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph (‘See the Chariot at hand here of Love’)

Copy of lines 21-30, headed ‘A Sonnet’ and here beginning ‘Have you seene the white Lilly grow’.

This MS probably the Dobell MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

pp. 31-2

• PeW 279: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Song (‘Draw not too near’)

Copy, under a running head ‘A Sonnet. W S’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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.

pp. 32-3

• StW 974: William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection (‘Like to the casting of an Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song W: S.’.

Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.

First published in Poems and Psalms by Henry King, ed. John Hannah (Oxford & London, 1843), p. cxxii. Dobell, pp. 50-1. Forey, pp. 107-8.

MS texts usually begin ‘Like to the rolling of an eye’.

p. 33

• StW 724: William Strode, Song (‘As I my flockes lay keeping, mine Eyes fell a sleeping’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Forey.

First stanza only first published in Dobell (1907), p. 130. The remaining six stanzas unpublished. Complete in Forey, pp. 80-2.

pp. 33-4

• StW 894: William Strode, A song (‘Thoughts doe not vexe me while I sleepe’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

pp. 34-5

• StW 168: William Strode, In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)

Copy, headed ‘On Musicke. W: S.’ and here beginning ‘When whispring streams with creeping wind’.

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).

pp. 35-8

• CwT 480: Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters (‘So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes’)

Copy, under a running head ‘T:C: on the Letters &c.’

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.

p. 38

• DaJ 197: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Child’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Mothers will to bedde soone lay’.

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

p. 42

• StW 617: William Strode, On three Dolphins sewing down Water into a white Marble Bason (‘These Dolphins, twisting each on others side’)

Copy, headed ‘On the picture, Of two Dolphins, in a Fount.’ and here beginning ‘These dolphins twisting each on either side’.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660). Dobell, p. 46. Forey, p. 185.

p. 42

• StW 1119: William Strode, To a Valentine (‘Fayre Valentine, since once your welcome hand’)

Text in part from this MS in Forey.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 42. Forey, p. 193.

pp. 42-3

• StW 201: William Strode, Justification (‘See how the rainbow in the skie’)

Copy, headed ‘On Justification. W: S.’

Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.

p. 43

• CwT 1265.5: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r. Lewis, to his Love’.

p. 43

• WoH 102: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy, headed ‘On Q: Anne. By S^r. H: W.’.

p. 44

• RaW 262: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy of a variant version, headed ‘On Man’, here beginning ‘What is our Life, but a play of derision’ and ascribed in a running head to ‘W: S.’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

p. 45

• StW 385: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)

Copy, inscribed at the side in a different ink ‘T.C.’

Text from this MS in Forey.

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

pp. 45-6

• StW 1298: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, headed ‘A Lover, to his M^ris. WS.’.

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

p. 46

• StW 1224: William Strode, A watchstring (‘Tymes picture here invites your eyes’)

Copy of the second couplet, here beginning ‘my stringes can doe, what no man could’, inscribed in a different ink ‘W S’.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 44. Forey, p. 210.

pp. 46-7

• KiH 73: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘The faire Boyes Answere’.

pp. 47-8

• StW 844: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘A song. W: S.’

This MS collated in Forey.

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

p. 48

• StW 759: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman walking in the snow. W: S.’

pp. 48-9

• BrW 131: 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 a yong Gentlewoman, that dyed’.

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

p. 49

• RaW 466: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Say not you love, unless you do’

Copy, headed ‘A lady to D^r. Donne’.

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.

p. 49

• StW 1343: William Strode, On Jealousy (‘There is a thing that nothing is’)

This MS recorded in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 49. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

pp. 49-51

• StW 542: William Strode, On the Bible (‘Behold this little Volume here inrold’)

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 51-2. Forey, pp. 46-7.

pp. 51-2

• BrW 209: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Countess of Pembroke’.

p. 55

• CwT 284.5: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on a Flie. T: C:’.

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. 55-6

• CoR 502: Richard Corbett, On Mr. Rice the Manciple of Christ-Church In Oxford (‘Who can doubt Rice to which Eternall place’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^r. Rice Manciple of Ch: Ch:’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 73.

p. 56

• StW 10: William Strode, Another (‘I, your Memory's Recorder’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Register for a Bible’.

Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 53. Forey, p. 52.

p. 56

• StW 698: William Strode, A Register for a Bible (‘I am the faithfull deputy’)

Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 52-3. Forey, p. 52.

pp. 57-9

• DnJ 88: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Doctor Donne: vpon Flavia’.

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.

pp. 59-60

• StW 453: William Strode, On a good legge and foote (‘If Hercules tall Stature might be guest’)

Copy, headed ‘On a good Legge & foot. W: S.’

Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.

pp. 60-1

• StW 1075: William Strode, To a frinde (‘Like as the hande which hath bin usd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘W: S: To a Friend’ and here beginning ‘Like to the hande which hath bin usde to play’.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 99-100. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), p. 130. Forey, p. 31.

pp. 61-2

• MoG 26: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of K: James. G: M.’

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

pp. 62-3

• StW 1249: William Strode, With Pen, Inke and paper these to a distressed &c. (‘Here is paper, pen and Inke’)

Copy, headed ‘With Penne, Inke, and Paper: to a distressed Friend. W: S.’

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 101-2. Forey, pp. 15-16.

pp. 63-4

• StW 274: William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe (‘Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewomans blistred Lip. W: S.’

Edited in part from this MS in Dobell.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.

p. 64

• StW 1133: William Strode, To his Sister (‘Lovinge Sister, every line’)

Copy, headed ‘W: S: To his Sister’.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 88. Forey, p. 198.

pp. 65-6

• StW 582: William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham (‘Meerely for death to greive and mourne’)

Copy, inscribed ‘W: S.’

Edited in part from this MS in Dobell.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.

pp. 66-7

• CoR 477: Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 (‘Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke’)

Copy, inscribed ‘W: S.’

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 144.

First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.

pp. 67-68bis

• JnB 661: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge’)

Copy, headed ‘To K: James B: J.’

Either this MS or JnB 662 probably the Dobell MS recorded in Greg, p. 10.

Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.

For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

p. 68bis

• HoJ 134: John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart (‘Reader I was born and cried’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Farte lett in the Parlm^t house’.

pp. 70-1

• MoG 96: George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt (‘Well fare those three that where there was a dearth’)

Copy, headed ‘On the crowne of a Hatt dranke in. G: M.’

pp. 71-2

• StW 1060: William Strode, Thankes for a welcome (‘For your good Lookes, and for your Clarett’)

Edited probably from this MS in Dobell.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, p. 102. Forey, p. 30.

pp. 72-6

• CoR 210: Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… (‘The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on’)

Copy, headed ‘To M^r Hammond, Parson of Bewdly: for the beating down of the Maypole’.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 130.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.

An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note ‘None of D^r Corbets’ and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.

p. 76

• JnB 290: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)

Copy, headed ‘On An Houreglasse’.

This MS probably the Dobell MS collated 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.

pp. 76-8

• StW 1094: William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde (‘Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘To a Gentlewoman, for a Friend. W:S.’.

This MS collated in Forey.

Lines 15-20 (beginning ‘Oft when I looke I may descrie’) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.

pp. 78-9

• MoG 66: George Morley, On the Nightingale (‘My limbs were weary and my head oppressed’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Nightingale. G: M.’

p. 79

• HoJ 12: John Hoskyns, ‘A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late’

Copy.

Whitlock, p. 108.

pp. 80-1

• StW 559: William Strode, On the death of Mistress Mary Prideaux (‘Weepe not because this Child hath died soe young’)

Copy, inscribed at the side in a different ink ‘W. S.’

Edited in part from this MS in Dobell.

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

pp. 81-5

• StW 518: William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge (‘Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I’)

Copy of the sequence, headed ‘On the same. M: M: P.’

Edited from this MS in Dobell and in Forey.

Sequence of three poems, the second headed ‘Consolatorium, Ad Parentes’ and beginning ‘Lett her parents then confesse’, the third headed ‘Her Epitaph’ and beginning ‘Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine’. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.

pp. 85-6

• CoR 169: Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London (‘When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke’)

Copy, headed ‘On D^r. Ravis Bish^pp of London. R:C.’, imperfect, lacking the ending on excised pp. 87-8.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.

p. 89

• DnJ 3210: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy of lines 39-48, under the running head ‘D^r. Donne: to his M^ris’, here beginning ‘Like pictures, or like gay bookes Coverings, made’, imperfect, lacking the beginning on excised pp. 87-8.

This MS recorded in Gardner and 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.

p. 89

• StW 1353: William Strode, A Riddle on a Kisse (‘What thing is that, nor felt, nor seene’)

Copy, inscribed ‘W: S.’

This MS recorded in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 48-9. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 340.

p. 90

• StW 417: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox (‘A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman, that had the small poxe’, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

This MS collated in Forey.

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

p. 90

• StW 627: William Strode, On Twins divided by death (‘Where are you now, Astrologers, that looke’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of a Twin: W: S.’

Edited from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 66. Forey, pp. 115-16.

pp. 91-2

• StW 601: William Strode, On the death of the young Baronet Portman, dying of an Impostume in the head (‘Is death soe cunning now, that all her blow’)

Copy, headed ‘On the young Baronett Portman, dying of an Impostume in's head’, subscribed ‘W: S.’

Edited from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 66-8. Forey, pp. 112-13.

pp. 92-3

• StW 681: William Strode, A pursestringe (‘Wee hugg, imprison, hang and save’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Purse-string. W: S.’

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 44-5. Forey, p. 210.

pp. 93-4

• StW 1160: William Strode, To Sir Jo. Ferrers (‘Gold is restorative. How can I then’)

Copy, inscribed ‘W: S.’

Edited from this MS in Dobell; text from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 88-9. Forey, pp. 200-1.

pp. 94-6

• StW 1177: William Strode, To the Same [Sir Jo. Ferrers] (‘If empty Vessells can resounde’)

Copy, inscribed ‘W: S.’

Edited from this MS in Dobell; text from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 90-2. Forey, pp. 202-4.

p. 97

• StW 1167: William Strode, To Sir John Ferrers for a token (‘It grieves mee that I thus due thanks retayne’)

Copy, headed ‘To S^r Jo: Ferrers. W: S.’

Edited from this MS in Dobell; text from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 92-3. Forey, pp. 204-5.

pp. 97-8

• StW 1156: William Strode, To Sir Edmund Ling (‘Sir, I had writt in Lattin, but I feare’)

Copy, inscribed ‘W. S.’

Edited from this MS in Dobell; text from this MS in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 93. Forey, p. 199.

pp. 98-100

• StW 1174: William Strode, To the Lady Knighton (‘Madam, due thanks are lodgde within my breast’)

Copy, inscribed ‘W: S.’

Edited from this MS in Dobell; collated, and the text of lines 1-20 taken from this MS, in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 94-5. Forey, pp. 53-4.

pp. 100-1

• WoH 103: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘Vpon the La: Elizabeth: By S^r. H: Wootton’ and here beginning ‘You glorious trifles of the East’.

p. 101

• CoR 717: Richard Corbett, Upon the Same Starre (‘A Starre did late appeare in Virgo's trayne’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbett: on the blazing starre’.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 138.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 65.

pp. 101-2

• RnT 517: Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale (‘When shall we meet again and have a taste’)

Copy, subscribed ‘B. J.’

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

pp. 103-4

• StW 131: William Strode, For a Gentleman who kissing his frinde, at his departure out of England, left a Signe of blood upon her (‘What Mystery was this, that I should finde’)

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.

pp. 104-6

• StW 595: William Strode, On the death of Lady Caesar (‘Though death to good men be the greatest boone’)

Copy, inscribed ‘W: S.’

Edited from this MS in Dobell.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 80-2. Forey, pp. 116-18.

pp. 106-26

• CoR 285: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r. Corbets Iter Boreale’.

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

pp. 127-53

• EaJ 67: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Satyra Itineraria (‘Mensis erat cum cana seges per pinguia rura’)

Copy, inscribed ‘Jo: Earls:’.

This MS recorded in The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 118. Transcript by G. Thorn-Drury in Bodleian, Thorn-Drury e. 26 (end leaves).

Unpublished.

pp. 153-4

• CoR 693: Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes (‘Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse’)

Copy, headed ‘On Farford windowes: D^r. Corbett’.

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

pp. 154-7

• StW 490: William Strode, On Faireford windores (‘I know noe paint of Poetry’)

Copy, headed ‘On Farford windowes. W: S:’.

Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.

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

pp. 157-8

• CoR 427: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)

Copy, headed ‘On Tom of Christchurch. J: Warm. &c.’

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

pp. 158-9

• CaW 65: William Cartwright, On the Prince Charles death. W.C. (‘Tis vayne to weepe; or in a riming spite’)

Copy, as by ‘W:C.’

First published in Willa McClung Evans, PMLA, 54 (1939), 406-11. Evans, pp. 570-1.

pp. 159-60

• JnB 175: 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 Body: Ben, Johnson’.

This MS probably the ‘Dobell MS II’ collated in Herford & Simpson.

pp. 160-3

• JnB 213: 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, under the running head ‘The Minde. B: J.’

This MS probably the ‘Dobell MS’ collated in Herford & Simpson.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

pp. 163-4

• ShW 13: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2 (‘When forty winters shall besiege thy brow’)

Copy, headed ‘To one that would dye a Mayd’.

Printed from this MS in Bertram Dobell, ‘An Early Variant of a Shakespeare Sonnet’, The Athenaeum (2 August 1913), p. 112, and in Alden, p. 22; recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67 (e).

Edited and most manuscript copies collated in Gary Taylor, ‘Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 68/1 (Autumn 1985), 210-46.

pp. 164-7

• HeR 279: 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.

pp. 170-1

• StW 932: William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment (‘Preferment, like a Game at bowles’)

Copy, as by ‘W: S’.

Edited from this MS in Dobell; collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.

pp. 171-4

• StW 950: William Strode, A Song of Capps (‘The witt hath long beholding bin’)

Copy, headed ‘The Capps: W: S.’.

Edited from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.

p. 175

• RaW 467: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Say not you love, unless you do’

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue. J D’.

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.

p. 175

• StW 1120: William Strode, To a Valentine (‘Fayre Valentine, since once your welcome hand’)

Copy, as by ‘W: S:’.

Text in part from this MS in Forey.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 42. Forey, p. 193.

p. 175

• StW 668: William Strode, Poses for Braceletts (‘This keepes my hande’)

Copy of the third stanza, headed ‘A Posee vpon a sent Bracelet’ and here beginning ‘Vouchsafe my Prisoner thus to bee’.

Third stanza (beginning ‘Voutchsafe my Pris'ner thus to be’) and fourth stanza (beginning ‘When you putt on this little bande’) first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 43-4. Forey, p. 34.

pp. 175-6

• StW 148: William Strode, A Girdle (‘When ere the wast makes too much hast’)

Copy of the first two couplets, headed ‘Vpon a Girdle’.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 329.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.

p. 176

• StW 1047: William Strode, A Superscription on Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia sent for a Token (‘Whatever in Philoclea the Faire’)

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 43. Forey, p. 18.

p. 177

• AlW 158: 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 ‘De Doctoribus Reynolds; qui contrariæ inter se opinionis, alter in alterius fecessit partem’, inscribed at the side ‘D^r. Alabasster’.

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

pp. 177-8

• KiH 451: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy, untitled, under a running head ‘D^r. Jo: King &c.’

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. 178

• CoR 515: Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles (‘When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Birth of Prince Charles. R:C.’

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.

pp. 178-9

• RnT 168: Thomas Randolph, In Natalem Augustissimi Principis Caroli. [Englished] (‘Thy first birth Mary was unto a tombe’)

Copy, untitled, following the Latin version which is headed ‘In Eundem &c: T: R:’.

First published, following a Latin version beginning ‘Prima tibi periit soboles (dilecta Maria)’, in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 78-9.

pp. 179-82

• MyJ 23: Jasper Mayne, On Mris Anne King's Tablebook of Pictures (‘Mine eyes were once blessed with the sight’)

Copy, headed ‘On Pictures, in M^ris. An: Kings booke’, inscribed at the side in another hand ‘Jasp: Maine’.

Unpublished?

pp. 182-4

• StW 215: William Strode, A Letter impos'd (‘Goe, happy paper, by commande’)

Copy, headed ‘A Letter: W: S.’

Edited from this MS in Dobell.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 100-1. The Poems and Amyntas of Thomas Randolph, ed. John Jay Parry (New Haven & London, 1917), pp. 219-20. Forey, pp. 32-3.

p. 184

• StW 651: William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy (‘Returne my joyes, and hither bring’)

Copy, headed ‘W: S: Opposite to Melancolly’.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.

pp. 184-7

• JnB 377: Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe (‘Come leaue the lothed stage’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnsons ode to himselfe’.

pp. 187-90

• RnT 30: Thomas Randolph, An answer to Mr Ben Johnson's Ode to perswade him not to leave the stage (‘Ben doe not leave the stage’)

Copy, headed ‘An Answere to the Ode: T: R:’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 82-4. Davis, pp. 63-76.

For the poem by Ben Jonson, which appears with Randolph's ‘answer’ in many of the MSS, see JnB 367-81.

pp. 190-2

• CwT 1033: Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (‘'Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand’)

Copy, headed ‘T: C: to B. J: & his ode’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.

pp. 192-4

• RnT 418: Thomas Randolph, Ionson's Ode to Himself, translated (‘Eho jam satis & super Theatro’)

Copy, headed ‘T: R: Translation of the Ode’.

MS V.a.177

Copy, in a secretary hand, on twelve quarto leaves, in modern red morocco gilt. c.1600.

EsR 127: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology

First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.

MS V.a.180

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, much relating to the Fane and Mildmay families, in a single predominantly italic hand, 130 leaves, in contemporary calf, remains of silk ties. Compiled by Sir Francis Fane (c.1612-80), of Fulbeck Hall, Northamptonshire, with his signed dedications to his son Henry (ff. 2r-v, 130r) dated respectively 1 January ‘1655’ and ‘20^th. of Aug^t: 1663’. c.1655-63.

ff. 7v-10v

• MiG 6: Grace, Lady Mildmay, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter of advice, beginning ‘My deare child Mildmay Fane I y^r louinge & olde Grandmother Exhort you...’ and subscribed ‘Your loving Grandmother Grace Mildmay’.

Text of this letter in Linda Pollock, With Faith and Physic: The Life of a Tudor Gentlewoman, Lady Grace Mildmay, 1552-1620 (London, 1993), pp. 42-4. Discussed in Susan E. Hrach, ‘“Heare Councill and Receiue Instructions”: Situating the Mother's Legacy in Manuscript’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2006). pp. 207-15.

ff. 18v-24v

• EsR 170: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland

Copy, untitled., subscribed ‘Jan: 4: H: S:’.

The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning ‘My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state...’.

First published, as ‘The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels’, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.

Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in ‘The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars’, SP. 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in ‘Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments’, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.

f. 78r

• SuJ 100: John Suckling, Foreknowledge Englished thus (‘If man might know’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Clayton and described p. 296.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton p. 93.

f. 96v

• CoA 285: Abraham Cowley, Extracts

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

f. 97r

• JnB 393: Ben Jonson, On English Mounsievr (‘Would you beleeue, when you this Movnsievr see’)

Copy of lines 7-8, headed ‘Ben: Johnson seeing a Fantasticall man new come from beyond the sea said,’ here beginning ‘Hee is French soe much’.

First published in Epigrammes (lxxxviii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 56.

MS V.a.192

A quarto miscellany of verse, state papers and parliamentary speeches, in several secretary and mixed hands, 134 leaves (plus numerous blanks), written from both ends chiefly on rectos only (Part I: ff. 1r-113r, Part II: ff. 1r-21r), disbound. c.1640s.

Part I, ff. 15r-22r

• WaE 792: Edmund Waller, Speech in the House of Commons, 22 April 1640

Copy, headed ‘M^r Wallar speech in Pliament 1640’.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 306.

A speech beginning ‘I will use no preface, as they do who prepare men to something to which they would persuade them...’ First published in two variant editions, as A Worthy Speech Made in the house of commons this present Parliament 1641 and as An Honorable and Learned Speech made by Mr Waller in Parliament respectively (both London, 1641). In Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), pp. 306-8. It is doubted whether Waller actually delivered this speech in Parliament, though ‘He may have prepared and circulated the speech in manuscript to impress contemporaries’.

Part I, ff. 108r-11r

• BcF 478: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621.

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

Part II, f. 2r

• DaW 21: Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day (‘Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present’)

Copy, untitled.

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

Part II, f. 7r

• HoJ 224: John Hoskyns, S^r Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount S^t Albons (‘Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Great Verulam is very lame y^e Goute or goe out feelinge’.

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

ff. 15r-17r

• SuJ 20: John Suckling, A Ballade, Upon a Wedding (‘I tell thee Dick, where I have been’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled.

This MS recorded in Clayton.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646): Clayton, pp. 79-84.

MS V.a.198

A quarto composite volume of verse and prose tracts, in several secretary and italic hands, 33 leaves, with early 19th-century interleaving throughout, in old calf.

Haslewood-Phillipps MS 9613.

ff. 30r-44v

• SoR 267.4: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Foure-fold Meditation: of the foure last things (‘O wretched man, which louest earthlie thinges’)

Copy, in a possibly professional secretary hand, untitled. c.1600.

First published, as ‘By R: S. The author of S. Peters complaint’, in London, 1606. The poem is more commonly ascribed to Philip Howard (1557-95), first Earl of Arundel, Catholic Saint, with whom Southwell was acquainted (see McDonald, pp. 6-7, 121-2). EV17760.