CELM: The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 200 through 299

MS V.a.206

An octavo volume of speeches by Bacon, in at least three professionalsecretary hands, 66 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum, with ties. c.1640.

BcF 374: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Bookplate of John Harvey, of Ickwell Bury, Bedfordshire, and Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Myers sale catalogue, undated, item 65 (illustrating a page of the speech of 7 May 1617). Formerly Folger MS 471027.

MS V.a.208

MS, partly in a scribal hand, partly in the hand of William Lambarde, with his deletions and revisions, on 24 quarto leaves plus four tipped-in leaves at the end, in contemporary vellum. 1590.

BcF 739: Francis Bacon, The Office of Compositions for Alienations

A tract, beginning ‘All the finances of revenues of the imperial crown of this realm of England...’. Discussed in Spedding, IX, 120-1. By William Lambarde (1536-1601), whose partly autograph MS (1590) is in the Folger (MS V.a.208), but the work is frequently ascribed to Bacon, who may have used and adapted it at the time of the debate on alienations in October 1601.

MS V.a.214

An octavo volume of Catholic devotional meditations in Latin, in a single small secretary hand, 239 unnumbered leaves, in contemporary vellum, traces of ties. Compiled by an unidentified Jesuit in Louvain. c.1614.

Phillipps MS 2599.

ff. [1r-20r]

• SoR 341: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Meditationes de Attributis Divinis ad amorem Dei excitantes

Copy, with a title-page, the work here ascribed to ‘B. P. C^a. Roberti Sotuuellj. mart.’

Unpublished.

MS V.a.219

A quarto miscellany of verse extracts, in a single italic hand (but for additions on f. 35r-v), foliated 14-52, in contemporary vellum. Mid-17th century.

Inscribed inside the front cover ‘F. C. Wellstood / Oxford’. Inscribed (f. 35r) ‘W. C. 1789’.

ff. 18r-25v

• RnT 590: Thomas Randolph, Extracts

Sixty-two numbered extracts, headed ‘The Poems of Thom: Randolph Gentl: Master of Arts and Letters of Trinitie Coll. in Cambridge’.

f. 25v

• FeO 43: Owen Felltham, On his beloved friend the Author, and his ingenious Poems (‘What need these busy wits? who hath a Mine’)

A six-line extract, No. 5 in a series of 45 extracts (on ff. 25v-9r) ‘Out of the poems written vpon Thom: Rand:’.

f. 27v

• MyJ 40: Jasper Mayne, Extracts

Extracts.

ff. 29r-32v

• WaE 914: Edmund Waller, Extracts

Forty-five extracts from the ‘Poems of Ed: Waller of Beckonsfeild Esquire’.

f. 33r

• JnB 499: Ben Jonson, To Lvcy, Countesse of Bedford, with M^r. Donnes Satyres (‘Lvcy, you brightnesse of our spheare, who are’)

Copy of lines 13-16, untitled and here beginning ‘They, though few / Bee of the best: and 'mongst those, best are you’, as No. 1 in a series of extracts from ‘Ben: Johnson his poems’.

First published in Epigrammes (xciiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 60-1.

f. 33r

• JnB 510: Ben Jonson, To Sir Henrie Savile (‘If, my religion safe, I durst embrace’)

Copy of lines 25-36, untitled and here beginning ‘Although to write bee lesser then to doe’, as No. 2 in a series of extracts from ‘Ben: Johnson his poems’.

First published in Epigrammes (xcv) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 61-2.

f. 33r

• JnB 506: Ben Jonson, To Robert Earl of Salisbvrie (‘Who can consider thy right courses run’)

Copy, as No. 3 in a series of extracts from ‘Ben: Johnson his poems’

First published in Epigrammes (lxiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 47.

f. 33r

• JnB 410: Ben Jonson, On the new Motion (‘See you yond' Motion? Not the old Fa-ding’)

Copy of lines 19-20, untitled and here beginning ‘What is't soe swels each lim?’, as No. 4 in a series of extracts from ‘Ben: Johnson his poems’.

First published in Epigrammes (xcvii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 62-3.

f. 33r

• JnB 516: Ben Jonson, To Sir Thomas Roe (‘Thou hast begun well, Roe, which stand well too’)

Copy of lines 3-6, 9-12, untitled and here beginning ‘Hee that is round within himselfe, and streight’, as No. 5 in a series of extracts from ‘Ben: Johnson his poems’

First published in Epigrammes (xcviii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 63.

f. 33r

• JnB 553: Ben Jonson, To William Earle of Pembroke (‘I doe but name thee Pembroke, and I find’)

Copy of lines 9-12, untitled and here beginning ‘They follow vertue for reward to day’as No. 6 in a series of extracts from ‘Ben: Johnson his poems’.

First published in Epigrammes (cii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 66.

f. 33r

• JnB 518: Ben Jonson, To Svsan Covntesse of Montgomery (‘Were they that nam'd you, prophets? Did they see’)

Copy of lines 1-8, as No. 7 in a series of extracts from ‘Ben: Johnson his poems’.

First published in Epigrammes (ciiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 67.

ff. 33v-4r

• JnB 97: Ben Jonson, Epistle. To Katherine, Lady Avbigny (‘'Tis growne almost a danger to speake true’)

Copy of lines 1-6, 26-32, 43-52, 121-4, 71-2, 77-80, untitled, as Nos 8-12 in a series of extracts from ‘Ben: Johnson his poems’.

First published in The Forrest (xiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 116-20.

f. 34r-v

• JnB 147: Ben Jonson, Epode (‘Not to know vice at all, and keepe true state’)

Copy of lines 1-4, 55-62, 65-74, 91-103, 115-16, untitled, as Nos13-17 in a series of extracts from ‘Ben: Johnson his poems’.

First published in Diuerse Poeticall Essaies appended to Robert Chester, Loues Martyr (London, 1601). The Forrest (xi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 109-13.

f. 34v

• JnB 95: Ben Jonson, Epistle To Elizabeth Covntesse of Rvtland (‘Whil'st that, for which, all vertue now is sold’)

Copy of lines 65-7, 35-6, untitled and here beginning ‘You, and that other starre, that purest light’, as Nos 18-19 in a series of extracts from ‘Ben: Johnson his poems’.

First published in The Forrest (xii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 113-16.

f. 52r

• GrF 41.5: Fulke Greville, Mustapha, IV, iv, 116-117 (‘Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes’)

Copy of the couplet, here beginning ‘Mischeife is like the Cocatrices Eyes’.

Bullough, II, 118.

MS V.a.220

A quarto miscellany of poems and plays, in probably three hands, written from both ends (Part I: paginated 1-15, 1-108, 1-72, 1-21; Part II: pp. 1-45), 261 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. Inscribed ‘Charles Crompton / Non magna / loquimur, / sed virimus / 1667’, whose large rounded hand is probably responsible for a number of headings in the volume. c.1667.

Owned c.1872, by Sir Charles Bunbury, Bt, of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Bookplate of Henry Edward Bunbury. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 164 (October 1896), item 53. Item 348 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly MS Add. 650.

This volume recorded in HMC, 3rd Report (1872), Appendix, p. 241. Recorded, as of unknown whereabouts, in Clark, II, 965.

Part I, p. 13 (first pagination)

• OrR 3: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, ‘Reproach me not how heretofore’

Copy, headed ‘This Song was made by The Lord Broghill’ and here beginning ‘Reproach mee not though heertofore’.

36 lines, unpublished.

Part I, pp. 15, 1-108 (second pagination)

• OrR 29: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Mustapha

Copy, in an italic hand, with a title-page in Compton's hand ‘These Two Playes Mustapha And Henry y^e Fifth were made by the Lord Broghill Earl of Orery in Ireland’; the next page with the title ‘Mustapha’ written sideways; followed by the text of the play separately paginated 1-108, with a running head ‘Mustapha’.

First performed on the London stage 3 April 1665. First published, as Mustapha, The Son of Solyman the Magnificent, London, 1668. Clark, I, 225-304.

Part I, pp. 1-72 (third pagination)

• OrR 14: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Henry the Fifth

Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘Henry the Fifth’.

First performed on the London stage 13 August 1664. First published London, 1668. Clark, I, 165-224.

Part II, pp. 7-17

• MaA 339: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)

Copy, with a title-page in Crompton's hand, as ‘the Last Worke of S^r John Denham...1666’.

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.

Part II, pp. 18-25

• CoA 92: Abraham Cowley, ‘Happy art Thou, whom God does bless’

Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed ‘The Garden’, subscribed ‘Abraham Cowley’.

First published in Poems upon Divers Occasions (London, 1647). Waller, II, 422-8. Sparrow, pp. 180-8.

MS V.a.221

A quarto volume of two tracts, in a professional cursive mixed hand, viii + 18 leaves, with three octavo leaves in another hand loosely inserted, in modern half crushed morocco on marbled boards. c.1620s-30s.

Bookplate of Sir Walter Wilson Greg (1875-1959), bibliographer, with his notes dated November 1897 when at Trinity College, Cambridge. Item 288 in an unidentified sale catalogue.

ff. 2r-11r

• OvT 50: Sir Thomas Overbury, Observations in his travailes

Copy.

A tract beginning ‘All things concurred for the rising and maintenance of this State...’. First published as Sir Thomas Overbvry his Observations in his Travailes vpon the State of The Xvii. Provinces as they stood Anno Dom. 1609 (London, 1626). Rimbault, pp. 223-30. Authorship uncertain.

ff. 11v-17r

• CtR 414: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England

Copy, headed ‘A short view of the life of Henry the third’, unascribed, incomplete.

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).

pages tipped-in at the end

• ClJ 253: John Cleveland, A letter to a Friend, disswading him from his attempt to marry a Nunn

Copy.

Published in Poems By J. C. ([London], 1653). Published in Clieveland Vindiciæ (London, 1677), pp. 153-60.

MS V.a.224

Transcript of The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis, together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus (London, ‘1693’ [i.e. 1692]), without the prefatory matter, in a single neat hand, 364 quarto pages, in contemporary calf. c.1700.

Bookplates of Johannes Winckley, of Preston, and of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector. Bought in Calcutta in 1843 by Alexander Gardyne (1801-85), author. Sotheby's, 1889 (Gardyne sale), lot 0000. Booklabel of the John Dryden Collection formed by Percy J. Dobell (1876-1956), bookseller.

pp. 1-11, 21-39, 56-8, 126-44, 203-7

• DrJ 174: John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (‘Still shall I hear, and never quit the Score’)

Copy of Dryden's translation of Satires I, III, VI, X and XVI.

This MS collated in California.

First published (‘…together with the Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus’) in London, ‘1693’ [i.e. 1692] (as ‘By Mr. Dryden, and Several other Eminent Hands’, Dryden's contribution being the prefatory ‘Discourse concerning Satire’ and Satires I, III, VI, X and XVI). Kinsley, II, 599-740 (Dryden's contributions). California, IV, 2-252 (Dryden's contributions). Hammond, IV, 3-137.

pp. 145-58

• CgW 2.5: William Congreve, The Eleventh Satyr of Juvenal (‘If Noble Atticus makes plenteous Feasts’)

Copy.

First published in John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (London, 1693 [i.e. 1692]). Summers, IV, 10-22. Dobrée, pp. 254-69. McKenzie, II, 337-47.

pp. 2-3

• CgW 46.5: William Congreve, To Mr. Dryden, On his Translation of Persius (‘As when of Old Heroique Story tells’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Will: Congreve’.

First published in John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (London, 1693 [i.e. 1692]). Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, IV, 23-4. Dobrée, pp. 252-3. McKenzie, II, 335-6.

pp. 4-71 (second pagination)

• DrJ 177.5: John Dryden, The Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus (‘I never did on cleft Parnassus dream’)

Copy of Dryden's complete translation.

First published in London, ‘1693’. California, IV, 253-361.

MS V.a.225

Copy, in a professional hand, varying slightly in style, headed ‘The State of Innocence or the Fall of Man’, on 43 quarto pages, in modern half crushed morocco on cloth boards. c.1674-7.

DrJ 290: John Dryden, The State of Innocence, and Fall of Man

Once owned by Percy J. Dobell (1871-1956).

First published in London, 1677. Scott-Saintsbury, V, 93-178. See Vinton A. Dearing, ‘Textual Analysis of Dryden's State of Innocence’, TEXT, 2 (1985), 12-23.

MS V.a.226

An octavo compilation of extracts from plays and poems, in a single italic hand, written on rectos only from both ends (the two sections, 48 leaves each, virtually identical), 96 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, remains of clasps. Late 17th century.

Booklabel of the John Dryden Collection formed by Percy J. Dobell (1876-1956), bookseller.

Part I, p. 1

• OrR 8: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, The Black Prince

Extracts.

First performed on the London stage 10 October 1667. First published London, 1669. Clark, I, 305-72.

Part I, pp. 1-4

• OrR 39: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Tryphon

Extracts.

Part I, pp. 4-8

• OrR 15: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Henry the Fifth

Extracts.

First performed on the London stage 13 August 1664. First published London, 1668. Clark, I, 165-224.

Part I, pp. 8-16

• OrR 30: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Mustapha

Extracts.

First performed on the London stage 3 April 1665. First published, as Mustapha, The Son of Solyman the Magnificent, London, 1668. Clark, I, 225-304.

Part I, pp. 22-4

• DrJ 267.5: John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

Extracts.

Recorded in California, IX, 383, 408.

First published in London, 1667. California, IX (1966), pp. 1-112.

Part I, pp. 23-39

• DeJ 123.2: Sir John Denham, The Sophy

Extracts.

First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 232-309.

Part I, pp. 25-6

• DrJ 247.97: John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts

Extracts.

First published in London, 1672. California, XI, 1-100, 101-218.

Part I, pp. 26-8

• DrJ 255.2: John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part II

Extracts.

Part I, pp. 29-32

• DrJ 247.7: John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe

Extracts.

First published in London, 1676. California, XIII (1994), pp. 147-250.

Part I, pp. 40-3

• LeN 10.5: Nathaniel Lee, Oedipus

Extracts.

By Nathaniel Lee and John Dryden. First published in London, 1679. Stroup & Cooke, I, 367-449. California edition of Dryden's works, XIII (1962), 114-215.

Part I, pp. 44-7

• SdT 40: Thomas Shadwell, Timon of Athens, the Man-Hater

Extracts.

First published in London, 1678. Summers, III, 183-275.

Part I, p. 48

• DrJ 281.6: John Dryden, The Rival Ladies

Extracts.

First published in London, 1664. California, VIII (1962), pp. 93-179.

Part II, pp. 1-6

• OrR 8.5: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, The Black Prince

Extracts.

First performed on the London stage 10 October 1667. First published London, 1669. Clark, I, 305-72.

Part II, pp. 6-8

• OrR 40: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Tryphon

Extracts.

Part II, pp. 8-9

• OrR 16: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Henry the Fifth

Extracts.

First performed on the London stage 13 August 1664. First published London, 1668. Clark, I, 165-224.

Part II, pp. 10-11

• OrR 31: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Mustapha

Extracts.

First performed on the London stage 3 April 1665. First published, as Mustapha, The Son of Solyman the Magnificent, London, 1668. Clark, I, 225-304.

Part II, pp. 26-8

• DrJ 267.6: John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

Extracts.

First published in London, 1667. California, IX (1966), pp. 1-112.

Part II, pp. 29-32

• DrJ 247.98: John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts

Extracts.

First published in London, 1672. California, XI, 1-100, 101-218.

Part II, pp. 32-8

• DrJ 255.4: John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part II

Extracts.

Part II, pp. 39-43

• DrJ 247.8: John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe

Extracts.

First published in London, 1676. California, XIII (1994), pp. 147-250.

Part II, p. 44

• DeJ 123.5: Sir John Denham, The Sophy

Extracts.

First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 232-309.

Part II, pp. 45-7

• SdT 41: Thomas Shadwell, Timon of Athens, the Man-Hater

Extracts.

First published in London, 1678. Summers, III, 183-275.

Part II, p. 48

• DrJ 281.8: John Dryden, The Rival Ladies

Extracts.

First published in London, 1664. California, VIII (1962), pp. 93-179.

MS V.a.231

Copy of an early version, in the hand of Ralph Crane (fl.1589-1632), poet and scribe, on 93 small quarto pages (plus two blanks with 19th-century annotations), in addition to a title-page ‘A Game att Chesse’ dated ‘August 13^o, Anno Dni, 1624’, cropped by a binder, in modern boards. Including the Induction but without an epilogue, with one annotation (p. 32) in Middleton's hand and with a few corrections, deletions and stage directions added in black ink probably also by Crane. 1624.

*MiT 18: Thomas Middleton, A Game at Chess

Inscribed (on title-page) ‘Mervyn Archdall’ [i.e. The Rev. Mervyn Archdall (1723-91), of Dublin.

This MS doscussed in R.C. Bald, ‘An Early Version of Middleton's “Game at Chesse”’, MLR, 38 (1943), 177-80, and in Susan Zimmerman, ‘The Folger Manuscripts of Thomas Middleton's A Game at Chesse: A Study in the Genealogy of Texts’, PBSA, 76 (1982), 159-95. Recorded in Harper.

Facsimile examples in James G. McManaway, ‘The Authorship of Shakespeare’, Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography, and Theater (New York, 1969), 175-210 (p. 203); Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 92.

First published in London, [1625]. Bullen, VII, 1-136. Edited by R.C. Bald (Cambridge, 1929) and by J.W. Harper (London, 1966). An ‘early form’ in Oxford Middleton, pp. 1779-1824, with a ‘later form’ on pp. 1830-85.

MS V.a.232

A quarto miscellany principally of English and Latin verse, drama, and jests, perhaps largely in a single hand, written from both ends, iv + 181 pages, in contemporary calf. Inscribed by, and the MS most likely compiled by, the Rev. Henry Newcome (1650-1713), of St Edmund's Hall, Oxford, in 1669, rector at Middleton, Manchester. c.1669.

A pencil note (f. [i^v]) refers to ‘Original MSS otherwise from Hockwold Hall’.

Part I, p. 36

• WoH 190.2: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)

Copy, headed ‘On one who died the next day after his wife’, here beginning ‘She first deceased, he after liv'd and tried’.

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, pp. 37-8

• CoA 23: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking (‘The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 51. Sparrow, p. 50.

Musical setting by Silas Taylor published in Catch that Catch Can: or the Musical Companion (London, 1667). Setting by Roger Hill published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

Part I, p. 38

• StW 1284: William Strode, Jack on both Sides (‘I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, as ‘The Church Papist’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as ‘The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed’ by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, ‘The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

Part I, p. 62

• ShJ 158: James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song (‘The glories of our blood and state’)

Copy of the dirge, untitled, subscribed ‘by James Shirley’.

Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).

Part I, pp. 98-100

• MaA 72.8: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn (‘I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene’)

Copy, partly in double columns, headed ‘The Chequer Inne’.

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

MS V.a.234

Copy of a 585-stanza version, here beginning ‘I sing the sad disaster fatall king’, in a probably professional cursive secretary hand, headed in a different secretary hand ‘The history of the troublesome Raigne of King Edward the second...1626’, subscribed ‘Finis Infortunio’, 72 quarto leaves, in modern boards. c.1626.

HuF 11: Sir Francis Hubert, Edward II (‘It is thy sad disaster which I sing’)

Phillipps MS 23893. Inscribed (free front endpaper) ‘Grenville C. Cunningham, 11^th Nov. 1910’. Formerly Folger MS 5519.

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.239

A quarto volume of state letters, in a single professional hand, xxvi + c.955 pages (misnumbered around pp. 895-6), including a table of contents (and plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, remains of ties. c.1630s.

pp. 42-5

• LyJ 31: John Lyly, A petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth

Copy, headed ‘A Petitionarie Letter from John Lillie to Queene Elizabeth’.

Beginning ‘Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yo^r Highnes w^th many wordes...’. Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.

pp. 45-8

• LyJ 53: John Lyly, A second petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth

Copy, headed ‘Another Letter to Quene Eliz: from John Lilly’.

Beginning ‘Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme...’. Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.

pp. 128-66, 315-16, 329-84, 953-5

• BcF 616: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of various letters by Bacon, to Essex, Cecil, Northampton, Tobie Matthew, Davies, Northumberland, Queen Elizabeth, and others.

pp. 166-94

• BcF 186: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching the Queen's Service in Ireland

Copy.

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

pp. 654-5

• AndL 77: Lancelot Andrewes, Letter(s)

Copy, headed ‘The Bishopp of Winchesters letter to the Archdeacon, to the same effect.’, dated ‘from ffarneham 15^th of August 1622’.

pp. 670-703

• RaW 936: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of letters by Ralegh to his wife, Winwood, James I, and Robert Carr.

p. 704

• RaW 59: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, headed ‘Verses found in S^r. Walter Raleighs Bible in the Gatehowse’.

First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

MS V.a.240

Copy of 22 Rules, lacking a title, with a dedication to Queen Elizabeth, as by ‘ffrancis Bacon’, dated 8 January ‘1596’, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, 115 quarto leaves (plus stubs of excised leaves at the beginning), in contemporary vellum. Early 17th century.

BcF 225: Francis Bacon, Maxims of the Law

First published in The Elements of the Common Lawes of England (London, 1630). Spedding, VII, 307-87.

Bacon claimed to have collected ‘300 of them’, of which only ‘some few’ (25 maxims) were subsequently published. For an attempt to track down the ‘missing’ maxims, see John C. Hogan and Mortimer D. Schwartz, ‘On Bacon's “Rules and Maximes” of the Common Law’, Law Library Journal, 76/1 (Chicago, Winter 1983), 48-77.

MS V.a.241

A quarto composite volume of verse and prose works, in probably four different hands, with a general title-page (f. 2r), 145 pages (foliated 1-13, then paginated 1-[113], plus some blanks), in contemporary calf.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Liber Rogeri Bradon’. Phillipps MS 18640. Bookplate of Sir Edmund Gosse (1849-1928), writer.

ff. 4r-16v

• DnJ 1667: John Donne, Infinitati Sacrum. 16 Augusti 1601 Metempsychosis (‘I sing the progresse of a deathlesse soule’)

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

This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 293-316. Milgate, Satires, pp. 25-46. Shawcross, No. 158.

MS V.a.245

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, probably associated with Oxford and afterwards with the Inns of Court, 73 leaves (plus a few blanks and a modern index). Including 40 poems by Strode and two poems of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9510. (Phillipps sale, lot 1015.) Owned c.1903 by Bertram Dobell (1842-1914). Percy Dobell's sale catalogue No. 68 (1941), item 342. Formerly MS 4201. 27. 1.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Dobell MS II’: StW Δ 19. Formerly Folger MS 1.27.42.

ff. 4v-5v

• DaW 7: Sir William Davenant, Elegie, on Francis, Earle of Rutland (‘Call not the Winds! nor bid the Rivers stay!’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elogie on the Earle of Rutland’, subscribed ‘W^m Davenant’.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 62-4.

ff. 7v-9r

• PeW 242: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy, headed ‘The Paradox’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

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

f. 11r

• CwT 327: Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid (‘When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see’)

Copy, headed ‘Good counsell to a mayde’, subscribed ‘Tho: Carey’.

This MS recorded (as ‘D4’) in Dunlap, p. 224.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.

f. 11v

• CmT 38.5: Thomas Campion, ‘Fire, fire, fire, fire!’

Copy, headed ‘Impatience in Love incurable’.

First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xx. Davis, p. 156-8. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 2.

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• DnJ 2151: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Jo: Donne’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.

ff. 17v-18r

• CmT 169: Thomas Campion, ‘Young and simple though I am’

Copy, headed ‘A Maydes deliberation’, with four additional strophes.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 565-7.

First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.

f. 18v

• HeR 17: Robert Herrick, The admonition (‘Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares’)

Copy, headed ‘Of a proud Ladie that had her hayre drest and stuck with Jewells’.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.

f. 18v

• CwT 1175.5: Thomas Carew, Truce in Love entreated (‘No more, blind God, for see my heart’)

Copy, headed ‘A lover to Cupid’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.

f. 19r

• StW 1367: William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie (‘Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: Stroad’.

Edited from this MS in Dobell; recorded in Forey.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

f. 20v

• CoR 619: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)

Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbet [against the Ladies / gentlewomens new fashion deleted] to the Ladies of the new dresse’.

First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.

This poem is usually followed in MSS by ‘The Ladyes Answer’ (‘Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night’): see GrJ 14.

f. 21r

• GrJ 34: John Grange, ‘Black cypress veils are shrouds of night’

Copy, headed ‘The Ladies & gentlewomens aunsweare to Doctor Corbett’.

An ‘Answer’ to Corbett's ‘To the Ladyes of the New Dresse’ (CoR 595-629), first published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). The Poems of Richard Corbett, ed. J.A.W. Bennett and H.R. Trevor-Roper (Oxford, 1955), p. 91. Listed as by John Grange in Krueger.

f. 21v

• CoR 578: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett (‘What I shall leave thee none can tell’)

Copy, headed ‘To my sonne Vincent on his birth day the 10^th of November 1630 being then three yeares of age / Doctor Corbet Bishop of Oxon’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.

f. 22r

• StW 1389: William Strode, Ad Filiolum Vincentium, in ipsius Natalem 10^ime: Novembris, Anno aetatis 3^to. 1630 (‘Scit nemo quid Opum Tibi relinquam’)

Copy, headed ‘The same in Latin Phaleucians, by M^r. Stroad of Christchurch’.

This MS recorded in Dobell, p. 270.

Unpublished. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 349. In MS sources the poem is invariably preceded by the English poem by Richard Corbett on his son, of which Strode's poem is a Latin translation (see CoR 560-83).

f. 25r-v

• RnT 401: Thomas Randolph, Upon the report of the King of Swedens Death (‘I'le not believe 't. if fate should be so crosse’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon the rumor of the King of Sweedens death variously and uncertainely reported in November & December 1632’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 94-5.

f. 26r

• PoW 92: Walton Poole, On the death of King James (‘Can Christendoms great champion sink away’)

Copy of lines 1-18, headed ‘An elegy upon the death of the most royal and victorious King of Sweden’.

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.

ff. 27r-9r

• KiH 234: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus (‘Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elogie on the death of the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus. / by Doctor Hen: King’.

First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.

f. 33v

• CoR 559: Richard Corbett, A small Remembrance of the great King of Sweden (‘What now! already are those wagers layd’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Rich: Corbett Bi^pp: Norwicen’.

This MS recorded in Bennett & trevor-Roper, p. 158.

First published (‘from MSS (not in a public library)’) in Eu. Hood [i.e. Joseph Haslewood], ‘Bishop Corbet's Poems’, Gentleman's Magazine, 93.i (April 1823), 308-9. Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 89-90.

f. 34r

• MyJ 2: Jasper Mayne, An Elegy upon the King of Sweden's Death (‘Brave Prince! Although thy fate seem yet too strange’)

Copy, here ascribed to Jasper Mayne.

f. 36r-v

• KiH 125: Henry King, The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)

Copy, headed ‘On a deformed M^rs’.

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

ff. 36v-7r

• PoW 41: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘On a black M^rs’.

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

f. 37r-v

• StW 845: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)

Copy, subscribed ‘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.

f. 37v

• DaJ 198: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of an Infant’ and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers will to bedd soone lay’.

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

f. 37v

• StW 881: William Strode, Song (‘O when will Cupid shew such Art’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: St.’

This MS recorded in Dobell.

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

f. 38r

• StW 914: William Strode, Song (‘When Orpheus sweetly did complaine’)

Copy, subscribed ‘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).

f. 38v

• StW 169: William Strode, In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: Strode’.

This MS collated in Forey.

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).

f. 39r

• BrW 210: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy.

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.

f. 39r-v

• StW 371: William Strode, On a freind's absence (‘Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 13. Forey, pp. 95-6.

f. 39v

• StW 760: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman walking in the snowe’, subscribed ‘W. St’.

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

f. 40r-v

• CoR 675: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him (‘Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^rs Mallett’, subscribed ‘R: Corbett’.

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

f. 41r

• BrW 132: 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 gentlewoman’.

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

f. 41r

• CoR 449: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)

Copy, headed ‘On great Tom’, subscribed ‘Jer Wermistrie’.

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

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

f. 41v

• CwT 1250.5: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Lewes of Oriall to his love’.

This MS recorded in Dunlap.

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.

f. 41v

• RaW 263: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy.

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. 42r

• DnJ 1509: John Donne, His parting from her (‘Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night’)

Copy of a 42-line version, headed ‘Doctor Corbett on his wives departure’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 42r

• StW 1224.5: William Strode, A watchstring (‘Tymes picture here invites your eyes’)

Copy of the second couplet, headed ‘On a watch string’ and here beginning ‘My stringe can doe what no man could’.

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

f. 42v

• WoH 104: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Henr: Wotton on Queene Anne’.

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.

f. 42v

• StW 1048: William Strode, A Superscription on Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia sent for a Token (‘Whatever in Philoclea the Faire’)

Copy, as ‘by W: S:’.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 43. Forey, p. 18.

f. 43r

• StW 1344: William Strode, On Jealousy (‘There is a thing that nothing is’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 49. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

f. 43r

• StW 1121: William Strode, To a Valentine (‘Fayre Valentine, since once your welcome hand’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 328.

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

f. 43r

• RaW 468: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Say not you love, unless you do’

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue’.

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

f. 43v

• StW 386: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: S.’

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 332.

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

f. 43v

• StW 872: William Strode, Song (‘O sing a new song to the Lord’)

Copy, headed ‘An Antheme’, subscribed ‘W: S.’

Edited from this MS in Dobell.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 54. Forey, p. 108.

f. 44r

• StW 975: William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection (‘Like to the casting of an Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘Of Death and the resurrection. Sonnet’, subscribed ‘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’.

f. 44v

• StW 202: William Strode, Justification (‘See how the rainbow in the skie’)

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.

f. 44v

• StW 699: William Strode, A Register for a Bible (‘I am the faithfull deputy’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: S.’

Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 52-3. Forey, p. 52.

f. 44v

• StW 11: William Strode, Another (‘I, your Memory's Recorder’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: S.’

Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.

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

f. 45r

• StW 543: William Strode, On the Bible (‘Behold this little Volume here inrold’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 51-2. Forey, pp. 46-7.

f. 45v

• StW 669: William Strode, Poses for Braceletts (‘This keepes my hande’)

Copy, headed ‘Braceletts’, under a general heading ‘Posies by W: Stroud’.

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.

f. 45v

• StW 79: William Strode, An Earestring (‘'Tis vaine to adde a ring or Gemme’)

Copy.

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), p. 101. Dobell, p. 44. Forey, pp. 34-5.

f. 45v

• StW 1225: William Strode, A watchstring (‘Tymes picture here invites your eyes’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

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

f. 45v

• StW 682: William Strode, A pursestringe (‘Wee hugg, imprison, hang and save’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

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

f. 46r

• StW 248: William Strode, A necklace (‘Theis threades enjoy a double grace’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Forey.

First published (as the final couplet of Strode's other posy on a necklace) in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 210.

f. 46r

• StW 149: William Strode, A Girdle (‘When ere the wast makes too much hast’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: S.’

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.

f. 46r

• StW 1134: William Strode, To his Sister (‘Lovinge Sister, every line’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 88. Forey, p. 198.

f. 46v

• StW 352: William Strode, On a Dissembler (‘Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.

f. 47r-v

• DnJ 89: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon an illfavor'd gentlewoman’.

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.

ff. 47v-8r

• StW 618: 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 twoe Dolphins in a fountayne’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.

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.

ff. 48r-9r

• StW 1194: William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada (‘Now the declining Sun gan downward bende’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: S.’

Edited from this MS in Dobell.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 16-18. Forey, pp. 72-5.

f. 49v

• MoG 67: George Morley, On the Nightingale (‘My limbs were weary and my head oppressed’)

Copy, headed ‘The Nightingale by G: Morley’.

f. 50r

• KiH 452: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy, headed ‘Of Mans misery. by D^r J: King’.

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.

f. 50r

• AlW 159: 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 Deduobus Reynoldis S: T: D: D^ribus: qui contrariæ inter se opinionis, alter in alterius Secessit partem, subscribed D^r Alablaster.

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

ff. 50v-1r

• StW 454: William Strode, On a good legge and foote (‘If Hercules tall Stature might be guest’)

Copy, subscribed ‘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.

f. 51r

• StW 1076: William Strode, To a frinde (‘Like as the hande which hath bin usd to play’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.

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.

f. 51v

• MoG 27: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of King James’, subscribed ‘G: Morley’.

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. 52r

• StW 640: William Strode, On Westwell Downes (‘When Westwell Downes I gan to treade’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: S:’.

This MS collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 20-1. Four Poems by William Strode (Fransham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 5-7.

ff. 52v-3r

• StW 733: William Strode, Song (‘As I out of a Casement sent’)

Copy, headed ‘A strange gentlewoman passing by his windowe. Song’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.

This MS collated in Dobell and in Forey.

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

f. 53r-v

• StW 583: William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham (‘Meerely for death to greive and mourne’)

Copy, subscribed ‘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.

f. 54r

• StW 275: William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe (‘Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill’)

Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewomans blisterd lipp’, subscribed ‘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.

f. 54v

• StW 1250: William Strode, With Pen, Inke and paper these to a distressed &c. (‘Here is paper, pen and Inke’)

Copy, headed ‘To a distressed freind, with pen, Inck and paper’, subscribed ‘W: S.’

This MS collated in Forey.

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

ff. 54v-5v

• StW 1146: William Strode, To Mr Rives heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon. (‘Welcome abroad, o welcome from your bedd!’)

Copy, headed ‘To Doctor Griffith heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon.’, as ‘by W: Stroud’.

Edited chiefly from this MS in Dobell. Collated, and the text of lines 1-12 and 67-8 taken from this MS, in Forey.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 95-7. Forey, pp. 11-14.

f. 55v

• JnB 291: 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. 56r

• DaJ 51: Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion (‘Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘A rustick gallantes wooing’ and here beginning ‘ffaire wench I cannot court thy spiritt like eyes’.

First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (‘Middleborugh’ [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.

f. 56v

• CwT 285: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘On the flie An Elegie by Tho: Carey’.

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

f. 56v

• StW 1002: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: S’.

This MS recorded in Forey, p. 334.

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).

ff. 57r-9v

• CoR 220: 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 Hamond Parson for the beating downe of the Maypole’.

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.

f. 58v

• B&F 139: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy, headed ‘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.

f. 59r

• StW 233: William Strode, Loves Ætna. Song (‘In your sterne beauty I can see’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^rs’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.

Edited in part from this MS in Dobell. Collated in Forey.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 47. Forey, p. 93.

f. 59r-v

• StW 1095: 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 freind’, subscribed ‘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.

f. 60v

• StW 1061: William Strode, Thankes for a welcome (‘For your good Lookes, and for your Clarett’)

Copy.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, p. 102. Forey, p. 30.

f. 61r

• HoJ 135: John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart (‘Reader I was born and cried’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaphe on a fart in the Parliament house’.

f. 61r-v

• StW 713: William Strode, A Sigh (‘O tell mee, tell, thou God of winde’)

Copy, headed ‘A song on a sigh’.

Edited in part from this MS in Dobell; recorded in Forey, p. 329.

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

f. 62r-v

• JnB 662: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge’)

Copy, headed ‘To the King’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.

See JnB 661.

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

For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

f. 63r

• CoR 705: Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes (‘Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse’)

Copy, headed ‘On Faireford windowes’, subscribed ‘Rich: Corbett’.

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

ff. 63r-4r

• StW 491: William Strode, On Faireford windores (‘I know noe paint of Poetry’)

Copy, headed ‘On the same’, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.

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.

f. 64v

• CoR 490: Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 (‘Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke’)

Copy, subscribed ‘W: Stroud’.

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

ff. 64v-5r

• MoG 97: 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 dranck in’, subscribed ‘George Morley’.

f. 68v

• PeW 186: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)

Copy of a version headed ‘On a mayde not mariageable’ and beginning ‘Would you have mee lead thee blinde’.

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.

f. 70r

• ToA 83: Aurelian Townshend, Mr. Townsends Verses to Ben Johnsons, in Answer to an Abusive Copie, Crying Down his Magnetick Lady (‘It cannon move thy friend (firm Ben) that he’)

Copy, headed ‘An answer’.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656), p. 18. Chambers, p. 49. Almost certainly written by Zouch Townley.

f. 70v

• JnB 4: Ben Jonson, An Answer to Alexander Gil (‘Shall the prosperity of a Pardon still’)

Copy, headed ‘Another answeare’ and here beginning ‘Doth the prosperitie of a pardon still’.

This MS evidently the Dobell MS collated in Herford & Simpson.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 410-11.

f. 70v

• DaW 65: Sir William Davenant, To the King on New-yeares day 1630. Ode (‘The joyes of eager Youth, of Wine, and Wealth’)

Copy, headed ‘To the King. A newyeares guift’, subscribed ‘W: Davenant’.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, pp. 31-2.

MS V.a.246

A small octavo volume of Latin orations made at the University of Cambridge, in two or more small hands, 154 pages, written from both ends, in contemporary calf gilt (lacking front cover). Mid-17th century.

Inscribed ‘Ex dono Johannis Yate...anno domini 1651’ and ‘Ex dono Francisci Stringer’.

pp. 3-4

• RnT 229: Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge (‘Lament, lament, ye Scholars all’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Randolph upon the fall of the Miter’.

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

MS V.a.249

A quarto volume of Harington's epigrams, with related poems, in the accomplished italic hand of his ‘servant’ Thomas Combe, with Harington's frequent autograph corrections and insertions, written as a presentation copy to Prince Henry (via James I), vi + 268 pages (two numbered twice), in contemporary calf elaborately gilt. Including (pp. 256-63) a watercolour drawing of the lantern, with accompanying English and Latin verses, which Harington gave to King James as a New Year's gift in 1602/3; (p. 264) Harington's welcome to King James and to Queen Anne; (pp. 256-6) his verses ‘Musa jocosa meos solari assueta dolores’; and (p. 261) an engraving of the Mysteries of the Rosary, with (p. 1) an address ‘To James the Sixt king of Scotland The dedication of the coppie sent by Captayn Hunter’, and (pp. [iv-v]) a dedicatory epistle to Prince Henry, dated in Harington's hand (and probably presented to the Prince shortly after) 19 June 1605. 1605.

Inscribed ‘R. Joyce Emmerson Sandwich’. Item 14 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Later owned by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Sotheby's, 22 February 1932 (Thorn-Drury sale), lot 2405.

Including (p. [iii]) a 19th-century copy of James I's letter of thanks for this gift, transcribed from the original letter in British Library Add. MS 46381, f. 145r.

Edited from this MS in Kilroy, with colour facsimiles of the lantern, of page 122, of the binding, of the coloured title-page, and the engraving on p. 261 (Kilroy, Plates 5-9, after p. 178). Facsimile of pp. 256-7 (including the lantern) in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 106. Facsimile of the lantern in Scott-Warren, p. 194.

pp. 2-254

• *HrJ 21: Sir John Harington, Epigrams

Copy of 408 epigrams (including SuH 42), described by Harington as ‘this Collection or rather confusion of all my ydle Epigrams’, comprising four ‘Bookes’ of (sometimes erratically numbered) 99, 100, 103 and 106 epigrams respectively (including SuH 41), all in the accomplished italic hand of Harington's ‘servant’ Thomas Combe, with Harington's frequent autograph corrections and insertions.

Edited from this MS in Kilroy. Seven previously unpublished epigrams edited from this MS in R.H. Miller, ‘Unpublished Poems by Sir John Harington’, ELR, 14 (1984), 148-58. This MS recorded, and those epigrams which also occur in the Arundel Harington MS are collated, in Hughey. See also HrJ 20, HrJ 26, and HrJ 213.

Facsimile example of p. 60 in R.H. Miller, ‘Sir John Harington's Manuscripts in Italic’, SB, 40 (1987), 101-6 (p. 104). Facsimile of pp. 256-7 (including the lantern) in Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 106. Facsimiles of pp. 122, 256 (the lantern) and p. 261 (engraving of the Mystery of the Rosary) in Kilroy, Plates 5, 6 and 9, after p. 178.

Seven Epigrams first published in Epigrammes by Sir J. H. and others appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). 116 Epigrams published in London, 1615. 346 Epigrams published in London, 1618. 428 Epigrams edited in McClure (1930), pp. 145-322. See also HrJ 26.5-314.8. All the Epigrams published as The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. Gerard Kilroy (Farnham, 2009).

pp. 200-1

• SuH 41: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, ‘Marshall, the thinges for to attayne’

Copy, headed ‘A translation of the Earle of Surreys out of Martiall, directed by him to one Maister Warner’, here beginning ‘Warner the things for to attayne’, incorporated as Harington's Epigram 24 in ‘The Fourthe Booke’.

First published at the end of Book III in William Baldwin, A treatise of Morrall phylosophye (London, 1547/8). Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 41, p. 94. Jones, pp. 34-5.

The texts discussed in J.M. Evans, ‘The Text of Surrey's “The Meanes to Attain Happy Life”’, N&Q, 228 (1983), 409-11; in W.D. McGaw, ‘The Text of Surrey's “The Meanes to Attain Happy Life” -- A Reply’, N&Q, 230 (December 1985), 456-8; and in A.S.G. Edwards, ‘Surrey's Martial Epigram: Scribes and Transmission’, EMS, 12 (2005), 74-82.

pp. 265

• HrJ 314.5: Sir John Harington, A witty choice of a Country fellow (‘A rich Lord had a poore Lout to his ghest’)

Copy.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 70. McClure No. 324, p. 276. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 56, pp. 230-1.

MS V.a.255

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in two neat mixed hands, with subsequent additions in other hands, 32 leaves, in modern half crushed morocco. Probably compiled in Scotland by members of the Rutherford family. c.1680-1710.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘M^r Gideon Rutherford’ and ‘Jean Rutherford’, and (ff. 11v-13v) including a poem on ‘John Reutherfoord’. Acquired in 1924 from Maggs Bros.

Briefly discussed in Marcia Allentuck, An Unpublished Commonplace Book of Scottish Interest in the Folger Shakespeare Library, SSL, 7, No. 4 (April 1970), 270-1.

f. 6r-v

• WoH 241: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon Solitud & the vanity of other things’, ‘by Sir Kenelm Digby’ added in another hand.

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.

f. 7r

• SiP 62: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 32 (‘Leave me o Love, which reachest but to dust’)

Copy, a name deleted and then ‘Sir ffrancis Bacon’ written as a heading.

This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 561.

Ringler, pp. 161-2.

f. 15r

• ShJ 17: James Shirley, Dialogue (‘I prethee tell me what prodigious fate’)

Copy of an early version headed ‘An Hyperbolick Description of a Leady which for y^e sharpness of it I have here Insert’ and beginning ‘Hir Hairs are Cupids nets which when she spreads’.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 18.

f. 17v

• WoH 210: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour (‘Dazzled thus with the height of place’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Lord Bacon then falling from favour’.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Sir Henry Wotton's “Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place” and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.

f. 23r

• BuS 1.2: Samuel Butler, Hudibras (‘Sir Hudibras his passing worth’)

Extracts, in double columns.

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

MS V.a.262

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, 210 pages, comprising 38 unnumbered pages and 172 numbered pages (plus four blank leaves), perhaps largely in a single predominantly secretary hand, with additions in four other hands on the unnumbered pages and pp. 167-71, including the scribbled title ‘Divers Sonnets & Poems compiled by certaine gentil Clarks and Ryme-Wrightes’, probably associated with Oxford University and the Inns of Court, in contemporary vellum. Including 14 poems by Strode (and a second copy of one poem). c.1637-51.

Inscribed (front pastedown) ‘Wakelin EeK Hering / Blows of Whitsor’, and (rear pastedown) ‘R. J. Cotton’. Formerly Folger MS 2073.4.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Cotton MS: StW Δ 20.

p. 7

• ClJ 216: John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector (‘What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing’)

Copy.

Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 78-9. The Works of Mr. John Cleveland (London, 1687), p. 343. Berdan, p. 185, as ‘probably not genuine’. Rejected ‘as probably not Cleveland's’ by Withington, pp. 321-2.

pp. 12-15

• DnJ 408: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon Armillaby D^r Donne’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Eleg. XII. The Bracelet’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as ‘Elegie XI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.

pp. 15-17

• DnJ 2522: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r: Donne his wife would haue gone as his Page’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and 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.

pp. 17-20

• DnJ 2152: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)

Copy of lines 1-64, headed ‘Vpon Loues Progresse by D^r Donne’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

pp. 20-1

• KiH 365: Henry King, The Farwell (‘Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp’)

Copy, headed ‘A long farewell to Loue’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.

MS V.a.263

An octavo notebook of proverbs, extracts, &c., in Latin and English, in a cursive hand, written from both ends, 167 leaves, in old calf. Compiled by Sir William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes House, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. Mid-17th century.

Identified and cited in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England (New Haven & London, 2000), pp. 73-4 et passim.

ff. 15r-20r

• JnB 730: Ben Jonson, Sejanus his Fall

Extracts, headed ‘Ex Sejano. Ben Jonson’.

First published in London, 1605. Herford & Simpson, IV, 327-486.

ff. 21r-4r

• DnJ 4183: John Donne, Extracts

Extracts (from letters?), headed ‘Secunda pars Stratagem D^r. Donne (1789)’ and beginning ‘It is not the first time that our Age hath seen that art practised...’.

ff. 24v-5v

• BcF 687: Francis Bacon, Extracts

Extracts from works by Bacon.

MS V.a.275

A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in probably several neat secretary and italic hands, 194 pages. Compiled, probably at least in part, by ‘George Turner Scoolmaster’, as his name is inscribed at the end, a couplet on p. 179 reading ‘Hic liber me pertinet and beare yt well in minde / Per me Georgium Turner so curteous and kinde’. Possible contributors are members of the Bancrofte family, whom he might perhaps have tutored. c.1624-1645.

Various inscribed names (sometimes more than once): ‘Anne Bancrofte’, and ‘Mary Bancrofte’. Also, under ‘1624’, a list of names with perhaps birthdates: ‘Mary Bancrofte Ap. 28. 1611’, ‘Rich Bancrofte May 2. 1608’, ‘Elis Bancrofte Apr 27. 1614’, and ‘John Bancrofte Ap 30 1616’. A legal document in the volume, dated 4 November 1645, relates to Willesden, Kilburn and Hampstead.

Formerly Folger MS 1027.2, this MS has been missing since 1991. It can be seen only on microfilm (Film Fo 4376.8).

pp. 37-48

• EsR 235: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy.

pp. 91-4

• KiH 158: Henry King, An Elegy Occasioned by Sicknesse (‘Well did the Prophet ask, Lord what is Man?’)

Copy.

First published 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. 12-15]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 174-7.

pp. 101-3

• HoJ 73: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)

Copy, headed ‘The Parliam^t ff’, here beginning ‘Downe came Graue S^rieaunt Crooke’.

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

p. 110

• ShJ 127: James Shirley, ‘Would you know what's soft?’

Copy, headed ‘In praise of his m^rs. absolute perfections’.

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

p. 111

• PoW 43: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘One writing to his M^rs whose eyse and hare was Blacke’.

This MS collated in Wolf (as MS a).

p. 111

• CwT 713: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, untitled.

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.276

A large quarto verse miscellany, 76 leaves, in old vellum wrappers within modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards. Part I, including some Welsh, comprises sixteen leaves, all (but for f. 15r-v) in the cursive hand of William Jordan, schoolmaster of Denbigh or Caernarvon, whose name (‘Gulielmus Jordan’) is inscribed, the dates 1680-83 occurring. c.1674-84.

Part II comprises 60 leaves, ff. 1-50v in a neat italic hand, ff. 51r-60r in several other cursive hands.

The vellum wrapper on Part II bears notes on a debt by William Jordan in 1674 relating to ‘Evan Thomas’ and ‘M^r Richard Wilkin^sn in pepper street’. Formerly Folger MS 1669.2.

Part II, ff. 4r-6r

• HeR 280: Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack (‘So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles’)

This MS collated in part, and six additional lines printed, in Martin, pp. 469-73.

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

Part II, f. 6r

• HeR 414: Robert Herrick, Vpon parting (‘Goe hence away, and in thy parting know’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Ro Herrick’.

This MS recorded in Martin.

First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 446-7. Martin, p. 414. Patrick, p. 552.

ff. 7v-8r

• GrJ 40: John Grange, ‘Come you swarms of thoughts and bring’

Copy, headed ‘An allegoricall Allusion of Melancholy thoughts to b-- [deleted]’, subscribed ‘John Grange’.

First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shakespeare. Gent. (London, 1640), as ‘An Allegoricall allusion of melancholy thoughts to Bees’, subscribed ‘I. G.’ Listed in Krueger.

Part II, ff. 12v-13r

• CoR 620: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)

Copy, headed ‘By Corbett to the ladyes of the new dresse’.

First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.

This poem is usually followed in MSS by ‘The Ladyes Answer’ (‘Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night’): see GrJ 14.

Part II, f. 13r

• GrJ 35: John Grange, ‘Black cypress veils are shrouds of night’

Copy, headed ‘The Answer’, subscribed ‘John Grange’.

Part II, ff. 15v-16r

• WoH 149: Sir Henry Wotton, A Poem written by Sir Henry Wotton in his Youth (‘O faithless world, and thy most faithless part’)

Copy, headed ‘oPart II, f loues inconstance by: S^r: H: Wotton’.

First published in Francis Davison, Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602), p. 157. As ‘A poem written by Sir Henry Wotton, in his youth’, in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 517. Hannah (1845), pp. 3-5. Edited and texts discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Sir Henry Wotton's “O Faithless World”: The Transmission of a Coterie Poem and a Critical Old-Spelling Edition’, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 5/4 (1981), 205-31.

Part II, f. 16v

• CwT 23: Thomas Carew, Boldnesse in love (‘Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine’)

Copy, headed ‘The art of wooing’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 42.

Part II, ff. 16v-17r

• CwT 840: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘You that thinke Love can convey’)

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 39. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

Part II, f. 17r

• CwT 186: Thomas Carew, A divine Mistris (‘In natures peeces still I see’)

Copy.

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

Part II, f. 17r

• CwT 1241.6: Thomas Carew, A Health to a Mistris (‘To her whose beautie doth excell’)

Copy, headed ‘A Health’.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap. p. 192. Possibly by Richard Clerke.

Part II, f. 18r

• DrM 64: Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet (‘I pray thee leave, love me no more’)

Copy, headed ‘A Sonett’.

First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 372.

Part II, f. 19r

• KiH 555: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Dry those faire, those Christall Eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘To a weeping gentlewoeman’.

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

Part II, f. 19r-v

• CwT 1117.5: Thomas Carew, To Saxham (‘Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes’)

Copy, beginning at line 19, imperfect.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.

Part II, ff. 20v-1v

• JnB 316: Ben Jonson, Inviting a Friend to Svpper (‘To night, graue sir, both my poore house, and I’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnsons inuitation of a Gentleman to Supper’.

First published in Epigrammes (ci) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 64-5.

Part II, f. 21v

• JnB 722: Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song (‘Though I am young, and cannot tell’)

Copy, headed ‘Loue and Death’.

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

Part II, ff. 22r-4r

• KiH 798: Henry King, The Woes of Esay (‘Woe to the worldly men, whose covetous’)

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 136-9.

Part II, ff. 25v-6r

• PeW 158: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Benj. Rudier of Tears (‘Who would have thought there could have been’)

Copy, headed ‘of teares by D^r Brookes’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 46-7. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’. By Dr Samuel Brooke.

Part II, f. 32r-v

• WoH 242: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘A Hermitt in an Arbor w^th a prayer booke in his hand spurning the Globe’.

Part II, f. 36v

• DnJ 3372: John Donne, To Mr. Tilman after he had taken orders (‘Thou, whose diviner soule hath caus'd thee now’)

Copy of lines 1-14, headed ‘Do^r Donne to M^r Tilman after his taking orders’.

This MS collated in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 351-2. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 189.

Part II, ff. 39r-40r

• RnT 132: Thomas Randolph, A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son (‘I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare’)

Copy, headed ‘A gratulatory to M^r Ben Johnson on his uoluntary adoption of m^r Thomas Randolph to be his sonne’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph:’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 40-2.

Part II, f. 40r-v

• RnT 518: Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale (‘When shall we meet again and have a taste’)

Copy, subscribed ‘S^r Tho: Jay’.

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

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

Part II, ff. 40v-2r

• DrW 117.34: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Copy, headed ‘The fiue sences’.

Part II, f. 42r-v

• JnB 321: Ben Jonson, Martial. <Epigram XLVII, Book X.> (‘The Things that make the happier life, are these’)

Copy, headed ‘Translated out of Martiall by Ben: Johnson ~ libr: 10: Epi: 49’.

First published in John Payne Collier, Memoirs of Edward Alleyn (London, 1841), p. 54. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 295.

Part II, f. 42v

• JnB 87: Ben Jonson, An Epigram. To William, Earle of Newcastle (‘When first, my Lord, I saw you backe your horse’)

Copy, headed ‘To the earle of newcastle: Seeing Him ride a greate horse’.

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

Part II, f. 43r-v

• JnB 76: Ben Jonson, An Epigram To my Mvse, the Lady Digby, on her Husband, Sir Kenelme Digby (‘Tho', happy Muse, thou know my Digby well’)

Copy, headed ‘To my muse on S^r kenelme Digby An Epigram’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.

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

Part II, ff. 43v-4r

• JnB 242: Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan (‘Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire’)

Copy, headed ‘Johnsons: Inuectiue against Vulcan’.

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

Part II, f. 44v

• JnB 541: Ben Jonson, To the Right Honourable, the Lord high Treasurer of England. An Epistle Mendicant (‘Poore wretched states, prest by extremities’)

First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 248.

Part II, f. 50v

• HrJ 147: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e lady J: S. musinge’, subscribed ‘JL’.

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.