CELM: The Folger Shakespeare Library, V.a.series, 300 through end

MS V.a.306

A quarto volume of biographical extracts, for the most part alphabetically arranged, largely in a single mixed hand, with a few pages of drafts in another cursive hand, 30 leaves (plus stubs of excised leaves), in contemporary vellum boards. c.1670.

f. 11r

• RnT 494: Thomas Randolph, On Michaell Drayton (‘Do pious marble let thy readers know’)

Copy.

Unpublished? Generally attributed to Francis Quarles.

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• JnB 550: Ben Jonson, To William Camden (‘Camden, most reuerend head, to whom I owe’)

Copy of lines 1-6, headed ‘Benjamin Johnson at first bred in a private school in S^t martins & yⁿ in westminster School, witness his own Epigra’.

First published in Epigrammes (xiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 31.

MS V.a.307

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in English and Latin, in several secretary and italic hands, with later additions, 99 pages, some entries dated 1583-88, in calf. Late 16th century.

Inscribed (p. 1) ‘Will Parkyns’ and (p. 61) ‘Per Tho Parkins’. Item 32 in an unidentified sale cataloue.

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• GrR 4: Robert Greene, Menaphon

Extracts.

First published in London, 1589. Grosart, VI, 1-146.

MS V.a.308

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, a neat mixed hand predominating up to f. 55r, 151 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1730.

Inscribed (in another hand) on the front pastedown ‘Thomas Boydell’. Formerly Folger MS 4108.

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• DrJ 258: John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part II, Act IV, scene iii, lines 35-64. Song, In two Parts (‘How unhappy a Lover am I’)

Copy of the song, in double columns, undated.

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

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• ShW 112.8: William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, IV, iii, 120-3. Song (‘Jog on, jog on, thy foot-path way’)

Copy of Autolycus's song, undated.

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• B&F 111.5: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, II, i, 114-24. Song (‘Thou diety swift-winged love’)

Copy of the song, headed ‘Sonnets 20’.

The play first published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, X, 293-370 (pp. 335-6). Bullen, VII, 438-97, ed. George Walton Williams (p. 451). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1683-1713 (p. 1690). The play is now generally attributed to Thomas Middleton.

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• CmT 170: Thomas Campion, ‘Young and simple though I am’

Copy, untitled.

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. 5v

• JnB 572: Ben Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, IV, iii, 242-53. Song (‘O, That ioy so soone should waste!’)

Copy of the song, undated.

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• SuJ 63: John Suckling, Song (‘Why so pale and wan fond Lover?’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene ii, lines 14-28. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Beaurline, Plays, p. 72. Clayton, p. 64.

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• B&F 7: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, II, i, 143-64. Song (‘Cast our Caps and cares away!’)

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

This MS collated in Bowers, p. 352.

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

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• BrN 72: Nicholas Breton, Phillida and Coridon (‘In the merry moneth of May’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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• MsP 24: Philip Massinger, The Fatal Dowry, IV, ii 71-86. Song (‘Poore Citizen, if thou wilt be’)

Copy, untitled.

Edwards & Gibson, I, 72.

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• SuJ 117: John Suckling, Inconstancie in Woman (‘I am confirm'd a woman can’)

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

This MS 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).

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• GrJ 5: John Grange, ‘A Lover once I did espy’

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published, in a musical setting, in Playford, Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (1652), I, 12. Poems (1660), pp. 86-7, beginning ‘A Restless Lover I espy'd’, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’, and in Krueger's Appendix II list of poems by John Grange.

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• BeA 20.3: Aphra Behn, The Sence of a Letter sent me, made into Verse. To a New Tune (‘In vain I have labour'd the victor to prove’)

Copy.

First published in The Amorous Prince (London, 1671). Todd, p. 58, No. 22.

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• EtG 82: Sir George Etherege, Sylvia (‘The nymph that undoes me is fair and unkind’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 26.

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• WiG 26.8: George Wither, Sonnet (‘Hence away you sirens’)

Copy.

First published in Fidelia (London, 1619).

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• WiG 6: George Wither, The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet (‘Shall I wasting in despair’)

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

First published in Fidelia (London, 1615). Sidgwick, I, 138-9. A version, as ‘Sonnet 4’, in Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 854-5. Sidgwick, II, 124-6.

For the ‘answer’ attributed to Ben Jonson, but perhaps by Richard Johnson, see Sidgwick, I, 145-8, and Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy & Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), 439-43. MS versions of Wither's poem vary in length.

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• DaJ 199.5: 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 careful Nurses on their beds doe lay’.

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

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• StW 810.5: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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• CwT 227: Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence (‘You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay’)

Copy, headed ‘Excuse for absence’.

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

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• BmF 142: Francis Beaumont, True Beauty (‘May I find a woman fair’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 491.

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• RaW 430: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Like to a Ring without a finger’

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

First published in Latham (1951), pp. 165-7, as ‘A poem doubtfully ascribed to Ralegh’. Since, in fact, it is a parody of a poem by Francis Quarles printed in 1629 it cannot be by Ralegh.

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• CoA 52.5: Abraham Cowley, The Concealment (‘No. to what purpose should I speak?’)

Copy, headed ‘Silence’.

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

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

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• CoA 286: Abraham Cowley, Extracts

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

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• HeR 240: Robert Herrick, To the Virgins, to make much of Time (‘Gather ye Rose-budd while ye may’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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• CoR 746.5: Richard Corbett, Nonsence (‘Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches’)

Copy, headed ‘A Messe of Nonsence’ and here beginning “Like to y^e graceful tone of inspoke speeches”.

First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.

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• WoH 243: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘A ffarewell to folly’.

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.

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• CoA 113.8: Abraham Cowley, Ode VI. Vpon the shortness of Man's Life (‘Marke that swift Arrow how it cuts the ayre’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnets, 130. on man's life’.

First published in Sylva (London, 1636). Grosart, I, 31.

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• RoJ 181: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life (‘All my past life is mine no more’)

Copy, in double columns, untitled.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

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

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• BrW 4.3: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Behold, O God, in rivers of my tears’

Copy, set out calligraphically in patterned formation, headed ‘On the glorious Passion & Resurrection of our Lord, & Saviour Jesus Christ’ and beginning ‘Behold O Lord IN RIvers of my Tears’.

Discussed, with a facsimile, in Gillian Wright, ‘A Pattern Poem by William Browne of Tavistock: “Behold O God in Rivers of my Tears”’, EMS, 7 (1998), 264-74.

First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 4-5.

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• CwT 913: 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).

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• RoJ 120: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Charles II (‘God bless our good and gracious King’)

Copy of a version headed ‘E. of Rochester's Character of K. Ch. 2^nd’ and beginning ‘Here lives a great & mighty King’.

This MS recorded in Vieth.

First published, in a version headed ‘Posted on White-Hall-Gate’ and beginning ‘Here lives a Great and Mighty Monarch’, in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon (London, 1707). Vieth, p. 134. Walker, p. 122, as ‘[On King Charles]’.

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• HoJ 14: John Hoskyns, ‘A zealous Lock-Smith dy'd of late’

Copy, in shorthand, headed ‘On a zealous Lock=Smith’.

Whitlock, p. 108.

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• BrW 134: 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 young 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.

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• BrW 169: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)

Copy, headed ‘On a man drown'd in y^e snow’.

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

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• RoJ 290.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Extracts.

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

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

MS V.a.315

Copy, in the italic hand of an amanuensis, with deletions and corrections, with a title-page ‘Philosophsister [sic] Comædia noua scripta A^o domini 1606...Auctore Roberto Burton...Ædis Christi Oxon alumno 1617...’, 85 quarto pages, subscribed on f. 83r (before the Epilogus) ‘Finis...Feb: 16^to. 16i7’, in contemporary calf (rebacked). Presented by Burton to his brother, William, in 1618. 1617.

BuR 3: Robert Burton, Philosophaster

Inscribed (p. 1) ‘Liber W^mi: Burton Lindliaci Leicestresis de Falde com: Staff: 1618: ex dono fratris mei Rob^te Burton Authoris’. Inscribed (f. [ir]) ‘fishers Alley New Street, 2 house in the Al: M^r Burrage’. Afterwards Mostyn MS 197, from the Gloddaeth Library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, and maintained by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) and his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90).

Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1874), Appendix, p. 356. Discussed, with a facsimile example of f. 9r, in McQuillen's edition, p. 223, and in her ‘Robert Burton's Philosophaster. Holograph Status of the Manuscripts’, Manuscripta, 29 (1985), 148-53, where it is suggested that the ‘corrections and additions’ are probably in Burton's own hand. A microfilm of the MS is at the Shakespeare Institute, Stratford-on-Avon (Mic S6).

Probably written 1606; revised 1615; performed 16 February 1617/18 at Christ Church, Oxford. First published, edited by W.E. Buckley, Roxburghe Club (Hertford, 1862). Edited by Paul Jordan-Smith (Stanford, 1931). Edited and translated by Connie McQuillen (Binghamton, New York, 1993).

MS V.a.319

An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, written from both ends, 77 leaves (including blanks), in old calf gilt. c.1640.

Formerly MS 2073.3.

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• RaW 265: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Walter Raughly on mans life’.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 29B, p. 70. 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.

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• DkT 23: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)

Copy, headed ‘On Queene Elizabeth carried to buriall 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.

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• CoR 181: 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^or. Rauis Bishop of London’.

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

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• BmF 42: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland (‘I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e death of y^e Lady of Rutland by Beaumont’.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

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• HrJ 148: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, headed ‘On a musing 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.

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• BrW 212: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Countesse 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.

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• RaW 350: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty’

Copy, headed ‘Rawley upon Noell’.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 138.

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).

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• StW 401: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)

Copy, headed in a different hand ‘upon a lady that sang lately’, subscribed ‘W^m Strowde’.

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

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• PoW 44: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘In y^e comendation of Black Gentlewoeman’, annotated in another hand ‘M^rs Beata Poole’.

This MS collated in Wolf (as MS T).

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.

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• PeW 188: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a wench vnder 14’, here beginning ‘Why should passion make thee blind’.

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.

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• StW 1325: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, headed ‘One to his Mistresse’.

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

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• CoR 384: Richard Corbett, Little Lute (‘Little lute, when I am gone’)

Copy, headed ‘One finding a Lute instead of his mistresse’.

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

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

f. 18r

• PeW 148: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Apollo's Oath (‘When Phebus first did Daphne love’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

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

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• CwT 784: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye’)

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

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

f. 20r

• HoJ 245: John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins (‘Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Hoskins to his sonne’ and here beginning ‘My little sonne whilst thou art yong’.

Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).

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• HrJ 310: Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram (‘When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed’)

Copy, headed ‘An elegie on y^e queene of Scots’ and here beginning ‘When doome of death by iudgment 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).

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• CoR 543: 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.

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• CoR 123: Richard Corbett, An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower (‘Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth’)

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

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

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• KiH 203: Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. (‘I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne’)

Copy, headed ‘On S^r Walter Rawly’.

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

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• DnJ 3212: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, untitled, inscribed as a heading ‘Dor Donne’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

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

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• DaJ 200: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses downe to sleepe do lay’.

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

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• HrE 69: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To Mrs. Diana Cecyll (‘Diana Cecyll, that rare beauty thou dost show’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘By S^r. Ed: Harbert’.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 34-5.

f. 28r

• CwT 1259.7: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy, headed ‘a louers passion on a fayre Mayde’.

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. 28v

• BmF 150.6: Francis Beaumont, ‘Eyes look off there's no beholding’

Copy.

Unpublished?

f. 31r

• RaW 423: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘I cannot bend the bow’

Copy, headed ‘A ridle proposed by S^r Walter Rawley to y^e Lady Bendbow’.

Edited from this MS in Rudick, No. 37, p. 105. Recorded in Latham.

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

f. 31v

• DnJ 2969: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 610-11. See also DnJ 462.

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

MS V.a.321

A quarto volume of transcripts of letters by various people, in several secretary and italic hands, 95 leaves (plus a few blanks), in modern calf gilt. c.1620s.

Evidently the MS from which selected items are transcribed in Cardiff Central Library MS 1.172, pp. 1-162, which is inscribed (p. 162) ‘Hitherto from the beginning of the Book, from a Manuscript in 4^to: belonging to John Arden of Stockport Esq^r:’i.e. probably John Arden (1742-1823), of Harden, Utkinton and Pepper Halls, High Sheriff of Cheshire. Acquired in 1942.

This volume discussed and various letters printed in Bertram Dobell, ‘Newly Discovered Documents of the Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods’, The Athenaeum (1901: 23 March, pp. 369-70; 30 March, pp. 403-4; 6 April, pp. 433-4; 13 April, pp. 465-7). A complete transcription and facsimile of the volume in A Seventeenth-Century Letter-Book: A Facsimile Edition of Folger MS. V.a.321, ed. A.R. Braunmuller (Newark, London & Toronto, 1983).

f. 8r-v

• BcF 617: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of Bacon's letter to Lord Henry Howard, 3 December 1599.

f. 16r

• TiC 50: Chidiock Tichborne, A letter written by Chidiock Tichborne to his wife, the night before he suffered

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Hirsch.

Hirsch, pp. 311-12.

f. 36r

• ElQ 252: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Latin Rebuke to the Polish Ambassador, Paul de Jaline, July 25, 1597

Copy of an English translation.

Edited from this MS in Autograph Compositions.

Beginning ‘Oh quam decepta fui: Expectaui Legationem tu vero querelam, mihi adduxisti...’, in Autograph Compositions, pp. 168-9. An English version, beginning ‘O how I have been deceived! I expected an embassage, but you have brought to me a complaint...’, in Collected Works, Speech 22, pp. 332-4.

ff. 26v-7r, 30v-1r, 49r, 60r-2r, 83v-4r, 88r-v, 89v, 93r-5r

• ChG 29: George Chapman, Letter(s)

Copy of fourteen letters and petitions by, or probably by, Chapman, to unidentified ladies and other correspondents (5); to George Buc; to King James I (2); to Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton; to ? Sir Edward Phelips; to Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk (2); to Mr Crane; and to Lord Ellesmere; and to the Privy Council; all undated, but probably ranging between 1600 and 1615.

Braunmuller Nos 38, 49, 73, 86-9, 112, 124-6, 136, 138, 139.

Various letters edited, some with discussions of authorship, in Eccles, p. 185; in Robert D. Parsons, ‘Chapman's Letter to Mr. Sares: A “Hamlet” Parallel’, N&Q, 214 (April 1969), 137; in Tucker Orbison, ‘The Case for the Attribution of a Chapman Letter’, SP, 72 (1975), 72-84; and elsewhere.

ff. 64v-5r, 94r, 90r-3r

• JnB 744: Ben Jonson, Letter(s)

Copies of a series of nine letters and petitions by Jonson, to Mr Leech; Thomas Bond; Thomas Howard, Earl of Suffolk [?]: Sir Robert Cecil; an unidentified lord; Lucy, Countess of Bedford [?]; Esmé Stuart, Lord D'Aubigny [?]; Philip Herbert, Earl of Pembroke; and William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke; undated but the first two probably 1613 and the rest probably 1613.

Braunmuller, Nos 93-4, 127-33. Eight letters edited in Herford and Simpson, I, 193-4, 197-201.

MS V.a.322

A quarto verse miscellany, with later accounts on the last page dated June 1658, 1* + 238 pages (including stubs of extracted pages 191-6, plus numerous blanks), in old calf (rebacked). Including 11 poems by Carew and 14 poems by Randolph. c.1630s-40s.

Inscribed ‘Jane Wheeler’ and ‘Tho: Oliver Busfield’. Francis Quarles's poem (pp. 209-11) ‘To y^e two partners of my heart M^r John Wheeler, and M^r Symon Tue’. Item 96 in an unidentified sale catalogue. Formerly Folger MS 2071.6.

A ‘Jo. Wheeler’ signed the Christ Church, Oxford, disbursement books for 1641-3 (xii, b.85 and 86).

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Wheeler MS’: CwT Δ 25 and RnT Δ 7.

p. 1*

• RaW 470: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Say not you love, unless you do’

Copy, headed ‘two Louers’.

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. 1

• CwT 689: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, headed ‘On Two Louers’.

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.339

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, closely written in possibly several minute predominantly secretary hands, 291 leaves (ff. 212-16 bound out of order after f. 24), in modern calf. c.1640s.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Joseph Hall’ (not the bishop). Later owned by John Payne Collier (1789-1883), literary scholar, editor and forger, who has entered in pseudo-17th-century secretary script copies of various ballads on ff. 39r-41r, 107v-79r, 181r-v, 227r-8v, 243r-6r, as well as adding foliation (1-284) before the more recent foliation (1-291, used below). Quaritch's sale catalogue ‘of English Literature’ (August-November 1884), item 22350, Collier's transcript of the MS made c.1860 being item 22352. Formerly Folger MS 2071.7.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Giles E. Dawson, ‘John Payne Collier's Great Forgery’, SB, 24 (1971), 1-26.

f. 19v

• AndL 41.5: Lancelot Andrewes, Paraphrase on the Lords Prayer

Copy, headed ‘D^r: Androes Paraphrase on the Lords prayer’, beginning ‘If any be distrest, & faine would gather some comfort, let him hast vnto -- our ffather’.

Unpublished.

f. 20r

• RaW 266: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Life's description’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

f. 24r

• MrT 8: Sir Thomas More, Epigrammata. 56. Alivd (‘Fleres, si scires unum tua tempora mensem’)

Copy of the Latin epigram, followed by an English translation beginning ‘Knowest thow a moneth should end thy dayes’, all ascribed at the side to ‘S^r. Tho: Moore’.

Yale, Vol. 3, Part II, pp. 130-1, with English translation.

f. 45r

• GrF 5: Fulke Greville, Caelica, Sonnet lxxxiv (‘Farewell sweet Boy, comlaine not of my truth’)

Copy, untitled.

This sonnet first published in Martin Peerson, Mottects (London, 1630). Bullough, I, 134-5. Wilkes, I, 154.

f. 90v

• DaS 11: Samuel Daniel, Delia. Sonnet LIIII (‘Care-charmer Sleepe, sonne of the sable night’)

Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet’, subscribed ‘S.D.’

Grosart, I, 72-3. Sprague, p. 33, as Sonnet XLV.

f. 107r

• HyJ 15.8: John Heywood, A song in praise of a Ladie (‘Giue place, yea ladies, and be gone’)

Copy, headed ‘A discription of a most noble Ladye’.

First published in Songes and Sonettes, ed. Richard Tottel (London, 1557).

MS V.a.341

An octavo printed volume, formerly bound with an exemplum of Poëmata Petri Lotichii II (see SpE 65 and SpE 64.5) in 18th-century sheepskin, now in modern quarter red morocco on marbled boards. This volume bears on the title-page Spenser's motto ‘Immerito’ and the last blank leaf (now separated as Folger, MS X.d.520) bears Spenser's autograph copies of a letter and two Latin poems.

SpE 64.8: Edmund Spenser, Sabinus, Georgius. Poemata (Leipzig, [1563?])

The title-page inscribed ‘Donu amiciss. viri Johannis Capelli’. Label of J. Fazakerley of Eton, 1773. Also label of Coxe (sale by King, July 1816). Formerly Folger MS 1752.1.

Discussed in Lee Piepho, ‘Spenser's Books’, TLS, 5 January 2001, p. 15.

MS V.a.342

Copy, 77 quarto pages, in two professional secretary hands, one on pp. 3-63, 68-72 (with some deterioration of script on p. 55), the other on pp. 63-7, with a title-page in Middleton's hand ‘A Game at Chesse As it was Acted Nine Dayes together Compos'de by Tho: Middleton’, including the Induction and an Epilogue, in contemporary vellum gilt. [1624].

*MiT 17: Thomas Middleton, A Game at Chess

This MS discussed in R.C. Bald, ‘A New Manuscript of Middleton's “Game at Chesse”’, MLR, 25 (1930), 474-8, 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.

Facsimiles of the title-page in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XCIV(d-e); Heather Wolfe, The Pen's Excellencie: Treasures from the Manuscript Collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC, 2002), p. 90.

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.344

A quarto miscellany of extracts in verse and prose, in a single largely italic hand, 142 pages, in contemporary mottled calf gilt. Compiled by Sir John Cotton, Bt (1621-1702). Mid-17th century.

pp. 58-9

• RnT 61.5: Thomas Randolph, De Sene Veronensi. Ex Claudiano (‘Happy the man that all his dayes hath spent’)

Copy, untitled, inscribed ‘M^r Thomas Randulph’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 48-9.

p. 88

• BrT 66: Sir Thomas Browne, Extracts

An extract from ‘D^r Thomas Browne’.

passim

• JnB 769: Ben Jonson, Extracts

Extracts from Jonson's works, including an example on p. 69.

passim

• ChG 34: George Chapman, Extracts

Extracts from Chapman's works, including examples on pp. 31-2, 66, 74, 76, and 84.

passim

• SaG 19.5: George Sandys, A Paraphrase upon the Psalms of David (‘That man is truly bless'd who never strays’)

Extracts, including examples on pp. 49-50, 55-6, 64, and 79.

First published in London, 1636. Hooper, I, 91-195; II, 195-310.

Some of Henry Lawes's musical settings published in A Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Musical settings by Henry and William Lawes also published in Choice Psalmes Put into Musick for Three Voices (London, 1648).

MS V.a.345

A quarto verse miscellany, largely in a single mixed hand, with additions in other hands, associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 315 pages (plus blanks), in modern black morocco gilt. Including 11 poems by Donne, and 15 poems (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett. c.1630s.

Later owned by Edward Jeremiah Curteis, M.P., of Windmill Hill, Sussex. Puttick & Simpson's, 30 June 1884 (Curteis sale), lot 175, to Pearson of Pall Mall for James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89). Formerly Folger MS 452.5.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), and II.i (1987), as the ‘Curteis MS’: DnJ Δ 50 and CoR Δ 9. Discussed, with a facsimile example, in Arthur F. Marotti, ‘Folger MSS V.a.89 and V.a.345: Reading Lyric Poetry in Manuscript’, in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron, et al. (Washington, DC, 2001), pp. 44-57. A facsimile of p. 36 is in Chris R. Kyle and Jason Peacey, Breaking News: Renaissance Journalism and the Birth of the Newspaper (Washington, DC, 2008), p. 32.

p. 4

• DaJ 201: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘In iuuenem morte pemptu’ and here beginning ‘As careful nurses in their beds do lay’.

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

p. 6

• DnJ 1743: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon a criple’ and here beginning ‘I can neither go nor stand y^e criple 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.

p. 6

• CoR 131.5: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox (‘Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true’)

Copy of lines 59-82, headed ‘On a woman deformed w^th y^e Pocks’, here beginning ‘O thou deformd unwoman like disease’, docketed in the top margin ‘see more of these verses page 88’.

pp. 7-8

• PeW 248: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy of the short version, headed ‘A Coy mistress’ and here beginning ‘Nay pish, nay pu, In fayth but will you? fie’.

p. 8

• CoR 375: Richard Corbett, Little Lute (‘Little lute, when I am gone’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses written on a lute she y^t. owed it being absent’ and here beginning ‘Pretty lute when I am gon’.

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

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

p. 10

• CwT 582: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy, headed ‘A sighe’.

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

pp. 13-14

• HrJ 292: Sir John Harington, Of writing with double pointing (‘Dames are indude with vertues excellent?’)

Copy, headed ‘Another’ [i.e. verse employing a double sense], with a prose preamble concerning King Edward at Berkeley Castle, inscribed in the margin ‘Harrington’.

First published in 1618, Book I, Nos. 33 and 35. McClure Nos. 34 and 36, pp. 161-2. Kilroy, Book I, No. 65, pp. 116-17.

p. 14

• RaW 267: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, headed ‘Of man’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

pp. 16-17

• MoG 28: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed ‘On King James’, incomplete, subscribed ‘See the rest of these verses pag 80’.

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

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

p. 19

• PeW 151: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Apollo's Oath (‘When Phebus first did Daphne love’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

pp. 20-2

• CoR 428: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)

Copy, headed ‘Do: Corbet on Tom y^e great bell of C:C:’.

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’).

p. 23

• CoR 754: Richard Corbett, On the Proctors Plotts (‘When plotts are Proctors vertues, and the gift’)

Copy, headed ‘To the intricate example of policy, euen in this vniversity. y^e plot of vnion, y^e delighte & defenders of factions, y^e freind of ppetual Rage, The reuiuers of Mallavil & macro, The subtil & sublimed corporacon of plot... [etc.]’.

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

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

p. 25

• DnJ 1744: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Second copy, headed ‘A Criple’ and here beginning ‘I can neither goe nor stand y^e criple cryes’.

p. 27

• RaW 471: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Say not you love, unless you do’

Copy, headed ‘A conference betwixt 2 louers’, deleted.

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. 28

• CwT 228: Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence (‘You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay’)

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

pp. 29-30

• HrJ 150: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, headed ‘Of a Lady musing’, with four additional lines.

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.

p. 31

• RaW 63: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, headed ‘S^r Walter Rawlighes verses the nighte before he was beheaded in London 1619’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.

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.348

An octavo volume of state tracts, papers speeches, relating particularly to Spain, closely written in possibly a single cursive mixed hand, v + 175 leaves, in modern half calf on marbled boards. c.1630.

Inscribed (f. i^v) ‘Ex Dono Egid: Clotterbooke’ [i.e. Giles Clutterbuck] and ‘Robt: Hyde 1678’. Phillipps MS 6902. Inscription on f. i^r: ‘This MS. was given by the Rev M^r Chapman (son to D^r Chapman of Holy=well) to J Price Sept. 7^th., 1790. late of Trinity College State Keeper of the Bodleian Library at Oxford lately deceased’.

ff. 68v-9r

• BcF 375: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of Bacon's speech in the Lords, 19 March ‘1620’.

MS V.a.355

Copy, in a secretary hand, with a title-page, The progresse to Parnassus as it was acted in St John's Colledge in Cambridge Ano 160i, 26 quarto leaves, in late 18th-century half calf. c.1606.

HlJ 64: Joseph Hall, The Returne from Parnassus

Inscribed ‘J. Symones Grays Inn 1795’. Bookplate of John Towneley of Towneley, Lancashire. Sotheby's, 28 June 1883 (Towneley sale), lot 122, to James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector.

The third part of a trilogy, possibly partly written by Hall. This play was twice printed in Cambridge in 1606. For the first two parts see ShW 118. The whole trilogy is edited from the MS and printed sources by J.B. Leishman in The Three Parnassus Plays (1598-1601) (London, 1949).

MS V.a.361

A quarto volume of chemical receipts, in several largely italic hands, 187 leaves (including a seven-page index and numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, silver clasps. Mid-17th century.

Bookplate of ‘S^r Edw: Littleton Bart’, of Pileton Hall, Staffordshire. Probably the MS sold at Sotheby's, 9 May 1961, lot 282, to Dawson.

f. 38r

• RaW 722: Sir Walter Ralegh, Chemical and Medical Receipts

Copy of a receipt for ‘A Excellent Cordiall ielly a Comforter of the harte and helpe to digesture > of S^r water raleigh’.

MS V.a.399

A quarto miscellany of both bawdy and religious verse and some prose, in several hands, 94 leaves (including a number of blanks), in modern quarter-calf marbled boards. Mid-late 17th century.

Inscribed ‘Charles Shuttleworth His Booke Anno 1691’. Peter Murray Hill, London, sale catalogue No. 82 (1962), item 33.

f. 9v-10r

• RaW 423.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘I cannot bend the bow’

Copy of three poems elaborating at greater length on the original version attributed to Ralegh, the first beginning ‘Faine woulde I shoote in a bowe y^t I knowe’.

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

f. 10r-v

• RaW 436: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Now what is Loue, I praie thee tell’

Copy, headed ‘Tam arte quam Marte:’.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 503-10.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). The first and last stanzas were a song in Thomas Heywood, The Rape of Lucrece (London, 1608). Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 171. Edited in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 156-7. Ralegh's possible authorship also discussed and largely supported in Walter Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960), p. 161; in Lefranc (1968), pp. 78-9, 83; and in Michael West, ‘Raleigh's disputed Authorship of “A Description of Loue”’, ELN, 10 (1972-3), 92-9.

f. 11v

• CmT 227: Thomas Campion, ‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘What if a day or a weeke or a year’.

MS V.a.402

A quarto volume of state letters and speeches, in a single professional italic hand, 69 leaves, in old half calf on marbled boards. c.1626.

Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘1626: scriptu est Bri: Caue: forke’, references to Brian Cave elsewhere also suggesting he was the compiler.

f. 31r-v

• BcF 376: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of Bacon's speech in Parliament, 16 January 1620/1.

MS V.a.409

An oblong quarto songbook, 38 leaves (including some blanks), in contemporary vellum. Mid-late 17th century.

f. 3r-v

• SuJ 168: John Suckling, The Goblins, Act III, scene ii, lines 53-7. Song (‘A Round, A Round, A Round’)

Copy, in a musical setting, untitled.

This MS collated in Beaurline.

Beaurline, Plays, p. 143. The song published in John Playford, Catch that Catch Can (London, 1667).

f. 5r

• SuJ 172: John Suckling, The Sad One, Act V, scene v, lines 31-4. Song (‘Come, come away, to the Tavern I say’)

Copy of the song, untitled, here beginning ‘Come let's away, to the Tavern I say’, with two additional lines.

This MS collated in Beaurline.

First published, with a separate title-page, in Last Remains (London, 1659). Beaurline, Plays, pp. 1-32 (p. 27). The song published in A Musicall Banquet (London, 1651).

MS V.a.411

An oblong octavo music part book, in a single hand, five leaves foliated 9-12 (plus blanks), in half morocco. Compiled by John Playford (1623-86?), being leaves detached from four of his MS autograph music part books, which are now at the University of Glasgow (MS Euing R.d.58-61) and (nine leaves) at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust (Halliwell-Phillipps, Shakespearean scrapbooks). c.1660.

Bookplate of William Harrison, F.S.H. Booklabel of William Hayman Cummings, FSA (1831-1915), singer and musical antiquary. Owned (and detached) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Formerly Folger MS 747.

This MS recorded in Cutts, Musique de la troupe de Shakespeare, pp. 129, 131.

ff. 9v, 10r, 11r, 12v

• ShW 93: William Shakespeare, The Tempest, I, ii, 400-9. Song (‘Full fathom five thy father lies’)

Copies in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).

Halliwell-Phillipps, ‘Notes upon the Works of Shakespeare, Henry V and Twelfth Night’.

ff. 9v, 10v, 11v, 13v

• ShW 103: William Shakespeare, The Tempest, V, i, 88-94. Song (‘Where the bee sucks, there suck I’)

Copies in a musical setting by Robert Johnson (as edited by John Wilson).

MS V.a.412

An oblong duodecimo musical part book (tenor), in a neat italic hand, 76 pages (including blanks). c.1600.

p. 53

• SoR 267.5: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Foure-fold Meditation: of the foure last things (‘O wretched man, which louest earthlie thinges’)

Copy of the opening lines only, untitled and here beginning ‘O wretched man (why loust ye earthly life’, in a musical setting by ‘Jo: Wilby’.

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.

MS V.a.418

A quarto volume of documents by or relating to Ralegh, 81 pages in all, in contemporary limp vellum. Comprising printed exempla of A Declaration of the Demeanor and Cariage of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight, aswell in his Voyage, as in, and sithence his Returne (London, 1618) and The humble petition...of Sir Lewis Stucley (London, 1618), with ten MS leaves at the beginning and two at the end, in at least two secretary and italic hands. c.1620.

Formerly Folger MS Add. 402.

ff. [1r-4v]

• RaW 781: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

Copy, in a small secretary hand.

Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.

f. [4v]

• RaW 64: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘Verses made by himselfe’.

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.421

A quarto volume of prose writings by Robert Southwell, in a single small predominantly italic hand, 62 pages, in old vellum. c.1608-12.

Microfilm in the British Library (M/714).

ff. 1r-14r

• SoR 303: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Epistle unto his Father (22 October 1589)

Copy, transcribed from the first edition of A Short Rule of Good Life, subscribed ‘Robarte Southewell’.

Edited from this MS in Brown, Two Letters. Microfilm in the British Library (M/714).

Epistle, beginning ‘In children of former ages it hath been thought so behooveful a point of duty...’. First published as ‘An Epistle of a Religious Priest unto his Father’ in A Short Rule of Good Life ([London?, 1596-7?]). Trotman, pp. 36-64. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 1-20.

ff. 15r-53r

• SoR 316: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A Short Rule of Good Life

Copy of a version, as ‘written by Robarte Southewell’, transcribed from the first edition, with changes made by an Anglican editor.

Edited from this MS in Brown, Two Letters. Microfilm in the British Library (M/714).

First published [in London? 1596-7?]. Brown, Two Letters, pp. 21-73.

ff. 54r-61v

• SoR 312: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Letter to Sir Robert Cecil

Copy, subscribed ‘Robarte Southewell’.

Edited from this MS in Brown (1973), with a facsimile of f. 54r as the frontispiece.

Southwell's letter to Cecil from the Tower, 6 April 1593, beginning ‘Honorable Good Sir: The usual effect of a languishing and afflicted life is an unwillingness to live...’. First published in Brown, Two Letters (1973), p. 75-85.

MS V.a.437

Leaves extracted from three oblong quarto music part books, now interleaved, in modern half red crushed morocco on marbled boards. c.1675.

Owned (and extracted) by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of Warwick Castle Library.

ff. 1r-6r (rectos only)

• ShW 110: William Shakespeare, The Winter's Tale, IV, iv, 218-30. Song (‘Lawn as white as driven snow’)

Copy in a musical setting (? by John Wilson), untitled.

MS V.a.479

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, on 41 quarto leaves, subscribed ‘Mensis Decembris, et Anni Domini 1591 Die vltimo’, in half-calf marbled boards. c.1591-1600.

SoR 307.8: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, An Humble Supplication to Her Majesty

Sotheby's, 16 September 1983, lot 00, to H. D. Lyons. Formerly Folger MS Add. 832.

First published (by a secret English press) ‘1595’ [for 1600?]. Edited by R .C. Bald (Cambridge, 1953).

MS V.a.505

A quarto-size guardbook of miscellaneous printed and MS leaves, 65 pages, in 19th-century half crushed morocco on marbled boards.

Owned by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89), literary scholar and book collector. Bookplate of Warwick Castle Library.

p. 27

• RnT 351.5: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet (‘I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare’)

Copy, on a leaf (f. 9r-v) extracted from an octavo verse miscellany which is now Folger MS V.a.96.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 115-17. Davis, pp. 92-105.

MS V.a.511

A quarto volume of Elizabeth Richardson's instructions for her children, 86 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum gilt with initials ‘E A’.

Acquired in 1969 from Hammond, bookseller.

The MS as a whole

• *RiE 2: Elizabeth Richardson (Ashburnham), Instructions for my children, or any other Christian

A quarto volume, entitled (f. 1v) ‘Instructions for my children, or any other Christian, Directing to the performance of our duties, towardes God and Man drawne out of y^e holy Scripture...’, in two neat italic hands, predominantly Elizabeth Ashburnham's and with her copious autograph revisions throughout, inscribed by her (f. 2r) ‘written at Ashbornham in Sussex anno. domin 1606. p. Elizabeth Ashbornham’ and the volume subscribed (f. 86v) ‘Finis. Elizabeth Ashbornham’, two other hands adding (f. 6r) a list of plate dated ‘The 6^th of Feby. 1699’ and some even later scribbling (ff. 54r-57v passim) including a list of books. c.1606.

This MS discussed, with a facsimile of f. 2r, in Victoria E. Burke, ‘Elizabeth Ashburnham Richardson's “motherlie endeauors” in Manuscript’, EMS, 9 (2000), 98-113. A facsimile of f. 2r in Women's Writing in Stuart England, ed. Sylvia Brown (Stroud, 1999), p. 253. Also described in the online Perdita Project.

Unpublished.

ff. 64v-85v

• RiE 1: Elizabeth Richardson (Ashburnham), A discourse of y^e teadiousnes of life and profitt of death

Elizabeth Richardson's précis of, and meditation on, the Countess of Pembroke's translation, in an unidentified hand, with her autograph corrections, headed ‘A discourse of y^e teadiousnes of life and profitt of death’ and listed in her table of contents at the end (f. 86v) as ‘a Treatise declaring the troble of life, and profit of death. Finis. Elizabeth: Ashborn ham’.

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile of f. 84r, in Margaret P. Hannay, ‘Elizabeth Ashburnham Richardson's Meditation on the Countess of Pembroke's Discourse’, EMS, 9 (2000), 114-28.

MS V.a.525

A quarto commonplace book of extracts, proverbs and aphorisms, in a single secretary hand, 70 leaves, in vellum boards. c.1625.

Inscribed (f. 69v) ‘this was one of m^r edmond day booke and M^rs day gaue it me when he die’. Bookplates of John Leevsay and of F.W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector.

passim

• HlJ 76: Joseph Hall, Extracts

Extracts from Joseph Hall ‘1st Vol’, Books I -III, including examples in the MS ff. 1r-11, 30r-7.

MS V.a.532

Extracts from Sidney, in a predominantly secretary hand, on the verso of the first rear endpaper in a printed exemplum of Bernardo Tasso, Le lettere (Venice, 1585), an octavo in quarter calf on marbled boards. Early 17th century.

Inscribed on the title-page by Rowland Woodward (1573-1637), friend of John Donne, with Woodward's motto ‘De juegos el mejor es con la hoja’. MS label ‘The Earl of Westmorland 1856’. Formerly Folger MS Add. 1216.

Photocopies are in the British Library, RP 8191.

[extract 1]

• SiP 5.8: Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 28 (‘You that with allegorie's curious frame’)

Copy of lines 11-14, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning ‘Look at my h~ f n suc quintce but kno y I in’, derived from an early quarto edition.

Ringler, pp. 178-9.

[extract 2]

• SiP 5.5: Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 21 (‘Your words my friend (right healthfull caustiks) blame’)

Copy of parts of lines 3-4, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning ‘my ow wri lik bad sr shew my b~’, derived from an early quarto edition.

Ringler, p. 175.

[extract 3]

• SiP 7.5: Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Song ii (‘Have I caught my heav'nly jewell’)

Copy of lines 9-12, 21-9, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning ‘hir tongu wak sti^l refu. giv frank nig no’, derived from an early quarto edition.

Ringler, pp. 202-3.

[extract 4]

• SiP 12.5: Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Song viii (‘In a grove most rich of shade’)

Copy of lines 45-8, 53-66, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning ‘g^rt o g^rt but spe (al) fail me fear on to pa^s’, derived from an early quarto edition.

Ringler, pp. 217-21.

[extract 5]

• SiP 5.3: Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 17 (‘His mother deare Cupid offended late’)

Copy of lines 13-14, untitled, in an idiosyncratic type of abbreviated writing, here beginning ‘And streight therew^t like’, derived from an early quarto edition.

Ringler, p. 173.

MS V.a.537

A quarto volume of state and antiquarian tracts and papers, in various secretary hands, x + 523 pages, in contemporary limp vellum inscribed ‘Liber B’. Some of the items copied from manuscripts of Roger Dodsworth (1585-1654), antiquary, and of the Aske family. A list of books at the end, with dates 1642-54, includes references to Robert Cotton, Sir Hugh Cholmley, and Sir Gervase Clifton (who ‘hath y^e booke’). c.1627-52.

Owned by the Fairfax family of Yorkshire. Partly compiled by Charles Fairfax (1597-1673) and with annotations by his brother Ferdinando (1584-1648), second Lord Fairfax. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 11138. Sotheby's, 8 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 406, sold to Downing. Bonham's, 18 March 2008, lot 250.

pp. 271-82

• CtR 180.5: Sir Robert Cotton, The Danger wherein this Kingdome now Standeth, and the Remedy

Copy, in two cursive secretary hands, subscribed with a note about the tract's presentation to the King on 29 January and Council meeting on 17 March, inscribed in the margin ‘By S^r Rob^t Cotton’ and ‘i Car R 1625’.

Facsimile of p. 282 in Bonham's sale catalogue, p. 102.

Tract beginning ‘As soon as the house of Austria had incorporated it self into the house of Spaine...’. First published London, 1628. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 308-20.

pp. 283-310

• CtR 415: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England

Copy, in a secretary hand, as ‘written by S^r: Robert Cotton knight and Barronnett’.

Facsimile of p. 283 in Bonham's sale catalogue, p. 102.

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).

pp. 429-52

• RaW 602: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace

Copy, in a competent secretary hand, with dedicatory epistle to James I, with an affixed slip of replacement text on p. 447, inscribed in the margin ‘S^r Walt Rawley’.

A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning ‘Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ...’, the dialogue beginning ‘Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?...’. First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (‘Midelburge’ and ‘Hamburg’ [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.

MS V.a.545

An octavo commonplace book of extracts under headings, in Latin and English, in a single mixed hand, written from both ends, 92 leaves, paginated 1-89 then foliated 3-49, in modern wrappers. Early 17th century.

Formerly MS Add. 774.

Discussed in Fred Schurink, ‘Manuscript Commonplace Books, Literature, and Reading in Early Modern England’, HLQ, 73/3 (2010), 453-69 (p. 460 et seq.), with a facsimile of f. 6r on p. 464.

passim

• SiP 109.5: Sir Philip Sidney, New Arcadia, in Third Eclogues (‘The ladd Philisides’)

A series of references to Arcadia under headings (‘Defensio’, ‘Expurgatio’, ‘Narratoria’, ‘Disputatoria’, ‘Gratulatoria’, etc.), on pages including ff. 5v, 7r, 10r, 11r, 15v, 16r, 18r, 23r, 25r, 26r, and 31r-2r.

Inserted in the 1693 edition of Arcadia, Book III, between OA 65 and OA 66. Ringler, Other Poems No. 5, pp. 256-7.

pp. 58-60

• SiP 177.5: Sir Philip Sidney, A Defence of Poetry

Extracts.

First published in London, 1595. Feuillerat, III, 1-46.

MS V.a.605

Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 32 folio pages. c.1625-30s.

RaW 639: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a Marriage between Prince Henry and a Daughter of Savoy

Sold by B.A. Seaby Ltd at Sotheby's, 31 July 1962, lot 554, to Blackwell. Subsequently owned by Dr Bent Juel-Jensen (1922-2006), Oxford physician and book collector. Quaritch's sale catalogue ‘English Books and Manuscripts’ (Winter 2008-9), item 61.

This MS recorded in The Book Collector, 15 (Summer 1966), p. 163. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 259 (No. 98). A photocopy example is in the British Library, RP 9403 (ii).

A tract beginning ‘There is nobody that persuades our prince to match with Savoy, for any love to the person of the duke...’. First published in The Interest of England with regard to Foreign Alliances, explained in two discourses:...2) Touching a Marriage between Prince Henry of England and a Daughter of Savoy (London, 1750). Works (1829), VIII, 237-52. Ralegh's authorship is not certain.