CELM: Harvard, fMS Eng 966.3

fMS Eng 966.3

A folio volume of 143 poems by Donne, plus his Paradoxes and Problems, in a single neat hand, 270 pages (plus a three-page index), in contemporary calf. Transcribed from Trinity College, Dublin, MS 877, [Part I], pp. 13r-161v (‘Dublin MS I’: DnJ Δ 14) before the extraction from that MS of pages containing two poems by Donne but before the addition of the Hamilton elegy of 1625. c.1623-5.

Acquired in 1895 from Bernard Quaritch by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian. Formerly MS Nor 4503.

Recorded in IELM as the Norton MS: DnJ Δ 9. Briefly discussed in C.E. Norton, ‘The Text of Donne's Poems’, [Harvard] Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 5 (1896), 1-22 (pp. 11-13). Cited as N by most modern editors and as H4 in Variorum.

pp. 1-4

• DnJ 2730: John Donne, Satyre I (‘Away thou fondling motley humorist’)

Copy, headed ‘Satire’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.

pp. 4-7

• DnJ 2792: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)

Copy, headed ‘Satire’, subscribed ‘J: D:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.

pp. 7-14

• DnJ 2821: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)

Copy, headed ‘Satire’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.

pp. 14-17

• DnJ 2855: John Donne, Satyre V (‘Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they’)

Copy, headed ‘Satirae’.

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

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.

pp. 21-4

• DnJ 2759: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyre:’, ascribed in the margin to ‘J D:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.

pp. 24-8

• DnJ 363: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson. 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. 28-30

• DnJ 3053: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)

Copy, headed ‘The Storme to M^r: C: B:’, ascribed in the margin to ‘J D:’.

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

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.

pp. 30-2

• DnJ 540: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

pp. 32-4

• DnJ 38: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, ascribed in the margin to ‘J: D:’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 34-5

• DnJ 3278: John Donne, To M^r Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)

Copy, untitled, ascribed to ‘J: D:’.

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

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

pp. 35-6

• DnJ 3449: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘J D: to M^r H: W:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.

pp. 36-7

• DnJ 682: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, ascribed in the margin to ‘J: D:’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 37-9

• DnJ 2544: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegye’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 40-1

• DnJ 614: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, ascribed in the margin to ‘J: D:’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 41

• DnJ 2328: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 42-3

• DnJ 248: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 43-4

• DnJ 951: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’, ascribed to ‘J: D:’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as ‘Elegie X’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.

p. 44

• DnJ 422: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘J: D:’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 44-5

• DnJ 3095: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)

Copy, headed ‘Sune riseinge’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 45-6

• DnJ 1792: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘J: D:’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.

pp. 46-7

• DnJ 3718: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.

pp. 47-9

• DnJ 2438: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’

Copy, headed ‘Elegie:’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as ‘Elegie VI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.

p. 49

• DnJ 1824: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie:’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.

p. 50

• DnJ 3611: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 50-2

• DnJ 1058: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie vpon the death of the Lady Marckham’.

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

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

pp. 52-4

• DnJ 1002: John Donne, Elegie on M^ris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie vpon the death of M^rs Bulstood’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.

pp. 54-5

• DnJ 1440: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 55-6

• DnJ 480: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 56-7

• DnJ 3647: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy, headed ‘Twitnam Garden:’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 57-8

• DnJ 2191: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 58-60

• DnJ 1093: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)

Copy.

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

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

pp. 60-1

• DnJ 3588: John Donne, To the Lady Bedford (‘You that are she and you, that's double shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie to the Ladye Bedford:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 227-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 94-5. Shawcross, No. 148.

pp. 61-3

• BmF 16: Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae (‘Madam, so may my verses pleasing be’)

Copy, untitled, transcribed from BmF 26.

First published, as ‘An Elegie by F. B.’, in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.

pp. 63-4

• DnJ 814: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.

pp. 64-5

• DnJ 1955: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)

Copy, headed ‘Mummy’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 65-6

• DnJ 579: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

pp. 66-7

• DnJ 2031: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

Copy (probably transcribed from a page now torn out of Dublin MS (I)).

This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

pp. 69-70

• DnJ 3893: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘Loues Legacies’, probably transcribed from a page torn out of Dublin MS (I).

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 69-71

• DnJ 1217: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

Edited from this MS in Variorum, 2. Collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 72-3

• DnJ 2905: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 73

• DnJ 3977: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.

pp. 73-4

• DnJ 654: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.

pp. 74-5

• DnJ 1348: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 75-7

• DnJ 1250: John Donne, The Extasie (‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.

pp. 77-8

• DnJ 1993: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 78-9

• DnJ 1390: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.

pp. 79-82

• DnJ 1165: John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day (‘Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is’)

Copy, headed ‘Epithalamium’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.

pp. 82-5

• DnJ 2129: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and 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.

pp. 85-6

• DnJ 341: John Donne, The Blossoms (‘Little think'st thou, poore flower’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.

pp. 86-7

• DnJ 3162: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie:’, ascribed in the margin to J: D:.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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.

pp. 87-8

• DnJ 174: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)

Copy, headed ‘An Apparition’, ascribed in the margin to ‘J: D:’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 88-90

• DnJ 3480: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.

pp. 90-2

• CoR 73: Richard Corbett, An Elegie on the late Lord William Haward Baron of Effingham, dead the tenth of December. 1615 (‘I did not know thee, Lord, nor do I striue’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegie vpon the death of the Lord: Effingham 1615’, ascribed in the margin to ‘R: Cor.’

This MS recorded (as ‘N1’) in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 114.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 20-3.

pp. 92-3

• DnJ 2607: John Donne, The Primrose (‘Upon this Primrose hill’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.

pp. 93-4

• DnJ 3310: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire’)

Copy, headed ‘To M: J: W:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.

p. 94

• DnJ 3353: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘Hast thee harsh verse, as fast as thy lame measure’)

Copy, headed ‘To M T: W:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 205. Milgate, Satires, pp. 60-1. Shawcross, No. 115.

pp. 94-5

• DnJ 3361: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘Pregnant again with th' old twins Hope, and Feare’)

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206. Milgate, Satires, p. 61. Shawcross, No. 116.

p. 95

• DnJ 3335: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘At once, from hence, my lines and I depart’)

Copy, untitled.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.

pp. 95-6

• DnJ 3229: John Donne, To M^r C.B. (‘Thy friend, whom thy deserts to thee enchaine’)

Copy, headed ‘To M: C: C:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 208. Milgate, Satires, p. 63. Shawcross, No. 120.

p. 96

• DnJ 3301: John Donne, To M^r S.B. (‘O Thou which to search out the secret parts’)

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 211. Milgate, Satires, pp. 66-7. Shawcross, No. 124.

pp. 96-7

• DnJ 3220: John Donne, To M^r B.B. (‘Is not thy sacred hunger of science’)

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 212-13. Milgate, Satires, pp. 67-8. Shawcross, No. 126.

pp. 97-8

• DnJ 3256: John Donne, To M^r R.W. (‘If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be’)

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 209-10. Milgate, Satires, pp. 64-5. Shawcross, No. 122.

p. 98

• DnJ 3248: John Donne, To M^r I.L. (‘Of that short Roll of friends writ in my heart’)

Copy, headed ‘To: M: J: L:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 212. Milgate, Satires, p. 67. Shawcross, No. 125.

p. 99

• DnJ 3239: John Donne, To M^r I.L. (‘Blest are your North parts, for all this long time’)

Copy, headed ‘To: M: J: L:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 213-14. Milgate, Satires, pp. 68-9. Shawcross, No. 127.

pp. 99-100

• DnJ 3413: John Donne, To Sir H.W. at his going Ambassador to Venice (‘After those reverend papers, whose soule is’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Henry Wotton, at his going Ambassador to Venice’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 214-16. Milgate, Satires, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 129.

pp. 100-2

• DnJ 3428: John Donne, To S^r Henry Goodyere (‘Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare’)

Copy, headed ‘To: S^r: H: G: mouing him to Travell:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.

pp. 102-3

• DnJ 3396: John Donne, To S^r Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)

Copy, headed ‘To: S^r: E: H:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.

pp. 103-5

• DnJ 3374: John Donne, To M^rs M.H. (‘Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne’)

Copy, headed ‘To: M: M. H.:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 216-18. Milgate, Satires, pp. 88-90. Shawcross, No. 133.

pp. 105-6

• DnJ 3522: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countess: of: B:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.

pp. 106-8

• DnJ 3507: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Honour is so sublime perfection’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countesse of B:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 218-20. Milgate, Satires, pp. 100-2. Shawcross, No. 136.

pp. 108-10

• DnJ 3549: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘You have refin'd mee, and to worthyest things’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countess of: B:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 191-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 91-4. Shawcross, No. 137.

pp. 110-13

• DnJ 3538: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘T' have written then, when you writ, seem'd to mee’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countess of: B:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 195-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 95-8. Shawcross, No. 138.

pp. 113-15

• DnJ 3561: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford. On New-yeares day (‘This twilight of two yeares, not past nor next’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countess of B: at newyeares tyde’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 198-201. Milgate, Satires, pp. 98-100. Shawcross, No. 139.

pp. 115-17

• DnJ 3566: John Donne, To the Countesse of Huntingdon (‘Man to Gods image. Eve, to mans was made’)

Copy, headed ‘To the C: of H:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 201-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 85-8. Shawcross, No. 141.

pp. 118-20

• DnJ 3580: John Donne, To the Countesse of Salisbury. August. 1614 (‘Faire, great, and good, since seeing you, wee see’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Countesse of: S:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 224-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 107-10. Shawcross, No. 145.

pp. 120-2

• DnJ 1864: John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and M^rs Essex Riche, From Amyens (‘Here where by All All Saints invoked are’)

Copy, headed ‘To the: La: Co: of: C:’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.

pp. 122-3

• DnJ 2709: John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis (‘Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 124-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 92-4 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 24. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 409-10.

p. 124

• DnJ 1674: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as ‘Elegie I’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.

pp. 125-6

• DnJ 2494: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson. 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. 126-7

• DnJ 1523: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 127-8

• DnJ 2383: John Donne, A nocturnall upon S. Lucies day, Being the shortest day (‘'Tis the yeares midnight, and it is the dayes’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 44-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 84-5. Shawcross, No. 82.

p. 128

• DnJ 716: John Donne, The Computation (‘For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69. Gardner, Elegies, p. 36. Shawcross, No. 76.

pp. 128-9

• DnJ 907: John Donne, The Dissolution (‘Shee is dead. And all which die’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 64. Gardner, Elegies, p. 86. Shawcross, No. 72.

pp. 129-30

• DnJ 3948: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture (‘I fixe mine eye on thine, and there’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.

p. 130

• DnJ 1698: John Donne, A Jeat Ring sent (‘Thou art not so black, as my heart’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 65-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 38. Shawcross, No. 73.

pp. 139-1

• DnJ 2077: John Donne, Loves exchange (‘Love, any devill else but you’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.

pp. 131-2

• DnJ 1313: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)

Copy, headed ‘Fever’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.

pp. 132-3

• DnJ 1635: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 133-5

• DnJ 3771: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.

pp. 135-6

• DnJ 10: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.

p. 136

• DnJ 2099: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.

p. 137

• DnJ 921: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.

pp. 137-8

• DnJ 2626: John Donne, The Prohibition (‘Take heed of loving mee’)

Copy of lines 1-16.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.

pp. 138-9

• DnJ 107: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.

p. 139

• DnJ 853: John Donne, The Dampe (‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.

pp. 139-40

• DnJ 2684: John Donne, The Relique (‘When my grave is broke up againe’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.

pp. 140-1

• DnJ 2361: John Donne, Negative love (‘I never stoop'd so low, as they’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 66. Gardner, Elegies, p. 56. Shawcross, No. 74.

p. 141

• DnJ 3831: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.

pp. 142-3

• DnJ 3802: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.

pp. 143-4

• DnJ 1189: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.

p. 144

• DnJ 3692: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)

Copy, headed ‘Platonique Loue’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.

p. 145

• DnJ 738: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.

pp. 145-6

• DnJ 2280: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, untitled, under a general heading ‘Songes w^ch were made to certaine Aires w^ch were made before’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 146

• DnJ 2991: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 147

• DnJ 292: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 147

• DnJ 1474: John Donne, Hero and Leander (‘Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground’)

Copy, under the general heading ‘Epigramms’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 83. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

p. 148

• DnJ 2648: John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe (‘Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare’)

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 84. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

p. 148

• DnJ 2373: John Donne, Niobe (‘By childrens births, and death, I am become’)

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 85. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.

p. 148

• DnJ 522: John Donne, A burnt ship (‘Out of a fired ship, which, by no way’)

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 86. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Nave arsa’) and 10.

p. 148

• DnJ 1271: John Donne, Fall of a wall (‘Vnder an undermin'd, and shot-bruis'd wall’)

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 87. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 7 (as ‘Caso d'vn muro’), and 10 (as ‘Fall of a Wall’).

p. 148

• DnJ 1730: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy.

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

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. 148

• DnJ 1881: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)

Copy.

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

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

p. 148

• DnJ 147: John Donne, Antiquary (‘If in his Studie he hath so much care’)

Copy.

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

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

p. 148

• DnJ 2259: John Donne, Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus (‘Like Esops fellow-slaves, O Mercury’)

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 96. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

p. 149

• DnJ 2585: John Donne, Phryne (‘Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee’)

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 97. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

p. 149

• DnJ 2396: John Donne, An obscure writer (‘Philo, with twelve yeares study, hath beene griev'd’)

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 98. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 9 and 11.

p. 149

• DnJ 1715: John Donne, Klockius (‘Klockius so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 99. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6, 9 and 11.

p. 149

• DnJ 2664: John Donne, Raderus (‘Why this man gelded Martiall I muse’)

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 103. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 9 and 11.

pp. 149-51

• DnJ 1145: John Donne, Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne (‘The Sun-beames in the East are spred’)

Copy.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 141-4. Shawcross, No. 106. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 3-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 87-9.

pp. 152-9

• DnJ 979: John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 (‘Unseasonable man, statue of ice’)

Copy, headed ‘Eclogue: Inducing an Epithalamium at the Marriage of the E: of: S:’, complete with the 11-poem ‘Epithalamion’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as ‘Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset’). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.

pp. 159-61

• DnJ 1116: John Donne, Elegie upon the untimely death of the incomparable Prince Henry (‘Looke to mee faith, and looke to my faith, God’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie: Prince Henry’.

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

First published in Joshua Sylvester, Lachrymae Lachrymarum (London, 1613). Poems (London, 1633). Grierson, I, 267-70. Shawcross, No. 152. Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 63-6 (as ‘Elegie on Prince Henry’). Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 160-2.

pp. 161-8

• DnJ 2413: John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford (‘Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegie Lord: Harrington’.

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

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.

pp. 169-88

• DnJ 1661: John Donne, Infinitati Sacrum. 16 Augusti 1601 Metempsychosis (‘I sing the progresse of a deathlesse soule’)

Copy.

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

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

pp. 189-92

• DnJ 762: John Donne, La Corona (‘Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise’)

Copy of the sequence of seven sonnets.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 318-21. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 1-5. Shawcross, No. 160.

p. 192

• DnJ 215: John Donne, ‘As due by many titles I resigne’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 322 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 6. Shawcross, No. 162. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 5, 11, 21, 103 (in four sequences).

p. 193

• DnJ 2477: John Donne, ‘Oh, my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. II’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 323 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. IV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 163. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 21, 104 (in three sequences).

p. 193

• DnJ 3135: John Donne, ‘This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 324 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 164. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 22, 105 (in three sequences).

p. 194

• DnJ 230: John Donne, ‘At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 325 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 165. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 8, 14, 22, 106 (in four sequences).

p. 194

• DnJ 1616: John Donne, ‘If poysonous mineralls, and if that tree’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. V’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. IX’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 166. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 9, 15, 23, 107 (in four sequences).

p. 195

• DnJ 880: John Donne, ‘Death be not proud, though some have called thee’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. X’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 167. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 23, 107 (in four sequences).

p. 195

• DnJ 3040: John Donne, ‘Spit in my face you Jewes, and pierce my side’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 168.

p. 196

• DnJ 3878: John Donne, ‘Why are wee by all creatures waited on?’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 169.

p. 196

• DnJ 3867: John Donne, ‘What if this present were the worlds last night?’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. IX’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XIII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 170.

p. 197

• DnJ 329: John Donne, ‘Batter my heart, three person'd God. for, you’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. X’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XIV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 171. Variorum, 7, Pt 1 (2005), pp. 18, 25.

p. 197

• DnJ 3936: John Donne, ‘Wilt thou love God, as he thee! then digest’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. XI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 172.

p. 198

• DnJ 1293: John Donne, ‘Father, part of his double interest’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. XII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XVI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 173. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 6, 12, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

pp. 198-210

• DnJ 1777: John Donne, The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the most part according to Tremelius (‘How sits this citie, late most populous’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 354-67. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 35-48. Shawcross, No. 187.

pp. 211-18

• DnJ 1927: John Donne, The Litanie (‘Father of Heaven, and him, by whom’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson and in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.

pp. 218-19

• DnJ 1414: John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward (‘Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this’)

Copy, headed ‘Good Fridaye Made as I was rideing Westward, that daie’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.

pp. 219-21

• DnJ 132: John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion (‘Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Annunciation: when Good friday fell vpon the same daie’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 334-6. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 29-30 (as ‘Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608’). Shawcross, No. 183.

pp. 221-3

• DnJ 781: John Donne, The Crosse (‘Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Crosse’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.

p. 223

• DnJ 2701: John Donne, Resurrection, imperfect (‘Sleep sleep old Sun, thou canst not have repast’)

Copy, headed ‘Resurrection:’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 333-4. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 28. Shawcross, No. 182. The MS texts discussed in Lara M. Crowley, ‘A Text of “Resurrection. Imperfect”’, John Donne Journal, 29 (2010), 185-98.

p. 224

• DnJ 1551: John Donne, A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany (‘In what torne ship soever I embarke’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.

p. 225

• DnJ 1570: John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father (‘Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne’)

Copy, headed ‘To Christ’.

This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 369 (and variant text p. 370). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 193. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 26, 110 (in four sequences).

pp. 226-35

• OvT 20: Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife (‘Each woman is a brief of woman kind’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, as A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury, in London, 1614. Rimbault, pp. 33-45. Beecher, pp. 190-8.

pp. 239-41

• BmF 108: Francis Beaumont, Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson (‘The sun which doth the greatest comfort bring’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS in C.E. Norton, ‘Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson’, Studies and Notes in Philology and Literature, 5 (Harvard University, 1896), 19-22. Collated in Herford & Simpson.

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

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

pp. 243-70

• DnJ 4069: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems

Copy of ten Paradoxes and seventeen Problems.

This MS recorded in Keynes, Bibliography (1973), p. 95.

Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to ‘Dubia’) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.