MS Eng 966.5
A quarto volume of 169 poems by Donne, plus some prose works by him, together with a few poems by others, almost entirely in a single hand, with a table of contents, viiii + ‘440’ pages (plus blanks, the pagination jumping from 156 to 161 and from 339 to 400), with an alphabetical first-line index (pp. [iii-vi]), in modern calf. Mainly transcribed from Cambridge University Library MS Add. 8468 (the ‘Luttrell MS’: DnJ Δ 18), with a title-page (p. i) inscribed ‘The Poems of D.J. Donne (not yet imprinted)...finished this 12 of October 1632’. It bears corrections in two hands (one possibly the original scribe) made from the 1633 edition of Donne's Poems, many of the poems headed ‘P.’ (signifying ‘Printed’), with some annotated in red ink ‘Not Printed’. The largest known MS collection of Donne's poems and apparently used in the preparation of the second edition of the Poems (1635). [1635].
According to the compiler of the partial transcript of this MS (Harvard MS Eng 966.2), the O'Flahertie MS belonged to ‘the late Dr Parnel, Arch Deacon of Clogher’: i.e. Thomas Parnell (1679-1718), poet and essayist, ‘and after his decease to Mr. Thos: Burton of Dublin, and [was] obtained from him by the Editor.’ Sold at Puttick & Simpson's, 28 April 1856 (Francis Moore sale), lot 975. Later owned by the Rev. T.R. O'Flahertie (fl.1861-94), vicar of Capel, near Dorking, Surrey, book collector. Sotheby's, 25-27 July 1899, lot 384, to Ellis. Described in Ellis and Elvey's sale catalogue No. 93 (November 1899), the relevant pages of which are inserted in the MS. Formerly MS Nor 4504.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘O'Flahertie MS’: DnJ Δ 17.
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• CoH 105: Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady (‘In that (O Queene of queenes) thy byrth was free’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Grierson, I, 427.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 5. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (2 vols, Oxford, 1912), I, 427. Grundy, p. 185.
pp. 1-10
• DnJ 1933: John Donne, The Litanie (‘Father of Heaven, and him, by whom’)
Copy, headed ‘A Letany’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.
pp. 11-12
• DnJ 1420: John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward (‘Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this’)
Copy, headed ‘Good ffryday. 1613 Riding towards Wales’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.
pp. 12-14
• DnJ 786: John Donne, The Crosse (‘Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I’)
Copy, headed ‘Of the Crosse’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.
p. 16
• DnJ 2705: John Donne, Resurrection, imperfect (‘Sleep sleep old Sun, thou canst not have repast’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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.
pp. 17-18
• DnJ 137: John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion (‘Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Annunciation and Passion falling on one day. An Di: 168.’
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 20-3
• DnJ 768: John Donne, La Corona (‘Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise’)
Copy of the sequence of seven sonnets, headed ‘The Crowne’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 318-21. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 1-5. Shawcross, No. 160.
p. 24
• DnJ 1575: John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father (‘Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne’)
Copy, headed ‘Christo Saluatori’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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).
p. 25
• DnJ 3147: John Donne, ‘Thou hast made me, And shall thy worke decay?’
Copy, untitled, under a general heading ‘Deuine Meditations’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 322 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’). Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 12-13. Shawcross, No. 174. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 5, 11, 103 (in three sequences).
p. 25
• DnJ 221: John Donne, ‘As due by many titles I resigne’
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 26
• DnJ 2391: John Donne, ‘O might those sighes and teares return againe’
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. III’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 323 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. III’). Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 176. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 6, 12, 104 (in three sequences).
p. 26
• DnJ 1298: John Donne, ‘Father, part of his double interest’
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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).
p. 27
• DnJ 2483: John Donne, ‘Oh, my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned’
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 27
• DnJ 3141: John Donne, ‘This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint’
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 28
• DnJ 1601: John Donne, ‘I am a little world made cunningly’
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. V’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 324 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. V’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 13. Shawcross, No. 175. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 8, 14, 105 (in three sequences).
p. 28
• DnJ 236: John Donne, ‘At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow’
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 29
• DnJ 1622: John Donne, ‘If poysonous mineralls, and if that tree’
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 29
• DnJ 1607: John Donne, ‘If faithfull soules be alike glorifi'd’
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VIII’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 325 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VIII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 14. Shawcross, No. 177.
p. 30
• DnJ 886: John Donne, ‘Death be not proud, though some have called thee’
Copy, untitled.
Edited from this MS in Variorum, 6. Collated in Grierson, 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. 30
• DnJ 3941: John Donne, ‘Wilt thou love God, as he thee! then digest’
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 31
• DnJ 3044: John Donne, ‘Spit in my face you Jewes, and pierce my side’
Copy, untitled, under a general heading ‘Other Meditations’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 31
• DnJ 3882: John Donne, ‘Why are wee by all creatures waited on?’
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 32
• DnJ 332: John Donne, ‘Batter my heart, three person'd God. for, you’
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated 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. 32
• DnJ 3870: John Donne, ‘What if this present were the worlds last night?’
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 33
• DnJ 1556: John Donne, A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany (‘In what torne ship soever I embarke’)
Copy, headed ‘At the Sea-side going over wth the Ld Doncaster. 1619’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.
pp. 34-47
• DnJ 1780: 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, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 354-67. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 35-48. Shawcross, No. 187.
pp. 48-9
• DnJ 3370: John Donne, To Mr. Tilman after he had taken orders (‘Thou, whose diviner soule hath caus'd thee now’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 351-2. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 189.
p. 50
• HrE 85: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne (‘Vengeance will sit above our faults. but till’)
Copy, headed ‘Ode’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Smith, p. 139.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson (Oxford, 1912), I, 350. Moore Smith, pp. 119-20.
pp. 51-2
• DnJ 3709: John Donne, Upon the translation of the Psalmes by Sir Philip Sydney, and the Countesse of Pembroke his Sister (‘Eternall God, for whom who ever dare’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 348-50. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-5. Shawcross, No. 191.
pp. 57-60
• DnJ 2764: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)
Copy, under a general heading ‘P. Satyres’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.
pp. 61-4
• DnJ 2734: John Donne, Satyre I (‘Away thou fondling motley humorist’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Satyre. 2.’
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.
pp. 65-8
• DnJ 2796: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Satyre. 3.’
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.
pp. 69-77
• DnJ 2826: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)
Copy, headed ‘Satyre 4’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.
pp. 77-80
• DnJ 2859: John Donne, Satyre V (‘Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they’)
Copy, headed ‘P Satyre. 5.’
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 89-108
• DnJ 1664: John Donne, Infinitati Sacrum. 16 Augusti 1601 Metempsychosis (‘I sing the progresse of a deathlesse soule’)
Copy, headed ‘Infinitati Sacrum. 16 Augusti 1601 Metempsychosis Poema Satyricon’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 293-316. Milgate, Satires, pp. 25-46. Shawcross, No. 158.
pp. 113-14
• DnJ 688: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)
Copy, untitled, under a general heading ‘P. Elegies.’
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 115-17
• DnJ 2552: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Elegy 2.’
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 117-18
• DnJ 1680: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Elegy. 3’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 118-20
• DnJ 2446: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’
Copy, headed ‘P. Elegy. 4.’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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.
pp. 120-1
• DnJ 2333: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’
Copy, headed ‘P. Elegie. 5.’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 121-3
• DnJ 2199: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie. 6.’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 123-5
• DnJ 3169: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Elegie. 7.’
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 125-6
• DnJ 622: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Elegie. 8’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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.
pp. 126-8
• DnJ 2500: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie. 9. On his Mistresse desiring to bee disguisd and goe like a Page with him’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 128-9
• DnJ 1528: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Elegie. 10.’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 129-31
• DnJ 46: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Elegie 11a.’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 131-3
• DnJ 256: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Elegie. 12. On the Lady Herbert afterwards Danuers’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 133-6
• DnJ 2134: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Elegie 13. Loues Progresse’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 137-40
• DnJ 1490: John Donne, His parting from her (‘Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Elegy. 14’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published, in a 42-line version as ‘Elegie XIIII’, in Poems (London, 1635). Published complete (104 lines) in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 100-4 (as ‘Elegie XII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 96-100 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 21. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 332-4 (with versions printed in 1635 and 1669 on pp. 335-6 and 336-8 respectively).
pp. 140-2
• DnJ 3125: John Donne, A Tale of a Citizen and his Wife (‘I sing no harme good sooth to any wight’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Elegie 15’.
Edited from this MS in Variorum, 2. Collated in Grierson and in Gardner.
First published, as ‘Eleg. XVI’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 105-8 (as ‘Elegie XIV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 101-3 (among her ‘Dubia’). Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 437-8, among ‘Dubia’. Not in Shawcross.
pp. 144-6
• DnJ 1223: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Elegie’.
This MS 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. 150-1
• DnJ 1709: John Donne, Julia (‘Harke newes, o envy, thou shalt heare descry'd’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Elegy. Julia’.
Edited from this MS in Variorum, 2. Collated in Grierson and in Gardner.
First published, as ‘Eleg. XV’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 104-5 (as ‘Elegie XIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 100-1 (among her ‘Dubia’). Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 435, among ‘Dubia’. Not in Shawcross.
p. 153
• DnJ 2889: John Donne, Selfe Love (‘He that cannot chuse but love’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Elegy.’
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1650). Grierson, I, 73-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 107-8 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 80.
pp. 154-6
• DnJ 370: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Elegy. To A Lady whose chayne was lost The Bracelet Armilla’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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.
p. 161
• DnJ 1130: John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford (‘That I might make your Cabinet my tombe’)
Copy, headed ‘To the Countesse of Bedford’, under a general heading ‘Epicedes and Obsequyes vpon the Deaths of seuerall personages’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.
pp. 162-3
• DnJ 1065: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)
Copy, headed ‘A Funerall Elegie vpon the death of the Lady Markham’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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.
p. 164
• DnJ 1034: John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. (‘Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Elegie funer.’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as ‘A Funeral Elegy’). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as ‘Elegia’.
pp. 165-7
• DnJ 1009: John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Vpon the Death of Mrs Boulstred’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 169-70
• DnJ 1098: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Another vpon the same Mrs Boulstred.’
This MS collated in Grierson, 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.
p. 171
• JnB 115: Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] (‘Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the same Mrs Boulstred’.
This MS collated in Herford & Simpson.
First published in John A. Harper, ‘Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.
pp. 173-81
• DnJ 2418: 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 ‘Obsequies vpon the Lord Harrington the last that dyed’.
Edited from this MS in Variorum, 6. Collated in Grierson, 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. 182-3
• DnJ 1590: John Donne, An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton (‘Whether that soule which now comes up to you’)
Copy, headed ‘P. A Hymne to the Saynts and To the Marquesse Hamilton’.
Edited from this MS in Variorum, 6. Collated in Grierson, in Shawcross, and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 288-90. Shawcross, No. 154. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 74-5. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 220-1.
pp. 183-6
• DnJ 1119: John Donne, Elegie upon the untimely death of the incomparable Prince Henry (‘Looke to mee faith, and looke to my faith, God’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Elegy vpon Prince Henry since in print but out of print’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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.
p. 187
• DnJ 4065.3: John Donne, Epitaph for Ann Donne (‘Fæminæ lectissimæ, dilectissimæque’)
Copy, subscribed ‘In the Chancell of St. Clement Danes church without Temple Barr: Made by J. D. himselfe who was after wards notwithstanding buryed in Pawles whereof hee dyed Deane A. D. 1631.’
This MS collated in Variorum, 8.
Donne's Latin epitaph on his wife Ann More, who died 15 August 1617. First published in John Stow, The Survey of London (London, 1633). Edited and discussed in M. Thomas Hester, ‘“miserrimum dictu”: Donne's Epitaph for His Wife’, JEGP, 94/4 (October 1995), 513-29. Variorum, 8 (1995), 187.
pp. 189-90
• DnJ 3433: John Donne, To Sr Henry Goodyere (‘Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare’)
Copy, under a general heading ‘P. Letters to seuerall Personages’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.
pp. 191-3
• DnJ 3512: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Honour is so sublime perfection’)
Copy, headed ‘P. To the Countesse of Bedford’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 218-20. Milgate, Satires, pp. 100-2. Shawcross, No. 136.
pp. 193-5
• DnJ 3553: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘You have refin'd mee, and to worthyest things’)
Copy, headed ‘To the Countesse of Bedford. Twitnam’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 191-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 91-4. Shawcross, No. 137.
p. 198
• DnJ 3316: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire’)
Copy, headed ‘A Letter’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.
pp. 199-200
• DnJ 3285: John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)
Copy, headed ‘A lre to Rowland Woodward’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.
pp. 200-1
• DnJ 3457: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)
Copy, headed ‘P. To Sr Henry Wootton’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.
pp. 202-4
• DnJ 3486: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.
pp. 204-5
• DnJ 3527: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right’)
Copy, headed ‘P. To the Countesse of Bedford’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.
pp. 206-7
• DnJ 3402: John Donne, To Sr Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)
Copy, headed ‘P. To Sr Edward Herbert at Julyers’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.
pp. 208-9
• DnJ 3591: John Donne, To the Lady Bedford (‘You that are she and you, that's double shee’)
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 227-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 94-5. Shawcross, No. 148.
pp. 209-12
• DnJ 1869: John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mrs Essex Riche, From Amyens (‘Here where by All All Saints invoked are’)
Copy, headed ‘To the Lady Cary and her sistr Essex Rich, From Amiens’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.
pp. 214-15
• DnJ 3342: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘At once, from hence, my lines and I depart’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Lre Printed’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.
p. 215
• DnJ 3357: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘Hast thee harsh verse, as fast as thy lame measure’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 205. Milgate, Satires, pp. 60-1. Shawcross, No. 115.
p. 216
• DnJ 3224: John Donne, To Mr B.B. (‘Is not thy sacred hunger of science’)
Copy, headed ‘P. To Mr. B. B.’
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 212-13. Milgate, Satires, pp. 67-8. Shawcross, No. 126.
p. 217
• DnJ 3233: John Donne, To Mr C.B. (‘Thy friend, whom thy deserts to thee enchaine’)
Copy, headed ‘P. To Mr. C. B.’
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 208. Milgate, Satires, p. 63. Shawcross, No. 120.
p. 217
• DnJ 3365: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘Pregnant again with th' old twins Hope, and Feare’)
Copy, headed ‘P. To Mr T. W.’
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206. Milgate, Satires, p. 61. Shawcross, No. 116.
p. 218
• DnJ 3305: John Donne, To Mr S.B. (‘O Thou which to search out the secret parts’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 211. Milgate, Satires, pp. 66-7. Shawcross, No. 124.
p. 218
• DnJ 3252: John Donne, To Mr I.L. (‘Of that short Roll of friends writ in my heart’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 212. Milgate, Satires, p. 67. Shawcross, No. 125.
p. 219
• DnJ 3260: John Donne, To Mr R.W. (‘If, as mine is, thy life a slumber be’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 209-10. Milgate, Satires, pp. 64-5. Shawcross, No. 122.
p. 220
• DnJ 3243: John Donne, To Mr I.L. (‘Blest are your North parts, for all this long time’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 213-14. Milgate, Satires, pp. 68-9. Shawcross, No. 127.
pp. 220-1
• DnJ 3417: John Donne, To Sir H.W. at his going Ambassador to Venice (‘After those reverend papers, whose soule is’)
Copy, headed To Sr Henry Wootton at his going Embassador to Venice.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 214-16. Milgate, Satires, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 129.
pp. 222-4
• DnJ 3541: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘T' have written then, when you writ, seem'd to mee’)
Copy, headed ‘P. To the Countesse of B.’
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 195-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 95-8. Shawcross, No. 138.
pp. 224-6
• DnJ 3564: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford. On New-yeares day (‘This twilight of two yeares, not past nor next’)
Copy, headed ‘To the Countesse of B. at Newyeres tide’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 198-201. Milgate, Satires, pp. 98-100. Shawcross, No. 139.
pp. 227-8
• DnJ 3569: John Donne, To the Countesse of Huntingdon (‘Man to Gods image. Eve, to mans was made’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 201-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 85-8. Shawcross, No. 141.
pp. 229-31
• DnJ 2713: John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis (‘Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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.
pp. 231-3, 241-2
• DnJ 3583: John Donne, To the Countesse of Salisbury. August. 1614 (‘Faire, great, and good, since seeing you, wee see’)
Copy, in two sections, lines 1-61 headed ‘To the Countesse of Salisbury’ and subscribed ‘See the rest pa 241’, lines 62-84 headed ‘The rest wch. was left out before pag 233 To the Countesse of Salisbury’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 224-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 107-10. Shawcross, No. 145.
pp. 233-6
• DnJ 3059: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)
Copy, headed ‘To Mr. Christopher Brooke from the Iland voyage with the E. of Essex The Storme’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 236-8
• DnJ 546: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.
pp. 238-40
• DnJ 3380: John Donne, To Mrs M.H. (‘Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 216-18. Milgate, Satires, pp. 88-90. Shawcross, No. 133.
p. 240
• DnJ 3152: John Donne, To E. of D. with six holy Sonnets (‘See Sir, how as the Suns hot Masculine flame’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 317. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 161.
pp. 240-1
• DnJ 3560: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford. Begun in France but never perfected (‘Though I be dead, and buried, yet I have’)
Copy, subscribed ‘The rest wants’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 220-1. Milgate, Satires, p. 104. Shawcross, No. 143.
pp. 245-6
• DnJ 3726: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Parting from his Mrs. Valediction. 1.’, under a general heading ‘Sonnets and Songs’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
pp. 246-7
• DnJ 3837: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)
Copy, headed ‘Valediction. 2. of Teares’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.
pp. 247-9
• DnJ 3807: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)
Copy, headed ‘Valediction. 3. of the Booke’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.
pp. 250-2
• DnJ 3777: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)
Copy, headed ‘Valediction 4. Of Glasse Vpon the engrauing of his name wth a Dyamond in his Mrs Windowe when he was to trauell.’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.
p. 253
• DnJ 1962: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)
Copy, headed ‘Mumy’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.
p. 254
• DnJ 3654: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
p. 255
• DnJ 3619: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)
Copy, headed ‘A Song’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.
p. 256
• DnJ 180: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
p. 257
• DnJ 3984: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.
p. 257
• DnJ 721: John Donne, The Computation (‘For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69. Gardner, Elegies, p. 36. Shawcross, No. 76.
p. 258
• DnJ 430: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)
Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 258-9
• DnJ 585: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.
p. 260
• DnJ 3102: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)
Copy, headed ‘Ad Solem. To the Sunne Song’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.
p. 261
• DnJ 1832: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.
p. 262
• DnJ 488: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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.
p. 263
• DnJ 2287: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)
Copy, headed ‘Songe’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
p. 264
• DnJ 958: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Eligie’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 265
• DnJ 2038: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
p. 266
• DnJ 2001: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.
pp. 267-8
• DnJ 3900: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
p. 269
• DnJ 2365: John Donne, Negative love (‘I never stoop'd so low, as they’)
Copy, headed ‘Negatiue Loue; or The Nothing’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 66. Gardner, Elegies, p. 56. Shawcross, No. 74.
p. 269
• DnJ 1702: John Donne, A Jeat Ring sent (‘Thou art not so black, as my heart’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 65-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 38. Shawcross, No. 73.
p. 270
• DnJ 927: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.
p. 271
• DnJ 1319: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)
Copy, headed ‘The Feuer’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.
p. 272
• DnJ 1356: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
p. 273
• DnJ 1799: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)
Copy, headed ‘The Shadow’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.
p. 274
• DnJ 2105: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)
Dopy, headed ‘The Spring’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.
p. 275
• DnJ 16: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.
p. 276
• DnJ 3954: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture (‘I fixe mine eye on thine, and there’)
Copy, headed ‘Picture’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.
p. 276
• JnB 294: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)
Copy.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
pp. 272-9
• DnJ 1256: John Donne, The Extasie (‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.
p. 280
• DnJ 1397: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.
p. 281
• DnJ 2690: John Donne, The Relique (‘When my grave is broke up againe’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.
p. 282
• DnJ 821: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.
pp. 283-4
• DnJ 347: John Donne, The Blossoms (‘Little think'st thou, poore flower’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.
pp. 284-5
• DnJ 2613: John Donne, The Primrose (‘Upon this Primrose hill’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.
p. 286
• DnJ 859: John Donne, The Dampe (‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.
p. 287
• DnJ 911: John Donne, The Dissolution (‘Shee is dead. And all which die’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 64. Gardner, Elegies, p. 86. Shawcross, No. 72.
pp. 288-9
• DnJ 2387: 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, 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. 290
• DnJ 1195: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)
Copy, headed ‘Valedictio’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 290
• DnJ 2943: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)
Copy of lines 1-6, headed ‘Sonnet’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Doughtie, pp. 609-11; recorded in Gardner.
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.
See also DnJ 428.
p. 291
• DnJ 1448: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
p. 292
• DnJ 2997: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.
p. 293
• DnJ 2082: John Donne, Loves exchange (‘Love, any devill else but you’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.
p. 294
• DnJ 2169: John Donne, Loves Usury (‘For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.
p. 295
• DnJ 2632: John Donne, The Prohibition (‘Take heed of loving mee’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.
p. 296
• DnJ 2913: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
p. 297
• DnJ 1641: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.
p. 298
• DnJ 113: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.
p. 299
• DnJ 743: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.
p. 300
• DnJ 662: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.
p. 301
• DnJ 297: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 302
• DnJ 3697: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.
p. 303
• DnJ 2236: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse (‘If yet I have not all thy love’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.
p. 305
• JnB 706: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song (‘If I freely may discouer’)
Copy, headed ‘Sonnet’.
p. 306
• DnJ 2530: John Donne, The Paradox (‘No Lover saith, I love, nor any other’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69-70. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 38-9. Shawcross, No. 77.
p. 308
• HrG 195.8: George Herbert, A Parodie (‘Souls joy, when thou art gone’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published in The Temple (1633). John Donne, Poems, By J.D. (London, 1635). Hutchinson, pp. 183-4.
Herbert's poem is a ‘Parodie’ of a poem by William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, first published in John Donne, Poems (2nd edition, London, 1635). Entries below include both poems indiscriminately.
p. 309
• HoJ 28: John Hoskyns, Absence (‘Absence heare my protestation’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson. Cited in Osborn.
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), pp. 428-9. Osborn, No. XXIV (pp. 192-3).
pp. 309-10
• DnJ 3027: John Donne, Sonnet. The Token (‘Send me some token, that my hope may live’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Sonnet’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1649). Grierson, I, 72-3. Gardner, Elegies, p. 107 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 78.
pp. 311-12
• DnJ 1284: John Donne, Farewell to love (‘Whilst yet to prove’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Gardner, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 70-1. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 82-3. Shawcross, No. 79.
pp. 317-21
• DnJ 1169: 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 ‘Epithalamions Vpon ffrederick Count Palatine and the Lady Elizabeth marryed on St. Valentines day’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 321-5
• DnJ 1151: John Donne, Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne (‘The Sun-beames in the East are spred’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Epithalamion on a Citizen’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 325-35
• DnJ 984: John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 (‘Unseasonable man, statue of ice’)
Copy, complete with the 11-poem ‘Epithalamion’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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.
p. 336
• DnJ 2668: John Donne, Raderus (‘Why this man gelded Martiall I muse’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Raderus’.
This MS collated 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.
p. 337
• DnJ 153: John Donne, Antiquary (‘If in his Studie he hath so much care’)
Copy, untitled, under a general heading ‘P. Epigrams’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 337
• DnJ 892: John Donne, Disinherited (‘Thy father all from thee, by his last Will’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 94. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled), 8 and 11.
p. 337
• DnJ 1909: John Donne, The Lier (‘Thou in the fields walkst out thy supping howers’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Sir John Simeon, ‘Unpublished Poems of Donne’, Miscellanies of the Philobiblon Society, 3 (London, 1856-7), No. 3, p. 31. Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 95. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled) and 8.
p. 337
• DnJ 2264: John Donne, Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus (‘Like Esops fellow-slaves, O Mercury’)
Copy, the heading marked ‘P’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 337
• DnJ 2590: John Donne, Phryne (‘Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee’)
Copy, untitled, marked ‘P’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 338
• DnJ 2401: John Donne, An obscure writer (‘Philo, with twelve yeares study, hath beene griev'd’)
Copy, untitled, marked ‘P’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 338
• DnJ 1720: John Donne, Klockius (‘Klockius so deeply hath sworne, ne'r more to come’)
Copy, untitled, marked ‘P’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 338
• DnJ 2673: John Donne, Ralphius (‘Compassion in the world againe is bred’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 54. Shawcross, No. 100. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6, 9 and 11.
p. 338
• DnJ 2895: John Donne, Sir Iohn Wingefield (‘Beyond th'old Pillers many have travailed’)
Copy, headed ‘On Cauallero Wingfeild’.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Gosse (1899), I, 51. Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 92. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 8 (as ‘Il Caualliere Gio: Wingefield’).
p. 338
• DnJ 532: John Donne, Cales and Guyana (‘If you from spoyle of th' old worlds farthest end’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS by editors.
First published in Gosse (1899), I, 47. Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 91. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 7 (as ‘Calez and Guyana’).
p. 338
• DnJ 2652: John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe (‘Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare’)
Copy, the heading marked ‘P’.
This MS collated in Grierson, and in Milgate; recorded 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. 338
• DnJ 1886: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)
Copy, untitled, marked ‘P’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 339
• DnJ 2377: John Donne, Niobe (‘By childrens births, and death, I am become’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Niobe’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 339
• DnJ 526: John Donne, A burnt ship (‘Out of a fired ship, which, by no way’)
Copy, headed ‘P. De Naue arsa’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 339
• DnJ 1735: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Zoppo’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 339
• DnJ 1478: John Donne, Hero and Leander (‘Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground’)
Copy, the heading marked ‘P’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Milgate; recorded 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. 339
• DnJ 1276: John Donne, Fall of a wall (‘Vnder an undermin'd, and shot-bruis'd wall’)
Copy, headed ‘P. Cæso d'un muro’.
This MS collated in Grierson, 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. 339
• DnJ 2880: John Donne, A selfe accuser (‘Your mistris, that you follow whores, still taxeth you’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson, in Milgate, and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 89. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 10.
pp. 401-37
• DnJ 4073: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems
Copy of ten Paradoxes and nineteen Problems.
This MS discussed, and the Problem ‘Why doth Johannes Sarisburiensis writing de Nugis Curialum handle the providence and Omnipotency of God?’ (which also occurs in DnJ 4072, DnJ 4078, DnJ 4080, and DnJ 4082) first published from this MS, in Evelyn M. Simpson, ‘Two Manuscripts of Donne's Paradoxes and Problems’, RES, 3 (1927), 129-45. The Problems chiefly edited from this MS in Peters.
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.
p. 438
• DnJ 4060: John Donne, The Character of a Scott at the First Sight
Copy, headed ‘Description of a Scot at first sight’.
This MS recorded in Evelyn Simpson, ‘Two Manuscripts of Donne's Paradoxes and Problems’, RES, 3 (1927), 129-45 (p. 135). Edited from this MS in Peters.
First published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Hayward, pp. 414-15. Peters, pp. 59-62 (among ‘Dubia’). The authorship discussed in Dennis Flynn, ‘Three Unnoticed Companion Essays to Donne's “An Essay of Valour”’, BNYPL, 73 (1969), 424-39.
pp. 438-40
• DnJ 4092: John Donne, The True Character of a Dunce
Copy, headed ‘Character of a Dunce’.
This MS recorded in Evelyn Simpson, ‘Two Manuscripts of Donne's Paradoxes and Problems’, RES, 3 (1927), 129-45 (p. 135). Edited from this MS in Peters.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Hayward, pp. 415-17. Peters, pp. 59-62 (among ‘Dubia’). The authorship discussed in Dennis Flynn, ‘Three Unnoticed Companion Essays to Donne's “An Essay of Valour”’, BNYPL, 73 (1969), 424-39.