MS Eng 966.6
A quarto volume of 84 poems by Donne, plus some prose works by him, together with a few poems by others, in a single secretary hand, 343 pages, in later half purple morocco marbled boards, dated at the end (p. 343) ‘19th, Julij 1620’. 1620.
Bookplate of Thomas Stephens of the Inner Temple (perhaps the Thomas Stephens who was at the Inner Temple in 1717 or else his son, Thomas, who was there in 1725). Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89), book collector; and purchased from Bernard Quaritch in 1896 by Charles Eliot Norton (1827-1908), American professor and art historian. Formerly MS Nor 4500.
Cited in IELM, I.i, as the ‘Stephens MS’: DnJ Δ 23. Used extensively in The Complete Poems of John Donne, D.D., ed. Alexander B. Grosart, 2 vols (privately printed, 1872-3). 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. 6-10).
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• CoH 106: Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady (‘In that (O Queene of queenes) thy byrth was free’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Grierson, I, p. 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. 1-27, 47-70
• DnJ 4076: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems
Copy of 10 Paradoxes and 17 Problems.
This MS discussed by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 10 (1934), 414-16. Paradox XI (among ‘Dubia’) edited from this MS in Peters, pp. 51-4.
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.
pp. 28-31
• DnJ 4093: John Donne, The True Character of a Dunce
Copy.
This MS recorded by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 10 (1934), 414-16.
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.
pp. 32-8
• DnJ 4066: John Donne, An Essay of Valour
Copy.
This MS recorded in Evelyn Simpson, ‘More Manuscripts of Donne's Paradoxes and Problems’, RES, 10 (1934), 412-16 (pp. 414-16). Edited from this MS in Peters, pp. 62-7.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Cottoni Posthuma (London, 1651), as ‘Valour Anatomiz'd in a Fancie by Sir Philip Sidney’. Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). The Prose Works of Sir Philip Sidney, ed. Albert Feuillerat, 4 vols (Cambridge, 1968), III, 308-10 (as Appendix). Hayward, pp. 417-20. Peters, pp. 62-7 (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. 38-9
• DnJ 4061: John Donne, The Character of a Scott at the First Sight
Copy, headed ‘The discription of A Scott att first sight’.
This MS recorded by Evelyn Simpson in RES, 10 (1934), 414-16.
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. 79-84
• DnJ 2740: John Donne, Satyre I (‘Away thou fondling motley humorist’)
Copy, headed ‘Satyra Prima’.
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. 85-8
• DnJ 2770: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)
Copy, headed ‘Satyra Secunda’.
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. 91-6
• DnJ 2802: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)
Copy, headed ‘Satyra Tertia’.
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. 97-108
• DnJ 2832: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)
Copy, headed ‘Satyra Quarta’.
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. 109-13
• DnJ 2864: John Donne, Satyre V (‘Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they’)
Copy, headed ‘Satyra Quinta’.
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. 127-8
• DnJ 1686: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia Prima’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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. 128-9
• DnJ 1534: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia Secvnda’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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. 130-1
• DnJ 1039: John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. (‘Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia Tercia’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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. 131-3
• DnJ 693: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia Qvarta’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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. 134-6
• DnJ 2505: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia Quinta’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as ‘Elegie XVI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.
pp. 136-8
• DnJ 3595: John Donne, To the Lady Bedford (‘You that are she and you, that's double shee’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia Sexta. To ye Coiuntess of 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. 139-40
• DnJ 3530: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia Septima To the Countesse of Bedford’.
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. 141-3
• DnJ 2452: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’
Copy, headed ‘Elegia Octava’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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. 143-7
• DnJ 2139: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia Nona Loves Progresse’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.
pp. 147-8
• DnJ 961: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia Decima’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as ‘Elegie X’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.
pp. 149-51
• DnJ 628: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia Duodecima’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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. 151-2
• DnJ 2339: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’
Copy, headed ‘Elegia Decima tercia’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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. 152-6
• DnJ 1227: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia Decima quarta’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded 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. 156-8
• DnJ 2205: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia Decima quinta’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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. 158-64
• DnJ 376: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia Decima Sexta’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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. 164-7
• DnJ 52: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia Decima septima’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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. 167-9
• DnJ 3175: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia Decima Octava’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as ‘Elegie XIX. Going to Bed’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.
The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, ‘Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's “To his mistress going to bed”’, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.
pp. 170-2
• DnJ 1102: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)
Copy, headed ‘Eligia Decima Nona. Vpon ye death of mrs Bolstred’.
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. 173-6
• DnJ 1014: John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia Vicessima. On the death of the said Mrs Boulstred’.
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. 179-82
• BmF 73: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia vicesima Secunda. On the death of the Lady Markham’.
First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.
pp. 182-5
• DnJ 3406: John Donne, To Sr Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia vicessima Tertia’.
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. 185-7
• DnJ 260: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia vicessima Quarta. A Paradox of an ould Woman’.
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. 188-90
• DnJ 2558: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)
Copy of lines 1-58, headed ‘Elegia vicessima Quinta’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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. 201-4
• DnJ 3492: John Donne, To Sr 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. 204-5
• DnJ 3462: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)
Copy, headed ‘To Sr Henrie Wotton from ye Court’.
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. 206-7
• DnJ 3290: John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)
Copy.
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. 208-9
• DnJ 3321: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire’)
Copy.
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.
pp. 210-13
• DnJ 3065: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)
Copy, headed ‘The Storme to Sr Basile Brooke’.
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. 213-15
• DnJ 551: 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. 220-32
• DnJ 2421: 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 of ye 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. 233-4
• DnJ 3782: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)
Copy of lines 43-66, headed ‘His Name engraven in A Casement’ and here beginning ‘When thy inconsiderate hand’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.
pp. 234-5
• DnJ 3811: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Here Loue Deuines (since all divynitie’.
This MS (or DnJ 3812) collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.
p. 236
• HoJ 29: 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. 238-9
• DnJ 1644: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.
pp. 239-40
• DnJ 666: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.
pp. 242-3
• DnJ 2173: John Donne, Loves Usury (‘For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.
pp. 243-5
• DnJ 3700: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.
p. 245
• DnJ 3001: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.
p. 247
• DnJ 2918: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
p. 248
• DnJ 3623: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.
p. 250
• DnJ 724: John Donne, The Computation (‘For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69. Gardner, Elegies, p. 36. Shawcross, No. 76.
pp. 249-50
• DnJ 493: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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. 252
• DnJ 2292: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
p. 254
• DnJ 1452: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
p. 255
• DnJ 2532: John Donne, The Paradox (‘No Lover saith, I love, nor any other’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69-70. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 38-9. Shawcross, No. 77.
p. 256
• DnJ 747: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.
pp. 257-8
• DnJ 117: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.
pp. 258-9
• DnJ 2240: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse (‘If yet I have not all thy love’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.
p. 260
• HrE 86: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne (‘Vengeance will sit above our faults. but till’)
Copy, untitled.
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.
p. 261
• DnJ 3987: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.
p. 264
• DnJ 1837: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.
pp. 265-6
• DnJ 3812: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.
p. 267
• DnJ 434: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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. 271-84
• DnJ 1935: John Donne, The Litanie (‘Father of Heaven, and him, by whom’)
Copy, headed ‘A Letanie’.
This MS collated in Grierson. Recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.
pp. 285-9
• DnJ 771: 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.
pp. 289-90
• DnJ 790: 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.
pp. 292-4
• DnJ 140: John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion (‘Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day’)
Copy, headed Vppon the Annuncacon & Passion fallinge vpon one day 1608.
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. 295-7
• DnJ 3781: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)
Copy, headed ‘The Diamond and Glasse’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.
pp. 297-8
• DnJ 1323: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)
Copy, headed ‘Feaver’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.
pp. 299-300
• DnJ 589: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)
Copy, headed ‘Canonisationn’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.
pp. 301-2
• DnJ 3841: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)
Copy, headed ‘A Valediction of Tears’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.
p. 302
• DnJ 1199: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)
Copy, headed ‘Valedictio Amoris’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded 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.
pp. 303-4
• DnJ 2006: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.
pp. 304-5
• DnJ 2043: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)
Copy.
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. 305-6
• DnJ 1803: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)
Copy, headed ‘Loves Lecture’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.
pp. 307-9
• DnJ 3905: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)
Copy, headed ‘Loves Legacie’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
p. 310
• DnJ 185: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)
Copy, headed ‘An Apparitionn’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
pp. 311-12
• DnJ 2109: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)
Copy, headed ‘The Springe’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.
pp. 312-13
• DnJ 1361: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
pp. 314-15
• DnJ 19: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.
pp. 315-16
• DnJ 825: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)
Copy, headed ‘Curse’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.
pp. 317-18
• DnJ 1967: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)
Copy, headed ‘Mummie’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.
p. 318
• DnJ 2266: 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.
pp. 319-20
• DnJ 3659: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)
Copy, headed ‘Twitnam Gardenn’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
pp. 320-4
• DnJ 1260: John Donne, The Extasie (‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’)
Copy, headed ‘An Extacie’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.
pp. 324-6
• DnJ 3731: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)
Copy, headed ‘Vppon partinge from his Mistris’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
pp. 326-30
• PeW 249: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)
Copy, headed ‘A Paradox of a Painted face’.
Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed ‘P.’. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as ‘A Paradox of a Painted Face’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’. Also ascribed to James Shirley.
A shorter version, beginning ‘Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie’, was first published, as ‘A Maids Denyall’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].
pp. 330-1
• DnJ 3107: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)
Copy, headed ‘Ad Solem’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.
pp. 332-3
• DnJ 2615: John Donne, The Primrose (‘Upon this Primrose hill’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.
pp. 333-5
• DnJ 350: John Donne, The Blossoms (‘Little think'st thou, poore flower’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.
pp. 335-6
• DnJ 862: John Donne, The Dampe (‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.
pp. 337-8
• DnJ 1401: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.
pp. 338-9
• DnJ 2693: John Donne, The Relique (‘When my grave is broke up againe’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.
pp. 340-1
• DnJ 1424: John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward (‘Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this’)
Copy, headed ‘Good Fryday’.
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. 342-3
• DnJ 932: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)
Copy, headed ‘Dreame’.
This MS collated in Grierson and in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.