CELM: The Huntington Library, shelfmarks F through M

HA 672

Autograph letter signed by Beaumont, to George Hastings, fifth Earl of Huntingdon, from Grace Dieu, 26 January 1617[/18]. 1618.

*BeJ 57: Sir John Beaumont, Letter(s)

Recorded by H.C. Schulz, with a complete facsimile, in HLQ, 33 (1969-70), pp. 283, 307 and 308.

HAF Box 8 (29)

A document, in a professional secretary hand, signed by John Beaumont (probably the poet), a receipt for £5 for a half-year's rent of the parsonage house in Sheepshed, 17 October 1626. 1626.

BeJ 59: Sir John Beaumont, Document(s)

Recorded by H.C. Schulz, with a facsimile, in HLQ, 33 (1969-70), pp. 283 and 308.

HA 6833

Copy of Vanbrugh's letter to [Thomas Coke, Vice-Chamberlain], 14 May [1708]. c.[1708].

VaJ 75: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

HA 6909

Copy of the Dedication ‘To the Queenes most excellent Ma^tie’ only. In a single secretary hand, on six folio pages. 17th century.

HoH 43: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A Copy of the last instructions which the Emperor Charles the Fifth gave to his son Philip before his death translated out of Spanish

Among the Hastings papers.

An unpublished translation of a suppositious work, supposed (but unlikely) to be Charles V's instructions to his son Philip II, which was circulated in MS in 16th-century Europe and published in Spanish in Sandoval's Life of Charles V (1634). An Italian translation in MS was presented to James VI by Giacomo Castelvetro between 1591 and 1595 and is now in the National Library of Scotland (MS Adv. 23. I. 6): see The Works of William Fowler, ed. H.W. Meckle, James Craigie and John Purves, III, STS 3rd Ser. 23 (Edinburgh, 1940), pp. cxxvii-cxxx, and references cited in The Basilicon Doron of King James VI, ed. James Craigie, II, STS, 3rd Ser. 18 (Edinburgh, 1950), pp. 63-9. A quite different translation was published as The Advice of Charles the Fifth...to his Son Philip the Second (London, 1670).

Howard's translation, dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, was allegedly written when he had been more than twelve years out of the Queen's favour [? in the early 1590s]. The Dedication begins ‘If the faithful Cananite of whom we read in the holy writ...’; the main text begins ‘I have resolved (most dear son) to come now to the point...’, and ends ‘...to proceed in such a course as prayers may second your purposes. Sanctae Trinitati, &c.’

HA 8799

A neatly written autograph presentation MS, incorporated in an autograph letter to Lucy Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, signed ‘Bathsua Makin mæsta ploravit’, the poem on two pages in a pair of conjugate folio leaves, 2 May 1664. 1664.

*MaB 4: Bathsua Makin, Upon the much lamented death of the right honourable the Lady Elizabeth Langham (‘Passe not, but wonder, and amazed stand’)

Cited in Brink, pp. 319-20, and in Teague, p. 86. Facsimile of the first page in Maggs's sale catalogue The Huntingdon Papers (1926), p. 172 and Plate XVIII.

A 39-line English elegy on the death of Lucy Hastings's granddaughter, Lady Elizabeth Langham, on 28 March 1664. First published in Simon Ford, A Christian's Acquiescence in all the Products of Divine Providence (London, 1665). The Female Spectator: English Women writers before 1800, ed. Mary R. Mahl and Helene Koon (Old Westbury, NY, 1977), pp. 124-5. Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (New York, 1988), pp. 226-7.

HA 8800

Autograph letter signed by Makin, to Lucy Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (addressed as ‘Illustrious Princesse’), from lodgings in Long Acre, [London], 16 March ‘1667’, on a pair of conjugate quarto leaves. 1667/8.

*MaB 6: Bathsua Makin, Letter(s)

Maggs's sale catalogue The Huntingdon Papers (1926), p. 175.

Cited in Brink, p. 320, and in Teague, p. 87.

HA 8801

Autograph letter signed by Makin, to Lucy Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon (addressed as ‘Illustrious Princesse’), 24 October 1668, on a pair of conjugate quarto leaves. 1668.

*MaB 7: Bathsua Makin, Letter(s)

Maggs's sale catalogue The Huntingdon Papers (1926), p. 175.

Cited in Brink, pp. 320-1, and in Teague, p. 87.

HA 12525

Autograph letter by the London solicitor Godfrey Thacker to his cousin Theophilus Hastings, seventh Earl of Huntingdon, including verses. 20 March 1672/3.

Edited in Lucyle Hook, ‘Something More About Rochester’, MLN, 75 (1960), 478-85.

[poem 1]

• DoC 316: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Debauchee (‘I rise at eleven, I dine about two’)

Copy of a six-line version, headed ‘My Lord Buckhurst and Lord Rochester being in company, a suddaine Malancholly possesst him Rochester inquiring the reason hee answered hee was troubled at Rochesters lude way of living, and in thes verses over the leafe expresst it’, and here beginning ‘You rise at Eleaven’.

Edited from this MS in Hook (p. 480); in Vieth (pp. 411-12); and in Walker (p. 222). Recorded in Harris.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). Vieth, Attribution, pp. 169-70. The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Keith Walker (Oxford, 1984), p. 130 (as ‘Regime d'viver’ among ‘Poems possibly by Rochester’). Discussed in Harris, pp. 186-7.

[poem 2]

• RoJ 265: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Women about Town (‘Too long the wise Commons have been in debate’)

Copy of an eighteen-line version, headed ‘I send your L^d shipp a copy of verses of my L^d Rochers makeing though inferiour to those of S^t James his Parke’.

Edited from this MS in Hook (p. 481). Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as ‘Lampoone’. Love, p. 42, as ‘Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester’.

HA 12760

Copy of a letter by Suckling, to Sir Kenelm Digby, [18-30 November 1634]. c.1634.

SuJ 182: John Suckling, Letter(s)

Edited in Clayton, p. 130. Photocopy in Bodleian (MS Facs. d. 90, f. 149r).

HA 12929, [unnumbered item]

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Theophilus Hastings, seventh Earl of Huntingdon, from Chester, 28 December 1685. 1685.

*VaJ 18: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Edited in John Barnard, ‘Sir John Vanbrugh: Two Unpublished Letters’, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 347-52 (p. 348), and in Albert Rosenberg, ‘New Light on Vanbrugh’, PQ, 45 (1966), 603-13 (pp. 603-4).

HA 12929, [unnumbered item]

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Thomas Coke, Vice-Chamberlain], 14 May 1708. 1708.

*VaJ 74: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Edited in John Barnard, ‘Sir John Vanbrugh: Two Unpublished Letters’, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 347-52 (pp. 349-51); in Albert Rosenberg, ‘New Light on Vanbrugh’, PQ, 45 (1966), 603-13 (pp. 606-7); and in Coke Papers, pp. 109-10 (No. 70). Register. No. 1981.

HA 13333

Verse epistle, of 38 lines with a five-line prose subscription, addressed and sent to the Countess of Huntingdon, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves (originally folded as a packet). In the hand of an amanuensis with Fletcher's autograph signature, autograph one-word (‘madame’) insertion in the subscribed valediction, and autograph address on the fourth page. c.1619-20.

*FlJ 8: John Fletcher, To the Excelent and best Lady the Countess of Huntington (‘There ys not any Sculler of o^r Tyme’)

Edited from this MS, with a facsimile, in Tannenbaum (1929). Discussed, some with other facsimiles, in Greg, English Literary Autographs, plate XCIII; in Tannenbaum, ‘The John Fletcher Holograph’, PQ, 13 (1934), 401-4; in Greg, ‘John Fletcher's Autograph’, PQ, 14 (1935), 373: in Tannenbaum, ‘The John Fletcher Holograph’, PQ, 15 (1936), 221; and in Petti, English Literary Hands, No. 52.

Tannenbaum, unlike Greg and Petti, erroneously believed the MS to be entirely autograph.

First published in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, ‘A Hitherto Unpublished John Fletcher Autograph’, JEGP, 28 (1929), 35-40.

HA 15019

An order issued and signed by Lord Ormonde, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, to the Archbishops and Bishops of Ireland, concerning ‘im propriate tythes’, in a professional hand, counter-signed by Taylor (‘Jerem: Dunensis’) and other bishops, on two conjugate folio leaves, 30 July 1662. 1662.

*TaJ 110: Jeremy Taylor, Document(s)

Recorded in HMC, 78, Hastings IV (1947), 141.

HA 15371

Autograph letter signed by More, to Sir George Rawdon, from Christ's College, Cambridge, 6 May 1672. 1672.

*MoH 12: Henry More, Letter(s)

Recorded in HMC, 78, Hastings II (1930), p. 379. Facsimile in The Huntingdon Papers (London, 1926), IV, Plate XX.

HA 15372

Autograph letter signed by More, to Sir George Rawdon, 20 September 1673. 1673.

*MoH 13: Henry More, Letter(s)

HA 15373

Autograph letter signed by More, to Sir George Rawdon, 5 September 1676. 1676.

*MoH 16: Henry More, Letter(s)

Recorded in HMC, 78, Hastings II (1930), p. 385.

HA 15374

Autograph letter signed by More, to Sir George Rawdon, 18 October 1683. 1683.

*MoH 23: Henry More, Letter(s)

HA Literature Box 1 (1)

A neatly written autograph presentation MS to Lucy Hastings, with a revision in line 9, headed in full ‘In mortem clarissimi Domini, Domini Henrici Hastings, Baronis inclytissimi, illustrissimi Comitis de Huntingdon et doctissimæ Comitissæ Dominæ Luciæ Filij unici, Juvenis præstantissimi, optimæque spei, eruditissimi, pulcherrimi, et bonaru literarum amantissimi’, and signed ‘Bathsua Makin’, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, originally folded as a packet. 1649.

*MaB 2: Bathsua Makin, In mortem clarissimi Domini, Domini Henrici Hastings (‘En duplex ænigma! senex, juvenisque! beatus’)

This MS cited in Brink, p. 319.

A 24-line Latin elegy on the death of. Henry, Lord Hastings, oldest son of Lucy Hastings, Dowager Countess of Huntingdon, on 24 June 1649. First published in H.T. Swedenberg, Jr., ‘More tears for Lord Hastings’, HLQ, 16 (1952), 43-51. Works of John Dryden, California edn, I (1956), 172-3.

HA Literature Box 1 (2)

Copy in a neat italic hand, on two pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves, very faded. [1652].

MaB 1: Bathsua Makin, D.O.M.S. (‘In eximiâ formâ, sublime ingenium’)

A Latin inscription which Lucy Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon, had engraved on the tomb of her parents, Sir John and Eleanor Davies, including, inter alia, twenty lines of lapidary verse. First published in Grosart.

It has been attributed to Bathsua Makin, but the authorship is uncertain.

HA Literature Box 1 (6)

Copy of ‘Certaine Collections of the Right Hon^ble: Elizabeth late Countesse of Huntingdon for her owne private vse’, 33 quarto leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum, heavily damp-stained. A compilation of prayers and devotional meditations, transcribed in a professional rounded hand by or for Edward Sandys and with his dedicatory address ‘For the now R^t Hon^ble Elizabeth Countess of Huntingdon July 20^th 1676’. 1676.

ff. [29r-30v]

• AndL 12.4: Lancelot Andrewes, Sermons on the Resurrection

‘Notes taken out of D^r Andrewes booke of Sermons, B^pp: of winchester of the resurrection 1 pet. 1. 3. 4 leafe 193’.

f. [31r-v]

• HlJ 56.4: Joseph Hall, Meditations and Vows. Divine and Moral. Three Centuries

Extracts, headed ‘D^r Halls meditations, & vowes’, beginning ‘It were better a man should want work then that great workes should want a man answereable to their weight...’

First published in London, 1605. Wynter, VII, 439-521.

HA Literature Box 1 (7)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr’, on five pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Sent as a letter in 1676 to Lord Ferrers in Great Haywood, Staffordshire. 1676.

DoC 48.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)

Among the archives of the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

HA Miscellaneous Box 1 (25)

Extracts in an unidentified hand, headed ‘Notes out of Evelyns forest trees’, on a single sheet folded into four, 10 September 1692. 1692.

EvJ 161.8: John Evelyn, Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest Trees

First published in London, 1664.

HA Parliament Box 2 (18)

Copy of Bacon's submission on 22 April 1621, in a professional secretary hand, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1620s.

BcF 484: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning ‘I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...’); 22 April 1621 (beginning ‘It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...’); and 30 April 1621 (beginning ‘Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...’), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

HA Personal Box 15 (8A)

Fragment of a copy, in a professional secretary hand, without the dedicatioin, on six unbound folio leaves foliated 4-9, partly faded. End of 16th-early 17th century.

HoH 44: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, A Copy of the last instructions which the Emperor Charles the Fifth gave to his son Philip before his death translated out of Spanish

Among the Hastings papers.

HA Religious Box 1 (4)

A MS volume containing two tracts by Thomas Cartwright and Lancelot Andrewes and a letter by Archbishop Grindal, 64 quarto pages in all, bound in a vellum deed. c.1590s.

Hastings

pp. 23-44

• AndL 15: Lancelot Andrewes, De jurejurando ε'πάκτω, theologica determinatio

Copy of a free translation into English, following (on pp. 1-23) a tract (by Thomas Cartwright (1535-1603)) entitled A defence of the conduct of the Puritan ministers…; headed ‘Vnto this treatise this Answeare is made in the Name and behalfe of the Bishopps and the high Commission by docter Andrewes...’ and beginning ‘Whether it be lawfull by the lawe of god, for the magistrate to require an oathe of the defendant...’.

This MS recorded in HMC 78, Hastings MSS, I (1928), 430-1.

Andrewes's 1591 Cambridge thesis relating to the swearing of oaths, first published in Richard Cosin, An Apologie for Sundrie Proceedings by Iurisdiction Ecclesiasticall, 2nd edition (London, 1593), pp. 242-55. Opuscula quaedam posthuma (London, 1629). LACT, Opuscula (1852), pp. 95-115.

HA Religious Box 2 (8)

Copy of ‘Certaine Collections of the Right Hon^ble: Elizabeth late Countesse of Huntingdon for her owne private vse’, 30 quarto leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum, mutilated. A compilation of prayers and devotional meditations, in a single rounded hand. c.1633.

ff. [25v-6v]

• AndL 12.5: Lancelot Andrewes, Sermons on the Resurrection

‘Notes taken out of D^r Andrewes Booke of Sermons, B^pp: of Winchester of the Resurection. 1 pet. 1.3.4. leafe 493.’

ff. [25v-6v]

• HlJ 56.5: Joseph Hall, Meditations and Vows. Divine and Moral. Three Centuries

Extracts, headed ‘D^r Halls meditations & vowes’.

First published in London, 1605. Wynter, VII, 439-521.

HA Religious Box 3 (16)

HA School Exercises Box 1 (2)

Extracts, on eight pages of four folio leaves, disbound. Headed S^r. ‘Walter Rawleis Booke of y^e History of y^e World; the first Booke treats of tymes from the Creation to Abraham’. c.1620.

RaW 679.1: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World

Among the papers of the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon.

First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

See also RaW 728.

HA School Exercises Box 1 (3)

Extracts, on f. [iv] of a quarto booklet of twelve leaves, unbound, damaged by corrosive seepage of ink. Headed ‘ovt of Sir Walter Rovlie October ye 31 1643 this day begon and beginninge with ye Creation’. 1643.

RaW 679.2: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World

Among the papers of the Hastings family, Earls of Huntingdon.

First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

See also RaW 728.

HA School Exercises Box 1 (4)

Extracts, on ff. [4r-7r] in a quarto booklet of twelve pages (plus four blanks). Docketed on f [1r] ‘Thucydides and Sir walter Rauly’.

RaW 679.3: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World

First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

See also RaW 728.

Hasting's Papers

HM 3

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on 35 folio leaves, with Bale's numerous autograph revisions constituting a later expanded version. c.1536-63.

*BaJ 31: John Bale, King Johan

Edited from this MS by all editors. Described and the different texts represented in the MS distinguished in Adams. Complete facsimile of the MS in Willy Bang, ‘Bales Kynge Johan, nach der Handschrift in der Chatsworth Collection’, Materialien zur Kunde des älteren englischen Dramas, 25 (Louvain, 1909). Facsimiles of four pages in Malone Society edition. Photomicrograph of a correction and a photograph of a watermark in the MS in R.B. Haselden, ‘Scientific Aids for the Study of Manuscripts’, Transactions of the Bibliographical Society, Supplement 10 (Oxford, 1935), figs. VI and VII. See also Jeffrey Leininger, ‘The Dating of Bale's King John: A Re-Examination’, Medieval English Theatre, 24 (2002), 116-37.

First published in London, 1838, ed. John Payne Collier, Camden Society. Edited by John Henry Pyle Pafford and W.W. Greg, Malone Society (Oxford, 1931). Edited by Barry B. Adams (San Marino, California, 1969). The Complete Plays of John Bale, ed. Peter Happé, 2 vols (Woodbridge, 1985), I, 29-99.

HM 8

A folio miscellany of almost entirely Latin verse, entitled ‘A Boke of Verses Named Auru è Stercore’, in several court and italic hands, one predominating, written or compiled by Robert Talbot (1505/6-58), antiquary, 231 leaves, in 19th-century marbled boards. Mid-late 16th century.

Inscribed ‘This is ffrances [?]Aungers booke of the gift of Thomas Buttes of Great Bydingh...the iv daye of July A^o dni .1581: ...’ Bookplate of ‘W^m Constable’.

f. 90v

• MrT 12.8: Sir Thomas More, Epigrammata. 278. Tetrastichon ab ipso conscriptum triennio antequam mortem oppeteret (‘Moraris, si sit spes hic tibi longa morandi’)

Copy.

More's verses punning on his own name. First published in Doctissima D. Thomæ Mori...Epistola (Louvain, 1568). Yale, Vol. 3, Part II, pp. 302-3, with English translation.

HM 20

Copy, in a single predominantly italic hand, with a title-page ‘The History of Henry the ffyfth Written by the Right Honourable The Earle of Orrery’, with Dramatis Personae naming actors in the original stage production of 1664, 83 small quarto pages (plus some blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1664.

OrR 19: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Henry the Fifth

Bookplate of the Dogmersfield Library, of the St John-Mildmay family, Hampshire.

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

HM 90

Copy, in a probably professional secretary hand, i + 84 + ii quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum. End of 16th-early 17th century.

LeC 60: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Bookplate of Ham Court, [Oxfordshire].

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

First published as The Copie of a Leter, Wryten by a Master of Arte of Cambrige, to his Friend in London, Concerning some talke past of late betwen two worshipful and graue men, about the present state, and some procedinges of the Erle of Leycester and his friendes in England ([? Rouen], 1584). Soon banned. Reprinted as Leycesters common-wealth (London, 1641). Edited, as Leicester's Commonwealth, by D.C. Peck (Athens, OH, & London, 1985). Although various attributions have been suggested by Peck and others, the most likely author remains Robert Persons (1546-1610), Jesuit conspirator.

HM 91

Copy, with alterations, on twenty quarto leaves. This MS in the same hand as the anonymous The Fairy Knight, or Oberon the Second in Folger, MS V.a.126 (formerly MS 46.1), the two MSS once bound together. c.1620s-50s.

RnT 427: Thomas Randolph, The Drinking Academy, or The Cheaters' Holiday

Edited from this MS by Rollins and Tannenbaum (1924 and 1930). Facsimiles of pages 3 and 8 in the 1930 edition, facing pp. 5 and 8. See also discussions listed above.

First published, as an anonymous play, by Hyder E. Rollins in PMLA, 39 (1924), 837-71. Edited as ‘A Play by Thomas Randolph’ by Rollins and Samuel A. Tannenbaum (Cambridge, Mass., 1930). The play is discussed in Cyrus L. Day, ‘Thomas Randolph and The Drinking Academy’, PMLA, 43 (1928), 800-9; in G. C. Moore Smith, ‘The Drinking Academy and its Attribution to Thomas Randolph’, PMLA, 44 (1929), 631-3; in Moore Smith (letter), TLS (4 September 1930), p. 700; in Moore Smith (review), RES, 6 (1930), 476-83; in Rollins, ‘Thomas Randolph, Robert Baron, and The Drinking Academy’, PMLA, 46.ii (1931), 786-801; in Moore Smith, ‘The Authorship of The Drinking Academy’, RES, 8 (1932), 212-14; in Daniel C. Boughner, ‘The Drinking Academy and Contemporary London’, Neophilologus, 19 (1934), 272-83; in Fredson T. Bowers, ‘Ben Jonson, Thomas Randolph, and The Drinking Academy’, N&Q, 173 (4 September 1937), 166-8; in Bowers, ‘Problems in Thomas Randolph's Drinking Academy and Its Manuscript’, HLQ, 1 (1937-8), 189-98; and in Bentley, V (1956), 976-80. Randolph's authorship doubted by Moore Smith (who suggests that the author was Robert Baron), but supported by the rest.

HM 93

A small quarto book of ‘Dayly Obseruations both Diuine & Morall / The First part by Thomas Grocer Florilegius. 1657’, on 215 pages (paginated irregularly, plus five preliminary leaves). A commonplace book of quotations from largely devotional or philosophical texts under subject headings, neatly written in a single hand, with a title-page and table of contents. 1657.

Inscriptions in the MS including ‘Crescentius Matherus 1680’, ‘Crescentii Matheri Liber 1682’, ‘Nathanaelis Matheri Liber 1683’, ‘By Mr Oakes’, ‘Elijah Warings Book 1734’, ‘Jne Daniell 1832’, and ‘Thos Alexander -- 1847’.

p. 26

• HeR 42.5: Robert Herrick, Comforts in Crosses (‘Be not dismaide, though crosses cast thee downe’)

Copy.

The couplet first published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 311. Patrick, p. 411.

p. 35

• HrG 234: George Herbert, Sepulchre (‘O blessed bodie! Whither art thou thrown?’)

Copy, untitled but with the biblical quotation.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 40-1.

p. 36

• HrG 131: George Herbert, The H. Communion (‘Not in rich furniture, or fine aray’)

Copy of lines 25-40, untitled and here beginning ‘Giue me my Captiue soule, or take’.

This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 52-3.

pp. 56-8

• BcF 36: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, untitled, introduced by reflections on the miseries of life ending ‘...in the most retired quiet plentyfull Condition, Something falls out still veryfiing that of of [sic] our Sauiour, Sufficient to y^e day is y^e Sorrow therof. briefly thus, as on expresses it’.

First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems’, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.

p. 149

• FlP 3: Phineas Fletcher, An Hymen at the Marriage of my most deare Cousins M^r. W. and M.R. (‘Chamus, that with thy yellow-sanded stream’)

Copy, untitled, beginning at stanza 12 (here ‘Oh, Happie paire! wher nothing wants to either’).

First published in The Purple Island (Cambridge, 1633). Boas, II, 223-5.

p. 151

• KiH 453: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, as ‘Man's Miserie, by Dr. K’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 5-6]. Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 157-8.

p. 151

• FlP 1: Phineas Fletcher, Against a rich man despising povertie (‘If well thou view'st us with no squinted eye’)

Copy.

First published in The Purple Island (Cambridge, 1633). Boas, II, 236-7.

pp. 156-8

• FlP 7: Phineas Fletcher, On womens lightnesse (‘Who sowes the sand? or ploughs the easie shore?’)

Copy.

First published in The Purple Island (Cambridge, 1633). Boas, II, 239.

pp. 158-9

• FlP 14: Phineas Fletcher, A translation of Boëthius, book 2 verse 7 (‘Who onely honour seeks with prone affection’)

Copy, headed ‘Equality’.

First published in The Purple Island (Cambridge, 1633). Boas, II, 245.

p. 159

• FlP 15: Phineas Fletcher, Upon the B. of Exon. Doct. Hall his Meditations (‘Most wretched soul, that here carowsing pleasure’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in The Purple Island (Cambridge, 1633). Boas, II, 246.

pp. 160b, 162-5

• FlP 12: Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island, or The Isle of Man (‘The warmer Sun the golden Bull outran’)

Extracts, the first headed ‘On mans bodie’ (beginning ‘Man's bodies like a house’); others untitled, beginning at Canto I, stanza 36 (here ‘Vaine men too fondly wise, who plough the seas’), and at Canto XII, stanza 75 (here ‘There sweet delights which know nor end nor measure’).

First published in Cambridge, 1633. Boas, II, 1-171.

pp. 183-4

• WoH 38: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Extracts.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

p. 185

• RuB 205: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech(es)

Copy or extracts of a speech, here beginning ‘Who would have thought there could have been’.

passim

• TaJ 129: Jeremy Taylor, Extracts

Extracts.

HM 95

MS of an anonymous adaptation, entitled ‘The Cure of Pride Or Every one in their Way A Comedy’ (an earlier or alternative title ‘The Whining Louers or the Different Courtships’ on the page facing the title), in a cursive hand and with various deletions and revisions, evidently an autograph working manuscript by the anonymous author, on 90 numbered quarto pages of text, preliminary pages including dramatis personae, in modern calf blind-stamped. Late 17th-early 18th century.

MsP 16.5: Philip Massinger, The City Madam

Later owned by Francis Godolphin Waldron (1744-1818), actor and playwright; by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector; by F. W. Cosens, FSA (1819-89), of Clapham Park, book collector; and, in 1906, by the bookdealer and literary scholar Bertram Dobell (1842-1914), who, in autograph notes added to a preliminary blank leaf in 1911, erroneously suggesting that this ‘is really the play upon which [The City Madam] was founded.’ Later offered in Dobell's sale catalogue ‘Literature of the Restoration’ (1918), item 1262, and sold by Maggs, 2 June 1926.

This MS discussed in The City Madam, ed. Rudolf Kirk (Princeton, 1934), pp. 18-27, and in Edwards & Gibson, IV, 12.

First published in London, 1659. Edwards & Gibson, IV, A1^v-99.

HM 100

Copy of Psalms 1-150, in an accomplished, professional, predominantly italic hand, on 164 quarto leaves, including a title-page ‘The Psalmes of Dauid done into English Verse by the Most Noble & Vertuous gent: S^r. Phillipp Sidney Kn^t’, in late-17th- or early-18th-century red morocco gilt. Early 17th century.

SiP 79: Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David

This MS described in Ringler, p. 552.

Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.

HM 102

An oblong quarto volume of transcripts of state letters up to 1627, closely written in two professional secretary hands, 39 leaves, in a late 16th-century vellum deed wrapper (now within modern green morocco gilt). c.1627-30s.

Phillipps MS 10665.

ff. 1r-5v

• SiP 203: Sir Philip Sidney, A Letter to Queen Elizabeth touching her Marriage with Monsieur

Copy, headed ‘S^r: Philip Sydne’.

This MS recorded in Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, p. 38. Beal, In Praise of Scribes, No. 24.

First published in Scrinia Caeciliana: Mysteries of State & Government (London, 1663) and in Cabala: sive Scrinia Sacra (London, 1663). Feuillerat, III, 51-60. Duncan-Jones & Van Dorsten, pp. 46-57.

This work and its textual transmission discussed, with facsimile examples, in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), Chapter 4, pp. 109-46 (with most MSS catalogued as Nos 1-37, with comments on their textual tradition, in Appendix IV, pp. 274-80).

f. 9v

• BcF 625: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Bacon, to the Secretary, 1 December [no year].

ff. 13r, 14v

• RaW 951: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of letters by Ralegh, to James I and to Ralegh's wife.

ff. 17r-34v

• EsR 135: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology

Copy.

First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.

HM 106

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, 369 pages, in contemporary vellum boards. Mid-18th century.

Variously inscribed ‘R B’ and ‘Robert Beere fecit’, probably by the compiler. Also inscribed inside the upper cover ‘Ann Beere Her Book’.

p. 89

• WoH 38.5: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy.

HM 116

A small quarto verse miscellany, almost entirely in a single, minute non-professional italic hand, probably someone associated with Oxford University, comprising 180 pages now all separated and mounted, interleaved, in 19th-century calf. c.late 1630s.

Later in the libraries (with bookplates) of the book collector Richard Heber (1774-1833); of the bibliographer and antiquary Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833); of the biographer and literary editor Alexander Chalmers (1759-1834); and of the antiquary Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough (his sale by Charles Sharpe in Dublin, 1 November 1842, lot 577).

pp. 5-7

• RnT 352: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet (‘I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare’)

Copy, headed ‘On a deformed Gentlewoman having a sweet voyce’.

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

p. 11

• HoJ 136: John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart (‘Reader I was born and cried’)

Copy.

p. 12

• RaW 473: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Say not you love, unless you do’

Copy, headed ‘A Gentlewoman to Doctour Dun’.

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

p. 13

• HrJ 283: Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues (‘You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young’)

Copy, headed ‘Of a learned wife’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.

pp. 14-15

• RnT 561: Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School (‘What heat of learning kindled your desire’)

Copy.

Published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661), ascribed to ‘T. R.’. Usually anonymous in MS copies and the school variously identified as being in Castlethorpe or in Batley, Yorkshire, or in Lewes, Sussex, or elsewhere.

pp. 16-17

• RaW 333: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen (‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Gwalter Raleigh to y^e sole Governours of his Affection’, here beginning ‘Passions are likn'd best to flouds & streams’, and prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 527).

This MS recorded in Gullans.

First published, prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 500-42) and headed ‘To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh’, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.

For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, ‘Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of “Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart”’, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.

p. 16

• StW 405: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)

Copy, headed ‘On a GentleWoman singing’.

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

pp. 17-18

• RaW 527: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy of lines 1-2, 5-28, 31-2, untitled, prefixed by “Passions are likn'd best to flouds & streams” (see RaW 333).

This MS recorded in Gullans.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by ‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’ (see RaW 320-38) and headed ‘To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh’. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).

This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).

p. 19

• KiH 77: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘The reply’, here beginning ‘Blacke Girle complaine not y^t I fly’ and subscribed ‘Henry Mollt: KC’.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) ‘A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds’ (‘Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee’). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

pp. 19-20

• StW 816: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a faire Gentlewoman walking in y^e Snow’ and here ascribed to ‘D^r Corbet’.

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

p. 20

• CmT 127: Thomas Campion, ‘Though you are yoong and I am olde’

Copy, untitled.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. ii. Davis, pp. 20-1.

p. 20

• CoR 386: Richard Corbett, Little Lute (‘Little lute, when I am gone’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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

p. 25

• DrW 177.96: William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table (‘Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre’)

Copy of a version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’.

First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

p. 27

• CwT 142: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Copy, headed ‘On his Cruell M^rs’ and here beginning at line 5 (here ‘A sacred bull appeaseth angry Joue’).

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

pp. 27-9

• CoR 747: Richard Corbett, Nonsence (‘Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Like to y^e silent Tone of unspoke speeches’.

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

p. 32

• ShW 33.5: William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (‘Even as the sun with purple-coloured face’)

Copy of lines 529-34, headed ‘Good Night to you’ and here beginning ‘Now y^e Worlds comforter w^th weary gate’.

First published in London, 1593.

pp. 37-8

• DkT 26: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)

Copy, headed ‘On Q. Elizabeths Remoouall to white-Hall (from Richmond)’.

First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, ‘Poems by William Camden’, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.

pp. 39-40

• CwT 717: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Feare not (dear Saint) y^t Ile reueale’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

HM 117

Copy of Psalms 1-150, in a single professional secretary hand, on 321 quarto pages, with a title-page ‘The Psalmes of David metaphrased into verse by the noble, learned, & famous gent S^r Philip Sidney Knight’, gilt-edged in modern brown morocco gilt. Early 17th century.

SiP 80: Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David

Owned in 1789 by the poet William Hayley (1745-1820), and later by Richard Heber (1774-1833), book collector.

This MS described in Ringler, p. 552.

HM 128

A three-line inscription by Bale, concerning ‘Robertus Langlade’, inside the lower cover of a folio-size volume of early-15th-century verse tracts, in several professional hands, i + 219 leaves of vellum, in 16th-century tooled calf over wooden boards with remains of clasps. Early 15th century.

*BaJ 34.5: John Bale, Langland, William. Piers Plowman

Later owned by Adam Clarke (1760?-1832). Sotheby's, 20 June 1836 (Clarke sale), lot 352. Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), Supplement item 509. Then owned by Clifton W. Loscombe. Sotheby's, 19 June 1854 (Loscombe sale), lot 1167, to Upham for Bertram Ashburnham (1797-1874), fourth Earl of Ashburnham. Sotheby's, 1 May 1899 (Ashburnham sale), lot 78. Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 193 (1899), item 54. Acquired by Henry E. Huntington in 1918 from the collection of Ross C. Winans then in the hands of G.D. Smith.

The inscription discussed in R.B. Haselden and H.C. Schulz, ‘Note on the Inscription in HM 128’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 8 (1935), 26-7. Facsimile of the inscription in George Kane, Piers Plowman: The Evidence for Authorship (London, 1965), facing p. 37.

HM 162

Copy, largely in six largely secretary hands, imperfect, lacking a title and beginning on the original fol. 7 (now f. 1r), also lacking one or more leaves after f. 94v, 183 folio leaves, in contemporary vellum. Late 16th century.

SiP 99: Sir Philip Sidney, The Old Arcadia

Once owned by Robert Walker, Treasurer to Sir Henry Sidney from 1575 to c.1581. Later owned by Bertram Ashburnham (1797-1874), fourth Earl of Ashburnham, and then in 1878 by Henry Yates Thompson (1838-1928), newspaper proprietor and manuscript collector. Sotheby's, 1 May 1899, lot 16.

This MS (the ‘Ashburnham MS’) collated in Robertson and the poems collated in Ringler; described in Ringler, p. 528. Facsimiles of ff. 116v and 154r in DLB, vol. 167, Sixteenth-Century British Non-Dramatic Writers. Third Series, ed. David A. Richardson (Detroit, 1996), pp. 204-5.

The unfinished revised version of Arcadia (the ‘New Arcadia’) first published in London, 1590. The original version (the ‘Old Arcadia’) first published in Feuillerat, IV (1926). The complete Old Arcadia edited by Jean Robertson (Oxford, 1973). The poems edited in Ringler, pp. 7-131.

HM 172

A quarto verse miscellany, written in alternating secretary and italic scripts, probably in a single hand; foliated in ink 1-32 and paginated in pencil 33-96, 32 leaves (lacking final leaf). Including nine poems by Randolph, plus two of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.

Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 10110. Bookplate of Robert Hoe (1839-1909), New York businessman and book collector.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Huntington MS’: RnT Δ 9. Complete microfilm at the Shakespeare Institute, Birmingham (Mic S 15).

f. 2r-v

• AlW 162: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres’)

Copy of a version headed ‘In fratres Reynoldos carmen Heroicum’ and beginning ‘Bella inter ambiguus Religionis apex’, subscribed ‘Doctor Allabaster’, and followed (f. 2v) by Holland's translation, ‘Englished’, here beginning ‘Bewixt twoe brethren civill warre and worse’.

This MS collated in Sutton.

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

f. 4r-v

• BcF 37: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, headed ‘Humane life Charactered by Francis Viscount S'^t Albans’.

f. 5r

• KiH 454: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Doctor King’.

ff. 5v-6v

• RnT 334: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet (‘I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare’)

This MS recorded in Day, p. 32, and in Davis; collated in Dunlap, p. 266.

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

f. 6v

• RnT 158: Thomas Randolph, In Eandem Dystichon. Englished (‘By thy lookes Hecuba, Helen by thy songe’)

Copy, following the Latin version.

Edited from this MS in Dunlap, p. 267. Recorded in Day, p. 32.

First published, following a Latin version beginning ‘Vox Hellenum, vultus Hecubam te Lesbia clamat’, in Day (1932), p. 35.

f. 7r-v

• CwT 1037: Thomas Carew, To Celia, upon Love's Vbiquity (‘As one that strives, being sick, and sick to death’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 123-4.

ff. 9v-10v

• HeR 25: Robert Herrick, The Apparition of his Mistresse calling him to Elizium (‘Come then, and like two Doves with silv'rie wings’)

Copy, headed ‘His Mistris shade’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published, among verse ‘By other Gentlemen’, in Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 205-7. Patrick, pp. 273-5.

ff. 10v-14r

• RnT 44: Thomas Randolph, A complaint against Cupid that he never made him in Love (‘How many of thy Captives (Love) complaine’)

Copy, headed ‘His complaynt on Cupid that hee never yet made him enamored’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.

This MS recorded inDay, p. 32.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 35-40.

f. 14r

• RnT 304: Thomas Randolph, The Song of Discord (‘Let Linus and Amphions lute’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.

This MS recorded in Day, p. 32.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 87.

f. 14r-v

• RnT 433: Thomas Randolph, The Muses' Looking-Glass, Act I, scene iv. Song (‘Say in a dance how shall we go’)

Copy, headed ‘The Masque of Vices’, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolphe’.

This MS recorded in Day, p. 32.

First published (with Poems) Oxford, 1638. Hazlitt, I, 173-266 (p. 192).

f. 14v

• RnT 143: Thomas Randolph, In Archimedis Sphaeram ex Claudiano (‘Jove saw the Heavens fram'd in a little glasse’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolphe’.

This MS recorded in Day, p. 32.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 46.

ff. 14v-15r

• RnT 409: Thomas Randolph, ‘When Jove sawe Archimedes world of glasse’

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolphe’.

Edited from this MS in Dunlap, p. 267. Recorded in Day.

First published in Day (1932), p. 35.

f. 15r

• ShJ 130: James Shirley, ‘Would you know what's soft?’

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 19r-v

• CoR 155: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox (‘Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elogie on the Ladie Hayes her death by Doctor Corbett’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning ‘O thou deformed unwomanlike disease’, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.

ff. 20r-1v

• KiH 344: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Doctor Hen: King’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

ff. 22r-4v

• RnT 243: Thomas Randolph, On the Inestimable Content He Injoyes in the Muses, To those of his Friends that dehort him from Poetry (‘Goe sordid earth, and hope not to bewitch’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.

This MS recorded in Day, p. 32.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 23-8.

ff. 24v-5r

• RnT 58: Thomas Randolph, De Moderatione Animi in vtraque fortuna (‘Is thy poore Barke becalm'd, and forc'd to staye’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Randolph’.

Edited from this MS in Dunlap, p. 267. Collated in Day.

First published in Day (1932), p. 36.

f. 25r

• JnB 618.5: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Lady Purbeck's fortune (‘Helpe me wonder, here's a booke’)

Copy of ‘Lady Purbeck's fortune’, untitled.

Herford & Simpson, lines 522-43. Greg, Burley version, lines 447-68.

f. 25r-v

• JnB 52: Ben Jonson, The Dreame (‘Or Scorne, or pittie on me take’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in The Vnder-wood (xi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 150-1.

f. 26r

• DnJ 321: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 26v-7r

• JnB 179: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body (‘Sitting, and ready to be drawne’)

Copy, headed ‘Of the Lady Venetia Digby The picture of her body’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.

First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).

ff. 27r-8v

• JnB 217: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind (‘Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone’)

Copy, headed ‘The picture of her mynde’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

ff. 30r-1v

• BmF 109: Francis Beaumont, Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson (‘The sun which doth the greatest comfort bring’)

Copy, untitled.

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

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

f. 32v

• DnJ 2069: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 32v

• JnB 359: Ben Jonson, My Picture left in Scotland (‘I now thinke, Love is rather deafe, then blind’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (ix) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 149-50.

pp. 62-4

• RnT 579: Thomas Randolph, Upon the First Newes of S^r Edward Burton being blind (‘Sir as for him that told me first 'twas true’)

Copy.

Unpublished? Probably written by Burton's eldest son.

pp. 65-6

• RnT 583: Thomas Randolph, Upon the Newes of his Recoverie (‘Sir that same darksome cloud it is o'erpast’)

Copy.

HM 182

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, with six lines added in pencil in another 17th-century hand at the foot of f. 36v, untitled, but headed on f. 1r in a later hand ‘Life of Cardinal Wolsey by his Gentleman Usher Sir W. Cavendish’, 123 + iii folio leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1600.

CvG 32: George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey

Both covers stamped in gilt ‘HENRIE FARLEIGH’, apparently a writer connected with St Paul's from 1616 to 1622. Later owned by Samuel Weller Singer (1783-1858), literary scholar, and in the library of Bernard Howard (1765-1842), twelfth Duke of Norfolk. Thorpe's sale catalogue (1836), item 201. In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 9796. Sotheby's, 6 June 1898 (Phillipps sale), lot 1145, to Baker. Pearson's Shakespeare catalogue (1899), I, pp. 73-4, item 147. Sold in 1906 to Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and book collector. Purchased in 1919 by A.S.E. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia bookseller, collector and scholar.

Sylvester, No. 29.

First published in George Cavendish, The Life of Cardinal Wolsey and Metrical Visions, ed. Samuel W. Singer, 2 vols (Chiswick, 1825). The Life and Death of Cardinal Wolsey by George Cavendish, ed. Richard S. Sylvester, EETS, orig. ser. 243 (London, New York and Toronto, 1959).

HM 183

Scrapbook of MS verse. Late 17th century.

Bought by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833) from an old Catholic family named Hawkins seated at Boughton, near Canterbury, Kent. Later Phillipps MS 8923.

f. 17r

• PsK 450: Katherine Philips, To Rosania & Lucasia Articles of Friendship (‘The Soules which vertu hath made fitt’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘Orinda’, in double columns on a single quarto leaf.

Edited from this MS in Mahl & Koon and in Thomas; also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation and in Kissing the Rod, pp. 157-9.

First published in The Female Spectator: English Women Writers before 1800, ed. Mary R. Mahl and Helene Koon (Bloomington & London, 1977), pp. 157-9. Thomas, I, 254-6, poem 131, among ‘Doubtful Poems’.

f. 24r

• HyT 11: Thomas Heywood, The Rape of Lucrece. The Cries of Rome (‘Thus go the cries in Romes faire towne’)

Copy of one of the two songs ‘which were added’ to Heywood's play ‘by the stranger that lately acted Valerius his part’, in a scrapbook.

Dramatic Works, V, 254-6.

HM 198, Part I

A folio verse miscellany, 206 pages (plus blanks), rebound in 1832 (by Charles Lewis) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part II). Including 52 poems by Donne (many on pp. 64-109, 167-74 initialled ‘L.C.’ [? Lord Chancellor], as are some poems by others), 11 poems by Carew, ten poems by Corbett, and 11 poems by or attributed to Herrick, in a single neat hand throughout; the poems dating up to 1637. c.1637.

Later scribbling and inscriptions including the names ‘Edw Denny’ [presumably Edward Denny (1569-1637), Baron Denny of Waltham and first Earl of Norwich], ‘Charles Cocks’, ‘Edward Randolphe’ and (on p. 162) ‘Thomas Cassy’. Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary (sold in the Haslewood sale, London, 1833, lot 1329, to Thorpe); by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary (his sale in Dublin, 1 November 1841, item 624); and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library catalogue, 1880, IV, pp. 1159-64), and sold at Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Haslewood Kingsborough MS (I)’: DnJ Δ 25, CwT Δ 28, CoR Δ 10, and HeR Δ 5. A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Discussed in C.M. Armitage, ‘Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on “The Funerall”’, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707. A facsimile of part of p. 63 in Marcy L. North, ‘Amateur Compilers, Scribal Labour, and the Contents of Early Modern Poetic Miscellanies’, EMS, 16 (2011), 82-111 (p. 101).

f. i^r-v

• RaW 166: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)

Copy, untitled, on the recto of a tipped-in folio leaf (with folds). c.1595.

Edited from this MS in Josephine Waters Bennett, ‘Early Texts of Two of Ralegh's Poems from a Huntington Library Manuscript’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 469-75 (pp. 471-2), and in Rudick. Recorded in Latham, p. 131.

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, ‘Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine’, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's ‘answer’ to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

f. i^v

• EsR 41: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Courte's skorne, state's disgracinge’

Copy, untitled, on a tipped-in folio leaf (with folds). c.1595.

Edited from this MS in The Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh, ed. Michael Rudick (Tempe, Arizona, 1999), p. 33. Collated in May, pp. 127-8.

As ‘The Answer to the Lie’ in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., 8 vols (Oxford, 1829), VIII, 735. May, Poems, No. I, p. 60. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 264-5. EV 5008.

f. iv^r

• RaW 6: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘As you came from the holy land’

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘A yo^w cam from that holly land, of wallsyngham’, dated at the end 1595, on the recto of a tipped-in folio leaf (with folds). c.1595.

Edited from this MS in Josephine Waters Bennett, ‘Early Texts of Two of Ralegh's Poems from a Huntington Library Manuscript’, HLQ, 4 (1940-1), 469-75 (pp. 473-4). Recorded in Latham, p. 120.

First published in Thomas Deloney, The Garland of Good-Will (London, 1596? first extant edition 1628). Latham, pp. 22-3. Rudick, No. 13, pp. 16-17.

pp. 1-2

• FlJ 13: John Fletcher, Upon An Honest Man's Fortune (‘You that can look through heaven, and tell the stars’)

Copy, headed ‘Against Astrolagers’ and ascribed to ‘John fletcher’.

First published, appended to The Honest Man's Fortune, in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, III, 453-6.

pp. 3-4

• HoJ 77: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)

Copy, headed ‘A fart censured in the Lower house of Parliment’ and here beginning ‘Puffing doune comes graue ancient S^r John Crook’.

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

pp. 5-6

• HeR 197: Robert Herrick, The parting Verse, or charge to his supposed Wife when he travelled (‘Go hence, and with this parting kisse’)

Copy, headed ‘The husband charge departing from home, to his wife’ and here beginning ‘Go and with this parting Kiss’, subscribed ‘Robert Herrick’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 174-6. Patrick, pp. 233-5.

pp. 6-8

• CoR 346: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)

Copy, headed ‘Docter Corbets Letter to the Duke of Buckingham in Spaine’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

pp. 8-10

• HeR 306: Robert Herrick, The Descripcion: of a Woman (‘Whose head befringed with bescattered tresses’)

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Patrick; collated in Martin.

First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hazlitt, II, 433-6. Martin, pp. 404-6. Patrick, pp. 549-51.

pp. 10-11

• BmF 74: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)

Copy, headed ‘Amor posthumus’, subscribed ‘francis Beeumond’.

First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.

pp. 12-14

• HeR 43: Robert Herrick, A Country life: To his Brother, Master Thomas Herrick (‘Thrice, and above, blest (my soules halfe) art thou’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r: Herricks Country Life’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 34-8. Patrick, pp. 50-3.

pp. 14-16

• HeR 358: Robert Herrick, M^r Robert Hericke his farwell vnto Poetrie (‘I have behelde two louers in a night’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Herriks farwell to Poetry’.

This MS collated in Martin and in Patrick.

First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 439-42. Martin, pp. 410-12. Patrick, pp. 543-5.

pp. 16-17

• HeR 112: Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack (‘Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Herricks farwell to Sack’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 45-6. Patrick, pp. 62-3.

pp. 17-19

• HeR 259: Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack (‘So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles’)

Copy, headed ‘The time expired thus he welcomes his m^rs: Sacke’.

This MS collated in part in Martin.

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

pp. 23-6

• HeR 130: Robert Herrick, His age, dedicated to his peculiar friend, Master John Wickes, under the name of Posthumus (‘Ah Posthumus! Our yeares hence flye’)

Copy, headed ‘To his peculiar frend m^r John Weekes his Age he dedicates’, subscribed ‘R: Herrick’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 132-6. Patrick, pp. 179-83.

pp. 26-7

• HeR 174: Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast (‘A Little mushroome table spred’)

Copy, without the preliminary lines, subscribed ‘R Herrick’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning ‘Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State’, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled ‘A Description of his Dyet’, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.

pp. 27-8

• HrJ 177: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler (‘A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling’)

Copy, headed ‘A Reformed Taylour’.

First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.

p. 30

• HeR 365: Robert Herrick, Parkinsons shade to the house of M^r Pallauicine takeing his death ill (‘Will you still lament and rayse’)

Copy, subscribed ‘R: Herrick’.

Edited from this MS in Martin and in Patrick.

First published in Martin (1956), pp. 422-3. Patrick, p. 556.

pp. 30-2

• DrW 117.38: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Copy.

Often headed in MSS ‘The [Five] Senses’, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his ‘Poems of Doubtful Authenticity’ (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, ‘Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses’, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, ‘Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses’, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

pp. 32-3

• PoW 52: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, untitled, with five lines partly inked over.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

pp. 34-5

• DnJ 827: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)

Copy, headed ‘Duns Curse upon him that knew his m^rs:’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 35-7

• DnJ 378: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy, headed ‘upon the Loss of A Braclett’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 42-3

• HeR 324.5: Robert Herrick, ‘Hide not thy love and mine shall be’

Copy, headed ‘Dedicated to the La: L: B:’.

First published in Aurelian Townshend's poems and Masks, ed. E. K. Chambers (Oxford, 1912), pp. 28-32. The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric R. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 34-41 (Version One, First Part, pp. 35-7; Second Part pp. 35-7; Version Two, pp. 38-41). Ascribed to Herrick in several MSS.

pp. 43-4

• DnJ 3177: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

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

pp. 44-6

• MrJ 44: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

Copy.

p. 53

• JnB 296: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)

Copy, headed ‘upon an Hower Glass’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.

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.

p. 53

• HeR 53: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Rob: Herrick’.

This MS recorded in Martin.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).

pp. 54-5

• JnB 180: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body (‘Sitting, and ready to be drawne’)

Copy, untitled, with a heading after line 12 ‘The boddye’.

pp. 55-6

• JnB 218: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind (‘Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone’)

Copy.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

pp. 60-1

• JnB 566: Ben Jonson, Christmas his Masque, lines 71-8, 93-101, 172-9, 182-245. Song (‘Now God preserve, as you well doe deserve’)

Copy, untitled.

p. 62

• ToA 33: Aurelian Townshend, A Paradox (‘There is no Lover, hee or shee’)

Copy, untitled, in double columns.

First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.

p. 63

• HeR 382: Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris (‘Whither are all her false oathes blowne’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Wheer are all ower falce Oath blowne’, in double columns.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.

p. 64

• DnJ 2045: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

Copy, headed ‘Dieta Amoris:’, in double columns, marked ‘L: C:’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 64

• DnJ 2341: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’

Copy, headed ‘Elegy 3^tio’, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 64

• DnJ 695: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegy 6^to’, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 65

• DnJ 1969: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)

Copy, untitled, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 65

• DnJ 3464: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)

Copy, headed ‘To S^r: Henry wotten from Court’, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 66-7

• DnJ 3843: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)

Copy, headed ‘A valediction of Teares’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 67

• DnJ 963: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)

Copy of a 26-line version headed ‘Elegy the 17^th:’ and beginning ‘I maye of her, whome I loue more then she’, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 68

• DnJ 3907: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy, headed ‘His Testament Loues Legacy’, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 68

• DnJ 591: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)

Copy, headed ‘Cannozon’, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 69

• DnJ 3784: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)

Copy, headed ‘A ualediction of my Name in the Glass’, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 69

• DnJ 668: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)

Copy, untitled, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 69-70

• DnJ 2175: John Donne, Loves Usury (‘For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now’)

Copy, untitled, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.

p. 70

• DnJ 1325: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)

Copy, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 70

• DnJ 3557: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘You have refin'd mee, and to worthyest things’)

Copy, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

p. 71

• DnJ 1135: John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford (‘That I might make your Cabinet my tombe’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Coun: of Bedford’, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.

p. 72

• DnJ 3856: John Donne, Variety (‘The heavens rejoyce in motion, why should I’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegy’, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1650). Grierson, I, 113-16. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 104-6 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 23. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 393-4.

Probably by Nicholas Hare (1582-1622), Clerk of the Court of Wards and Liveries.

p. 73

• DnJ 2717: John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis (‘Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said’)

Copy, untitled, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.

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

p. 73

• DnJ 1712: John Donne, Julia (‘Harke newes, o envy, thou shalt heare descry'd’)

Copy, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded 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.

pp. 77-8

• DnJ 934: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)

Copy, headed ‘A Dreame’, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 78-9

• DnJ 1874: John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and M^rs Essex Riche, From Amyens (‘Here where by All All Saints invoked are’)

Copy, untitled, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 79-80

• DnJ 3596: John Donne, To the Lady Bedford (‘You that are she and you, that's double shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegy to the Lady Bedford’, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 80-5

• DnJ 2423: 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, with the prose epistle, headed ‘To the Countes of Bedforde’, marked ‘L C’.

This MS 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. 85-6

• DnJ 1229: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)

Copy, headed ‘Ellegy’, marked ‘L C’.

This MS 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. 86-8

• DnJ 1495: John Donne, His parting from her (‘Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night’)

Copy, untitled, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 88-9

• DnJ 1041: John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. (‘Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way’)

Copy, headed ‘Ellegy 8’, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded 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’.

p. 89

• DnJ 3532: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegy: 17^th To the Countes of Bedford’, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

p. 89

• DnJ 2268: John Donne, Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus (‘Like Esops fellow-slaves, O Mercury’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon Mercurius Gallobelgicus’, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

p. 90

• DnJ 864: John Donne, The Dampe (‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’)

Copy, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 90-1

• DnJ 3385: John Donne, To M^rs M.H. (‘Mad paper stay, and grudge not here to burne’)

Copy, untitled, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 91-2

• DnJ 3515: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Honour is so sublime perfection’)

Copy, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 92-3

• DnJ 3438: John Donne, To S^r Henry Goodyere (‘Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare’)

Copy, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 93-6

• DnJ 987: John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 (‘Unseasonable man, statue of ice’)

Copy of lines 1-170 (including poems i-vi of the ‘Epithalamion’), marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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

pp. 97-8

• CoR 133: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox (‘Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true’)

Copy, headed ‘A Funerall Elegye on the Lady Haddington who dyed of the Small Pox’, marked ‘L C’.

pp. 98-9

• BmF 92: Francis Beaumont, A Funeral Elegy on the Death of the Lady Penelope Clifton (‘Since thou art dead, Clifton, the world may see’)

Copy, headed ‘A Funerall Ellegy on the Death of the faire verteous Penelope late Lady Clinton’, marked ‘L C’.

First published in Poems (London, 1653). Dyce, XI, 511-13.

pp. 104-5

• CoR 171: Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London (‘When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke’)

Copy, headed ‘Doctor Cor: An Ellegy of Doctor Rauis bishop of london’, marked ‘L C’.

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

pp. 105-6

• CoR 321: Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 (‘My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine’)

Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbett to M^r: Alsburye upon y^e Comett Noue: 1628’, marked ‘L C’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.

pp. 106-7

• CwT 467: Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters (‘So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes’)

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 9-11.

pp. 108-9

• CoR 634: Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North (‘My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes’)

Copy in double columns, headed ‘To the Lo. Mordant: Doct: Corbett:’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.

pp. 109-13

• CoR 286: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)

Copy in double columns, headed ‘The Itinnary in y^e North, 10^mo: Aug: 1618’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

p. 114

• RnT 520.5: Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale (‘When shall we meet again and have a taste’)

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

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

pp. 114-15

• JnB 379: Ben Jonson, Ode to himselfe (‘Come leaue the lothed stage’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnsons Ode to himselfe’.

First published, with the heading ‘The iust indignation the Author tooke at the vulgar censure of his Play, by some malicious spectators, begat this following Ode to himselfe’, in The New Inn (London, 1631). Herford & Simpson, VI, 492-4.

pp. 115-16

• RnT 31: Thomas Randolph, An answer to Mr Ben Johnson's Ode to perswade him not to leave the stage (‘Ben doe not leave the stage’)

Copy, headed ‘Randulphus answer to Benn Johnsons Ode’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 581.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 82-4. Davis, pp. 63-76.

For the poem by Ben Jonson, which appears with Randolph's ‘answer’ in many of the MSS, see JnB 367-81.

pp. 116-17

• CwT 1028: Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (‘'Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.

pp. 117-20

• CwT 637: Thomas Carew, A Rapture (‘I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Thomas Carew’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.

pp. 120-1

• CwT 1229: Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) (‘Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon A lady being sick’, subscribed ‘Thomas Carew’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 31-2.

p. 123

• BcF 54.107: Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox (‘Are all diseases dead? or will death say’)

Copy.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.

pp. 123-4

• KiH 680: Henry King, The Surrender (‘My once Deare Love. Happlesse that I no more’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 146-7.

pp. 124-5

• RnT 562: Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School (‘What heat of learning kindled your desire’)

Copy.

p. 126

• RnT 353: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet (‘I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare’)

Copy in double columns, headed ‘Tho: Randolph upon A Sweet voice butt bad facd woman’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 617.

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

p. 126

• CwT 1047: Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship (‘Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate’)

Copy in double columns, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.

pp. 127-8

• RnT 133: Thomas Randolph, A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son (‘I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare’)

Copy, headed ‘Thomas Randolphs Gratulatory to Ben Johnson for adopting him his sone’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 537.

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

pp. 128-9

• BmF 110: Francis Beaumont, Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson (‘The sun which doth the greatest comfort bring’)

Copy, headed ‘Beamond to Ben: Johnson’.

p. 130

• CwT 1091: Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence (‘Though I must live here, and by force’)

Copy, headed ‘To his m^rs: in absence Tho: Carew’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 22.

pp. 130-1

• CwT 973: Thomas Carew, The Spring (‘Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost’)

Copy, headed ‘On the spring by Tho: Carrew’.

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.

p. 137

• CoR 233: Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum (‘Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory’)

Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbetts reply’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.

For related poems see CoR 247-78.

p. 138

• PeW 45: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘If her disdain least change in you can move’

Copy, headed ‘Earle of Pembrock to S^r Benia. Ruyer’.

This MS collated in Krueger.

First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 2, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.

p. 138

• PeW 112: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘'Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain’

Copy, headed ‘S^r: Beni: Ruyers answer’.

This MS collated in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed ‘R’. Krueger, p. 3, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.

pp. 138-9

• PeW 87: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘Shall Love that gave Latona's heir the foyle’

Copy, headed ‘Earle of Pembrock to Ruy.’ and here beginning ‘Should Loue that gaue Hero the foyle’.

This MS collated in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 5-7. Krueger, pp. 4-5, as ‘Verses on Reason and Love’, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.

pp. 139-41

• PeW 65: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘No praise it is that him who Python slew’

Copy, headed ‘S^r. Ben: Ruyers ansuer’.

This MS collated in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 7-11, superscribed ‘R.’. Krueger, pp. 5-9, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.

pp. 141-3

• PeW 54: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘It is enough, a Master you grant Love’

Copy, headed ‘Ea: Pembrock. ansuer’.

This MS collated in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 11-13, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, pp. 9-12, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.

pp. 143-6

• PeW 69: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘Not like a skeptick equally distract’

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beni: Ruyyers ansuer’.

This MS collated in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 13-20, superscribed ‘R.’. Krueger, pp. 12-19, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.

pp. 146-7

• PeW 55: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘Men sad and settled, love not to contend’

Copy, headed ‘Earle Pembrock:’.

This MS collated in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 20-1, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, pp. 19-20, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.

p. 147

• PeW 68: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘Nor will I now your wound exulcerate’

Copy, headed ‘P Ben: Ruyer’.

This MS collated in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 21-2, superscribed ‘R.’. Krueger, pp. 20-1, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.

pp. 148-9

• CwT 1118: Thomas Carew, To Saxham (‘Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes’)

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

p. 149

• CoR 429: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)

Copy, headed ‘vpon Tom of Chri: chu: new cast’.

p. 150

• CoR 694: Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes (‘Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse’)

Copy, headed ‘On fayrford windowes’, subscribed ‘D: R: Corbett’.

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

pp. 150-1

• StW 54: William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies (‘Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night’)

Copy, headed ‘In praise of grey eyes’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 35-6. Forey pp. 40-1.

pp. 151-2

• StW 465: William Strode, On a good legge and foote (‘If Hercules tall Stature might be guest’)

Copy, headed ‘The Comendations of A good Legg and foote’.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 108-9. Forey, pp. 16-17.

p. 153

• BrW 172: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on one drouned in snow’.

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

p. 153

• StW 1052: William Strode, A Superscription on Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia sent for a Token (‘Whatever in Philoclea the Faire’)

Copy, headed ‘by A gent that sent Arcadia to his m^rs:’.

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

pp. 153-4

• StW 293: William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe (‘Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill’)

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.

pp. 154-5

• StW 1111: William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde (‘Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye’)

Copy, untitled.

Lines 15-20 (beginning ‘Oft when I looke I may descrie’) first published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 29-30. Forey, pp. 37-9.

p. 155

• StW 237: William Strode, Loves Ætna. Song (‘In your sterne beauty I can see’)

Copy, untitled.

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

pp. 155-6

• CwT 15.8: Thomas Carew, Boldnesse in love (‘Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine’)

Copy, headed ‘Sonnett’ and here beginning ‘See how the bashfull morne in vain’.

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

p. 159

• SuJ 206: John Suckling, Upon Sir John Suckling's hundred horse (‘I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King’)

Copy.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.

p. 160

• SuJ 225: John Suckling, Sir John Suckling's Answer (‘I tell thee foole who'ere thou be’)

Copy.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.

p. 164

• WrM 4: Lady Mary Wroth, Railing Rimes Returned upon the Author by Mistress Mary Wrothe (‘Hirmophradite in sense in Art a monster’)

Copy, headed ‘To thy Lady Mary wroth for writeing the Countes of montgomerie Vrania’, subscribed ‘by the L. D’.

Twenty-six lines of verse, answering line-for-line Lord Denny's verse attack (WrM 36). First published in Josephine A. Roberts, ‘An Unpublished Literary Quarrel concerning the Suppression of Mary Wroth's “Urania” (1621)’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 532-5.

p. 164

• DaJ 31: Sir John Davies, In Curionem (‘The great archpapist learned Curio’)

Copy, headed ‘In Curione’.

First published in Krueger (1975), pp. 182-3.

p. 165

• HrJ 217: Sir John Harington, Of a word in welch mistaken in English (‘An English lad long Woode a lasse of wales’)

Copy, untitled.

Kilroy, Book IV, No. 38, p. 224.

p. 165

• DnJ 3733: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)

Copy in double columns, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 165

• RaW 334: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen (‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Passions are likned best to flouds & streams’, in double columns.

This MS recorded in Gullans.

p. 166

• HrE 72: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To Mrs. Diana Cecyll (‘Diana Cecyll, that rare beauty thou dost show’)

Copy, untitled and omitting the first two words in the first line, in double columns.

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

p. 167

• DnJ 21: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)

Copy, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 167

• DnJ 2111: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)

Copy, headed ‘Spring’, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 167

• DnJ 1805: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)

Copy, headed ‘Loues Lectures’, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 168

• DnJ 3814: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)

Copy, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 168

• DnJ 749: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)

Copy, untitled, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 169

• DnJ 1104: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)

Copy, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS 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.

p. 170

• DnJ 3031: John Donne, Sonnet. The Token (‘Send me some token, that my hope may live’)

Copy in double columns, untitled, marked ‘L C’.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1649). Grierson, I, 72-3. Gardner, Elegies, p. 107 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 78.

p. 170

• DnJ 119: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)

Copy, in double columns, untitled, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 170

• DnJ 2086: John Donne, Loves exchange (‘Love, any devill else but you’)

Copy, in double columns, untitled, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 170-1

• DnJ 2637: John Donne, The Prohibition (‘Take heed of loving mee’)

Copy, in double columns, untitled, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 171

• DnJ 3702: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)

Copy, in double columns, untitled, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

p. 171

• DnJ 3408: John Donne, To S^r Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)

Copy, in double columns, headed ‘A Letter to S^r: Edw: Herbert:’, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 171-2

• DnJ 3323: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire’)

Copy, in double columns, headed ‘To M^r: F: W:’, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

p. 172

• DnJ 3227: John Donne, To M^r B.B. (‘Is not thy sacred hunger of science’)

Copy, headed ‘B. B.’, in double columns, marked ‘L C’.

This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.

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

p. 173

• DnJ 2533: John Donne, The Paradox (‘No Lover saith, I love, nor any other’)

Copy, in double columns, untitled, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69-70. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 38-9. Shawcross, No. 77.

p. 173

• DnJ 3346: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘At once, from hence, my lines and I depart’)

Copy, in double columns, headed ‘A Letter’, marked ‘L C’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

p. 173

• PeW 9: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘Disdain me still, that I may ever love’

This MS collated in Krueger.

p. 174

• CoR 396: Richard Corbett, A New-Yeares Gift To my Lorde Duke of Buckingham (‘When I can pay my Parents, or my King’)

Copy, in double columns, headed ‘Doctor Corbet to y^e Lo: Marques Buckingham Christchurch this present new Years Day 1624’, marked ‘L C’.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 71-2.

pp. 193-4

• DnJ 2140.5: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)

Copy of lines 41-86, untitled and here beginning ‘The hayre A forrest is of Ambushes’.

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. 194-6

• CwT 192: Thomas Carew, An Elegie on the La: Pen: sent to my Mistresse out of France (‘Let him, who from his tyrant Mistresse, did’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegy of the Lady Peniston sent to my M^rs: out of france’.

This MS recorded in Dunlap, p. 222.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 19-21.

pp. 196-7

• CwT 485: Thomas Carew, Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay (‘I heard the Virgins sigh, I saw the sleeke’)

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 67-8.

pp. 198-9

• CwT 1156: Thomas Carew, To the Countesse of Anglesie upon the immoderatly-by-her-lamented death of her Husband (‘Madam, men say you keepe with dropping eyes’)

This MS collated in Dunlap.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 69-71.

pp. 199-201

• RnT 197: Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes (‘Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r: Randolphes Petition to his Creditors’.

This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 633.

First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.

pp. 201-3

• SuJ 97: John Suckling, The Wits (A Sessions of the Poets) (‘A Sessions was held the other day’)

Copy, headed ‘The witts’.

Edited from this MS in Berry, pp. 39-47; collated in Clayton and in Beaurline, loc. cit. A MS transcript made by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833) is in the New York Public Library, Manuscript Divisoin: see Beaurline, p. 46, and C.M. Armitage, ‘Identification of New York Public Library Manuscript “Suckling Collection” and of Huntington Manuscript 198’, SB, 19 (1966), 215-16.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 71-6. L.A. Beaurline, ‘An Editorial Experiment: Suckling's A Session of the Poets’, Studies in Bibliography, 16 (1963), 43-60.

pp. 205-6

• BmF 18: Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae (‘Madam, so may my verses pleasing be’)

Copy, headed ‘fletcher: to y^e Countes of Rutland’.

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

p. 206

• RnT 98.5: Thomas Randolph, An Elegie (‘Love, give me leave to serve thee, and be wise’)

Copy, headed ‘Chast and discreet loue’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 66-7.

HM 198, Part II

A folio verse miscellany, 148 leaves (foliated 161-206), once bound (reversed) with an independent miscellany (Huntington, HM 198, Part I), rebound with this MS (in continuous form without inversion) in 1832 (by Charles Lewis). Including 59 poems by Donne (and second copies of six poems), in probably six professional secretary hands: A (ff. 1r-25v, 82r-129r); B (ff. 26r, 42v-7v, 49r-63r, 63v-79r, 130r-48r); C (ff. 27r-36v, 41r-2v; with occasional corrections possibly in hand B); D (ff. 37r-40v); E (ff. 63r-v); and F (f. 129v). c.1620-33.

Scribbling includes the name ‘Meriall Tracy’ (on f. 148v). Later owned by Joseph Haslewood (1769-1833), bibliographer and antiquary; by Edward King (1795-1837), Viscount Kingsborough, antiquary; and by Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector (his library, lot 624). Sotheby's, 17 July 1917 (Huth sale), lot 5873.

Recorded in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Haslewood-Kingsborough MS (II)’: DnJ Δ 26. Discussed in C.M. Armitage, ‘Donne's Poems in Huntington Manuscript 198: New Light on “The Funerall”’, SP, 63 (1966), 697-707.

A complete microfilm is at the University of Birmingham, Shakespeare Institute (Mic S 15). Betagraph of the watermark in f. 43 in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Towards a Taxonomy of Watermarks’, in Puzzles in Paper: Concepts in Historical Watermarks, ed. Daniel W. Mosser, Michael Saffle and Ernest W. Sullivan, II (London, 2000), pp. 229-42 (p. 240).

f. 1r-v

• DnJ 2207: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 2r-v

• DnJ 3494: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)

Copy of lines 1-48, untitled, the first word omitted in the first line.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 2v-3

• DnJ 630: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 3r-v

• DnJ 964: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 3v-4

• DnJ 262: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS 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.

f. 4v

• DnJ 2342: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 4v-5

• DnJ 1536: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

f. 5r-v

• DnJ 2507: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as ‘Elegie XVI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.

ff. 5v-6

• JnB 385: Ben Jonson, An Ode. to himselfe (‘Where do'st thou carelesse lie’)

Copy.

First published in The Vnder-wood (xxiii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 174-5.

ff. 6r-7r

• HrE 4: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, A Description (‘I sing her worth and praises hy’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 2-5.

ff. 7r-v

• HrE 56: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To her Face (‘Fatal Aspect! that hast an Influence’)

Copy.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 5.

f. 7v

• HrE 59: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, To her Mind.l (‘Exalted Mind! whose Character doth bear’)

Copy.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 6.

f. 8r

• HrE 24: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Epitaph. Caecil. Boulstr. (‘Methinks Death like one laughing lyes’)

Copy of lines 11-21, untitled, here beginning ‘This mightie warrier was deceived yet’.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 20-1.

ff. 8r-9r

• PeW 88: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘Shall Love that gave Latona's heir the foyle’

Copy, untitled, but superscribed ‘P’.

This MS collated in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 5-7. Krueger, pp. 4-5, as ‘Verses on Reason and Love’, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.

f. 8v

• PeW 66: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘No praise it is that him who Python slew’

Copy.

This MS collated in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 7-11, superscribed ‘R.’. Krueger, pp. 5-9, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.

ff. 10v-11

• BmF 126: Francis Beaumont, On Madam Fowler desiring a sonnet to be writ on her (‘Good Madam Fowler, do not trouble me’)

Copy, headed ‘Epigram’ and subscribed ‘F.B.’.

First published in Alexander B. Grosart, ‘Literary Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere’, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (p. 8).

ff. 11v-12

• HrE 89: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Ode: Of our Sense of Sinne (‘Vengeance will sit above our faults. but till’)

Copy, untitled and here ascribed to ‘J[ohn] D[onne]’.

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.

f. 12r-v

• DnJ 3067: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)

Copy.

This MS 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.

f. 15r-v

• DnJ 553: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 15v-18v

• DnJ 1937: John Donne, The Litanie (‘Father of Heaven, and him, by whom’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.

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

ff. 18v-19

• DnJ 3844: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 19r-v

• DnJ 3815: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

ff. 19v-20

• DnJ 3989: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 20r-v

• DnJ 120: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 20v

• DnJ 1326: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

ff. 20v-1v

• DnJ 3785: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 21v

• DnJ 2920: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 22

• DnJ 3109: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Sunne’.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 22r-v

• DnJ 750: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 22v

• DnJ 3003: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

ff. 22v-3

• DnJ 436: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated 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.

f. 23

• DnJ 1201: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)

Copy, headed ‘Valedice’.

This MS collated 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.

f. 23

• DnJ 3959: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture (‘I fixe mine eye on thine, and there’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 23v

• DnJ 726: 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.

f. 23v

• DnJ 935: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 24

• DnJ 301: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded 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.

f. 24r-v

• DnJ 2294: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

ff. 24v-5

• DnJ 592: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 25

• DnJ 1970: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)

Copy, headed ‘Mumy’.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 25r-v

• DnJ 2638: John Donne, The Prohibition (‘Take heed of loving mee’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

ff. 25v-6

• DnJ 2087: John Donne, Loves exchange (‘Love, any devill else but you’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 27

• DnJ 1646: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 27r-v

• DnJ 669: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 27v

• DnJ 1454: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

ff. 27v-8

• DnJ 1806: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 28

• DnJ 22: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 28v

• DnJ 3661: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

ff. 28v-9r

• DnJ 1839: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 29r

• DnJ 3625: 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.

f. 29r-v

• DnJ 495: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated 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.

ff. 29v-30r

• DnJ 2176: John Donne, Loves Usury (‘For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.

f. 30r

• DnJ 828: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 30r-v

• DnJ 2242: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse (‘If yet I have not all thy love’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.

ff. 30v-1r

• DnJ 1363: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

ff. 31r-2r

• DnJ 1262: John Donne, The Extasie (‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 32r

• DnJ 3703: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 32v

• DnJ 2008: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

ff. 32v-3r

• DnJ 2046: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 33r-v

• DnJ 3409: John Donne, To S^r Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 33v-4r

• DnJ 3908: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy of a five-stanza version.

This MS collated in Gardner. Recorded in Shawcross.

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

f. 34r-v

• HoJ 32: John Hoskyns, Absence (‘Absence heare my protestation’)

Copy, untitled.

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).

f. 38v

• HrJ 94: Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man (‘There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘A time not certaine when a certaine preacher.’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.

ff. 38v-9r

• HrJ 234.5: Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches (‘Six of the weakest sex and purest sect’)

Copy of a version beginning ‘first of the weakest sex and purest secte’.

First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.

ff. 39r-42r

• OvT 22: Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife (‘Each woman is a brief of woman kind’)

Copy, untitled, one stanza cancelled.

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

f. 42v

• DnJ 2947: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

Copy of a two-stanza version, here beginning ‘Sweete stay a while why will you rise’.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 610-11. Recorded in Shawcross.

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.

HM 201

Copy, on 31 quarto leaves. In a probably professional secretary hand, without title-page but headed ‘Bosworth Field’. First half of 17th century.

BeJ 15: Sir John Beaumont, Bosworth Field (‘The Winters storme of Civill Warre I sing’)

Bookplate of Marsden J. Perry.

This MS collated in Sell.

First published in Bosworth-feeld: with A Taste of the Variety of other poems, left by Sir John Beavmont, Baronet, ed. Sir John Beaumont the Younger (London, 1629). Grosart, pp. 23-63. Sell, pp. 66-83.

HM 267

A folio volume of state tracts, in three secretary hands except for an addition on the last leaf in italic, c.125 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Early 17th century.

1st Series, ff. 1r-69r

• LeC 61: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Copy.

This MS recorded in Peck, p. 226.

2nd series, f. 15r

• RaW 388: Sir Walter Ralegh, An epitaph on the Earl of Leicester (‘Here lyes the noble warryor that never bludyed sword’)

Copy, in an italic script, of an eight-line version, here beginning ‘Here lyes the woorthie warrior / That neuer blouded swoord’, quoted in a copy (on ff. 1r-22r) of the polemic probably by Richard Verstegan A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles...1592 in a secretary hand.

First published as introduced ‘...yet immediately after his [Leicester's] death, a friend of his bestowed vpon him this Epitaphe’ and beginning ‘Heere lies the woorthy warrier’, in Richard Verstegan, A Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (London, ‘1592’), p. 54, which is sometimes entitled Cecil's Commonwealth: see E.A. Strathmann in MLN, 60 (1945), 111-14. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172, who notes that the epitaph was quoted, from a text among William Drummond's papers, in Sir Walter Scott's Kenilworth (1821). Rudick, No. 46, p. 120.

3rd series, ff. 1r-27v

• BcF 145: Francis Bacon, Certain Observations made upon a Libel published this present year, 1592

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Certaine obsuacons vpon a libell...[&c.]’.

A tract beginning ‘It were just and honourable for princes being in war together, that howsever they prosecute their quarrels...’. First published in Resuscitatio, ed. W. Rawley (London, 1657). Spedding, VIII, 146-208.

A letter to M. Critoy, Secretary of France, c.1589, ‘A Letter on the Queen's religious policies’, was later incorporated in Certain Observations made upon a Libel, and first published in Cabala, sive scrinia sacra (London, 1654), pp. 38-41.

For the Declaration of the True Causes of the Great Troubles (also known as Cecil's Commonwealth), the ‘Libel’ that Bacon answered, see RaW 383.8.

4th series, ff. [2r-3r]

• RaW 952: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of letters by Ralegh, to Sir Robert Carr and to Lady Ralegh.

HM 445 (item 1)

A receipt to Bernard Lintott for the first volume of Pope's Homer, signed by Congreve, 1 June 1717[?]. 1717.

*CgW 127: William Congreve, Document(s)

Recorded in Hodges, as dated 1715, Letters, p. ix. Edited in Hodges, Man, p. 106.

HM 445 (item 2)

Copy of a document signed by Congreve empowering Thomas Snow to accept on Congreve's behalf £5 00 of South Sea Company stock, 30 March 1717. 1717.

CgW 125: William Congreve, Document(s)

Recorded in Hodges, Letters, p. ix.

HM 600

Autograph MS, on 21 folio and quarto leaves, in vellum boards. A working MS in alternating formal and cursive styles of hand and differing shades of ink, entitled ‘Loues victorie’, with numerous autograph deletions, revisions and additions, incomplete and imperfect, lacking various lines including the opening of Act I and the last part of Act V. Early 17th century.

*WrM 14: Lady Mary Wroth, Love's Victory

Probably ‘the original MS. in the possession of Sir E. Dering, Bart. 4to’ recorded by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-89) in 1853. Quaritch's sale catalogue, December 1899, item 1116. Owned in 1901 by William Augustus White (1843-1927), American banker and collector. Purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia bookseller and scholar, 6 September 1923.

Extracts (538 lines) were edited by Halliwell possibly from a (now lost) transcript of this MS made by his wife in 1845, and this later transcript may be the ‘MS 102’ recorded as being once in the Plymouth Proprietory Library. Differing arguments for provenance are presented in Josephine A. Roberts, ‘The Huntington Manuscript of Lady Mary Wroth's Play, Love's Victorie’, HLQ, 46 (1983), 156-74; in Brennan's edition, pp. 17-20; and in two articles by Arthur Freeman: a review of Brennan's edition in The Library, 6th Ser. 13 (1991), 168-73, and ‘Love's Victory: A Supplementary Note’, The Library, 6th Ser. 19 (1997), 252-4.

The MS is discussed also in Josephine Roberts, ‘The Huntington Manuscript of Lady Mary Wroth's Play, Loves Victorie’, HLQ, 46 (1983), 156-74, and the songs edited from this MS in Roberts, Poems, pp. 210-15.

Facsimile examples of ff. 1r and 5r in Roberts, HLQ, 46, pp. 157 and 160; in Roberts, Poems, pp. 79-80; Facsimile of f. 43r also in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), pp. 305-6; of f. 1r in Margaret Anne McLaren, ‘An Unknown Continent: Lady Mary Wroth's Forgotten Pastoral Drama, “Loves Victorie”’, in The Renaissance Englishwoman in Print & Counterbalancing the Canon, ed. Anne M. Haselkorn and Betty S. Travitsky (Amherst, MA, 1990), pp. 276-94 (p. 277); and facsimiles, with transcriptions, of ff. 1r and 20v in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 422-5.

Play including songs and verse. Extracts edited in James O. Halliwell, A Brief Description of the Ancient and Modern Manuscripts Preserved in the Public Library, Plymouth (London, 1853), pp. 212-36. Edited in full in Lady Mary Wroth's Loves Victory The Penshurst Manuscript, ed. Michael G. Brennan (Roxburgh Club, London, 1988[=1990]).

HM 741

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, on 29 quarto leaves of varying size, numbered ‘8.’, in wrappers. A composite text representing both the version used for the performances at Burley-on-the-Hill and Belvoir in August 1621 and that used for the performance at Windsor c. September 1621. c.1620s.

JnB 612: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed

Inscribed and numbered by John Egerton, second Earl of Bridgewater. Later owned by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Norroy King of Arms and antiquary. Afterwards owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 10100.

Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson and in Greg. The complete MS reproduced in facsimile, with a transcript, in Cole. Facsimile pages in Herford & Simpson, VII, facing pp. 564, 622, and in Greg, plates VI-XI.

First published in John Benson's 12mo edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VII, 539-622. Edited by George Watson Cole (New York, 1931). Edited by W. W. Greg as Jonson's Masque of Gipsies (London, 1952).

HM 742

Two poems, in a secretary hand, four small quarto leaves (the fourth blank), in marbled boards. c.1627.

f. 1v

• MrJ 87: John Marston, Upon the Dukes Goeing into Fraunce (‘And wilt thou goe, great duke, and leave us heere’)

Copy, untitled.

ff. 2r-3v

• MrJ 45: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

Copy.

HM 743

The liber amicorum of Captain Francis Segar, brother of Sir William Segar (c.1564-1633), Garter King of Arms, including signed inscriptions in numerous English and continental hands and various arms emblazoned in colours, 121 quarto leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1599-1611.

Later owned by James Bindley, FSA (1737-1818), book collector. His sale, London, 7 December 1818, I, item 362, to Triphook. Thorpe's sale catalogue, 1836, item 14. Sale in London 1865 of the library of Dr Henry Wellesley (1794-1866), Oxford College head and connoisseur, sold to Henry Huth (1815-78), book collector. A.H. Huth sale, London, 1918, VII, item 6680, to Sabin. Then owned by G. Wells and sold at Anderson's Galleries, New York, 17 February 1919, lot 894, to G.D. Smith.

f. 56r

• *WoH 311: Sir Henry Wotton, Document(s)

A full-page autograph inscription in a roman script, addressed to ‘My auncient frend’, signed ‘Henry Wotton’ and dated ‘At Cassels 26.of January. 1602’. 1602.

f. 84r

• *JnB 760: Ben Jonson, Document(s)

A full-page autograph inscription in italic signed by ‘Beniamin Jonsonius Londinensis’. c. 1599-1611.

Edited in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 664-5.

f. 86r

• BrN 114: Nicholas Breton, Document

Autograph inscription, ‘Da Virtu L. honore | Dá Vita che non Muore:| il tuo che suo: / Nicholo Bretono:’.

f. 110v

• *RaW 1022: Sir Walter Ralegh, Document(s)

Autograph signed inscription by Ralegh in his roman hand, ‘Opus peragunt labor et amor / WRalegh’.

HM 904

A quarto miscellany of recusant verse, many of the 65 poems relating to the circle of the Catholic Aston family, in three hands, 200 leaves (including five preliminary blanks, and ff. 53r-135v are blank), in contemporary leather gilt. Compiled principally by Constance Fowler (d.1664), daughter of the diplomat Walter Aston, Baron Aston of Forfar (1584-1639), of Tixall and Colton, Staffordshire, her roman hand responsible for ff. 6r, 8r-15v, 24v-34v, 46v-52v, 136r-9r, 143v-59r, and 182v-95v. The second, predominantly secretary hand, responsible for fourteen poems on ff. 7r-v, 16r-24r, and 35r-46r, is that of Constance's sister Gertrude Thimelby (1617-68). The third hand, on ff. 196r-200v, is that of Constance's brother-in-law Sir William Pershall. c.1635-50s.

William H. Robinson, sale catalogue (1925), item 472.

This volume discussed, with a complete first-line index and a facsimile of f. 25r, in Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, The Book Collector, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67. See also Jenijoy La Belle, ‘A True Love's Knot: The Letters of Constance Fowler and the Poems of Herbert Aston’, JEGP, 79 (1980), 13-31. The complete volume edited in The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition, ed. Deborah Aldrich-Watson (Tempe, Arizona, 2000), with a facsimile of f. 28v on p. lxiv.

f. 13r

• HeR 415: Robert Herrick, Vpon parting (‘Goe hence away, and in thy parting know’)

Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, untitled.

Aldrich-Watson, p. 16. This MS collated in Martin, p. 494. Discussed in Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, BC, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67 (p. 555).

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

ff. 22v-3v

• SoR 183: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, The prodigall childs soule wracke (‘Disankerd from a blisfull shore’)

Copy, in Gertrude Thimelby's hand.

Aldrich-Watson, pp. 36-8.

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 43-5.

ff. 23v-4r

• SoR 272: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Man to the wound in Christs side (‘O pleasant port, O place of rest’)

Copy, in Gertrude Thimelby's hand.

Aldrich-Watson, pp. 39-40

First published in Moeoniae (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 72-3.

f. 27v

• HaW 43: William Habington, On Castaraes sittinge on Primrose banks (‘See how the little Starrs in Azure nights’)

Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand.

Aldrich-Watson, pp. 50-1. Edited from this MS also in Ault and in Allott. See also Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, BC, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67 (pp. 560-1).

First published in Norman Ault, A Treasury of Unfamiliar Lyrics (London, 1938), p. 166. Allott, p. 160.

f. 28v

• HaW 44: William Habington, Upon Castaries and her sisters goinge Afoote in the Snow (‘The Heauens knowinge that the tedious way’)

Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand.

Aldrich-Watson, p. 54. Also edited from this MS in Allott. See also Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, BC, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67 (pp. 563-4).

First published in Allott (1948), p. 160.

f. 33r

• KiH 455: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, untitled, subscribed ‘B. I.’

Aldrich-Watson, p. 64. This MS recorded in Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, BC, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67 (p. 557).

f. 35r-v

• SoR 19: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, A childe my Choyce (‘Let folly praise that fancie loves, I praise and love that child’)

Copy, in Gertrude Thimelby's hand.

Aldrich-Watson, pp. 68-9. This MS recorded in Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, BC, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67 (p. 558).

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 1st edition (London, 1595). Brown, p. 13.

ff. 35v-6r

• SoR 105: Robert Southwell, S.J., Catholic Saint, Lifes death loves life (‘Who lives in love, loves least to live’)

Copy, in Gertrude Thimelby's hand.

Aldrich-Watson, pp. 70-1.

First published in Saint Peters Complaint, 2nd edition (London, 1595). Brown, pp. 54-5.

ff. 49r-52r

• ToA 87: Aurelian Townshend, On the Death of the Duke of Bucchingham (‘Death come thy selfe and let thy Image sleepe’)

Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, subscribed ‘M^r AT’.

Edited from this MS in Aldrich-Watson, pp. 97-103. This MS discussed in Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, BC, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67 (p. 553).

A poem of 69 iambic pentameters. First published in The Verse Miscellany of Constance Aston Fowler: A Diplomatic Edition, ed. Deborah Aldrich-Watson (Tempe, Arizona, 2000), pp. 97-103.

ff. 137r-9r

• JnB 57: Ben Jonson, An Elegie On the Lady Jane Pawlet, Marchion: of Winton (‘what gentle Ghost, besprent with April deaw’)

Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, subscribed ‘B J’.

Aldrich-Watson, pp. 107-9.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 268-72.

ff. 145v-6r

• SuJ 139: John Suckling, To the Lady Desmond (Upon the Black Spots worn by my Lady D. E.) (‘I know your heart cannot so guilty be’)

Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, headed ‘on black paches’ and initialled ‘M^r H T’ [i.e. Henry Thimelby, brother-in-law of Constance Fowler].

Aldrich-Watson, p. 114. This MS discussed in Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, BC, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67 (p. 555-6).

First published in Dudley, Lord North, A Forest of Varieties (London, 1645). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, p. 92. Probably written by Peter Apsley.

ff. 146v-9v

• KiH 345: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)

Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, headed ‘DK on the Death of his wife’.

Aldrich-Watson, pp. 116-19. This MS collated in La Belle, pp. 549-50.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

ff. 152v-3v

• HaW 32: William Habington, To the Honourable, G.T. (‘Let not thy grones force Eccho from her cave’)

Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, subscribed ‘M M W H’.

Aldrich-Watson, pp. 124-5. This MS recorded in Allott, pp. lxi, 188; see also Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, BC, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67 (p. 558).

First published in Castara (London, 1634). Allott, pp. 81-2.

f. 185r

• HoJ 331: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood’)

Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand.

Aldrich-Watson, p. 139.

Osborn, p. 301.

f. 188v

• FeO 32: Owen Felltham, A Farewell (‘When by sad fate from hence I summon'd am’)

Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, subscribed ‘H A’ [i.e. Herbert Aston].

Aldrich-Watson, p. 147

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 18.

ff. 189r-95v

• RnT 50: Thomas Randolph, The Constant Lovers (‘The halfe staru'd lambe warm'd in her mother's wooll’)

Copy, in Constance Fowler's hand, of a pastoral dialogue by ‘T R’ written for the marriage in 1634 of William Stafford of Blatherwycke, Northamptonshire, and Lady Dorothy Shirley, headed ‘The Constant Louers / A pastorale Eglogue / Laura Amintas and Chorus’, subscribed ‘T. R’.

Aldrich-Watson, pp. 149-56. Edited from this MS in Newdigate. See also Jenijoy La Belle, ‘The Huntington Aston Manuscript’, BC, 29 (Winter 1980), 542-67 (p. 563).

First published in B. H. Newdigate, ‘The Constant Lovers’, TLS (18 April 1942), p. 204. (25 April 1942), p. 216.

HM 971

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on nine large folio leaves (plus one blank), disbound. c.1600.

EsR 136: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology

HM 1337

MS, in an accomplished roman hand, 37 quarto leaves, in contemporary vellum. Possibly in Moffett's hand, or prepared under his supervision, as a new-year's gift to his patron William Herbert. c.1594.

SiP 231: Sir Philip Sidney, Nobilis, or a View of the Life and Death of a Sidney, and Lessus Lugubris

Edited from this MS, with English translations, by Virgil B. Heltzel and Hoyt H. Hudson (Santa Monica, 1940).

Two tributes to Sidney, in Latin, the first prose, the second verse, by Thomas Moffett, MD (1553-1604), dedicated to his patron William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke.

HM 1338

A quarto commonplace book of notes and extracts, closely written in a small mixed hand, from both ends, 146 leaves (including blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. Compiled possibly by one Thomas Parsons, whose name is subscribed to a letter on f. 92v. c.1630s.

ff. 2r-6v

• HlJ 56.6: Joseph Hall, Meditations and Vows. Divine and Moral. Three Centuries

Extracts, listing 57 items, beginning ‘In meditation, they w^ch begin heavenly thoughts...’.

First published in London, 1605. Wynter, VII, 439-521.

ff. 6v-7r

• HlJ 54.5: Joseph Hall, Holy Observations

Extracts, beginning ‘These things be comely...’.

First published in London, 1607. Wynter, VII, 522-43.

ff. 7r-13v

• HlJ 15: Joseph Hall, Characters of Virtues and Vices

Extracts.

First published in London, 1608. Wynter, VI, 89-125. Edited by Rudolf Kirk, together with Heaven vpon Earth (New Brunswick, N.J., 1948).

ff. 13v-26r passim

• HlJ 77: Joseph Hall, Extracts

Extracts from Hall's Epistles.

ff. 26r-9v

• HlJ 58.8: Joseph Hall, The Peace of Rome

Extracts.

First published in London, 1609. Wynter, VIII, 351-479.

ff. 49r-52v

• BcF 206.9: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral

Extracts.

Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

ff. 53r-8r

• EaJ 80: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Microcosmography

Extracts from 40 characters.

First published (anonymously), comprising 54 characters and with a preface by Edward Blount, London, 1628. 77 characters in the edition of 1629. 78 characters in the edition of 1664. Edited by Philip Bliss (London, 1811).

ff. 58r-60r

• OvT 26: Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters

Extracts.

First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbaud, pp. 47-169.

f. 60r

• DnJ 4097: John Donne, The True Character of a Dunce

Ten lines of extracts, headed ‘A dunce’, probably transcribed from a post-1614 edition of Overbury's A Wife.

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.

ff. 64r-78r passim

• BcF 85.5: Francis Bacon, Apothegms New and Old

Extracts.

A collection of Bacon's Apothegmes first published in London, 1625. An enlarged collection published in Resuscitatio, 2nd edition (London, 1661). Further enlarged in Spedding, VII, 111-86. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 209-78, 647-52.

ff. 93r-100v

• RaW 679.4: Sir Walter Ralegh, The History of the World

Extracts, headed ‘Generall notes’.

First published in London, 1614. Works (1829), Vols. II-VII.

See also RaW 728.

ff. 129r-30v rev.

• CwT 654: Thomas Carew, A Rapture (‘I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come’)

Copy, subscribed ‘M^r Thomas Caree’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.

f. 146r-v rev.

• HoJ 344: John Hoskyns, Fustian Speech

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘John Hoskins’.

This MS recorded in Hudson.

Hoskyns's ‘Fustian Speech’, or ‘Tuftaffeta Speech’, features in the Middle Temple's Christmas season revels Le Prince d'Amour alias Noctes Templariæ, the Christmas Revels of the Middle Temple in 1597-8. The entertainment was first published, as written by Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, as Le Prince d'Amour, or The Prince of Love (london, 1660), Hoskyns's speech on pp. 37-40. Hoyt, pp. 108-13. Osborn, pp. 98-102. Whitlock, pp. 121-3.

HM 1340

A folio volume of speeches and letters chiefly by Nicholas Bacon, Lord Keeper, in at least two professional secretary hands, including material relating to the death in 1576? of Walter Devereux, first Earl of Essex, on 95 leaves (plus numerous blanks and a five-page table of contents at the end), in contemporary calf. c.1580.

f. 84r-v

• ElQ 144: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Answer to the Lords' Petition that she Marry, April 10, 1563, delivered by Lord Keeper Nicholas Bacon

Copy, headed ‘A bill deliuered by her Ma^tie: vnto my lady Bacon to be delivered by her hi: comaundem^t vnto my lo: Keep’.

This MS cited in Collected Works and in Selected Works.

First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 107-8.

Beginning ‘Since there can be no duer debt than princes' words...’. Hartley, I, 114-15 (2 texts). Collected Works, Speech 6, pp. 79-80. Selected Works, Speech 4, pp. 42-4.

f. 85r

• ElQ 145: Queen Elizabeth I, Queen Elizabeth's Answer to the Lords' Petition that she Marry, April 10, 1563, delivered by Lord Keeper Nicholas Bacon

Copy, headed ‘A speech vsed by her Ma^tie vnto my lo: kep. in y^e parliamente howse in thende of a Cession’.

First published in Simonds D'Ewes, The Journalls of All the Parliaments during the Raign of Queen Elizabeth (London, 1682), pp. 107-8.

Beginning ‘Since there can be no duer debt than princes' words...’. Hartley, I, 114-15 (2 texts). Collected Works, Speech 6, pp. 79-80. Selected Works, Speech 4, pp. 42-4.

HM 1420

Copy, in the professional secretary hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, with a title-page ‘Three weekes Observation of the States Country, and especiallye Holland’, inscribed in another hand ‘This was written by m^r. Jo: Selden to M^r Farnaby the Eminent schoolma^r’, 24 folio leaves, numbered ‘2.’, disbound. c.1625-30s.

FeO 93: Owen Felltham, A Brief Character of the Low-Countries

Apparently owned in 1922 by E. Williams, of Hove, Sussex.

This MS discussed in Van Kies, with a facsimile of f. 2r on p. 146. Briefly described in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 260 (No. 103).

First published as Three Monethes observation of the low Countries especially Holland by a traveller whose name I know not more then by the two letters of J:S: at the bottome of the letter. Egipt this 22th of Jannuary (London, 1648). Expanded text printed as A brief Character of the Low-Countries under the States. Being three weeks observation of the Vices and Vertues of the Inhabitants... (for Henry Seile: London, 1652).

HM 1554

A quarto volume of parliamentary letters and speeches, mostly (up to p. 94) in probably two professional secretary hands, a later second secretary hand from p. 109 onwards, 295 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary limp vellum. c.1620s-40s.

Formerly among the MSS of John Harvey of Ickwell Bury, Hertfordshire, and Finningley Park, Yorkshire. Sotheby's, 19 June 1922. lot 522.

Recorded in HMC, 1st Report (1870), Appendix, p. 62.

pp. 37-40

• BcF 485: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Copy of Bacon's supplication 22 April 1621.

pp. 193-6

• RuB 129: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?15-25 April 1640

Copy, introduced ‘Satterday the 25 of Aprill S^r: Beniamyn Ruddyard spake as followeth’.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

Speech beginning ‘There is a great dore now opened unto us of doing good...’. Variant version in Manning, pp. 148-51.

pp. 203-11

• WaE 793.5: Edmund Waller, Speech in the House of Commons, 22 April 1640

Copy, introduced ‘M^r. Waller said as followeth’.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 307.

A speech beginning ‘I will use no preface, as they do who prepare men to something to which they would persuade them...’ First published in two variant editions, as A Worthy Speech Made in the house of commons this present Parliament 1641 and as An Honorable and Learned Speech made by Mr Waller in Parliament respectively (both London, 1641). In Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), pp. 306-8. It is doubted whether Waller actually delivered this speech in Parliament, though ‘He may have prepared and circulated the speech in manuscript to impress contemporaries’.

HM 1728

An octavo commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, 54 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1660.

passim

• BcF 689: Francis Bacon, Extracts

Extracts from various works by Bacon.

ff. 3r-5r rev.

• LeC 62: Anon, Leicester's Commonwealth

Extracts.

HM 6567

An autograph receipt signed by Congreve, for a South Sea Company dividend of £96 from Thomas Snow and John Pattock, 14 October 1723. 1723.

*CgW 139: William Congreve, Document(s)

Sotheby's, 16 July 1984, lot 27, to John Wilson. Maggs's sale catalogue No. 1449 (2011), item 46.

Recorded in Hodges, Letters, p. x.

HM 6908

Copy, on nine of twelve quarto leaves, numbered ‘15.’, disbound.

CtR 362: Sir Robert Cotton, A Relation of the Proceedings against Ambassadors who have miscarried themselves, etc. ...[27 April 1624]

Numbered by John Egerton, second Earl of Bridgewater.

Tract, addressed to George, Duke of Buckingham, beginning ‘In humble obedience to your Grace's Command, I am emboldned to present my poor advice...’. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. 1-9.

HM 7281

Autograph letter signed by Donne, to Sir Nicholas Carew, 26 June 1626. 1626.

*DnJ 4138: John Donne, Letter(s)

Edited in Gosse, II, 232-3.

HM 11619

MS of a play and two poems, in three different hands, i + 64 folio leaves (plus some blanks), in mottled calf gilt. Late 17th century.

Later owned by Robert Hoe (1839-1909), business man and book collector.

p. 1

• WaE 143: Edmund Waller, Of a Tree cut in Paper (‘Fair hand! that can on virgin paper write’)

Copy, in an unidentified hand, headed ‘To the Lady isabella Thynne on her Exquisit cutting Trees in Paper’.

First published, in a fourteen-line version, in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). A 22-line version in Thorn-Drury, II, 68.

pp. 2-5

• WaE 152: Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and a Fight at Sea (‘Now, for some ages, has the pride of Spain’)

Copy, in an unidentified hand, headed ‘On y^e Admiralls takeing & destroying the Spanish Silver fleete in which was a Marquesse & his family’.

First published as a broadside (London, 1658). Revised version in Samuel Carrington, History of the Life and Death of Oliver, Late Lord Protector (London, 1659). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 23-7.

HM 15369

Copy of ‘Certaine Collections of the right hon^ble: Elizabeth late Countesse of Huntingdon for her owne private vse’, 29 quarto leaves (plus blanks), in vellum. A compilation of prayers and devotional meditations, in a single mixed hand. c.1633.

Discussed, with a facsimile of f. 1r, in Victoria E. Burke, ‘Materiality and Form in the Seventeenth-Century Miscellanies of Anne Southwell, Elizabeth Hastings, and Jane Truesdale’, EMS, 16 (2011), 219-41.

ff. 24r-5v

• AndL 12.7: Lancelot Andrewes, Sermons on the Resurrection

‘Notes taken out of D^r Andrewes booke of Sermons B^pp: of Winchester of the Resurrection. 1 pet. 1. 3. 4. leaf. 493.’, beginning ‘Blessed bee God the ffather of o^r Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his aboundant mercy...’.

f. 26r-v

• HlJ 56.8: Joseph Hall, Meditations and Vows. Divine and Moral. Three Centuries

Extracts, headed ‘D^r: Halls medutations & vowes’ and beginning ‘It were better a man should want worke then great workes should want a man...’.

First published in London, 1605. Wynter, VII, 439-521.

HM 16522

A folio miscellany of Royalist (‘Rump’) poems, in various hands, entitled in a slightly later hand A Collection of Poems & Ballads in ridicule of the Parliam^ty Party during the Quarrell with Ch: I, c.172 pages (and at least 40 blank leaves), with an ‘Index’ of contents, in contemporary calf gilt. Mid-late 17th century.

The upper cover stamped in gilt with the crest of Edward Conway (1594-1655), second Viscount Conway and second Viscount Killultagh, politician and book collector.

pp. 48-54

• DeJ 92: Sir John Denham, A Speech against Peace at the Close Committee (‘But will you now to Peace incline’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r. Hampden's Speech against peace at a Close Comittee, to y^e tune of I went from England’.

First published as a broadside entitled Mr. Hampdens speech occasioned upon the Londoners Petition for Peace [Lonon, 1643]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 122-7.

pp. 83-7

• CoA 166: Abraham Cowley, A Satyre. The Puritan and the Papist (‘So two rude waves, by stormes together throwne’)

Copy, headed ‘A Parralell of a Puritane, & a Papist’, here beginning ‘Two rude waves by stormes togeather blowne’ and ascribed to Cowley.

First published, anonymously, [Oxford], 1643. Ascribed to Cowley in Wit and Loyalty Reviv'd (London, 1682). Waller, II, 149-57. Sparrow, pp. 17-28. J.H.A. Sparrow, ‘The Text of Cowley's Satire The Puritan and the Papist’, Anglia, 58 (1934), 78-102.

p. 87

• DeJ 120: Sir John Denham, A Western Wonder (‘Do you not know, not a fortnight ago’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Rich: Fanshaw’.

First published in Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 130-2.

p. 97

• CoA 200.9: Abraham Cowley, The well wish of A: C: to his Soueraigne King Charles (‘Greate King whose pen y^e Angells guide, whose minde’)

Copy, headed ‘The well wish of A: C: to his Soueraigne King Charles’.

Of doubtful authorship.

pp. 110-11

• DeJ 105: Sir John Denham, To the Five Members of the Honourable House of Commons. The Humble Petition of the Poets (‘After so many Concurring Petitions’)

Copy, headed ‘To y^e 5 principell Members of y^e ho^ble:House of Commons. The humble Petition of the Poetts’, subscribed ‘Jo Denham’ in another hand.

First published in Rump: or an Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662). Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 128-9.

pp. 160-1

• WaE 768: Edmund Waller, To y^e Generall the L^d Fairfax (‘The Peeres & generous comonaltie’)

Copy, subscribed in another hand to ‘M^r Edm: Waller’.

Apparently unpublished.

HM 21813

Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Sir Henry Thompson, 14 November 1676. 1676.

*MaA 562: Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

Margoliouth, II, 348-9. Edited and discussed by Caroline Robbins in TLS, 20 March 1959, p. 161.

HM 22641

Autograph letter signed by Waller, to Thomas Hobbes (quoting Italian verses with his rendering in an English couplet), [late July 1656]. 1656.

*WaE 822: Edmund Waller, Letter(s)

Maggs's sale catalogue No. 480.

Edited in Paul H. Hardacre, ‘A Letter from Edmund Waller to Thomas Hobbes’, HLQ, 11 (1948-9), 431-3, and in The Correspondence of Thomas Hobbes, ed. Noel Malcolm, (Oxford, 1994), I, Letter 88, pp. 294-6. The Text also in Deas, pp. 174-7. Facsimile page in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), p. 274 (dated 9 September 1657).

HM 26068

Autograph calligraphic MS, iii + 51 leaves (100 x 152mm.), in vellum gilt. A presentation MS, a New Year's Gift to Queen Elizabeth, in several styles of script, with her prose Dedication in French, ‘Aduertissement’ in French and verses to the Queen in French and Latin. 1 January 1590/1.

*InE 2: Esther Inglis, Discours de la Foy. Escrit a Lislebourg par Esther Langlois, Francoise, M.D.XCI.

Later owners include Sir Richard Ellys (1688?-1742), theologian and classical scholar, of Nocton, Lincolnshire; his neice Mrs Lloyd; his chaplain Andrew Gifford (1773); and Bristol Baptist College (1784). Sotheby's, 11 December 1961, lot 176, sold to Maggs.

Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 3 (pp. 27-9).

A devotional discourse in forty stanzas of French verse, with some Latin verses by her father Nicholas Langlois.

HM 26342

A formal copy, in an accomplished secretary hand, with occasional engrossing and rubrication, on 49 folio leaves, in later calf gilt. With a formal title-page: ‘The practise of prelates compyled By the faythfull and godly Learnid man Wylliam Tyndall Imprinted at London by Antony Scoloker and William Seres, Dwellinge withe owt tempell Barr, in the Sauoye rentes. Ano 1548 but for as much as thes books are not now to be found, beinge as it is thought consumid and Burnid in Quen Marys Days; yet fyndinge by chaunc A. Coppie of this aforesayd booke written owt in Anno. 1565, by my brother (w^m. w. withe his own hand, and pervsinge the same, fynding a Lardge Discourse of all popishe practises, then in thos dayes vsid, and now in thes dayes mutch fauorid amonge many. Have not thought it vnfitt at some Idell times as Leasur might permit me to regester the same in A Booke, to Remayne vnto posterite Herafter. And begonn in Anno. 1598. as herafter follow⁺; 10. Die Aprillis.’ 1598.

TiW 4: William Tindale, The practise of prelates

Later owned by Cranmer Kendrick; by H.K. Bonney (1807); and by Archdeacon Bonney, of King's Cliffe, Northamptonshire, who on 17 October 1843 gave it to W.R. Cartwright, of Aynho, Northamptonshire.

First published [in Antwerp?, 1530].

HM 30309

An octavo verse miscellany, 48 leaves, in contemporary calf. In a single neat rounded hand, largely written lengthways in oblong form. Late 17th century.

Name inscribed inside the lower cover ‘John Spearling’. Sotheby's, 20 February 1967, lot 185.

Microfilm in the British Library, RP 86.

ff. 1r-11r

• DeJ 77: Sir John Denham, The Progress of Learning (‘My early Mistress, now my Antient Muse’)

Copy, including the Preface.

written upright

First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 114-21.

ff. 11r-16r

• DeJ 48: Sir John Denham, Of Justice (‘'Tis the first Sanction, Nature gave to Man’)

Copy.

First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 198-201.

ff. 16r-26v

• DeJ 50: Sir John Denham, Of Prudence (‘Wisdoms first Progress is to take a View’)

Copy.

First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 189-98.

ff. 37r-40r

• CoA 134: Abraham Cowley, A Paraphrase upon the 10^th Epistle of the first Book of horace. Horace to Fuscus Aristus (‘Health, from the lover of the Country me’)

Copy, the poem ascribed to ‘A Cowley’.

First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 416-18.

ff. 40v-1r

• CoA 102: Abraham Cowley, Martial. L. 2. Vis fieri Liber? &c. (‘Would you be Free? 'Tis your chief wish, you say’)

Copy, the poem ascribed to ‘A.C:’.

First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 387.

ff. 46v-7v

• CoA 108: Abraham Cowley, Martial. L. 10. Ep. 47 (‘Since dearest Friend, 'tis your desire to see’)

Copy.

First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 460.

HM 36836

A folio volume of transcripts of state letters, in a single professional hand, 209 pages plus a three-page table of contents, in vellum. c.1630s.

Later owned by the antiquary Michael Lort (1725-90). Bookplate of Edmund Turner. Sotheby's, 24 October 1972, lot 383, to Alan Thomas.

pp. 19-21

• LyJ 33: John Lyly, A petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth

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

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

pp. 21-2

• LyJ 55: John Lyly, A second petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth

Copy, headed ‘Another letter to Queene Elizabeth from John Lilly’.

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

pp. 59-83

• SpE 82: Edmund Spenser, Sir Kenelm Digby's Observations on the 22 Stanza in the 9th. Canto of the 2d. book of Spensers Faery Queen

Copy.

One of the earliest commentaries on The Faerie Queene, including quotations, dated 13 June 1628, addressed to Sir Edward Stradling, and beginning ‘My much honored freind, I am too well acquainted with the weaknes of my abillities...’. First published in London, 1643. Variorum, II, 472-8.

pp. 102-27

• RaW 953: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Copy of five letters by Ralegh, to Winwood (two parts), to James I (2), to Carr, and to Ralegh's wife.

p. 127

• RaW 70: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

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

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

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

HM 39464

A quarto MS of unattributed poems, each in a Latin and English version, on 37 pages (plus 20 blank leaves), lacking the upper cover, the lower cover in contemporary(?) speckled calf with gilt initials ‘I C’. In a large, neat, rounded hand, probably professional, the Latin verse in roman, the English verse in mixed secretary and italic. Early 17th century.

pp. 1-2

• AlW 233: William Alabaster, Nimivm ne crede colori (‘Ut nitet Eois vestis crustata smaragdis’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, p. 54 (No. XLI). For the English version, see AlW 234.

p. 2

• AlW 234: William Alabaster, ‘Faire is the Rose araied in Crimson plush’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, p. 55 (No XLI), as ‘<Trust not overmuch in color>’. For Latin version, see AlW 233.

p. 3

• AlW 163: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres’)

Copy, headed ‘Inter Papistam et Puritanum fratres’.

This MS collated in Sutton.

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

p. 4

• AlW 235: William Alabaster, Mvsarvm cvræ nec in ipsa nocte recedvnt (‘Cum ferrugineas pandit nox humida pennas’)

Copy.

Sutton, pp. 54, 56 (No. XLII).

For English version, see AlW 236.

pp. 4-5

• AlW 236: William Alabaster, ‘Hee that, Condemn'd for some notorious vice’

Copy.

Sutton, pp. 55, 57 (No. XLII), as ‘<Concerns for the Muses do not vanish, even at night>’. For Latin version, see AlW 235

pp. 5-7

• AlW 237: William Alabaster, Rvstica vita placet (‘Tempora quis vitæ transit fælicior illo’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, pp. 56, 58 (No. XLIII).

For English version, see AlW 238.

pp. 7-8

• AlW 238: William Alabaster, ‘O thrice, thrice happy he, who shuns the cares’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, pp. 57, 59 (No. XLIII), as ‘<The rustic life pleases>’.

For the original Latin see AlW 237.

pp. 9-12

• AlW 239: William Alabaster, Vita brevis, mors certa (‘Qualis purpureæ pubes albandica floræ’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, pp. 58, 60 (No. XLIV).

pp. 14-16

• AlW 240: William Alabaster, Semper avarvs eget (‘Quod monstrum hoc uncis quod vellicat unguibus herbas’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, pp. 62, 64 (No. XLV).

For English version, see AlW 241.

pp. 16-17

• AlW 241: William Alabaster, ‘What monster's this? with hollow eyes, and thin’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, pp. 63, 65 (No. XLV), as ‘<The greedy is always needy>’.

For Latin version, see AlW 240.

pp. 17-19

• AlW 242: William Alabaster, Fert omnes casvs sapiens patienter amaras (‘Quercus Hercyniæ sylvæ longæva superbit’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, pp. 64, 66 (No. XLVI).

For English version, see AlW 243.

p. 19

• AlW 243: William Alabaster, ‘A solid Rocke, farre seated in the sea’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, pp. 65, 67 (No. XLVI), as ‘<The wise man bears all bitter calamities with patience>’.

For Latin version, see AlW 242.

pp. 19-25

• AlW 244: William Alabaster, Non svnt fabvlæ manes (‘An loca senta situ, fauces grave olentis Averni?’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, pp. 66, 68, 70, 72 (No. XLVII).

For English version, see AlW 245.

pp. 25-30

• AlW 245: William Alabaster, ‘What? is Avernus iawes, with filthe besmear'd’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, pp. 67, 69, 71, 73 (No. XLVII), as ‘<Ghosts are not phantoms>’.

For Latin version, see AlW 244.

pp. 30-1

• AlW 246: William Alabaster, Bonvs semper tutus (‘Iustum et constantem, cui mens est conscia recti’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, p. 72 (No. XLVIII).

For English version, see AlW 247.

p. 31

• AlW 247: William Alabaster, ‘The man whose soule is undistan'd with ill’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, p. 73 (No. XLVIII), as ‘<The good man is always secure>’.

For Latin version, see AlW 246.

pp. 31-2

• AlW 248: William Alabaster, Mens conscia (‘Quid, scelerate, struis triplici circundata muro’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, pp. 72, 74 (No. XLIX).

For English version, see AlW 249.

p. 32

• AlW 249: William Alabaster, ‘O Tiger! thinkest thou (Hellish fratricide)’

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, pp. 73, 75 (No. XLIX), as ‘<The guilty mind>’.

For Latin version, see AlW 248.

pp. 32-4

• AlW 250: William Alabaster, Qvatvor anni partes (‘Nunc hilarat radiis, Hyperionis ignea proles’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

Sutton, pp. 74, 76 (No. L).

For English version, see AlW 251.

pp. 35-7

• AlW 251: William Alabaster, ‘Now doth Phoebus's shining Charriott rowle’

Copy, here beginning ‘Now doth bright Phæbus's shineing Charriott rowle’.

Edited from this MS in Sutton.

A poem on the four seasons. Sutton, pp. 75, 77 (No. L).

For Latin version, see AlW 250.

HM 41536

A large quarto journal and commonplace book (c.26 x 19.5 cm) compiled in 1656-62 by Sir Edward Dering (1625-84) of Surrenden, Kent, including notes relating to 1638 and 1649, 188 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1656-62 (with possibly earlier entries).

Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 18191. Sotheby's, 26 June 1974, lot 2901 (with a facsimile of the page for 17-23 November 1658 in the sale catalogue).

f. 182v rev.

• AlW 164: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres’)

Copy in an unidentified italic hand, written on a page among other verses (on ff. 183v-177r) at the reverse end of Dering's journal.

This MS collated in Sutton.

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

f. 182v rev.

• AlW 179: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘Between two Bretheren Civil warres and worse’)

Copy of Hugh Holland's English translation, in an unidentified italic hand, written on a page among other verses (on ff. 183v-177r) at the reverse end of Dering's journal.

A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Hugh Holland. Sutton, p. 13.

f. 183v rev.

• DnJ 1585: John Donne, A Hymne to God the Father (‘Wilt thou forgive that sinne where I begunne’)

Copy in an unidentified mixed formal hand, headed ‘To God Æternall:’, written on a page among other verses (on ff. 183v-177r) at the reverse end of Dering's journal.

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).

HM 41952

A folio volume of state tracts and political proceedings, in several professional hands, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1630s.

The cover stamped in gilt with the badge of Henry Percy (1564-1632), ninth Earl of Northumberland, the ‘wizard earl’. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8262. Sotheby's, 25 April 1911 (Phillipps sale), lot 348, and 18 July 1973, lot 180, to Maggs.

This MS cited in Sutton.

ff. 127r-48r

• WoH 285.5: Sir Henry Wotton, A Parallel between Robert Earl of Essex and George Duke of Buckingham

Copy, headed ‘Of Robert Devoreux Earle of Essex, And Of George Villiers Duke of Buckingham / Some obseruations by way of Parallell in the tyme of their Estates of ffortune’.

First published in London, 1641. Edited by Sir Robert Egerton Brydges (Lee Priory Press, Ickham, 1814).

HM 44137

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to [Jacob Tonson]. from London, 12 August 1725. 1725.

*VaJ 373: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Edited in Works, IV, 166-7 (No. 165).

HM 44149

A six-page legal draft of a petition by ‘Your oratour Edmund Waller of Hall Barne in y^e County of Buckes Esqr’ Relating to Edmund Waller the Younger rather than the poet. This petition concerns an agreement made c.1679 between the late John Ayloffe of the Inner Temple, John Freke of the Middle Temple and Edmund Waller for the purchase of a farm in Hampshire from the late Earl of Shaftesbury. Mid-1680s.

WaE 853: Edmund Waller, Document(s)

HM 44152

Copy, on three pages of two sextodecimo leaves evidently extracted from a notebook. Mid-17th century.

WtI 1: Izaak Walton, The Angler's Song (‘As inward low breed outward tak’)

First published in The Compleat Angler (London, 1653).

HM 46323

An octavo miscellany, comprising ‘Instructions for Justices of the Peace’ in a roman hand at one end and, from the other end a collection of poems in a secretary hand, much of the MS written in double columns in oblong format, 92 leaves, in calf. c.1623-30s.

Probably compiled by two members of the Calverley family (f. 1r contains a poem headed ‘A new years giuft presented to my father and Mother by my Brother Thomas Calverly’).

Later in the library od Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9624. Owned before 1947 by N.M. Broadbent. Later owned by Arthur A. Houghton, Jr. (1906-90), American businessman and collector. Christie's, 13 June 1979 (Houghton sale, Part I), lot 135, to Maggs.

f. 2v

• CwT 587: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song on a Sigh’ and here beginning ‘Go thou gentle whistling wind’.

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

f. 2v

• DrM 65: Michael Drayton, To His Coy Love, A Conzonet (‘I pray thee leave, love me no more’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 3r

• JnB 34: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph (‘See the Chariot at hand here of Love’)

Copy of an extended 24-line version of lines 21-30, untitled and here beginning ‘Haue you seene y^e white lilly grow’.

Edited from this MS in Herford & Simpson, VIII, 135-6. Facsimile in Christie's sale catalogue, 13 June 1979 (Arthur A. Houghton Jr sale), lot 135, plate 20.

First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning ‘Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light’) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).

f. 4r

• DnJ 3123: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)

Copy, headed ‘Ad Solem’.

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

f. 4v

• WoH 133.5: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘An Ode on y^e Queen of Bohemia by S^r Henry Wotton’.

First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, ‘“You Meaner Beauties of the Night” A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification’, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

f. 5r

• DnJ 471: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy, untitled.

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

ff. 7r-9v

• CoR 45: Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge (‘It is not yet a fortnight, since’)

Copy.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.

Some texts accompanied by an ‘Answer’ (‘A ballad late was made’).

f. 14v

• HeR 299: Robert Herrick, Advice to a Maid (‘Love in thy youth fayre Mayde bee wise’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Airs (London, 1632). Martin, p. 443 (in his section ‘Not attributed to Herrick hitherto’). Not included in Patrick.

f. 14v

• CoR 593: Richard Corbett, To the Ghost of Robert Wisdome (‘Thou, once a Body, now, but Aire’)

Copy, headed ‘Robert Wisedomes Ghost’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 75.

f. 15r-v

• JnB 670.5: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge’)

Copy, untitled.

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

For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

f. 16v

• StW 890: William Strode, Song (‘O when will Cupid shew such Art’)

Copy, untitled.

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

f. 19r

• B&F 145: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy of the song, untitled.

For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

HM 46714

A large quarto MS of arraignments, iv + 42 leaves, in modern reversed calf.

Inscribed ‘Lionel Tolmach -- 1600 of Bently’.

This MS described in Spedding, I, 322-3.

ff. 2r-23r

• EsR 240: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy, in a professional secretary hand.

ff. 24r-6r

• EsR 302: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, headed ‘Thexecucon of Robert Earle of Essex,the xxv^th of ffebruary beinge Ashwenday .1600. w^thin y^e Tow^r’.

Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

HM 50977

Detached flyleaf with Davenant's autograph inscription ‘For his most worthy and Learned friend M^r Lambert Osbertson’ [i.e. presumably Lambert Osbaldeston (1594-1659), headmaster of Westminster School], the rest of the volume untraced. c.1651.

*DaW 155: Sir William Davenant, Gondibert (4to, London, 1651)

Formerly Literary File, Acc. 121750.

HM 53345

Copy of Cantos 1-3, 116 octavo pages, with a drawing on the paste-down of the hero on horseback. Late 17th century.

BuS 1.4: Samuel Butler, Hudibras (‘Sir Hudibras his passing worth’)

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

HM 55603

A folio memorandum and commonplace book of legal and political notes and extracts, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 96 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. Compiled by Sir William Drake, MP (1606-69), of Shardeloes House, near Amersham, Buckinghamshire. c.1632-41.

Phillips, 18 March 1993, lot 23.

Cited frequently in Kevin Sharpe, Reading Revolutions: The Politics of Reading in Early Modern England (New Haven & London, 2000), passim, with a facsimile of f. 35v on p. 150.

ff. 11r-12v

• CtR 296: Sir Robert Cotton, The Manner and Meanes how the Kings of England have from time to time Supported and Repaired their Estates. Written...1609.

Extracts, headed ‘Notes taken out of a ma^scpt written by Sir Robert Cotton’.

Tract beginning ‘The Kings of England have supported and repaired their Estates...’. First published, as An Abstract out of the Records of the Tower, touching the Kings Revenue: and how they have supported themselves, London, [1642]. Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [161]-‘200’[i.e. 202].

HM 60413

A quato commonplace book of legal, literary, religious, and miscellaneous entries, in various hands, 205 leaves (plus blanks), in original vellum wrappers (partly a recycled 13th-century theological MS). Inscribed several times ‘Henry Danby’ and the MS associated with a branch of the Danby family living near Kirkby Knowle outside Thirsk, North Yorkshire. Dawson's of Pall Mall, sale catalogue No. 200 (1969), item 19, with a facsimile example. Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 150, to Kleinmann. Sotheby's, 27 September 1988, lot 146. Christie's, 29 November 1999, lot 237. c.1570-1625.

Sotheby's, 29 October 1975, lot 150, to Kleinmann. Sotheby's, 27 September 1988, lot 146 (unsold). Pickering and Chatto, sale catalogue No. 676, item 106. Christie's, 29 November 1999, lot 237.

f. 81r

• ShW 74: William Shakespeare, Othello

Two quotations, headed ‘Othello the Moore of Venice’, comprising Iago's speech beginning ‘O, sir, content you’ (I, i, 41-58), and the Duke of Brabantio's speech beginning ‘When remedies are past, the griefs are ended’ (I, iii, 202-9), transcribed from the quarto edition of 1622.

Facsimiles of f. 81r in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 27 September 1988, lot 146, and Christie's sale catalogue, 29 November 1999, lot 237.

First published in London, 1622.

HM 63405

A folio volume of ‘Poems upon Several Occasions. By Mr Spencer Cowper...Collected in the Year 1694’, in a single neat possibly professional hand, with an imperfect prose dedicatory epistle by Cowper and a table of contents, 82 pages (plus 90 blank pages), in contemporary calf. 1694.

Later in the Fermor-Hesketh library at Easton Neston, Northamptonshire, formed principally by Sir Thomas Dalrymple Hesketh, third Baronet (1777-1842) and Henrietta Louisa Fermor (d.1761). Sotheby's (Fermor-Hesketh sale), 15 December 1999, lot 291, to Maggs.

A set of reproductions (43 sheets) is in the British Library, RP 7398.

[unnumbered pages]

• CwT 717.5: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Quoted in full on two pages in the Epistle Dedicatory, with an introduction (‘...I own myself much affected with this Poem of M^r Carew's, which you have often heard me repeat, and of which I have as often heard you declare your approbation...’).

Facsimile of these pages in Sotheby's sale catalogue.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

HM 68060

Copy, in a secretary hand, on 51 quarto pages (and one blank), in later brown morocco elaborately gilt. A transcript of the edition of 1609, headed ‘Francisci Baconi equitis auratij procuratoris secundi Jacobi regis Magna Britania, de sapientia veterum liber, ad inititam Academiam Cantabrigiensem. Londini excudebat Robertus Bakerus serenissimæ regiæ maiestatis typographus. Anno 1609’, complete with the dedications to Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, and Bacon's alma mater at Cambridge. Early 17th century.

BcF 293.5: Francis Bacon, De sapientia veterum

First published in London, 1609. Spedding, VI, 605-764.

LA 43

Copy of the opera as ‘Alter'd from the Semele of William Congreve Set to Musick by George Frideric Handel’, with some corrections in Handel's own hand, on 31 quarto pages. 1744.

CgW 71: William Congreve, Semele

This being the MS submitted to the official licenser before the production at Covent Garden on 10 February 1744.

First published in Works (London, 1710). Summers, III, 87-110. Dobrée, pp. 155-86. McKenzie, II, 237-68.

LA 112

MS of an adaptation of Sedley's play by David Garrick, on 84 quarto pages, in cardboard wrappers. The MS copy submitted to the official licenser, in a professional hand, with lines deleted on pp. 4 and 31, inscribed on f. 2v with an epistolary request in the hand of David Garrick seeking the approbation of the Lord Chamberlain for a benefit performance for Mr Pritchard, signed ‘D[avid] Garrick for Mr. Lacy & himself’ on 22 April 1754. 1754.

SeC 118: Sir Charles Sedley, The Grumbler

Part of the Larpent Collection, purchased by J.P. Collier and Thomas Amyot in 1832 and then, in 1854, by Lord Ellesmere.

Recorded in Index of English Literary Manuscripts, Vol. III, Part 2, ed. Margaret M. Smith, p. 69, as GdO 11.

A translation from D.A. de Brueys and J. de Palaprat. Printed, with a separate title-page dated 1719, in The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), II, 145-‘307’ [i.e. 207]. Sola Pinto, II, 103-41, among ‘Works ascribed to Sedley on doubtful authority’.

LO 10486

Copy, in a neat rounded hand, headed ‘Cowleys translation of Anacreon on Drink’, followed by ‘Ane Imitation of the above Poem by the E- M-’ (beginning ‘The greedy Corporations drain’), on a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

CoA 24.2: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking (‘The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain’)

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

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

MO 163

Copy of the song, on a single quarto leaf, docketed ‘These words have lately been extremely well set to music by M^r: Webbe’. 18th century.

B&F 146.5: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.