CELM: Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection

MS Lt. 2

An octavo volume, chiefly devoted to Colvil's ‘Mock poem’, in a single small hand, with verses etc. in English and Latin added afterwards, written from both ends, 86 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1680.

Scribbling (f. i^r-v) includes the names ‘George Hay’ and ‘Laurence Oliphant’.

f. 7r rev.

• SiP 116.5: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 3 (‘What length of verse can serve brave Mopsa's good to show’)

Copy, headed ‘The Praises of Mopsa daughter to Dametas’.

Ringler, p. 12. Robertson, pp. 30-1.

f. 7v rev.

• SiP 118.5: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 5 (‘Now thanked be the great God Pan’)

Copy, headed ‘Dametas song’.

Ringler, p. 13. Robertson, p. 51. this setting first published in Thomas Ravenscroft, Pammelia (London, 1609).

ff. 7v-8r rev.

• SiP 34.5: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 12 (‘You better sure shall live, not evermore’)

Copy, untitled.

Ringler, pp. 142-3.

f. 8r rev.

• SiP 34.8: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 13 (‘Unto no body my woman saith she had rather a wife be’)

Copy, untitled, preceded by the original Latin headed ‘Out of Catullus’.

Ringler, p. 143.

ff. 8v-9v rev.

• SiP 45.5: Sir Philip Sidney, Certain Sonnets, Sonnet 22. The 7. Wonders of England (‘Neere Wilton sweete, huge heapes of stones are found’)

Copy, headed ‘The Seven Wonders of England’.

Ringler, pp. 149-51.

MS Lt. 6

An octavo manuscript of poems by Henry Hall (1656?-1707), in a single hand, ii + 16 leaves, bound at the end of a composite volume containing otherwise thirteen printed items dated 1709-1713. With a title-page (f. i^r): ‘The Remains of M^r Henry Hall late organist of Hereford’. Early 18th century.

Inscribed names (f. i^r) of ‘Rich: Witherstone’, ‘Susanna Witherston’, and ‘Geo Prosser 1768’.

f. 15v

• PsK 577.5: Katherine Philips, Pompey. A Tragedy, Act II, scene iv. Song (‘See how Victorious Cæsar's Pride’)

Copy of the last two stanzas (lines 21-8), headed ‘Justice’ and here beginning ‘If Justice be a thing divine’, followed by Hall's answer, recasting Philips's lines, beginning ‘Bright Justice is a thing divine’.

Song sung by two Egyptian priests. Thomas, III, 40-1.

MS Lt. 7

An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in two hands, 36 leaves (including blanks), with loosely inserted notes, in a contemporary green vellum wallet binding. c.1736-47.

f. 6r

• CoA 126.5: Abraham Cowley, On the Death of Mr. Crashaw (‘Poet and Saint! to thee alone are given’)

Two extracts from the poem.

First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 48-9. Sparrow, pp. 46-8.

f. 7r

• CrR 238.5: Richard Crashaw, The Teare (‘What bright soft thing is this?’)

Extract, comprising lines 35-6, here beginning ‘A pillow for thee will I bring’, subscribed ‘Crashaw’.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, pp. 84-5.

f. 8v

• CrR 157.5: Richard Crashaw, On St. Peter casting away his Nets at our Saviours call (‘Thou hast the art on't Peter. and canst tell’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Crashaw’.

First published in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 98.

MS Lt. 8

A commonplace book, almost entirely in a single hand, compiled by William Stone. c.1748.

f. R14r

• JnB 268.8: Ben Jonson, Horace his Art of Poetry (‘If to a Womans head a Painter would’)

Copy of lines 101-4 of the 1640 duodecimo version, beginning ‘Much phrase that now is dead shall be reviv'd’.

First published in John Benson's 12mo edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 297-355.

MS Lt 9

A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands, written from both ends, 342 pages (pp. 108-302 blanks), in contemporary boards. c.1730s.

p. 8

• MkM 14: Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London (‘Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ’)

Copy, headed ‘From a lady extreamly ill at Bath to her husband’.

Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced ‘The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London’, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.

p. 47

• CgW 16.5: William Congreve, A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret (‘Fair Amoret is gone astray’)

Copy, headed ‘Amoret’.

First published, in a musical setting by John Eccles and attributed to Congreve, in a broadsheet (1698). Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 74. Dobrée, p. 284 (as ‘Amoret’). McKenzie, II, 369.

Also attributed to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset: see The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York and London, 1979), pp. 182-3.

p. 53

• CgW 45.2: William Congreve, To a Candle Elegy (‘Thou watchful Taper, by whose silent Light’)

Copy.

Summers, IV, 45.2. McKenzie, II, 376.

pp. 54-6

• CgW 1.5: William Congreve, Doris (‘Doris, a Nymph of ripe Age’)

Copy.

First published in Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 142-3. Dobrée, pp. 285-7. McKenzie, II, 370-1.

pp. 57-60

• CgW 30.5: William Congreve, Of Pleasing; an Epistle To Sir Richard Temple (‘'Tis strange, dear Temple, how it comes to pass’)

Copy.

Summers, IV, 148-51. McKenzie, II, 406-9.

pp. 63-5

• CgW 45.8: William Congreve, To Cynthia Weeping and not speaking. Elegy (‘Why are those Hours, which Heav'n in Pity lent’)

Copy.

First published in Dryden's Miscellany (London, 1694). Summers, IV, 103. McKenzie, II, 367-8.

pp. 88-92

• DrJ 3.6: John Dryden, Alexander's Feast. Or The Power of Musique. An Ode, In Honour of St. Cecilia's Day (‘'Twas at the Royal Feast, for Persia won’)

Copy, headed ‘Drydens ode on S^t Cecilias Day’.

First published in London, 1697. Fables Ancient and Modern (London, 1700). Kinsley, III, 1428-33. California, VII, 3-9. Hammond, V, 3-18.

MS Lt 12

A quarto volume of ‘Miscellany Poems 1728’, in several hands, 145 pages (plus a number of blanks), with an index, in quarter-calf on boards. c.1728-69.

Bookplate of George Scott, of Woolston Hall, Essex.

p. 17

• DrJ 246.3: John Dryden, The Works of Virgil [Aeneis, Georgics, Pastorals] (‘Arms, and the Man I sing, who forc'd by Fate’)

A seven-line extract, preceded by five Latin verses headed ‘Line 511^th lib: 4^th of Virgil's Georgicks’, and headed ‘thus translated by Dryden’, beginning ‘So underneath a poplar's shade, her young’.

First published in London, 1697. Kinsley, III, 1003-1427 (Aeneis), and II, 867-1001 (Pastorals and Georgics). California, IV, 436-61 (‘Third Book of the Georgics’ only, first published in Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694).

[at the back]

• ShW 60.6: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

Extract.

First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

MS Lt 13

A quarto miscellany of Latin and English verse and prose, in several hands, written from both ends, 57 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1719-50.

f. 32v rev.

• HoJ 138: John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart (‘Reader I was born and cried’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Parliament Fart’.

f. 42v

• ClJ 217: John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector (‘What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing’)

Copy.

Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 78-9. The Works of Mr. John Cleveland (London, 1687), p. 343. Berdan, p. 185, as ‘probably not genuine’. Rejected ‘as probably not Cleveland's’ by Withington, pp. 321-2.

f. 42v

• JnB 263.5: Ben Jonson, A Grace by Ben: Johnson. extempore. before King James (‘Our King and Queen the Lord-God blesse’)

Copy of a short version, here ascribed to ‘King Charles 2^ds Fool’.

First published (?) in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), II, 14. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 418-19.

f. 43v-43r rev.

• RoJ 591: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

Copy.

First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.

f. 44r rev.

• WoH 53.5: Sir Henry Wotton, A Hymn to my God, in a night of my late sickness (‘Oh Thou great power! in whom I move’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 515. Hannah (1845), pp. 49-51.

MS Lt 15

A duodecimo miscellany of verse and prose, predominantly in a single non-professional hand, iv + 214 pages, in contemporary calf. Inscribed (p. 211) ‘I ended this book Nov^r. 13^th 1723’. c.1723.

p. 1

• DrW 2.5: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Change should breede Change (‘New doth the Sunne appeare’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Spring’.

First published in Flowres of Sion ([Edinburgh?], 1623). Kastner, II.

pp. 1-2

• DrW 20.5: William Drummond of Hawthornden, The Praise of a Solitarie Life (‘Thrice happie hee, who by some shadie Groue’)

Copy, headed ‘Solitude’.

First published in Flowres of Sion ([Edinburgh?], 1623). Kastner, II, 30.

pp. 2-3

• DrW 1.5: William Drummond of Hawthornden, ‘As when it hapneth that some louely Towne’

Copy, headed ‘Peace of mind’.

First published in Flowres of Sion ([Edinburgh?], 1623). Kastner, II.

pp. 8-9, 51, 60, 64-72

• SpE 9.5: Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene

Series of extracts, including Book I, Canto IX, stanza 35; Book II, Canto VI, stanza 3; Canto VII, stanzas 40-1; Canto XI, stanzas 21-2; Canto XII, stanza 70; Book III, Canto XII, stanza 11; Book IV, Canto I, stanzas 20-2, 24; Canto X, stanza 16; and Book VI, Canto VII, stanzas 41 and 43, variously headed ‘description of death’, ‘danger’, ‘Dispair’, ‘discord’, and ‘disdain’.

Books I-III first published in London, 1590. Books IV-VI published in London, 1596. Variorum, Vols I-VI.

pp. 12-14

• DrJ 3.8: John Dryden, Alexander's Feast. Or The Power of Musique. An Ode, In Honour of St. Cecilia's Day (‘'Twas at the Royal Feast, for Persia won’)

Copy.

First published in London, 1697. Fables Ancient and Modern (London, 1700). Kinsley, III, 1428-33. California, VII, 3-9. Hammond, V, 3-18.

pp. 38-9

• PsK 197.5: Katherine Philips, La Solitude de St. Amant. Englished (‘O! Solitude my sweetest choice’)

Copy of sixteen lines, headed ‘Solitude’.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 170-83. Saintsbury, pp. 601-4. Thomas, III, 94-102.

A musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Comes Amoris…The First Book (London, 1687), p. 18. The Theater of Music…The Fourth and Last Book (London, 1687), p. 57. The Works of Henry Purcell, XXV, ed. Arthur Somervell (London, 1928), pp. 137-40; revised edition, ed. Margaret Laurie (1985), pp. 75-9.

pp. 45-6

• CgW 29.9: William Congreve, The Mourning Muse of Alexis. A Pastoral. Lamenting the Death of our late Gracious Queen Mary of ever Blessed Memory (‘Behold, Alexis, see the Gloomy Shade’)

Copy, headed ‘Shade’.

First published in 1695. Summers, IV, 39-44. McKenzie, II, 279-85.

p. 54

• OvT 4: Sir Thomas Overbury, The Authours Epitaph (‘The span of my daies measur'd, here I rest’)

Copy.

First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbault, p. 46.

pp. 61-2

• ShW 60.8: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

Extract.

First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

pp. 74-5

• ShW 44.5: William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Copy of Hamlet's ‘To be or not to be’ speech, headed ‘Futurity’.

First published in London, 1603.

pp. 75-6

• ShW 50.8: William Shakespeare, Henry VIII

Extract, headed ‘Greatnes’.

By Shakespeare and John Fletcher. First published in the First Folio (1623), as The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eighth. Cited in 1613 by the title All is True.

pp. 76-7

• OtT 16: Thomas Otway, The Orphan

Extract.

First published in London, 1680.

pp. 80-1

• OtT 18: Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv'd

Extracts.

First published in London, 1682. Ghosh, II, 197-289.

p. 82

• JnB 559.8: Ben Jonson, Catiline, I, i, 73-97 (‘It is decree'd. Nor shall thy Fate, o Rome’)

Copy of sixteen lines of Catiline's speech.

pp. 84-5, 190-5

• ShW 79.8: William Shakespeare, Richard II

Extract, headed ‘K. Richard 2^d in Prison’.

First published in London, 1597.

pp. 88-91

• LeN 13.5: Nathaniel Lee, Sophonisba

Extract from Act I, headed ‘The interview of Hannibal and Scipio’ and beginning ‘Han. Are you the cheif whom men fam'd Scipio call...’.

First published in London, 1675. Stroup & Cooke, I, 73-144.

pp. 110-11

• B&F 146.7: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy, headed ‘Melancholy’.

Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.

For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

pp. 114-15

• PsK 579.5: Katherine Philips, Pompey. A Tragedy, Act III, scene iv. Song (‘From lasting and unclouded Day’)

Copy of most of the the song, untitled.

A recitative air sung by Pompey's ghost. Saintsbury, pp. 611-12. Thomas, I, 244-5, poem 120. Thomas, III, 55-6. This song originally set to music by Dr Peter Pett (1630-99).

pp. 119-20

• RaW 184.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, Like to a Hermite poore (‘Like to a Hermite poore in place obscure’)

Copy, headed ‘Dispair’.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, pp. 11-12. Rudick, Nos 57A and 57B (two versions, pp. 135-6).

pp. 122-3

• DeJ 80.5: Sir John Denham, Sarpedon's Speech to Glaucus in the 12th of Homer (‘Thus to Glaucus spake’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 179-80.

p. 126

• BrW 215.5: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on C. of Pembroke’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, ‘Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha’, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.

pp. 138-9

• SeC 16.5: Sir Charles Sedley, Epilogue [to ‘The Mulberry Garden’] (‘Poets of all men have the hardest Game’)

Copy.

First published in The Mulberry Garden (London, 1668). De Sola Pinto, I, 186.

pp. 139-44

• SeC 119.5: Sir Charles Sedley, The Mulberry Garden

Copy of the ‘First scene in the Mubery Garden’.

First published in London, 1668. Sola Pinto, I, 107-86.

MS Lt. 20

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single hand, xvi + 140 pages, in contemporary calf. With a title-page (p. i^r): ‘The Six first Pastorals of Virgil, With Three of His Georgics; Together with some Miscellany Poems. Transcrib'd and Collected By E. Beardwell, 1724’. 1724.

Later owned by William Rees-Mogg.

pp. A, pp. 1-40

• DrJ 246.5: John Dryden, The Works of Virgil [Aeneis, Georgics, Pastorals] (‘Arms, and the Man I sing, who forc'd by Fate’)

Copy of the Pastorals, Eclogues I-VI.

B, pp. 1-96

• DrJ 246.6: John Dryden, The Works of Virgil [Aeneis, Georgics, Pastorals] (‘Arms, and the Man I sing, who forc'd by Fate’)

Copy of the Georgics, Books I-III.

B, p. 126

• JnB 131.5: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. (‘Would'st thou heare, what man can say’)

Copy of lines 3-6, headed ‘Epitaph by M^r. Dryden, on his Sweetheart’, beginning ‘Underneath this Stone does lye’.

First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.

MS Lt. 22

A commonplace book of verse and prose, in a single hand, lacking various leaves. c.1680s.

ff. 8r-19v

• BuS 39: Samuel Butler, Mercurius Menippeus

Copy of the original version, subscribed ‘Winniard Johann. Oxon’.

A satire first published in 1682 with the subtitle ‘The Loyal Satyrist, or, Hudibras in Prose’. Almost certainly written by Thomas Winyard (or Winnard or Winwood), Fellow of St John's College, Oxford: see De Quehen, RES, (1982), 274-5, and Lamar, pp. 347-65. Before its re-publication in Butler's Posthumous Works, it was heavily doctored with interpolated Hudibrastic verses.

MS Lt. 24

An octavo verse miscellany, predominantly in a single hand, written from both ends, the contents collected over a period but not entered in chronological order, 171 leaves, in contemporary panelled calf. Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘Benj: Coles At Great Forster's. near Egham. In Surrey. owns this book MDCCXXXII’ and the miscellany evidently compiled by Coles. A similar inscription on f. 31r rev. dated ‘3^d. Jan^y 1740/1’. c.1729-41.

Inscribed (f. ii^v) ‘purchased by R Brown, for a valuable consideration of Benjamin Coles Anno 1754. August 8^th’. Later owned by James Langlands and, in 1965, by Mrs V.J. Dawson, of Southan, Gloucestershire.

f. 2v

• StW 427.5: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox (‘A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine’)

Copy, headed ‘A sonG’, here beginning ‘As I saw fair Clora walk alone’, followed by a Latin version headed ‘Latinè redditum. p M^r Denny’ (beginning ‘Jupiter in Cloram tacitus descendit euntem’).

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.

f. 1r-v rev.

• LeN 18.5: Nathaniel Lee, Theodosius: or, The Force of Love, Song [after the Third Act] (‘Hail to the Mirtle Shade’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song’.

Published separately, as ‘Love's boundless Power, or The Charmed Lovers' Happiness Compleated’, [in London], 1680 (only known exemplum in the Bibliotheca Lindesiana of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarres). Stroup & Cooke, II, 276-7 (with Purcell's setting, II, 311-12).

ff. 24r-5r rev.

• FrG 11.5: George Farquhar, The Beaux Stratagem, Act III, scene iii. Song (‘A Trifling Song you shall hear’)

Copy of the song, headed ‘A Song on a Trifle’, subscribed ‘Andover 17. Aug. 1730’.

First published in London, 1707. Stonehill, II, 113-92 (pp. 154-5). Kenny, II, 159-243 (pp. 197-8).

f. 28r rev.

• CoA 24.5: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking (‘The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain’)

Copy, headed ‘Drinking’, subscribed ‘Anacreon .31. Decemb^r. 1740’, followed (f. 28v rev.) by an anonymous ‘The Answer’ (beginning ‘The thirsty Earth, wⁿ one would think’).

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).

ff. 35r-6r rev.

• ShW 44.7: William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Extract, headed ‘The Scene in Hamlet Prince of Denmak. The Ghost & Hamlet’, subscribed ‘Andover 4^th. 9^th m^o. 1730’.

First published in London, 1603.

MS Lt 25

An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, in a small secretary hand, 79 leaves (largely blank), disbound. Early 17th century.

ff. 1r-6r

• MrT 7: Sir Thomas More, Epigrammata. 19-23 (‘Si qua dies unquam, si quod fuit Anglia tempus’)

Copy of the five epigrams and the prose preface, imperfect.

Yale, Vol. 3, Part II, pp. 100-17, with English translations.

f. 6v

• GrF 34: Fulke Greville, Mustapha, II, i, 1-10

Copy of the first ten lines of Achmat's soliloquy (II, i, 1-10), headed ‘Sir ffulke Greuille of ambition’ and here beginning ‘Who standing in the shade of humble valleyes’.

Bullough, II, 79-80.

Wilkes, I, 230-1.

f. 6v

• DaS 53.5: Samuel Daniel, Philotas

A brief extract, under the subject heading ‘Confidence’, here beginning ‘He most is to be feared that nothing feares’.

First published in London, 1605. Edited by Laurence Michel (New Haven, 1949).

f. 7r

• WoH 39: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, headed ‘S^ir Henry Wotto[n]’, imperfect.

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).

f. 7v

• HrJ 285: Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues (‘You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘S^r I do wish to you a wife, rich, faire & yong’.

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

f. 7v

• HrJ 240: Sir John Harington, Of cursing Cuckolds (‘A Lord that talked late in way of scorne’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘A great man speaking one day in scorne’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 26. McClure No. 280, p. 263. Kilroy, Book II, No. 59, p. 151, a version beginning ‘A gallant talking late in way of skorne’.

f. 8r

• HrJ 45: Sir John Harington, Against Swearing (‘In elder times an ancient custome was’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.

f. 9r

• HrJ 247: Sir John Harington, Of Lynus borrowing (‘Lynus came late to me, sixe crownes to borrow’)

Copy, imperfect, lacking the beginning.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 16. McClure No. 270, p. 259.

f. 9v

• DrM 45.2: Michael Drayton, The Owle (‘What time the the Sunne by his all-quickning Power’)

Extracts.

First published in London, 1604. Hebel, II, 477-514.

f. 9v

• CmT 127.5: Thomas Campion, ‘Though you are yoong and I am olde’

Copy of the first couplet only, here beginning ‘Though you be yonge & I be old’.

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

MS Lt 30

MS poems on otherwise blank leaves (pp. 25-[28]) at the end of a printed exemplum of The Speeches of the Lord Digby (London, 1641), heavily cropped by a binder, now disbound. c.1690.

p. 25

• RoJ 231: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)

Copy, written sideways down the length of the page.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

MS Lt 34

An octavo verse miscellany, containing chiefly songs, largely in a single hand, 46 leaves, in contemporary vellum. c.1680s.

f. 4r-v

• DrJ 259.4: John Dryden, The Duke of Guise, Act V, scene i, lines 1-34. Song (‘Tell me Thirsis, tell your Anguish’)

Copy, headed ‘A dialogue betwixt a shepherd and shepherd[ess]’.

Written in collabotation with Nathaniel Lee. First published in London, 1683. California, XIV (1992), pp. 205-305 (pp. 290-1). Kinsley, I, 330. Hammond, II, 144-5.

ff. 8v-9r

• BeA 23.9: Aphra Behn, The Second Part of The Rover, Act IV, scene i. Song (‘Ah pox upon this needless score’)

Copy of the song, untitled.

First published in London, 1681. Summers, I, 115-213 (p. 188). Todd, VI, 228-98 (pp. 280-1). Also edited, as ‘The Counsel. A Song. Set by Captain Pack’, in Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 190-1.

ff. 29v-30r

• DrJ 286.8: John Dryden, The Spanish Fryar: or, The Double Discovery, Act V, scene i, lines 64-87. Song (‘Farewell ungratefull Traytor’)

Copy of the song, untitled.

First published in London, 1681. California, XIV (1992), pp. 97-203 (pp. 182-3). Scott-Saintsbury, VI, 393-523 (p. 500). Kinsley, I, 208. Hammond, I, 420-1.

f. 33r

• BeA 23.3: Aphra Behn, Abdelazar, or The Moor's Revenge, Act I: song (‘Love in fantastick triumph sat’)

Copy of the song, untitled.

First published in London, 1677. Summers, II, 6-98. Todd, V, 245-315.

[unnumbered pages]

• DrJ 102.6: John Dryden, A New Song (‘Sylvia the fair, in the bloom of Fifteen’)

Copy, on a loosely inserted folded quarto leaf.

First published in in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 440-1. Day, p. 72. California, III, 88-9. Hammond, II, 386-7.

[unnumbered pages]

• DrJ 183.5: John Dryden, Song (‘Go tell Amynta gentle Swain’)

Copy, on a loosely inserted folded quarto leaf.

First published in Sylvae (London, 1685). Kinsley, I, 441. California, III, 89-90. Hammond, II, 388. Musical setting by Robert King published in The Theater of Music (London, 1685), I, 30. Day, pp. 73-5. Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in Orpheus Britannicus, 3rd edition (London, 1721). Works of Henry Purcell, XXII (London, 1922), pp. 133-6.

MS Lt 36

An octavo verse miscellany, 58 leaves, in modern calf gilt. Including 39 poems by Waller on ff. 20v-36r; poems on ff. 1-52v in a single neat, possibly feminine, hand; poems on ff. 53-8v added later in another hand. Early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 21 July 1970, lot 652.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the ‘Brotherton MS’: WaE Δ 14.

ff. 20v-1r

• WaE 529: Edmund Waller, To Amoret (‘Fair! that you may truly know’)

Copy, headed ‘To Amoret - by M^r Waller’.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 58-60.

f. 21r

• WaE 132: Edmund Waller, Of a Lady who writ in Praise of Mira (‘While she pretends to make the graces known’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 2.

f. 21v

• WaE 274: Edmund Waller, Of the Lady who can Sleep when she Pleases (‘No wonder sleep from careful lovers flies’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 49.

f. 21v

• WaE 741: Edmund Waller, ‘While I listen to thy voice’

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 127. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

f. 22r

• WaE 465: Edmund Waller, The Story of Phoebus and Daphne, Applied (‘Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 52.

f. 22r

• WaE 321: Edmund Waller, On a Girdle (‘That which her slender waist confined’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 95.

f. 22v

• WaE 335: Edmund Waller, On My Lady Dorothy Sidney's Picture (‘Such was Philoclea, such Musidorus' flame!’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 43.

f. 22v

• WaE 505: Edmund Waller, To a Lady Singing a Song of his Composing (‘Chloris! yourself you so excel’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 105. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published, as ‘To the same Lady singing the former Song’, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

f. 23r

• WaE 358: Edmund Waller, On the friendship betwixt two Ladies (‘Tell me, lovely, loving pair!’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘On the Friendship betwixt Sacharissa and Amoret’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 60-1.

f. 23r

• WaE 590.5: Edmund Waller, To one Married to an old Man (‘Since thou wouldst needs (bewitched with some ill charms!)’)

Copy, heavily deleted.

First published, as ‘To the wife being marryed to that old man’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 2.

f. 23v

• WaE 423: Edmund Waller, The Self-Banished (‘It is not that I love you less’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘The Melancholy Lover’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 101. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

ff. 23v-4r

• WaE 90: Edmund Waller, ‘Go, lovely Rose’

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

First published, as ‘On the Rose’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 128. Setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

f. 24r

• WaE 602: Edmund Waller, To Phyllis (‘Phyllis! why should we delay’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘The cunning Curtezan’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 84.

ff. 24v-5

• WaE 210: Edmund Waller, Of Love (‘Anger in hasty words or blows’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 87-8.

f. 25r

• WaE 673: Edmund Waller, Under a Lady's Picture (‘Some ages hence, for it must not decay’)

Copy of lines 3-8, beginning ‘Such Hellen was…’.

First published, in a six-line version headed ‘To be ingraven under the Queen's Picture’ and beginning at line 3 (‘Such Helen was! and who can blame the boy’), in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). An eight-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), p. 129. Thorn-Drury (1904), II, 1.

f. 25v

• WaE 243: Edmund Waller, Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute (‘Such moving sounds from such a careless touch!’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 90.

f. 25v

• WaE 115: Edmund Waller, Love's Farewell (‘Treading the path to nobler ends’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 93.

f. 26r

• WaE 291: Edmund Waller, Of the Marriage of the Dwarfs (‘Design, or chance, makes others wive’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘On the two Dwarfs that were marryed at Court, not long before Shrovetide’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 92.

f. 26r

• WaE 318: Edmund Waller, On a Brede of Divers Colours, Woven by Four Ladies (‘Twice twenty slender virgin-fingers twine’)

Copy.

First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 121.

f. 26v

• WaE 82: Edmund Waller, From a Child (‘Madam, as in some climes the warmer sun’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 94.

ff. 26v-7r

• WaE 28: Edmund Waller, At Penshurst (‘While in the park I sing, the listening deer’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 64-5.

f. 27v

• WaE 485: Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received a Silver Pen (‘Madam! intending to have tried’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 109.

f. 28r

• WaE 6: Edmund Waller, À la Malade (‘Ah, lovely Amoret! the care’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 85-6.

f. 28v

• WaE 10: Edmund Waller, An Apology for having Loved before (‘They that never had the use’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 120-1.

f. 29r

• WaE 477: Edmund Waller, To a Friend, of the different Success of their Loves (‘Thrice happy pair! of whom we cannot know’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘The Variable Lover. or a Reply to the Melancholy Lover’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 102-3.

ff. 29v-30v

• WaE 696: Edmund Waller, Upon the Death of my Lady Rich (‘May those already cursed Essexian plains’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 37-40.

f. 30v

• WaE 517: Edmund Waller, To a very young Lady (‘Why came I so untimely forth’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘To my young Lady Lucy Sidney’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 57.

ff. 31r-2r

• WaE 147: Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and a Fight at Sea (‘Now, for some ages, has the pride of Spain’)

Copy.

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.

MS Lt 38

An octavo miscellany of English and Latin verse and prose, predominantly in a single small hand, 42 leaves, in contemporary calf. Compiled by a twenty-year-old Oxford University graduate. 1670.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1972, lot 302.

ff. 25r-6v

• WaE 390: Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation (‘While with a strong and yet a gentle hand’)

Copy, headed ‘A Panegyrick to y^e L^d Protectour.… 1655’.

First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.

ff. 27r-8r

• WaE 153: Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and a Fight at Sea (‘Now, for some ages, has the pride of Spain’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Victory over the Spanish Plate fleet in the Protectour's Time. 1655’.

MS Lt 43

A small notebook (c.15.5 x 6.5 cm) compiled by Henry Fairfax, of Denton, Yorkshire, second son of Henry Fairfax (1631-88), fourth Baron Fairfax of Cameron. c.1679-82.

Later owned by the Rev. Joseph Hunter (1783-1861). In the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), book and manuscript collector: Phillipps MS 21466. Sotheby's, 24 June 1974, lot 2919.

ff. 3r-2v rev.

• PsK 21: Katherine Philips, An Answer to another perswading a Lady to Marriage (‘Forbear bold Youth, all's Heaven here’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 155. Saintsbury, p. 594. Hageman (1987), p. 600. Thomas, I, 227-8, poem 108.

ff. 38r-37r rev.

• DrJ 255: John Dryden, The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards: In Two Parts, Part I, Act IV, scene ii, lines 122-49. Song (‘Wherever I am, and whatever I doe’)

Copy.

California, XI, 69-70. Kinsley, I, 132-3. Hammond, I, 239-40.

MS Lt 45

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single hand, 416 pages, in contemporary vellum boards. c.1743-67.

pp. 386-7

• CgW 9.5: William Congreve, Horace, Lib. II. Ode 14. Imitated by Mr. Congreve (‘Ah! No, 'tis all in vain, believe me 'tis’)

Copy.

First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Examen Poeticum…The Third Part of Miscellany Poems [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 3-4. Dobrée, pp. 235-7. McKenzie, II, 315-17.

MS Lt 48

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, chiefly in one cursive hand, written from both ends, 271 leaves (including numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. c.1700.

ff. 16v, 20r

• ShW 60: William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure

Copy of two of the Duke's speeches (III, ii, 178-81, beginning ‘No might nor greatness in mortality’, and III, ii, 253-66, beginning ‘He, who the sword of heaven will bear’).

First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

ff. 21r-2v, 43v

• CoA 291: Abraham Cowley, Extracts

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

f. 30r

• RoJ 325: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy of lines 1-24, headed ‘Earl Rochestr’.

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

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

f. 37r

• DrJ 246.8: John Dryden, The Works of Virgil [Aeneis, Georgics, Pastorals] (‘Arms, and the Man I sing, who forc'd by Fate’)

Extracts from the Aeneis, Books I (lines 105-11, 176-7), III (lines 628-31), and IV (lines 252, 255-73).

f. 40v

• FrG 1: George Farquhar, ‘Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend’

Copy.

First published, as part of the dedicatory epistle to Peregrine Osborne, Marquess of Carmarthen and later second Duke of Leeds, in Love and a Bottle (London, 1699). Stonehill, I, 7. Kenny, I, 25.

f. 41r

• BuS 1.5: Samuel Butler, Hudibras (‘Sir Hudibras his passing worth’)

Extracts.

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).

f. 42r

• JnB 560: Ben Jonson, Catiline, I, i, 73-97 (‘It is decree'd. Nor shall thy Fate, o Rome’)

Copy of Catiline's speech.

f. 42v

• RoJ 45.8: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Dialogue between Strephon and Daphne (‘Prithee now, fond fool, give o'er’)

Copy of stanzas 4-7 (lines 13-28), beginning ‘Tell me then the reason why’, subscribed ‘S^r John Suckling’.

First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 7-9. Walker, pp. 12-14. Love (two versions), pp. 300-1, as ‘[Epigram on Samuel Pordage]’, among ‘Impromptus’.

f. 42v

• SuJ 194: John Suckling, Extracts

Extracts.

f. 43r

• WaE 323: Edmund Waller, On a Girdle (‘That which her slender waist confined’)

Copy, lacking lines 5-6.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 95.

f. 43v

• DrJ 277: John Dryden, Love Triumphant. or, Nature will Prevail, Act III, scene i, lines 1-30. Song of Jealousie (‘What State of Life can be so blest’)

Copy of the song, untitled, subscribed ‘Dryden’.

First published in London, 1694. California, XVI (1996), pp. 167-259. Scott-Saintsbury, VIII, 365-475 (pp. 417-18). Kinsley, II, 856-7. Hammond, IV, 340.

f. 49r

• WoH 40: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘A Caracter of a happy man’.

f. 34r rev.

• ShW 41: William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

Brief quotations, including Aegeon's lines beginning ‘Yet this my comfort: when your words are done’ (I, i, 27-8).

Extracts.

First published in the First Folio (London, 1623).

ff. 54r-v rev.

• BrT 5.96: Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici

Extracts.

First published (unauthorised edition) [in London], 1642. Authorised edition published [in London], 1643. Wilkin, II, 1-158. Keynes, I, 1-93. Edited by Jean-Jacques Denonain (Cambridge, 1953). Martin, pp. 1-80. Endicott, pp. 1-89.

ff. 91r-92r rev.

• DrJ 44.5: John Dryden, The First Book of Ovid's Metamorphoses (‘Of Bodies chang'd to various Forms I sing’)

Four extracts, quoted in an abridged copy of Book I, Chapter I, of George Stanhope's translation (‘Of Wisdom’, 1697) of Pierre Charron's De la sagesse.

First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 799-828. California, IV, 362-431. Hammond, IV, 230-84.

MS Lt. 53

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, 74 leaves, in a contemporary green vellum wallet binding. Compiled, and partly composed, by Benjamin Coles, of Great Forster's, near Egham, Surrey. c.1741.

Inscribed (f. 74v) ‘Ja^s. Foster Trusley / Derbyshire / Jo^s: Foster / Thulston / Derbyshire 1787’.

f. 1v

• CoA 86.5: Abraham Cowley, ‘For the few Houres of Life allotted me’

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘17^th. Jan^ry. 1740/1 B Coles’.

First published, at the end of the essay ‘Of Liberty’, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 386.

f. 32r

• OtT 17: Thomas Otway, The Orphan

Extract.

First published in London, 1680.

MS Lt. 54

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled ‘A Booke of Paragrafts’, including 22 poems by Rochester, 445 pages plus stubs of extracted leaves (originally 463 numbered pages and now lacking pp. 59-68, 147-54 and parts of pp. 155-8), with a two-leaf index; in contemporary red morocco. In professional hands: A, pp. 1-194; B, in a different style and probably a different hand, pp. 195-432; C, probably yet another hand, with additions on pp. 75, 90, 102, 125, 142, 175, 195, and pp. 433-63. c.1680s-90s.

Inscribed (on stubs and endpapers) ‘matt Calihan’, ‘To C^pt Robinson att Ca^pt Eloass [Elwes] near y^e Watch house in Marlbur^hroagh street’, ‘For Cap^t. Robinson at his Lodginges in Charing Cross’. Christie's, 27 June 1979, lot 16.

Various commissioned officers named Robinson are recorded in Charles Dalton, English Army Lists and Commission Registers, 1661-1714 (6 vols, London, 1892-1904): see esp. I, 276. The volume was most probably owned by Charles Robinson of the King's Regiment of Foot Guards, who became Captain and then Lieutenant-Colonel in 1688 and was killed at Namur in 1695. A member of the same regiment in 1684 was the purveyor of MS lampoons Captain Lenthal Warcup. The Captain ‘Eloass’ mentioned in one inscription was possibly William Elwes, who served as a Lieutenant in Viscount Colchester's Regiment of Horse, c.1692-4, and as a Captain in Lord Windsor's Regiment of Horse in 1702.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Robinson MS: RoJ Δ 8. Discussed with facsimiles of pp. 1-10 in Paul Hammond, ‘The Robinson Manuscript Miscellany of Restoration Verse in the Brotherton Collection, Leeds’, Proceedings of the Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society, 18 (1982), 275-324. Facsimiles of p. 1 also in Christie's sale catalogue, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. Selectively collated in Walker.

pp. 1-10

• DrJ 96: John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe (‘All humane things are subject to decay’)

Copy.

Facsimiles of first page in Christie's sale catalogue, 27 June 1979, lot 16, Plate 1, after p. 48, and in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), p. 17. The MS collated, with a complete facsimile, and discussed in relation to other texts, in Hammond, pp. 281-96. Facsimile of the first page in Hammond's and Hopkins's edition of Dryden's poems, I, facing p. 305.

First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond, I, 313-36.

The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision’, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, ‘Dryden's Mac Flecknoe’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, ‘Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, ‘The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe’ in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.

pp. 15-20

• DoC 316.8: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Debauchee (‘I rise at eleven, I dine about two’)

Copy.

Walker, pp. 130-1.

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.

pp. 16-17

• ShJ 162: James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song (‘The glories of our blood and state’)

Copy of the dirge, headed ‘Anglice’. The text followed by a Latin version.

Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).

pp. 25-7

• DoC 153: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mr. Edward Howard upon his ‘New Utopia’ (‘Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr on Ned. Howard. By the Earl of Dorset’.

This MS collated in part in Hammond, pp. 297-8.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.

pp. 27-9

• DoC 278: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called ‘The British Princes’ (‘Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare’)

Copy, headed ‘Another, by the same hand’.

Lines 21-34 edited from this MS in Hammond, p. 298.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.

pp. 29-36

• DoC 49: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)

Copy, headed ‘Colon; a Satyr’.

This MS collated in part in Hammond, pp. 298-9.

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

pp. 36-49

• DrJ 43.88: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)

Copy.

A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, ‘Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire’, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that ‘Mulgrave had by far the major hand’. Recorded in Hammond, V, 684, in an ‘Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition’.

p. 85

• DoC 232: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen (‘Clarendon had law and sense’)

Copy, headed ‘On our young Statesmen’.

This MS collated in part in Hammond, p. 303.

First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

pp. 86-8

• RoJ 51: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee (‘As some brave admiral, in former war’)

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Love. Collated in Hammond and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

pp. 89-90

• RoJ 557: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Leaving His Mistress (‘Tis not that I am weary grown’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 81. Walker, p. 37. Love, pp. 17-18.

p. 91

• RoJ 515: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's ‘Troades’, Act II, Chorus (‘After death nothing is, and nothing, death’)

Copy, headed ‘Seneca Troas’.

This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as ‘Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour’.

pp. 92-100

• RoJ 476: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Timon (‘What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach’)

Copy, headed ‘Timon, A Satyr’.

This MS collated in Hammond, in Walker, and in Love, ‘Text of “Timon”’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as ‘Satyr. [Timon]’. Harold Love, ‘The Text of “Timon. A Satyr”’, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.

pp. 100-8

• RoJ 278: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James's Park (‘Much wine had passed, with grave discourse’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.

pp. 108-12

• RoJ 78: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems (‘Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound’)

Copy, headed ‘A Letter from the E. of R: to my Lord O.B.’.

This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

pp. 113-15

• RoJ 487: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To Love (‘O Love! how cold and slow to take my part’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.

pp. 116-17

• RoJ 624: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Woman's Honor (‘Love bade me hope, and I obeyed’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 14. Walker, pp. 22-3. Love, p. 21.

pp. 118-19

• RoJ 463: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Submission (‘To this moment a rebel, I throw down my arms’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 15. Walker, pp. 18-19. Love, p. 22, as Song.

p. 120

• RoJ 386: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Give me leave to rail at you’)

Copy, headed ‘To Thirsis’; the text followed (pp. 121-2) by Lady Rochester's ‘answer’.

This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.

First published (first stanza only) in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Both stanzas in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). The second stanza only (beginning ‘Kindness has resistless Charms’) also in Valentinian (London, 1685). Vieth, pp. 10-11. Walker, pp. 20-1. Love, p. 18.

Some texts accompanied by Lady Rochester's ‘Answer’ to the poem (beginning ‘Nothing adds to love's fond fire’), her autograph of which is in University of Nottingham, Pw V 31, f. 15r. It is edited in Vieth, p. 10; in Walker, pp. 21-2, 154; in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (London, 1988), pp. 230-2; and in Love, pp. 18-19.

p. 122

• SdT 23.7: Thomas Shadwell, Epsom-Wells

An extract, the closing couplet of Act IV, beginning ‘I to my husband scorn to be a slave’.

First published in London, 1673. Summers, II, 95-182.

pp. 123-5

• RoJ 379: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 27-8. Walker, pp. 33-4. Love, pp. 39-40.

p. 125

• CgW 44: William Congreve, Song from The Maid's Last Prayer. Set by Mr. Purcell, and Sung by Mrs. Ayliff (‘Tell me no more I am deceiv'd’)

Copy, headed ‘An answer to a friend for loving a common Jilt’.

This MS collated in Hammond, p. 306.

First published, as ‘A Song set by Mr. Henry Purcell, the Words by Mr. Congreve’, in The Gentleman's Journal (January 1692/3), pp. 27-8. Thomas Southerne, The Maid's Last Prayer, or, Any, Rather than Fail (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 24. Dobrée, p. 243. McKenzie, II, 323-4. The Works of Henry Purcell, XX (London, 1916), pp. 82-3.

For the song by Etherege with the same opening line, see EtG 69.

p. 126

• RoJ 416: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Phyllis, be gentler, I advise’)

Copy, headed ‘To Phillis’.

This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.

p. 127

• RoJ 441: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘What cruel pains Corinna takes’)

Copy of stanzas 1, 2 and 4, headed ‘To Corinna’.

This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 31. Walker, p. 20, as ‘To Corinna. A Song’. Love, p. 20, as To Corinna.

p. 128

• RoJ 172: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life (‘All my past life is mine no more’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.

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

p. 129

• RoJ 451: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘While on those lovely looks I gaze’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Walker. Collated in Hammond.

First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 12-13. Walker, pp. 43-4. Love, pp. 26-7.

p. 130

• RoJ 94: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Fall (‘How blest was the created state’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Walker. Collated in Hammond.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 86. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 26.

p. 132

• RoJ 410: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Love a woman? You're an ass!’)

Copy, headed ‘Love a Woman’.

This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 51. Walker, p. 25. Love, p. 38, as ‘Love to a Woman’.

p. 133

• RoJ 7: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Against Marriage (‘Out of mere love and arrant devotion’)

Copy, headed ‘Of Marriage’ and here beginning ‘Out of stark Love...’, with four lines added in another hand.

Edited in part from this MS in Love. Collated in Hammond and in Walker (and the additional lines edited, p. 222).

First published in Vieth (1968), p. 159. Walker, pp. 130-1, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, pp. 40-1, as Of Marriage and beginning Out of Stark Love, and arrant Devotion.

pp. 134-5

• RoJ 245: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr (‘To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's ‘Answer’ (‘Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me’: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

pp. 137-42

• RoJ 15: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book (‘Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Hammond and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

pp. 166-75

• DoC 349: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)

Copy.

First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being ‘probably by the L^d Dorset’ in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

pp. 204-5

• DrJ 184: John Dryden, Song (‘Go tell Amynta gentle Swain’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Hammond, p. 312.

pp. 205-7

• RoJ 342: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II (‘I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.

This MS collated in Hammond. Recorded in Walker.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 60-1. Walker, pp. 74-5. Love (five versions), pp. 85-6, 86-7, 88, 89-90, 90. The manuscript texts discussed, with detailed collations, in Harold Love, ‘Rochester's “I' th' isle of Britain”: Decoding a Textual Tradition’, EMS, 6 (1997), 175-223.

pp. 214-15

• BeA 3: Aphra Behn, The Coquet (‘Melinda, who had never been’)

Copy.

First published in La Monstre, or, The Lover's Watch (London, 1686). Summers, VI, 29-30.

p. 242

• WaE 186: Edmund Waller, Of Her Majesty, on New-Year's Day, 1683 (‘What revolutions in the world have been’)

Copy.

First published in Poems, ‘Fifth’ edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 93.

MS Lt. 55

An oblong quarto miscellany chiefly of poems on affairs of state, including ten in the Marvell canon and other works attributed to him, largely in a single hand, with later additions in other hands, written along the length of the page with the spine upwards, i + 92 leaves, in contemporary calf. Used from the reverse end, for a 79-page catalogue of c.1400 books dating from 1519 to the mid-18th century, in two hands, headed ‘Catalogue of M^r. Okeover's Library taken Sept^r: 1760’ with a supplement headed ‘Found in London in Feby 1764 by M^r. Walhouse — after M^r. Leeke Okeover's death in M^r. Okeover's house in John Street, Gray's Inn Lane, London’. c.late 1670s [-1764].

Inscribed (f. i^r) ‘tho may’. Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 541.

Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the ‘Okeover MS’: MaA Δ 7.

f. 4r-v

• MaA 201: Andrew Marvell, Nostradamus's Prophecy (‘The Blood of the Just London's firm Doome shall fix’)

Copy, headed ‘An auncient Prophecy of Notre-dame written originally in frensh & now done into English’ and dated ‘Bayes Jan. 6^th-71°’.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.

ff. 4v-6r

• MaA 479: Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter (‘Painter once more thy Pencell reassume’)

Copy, headed ‘The 4 or 5 advise to y^e Painter. ffeb. 1670/1’.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.

ff. 9v-10r

• ShJ 163.5: James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song (‘The glories of our blood and state’)

Copy, headed ‘Anglicè’, preceded by a Latin version beginning ‘Quid profunt monumenta...’.

Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).

f. 10v

• MaA 256: Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (‘When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon Bloods late attempt of borrowing y^e Crowne’.

First published as a separate poem in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, I, 78. Lord, p. 193. Smith, p. 414.

This poem also appears as lines 178-85 of The Loyal Scot (see MaA 191-8 and Margoliouth, I, 379, 384).

For the Latin version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 85-97.

f. 10v

• MaA 87: Andrew Marvell, Bludius et Corona (‘Bludius, ut ruris damnum repararet aviti’)

Copy.

First published in Thompson (1776), I, xxxix. Margoliouth, I, 178. Lord, p. 249. Smith, p. 414, with English translation.

For the English version, which accompanies many of the MS texts, see MaA 253-80.

ff. 10v-12r

• MaA 236: Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market (‘As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon S^r Rob^t. Vyners setting up of y^e King's Statue in Wool=Church Market’.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

ff. 12v-16v

• MaA 505: Andrew Marvell, The Alarme

Copy, here anonymous and headed ‘The Alarum. Written in November 1669 and sent in a letter to a member of y^e house of Commons’.

An unpublished tract, beginning ‘Like the dumb man that found his tongue when he saw an arm lifted up to kill his father...’. Discussed as a work of ‘doubtful’ authorship in Legouis, pp. 470-1.

ff. 24v-6v

• MaA 439: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy.

ff. 32r-3r

• MaA 304: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty (‘The Londoners Gent’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 190-4. POAS, I, 237-42. Lord, pp. 196-201, as ‘Upon the Citye's going in a body…’.

ff. 34r-5r

• MaA 511: Andrew Marvell, His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, 13 April 1675

Copy, headed ‘The King's speech to y^e Parliament 13^th of Aprill 1675’.

A mock speech, beginning ‘I told you last meeting the winter was the fittest time for business...’. First published, and ascribed to Marvell, in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 36-43. Grosart, II, 431-3. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (London, 1905), pp. 200-2. Discussed in Legouis, p. 470, and in Kelliher, pp. 111-12.

pp. 35-46

• MaA 163.91: Andrew Marvell, The Dream of the Cabal: A Prophetical Satire Anno 1672 (‘As t'other night in bed I thinking lay’)

Copy.

A lampoon sometimes called The Gamball or a dreame of y^e Grand Caball. First published in A Second Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Edited in POAS, I (1963), pp. 191-203, as possibly by John Ayloffe. Ascribed to Marvell in two MS copies (MaA 163.4 and MaA 163.92).

f. 36r

• DoC 326.1: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Distich (‘This was y^e house y^t was built by Harris’)

Copy of the couplet, at the end of a sequence beginning with a distich beginning ‘Par domus haec urbi est, urbs urbi, neutra triumphis’ and its English translation (‘The Louvre to Paris, that to y^e world compare’) followed by the heading ‘Burlesqued by my L^d Buckhurst’.

Unpublished? Dorset's burlesue of one of the many Latin elegiac distichs which were composed in 1671 in response to a competition instituted by Colbert.

f. 36r

• RoJ 128: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Louis XIV (‘Lorraine you stole. by fraud you got Burgundy’)

Copy, headed ‘Anglice’ and following a Latin version.

First published in The Agreeable Companion (London, 1745). Vieth, p. 21. Walker, p. 121, as ‘[On Louis XIV]’. See also A. S. G. Edwards, ‘Rochester's “Impromptu on Louis XIV”’, N&Q, 219 (November 1974), 418-19.

ff. 36v-7r

• RoJ 352: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II (‘I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown’)

Copy, headed ‘My L^d. R. verses’ and here beginning ‘There was a Monarch in all Isle say some’.

ff. 37r-40r

• MaA 66: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn (‘I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene’)

Copy, without ‘The Answer’, headed ‘The Chequer Inne’ and the poem here dated 1674.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

ff. 40v-3v

• MaA 103: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue, Brittannia, Rawleigh’.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, ‘Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe’, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

ff. 43v-5v

• RoJ 104.41: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids (‘Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second’)

Copy, headed ‘The Chronicle’.

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

ff. 46r-9r

• MaA 145: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses (‘Wee read in profane and Sacred records’)

Copy, the poem here dated 1675.

First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as ‘probably Marvell's’. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

ff. 50r-3r

• MaA 519.6: Andrew Marvell, The Lord Chancellour's Speech to the Parliament. 20^th of October 1673

Copy.

Unpublished. A mock-speech, possibly by Marvell, which may perhaps have been confused with The Earl of Shaftesbury's Speech in the House of lords, upon the Debate of Appointing a Day for the hearing Dr Shirley's Cause Oct. 20. 1675. See the discussion in the Introduction.

pp. 70-1

• RoJ 342.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II (‘I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown’)

Copy of a version headed ‘My Lord R. verses’ and beginning ‘There is a Monarch in an Isle say some’.

Edited from this MS in Love, pp. 89-90.

MS Lt. 57

An octavo miscellany, probably compiled by an Oxford University man, written from both ends, 76 leaves, in contemporary calf. Mid to late 17th century.

Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 30.

f. B3r rev.

• WiG 9: George Wither, The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet (‘Shall I wasting in despair’)

Copy of the first stanza, headed ‘Of a great man’ and here beginning ‘Shall I lye wasting in despare?’.

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

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

MS Lt. 61

A quarto verse miscellany, 40 leaves (plus some blanks), in engraved wrappers (with an image of William, Prince of Orange, on horseback, 1650). c.1712.

Inscribed (f. 1r) ‘James Gollop’, possibly the compiler.

ff. 18v-19r

• MaA 49: Andrew Marvell, Musicks Empire (‘First was the World as one great Cymbal made’)

First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 50-1. Smith, pp. 150-1.

ff. 24v-5v

• MaA 60: Andrew Marvell, To his Coy Mistress (‘Had we but World enough, and Time’)

Copy, headed ‘To a Coy Mistress’, subscribed ‘Marvell. Misc. Poems. p. 19.’

First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 27-8. Lord, pp. 23-5. Smith, pp. 81-4.

ff. 28v-9r

• WaE 606: Edmund Waller, To Phyllis (‘Phyllis! why should we delay’)

Copy, headed ‘Wooing’.

First published, as ‘The cunning Curtezan’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 84.

f. 29r-v

• WaE 324: Edmund Waller, On a Girdle (‘That which her slender waist confined’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 95.

ff. 29v-30r

• WaE 246: Edmund Waller, Of My Lady Isabella, Playing on the Lute (‘Such moving sounds from such a careless touch!’)

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 90.

MS Lt 66

A quarto MS Latin grammar by the pedagogue Lewis Maidwell (1650-1715), in a single immature hand, 73 pages. c.1684.

Once owned by the Lowther family, probably by Sir John Lowther, second baronet (1642-1706), whose two sons Christopher, later third Baronet (c.1666-1731), and James, later fourth Baronet (c.1673-1755), were both pupils of Maidwell at Hatton Garden in the 1680s.

f. 1r-v

• DrJ 197.5: John Dryden, To M^r. L: Maidwell on his new method (‘Latine is now of equal use become’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘J. Drydon’.

Edited from this MS in Hammond, with a complete facsimile in II, after p. 196.

First described, at some length, in Pickering and Chatto's sale catalogue No. 652 (January 1984), item 50. The arguments set forth there were elaborated, and the poem itself first published, by John Barnard and Paul Hammond in ‘Dryden and a poem for Lewis Maidwell’, TLS (25 May 1984), p. 586. Correspondence, by Alan Roper and others, partly questioning the attribution, appeared in subsequent issues of the TLS on 8 June (p. 637), 22 June (p. 696) and 29 June (p. 727). Arguments for Dryden's authorship supported in G.J. Clingham, ‘Dryden's New Poem’, Essays in Criticism, 35/4 (October 1985), 281-93. The poem is accepted in the canon and edited in Hammond, II, 225-7. Plainly, in view of Dryden's known association with Maidwell and the appropriateness of some of the allusions and sentiments in the poem, there is a strong case for his authorship. On the other hand, the poem is decidedly mediocre: it is questionable whether he would have been capable of writing such a piece in the mid-1680s. Another candidate for ‘J. Drydon’ offers itself in the form of the poet's cousin Jonathan Dryden (1639-1702), who is known, inter alia, to have written commendatory poems in Latin.

MS Lt. 67

An octavo bundle of unbound verse and miscellaneous MSS, largely in one hand. Early-mid-18th century.

ff. 45v-6v

• DrJ 242.8: John Dryden, Veni Creator Spiritus, Translated in Paraphrase (‘Creator Spirit, by whose aid’)

Copy, as ‘by M^r Dryden’, among a group of ‘Divine Poems’.

First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 843-4. California, IV, 422-3. Hammond, IV, 308-10.

ff. 54r-5v

• CoA 36.2: Abraham Cowley, ‘Behould the silent night with happy birth’

Copy, headed ‘Christ's passion. Taken out of a Greek ode written by m^r masters of new College in oxford’, on two conjugate octavo leaves.

First published in John Sargeaunt, Annals of Westminster School (London, 1898), p. 282. Reprinted in Jean Loiseau, Abraham Cowley: Sa Vie, Son Oeuvre (Paris, 1931), pp. 648-9.

MS Lt. 71

An octavo miscellany, in English and Latin, in a single hand, 141 leaves (ff. 124v-41v blank), in contemporary calf. c.1690s.

Bought from P.J. and A.E. Dobell, in 1922, by Reginald L. Hine (1883-1949), solicitor, of Hitchin, Hertfordshire.

f. 38r

• CoA 177.5: Abraham Cowley, Sors Virgiliana (‘By a bold peoples stubborn armes opprest’)

Copy of a version, headed ‘K. Charles I at Oxford being at a sport called Sortes Virgilianae drew for his lot some part of the 4th Eneid about vers 615 and had six verses translated’, followed by the original Latin.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Bowman, in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677].

Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Sparrow, p. 192. Texts usually preceded by a prose introduction explaining the circumstances of composition.

ff. 40v-2r

• CgW 9.8: William Congreve, Horace, Lib. II. Ode 14. Imitated by Mr. Congreve (‘Ah! No, 'tis all in vain, believe me 'tis’)

Copy.

ff. 42r-3r

• CgW 21.5: William Congreve, In Imitation of Horace. Ode IX. Lib. I (‘Bless me, 'tis cold! how chill the Air!’)

Copy, as ‘By M^r Congreve’.

First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems (London, 1692). Dobrée, pp. 237-9. McKenzie, II, 318-20.

ff. 44r-5v

• CgW 51.5: William Congreve, Upon a Lady's Singing. Pindarick Ode, By Mr. Congreve (‘Let all be husht, each softest Motion cease’)

Copy.

First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, IV, 7-9. Dobrée, pp. 222-4 (as ‘on Mrs. Arabella Hunt, Singing. Irregular Ode’). McKenzie, II, 300-2.

f. 48v

• BeA 7.8: Aphra Behn, On a Conventicle (‘Behold that race, whence England's Woes proceed’)

Copy, as by ‘M^rs Behn’.

First published in Charles Gildon, Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692). Summers, VI. Todd, I, 355 (No. 91).

f. 51r

• CgW 29.5: William Congreve, The Message (‘Go thou unhappy victim’)

Copy, headed ‘The Message, By W. C.’

Published in Works (1710). McKenzie, II, 465.

f. 56r

• WhA 48: Anne Wharton, To Doc: Burnett upon his retirement (‘If darkest Shades could cloud so bright a Mind’)

Copy of lines 47-53, untitled and here beginning ‘But now alas he rules a giddy crowd’.

First published, as ‘Upon the D. of Buckingham's Retirement: By Madame Wharton, Jan. 1683’, in Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692), pp. Greer & Hastings, No. 17, pp. 177-9.

MS Lt 72

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands, with loosely inserted leaves. c.1724-41.

f. 7r-v

• MaA 21: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda (‘When Death, shall part us from these Kids’)

Copy.

First published, in a musical setting by John Gamble, in his Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659). Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 19-21. Lord, pp. 261-2, as of doubtful authorship. Smith pp. 244-5. The authorship doubted and discussed in Chernaik, pp. 207-8.

MS Lt. 78

A quarto volume of Poems on Several Occasions, Written by Iohn Fountain Gent., in a single hand, 163 pages, in contemporary vellum boards. c.1721.

The title-page inscribed ‘Liber Georgij Newell emptus 22^o Martii Annoque 1720/21 Pretium 3^s’, and inside the lower cover ‘This Book was paid for the 10^th of May Anno Domini 1721’. Sotheby's, 10 July 1986, lot 17.

pp. 158-9

• WiG 10: George Wither, The Author's Resolution in a Sonnet (‘Shall I wasting in despair’)

Copy, headed ‘The Careless Lover’, ascribed in another hand to ‘M^r. John Fountain’ (d.1663).

MS Lt 79

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, almost entirely in a single hand, compiled by a university man, 134 leaves, in modern vellum. End of 17th century-1700s.

In a family library at Bath before 1924. Sotheby's, 23 July 1987, lot 11, to Quaritch.

ff. 81r-95v

• DeJ 122.2: Sir John Denham, The Anatomy of Play

Copy, as ‘written by John Denham Esq.’, subscribed ‘Aprill 21^th. Finis. Anno. 1651.’

First published in London, 1651.

f. 126v

• CoA 292: Abraham Cowley, Extracts

Extract from The Mistresse.

ff. 129v-30r

• HrJ 234.1: Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches (‘Six of the weakest sex and purest sect’)

Copy, headed ‘The Holy Sisters’ and here beginning ‘Six holy sisters of y^e purest Sect’.

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. 133v-4r

• DoC 206.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) (‘Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay’)

Copy, headed ‘Dorset on Dorshester’.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.

MS Lt. 80

Two quarto volumes of poems, translations and other material, including (with title-page f. 53r) ‘Poems & Translations. by Hugh Wormington. A.D, 1718’, in a single hand, probably autograph, 216 leaves, both volumes in contemporary calf gilt. c.1715-23.

Inscribed (f. 3r) ‘Ex Libris Hugonis Wormington S². C. D. Anno Dom 1715’, and (f. 1r) ‘Presented by The Marchioness De Crequy To Randle Jackson’. With Jackson's bookplate.

I, f. 7r-v

• ShW 44.9: William Shakespeare, Hamlet

Copy of Hamlet's ‘To be or not to be’ speech, headed ‘Futurity’, subscribed ‘Shak. Ham^t’.

First published in London, 1603.

I, ff. 14v-15r

• CoA 63.5: Abraham Cowley, Elegie upon Anacreon, who was choaked by a Grape-Stone (‘How shall I lament thine end’)

Copy of the last twelve lines, beginning ‘It grieves me when I see what Fate’.

First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 59-62.

I, f. 15v

• CoA 170.5: Abraham Cowley, The Second Olympique Ode of Pindar (‘Queen of all Harmonious things’)

Copy of the last fourteen lines of the 9th canto, beginning ‘Art lives on Nature's Alms is weak and poor’.

First published in Pindarique Odes (London, 1668). Waller, I, 157-62.

I, f. 126v

• CoA 62.5: Abraham Cowley, Dialogue (‘What have we done? what cruel passion mov'd thee’)

Copy, beginning at stanza 5, here beginning ‘Thou first perhapps who didst the fault commit’, in the middle of a prose ‘Longwinded Epistle...sent by a faire Lady from the Feather Tavern in Clarkenwell to exercise a wild fancy’.

First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 147-8.

MS Lt. 84

A small (?sextodecimo) notebook comprising chiefly religious poems and prayers, written from both ends, 94 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1715.

ff. 14r, 21v-5v

• HuF 13: Sir Francis Hubert, Edward II (‘It is thy sad disaster which I sing’)

Series of extracts, the first untitled and beginning ‘Thus fares it w^th o^r Fortune & o^r state’; the second headed ‘Humility’ and beginning ‘Storms rage more fiercely on y^e Hills y^e Dales’; the third headed ‘The Humble contented man’ and beginning ‘Happy thrice Happy is that sweet estate’.

First published, in an unauthorised edition as The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second. Together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gavestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Pöem, London, 1628. First authorised edition, as The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer, London, 1629. An edition of a 576-stanza version in three cantos, entitled The Life of Edward II, was printed in London 1721 from an unidentified MS.

Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed ‘The Life and Death of Edward the Second’, including ‘The Authors Preface’ beginning ‘Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so’?).

f. 18r

• SpE 27.1: Edmund Spenser, The Ruines of Time (‘It chaunced me on day beside the shore’)

Copy of a version of II, 17-22, beginning ‘Life have I worn out thrice thirty years’.

First published in Complaints (London, 1591). Variorum, Minor Poems, II, 35-56.

MS Lt. 86

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single cursive hand, written from both ends, 25 leaves (including blanks), in a paper wrapper. c.1690s.

Sotheby's, 20 July 1989, lot 36.

f. 5v

• SiP 118.8: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book I, No. 5 (‘Now thanked be the great God Pan’)

Copy, headed ‘demetrius on dorus, in S^r: Philp sidneys Arc^a, 1671’.

Ringler, p. 13. Robertson, p. 51. this setting first published in Thomas Ravenscroft, Pammelia (London, 1609).

ff. 9r-11r

• DrJ 267.65: John Dryden, The Indian Emperour, or, The Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards

Extracts.

First published in London, 1667. California, IX (1966), pp. 1-112.

MS Lt. 87

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, predominantly in one probably professional cursive hand, with additions by others, 77 leaves (plus blanks), in brown morocco gilt. c.1680s.

Later owned by Robert Offley Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician. Sold in 1979 by Henry Sotheran, bookseller, to Michael Phillips.

ff. 25r-7r

• MaA 139.9: Andrew Marvell, A Country Clowne call'd Hodge Went to view the Pyramid, pray mark what did ensue (‘When Hodge had number'd up how many score’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision’, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.

First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.

ff. 27v-30r

• DoC 49.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyre’.

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

ff. 34r-5r

• MaA 205: Andrew Marvell, Nostradamus's Prophecy (‘The Blood of the Just London's firm Doome shall fix’)

Copy of a version headed ‘Nostredamus A Propesy’ and beginning ‘Her faults, and Follies London doom shall fix’.

ff. 37r-44r

• DrJ 43.89: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)

Copy.

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

f. 60r

• DoC 232.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen (‘Clarendon had law and sense’)

Copy of stanzas 1, 2 and 6, untitled.

First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

ff. 67r-8r

• DoC 322.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Deist: A Satyr on the Parsons (‘Religion's a politic law’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Tho Religions an Pollitick Law’.

Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, pp. 189-90.

MS Lt. 91

An octavo miscellany of verse, prose and drama, written over a period in various hands, 179 leaves, in remains of contemporary calf. c.1620-late 17th century.

Inscribed (f. 31v) ‘Henry Gould his Book 1620’. Compiled in part by one Henry Gould (c.1620). Other scribbling in the volume includes names of Robert Carter, John and Peggy Marriot, Thomas and John Allsopp (1746), George and Thomas Swindell, Richard Fowles, and George and Catherine Bindale, as well as an acrostic on Mrs Anne Boulton, and, on the first page, the inscription ‘Mend the play Booke Gilbert Carter’. Sotheby's, 15 December 1988, lot 13.

f. 9r

• WiG 12.5: George Wither, Britain's Remembrancer (‘One Storm is past, & though some clouds appear’)

Extracts.

First published, with preliminary material including a dedication to Chares I, in London, 1628. Spenser Society, Nos 28-29 (1980; reprinted in New York, 1967).

MS Lt. 93

A large octavo miscellany of verse and prose, the greater part in a single probably female hand, with additions into the 19th century, 111 leaves (including blanks), in quarter-calf on marbled boards. Inscribed (f. 111v) with the name ‘Sarah Bignell’, possibly the principal compiler. c.1750-70 [plus later additions].

Bookplate of The Pacific Union Club, San Francisco.

f. 6v

• PsK 553.5: Katherine Philips, The Virgin (‘The things that make a Virgin please’)

First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.

f. 15v

• WoH 191.5: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)

Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on two Lovers, who were contracted, both dying before Marriage’.

First published as an independent couplet in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 529. Hannah (1845), p. 44. The authorship is uncertain.

This couplet, which was subject to different versions over the years, is in fact lines 5-6 of a twelve-line poem beginning ‘Here lye two Bodyes happy in their kinds’, which has also been attributed to George Herbert: see HrG 290.5-290.8.

f. 46r-v

• MoG 35: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed ‘On K. James 1^st’. and here beginning ‘He that hath eyes, now wake and weep’.

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

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

f. 63v

• CwT 23.5: Thomas Carew, Boldnesse in love (‘Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine’)

Copy.

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

MS Lt. 94

An exemplum of the octavo ‘Fifth’ printed edition of Waller's Poems (London, 1686) with MS copies of ten further poems by him written on various pages in a single hand, varying in degrees of neatness, in contemporary calf. End of 17th century.

Scribbling (on the title-page and verso) including the names ‘Tho: Trevor’ and [?] Herbert Lloyd, and with the bookplate of ‘The Hon^ble Tho: Trevor. Esq^r’. A slip pasted on the calf cover bearing the name ‘Elianore Mary’ below the monogram ‘EMR’.

The bookplate is presumably that (between 1712 and 1730) of Thomas Trevor (c.1692-1753), second Baron Trevor of Bromham, son of Thomas, first Baron (1658-1730), Lord Chief Justice &c., whose grandfather was Edmund Waller's first cousin and neighbour, the statesman John Hampden (1594-1643). Later in the Oxford library of John Sparrow (1906-92), literary scholar and book collector. Christie's, 21 October 1992 (Sparrow sale), lot 288.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1997) as the ‘Trevor volume’: WaE Δ 16.

the verso of the frontispiece

• WaE 58: Edmund Waller, An Epigram on a Painted Lady with Ill Teeth (‘Were men so dull they could not see’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 3.

the recto of the second endpaper

• WaE 64: Edmund Waller, Epitaph on the Lady Sedley (‘Here lies the learned Savil's heir’)

Copy.

First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 114-15.

front paste-down

• WaE 113: Edmund Waller, Long and Short Life (‘Circles are praised, not that abound’)

Copy.

First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 112.

verso of the second end-paper and the end paste-down

• WaE 347: Edmund Waller, On the Duke of Monmouth's Expedition into Scotland in the Summer Solstice, 1679 (‘Swift as Jove's messenger, the winged god’)

Copy of a 47-line version, headed ‘On y^e D of M's expedition into Scotland in y^e summer’.

The text corresponds with lines 1-38, 46-7, 39-45 (and lacking lines 49-50) of Thorn-Drury's printed version.

First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 84-5.

front paste-down

• WaE 372: Edmund Waller, On the Picture of a Fair Youth, taken after he was dead (‘As gathered flowers, while their wounds are new’)

Copy of lines 11-16, headed ‘The continuation of the poem On the picture of a fair youth taken after he was dead. page 230:’ [i.e. supplying missing lines in the printed text which are there represented by the remark ‘The rest is lost’], the lines here beginning ‘No wonder then he sped in Love so well’.

First published in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 67.

front paste-down and both sides of the flyleaf

• WaE 378: Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation (‘While with a strong and yet a gentle hand’)

Copy of lines 63-156, 173-88, written in an irregular sequence, some verses sideways down the margin, and without a heading.

First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.

end paste-down

• WaE 409: Edmund Waller, Pride (‘Not the brave Macedonian youth alone’)

Copy.

First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 114.

verso of the first end-paper

• WaE 429: Edmund Waller, Song (‘Chloris! farewell. I now must go’)

Copy, headed ‘A copy of Verses written by M^r Waller, above forty years since, & never printed in any edition of his Poems’.

Facsimile in The Brotherton Collection Review 1991-94 (Leeds. 1996), p. 9.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). Poems, ‘Eighth’ edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 110-11.

verso of the frontispiece

• WaE 536: Edmund Waller, To Chloris (‘Chloris! what's eminent, we know’)

Copy.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 122.

recto of the first end-paper

• WaE 704: Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same (‘We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim’)

Copy.

For the ‘answer or construction’ by William Godolphin, see the Introduction.

MS Lt 95

Series of verse translations, in a single hand, written as annotations to ‘Octavius, or a dialogue betwixt a Christian and an Infidel. From the original of M. Minutius Felix [...] by William Cooke MA, Vicar of Enford in Wiltshire and Rector of Oldbury and Dedmarton in Gloucestershire’. c.1750.

Inscribed name of William Cooke.

f. 42v

• CoA 28.5: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. III. Beauty

Extract.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656).

MS Lt 96

A verse miscellany. Mid-late 18th century.

f. 2v

• DrJ 2.8: John Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel (‘In pious times, e'r Priest-craft did begin’)

A version of lines 686-91, 232-43.

First published in London, 1681. Kinsley, I, 215-43. California, II, 2-36. Hammond, I, 450-532.

MS Lt. 98

An exemplum of the printed edition of 1684 with a series of sixteen MS poems by one Joseph Sparrow, with other didactic material giving advice to children, etc., on four flyleaves and sig. Q4^v. 1705-6.

JoE 3: Elizabeth Jocelin, The mother's legacie, to her unborne childe

Other inscribed names of ‘John Story’, ‘Durant’, ‘John Cready’, ‘Jo Hendy’, and ‘Ann Richards’. Christie's, 24 August 1973.

First published, edited by Thomas Goad, London, 1624.

MS Lt. 100

A quarto commonplace book containing original and transcribed verse and prose, with references to theatrical performances by Garrick, Mrs Siddons and others at York and elsewhere, in several hands, written from both ends, 119 leaves, in contemporary vellum. Late 18th century.

f. 106r rev.

• DrJ 43.4: John Dryden, An Epitaph on the Lady Whitmore (‘Fair, Kind, and True, a Treasure each alone’)

Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on a young Lady’, subscribed ‘J. S.’

First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 845. Hammond, III, 243-4.

MS Lt 106

A miscellany of verse and prose, in English, Latin and Greek, in various hands, including tipped-in printed matter. Mid-late 18th century.

f. 144r

• WoH 218.5: Sir Henry Wotton, Epigram (‘If breath was made for every man to buy’)

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 540, among ‘Poems Found among the Papers of S. H. Wotton’.

MS Lt. 110

An octavo verse miscellany, entitled ‘Poems & Verses on Several Occasions, MDCCXXVI’, in a mainly single hand, 66 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary green vellum boards. 1726-c.1768.

The title-page inscribed ‘Anna. Rogers. Jun^r: 1768’.

Discussed in Paul Hammond, ‘Some Eighteenth-Century Texts and Adaptations of Rochester in Leeds MS Lt 110’, EMS 18 (2013 forthcoming).

ff. 1r-4r

• CgW 38.5: William Congreve, Song (‘Alas! what Pains, what racking Thoughts he proves’)

Copy, headed ‘Absence’, on rectos only.

First published in Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 75. Dobrée, p. 241 and McKenzie, II, 322 (both as ‘Absence’ and beginning ‘Ah! what Pains, what racking Thoughts he proves’). Musical setting by Henry Purcell published in The Works of Henry Purcell, XXV (London, 1928), pp. 4-8.

ff. 1v-18v

• RoJ 325.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy of a 198-line version, headed ‘A Satire on Man’, as by ‘L--R’, written lengthways down the pages on versos only.

ff. 9r, 10r

• CgW 45.25: William Congreve, To a Candle Elegy (‘Thou watchful Taper, by whose silent Light’)

Copy, headed ‘To a Candle’.

Summers, IV, 45.2. McKenzie, II, 376.

ff. 12r-16r

• RoJ 325.8: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy of lines 60-71, headed ‘Man’, here beginning ‘Bless'd glorious Man, to whom alone kind heaven’, incorporated (as lines 1-12) in a poem made up of extracts from several writers' verses.

Edited from this MS in Hammond's article.

ff. 14r, 15r

• PsK 571.5: Katherine Philips, The World (‘Wee falsly think it due unto our friends’)

Copy of lines 7-12, 15-16, 21-2, 27-30, 33-4, 45-56, 59-62, 65-6, and 69-70, incorporated (as lines 25-60) in a poem made up of extracts from several writers' verses.

Edited from this MS in Paul Hammond, ‘Some Eighteenth-Century Texts and Adaptations of Rochester in Leeds MS Lt 110’, EMS (forthcoming).

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 217-22. Poems (1667), pp. 111-13. Saintsbury, pp. 569-71. Thomas, I, 182-5, poem 72.

ff. 33v-8v

• RoJ 591.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon Nothing. A Poem by D B: [Duke of Buckingham] & E Roc’, written lengthways down the page.

ff. 39r-43v

• CgW 30.8: William Congreve, Of Pleasing; an Epistle To Sir Richard Temple (‘'Tis strange, dear Temple, how it comes to pass’)

Copy, headed ‘Of Pleasing: An Epistle to S^r R^d. T---e’, written lengthways down the pages.

Summers, IV, 148-51. McKenzie, II, 406-9.

ff. 44r-46r

• CgW 46.8: William Congreve, To Sleep Elegy (‘O Sleep! thou Flatterer of happy Minds’)

Copy, headed ‘To Sleep. an Elegy’, on rectos only.

First published in Works (1710). Summers, IV, 144-5. McKenzie, II, 372-3.

f. 52r

• RoJ 271.8: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Plain Dealings Downfall (‘Long time plain dealing in the Hauty Town’)

Copy.

First published in Poems on several occasions. Written by a late person of honour (London, 1685), p. 54. Love, pp. 277-8.

f. 53r

• RoJ 231.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)

Copy, headed ‘Romes Pardons’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

f. 60r

• RoJ 89.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems (‘Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound’)

Copy of lines 89-100, headed ‘Fame’ and here beginning ‘There's not a thing on Earth that I can Name’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

f. 69r-v

• RoJ 163.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (‘Chloe, In verse by your command I write’)

Copy of lines 40-49.

First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

MS Lt. 114

A quarto commonplace book, written from both ends, unnumbered pages, in contemporary vellum rebound in modern vellum. Compiled by members of the Deynes family and others. Mid-late 17th century.

Inscribed names of Charles Deynes, Grey Bryan (in pencil), and (in pencil) Alex Robertson, Invercargill, New Zealand. Purchased from P.J. and A.E. Dobell 30 November 1924.

f. [iii^r]

• StW 207.5: William Strode, Justification (‘See how the rainbow in the skie’)

Copy, headed ‘Uppon Justification’.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 55. Forey, p. 109.

ff. [iii^v]-[iv^v]

• JnB 642.5: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest’)

Copy, headed ‘The Divell feasted’.

Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.

f. 1r

• CoA 24.8: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking (‘The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain’)

Copy of an abbreviated version, untitled.

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).

[unspecified page numbers]

• FuT 5.23: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War

Extracts.

First published in Cambridge, 1639.

MS Lt. 123

An octavo verse miscellany, chiefly translations of classical texts, predominantly in one clear hand up to p. 151, with additions in other hands over a period, written from both ends, 273 pages (plus a number of blanks), in half-calf marbled boards. Early 18th century.

pp. 63-5

• BcF 38.8: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, headed ‘The World. a fit recitation for Evening’.

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.

pp. 65-6

• BrT 0.7: Sir Thomas Browne, Colloquy with God (‘The night is come like to the day’)

Copy, headed ‘A Night Poem’.

First published in Religio Medici, where Browne describes it as ‘the dormitive I take to bedward…to make me sleepe’. Published later, in an anonymous musical setting, in Harmonia Sacra, II (1693). Keynes, I, 89-90.

pp. 99-100

• RnT 392.5: Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger (‘Arithmetique nine digits, and no more’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon one that had lost his little finger’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.

ff. 100r-4r

• RnT 181.5: Thomas Randolph, Necessary observations (‘First worship God, he that forgets to pray’)

Copy of 21 Precepts.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 57-66.

pp. 243-5

• CgW 45.3: William Congreve, To Cynthia Weeping and not speaking. Elegy (‘Why are those Hours, which Heav'n in Pity lent’)

Copy, headed ‘To Cynthia weeping & not Speaking by M^r Congreve / Elegy’.

First published in Dryden's Miscellany (London, 1694). Summers, IV, 103. McKenzie, II, 367-8.

MS Lt. q. 5

A large folio volume of poems attributed to Henry Hall (1656?-1707), largely in a probably professional hand, 113 leaves, in contemporary quarter-vellum marbled boards. c.1710-20?.

p. 50

• PsK 577.3: Katherine Philips, Pompey. A Tragedy, Act II, scene iv. Song (‘See how Victorious Cæsar's Pride’)

Copy of the last two stanzas (lines 21-8), headed ‘By M^rs. Katherine Philipps’ and here beginning ‘If Justice be a thing divine’, followed by Hall's ‘Answer’ recasting her lines, beginning ‘Bright Justice is a thing divine’.

This MS recorded in Thoma, I, 315.

Song sung by two Egyptian priests. Thomas, III, 40-1.

MS Lt. q. 9

A folio miscellany of verse and prose, in several hands, 283 leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Compiled principally by one ‘Jo. Tempest’. Mid-17th century.

Inscribed inside the front cover ‘G. J. Farsyde Fylingdales in Whitby 1826 / These M S. were found amongst the papers of my Uncle Watson Farsyde’. Peter Murray Hill, sale catalogue No. 72 (1960), item 22.

f. 17r

• RaW 74: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, untitled, indexed (f. 13v) as ‘Verses made by Sir walter Rawleigh’.

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).

MS Lt. q. 11

A disbound collection of chiefly verse MSS, in several hands, largely folio.

Once belonging to the Newdegate family of Arbury Hall, Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 572.

No. 1

• DoC 350: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)

Copy, on three folio leaves. Late 17th century.

No. 29

• HeR 350: Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing (‘When the monethly horned Queene’)

Copy, headed ‘The kinge of ffairies Dresse’ on both sides of a single folio leaf. c.1630s.

First published, as ‘A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes’ and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr., ‘Robert Herrick and “King Oberon's Clothing”: New Evidence for Attribution’, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, ‘Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward’, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.

No. 30

• DoC 50: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)

Copy, in double columns, headed ‘Satyr’, with annotations, on both sides of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

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

No. 32

• PsK 46: Katherine Philips, A Countrey life (‘How sacred and how innocent’)

Copy, untitled, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 177-82. Poems (1667), pp. 88-91. Saintsbury, pp. 588. Thomas, I, 159-62, poem 61. Anonymous musical setting published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1691).

No. 33

• PsK 267: Katherine Philips, On the faire weather at the Coronacon (‘So clear a season, and so snatch'd from storms’)

Copy, originally untitled, the heading ‘Vpon the Kings coming in. 1660’ added in another hand, on the third page of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 9-10. Poems (1667), p. 5. Saintsbury, p. 509. Hageman (1987), p. 585. Thomas, I, 73, poem 4.

No. 39

• DrJ 143: John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton (‘What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess’)

Copy, headed ‘The Prologue to y^e Prophetess by M^r Dryden’, on both sides of a single folio leaf, docketed ‘1690 May M^r Drydens Prologue to the Prophetesse’. c.1690.

No. 46

• MoG 36: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘On y^e late Kinge’, on one side of a single long folio leaf. c.1625-30.

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

No. 50

• BmF 76: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘ff B’, on both sides of a single folio leaf. c.1620s-30s.

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

No. 51

• JnB 243: Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan (‘Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire’)

Copy, in a small neat hand, in double columns, headed ‘An Execration on Vulcan’ and docketed ‘By Ben Johnson’, on both sides of a single folio leaf. c.1630s.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (xliii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 202-12.

MS Lt. q. 16

Killigrew's own annotated printed exemplum of Four New Playes (London, 1666) bound with The Imperial Tragedy (London, 1669), a small folio, in contemporary vellum. 1666-1669.

Once owned by Arthur Annesley (1614-86), first Earl of Anglesey, book collector, and by Alexander Thistlethwayte (1718-71). The title-page inscribed ‘Tho^s. Baker M^d’. A tipped-in leaf at the rear inscribed ‘S^r: Edward: Buttler: his: Book:’. Sotheby's, 11-13 March 1884, lot 1237, to Robson. Sotheby's, 13 June 1966, lot 12.

Discussed in John Horden, ‘Sir William Killigrew's Four New Playes (1666) with his Imperial Tragedy (1669): A Second Annotated Copy’, The Library, 6th Ser. 6 (1984), 271-5, and, with collations, in John Horden and J.P. Vander Motten, ‘Five New Playes: Sir William Killigrew's Two Annotated Copies’, The Library, 6th Ser., 11/3 (September 1989), 253-71.

[Item 1]

• *KiW 14: Sir William Killigrew, The Siege of Urbin

Autograph revisions and additions to the printed text, including an autograph full page on sig. *4^v and autograph leaves tipped-in after pp. 4 and 32.

The annotations collated in Horden & Vander Motten.

First published in Four New Playes (London, 1666).

[Item 2]

• *KiW 6: Sir William Killigrew, Selindra

A few minor autograph additions to the printed text and a leaf tipped-in after p. 58 with an autograph Epilogue (beginning ‘Our Author sent his Epelogue so late’).

First published in Three Playes (London, 1664).

[Item 3]

• *KiW 3: Sir William Killigrew, Ormasdes or Love and Friendship

A few minor autograph revisions to the printed text.

First published in Three Playes (London, 1664).

[Item 4]

• *KiW 5: Sir William Killigrew, Pandora

Several autograph lines added down the margin of the printed text on p. 8 and two autograph lines added similarly on p. 44.

First published in Three Playes (London, 1664).

[Item 5]

• *KiW 1: Sir William Killigrew, The Imperial Tragedy

Copious autograph revisions to the printed text, including several lines rewritten in the Prologue, thirteen lines deleted on p. 43 with an explanatory note signed ‘W: K:’, thirteen new lines on a tipped-in slip of paper after p. 47, and signature on p. 51 ‘W^m: Killigrew’.

Facsimile of p. 43 in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds (Leeds, 1986), No. 10.

First published London, 1669.

MS Lt. q. 18

A volume containing parallel translations from Latin of Martial's ‘Epigrams’, ‘Other epigrammes ancient and moderne’, ‘Epigrammes or sentences epigrammelike out of classical heathen authors’, and the anonymous author's own epigrams, in a single hand, with some emendations. c.1650.

f. 5v

• HrJ 268.8: Sir John Harington, Of Treason (‘Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?’)

Copy, headed ‘Prosperous treason’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.

f. 6r

• DeJ 144: Sir John Denham, Extracts

Extracts from works by Denham.

MS Lt. q. 20

A folio verse miscellany, in several hands, 96 leaves, in modern boards. Entitled (f. 4r) ‘A Collection of Verses upon Several Occasions by Several Hands. Begun March 26^th: 1732 / W: Jermy 1732’. c.1732-41.

f. 76v

• ElQ 22: Queen Elizabeth I, ‘The doubt of future foes’

Copy of a garbled version, with a long preamble beginning ‘A Copy of Verses by Queen Elizabeth; on occasion of her first uneasiness, concerning Mary Queen of Scots...’, the poem here beginning ‘Watchful, to shun those Snares w^ch: w^d: my peace destroy’.

A version first published in George Puttenham, The Arte of English Poesie (London, 1589), sig. 2E2^v (p. 208). Bradner, p. 4. Collected Works, Poem 5, pp. 133-4. Selected Works, Poem 4, pp. 7-9.

MS Lt. q. 23

Twelve unbound quarto leaves, in a single hand, f. 11v inscribed at the foot ‘Dec. 1678.’ 1678.

Sotheby's, 3 July 1973, lot 269.

ff. 1r-10v

• DaW 40: Sir William Davenant, The Philosophers Disquisition directed to the Dying Christian (‘Before by death you newer knowledge gain’)

Copy of a version comprising an introductory ‘Argument’ and first stanza (beginning ‘The Grief of Astragon, & whence it springs’), followed by 92 stanzas numbered 11-102, the whole preceded by a lengthy explanation: ‘The Following Poem I found not alltogether, but gleand it up, out of Severall Papers. Among my Ld Mordaunts Papers, I found, thus. S^r W^m Davenant out of Complemt sent me severall Cantos of y^e. 2^d Part of Gondibert...I dissuaded y^e Printing...I could never find out y^e whole Canto, but believe I want now only y^e 9 Stanzas after y^e first...’.

First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 182-96. The poem originally intended to form part of Gondibert (see Gibbs, pp. lii et seq., 431).

ff. 11r-12r

• DaW 1: Sir William Davenant, The Christians Reply to the Phylosopher (‘The Good in Graves as Heavenly Seed are sown’)

Copy of an eleven-stanza version, headed ‘Astragon dying’, followed by a copy of stanzas 6 and 7 of the printed version, the whole preceded by a note: ‘At the End of a Quarto Gondibert printed Anno 1651. & given by y^e Author to a Friend, I found these stanzas written by his own hand, & subscibd with his name. Will Davenant...’.

First published in Works (London, 1673). Gibbs, pp. 196-8.

MS Lt. q. 32

A folio volume of writings, chiefly poems, by Lady Hester Pulter, composed c.1646-65, written from both ends, 167 leaves (including several loose leaves), in contemporary calf. Entitled (f. 1r) ‘Poems Breathed forth By The Nobel Hadassas’ and the poems described as ‘Hadassas Chast ffances Beeinge the ffruett of solitary and many of them sad howers’, one section headed ‘The sighes of a Sad soule emblematically breath'd forth by the noble Hadassah: Emblemes’, the text predominantly in two neat hands, with additions, insertions, sidenotes, and revisions in two other hands, one probably Pulter's own hand; a note (f. 1r) stating that ‘Lady Hesther Pulter dyd the latter End of March or beginning of April .1678. aged 82’. c.1655-61.

Later owned by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, Bt. Christie's, 8 October 1975, lot 353.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Mark Robson, ‘Swansongs: Reading Voice in the Poetry of Lady Hester Pulter’, EMS, 9 (2000), Writings by Early Modern Women, ed. Peter Beal and Margaret J.M. Ezell, pp. 238-56.

f. 1r

• PuH 27: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Honor I have I want no heartly pellt’

Copy, untitled, among other inscriptions.

f. 1r

• PuH 41: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Marvall not my names conceald’

Copy, untitled, among other inscriptions.

ff. 3r-4r

• PuH 25: Lady Hester Pulter, The Eclips (‘Why doe those frowning vapours interpose’)

Copy.

ff. 4v-7r

• PuH 34: Lady Hester Pulter, The invitation into the Countrey to my D.D. MP: PP 1647 when his Sacred Maj^tie: was at unhappy home (‘Deare daughters come make hast away’)

Copy.

ff. 7v-8r

• PuH 7: Lady Hester Pulter, Aurora (‘Lovely Aurora, o how Heavenly faire’)

Copy.

ff. 8v-10r

• PuH 19: Lady Hester Pulter, The complaint of Thames 1647 when the best of Kings was imprisoned by the worst of Rebels at Holmbie (‘Late in an evening as I walk'd alone’)

Copy.

f. 10r

• PuH 49: Lady Hester Pulter, Of Night and Morning (‘Night's like the Grave wherein wee lie forelorn’)

Copy.

ff. 10v-13r

• PuH 99: Lady Hester Pulter, Universal dissolusion, made when I was with Child of my 15^th: child I being my sonne John very one thought in a Consumption 1648 (‘My Soule why art thou sad at the decay’)

Copy.

ff. 13v-15r

• PuH 58: Lady Hester Pulter, On those two unparraleld friends, S^r: G: Lisle and S^r C: Lucas who were shott to death at Colchester (‘Is Lisle and Lucas Slaine? Oh Say not soe’)

Copy.

ff. 15v-16r

• PuH 52: Lady Hester Pulter, On that Unparraleld Prince Charles the first: his Horrid Muther (‘Those glittring Globes of light which grace’)

Copy.

ff. 16v-17v

• PuH 101: Lady Hester Pulter, Vpon the Death of my deare and lovely daughter J P (‘All you that haue indulgent Parents been’)

Copy, with an inserted note identifying ‘J P’ as ‘Jane Pulter, baptized May 1. 1625, buried oct 8 1645, aet. 20’.

Facsimile of f. 17v in Robson, p. 240.

ff. 17v-18v

• PuH 56: Lady Hester Pulter, On the Same [i.e. the death of my deare and lovely daughter J P] (‘Tell mee noe more her haire was lovly brown’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Robson, pp. 250-1, with a facsimile of f. 17v on p. 240.

ff. 19r-32v

• PuH 26: Lady Hester Pulter, The Garden, or The Contention of fflowers, To my Dear Daughter M^ris Anne [Pulter] at her desire written (‘Once in my Garden as a lone I lay’)

Copy, the name ‘Pulter’ in the title deleted.

f. 33r

• PuH 102: Lady Hester Pulter, Upon the imprisonment of his Sacred Majestie that unparalel'd Prince King Charles the ffirst (‘Why I sit sighing here ask mee noe more’)

Copy.

f. 34r

• PuH 54: Lady Hester Pulter, On the Horrid Murther of that incomparable Prince, King Charles the ffirst (‘Let none presume to weep, tears are to weak’)

Copy.

ff. 34r-5r

• PuH 57: Lady Hester Pulter, On the same [i.e. the horrid murther of that incomparable prince King Charles the First] (‘Let none sigh more for Lucas or for Lisle’)

Copy.

ff. 36r-7v

• PuH 61: Lady Hester Pulter, The Revolution (‘Oh thou which Circumvolveth all’)

Copy.

f. 38r-v

• PuH 12: Lady Hester Pulter, The Circle (‘In sighs and tears there is noe end’)

Copy.

f. 38v

• PuH 23: Lady Hester Pulter, The desire (‘Dear God, vouchsafe from thy High Throne’)

Copy.

f. 39r

• PuH 107: Lady Hester Pulter, The Welcom (‘Dear Death thou'rt welcom to my troubled soul’)

Copy.

ff. 39v-40r

• PuH 22: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Dear God turn not away thy fface’

Copy, untitled.

f. 40v

• PuH 14: Lady Hester Pulter, The Circle (‘Those that y^e hidden Chimick Art pfess’)

Copy, untitled.

f. 41r

• PuH 94: Lady Hester Pulter, To Aurora (‘Faire Rosie Virgin when wilt thou Arise’)

Copy.

f. 41v

• PuH 93: Lady Hester Pulter, To Astrea (‘Thou blessed Birth of the Celestiall Morn’)

Copy.

f. 42r-v

• PuH 30: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘How long shall my dejected soul’

Copy, untitled.

f. 42v

• PuH 15: Lady Hester Pulter, The Circle (‘To bee unwilling or afraid to die’)

Copy.

f. 43r-v

• PuH 95: Lady Hester Pulter, To Aurora (‘Look up sad eyes behould the smileing Morn’)

Copy.

f. 44r-v

• PuH 55: Lady Hester Pulter, On the kinges most exelent magisty K Charles y^e 1^st (‘Victorious palm triumphing lawrell boughs’)

Copy, the heading in another hand.

f. 45r-v

• PuH 50: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Oh my aflicted Solitary Soul’

Copy, untitled.

f. 46r

• PuH 47: Lady Hester Pulter, My Souls Sole desire (‘Thou that didst on the Chaos move’)

Copy.

ff. 46v-7v

• PuH 11: Lady Hester Pulter, The Center (‘Oh that the Splendent & Illustrious Sun’)

Copy.

f. 48r

• PuH 38: Lady Hester Pulter, Made when I was Sick 1647 (‘Oh mee! how sore, how sad is my poor heart’)

Copy.

ff. 48v-51r

• PuH 2: Lady Hester Pulter, Alitheas Pearl (‘ffair Alithea (when I was A Girle)’)

Copy.

f. 51v

• PuH 108: Lady Hester Pulter, The Welcome (‘Death come and welcome thou'rt my Ancient friend’)

Copy.

ff. 52r-3r

• PuH 96: Lady Hester Pulter, To Aurora (‘Why doth Pale Phoebe thus her bevty shrowd’)

Copy.

ff. 53r-4r

• PuH 60: Lady Hester Pulter, The Pismire (‘Walking a broad once in a Sumers day’)

Copy.

f. 54v

• PuH 13: Lady Hester Pulter, The Circle (‘The eternall Spirit of Life and Love’)

Copy.

f. 55r-v

• PuH 8: Lady Hester Pulter, Aurora (‘Lovly Aurora, when wilt thou apear’)

Copy.

f. 56r

• PuH 17: Lady Hester Pulter, To my Deare J P: M: P:, P:P: They beeing at London, I at Bradfield (‘Come my Deare Children to this lonely Place’)

Copy.

ff. 57r-8r

• PuH 59: Lady Hester Pulter, The perfection of Patience and Knowledg (‘My soul in strugling thou dost Jll’)

Copy.

ff. 58v-9r

• PuH 46: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘My Soul why art thou full of trouble’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 59v-62v

• PuH 35: Lady Hester Pulter, The invocation of the Elements the longest Night in the Year 1655 (‘Have patience my aflicted soul’)

Copy.

ff. 62v-4r

• PuH 48: Lady Hester Pulter, Of A young Lady at Oxford 1646 (‘A Noble pair in Love without Compare’)

Copy.

ff. 64v-7r

• PuH 64: Lady Hester Pulter, A solitary discoars (‘How canst thou heavie bee now shee apears’)

Copy.

ff. 67r-8v

• PuH 91: Lady Hester Pulter, This was written 1648 when I Lay Inn, with my Son John [Pulter] beeing my 15 Child I beeing soe weak that in Ten dayes and Nights I never moued my Head one Jot from my Pillow, out of which great weaknes my gracious God restored me; that I still Live to magnifie his Mercie 1665 (‘Sad, Sick, and Lame, as in my Bed I lay’)

Copy, the name ‘Pulter’ deleted in the title, the date ‘1655’ written as a corrective sidenote in a different hand.

ff. 68v-70v

• PuH 36: Lady Hester Pulter, The Larke (‘See how Arachne doth her Howres Pass’)

Copy.

f. 71r-v

• PuH 118: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Why art thou sad at the aproach of Night’

Copy, untitled.

f. 72r

• PuH 31: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Immense ffount of Truth, Life, Love, joy, Glory’

Copy, untitled.

f. 72v

• PuH 44: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘My Heart why dost thou Throb soe in my breast’

Copy, untitled.

f. 73r

• PuH 43: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘My God I thee and onely thee Adore’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 73v-4r

• PuH 37: Lady Hester Pulter, Made when I was not well. April 20. 1655 (‘My Soul why dost thou such a mourning make’)

Copy.

f. 74r

• PuH 120: Lady Hester Pulter, The Wish (‘Oh that I were a Sun that I might Send’)

Copy.

f. 74v

• PuH 100: Lady Hester Pulter, Upon the Crown Imperiall (‘Why doth the Tears stand in the Orient eyes’)

Copy.

f. 75r-v

• PuH 63: Lady Hester Pulter, A Solitary Complainte (‘Must I bee still confind to this Sad Grove’)

Copy.

f. 76r

• PuH 42: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Must I thus ever interdicted bee’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 77r-8r

• PuH 24: Lady Hester Pulter, A Dialogue between two Sisters Virgins bewailing their solitary life, P:P:, f.p. (‘Come my deare sister sit with mee a while’)

Copy.

ff. 79r-81r

• PuH 119: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Why must I thus for ever bee confin'd’

Copy, untitled.

f. 82r-v

• PuH 45: Lady Hester Pulter, My Loue is Fair (‘And is thy Love soe Wonderous ffair’)

Copy.

ff. 83r-4r

• PuH 97: Lady Hester Pulter, S^r: W^m: D: Upon the unspeakable Loss of the most conspicuous and chief Ornament of his ffrontispiece (‘Sir / Extreamly I deplore your loss’)

Copy.

f. 84r

• PuH 85: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘There is one black & sullen hour’

Copy, untitled.

f. 84v

• PuH 106: Lady Hester Pulter, The weepeinge wishe January .1665 (‘O that the tears that tricle from mine eyes’)

Copy.

f. 85r-v

• PuH 53: Lady Hester Pulter, On the Fall of that Grand Rebel the Earl of Essex his Effigies in Harry the 7^th's Chappel in Westminster Abby (‘When that Fierce Monster had usurp'd the Place’)

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Robson, pp. 246-7, with a facsimile of f. 85r on p. 241.

f. 86r

• PuH 21: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Dear God from thy high Throne look down’

Copy, untitled.

f. 87r

• PuH 5: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘And must the sword this controverse deside’

Copy.

Facsimile of f. 87r in Robson, p. 242.

f. 88r

• PuH 28: Lady Hester Pulter, The Hope January :1665: (‘Deare Death desolve theise mortall charms’)

Copy.

f. 88v

• PuH 39: Lady Hester Pulter, Made when my spirits were sunk very low with sickness & sorrow. May 1667 I being seventy one years old (‘Droop not my soul, nor hang the Wing’)

Copy.

f. 91r

• PuH 113: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘When Mighty Nimrade Hunting after fame’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 91v-2r

• PuH 16: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Come my Dear Children come and Happy bee’

Copy, untitled.

f. 92r-v

• PuH 67: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘That many Heliotropians there bee’

Copy, untitled.

f. 93r-v

• PuH 104: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Vertue once in the Olympicks fought a duell’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 93v-4r

• PuH 80: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘The Manucodiats as Authors write’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 94v-5r

• PuH 98: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Two Mountebancks contended for A Stage’

Copy, untitled.

f. 95v

• PuH 77: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘The Indian Mooze three Young at once doth bear’

Copy, untitled.

f. 96r-v

• PuH 29: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘How fast this creature runs upon the earth’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 96v-7r

• PuH 116: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘When scornd Medea saw Cruesa led’

Copy, untitled.

f. 97v

• PuH 65: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Some Birds their bee sure they noe love doe lack’

Copy, untitled.

f. 98r

• PuH 73: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘The Dubious Raven doth her young forsake’

Copy, untitled.

f. 98v

• PuH 90: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘This vast Leviathan Whose Breathing blows’

Copy, untitled.

f. 99r-v

• PuH 82: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘The Porcupine went Ruffling in his pride’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 99v-100r

• PuH 32: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘In Africa about the ffountain's brink’

Copy, untitled.

f. 100v

• PuH 71: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘The Cruel Tiger Swiftly on doth Pass’

Copy, untitled.

f. 101r

• PuH 70: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘The Cockatrice as vulgarly receiv'd’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 101v-2r

• PuH 112: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘When God (who is to Mercie most inclin'd)’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 102v-3r

• PuH 74: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘The Eliphant when Radiant Sol doth rise’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 103v-4r

• PuH 117: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Who can but pitty this poor Turtle Dove’

Copy, untitled.

Facsimile and transcription of f. 104r in Reading Early Modern Women, ed. Helen Ostovich and Elizabeth Sauer (New York & London, 2004), pp. 390-1.

ff. 104v-5r

• PuH 121: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘You that love Poppit Playes, Masks, Court Buffoons’

Copy, untitled.

f. 105r-v

• PuH 76: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘The hunted hart when shee begins to Tire’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 106r-7v

• PuH 84: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘The Toad and Spider once would trie the might’

Copy, untitled.

f. 107r

• PuH 81: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘The Marmottanes for Unitie's renownd’

Copy, untitled.

f. 107v

• PuH 10: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Behold this flying ffish with shineing Wings’

Copy, untitled.

f. 108r-v

• PuH 92: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Those that imployed are the Apes to catch’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 108v-9r

• PuH 83: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘The Stately Mooz being mounted up the hill’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 109v-10r

• PuH 103: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Vain Erostratus was soe fond of ffame’

Copy, untitled.

f. 110r-v

• PuH 72: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘The Cuckoes constitution's cold shee knows’

Copy, untitled.

f. 111r

• PuH 89: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘This Ugly Sow descendent of that Bore’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 111v-12r

• PuH 51: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Old Esculus being told that hee should die’

Copy, untitled.

f. 112r-v

• PuH 78: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘The Lion Roars his vassals fear and tremble’

Copy, untitled.

f. 113r

• PuH 20: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Could this ffell Catablepe lift up her head’

Copy, untitled.

f. 113v

• PuH 40: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Mark but those Hogs w^ch underneath yond tree’

Copy, untitled.

f. 114r

• PuH 62: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Seest thou this Horizentall Bird whose eyes’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 114v-15r

• PuH 18: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Come my Dear Pledges of our Constant Loves’

Copy, untitled.

f. 115r-v

• PuH 9: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Behold how many Cobwebs doth invest’

Copy, untitled.

f. 116r-v

• PuH 79: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘The Lyon that of late soe Domineer'd’

Copy, untitled.

f. 117r-v

• PuH 3: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘All Creatures then the Dolphin are more slow’

Copy, untitled.

f. 118r-v

• PuH 105: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘View but this Tulip, Rose, or July fflower’

Copy, untitled.

f. 119r-v

• PuH 75: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘The Estrich with her gallant gaudy plumes’

Copy, untitled.

f. 120r-v

• PuH 87: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘This huge Leviathan for all his Strength’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 120v-1v

• PuH 88: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘This Stately Ship Courted by Winds & Tide’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 121v-2r

• PuH 68: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘The Brackman th'angrie Deities to appeas’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 122v-3r

• PuH 6: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Aristominus his Strang Ambiguous ffate’

Copy, untitled.

f. 123r-v

• PuH 33: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘In Ments[?] when Corn was grown excessive dear’

Copy, untitled.

f. 124r

• PuH 109: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘When as that Geniall Universall ffire’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 124v-5r

• PuH 115: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘When royal ffergus Line did rule this Realm’

Copy, untitled.

f. 125r-v

• PuH 1: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘A Ruffian Rustick Clambring up a Tree’

Copy, untitled.

f. 126r

• PuH 114: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘When Phalaris for Tiranny soe ffam'd’

Copy, untitled.

f. 126v

• PuH 110: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘When Brittish Brennus Sack'd that Noble Citty’

Copy, untitled.

f. 127r-v

• PuH 69: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘The Caucasines with Locusts were anoy'd’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 128r-9r

• PuH 111: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘When fair Aurora drest with raidient Light’

Copy, untitled.

f. 130r-v

• PuH 4: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘An old Man through a Town did often pass’

Copy, untitled.

f. i^r rev.

• PuH 86: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘There is one black & sullen hour’

Copy, untitled.

ff. 1r-36v rev.

• PuH 122: Lady Hester Pulter, The Unfortunate Florinda

Copy, headed (f. 1r rev.) ‘The unfortunate Florinda Written by the Noble Hadrassas The first Part’, ‘The Second Part’ beginning on f. 32r rev., incomplete.

An unfinished prose romance, in two parts, beginning ‘When that voluptuous Prince Roderigo had driven his Infant Nephew and King...’.

ff. 32A^r-43A^r

• PuH 123: Lady Hester Pulter, The Unfortunate Florinda

Copy of ‘The Second Part of the Unfortunate fflorinda’, a sheaf of twelve folio leaves in a separate folder.

An unfinished prose romance, in two parts, beginning ‘When that voluptuous Prince Roderigo had driven his Infant Nephew and King...’.

f. 130A^r-v

• PuH 66: Lady Hester Pulter, ‘Somnus why art thou still to mee unkinde’

Copy, on a leaf in a separate folder.

MS Lt. q. 36

A folio MS of poems and a prose text by Daniel, in a single neat italic hand, ten leaves, in paper wrappers. c.1616.

Sotheby's, 14 December 1976, Lot 226.

Identified in 1978 by John Pitcher. Complete facsimile and edition in Pitcher, Brotherton MS.

ff. 1r-4r

• DaS 24: Samuel Daniel, To Prince Henrie (‘Theare be great Prince, such as will tell you how’)

Copy of a 236-line verse epistle, composed c.1609-10.

First published in Pitcher, Brotherton MS (1981).

ff. 4v-5v

• DaS 25: Samuel Daniel, To S^r. H. C. (‘Whereas you doe out of the lardg extent’)

Copy of a 96-line verse epistle probably to Sir Robert Carr (or Kerr), later first Earl of Ancrum (1578-1654), composed c. 1610.

First published in Pitcher, Brotherton MS (1981).

ff. 6-8

• DaS 26: Samuel Daniel, To the Ladye Harrington (‘Great are the afflictions, you haue mett withall’)

Copy of a 152-line verse epistle to Lady Anne Harington (d.1620), mother of Lucy, Countess of Bedford, composed c.1614-15.

Facsimile of f. 7r also in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds (Leeds, 1986), No. 7.

First published in Pitcher, Brotherton MS (1981).

ff. 8v-10

• DaS 17: Samuel Daniel, ‘...If your forenone hath faild you, why should you’

Copy of a verse epistle probably to Lucy, Countess of Bedford (1581-1627), composed c.1615, here comprising 118 lines but lacking the beginning (for which a space for about a dozen lines has been left) and a heading.

First published in Pitcher, Brotherton MS (1981).

f. 10r-v

• DaS 30: Samuel Daniel, [Apology]

Copy of a 330-word address probably to Sir Robert Carr, Earl of Somerset (d.1645), beginning ‘Although this worke of myne had not heretofore the fate to be continued…’, composed c.May-June 1616.

First published in Pitcher, Brotherton MS (1981).

MS Lt. q. 38

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single neat hand, entitled ‘A Collection of the most choice and Private Poems, Lampoons &c^a. from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701. Collected by a person of Quality’, 298 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Early 18th century.

From the library of the Cowper family of Panshanger, Hertfordshire, and possibly once belonging to Sarah Cowper (née Holled, 1644-1720), Lady Cowper, and her husband Sir William Cowper, MP (1639-1706).

p. 29

• DrJ 235: John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee (‘O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain’)

Copy, headed ‘On Dundee 1689. By M^r Dryden’.

First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond, III, 219.

pp. 93-5

• DoC 297: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd ‘The Female Nine’ (‘When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines’)

Copy, headed ‘An Excellent new Ballad, giving a true Acco^t. of the Birth and Conception of a Late famous Poem call'd The Female Nine. To the tune of Packingtons Pound.’, following a copy of ‘The Female Nine 1693’ on pp. 87-93.

First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.

p. 159

• DoC 180: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (II) (‘Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Countess of Dorc-r. 1694’.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.

p. 160

• DoC 206: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) (‘Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay’)

Copy, headed ‘Another on the same Lady By E. D-t’.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.

pp. 178-9

• CgW 17: William Congreve, A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret (‘Fair Amoret is gone astray’)

Copy, headed ‘A hugh and cry after fair Amoret. 1696 By E. D--t’.

First published, in a musical setting by John Eccles and attributed to Congreve, in a broadsheet (1698). Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 74. Dobrée, p. 284 (as ‘Amoret’). McKenzie, II, 369.

Also attributed to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset: see The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York and London, 1979), pp. 182-3.

pp. 248-9

• VaJ 2.5: Sir John Vanbrugh, The Rival (‘Of all the Torments, all the Cares’)

Copy, the poem here dated 1698.

This MS recorded in IELM, II.i (1987), as Sir George Etherege, EtG 112.

First published in A Collection of New Songs, Second Book (London, 1699). Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704), p. 317. Possibly by William Walsh (but not included in his Works (London, 1736)). Also attributed (less likely) to Sir George Etherege. Thorpe, p. 61.

pp. 249-50

• VaJ 10: Sir John Vanbrugh, To a Lady More Cruel than Fair (‘Why d'ye with such Disdain refuse’)

Copy, the poem here dated ‘1698’.

First published, ascribed to ‘Mr Vanbrook’, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704), pp. 245-6.

p. 288

• DoC 326.997: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Death of the Duke of Gloucester (‘For Gloucester's death, which sadly we deplore’)

Copy.

First published in Tom Browne, Remains (London, 1720), p. 143. Edited and discussed in Harris, pp. 184-5. Possibly by another Lord Dorset.

MS Lt. q. 39

Copy, in the hand of an amanuensis, with revisions entered in another hand, on two conjugate leaves; imperfect. The original title ‘To the right honorable the Ladie Margaret Countesse of Cumberland’ deleted and the epistle retitled in the second hand ‘[M]y La: El: H. [i.e. Lady Elizabeth Hatton] seate & prospect on the Isle of Purbecke’. c.1600-7.

DaS 27: Samuel Daniel, To the Ladie Margaret Countesse of Cumberland (‘He that of such a height hath built his minde’)

From the papers of the North family.

Edited from this MS, with a complete facsimile in Arthur Freeman, ‘An Epistle for Two’, The Library, 5th Ser. 25 (1970), 226-36; discussed further by Freeman and I.A. Shapiro in The Library, 26 (1971), 63-4; 28 (1973), 333-7 (suggesting dates of composition and revision between 1598 and 1619).

First published, with A Panegyrike Congratulatorie to the Kings Maiestie, in Certaine Epistles [London, 1603]. Grosart, I, 203-7. Sprague, pp. 111-15.

MS Lt. q. 44

A folio volume of verse, some of it relating to the Cecil family, in a professional secretary hand up to f. 47r, with additions in two other hands thereafter, 60 leaves, in contemporary limp vellum. c.1626-40s.

Inscribed ‘At Leith the 4 June 1649 Ro: Carre’. Later owned by Professor Douglas Grant (1921-69). Sotheby's, 20-21 July 1981, lot 493, to Quaritch.

Discussed in Tom Lockwood, ‘“All Hayle to Hatfield”: A New Series of Country House Poems from Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection, MS Lt q 44’, ELR, 38, No 2 (Spring 2008), 270-303.

ff. 1r-2r

• DrW 117.39: 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.

ff. 37v-8r

• GrJ 88: John Grange, ‘To the world Ile nowe discouer’

Copy.

A poem based on Ben Jonson's song ‘If I freely may discouer’ in The Poetaster (II, ii, 163 et seq.). Published in John Wardroper, Love and Drollery (London, 1969), pp. 102-3.

f. 47v

• HrG 290.3: George Herbert, On Henry Danvers earl of Danby (‘Sacred Marble, safely keepe’)

Copy.

Inscribed on Danby's tomb in Dauntsey Church, Wiltshire. First published in Izaak Walton, Lives, ed. Thomas Zouch (London, 1776). Hutchinson, pp. 208-9.

f. 57r-v

• BcF 54.109: 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.

MS Lt. q. 46

A collection of unbound papers, including verse MSS. Papers of John Salvio, tutor to the Ward family, of Hooton Pagnell Hall, near Doncaster, Yorkshire, and mostly written or composed by him. c.1730s.

Sotheby's, 22 July 1980, lot 0.

Folder B17589, f. 1r

• RoJ 232: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)

Copy, on a single folio leaf, split in two.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

f. 16r

• DrJ 199.4: John Dryden, To my Honour'd Kinsman, John Driden, of Chesterton in the County of Huntingdon, Esquire (‘How Bless'd is He, who leads a Country Life’)

Kinsley, IV, 1529-35. California, VII, 196-202. Hammond, V, 190-201.

MS Lt. q. 47

An octavo miscellany.

pp. 106-8

• CoA 293: Abraham Cowley, Extracts

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

MS Lt. q. 48

A collection of unbound verse MSS and other papers of the Crofts and Sebright families of Norfolk.

Sotheby's, 6 November 1984, lot 1185.

Envelope 1, ff. 2r-5r

• EtG 52: Sir George Etherege, Second Letter to Lord Middleton (‘Since love and verse, as well as wine’)

Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘Sir George Etheredge's Letter to my Lord Middleton’, on seven pages of three pairs of conjugate quarto leaves. c.1680s-90s.

First published in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 48-50.

Envelope 1, ff. 8r-9v

• EtG 30: Sir George Etherege, A Letter to Lord Middleton (‘From hunting whores and haunting play’)

Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘Sir George Etheredge to the Earl of Middleton, greeting’, on four pages of two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves. c.1680s-90s.

First published, as ‘Another from Sir G.E. to the E. of M--Greeting’, in The History of Adolphus (London, 1691). Thorpe, pp. 46-7.

Envelope 1, f. 37r

• CwT 1164: Thomas Carew, To the King at his entrance into Saxham, by Master Io. Crofts (‘Sir, Ere you passe this threshold, stay’)

Copy, on one side of a single folio leaf. c.1620s-30s.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 30-1.

MS Lt. q. 50

A tall folio verse miscellany, compiled by George Weller (1710-78) of Tonbridge, Kent, 157 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. c.1750.

Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1132 (1990), item 128, with a facsimile example.

pp. 200-3

• RoJ 291.8: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on Man’.

p. 207

• MrJ 48: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

Copy, headed ‘In Reducem Ducem’, here beginning ‘And art returned great Duke with all thy faults’, incomplete.

MS Lt. q. 51

A folio verse miscellany, 225 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum boards. Compiled, and partly composed, by George Weller (1710-78), lawyer, of Tonbridge, Kent. c.1745.

Quaritch's sale catalogue No. 1132 (December 1990), item 128.

pp. 1-99

• HuF 14: Sir Francis Hubert, Edward II (‘It is thy sad disaster which I sing’)

Copy of a 589-stanza version, untitled, transcribed from an earlier MS, with Weller's notes about the poem's publication (one dated 1769).

Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed ‘The Life and Death of Edward the Second’, including ‘The Authors Preface’ beginning ‘Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so’?).

pp. 168-71

• RoJ 326: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy of lines 1-55, 60-158, 168-9, 179-82, 222-5, headed in the margin ‘A Satyr on Man’.

p. 195

• DrJ 199.6: John Dryden, To my Honour'd Kinsman, John Driden, of Chesterton in the County of Huntingdon, Esquire (‘How Bless'd is He, who leads a Country Life’)

Kinsley, IV, 1529-35. California, VII, 196-202. Hammond, V, 190-201.

p. 207

• MrJ 49: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

Copy, headed ‘In Reducem Ducem’.

MS Lt. q. 52

A collection of unbound verse MSS. Assembled by John Gibson (1630-1711), of Welburn, near Kirkby Moorside, North Yorkshire.

Sotheby's, 18 July 1991, lot 164, to Quaritch.

f. 8r

• ClJ 218: John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector (‘What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing’)

Copy.

f. 9r

• WaE 725: Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same (‘We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim’)

Copy, in Gibson's hand, headed ‘M^r Waller on Oliver Cromwells Death. 1659’, on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

For the ‘answer or construction’ by William Godolphin, see the Introduction.

f. 20r

• MaA 183: Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes (‘When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb’)

Copy, headed ‘A Vow’ on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as ‘The Vows’. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of ‘unknown’ authorship, ‘possibly Marvell's’, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.

f. 20v

• MaA 36: Andrew Marvell, In eandem Reginae Sueciae transmissam (‘Bellipotens Virgo, septem Regina Trionum’)

Copy, headed ‘In Picturam Oliveri Protectoris Christinae Sweciae Reginae Dedicatam’ and endorsed ‘A.M. on Oliver's Picture, sent to Q. Christina’, on one side of a single folio leaf of verse. Late 17th century.

First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 108. Lord, p. 247. Smith, p. 315, with English translation.

ff. 21r, 22r

• MaA 487: Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter (‘Painter once more thy Pencell reassume’)

Copy, untitled but endorsed ‘Advice to A Paint^r: 1671’, on the first and third pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

ff. 25r-6r

• RoJ 592: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

Copy, arranged as a dialogue between the Duke of Buckingham (lines 1-18), Rochester (lines 19-45), and M^r. [Fleetwood] Sheph[er]d (lines 46-51), on three pages of two conjugate quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

Facsimile of f. 25r in Sotheby's sale catalogue, 18 June 1991, lot 164, and in The Brotherton Collection Review 1988-92 (Leeds, 1992), p. 10.

ff. 27r-8r

• MaA 460: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy, headed ‘Advice to y^e Painter to draw y^e Duke & oth^rs by’, endorsed ‘Jan. 73’, on three pages of two conjugate quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

f. 74r

• DoC 142.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On King William's Happy Deliverance from the Intended Assassination (‘The youth whose fortune the vast globe obey'd’)

Copy, headed ‘On the intended Assassination of K^g W^m’, on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

First published in Harris (1979), pp 61-2.

MS Lt. q. 56

ff. 21r-3r

• MnJ 142: John Milton, Extracts

MS Lt. q. 57

A folio booklet of state letters and papers, chiefly relating to the Earl of Essex, closely written in a single hand, on two paires of conjugate leaves, in modern boards. Early 17th century.

f. 3v

• ElQ 11: Queen Elizabeth I, On Monsieur's Departure, circa 1582 (‘I grieve and dare not show my discontent’)

Copy, headed ‘Queen Elizabeth verses on Monsieur^s departure out of England’.

This MS cited in Selected Works.

Collected Works, Poem 9, pp. 302-3. Selected Works, Poem 6, pp. 12-13. Bradner, p. 5.

f. 4v

• EsR 12: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Happy were Hee could finish foorth his Fate’

Copy, headed ‘Verses made by him’.

May, Poems, No. 7, p. 47. May, Courtier Poets, p. 254. EV 8176.

MS Lt. q. 70

MS verses on front and rear endpapers of a printed exemplum of The Works of M^r Abraham Cowley (London, 1684), a folio in contemporary calf gilt (repaired). End of 17th century.

f. [i^r]

• RoJ 232.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)

Copy, headed ‘L^d Rocheter verss’, f. [iii^r] inscribed ‘E: Rochesters boack’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

[Last leaf]

• SeC 57.5: Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia (‘As in those Nations, where they yet adore’)

Copy, headed ‘by S^r Charles siddly’

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.

Lt. DAN

An autograph marginal sidenote in an exemplum of the printed edition of 1609, a quarto in modern green morocco gilt. On p. 208, against Book VIII, stanza 18, stating ‘Willm y^e Conq^r. first brought in y^e vse of long bowes’. c.1609.

*DaS 2.5: Samuel Daniel, The Civile Wars between the Two Houses of Lancaster and Yorke

Bookplate of Samuel F. Barger.

Books I-IV first published in London, 1595. Grosart, Vol. II. Edited by Laurence Michel (New Haven, 1958).

Lt. SHI

An exemplum of the first printed edition with extensive MS annotations, prepared for use as a promptbook by the King's Company at the Bridges Street Theatre. c.1663-7.

ShJ 185: James Shirley, Love's Cruelty

Acquired from William H. Robinson, April 1956.

Discussed in Judith Milhous and Robert D. Hume, ‘A 1660s Promptbook of Shirley's Loves Crueltie’, Theatre Research International, 11 (1986), 1-13.

First published in London, 1640. Gifford & Dyce, II, 189-267.

Lt. q. DAV

Copy of a poem allegedly ‘omitted in his works’, written on a blank page at the end of an exemplum of Davenant's printed Works (London, 1673). Late 17th century.

DaW 76: Sir William Davenant, An Epitaph on y^e Lady Merri (‘Though 'tis but vain to raise dead stones to her’)

Once owned by ‘Rd Milles’.

Unpublished. Allegedly ‘omitted in [Davenant's] works’.

Lt. q JOS

An exemplum signed on the title-page by Cotton and also by his daughter Catherine (‘Catherine Cotton. given mee by my Deare Father’). Mid-late 17th century.

*CnC 182: Charles Cotton, Josephus, Flavius. the Famous and Memorable Works of Josephus [trans. Thomas Lodge] (London, 1655-6)

Inscribed later ‘Joa. Beresford’.

Marten/Loder-Symonds MSS, 3rd Series, 11, f. 1r-v

Autograph revisions and additions by Milton to a scribal draft of a parliamentary letter to the Senate of Hamburg, in Latin, on the first page of a single folio leaf, 2 April 1649. 1649.

*MnJ 71: John Milton, Letter(s)

Recorded, and edited in translation, in Yale, V, Part 2, 478 (State Papers No. 1). Shawcross, Bibliography, No. 79

Marten/Loder-Symonds MSS, Political and Miscellaneous, Vol. 2, 1651-1658, f. 112r-v

Autograph letter signed by Davenant, to Colonel Henry Marten, from the Tower, 8 July 1652. 1652.

*DaW 136: Sir William Davenant, Letter(s)

Recorded in HMC, 13th Report (1892), Appendix IV, p. 389. Quoted in Nethercot, pp. 284-5.

Marten/Loder-Symonds MSS, Box 78

Autograph letter signed by Waller, to Colonel Henry Marten, [1643/4]. 1644.

*WaE 802: Edmund Waller, Letter(s)

Facsimile in The Brotherton Collection University of Leeds: Its contents described with illustrations of fifty books and manuscripts (Leeds, 1986), No. 43.

MS Trv. d. 1

An octavo journal and notebook. Compiled by Sir William Trumbull (1639-1716), Secretary of State. c.1668.

Sotheby's, 30 July 1963 (Trumbull sale), lot 569. Acquired from H.W. Edwards, 11 October 1966.

ff. 41r-5v.

• DrJ 298.5: John Dryden, An Essay of Dramatick Poesie

A series of extracts, comprising some 33 passages, probably transcribed from the first printed edition.

These MS passages edited and discussed in Michael G. Brennan, ‘Sir William Trumbull and Dryden's “An Essay of Dramatick Poesie”’, N&Q, 234 (March 1989), 41-6.

First published in London, 1668. Scott-Saintsbury, XV. California, XVII, 2-81.

Yks 1

A volume of material relating to the Fairfax family (‘Analecta Fairfaxiana’). Compiled principally by Charles Fairfax (1597-1673), and owned also by Henry Fairfax, Dean of Norwich. c.1661.

f. 68r

• FaE 2.5: Edward Fairfax, Epitaph on Lady Fairfax (‘Here Lea's Fruitfulness, and Rachel's beauty’)

Extract.

A couplet first published in Lea & Gang (1981), p. 691.

Yks 2

A folio volume of material relating to the Fairfax family (‘Analecta Fairfaxiana’). Largely written in the hand of Charles Fairfax (1597-1673).

Phillipps MS. Fairfax of Cameron

p. 171

• FaE 2.8: Edward Fairfax, Godfrey of Bulloigne (‘I sing the warre made in the Holy land’)

Extract.

First published in London, 1600. Ed. R. Weiss (Carbondale, 1962). Ed. Lea & Gang (1981).

Miscellaneous Letters, Marvell

Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Edward Thompson, 17 December 1670. 1670.

*MaA 538: Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

Later owned by Alfred Morrison (1821-97), manuscript and art collector.

Catalogue of the Collection of…Alfred Morrison, 6 vols (1883-92), IV, 161-2. Margoliouth, II, 319-20. A facsimile, once owned by Margoliouth, is in Bodleian, MS Facs. d. 119, in ff. 127-40.

Miscellaneous Letters, Marvell

Autograph letter signed by Marvell, to Sir Henry Thompson, 9 December 1675. 1675.

*MaA 558: Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

Margoliouth, II, 343-4.