MS 2060
A folio composite miscellany compiled entirely by William Drummond of Hawthornden, including (ff. 165r-6v, 246r-7v) copies of, or brief extracts from, nineteen poems by Donne, 300 leaves, in 19th-century calf gilt. c.1618-20s.
Among the collections of William Drummond of Hawthornden: Hawthornden Vol. VIII.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the Drummond Miscellany: DnJ Δ 66. Some extracts from this MS edited in Laing (1831), pp. 78-82. ‘Drummond's Catalogue of Comedies’ (ff. 122-3). Recorded in MacDonald, Library of Drummond, pp. 231-2.
The MS as a whole
• *DrW 353: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Democritie A labyrinth of Delight
Autograph miscellany of verse and prose, including poems by himself and others, miscellaneous extracts, anecdotes, jests, pasquils, epitaphs, &c, entitled ‘Democritie, a labyrinth of delight’.
f. 2r
• RaW 76: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’
Copy, headed ‘Epitaphe Sr W R. by himselfe’.
Edited from this MS in David Laing, ‘Extracts from the Hawthornden Manuscripts’, Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 4 (1833), 225-40 (p. 238), and in Rudick, No. 35B, p. 80. Recorded in Latham, p. 153.
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).
See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.
ff. 3r-4r
• *DrW 304: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Ben Jonson's Conversations with William Drummond
Copy, headed ‘B. Jonsons his Epitaph told to mee by himselfe. not made by him’, and two anecdotes told to Drummond by Jonson, corresponding to passages in the Conversations with Jonson.
First published (in an abridged form) in Works (1711). Laing (1833), pp. 241-70. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, I (Oxford, 1925), 132-51. Of Drummond's original MS only the cover remains, in National Library of Scotland, MS 2061 (Hawthornden Vol. IX), f. 140r.
See also DrW 351.
ff. 12r-13r
• RaW 296: Sir Walter Ralegh, Petition to the Queen (‘My dayes delight, my spring tyme ioyes foredun’)
Copy of a 36-line version of the petition (cp. RaW 294-5), headed ‘S.W. Raghlies Petition to the Queene. 1618’ and here beginning ‘O had Truth power the guiltless could not fall’.
This version first published, from this MS, in David Laing, ‘Extracts from the Hawthornden Manuscripts’, Transactions of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 4 (1833), 225-40 (pp. 236-7).Edited from this MS in Latham, pp. 70-1, and in Rudick, No. 34, pp. 78-9.
In three versions, first published in 1833, 1928, and 1978 respectively.
f. 31r
• *DrW 177: William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table (‘Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre’)
Autograph copy by Drummond.
First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
f. 31v
• *DrW 100: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Epitaph (‘Heer lyes a cooke who went to buye ylles’)
Autograph copy.
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
f. 31v
• *DrW 101: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Epitaph (‘Heer lyes a cooke who went to buye ylles’)
Another autograph copy.
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
f. 38r
• *DrW 242: William Drummond of Hawthornden, ‘That which preserueth cherries, peares and plumes’
Autograph copy.
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
f. 44r-v
• CoR 108: Richard Corbett, An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne (‘Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you’)
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on the late Queene Anne’.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 65-7.
f. 48v
• SiP 91: Sir Philip Sidney, Inscription on Sidney's portrait at Longleat, 1577 (‘Who gives him selfe, may well his picture give’)
Copy, as by ‘Sr P. S.’
This MS recorded in Ringler, p. 518 (with one folio incorrectly cited as f. 9v).
First published in A.C. Judson, Sidney's Appearance (Bloomington, Indiana, 1958), p. 51. Ringler, p. 345, as his ‘Poems Possibly by Sidney’ No. 3.
ff. 49r-53r
• BcF 494: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications
Copy.
The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning ‘I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...’); 22 April 1621 (beginning ‘It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...’); and 30 April 1621 (beginning ‘Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...’), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.
f. 63v
• *DrW 155: William Drummond of Hawthornden, ‘Loue once thy lawes’
Autograph copy.
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 279. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116-17.
f. 77v
• *DrW 110: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Epitaphe on a Cooke (‘Heere lyes a sowre and angry cooke’)
Autograph copy.
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 285. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 117.
f. 79r
• *DrW 237: William Drummond of Hawthornden, ‘Strange is his end, his death most rare and od’
Autograph copy.
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
f. 117v
• *DrW 102: William Drummond of Hawthornden, Epitaph (‘Heer lyes a cooke who went to buye ylles’)
Autograph copy.
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
f. 126r
• *DrW 38: William Drummond of Hawthornden, ‘A lady in her prime to whom was giuen’
Autograph copy.
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284.
Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
f. 126r
• *DrW 238: William Drummond of Hawthornden, ‘Strange is his end, his death most rare and od’
Autograph copy.
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
f. 126r
• *DrW 152: William Drummond of Hawthornden, ‘Killd by ingratitude heere blest within doth rest’
Autograph copy.
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 284. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
f. 128r
• SiP 91.6: Sir Philip Sidney, ‘Singe neighbours singe, here yow not Say’
Copy, as by ‘Sr P. S.’
First published in Bernard Mathias Wagner, ‘New Poems by Sir Philip Sidney’, PMLA, 53.i (1938), 118-24. Ringler, pp. 357-8, as ‘Wrongly Attributed Poems’, AT 21. This poem belongs to the same Accession Day tournament as SiP 91.2-3 and SiP 91.8 and was possibly by Sidney.
f. 151r
• CwT 290: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)
Copy, headed ‘on a flye’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
f. 164r
• JnB 119: Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] (‘Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such’)
Copy.
First published in John A. Harper, ‘Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.
f. 165r
• DnJ 1048: John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. (‘Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as ‘A Funeral Elegy’). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as ‘Elegia’.
f. 165v
• DnJ 1025: John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)
Copy of lines 35-40, 46-8.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.
ff. 165v-6v
• DnJ 1113: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as ‘Elegie. Death’). Shawcross, No. 151 (as ‘Elegie: Death’). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.
f. 171r
• *DrW 263: William Drummond of Hawthornden, To Anne, the french Queen, new come from Spaine, and applyable to Marye of England, meeting the King at Douer (‘At length heere shee is: wee haue got those bright eyes’)
Autograph copy of a French poem and Drummond's English translation.
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 274. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 115.
f. 199v
• *DrW 125: William Drummond of Hawthornden, ‘Gods iudgments seldome vse to cease, vnlease’
Autograph draft.
First published in Works (1711). Kastner, II, 211.
f. 199v
• *DrW 217: William Drummond of Hawthornden, ‘S. Andrew, why does thou giue up thy Schooles’
Autograph copy.
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 243.
ff. 204r-8r
• *DrW 306: William Drummond of Hawthornden, A Cypresse Grove
Autograph draft, with revisions, of a portion of the essay, here beginning ‘If on the Great Theater of this Earth...’ and ending ‘...in the midst of multitudes rather garded than regarded’.
First published appended to Flowres of Sion ([Edinburgh], 1623). Kastner, II, 65-104 (11. 115-274).
f. 233r
• CmT 204.8: Thomas Campion, ‘No graue for woe, yet earth my watrie teares deuoures’
Copy, here ascribed to ‘Philip Rosseter’.
This MS discussed in David Lindley, ‘Campion and Rosseter: The Ascription of A Booke of Ayres’, N&Q, 228 (October 1983), 416.
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II. Davis, p. 451.
f. 234r
• CmT 97: Thomas Campion, ‘The Spyres curten of the night is spread’
Copy.
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. ix. Davis, p. 32.
f. 234r
• CmT 152.5: Thomas Campion, ‘When thou must home to shades of vnder ground’
Copy.
This MS recorded in David Lindley, ‘Campion and Rosseter: The Ascription of A Booke of Ayres’, N&Q, 228 (October 1983), 416.
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xx. Davis, p. 46.
f. 236r
• PlG 7: George Peele, The Hunting of Cupid, Song (‘Melampus, when will Love be void of feares?’)
Copy of the song of Coridon and Melampus.
This song published separately in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Horne, p. 207.
f. 237r
• CmT 242.5: Thomas Campion, ‘When Laura smiles’
Copy, here ascribed to ‘Philip Rosseter’.
This MS discussed in David Lindley, ‘Campion and Rosseter: The Ascription of A Booke of Ayres’, N&Q, 228 (October 1983), 416
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), Part II, No. ix. Davis, p. 455.
f. 238r
• JnB 439: Ben Jonson, Song. That Women are bvt Mens shaddowes (‘Follow a shaddow, it still flies you’)
Copy.
First published in The Forrest (vii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 104.
f. 238r
• JnB 399: Ben Jonson, On Groyne (‘Groyne, come of age, his state sold out of hand’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Epigrammes (cxvii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 75.
f. 238r
• JnB 464: Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia (‘Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes’)
Copy of an eight-line version.
First published in The Forrest (ix) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 106.
f. 241v
• CmT 63: Thomas Campion, ‘It fell on a sommers day’
Copy.
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. viii. Davis, p. 31.
ff. 244r-5r
• CmT 18: Thomas Campion, ‘Come let us sound with melody the praises’
Copy, headed ‘Saphickes’.
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xxi. Davis, pp. 48-9.
f. 246r
• DnJ 606: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)
Copy of lines 6-8, 20-1, 28-34, 37-8, here beginning ‘observe his honor or his Grace’, subscribed ‘Jone Done’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.
f. 246r-v
• DnJ 2469: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’
Copy of lines 15-34, 39-40, here beginning ‘so carelesse flowers strowd on the Waters face’, inscribed in the margin ‘simile’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as ‘Elegie VI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.
f. 246v
• DnJ 1470: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)
Copy of lines 4, 15-18, inscribed ‘images’, here beginning ‘Snorted we in the seven slepers denn’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
f. 246v
• DnJ 1267: John Donne, The Extasie (‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’)
Copy of lines 1-4, 7-8, inscribed in the margin ‘a bancke’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.
f. 246v
• DnJ 2063: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)
Copy of lines 28-30, here beginning ‘I spring a mistresse sware writ sigh and weep’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
f. 246v
• DnJ 3924: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)
Copy of lines 48-9, 51, here beginning ‘then all your beauties will bee no more worth’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
f. 247r
• DnJ 2092: John Donne, Loves exchange (‘Love, any devill else but you’)
Copy of lines 29-35, inscribed in the margin ‘Beautie’, here beginning ‘This face by which ye couls command’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.
f. 247r
• DnJ 199: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)
Copy of lines 11-12 inscribed ‘fearful’, here beginning ‘Poor aspen Wretch neglected then’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
f. 247r
• DnJ 3558: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘You have refin'd mee, and to worthyest things’)
Copy of lines 40-2, inscribed ‘Witt’ and here beginning ‘With that which doth religion but invest’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 191-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 91-4. Shawcross, No. 137.
f. 247r
• DnJ 3968: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture (‘I fixe mine eye on thine, and there’)
Copy of lines 1-4, inscribed ‘eies’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.
f. 247r
• DnJ 845: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)
Copy of lines 20-1, here beginning ‘his sones which none of his may be’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.
f. 247r
• DnJ 3793: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)
Copy of lines 49-50, here beginning ‘and when t hy melted mayde’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.
f. 247r
• DnJ 2121: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)
Copy of lines 11-12, inscribed ‘loue’, here beginning ‘loues not so pure and abstract as they vse’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.
f. 247v
• DnJ 972: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)
Copy of lines 23-6, here beginning ‘though you staye here you passe to fast away’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as ‘Elegie X’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.
f. 247v
• DnJ 642: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)
Copy of lines 5-6, inscribed ‘Women’, here beginning ‘Women are like vnto the arts, forc'd vnto none’.
First published, as ‘Elegie III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as ‘Elegie III’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.
f. 247v
• DnJ 1085: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)
Copy of lines 15-16, 59-60, inscribed ‘Teares’, here beginning ‘teares are false spectacles wee can not see’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.
ff. 268r-75r
• DrM 46: Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion
Extracts.
First published in London, 1612. 1622. Hebel, IV.
See also DrM 74.
f. 292v
• *DrW 137: William Drummond of Hawthornden, ‘I feare to me such fortune be assigned’
Autograph copy, untitled.
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 230. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 114-15.
f. 292v
• *DrW 114: William Drummond of Hawthornden, ‘First in the orient raign'd th'assyrian kings’
Autograph copy, untitled.
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 229. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 114-15.
f. 293r
• *DrW 129: William Drummond of Hawthornden, ‘Great Queene whom to the liberall Heauens propine’
Autograph copy, untitled.
First published in Kastner (1913), II, 269. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 114-15.
f. 300r
• *DrW 203: William Drummond of Hawthornden, ‘Prometheus am I’
Autograph copy.
First published in Laing (1831). Kastner, II, 240. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.