MS Grey 7 a 29
A quarto miscellany of epitaphs and poems, in several hands, the main collection of verse (ff. 46-147) in a single hand and including 54 poems by Donne (all subscribed ‘J. D.’) and fourteen poems by or attributed to Herrick, 158 pages (plus index). c.1630s.
Once owned by the Sir Henry Spelman (1563/4-1641), historian and antiquary, and later by Dawson Turner (1775-1858), banker, botanist, and antiquary. Puttick & Simpson's, 6 June 1859 (Turner sale), lot 164. Afterwards owned by Sir George Grey (1812-98), Governor of Australia, New Zealand and Cape Colony. Formerly MS Grey 2 a 11.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Grey MS’: DnJ Δ 60 and HeR Δ 6. Facsimile of p. 119r (HeR 355) in L.F. Casson, ‘The Manuscripts of the Grey Collection in Cape Town’, The Book Collector, 10 (Spring 1961), 147-55 (facing p. 153).
p. 35
• SaG 5: George Sandys, Hymn to my redeemer (‘Saviour of mankind, Man, Emanuel’)
Copy, headed ‘A hymne dictated to or Sauior christ at his sepulchre in Jerusalem ano. 1610. by Mr Geo: Sandys’.
First published in A Relation of a Journey begun Anno Dom. 1610 (London, 1615), p. 167. Hooper, I, xxiv-xxv.
pp. 46-7
• DnJ 1112: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)
Copy.
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.
pp. 47-8
• PeW 79: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of Friendship (‘Friendship on Earth we may as easily find’)
Copy, untitled.
Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’.
pp. 48-9
• DnJ 3190: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as ‘Elegie XIX. Going to Bed’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.
The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, ‘Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's “To his mistress going to bed”’, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.
p. 49
• DnJ 870: John Donne, The Dampe (‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.
pp. 50-2
• DnJ 2148: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.
pp. 52-3
• DnJ 2223: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in F. G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as ‘Elegie XX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.
pp. 53-4
• DnJ 1696: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as ‘Elegie I’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.
pp. 54-5
• DnJ 1083: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)
Copy.
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.
pp. 56-7
• DnJ 276: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie. The Autumnall’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as ‘Elegie IX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.
pp. 57-8
• DnJ 70: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegya’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published as ‘Elegie II’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as ‘Elegie II’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
pp. 58-9
• DnJ 708: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as ‘Elegie VIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.
p. 60
• DnJ 164: John Donne, Antiquary (‘If in his Studie he hath so much care’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 93. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5 (untitled and beginning ‘If, in his study, Hamon hath such care’), 8 (as ‘Antiquary’), and 11.
p. 60
• DnJ 514: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.
p. 60
• DnJ 1749: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Zoppo’) and 10.
p. 60
• DnJ 1893: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Henry Fitzgeffrey, Satyres and Satyricall Epigram's (London, 1617). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 90. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 8 and 11.
p. 60
• DnJ 197: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
p. 61
• DnJ 2597: John Donne, Phryne (‘Thy flattering picture, Phryne, is like thee’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 97. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.
p. 61
• DnJ 2406: John Donne, An obscure writer (‘Philo, with twelve yeares study, hath beene griev'd’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 77. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 98. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 9 and 11.
p. 61
• DnJ 942: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.
pp. 62-3
• DnJ 2699: John Donne, The Relique (‘When my grave is broke up againe’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.
p. 63
• DnJ 530: John Donne, A burnt ship (‘Out of a fired ship, which, by no way’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 86. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Nave arsa’) and 10.
p. 63
• DnJ 1282: John Donne, Fall of a wall (‘Vnder an undermin'd, and shot-bruis'd wall’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 87. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 6 (untitled), 7 (as ‘Caso d'vn muro’), and 10 (as ‘Fall of a Wall’).
p. 63
• DnJ 3967: John Donne, Witchcraft by a picture (‘I fixe mine eye on thine, and there’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 45-6. Gardner, Elegies, p. 37. Shawcross, No. 26.
p. 64
• DnJ 2060: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
p. 64
• DnJ 1485: John Donne, Hero and Leander (‘Both rob'd of aire, we both lye in one ground’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 83. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.
p. 64
• DnJ 2660: John Donne, Pyramus and Thisbe (‘Two, by themselves, each other, love and feare’)
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 75. Milgate, Satires, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 84. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 and 10.
p. 65
• DnJ 842: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.
p. 66
• DnJ 1982: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)
Copy, headed ‘Mummy’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.
pp. 66-7
• DnJ 1853: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)
Copy, heaed ‘Elegye’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.
p. 67
• DnJ 3995: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.
p. 68
• DnJ 3119: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.
pp. 68-9
• DnJ 311: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.
pp. 69-70
• DnJ 2722: John Donne, Sapho to Philaenis (‘Where is that holy fire, which Verse is said’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 124-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 92-4 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 24. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 409-10.
p. 71
• DnJ 3746: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
pp. 71-2
• DnJ 3922: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)
Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘Loves Legacyes’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
p. 73
• DnJ 1406: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.
pp. 73-4
• DnJ 2619: John Donne, The Primrose (‘Upon this Primrose hill’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.
p. 74
• DnJ 451: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
p. 75
• JnB 304: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
p. 76
• CwT 949: Thomas Carew, Song. To my Mistris, I burning in love (‘I burne, and cruell you, in vaine’)
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘T. Cary:’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 34.
p. 76
• CwT 930: Thomas Carew, Song. To her againe, she burning in a Feaver (‘Now she burnes as well as I’)
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘T. C:’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 34-5.
pp. 76-7
• CwT 298: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)
Copy, headed ‘The fflye’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
p. 77
• DaJ 214: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on a child’ and here begininng ‘As carefull Nurses downe to sleepe do lay’.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
p. 78
• GrJ 13: John Grange, ‘Be not proud, 'cause fair and trim’
Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue’, subscribed ‘J Grange’.
First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (1655), p. 10, ascribed to John Grange. Poems (1660), pp. 59-60, where the stanzas by ‘Man’ are superscribed ‘P.’ and those by ‘Woman’ superscribed ‘R.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as probably by John Grange.
pp. 78-9
• CwT 592: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)
Copy, headed ‘An imprecation to the winde made vpon a sigh’.
First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.
pp. 79-80
• ToA 62: Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury (‘Victorious beauty, though your eyes’)
Copy, headed ‘To a Gentlewoman that requested him to write to her’, subscribed ‘J. Grange’.
First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.
p. 80
• CwT 870: Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested (‘How ill doth he deserve a lovers name’)
Copy, headed ‘Eternity of love vowed’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.
p. 81
• HeR 54: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a periured man by a woman’, subscribed ‘J. Grange’.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 49. Patrick, p. 69. Musical setting by John Blow published in John Playford, Choice Ayres and Songs (London, 1683).
pp. 81-3
• CwT 1019: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)
Copy, subscribed ‘T: Cary’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.
pp. 84-7
• HeR 131: Robert Herrick, His age, dedicated to his peculiar friend, Master John Wickes, under the name of Posthumus (‘Ah Posthumus! Our yeares hence flye’)
Copy, headed ‘To his peculiar friend Mr John Weeks he dedicates his age —’.
This MS collated in Martin.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 132-6. Patrick, pp. 179-83.
pp. 87-8
• HeR 175: Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast (‘A Little mushroome table spred’)
Copy, without the preliminary lines.
First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning ‘Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State’, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled ‘A Description of his Dyet’, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.
pp. 88-9
• CwT 144: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
p. 89
• CwT 1052: Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship (‘Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate’)
Copy, headed ‘To his Mris from Sea’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.
p. 89
• StW 827: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)
Copy.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
p. 90
• KiH 88: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) ‘A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds’ (‘Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee’). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).
pp. 90-1
• DnJ 3677: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
p. 91
• HeR 256: Robert Herrick, Upon the death of his Sparrow. An Elegie (‘Why doe not all fresh maids appeare’)
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘Finis Ro: Herrick’.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 103-4. Patrick, pp. 143-4.
p. 92
• DnJ 1594: John Donne, An hymne to the Saints, and to Marquesse Hamylton (‘Whether that soule which now comes up to you’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 288-90. Shawcross, No. 154. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 74-5. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 220-1.
pp. 93-4
• DnJ 805: John Donne, The Crosse (‘Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.
p. 94
• DnJ 2707: John Donne, Resurrection, imperfect (‘Sleep sleep old Sun, thou canst not have repast’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 333-4. Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 28. Shawcross, No. 182. The MS texts discussed in Lara M. Crowley, ‘A Text of “Resurrection. Imperfect”’, John Donne Journal, 29 (2010), 185-98.
p. 95
• DnJ 1429: John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward (‘Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this’)
Copy, headed ‘Good ffryday made as I was rideing Westward that day’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.
p. 96
• DnJ 1374: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
pp. 96-7
• DnJ 604: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.
p. 98
• DnJ 1467: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
pp. 98-9
• DnJ 2466: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as ‘Elegie VI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.
pp. 99-100
• DnJ 3636: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.
p. 100
• DnJ 1335: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.
p. 101
• DnJ 2120: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.
pp. 101-2
• DnJ 126: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.
pp. 102-8
• DnJ 991: John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 (‘Unseasonable man, statue of ice’)
Copy, complete with the 11-poem ‘Epithalamion’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as ‘Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset’). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.
pp. 108-10
• DnJ 1158: John Donne, Epithalamion made at Lincolnes Inne (‘The Sun-beames in the East are spred’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 141-4. Shawcross, No. 106. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 3-6. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 87-9.
p. 111
• BcF 49: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’
Copy, headed ‘Of Mans mortality’, subscribed ‘ffranc: St Albans’.
First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems’, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
p. 112
• DnJ 356: John Donne, The Blossoms (‘Little think'st thou, poore flower’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.
pp. 113-14
• HeR 334: Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing (‘When the monethly horned Queene’)
Copy, headed ‘Oberons Cloathing’, the original subscription ‘Ro: Herrick’ deleted and replaced by ‘Sr Si: Steward’.
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.
pp. 114-15
• HeR 404: Robert Herrick, Upon a Cherrystone sent to the tip of the Lady Jemmonia Walgraves eare (‘Lady I intreate yow weare’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Carved cherrystone’, subscribed ‘finis Ro: Herrick’.
First published in Delattre (1912), 519-21. Martin, pp. 417-18. Patrick, pp. 547-8.
pp. 115-17
• HeR 144: Robert Herrick, The Lilly in a Christal (‘You have beheld a smiling Rose’)
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘finis Ro: Herrick’.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 75-6. Patrick, pp. 107-9.
pp. 117-18
• HeR 198: Robert Herrick, The parting Verse, or charge to his supposed Wife when he travelled (‘Go hence, and with this parting kisse’)
Copy, headed ‘My Charge’ and here beginning ‘Goe, and with this parting kisse’, subscribed ‘finis Ro: Herrick’.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 174-6. Patrick, pp. 233-5.
pp. 119-21
• HeR 355: Robert Herrick, Mr Hericke his daughter's Dowrye (‘Ere I goe hence and bee noe more’)
Copy, headed ‘My Daughters Dowrye’, here beginning ‘'ffore I go hence, & be no more’, subscribed ‘finis Ro: Herr:’.
Facsimile of p. 119 in L.F. Casson, ‘The Manuscripts of the Grey Collection in Cape Town’, BC, 10 (Spring 1961), 147-55 (facing p. 153).
First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 436-9. Martin, pp. 407-9. Patrick, pp. 539-42.
pp. 121-2, 124-7
• HeR 166: Robert Herrick, A Nuptiall Song, or Epithalamie, on Sir Clipseby Crew and his Lady (‘What's that we see from far?’)
Copy of a nineteen-stanza version, headed ‘An Epithalamye’, subscribed (first part) ‘finis R: Her:’ and (at the end) ‘finis Ro: Herrick’.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 112-16. Patrick, pp. 154-8.
pp. 123-4
• PoW 56: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’
Copy, headed ‘Vppon black hayre and eyes’, unascribed.
First published, as ‘In praise of black Women; by T.R.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as ‘On a black Gentlewoman’. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as ‘On black Hair and Eyes’ and superscribed ‘R’; in The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as ‘on Black Hayre and Eyes’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
pp. 127-8
• HeR 315: Robert Herrick, Elegy (‘Since, louely sweete, much like vnto a Dewe’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegye’, subscribed ‘finis Ro: Herrick’.
First published in Martin (1956), pp. 443-4 (in his section ‘Not attributed to Herrick hitherto’). Not included in Patrick.
pp. 128-9
• JnB 187: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 3. The Picture of the Body (‘Sitting, and ready to be drawne’)
Copy, headed ‘The Picture’.
First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).
pp. 129-30
• JnB 223: Ben Jonson, Eupheme. or, The Faire Fame Left to Posteritie Of that truly noble Lady, the Lady Venetia Digby. 4. The Mind (‘Painter, yo'are come, but may be gone’)
Copy, headed ‘The picture of the minde’, subscribed in a different ink ‘Rob: Herrick’.
Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.
pp. 131-2
• HeR 113: Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack (‘Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare’)
Copy, headed ‘My farewell to Sack’, subscribed ‘finis Ro: Herr:’.
First published in Recreations for Ingenious Head-peeces (London, 1645). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 45-6. Patrick, pp. 62-3.
pp. 132-4
• HeR 260: Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack (‘So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles’)
Copy, headed ‘My wellcome to Sacke’, subscribed ‘finis Ro: Herrick’.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.
pp. 134-5
• HrE 51: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Thought (‘If you do love, as well as I’)
Copy, subscribed ‘finis Ro: Herrick’.
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 43-4.
pp. 135-6
• HeR 325: Robert Herrick, ‘Hide not thy love and mine shall be’
Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘finis Ro: Herrick’.
First published in Aurelian Townshend's poems and Masks, ed. E. K. Chambers (Oxford, 1912), pp. 28-32. The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric R. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 34-41 (Version One, First Part, pp. 35-7; Second Part pp. 35-7; Version Two, pp. 38-41). Ascribed to Herrick in several MSS.
pp. 136-7
• GrJ 62: John Grange, ‘Not that I wish my Mistris’
Copy, subscribed ‘finis J. Grange’.
First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7v. John Playford, Select Ayres and Dialogues (1652), Part II, p. 28. Poems (1660), pp. 79-81, unattributed. Prince d'Amour (1660), p. 123, ascribed to ‘J.G.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as by John Grange.
pp. 137-9
• BmF 112: Francis Beaumont, Master Francis Beaumont's Letter to Ben Jonson (‘The sun which doth the greatest comfort bring’)
Copy, headed ‘ffr. Beaumont to B. Johnson at London’.
First published in ‘An addition of some excellent Poems...By other Gentlemen’ in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare Gent. (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 500-3. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, XI (Oxford, 1952), 374-7.
Nearly all recorded MS texts of this poem are discussed and collated, with an edited text (pp. 170-4), in Mark Bland, ‘Francis Beaumont's Verse Letters to Ben Jonson and “The Mermaid Club”’, EMS, 12 (2005), 139-79.
p. 139
• RaW 286: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)
Copy, untitled.
First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, ‘The Text of Ralegh's Lyric “What is our life?”’, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.
p. 145
• DnJ 2932: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
p. 146
• AlW 52: William Alabaster, To the Blessed Virgin (‘Hail graceful morning of eternal day’)
Copy, headed ‘of the Virgin Marys conception’, subscribed ‘finis S.B’.
Sonnets, p. 20 (No. 37).
p. 147
• AlW 49: William Alabaster, ‘To style Christ's praise with heavenly muse's wing’
Copy, headed ‘Of Christ’, subscribed ‘SB’.
Sonnets, p. 19 (No. 36).
p. 147
• AlW 28: William Alabaster, The Sponge (‘O sweet and bitter monuments of pain’)
Copy, headed ‘Of the passion of Christ’, subscribed ‘SB’.
First published in Edmond Malone (ed.), The Plays and Poems of William Shakespeare (20 vols, 1821), II, 260-3. Sonnets, p. 13 (No. 24).
p. 157
• HrJ 97: Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man (‘There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘It is of certaine that a ceraine preacher’, followed (pp. 157-8) by an answer (here beginning ‘That no man yett could in the Scriptures find’).
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.