Cod. 11.539.2
Extracts at ff. 66r-71v, headed ‘Excerpta de origine boni et mali ex doctrina Hobbesii ubi de origine sociatum’.
HbT 179: Thomas Hobbes, Extracts
Cod. 15.414.5
Extracts from a German translation of Arcadia, at ff. 26v-9v.
SiP 241: Sir Philip Sidney, Extracts
Cod. 9689
The liber amicorum of Georg, Freiherr von Hofkirchen, comprising an interleaved printed exemplum of Philip Lonicer, Bibliorum utrisque testamenti icones (Frankfurt, 1571). 1573.
f. 102r
• *SiP 224: Sir Philip Sidney, Liber amicorum
Sidney's autograph inscription ‘Philippus Sideneus generosus Angliæ scripsit Argentorati 1573’ and his motto ‘Quo me fata vocant’. 1573.
Recorded in George Gömöri, ‘Inscriptions by Philip and Robert Sidney in Alba Amicorum’, N&Q, 50 (September 2004), 240-2.
Cod. 14090
A formal folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, including eleven by Rochester and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items, probably in a single professional hand, 444 leaves (including a six-leaf index). c.1690s.
Cited in IELM, II.ii as the Vienna MS: RoJ Δ 12. Discussed in Rudolf Brotanek, ‘Beschreibung der Handschrift 14090 (Supplement 1776) der Nationalbibliothek in Wien’, in Festschrift der Nationalbibliothek in Wien (Vienna, 1926), 145-62. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth and in Walker.
ff. 7r-9v
• MaA 135: Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming (‘When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand’)
Copy, headed ‘A Housewarming to Chancellor Hyde’.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir John Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 143-6. POAS, I, 88-96. Lord, pp. 144-51. Smith, pp. 358-61.
ff. 15r-16v
• SdT 5: Thomas Shadwell, A Letter from Mr. Shadwell to Mr. Wicherley (‘Inspir'd with high and mighty Ale’)
Copy.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Summers, V, 227-9.
For Wycherley's ‘Answer’, see WyW 1-4.
ff. 17r-18v
• WyW 3: William Wycherley, The Answer [to Mr. Shadwell] (‘That I have only answer'd Mum’)
Copy.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State...Part III (London, 1698). Summers, II, 245-7. For Shadwell's accompanying ‘Letter…to Mr. Wicherley’, see SdT 2-6.
f. 20r
• RoJ 39: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Dialogue (‘When to the King I bid good morrow’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
First published in Vieth, pp. 129-30. Walker, pp. 102-3. Love, p. 91, as ‘Dialogue L: R.’
f. 24v
• DoC 236: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen (‘Clarendon had law and sense’)
Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.
ff. 26v-7v
• MaA 245: Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market (‘As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield’)
Copy, headed ‘Upon Sir Robert Vynor's setting up the King's Statue’.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
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.
f. 35r
• RoJ 113: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Impromptu on Charles II (‘God bless our good and gracious King’)
Copy, headed ‘The King Praising the Translation of the Psalms, Says my Lord Rochester...’.
Edited in part from this MS in Vieth. Recorded in Walker.
First published, in a version headed ‘Posted on White-Hall-Gate’ and beginning ‘Here lives a Great and Mighty Monarch’, in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon (London, 1707). Vieth, p. 134. Walker, p. 122, as ‘[On King Charles]’.
f. 35r
• MaA 270: Andrew Marvell, Upon Blood's Attempt to Steal the Crown (‘When daring Blood, his rents to have regain'd’)
Copy, headed ‘On Blood's Stealing the Crown’.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
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.
ff. 35v-7r
• RoJ 144: 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 171-264, headed ‘Satyr’ and here beginning ‘You smile to see me (whom ye world pchance’.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
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.
ff. 43r-6r
• RoJ 104.45: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids (‘Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second’)
Copy.
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. 46v-54v
• MaA 163.93: 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 ye 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. 60r
• RoJ 419: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Phyllis, be gentler, I advise’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution; collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.
ff. 60v-1r
• RoJ 466: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Submission (‘To this moment a rebel, I throw down my arms’)
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 15. Walker, pp. 18-19. Love, p. 22, as Song.
f. 61r-v
• RoJ 343: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr on Charles II (‘I' th' isle of Britain long since famous grown’)
Copy, headed ‘The Earle of Rochrs Verses for which he was Banished’.
This MS recorded in Vieth and 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.
ff. 61v-2r
• RoJ 627: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Woman's Honor (‘Love bade me hope, and I obeyed’)
Copy, headed ‘Womans Honour a Song’.
This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 14. Walker, pp. 22-3. Love, p. 21.
ff. 63-6
• BuS 29: Samuel Butler, Dildoides (‘Such a sad Tale prepare to hear’)
Copy.
Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.
ff. 66v-8v
• RoJ 360: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Signior Dildo (‘You ladies all of merry England’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 54-9. Walker, pp. 75-8.
The poem discussed, texts collated, and the attribution to Rochester questioned, in Harold Love, ‘A Restoration Lampoon in Transmission and Revision: Rochester's(?) “Signior Dildo”’, SB, 46 (1993), 250-62. Love (two versions and added stanzas), pp. 248-9, 250-2, 252-3, 253-7, among Disputed Works.
ff. 68v-70v
• DoC 80: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel of the Crabs (‘In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple’)
Copy, headed ‘A Duell, between two Monstrs on My Lady Bennets C-t. &c’.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.
ff. 73r-88v
• RoJ 637: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Sodom and Gomorah
Copy, headed ‘The Farce of Sodom’.
This MS discussed, with a facsimile of f. 81r, in Edwards, BC (1976).
First published (?) at ‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], (?)1684. The only known extant early printed exemplum is a probably early 18th-century octavo entitled Sodom, or the Gentleman Instructed. A Comedy. By the E. of R., sold at Sotheby's 16 December 2004, lot 54 (with facsimile pages in the sale catalogue), now in private ownership.
Edited from MS copies as Rochester's Sodom, ed. L.S.A.M. von Römer (Paris, 1904), and as Sodom (Olympia Press, Paris, [1957]). Love, pp. 302-33.
Of uncertain authorship. For discussions of authorship and texts, see notably Rodney M. Blaine, ‘Rochester or Fishbourne: A Question of Authorship’, RES, 22 (1946), 201-6; J. Thorpe, ‘New Manuscripts of Sodom’, PULC, 13 (1951-2), 40-1; A.S.G. Edwards, ‘Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401’, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and ‘The Authorship of Sodom’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 208-12; Larry Carver, ‘The Texts and The Text of Sodom’, PBSA, 73 (1979), 19-40; John D. Patterson, ‘Does Otway ascribe Sodom to Rochester?’, N&Q, 225 (August 1980), 349-51; and J.W. Johnson, ‘Did Lord Rochester Write Sodom?’, PBSA, 81 (1987), 101-53.
ff. 91v-3r
• LeN 5: Nathaniel Lee, To the Prince and Princess of Orange, upon Their Marriage (‘Hail, happy Warriour! hail! whose Arms have won’)
Copy of the 85-line version, headed ‘To ye Pr: & Princess of Orange. By Mr N: Lee’ and beginning ‘Hail happy warior, hail whose Arms have won’.
First published, possibly as a broadside, 1677 [no exemplum known]. 85-line version in Examen Poeticum: being the Third Part of Miscellany Poems (London, 1693), pp. 168-74. Stroup & Cooke, II, 553-4. Earlier, 65-line version, headed ‘On the Marriage of the Prince and Princess of Orange’ and beginning ‘Hail happy Warrior! whose Arms have won’, published in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Stroup & Cooke, II, 555-6.
ff. 106-8v
• MaA 310: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Majesties being made free of the Citty (‘The Londoners Gent’)
Copy.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
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…’.
f. 119r
• RoJ 263: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Women about Town (‘Too long the wise Commons have been in debate’)
Copy, headed ‘Essay’.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as ‘Lampoone’. Love, p. 42, as ‘Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester’.
ff. 124r-7v
• RoJ 528: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells (‘At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.
f. 128r
• DoC 35: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Catch (‘When rebels first push'd at the Crown’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Harris (1979), p. 49.
f. 128r-v
• RoJ 499: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To the Postboy (‘Son of a whore, God damn you! can you tell’)
Copy.
Edited in part from this MS in Vieth and in Love. Collated in Walker.
First published, in shortened form, in Johannes Prinz, Rochesteriana (Leipzig, 1926), p. 56. Vieth, pp. 130-1. Walker, p. 103. Love, pp. 42-3.
ff. 143v-4v
• WaE 775: Edmund Waller, To the Prince of Orange, 1677 (‘Welcome, great Prince, unto this land’)
Copy.
First published in The Works of the English Poets, ed. Alexander Chalmers, 21 vols (London, 1810), VIII, 68-9. Thorn-Drury, II, 82-3.
ff. 158r-60v
• DoC 56: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)
Copy, headed ‘Satir on Severall Women’.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.
f. 183r et seq.
• RoJ 11.8: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion (‘The freeborn English Generous and wise’)
Copy.
First published in The Genius of True English-men (London, 1680). Love, p. 55 (21-line version) and pp. 257-8 (30-line version). Also attributed to Robert Wolseley.
ff. 188v-9v
• MaA 186: Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes (‘When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb’)
Copy, headed ‘Royall Resolutions’.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
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.
ff. 206r-12v
• SdT 19: Thomas Shadwell, Satyr to his Muse (‘Hear me dull Prostitute, worse than my Wife’)
Copy.
First published in London, 1682. Summers, V, 263-72.
ff. 212v-14v
• EtG 107: Sir George Etherege, Mrs. Nelly's Complaint (‘If Sylla's ghost made bloody Catiline start’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…Buckingham, Vol. I (London, 1704). Thorpe, pp. 62-4.
ff. 232r-4v
• CwT 311: Thomas Carew, Foure Songs by way of Chorus to a play, at an entertainment of the King and Queene, by my Lord Chamberlaine (‘From whence was first this furie hurld’)
Copy of the four songs.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 59-62.
ff. 257v-9r
• MaA 228: Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross (‘What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross’)
Copy.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.
ff. 281v-5r
• MaA 78: 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 Inn. A Ballad’.
This MS collated in POAS, I.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
f. 305r-v
• DoC 326.92: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Dorsetts Lamentation for Moll Howards Absence (‘Dorset no gentle Nimph can find’)
Copy.
Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as ‘obviously not by Dorset’.
ff. 305v-6r
• DoC 137: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion (‘After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory’)
Copy.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.
f. 334r-v
• EtG 78: Sir George Etherege, A Song on Basset (‘Let equipage and dress despair’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published (lines 1-16 only) in Choice Ayres and Songs, Fourth Book (London, 1683). Published complete in Lycidas (London, 1688). Thorpe, pp. 11-12.
ff. 375r-6r
• DoC 69: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel (‘Of Clineas' and Dametas' sharper fight’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 21-4. This poem is part of a series by William Wharton and Robert Wolseley.
f. 389v et seq.
• DoC 361.9: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Town Life (‘Once how I doted on this jilting town’)
Copy.
First published in State Poems (London, 1697). POAS, IV, 62-7. An argument for Dorset's authorship advanced in O.S. Pickering, ‘An Attribution of the Poem The Town Life (1686) to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset’, N&Q, 235 (September 1990), 296-7.
ff. 395v-405v
• DoC 99: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Faithful Catalogue of our Most Eminent Ninnies (‘Curs'd be those dull, unpointed, doggerel rhymes’)
Copy, the poem here dated ‘1686/7’.
This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.
First published in The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset (London, 1707). POAS, IV (1968), 189-214. Harris, pp. 136-67.
f. 415r
• BeA 31: Aphra Behn, The last Nights Ramble. 1686 (‘Warm'd with the pleasures wch: debauches yield’)
Copy.
Ascribed to Aphra Behn in BeA 32. Various other MS copies of this poem are anonymous.
ff. 765r-7r
• EtG 119: Sir George Etherege, Upon Love: In Imitation of Cowley (‘Whether we mortals love or no’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Thorpe.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Thorpe, pp. 55-68.