CELM: The Rosenbach Museum & Library, numbers 1 through 239

EL 1 .A2e, item 1

Autograph annotations and marginalia, in an octavo printed text, bound with other items in contemporary vellum (detached). c.1572-80s.

*HvG 63: Gabriel Harvey, [Dionysius Periegetes]. The surveye of the world, or situation of the earth, so much as is inhabited...First written in Greeke by Dionise Alexandrine, and now englished by Thomas Twine (London, 1572)

Stern, p.

EL1 .A2e, item 2

Autograph annotations and marginalia, in an octavo printed text, signed and dated by Harvey ‘1580’, incorporating (with separate title-page) The Post for diuers partes of the world, bound with other items in contemporary vellum (detached). c.1580s.

*HvG 147: Gabriel Harvey, [Rowlands, Richard]. The Post of the World. Wherein is contayned the antiquities and originall of the most famous cities in Europe. With their trade & traficke, with their wayes and distance of myles, from country to country. With the true and perfect knowledge of their coynes, the places of their Mynts: with al their Martes and Fayres. And the Raignes of all the kings of England (London, 1576)

Stern, p. 233.

EL1 .A2e, item 3

Autograph annotations and marginalia, in an octavo printed text, bound with other items in contemporary vellum (detached). c.1576.

*HvG 93: Gabriel Harvey, [Grafton, Richard]. A brief treatise conteinyng many proper Tables, and easie rules, verye necessarye and nedefull, for the use and commoditie of al people, collected out of certaine learned mens works (London, 1576)

Stern, p. 216.

EL1 .A2e, item 4

Autograph annotations and marginalia, in an octavo printed text, bound with other items in contemporary vellum (detached). 1578.

*HvG 162: Gabriel Harvey, Turler, Jerome. The Traveiler...divided into two Bookes. The first conteyning a notable discourse of the maner and order of traveiling oversea, or into straunge and forein Countreys. The second comprehending an excellent description of the most delicious Realme of Naples in Italy (London, [1575])

The title-page bears Harvey's inscription ‘Ex dono Edmundi Spenserij, Episcopi Roffensis Secretarij, 1578’.

Stern, p. 237.

EL1 .A2e, item 5

Autograph annotations and marginalia, an octavo bound with other items in contemporary vellum (detached). c.1573-80s.

*HvG 124: Gabriel Harvey, Llwyd, Humphrey. The Breviary of Britayne...Contayning a learned discourse of the variable state, & alteration thereof; under divers, as wel natural; as forren princes, & conquerors...Writen in Latin by Humfrey Lhuyd of Denbigh...and lately Englished by Thomas Twyne (London, 1573)

Stern, pp. 224-5.

EL1 .W753a 567, item 1

Autograph annotations and marginalia, in a quarto printed text, bound with another work by Wilson in contemporary calf. c.1567-80s.

*HvG 169: Gabriel Harvey, Wilson, Sir Thomas. The Art of Rhetorike, for the use of all suche as are studious of Eloquence (London, 1567)

Stern, pp. 238-9.

EL1 .W753a 567, item 2

Autograph annotations and marginalia, including notes in apparently two other secretary hands on ‘Syr Thomas Mores Jestes’, in a quarto printed text, bound with another work by Wilson in contemporary calf.

*HvG 170: Gabriel Harvey, Wilson, Sir Thomas. The Rule of Reason, conteinyng the Arte of Logike (London, 1567)

Stern, p. 239.

EL2 f.K48f

Thomas Killigrew's own exemplum of Four New Playes (London, 1666) bound with The Imperial Tragedy (London, 1669), all but one play (item 4, Pandora, 1666) with his autograph insertions. c.1666-69.

Inscribed on the title-page ‘Anglesey given me by the worthy author. Sept. 17. 1670’. Sotheby's, 11 March 1884 (Baron Brown Mill Library sale). Afterwards owned by Sir Henry Irving (1838-1905), actor. Christie's, 21 February 1899.

Discussed in Joseph S. Johnston, Jr, ‘Sir William Killigrew's Revised Copy of his Four New Plays: Confirmation of His Claim to The Imperial Tragedy’, Modern Philology, 74 (1976-7), 72-4, and 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 15: Sir William Killigrew, The Siege of Urbin

Autograph additions to the printed text (1666), including a page of MS dialogue on the verso of the title-page, occasional new lines and stage directions in MS (including examples on pp. 2-5, 7, 12, 20 and probably 26), and a quarto-sized leaf of MS dialogue tipped-in before p. 5.

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

item 2

• *KiW 7: Sir William Killigrew, Selindra

Autograph additions to the printed text (1666), comprising Killigrew's autograph Prologue (beginning ‘Ladyes, we have made choyce to shew this Daye’) signed ‘W: K:’, on a quarto leaf tipped-in after the Dramatis Personæ, and his autograph Epilogue (beginning ‘Our Author, sent his Epelogue so late’), also signed ‘W: K:’, on a quarto leaf tipped-in at the end.

The verses edited from this MS in Joseph S. Johnston Jr and J.P. Vander Motten, ‘Some Unpublished Restoration Prologues and Epilogues: New Light on the Stage History of Sir William Killigrew's Plays’, Modern Philology, 77 (1979-80), 159-63.

First published in Three Playes (London, 1664).

item 3

• *KiW 4: Sir William Killigrew, Ormasdes or Love and Friendship

Autograph additions, in a printed text of Love and Friendship (1666), comprising Killigrew's autograph Prologue (beginning ‘Though Most men Love, and some doe Frindship owne’), signed ‘W: K:’, on an octavo-size leaf tipped-in after the Dramatis Personæ, and his autograph Prologue (beginning ‘Since Presidents, be as knowne Lawes alowd’), also signed ‘W: K:’, on a tipped-in quarto leaf at the end.

First published in Three Playes (London, 1664).

item 5

• *KiW 2: Sir William Killigrew, The Imperial Tragedy

Autograph additions, in a printed text (1669), lacking the original title-page, the title in Killigrew's hand facing the Dramatis Personæ, with some corrections or revisions by him (pp. 13, 21, 47), and signed by him at the end (p. 51) ‘W^m: Killigrew’.

First published London, 1669.

MS 232/14

A duodecimo miscellany, closely written in a minute hand from both ends, 152 pages, in modern brown morocco gilt. Compiled by ‘T. E.’, a member of St John's College, Oxford c.1655.

Later owned by Benjamin Heywood Bright (1787-1843), book collector. Bright sale, June 1844. MS 40 in the library of the Shirley family at Ettington Hall, Warwickshire, and with notes by E.Ph. Shirley.

Recorded in HMC, 5th Report, Part I (1876), Appendix, p. 365.

pp. 35-6

• ShJ 114: James Shirley, Vpon the Princes Birth (‘Fair fall their Muses that in well-chim'd verse’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song on Prince Charles his birth’ and here beginning ‘Welfare y^e Muses w^ch in well chimed verse’.

This MS recorded (as M540) in HMC, 5th Report, Part I (1876), Appendix, p. 365.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 7-8.

pp. 78-77 rev.

• WoH 58.5: Sir Henry Wotton, An Ode to the King, at his returning from Scotand to the Queen after his coronation there (‘Rouse up thyself, my gentle Muse’)

Copy, headed ‘An ode to the King, at his return’, subscribed ‘J R.’

First published in Ben Jonson's Vnder-wood in his Workes (London, 1640). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 521. Hannah (1845), pp. 21-4. Ben Jonson, ed. C.H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, VIII (Oxford, 1947), p. 267.

pp. 46-7

• ShJ 219: James Shirley, A breif expression of the delight apprehended by the Authour att the seeing of the Solemne triumphs of the gent of the Innes of Court riding with the Masque presented before his Ma^tie: Feb: 3, 1633 (‘Now did Heavens Charioteer, the great daies Starr’)

Copy, with full title and here beginning ‘Now did heavens Charioter y^e day’.

The first line sometimes reading ‘Now did Oceanus Charioteer, the great daies Starr’.

MS 239/4

A folio composite volume of state tracts and letters, in professional hands, including that of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, 517 leaves, in reversed calf. No. 11 inscribed ‘Severall Tracts Selected out of a Booke in y^e hands of Sir Robert Cotton Knight and Baronnet’.

Collected in 1674 by one John Witham.

No 1

• BcF 173: Francis Bacon, Considerations touching a War with Spain

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, on 40 leaves, the title-page inscribed in another hand ‘By Francis Bacon’.

A tract dedicated to Prince Charles, beginning ‘Your Highness hath an imperial name. It was a Charles that brought the empire first into France...’. First published in Certaine Miscellany Works, ed. William Rawley (London, 1629). Spedding, XIV, 469-505.

No. 3

• CtR 29: Sir Robert Cotton, An Answer made by Command of Prince Henry, to Certain Propositions of Warre and Peace

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed Propositions presented to Prince Henry...Answered and Confuted by S^r Ro: Cotton K^t & Baronet, on 43 leaves, docketed at the end ‘Plegi Martij 9^no 1673/4. Jo: Witham’.

A treatise beginning ‘Frames of Policy, as well as works of Nature, are best preserved from the same grounds...’., written in 1609. First published London, 1655. Also published as Warrs with Forregin Princes Dangerous to oyr Common-Wealth: or, reasons for Forreign Wars Answered (London, 1657); as An Answer to such Motives as were offer'd by certain Military-Men to Prince Henry, inciting him to affect Arms more than Peace... (London, 1665); and as A Discourse of Foreign War (London, 1690).

No. 4

• RaW 669: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Discourse touching a War with Spain, and of the Protecting of the Netherlands

Copy, headed ‘Of Spaine & y^e Netherlands by S^r W. Raleigh 1^o Jac.’, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, on 15 leaves, docketed at the end ‘Plegi febr. 25. 1673/4 Jo: Witham’.

A tract addressed to James I and beginning ‘It belongeth not to me to judge whether the king of Spain hath done wrong to the Netherlands...’. First published in Three Discourses of Sir Walter Ralegh (London 1702). Works (1829), VIII, 299-316.

No. 5

• RaW 1116: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Present Stat of Thinges as they now Stand betweene the three great Kingedomes, Fraunce, England, and Spaine

Copy, in the hand of the ‘Feathery Scribe’, on seven leaves, lacking a title-page, docketed at the end ‘Plegi J. W:’.

Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes: Manuscripts and their Makers in Seventeenth-Century England (Oxford, 1998), p. 260 (No. 102).

A tract beginning ‘These three great kingdoms as they now stand are to be compared to the election of a king of Poland...’. First published in Lefranc (1968), pp. 590-5, and discussed pp. 586-90. The attribution to Ralegh subsequently doubted by Professor Lefranc (private communication). If the tract dates from 1623, as appears in one MS, it could not have been weitten by Ralegh.

No. 13

• CtR 514: Sir Robert Cotton, Twenty-four Argvments, Whether it be more expedient to suppress Popish Practises against the due Allegeance of His Majesty, by the Strict Execution touching Jesuits and Seminary Preists? Or, to restraine them to Close Prisons, during life, if no Reformation follow?

Copy, in a professional predominantly secretary hand, with a title-page ‘Sir Robert Cotton's Advise concerning y^e executing or imprisoning of Iesuites 1613’, on twenty folio leaves, subscribed ‘An^o Dni 1613. Aug 11. R. C.’, and docketed at the end ‘pelegi. febr. 2. 1673 Jo: Witham’.

Tract beginning ‘I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads...’, dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.

pp. 122-7

• HoH 17: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, Abatements nowe in beinge: or to be verie shortlie vppon the Marryage of the Lady Elizabeth to the Counte Pallatyne of the Rhine, Anno 1613: and otherwise ffor the kings Bennifitt

Copy.

A tract beginning ‘By the bestowing of my La Eliz. grace and after hir grace shall be settled...’. Unpublished?

MS 239/16

A quarto verse miscellany, in probably a single mixed hand varying over a period, entitled in another hand Recueil Choisi De Pieces fugitives En Vers Anglois, 214 pages, in modern calf. c.1713.

Afterwards owned by Charles de Beaumont, the Chevalière d'Éon (1728-1810). Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872): Phillipps MS 9500. In the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936.

p. 5

• DrJ 247.2: John Dryden, Amphitryon. or, The Two Sosia's, Act IV, scene i, lines 482-93. Song (‘For I'ris I Sigh, and hourly Dye’)

Copy of the speech, untitled, subscribed ‘M^r Driden’.

Kinsley, II, 561, and California, XV (1976), pp. 299-300, both as ‘Mercury's Song to Phædra’ (‘Fair Iris I love, and hourly I dye’). Hammond, III, 239.

p. 6

• RaW 92: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, headed ‘S^r Walter Raleigh the night before his death’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 154.

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 239/18

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in probably two or more secretary hands, 108 pages, in half brown morocco. Mid-17th century.

Later owned by F.W. Cosens (1819-89). Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.

p. 3

• JnB 184: 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 of lines 13-28.

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. 3-4

• JnB 2: Ben Jonson, Another. In defence of their Inconstancie. A Song (‘Hang up those dull, and envious fooles’)

Copy, headed ‘A song Apologetique: In defence of womens inconstancy’.

First published in The Vnder-wood (vi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 146.

pp. 4-5

• JnB 142: Ben Jonson, An Epitaph on Master Vincent Corbet (‘I have my Pietie too, which could’)

Copy beginning at line 7 (‘Deare Vincent Corbet, who so long)’.

First published in The Vnder-wood (xii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 151-2.

pp. 4-5

• CoR 90: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of his owne Father (‘Vincent Corbet, farther knowne’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Dear Vincent Corbett...’.

First published (omitting the last four lines) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published with the last four lines in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 67-9.

p. 5

• JnB 317: Ben Jonson, A little Shrub growing by (‘Aske not to know this Man. If fame should speake’)

Copy, headed ‘Another by Ben:’.

First published in The Vnder-wood (xxi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 172.

p. 5

• JnB 430: Ben Jonson, A Satyricall Shrub (‘A Womans friendship! God whom I trust in’)

Copy of lines 17-24, beginning ‘Doe not you aske to know her, she is worse’.

This MS recorded in Beal.

First published (in an incomplete 24-line version) in The Vnder-wood (xx) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 171-2. Complete 32-line version first published in Grace Ioppolo, ‘The Monckton-Milnes Manuscript and the “Truest” Version of Ben Jonson's “A Satyricall Shrubb”’, Ben Jonson Journal, 16 (May 2009), 117-31 (pp. 125-6). Some later texts of this poem discussed in Peter Beal, ‘Ben Jonson and “Rochester's” Rodomontade on his Cruel Mistress’, RES, NS 29 (1978), 320-4. See also Harold F. Brooks, ‘“A Satyricall Shrub”’, TLS (11 December 1969), p. 1426.

p. 6

• CwT 8: Thomas Carew, An other (‘This little Vault, this narrow roome’)

Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on the lady Villers: by T. Carew’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 54.

p. 6

• ShJ 131: James Shirley, ‘Would you know what's soft?’

Copy, headed ‘A Song by T. Carew’.

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

pp. 7-8

• CwT 671.5: Thomas Carew, The second Rapture (‘No worldling, no, tis not thy gold’)

Copy, headed ‘Another Rapture of Carew's’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 103-4.

pp. 8, 23-6

• EaJ 82: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Microcosmography

Extracts from several characters, headed ‘Blounts Characters’.

First published (anonymously), comprising 54 characters and with a preface by Edward Blount, London, 1628. 77 characters in the edition of 1629. 78 characters in the edition of 1664. Edited by Philip Bliss (London, 1811).

pp. 19-20

• RnT 355: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet (‘I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon an Incomparable foule lady that had a very sweet voyce’.

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

pp. 20-1

• PoW 60: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘On a Gentw: w^th black eyes & haire’.

This MS collated in Wolf (as MS I).

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.

p. 21

• RnT 394: Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger (‘Arithmetique nine digits, and no more’)

Copy, headed ‘Th: Randall on y^e loss of his litle finger’, incomplete.

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

p. 33

• CwT 1252.5: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘The Rapture, by J.D.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.

p. 35

• StW 333: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)

Copy.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.

pp. 35-8

• RnT 466: Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks (‘Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name’)

Copy, headed ‘A duell fought at Wisbech betwene a Norfolk & a wisbech Cock, 1637’, inscribed at the side ‘Wild’.

(Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17^th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.

p. 42

• StW 1035: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon his M^rs. playing for a kiss’.

First published in A Banquet of Jests (London, 1633). Dobell, p. 47. Forey, p. 211. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 446-7).

pp. 43-4

• StW 824: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘Chloris in the snow’ and here ascribed to ‘D^r. Corbet’.

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

pp. 44-5

• PoW 61: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘In praise of a black wench’.

This MS collated in Wolf (as MS J).

p. 45

• HrJ 155: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Ladie’, with four additional lines.

First published in ‘Epigrammes’ appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

p. 46

• HrJ 203: Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister (‘I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten’)

Copy of a ten-line version headed ‘A Puritan maide’ and here beginning ‘A Puritan maide by one of her society’.

First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.

p. 46

• ShJ 18: James Shirley, Dialogue (‘I prethee tell me what prodigious fate’)

Copy of an early version headed ‘In praise of his M^rs. Shirley’ and beginning ‘Her haires are Cupids nets’.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 18.

pp. 47-9

• CwT 655: Thomas Carew, A Rapture (‘I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come’)

Copy, inscribed at the side ‘Cowley’.

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

p. 49

• FoJ 9: John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy, III, ii. Song (‘They that will learn to drink a health in hell’)

Copy, headed ‘Tobacco’ and here beginning ‘He that would learn to drink a health in hell’.

Dyce, I, 66. Bang, p. 67 (lines 1629-33).

pp. 49-50

• JnB 441: Ben Jonson, Song. That Women are bvt Mens shaddowes (‘Follow a shaddow, it still flies you’)

Copy, headed ‘Women’.

First published in The Forrest (vii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 104.

pp. 50-1

• WoH 251: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘His last goodnight. D^r Don’.

p. 51

• RnT 367: Thomas Randolph, Upon his Picture (‘When age hath made me what I am not now’)

Copy, inscribed at the side ‘Randol.’

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 79.

pp. 51-2

• ShJ 133.5: James Shirley, To his M^rs (‘Noe matter though our age doe not agree’)

Copy, inscribed at the side ‘Sherley’.

Unpublished.

pp. 52-3

• CoR 623: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)

Copy, headed ‘Ag^st. Ladies wearing great bands’.

First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 90.

This poem is usually followed in MSS by ‘The Ladyes Answer’ (‘Blacke Cypresse vailes are shrouds of night’): see GrJ 14.

p. 54

• JnB 519: Ben Jonson, To the Ghost of Martial (‘Martial, thou gau'st farre nobler Epigrammes’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon K. James’.

First published in Epigrammes (xxxvi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 38.

pp. 54-5

• CwT 693.5: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy of lines 9-16, headed ‘Secrecy in loue’ and here beginning ‘Ther's none shall know that we Can tell’.

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

MS 239/22

An octavo verse miscellany, written over a period in three hands (A, in alternating secretary and italic, written c.1638: ff. 1-59v; B, written c.1645: ff. 60r-9r; C, written c.1649, ff. 69v-70r), 70 leaves, in old calf. Including thirteen poems by Strode and three of doubtful authorship. c.1638-45 [and addition c.1649].

Later sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9569. Bookplate of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 193.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Rosenbach MS I’: CwT Δ 31 and StW Δ 23.

ff. 3v-4r

• PoW 62: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘Vppon a faire gentlewoman haueinge Blacke haire’, inscribed at the side in another hand ‘Poole’.

This MS collated in Wolf (as MS E).

ff. 4v-5

• DnJ 95: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon an vnhansome woman’.

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.

f. 6r

• DaJ 149: Sir John Davies, An Epitaph (‘Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Bellowes-maker’ and here beginning ‘Browne lyes here the maker of bellowes’.

A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.

f. 7v

• HrJ 118: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek (‘Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.

f. 7v

• DnJ 1770: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)

Copy, untitled.

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.

f. 8r

• DnJ 1903: John Donne, A licentious person (‘Thy sinnes and haires may no man equall call’)

Copy, untitled.

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.

f. 8r

• HrJ 204: Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister (‘I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten’)

Copy of a ten-line version, untitled and here beginning ‘A godly maide by one of her society’.

First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.

f. 8r

• HrJ 60.5: Sir John Harington, The Author to Queene Elizabeth, in praise of her reading (‘For euer deare, for euer dreaded Prince’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 13. McClure No. 267, p. 258. This epigram is also quoted in Breefe Notes and Remembraunces (Nugae Antiquae (1804), I, 172). Kilroy, Book IV, No. 88 (p. 243).

f. 8v

• DaJ 209: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses to their bedds do lay’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

ff. 14r-17v

• CoR 644: Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North (‘My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes’)

Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbet to the Lord Mordaunt’.

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

ff. 17v-18v

• CoR 338: Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 (‘My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine’)

Copy, headed ‘ffrom Doctor Corbett to M^r Alesburye on y^e Comett’.

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

f. 19v

• CoR 547: Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella (‘How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power’)

Copy.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.

ff. 20r-5r

• EaJ 68: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, Satyra Itineraria (‘Mensis erat cum cana seges per pinguia rura’)

Copy, headed ‘_______ Iter Boreale’ and ascribed to ‘J: Earle’.

Unpublished.

f. 25r

• JnB 401: Ben Jonson, On Gut (‘Gvt eates all day, and lechers all the night’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘B. Johnson’.

First published in Epigrammes (cxviii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 76.

f. 25v

• WoH 45: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Henry Wotton on a private life’.

f. 26r

• StW 1300: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse’.

First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

f. 26r

• RaW 223: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice (‘Beefore the sixt day of the next new year’)

Copy, headed ‘An old Prophecye’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 139.

First published as ‘A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice’ in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as ‘Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas’ and ‘On the Cardes and dice’ respectively).

f. 27r-v

• BmF 51: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland (‘I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep’)

Copy; imperfect, the ending on a leaf missing after f. 27.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

ff. 28r-35v

• CoR 308: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)

Copy, beginning at line 23 (here ‘Ther had wee venison such as Virgill slew’).

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

ff. 36r-7r

• CoR 365: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)

Copy, headed ‘D.C. his verses to the Duke of Buckingham being in Spaine’.

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

ff. 37v-8v

• CoR 158: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox (‘Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Lady Haddington who dyed of y^e small poxe’, inscribed at the side ‘DC’.

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

ff. 39r-42v

• JnB 244: Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan (‘Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnsons Verses on the burning of his Studye’.

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.

ff. 42v-4r

• HoJ 79: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)

Copy, headed ‘The Parliament ffart’, subscribed ‘Hoskins’.

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

ff. 44r-5v

• DnJ 412: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy, headed ‘To a Lady whose chaine was lost by [?]D.D.J.D.’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 45v-6r

• MoG 75: George Morley, On the Nightingale (‘My limbs were weary and my head oppressed’)

Copy, headed ‘The Nightingale by G: M’.

ff. 46r-7v

• StW 519: William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge (‘Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I’)

Copy of the sequence.

Sequence of three poems, the second headed ‘Consolatorium, Ad Parentes’ and beginning ‘Lett her parents then confesse’, the third headed ‘Her Epitaph’ and beginning ‘Happy Grave, thou dost enshrine’. The third poem probably by George Morley and first published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). The three poems published in Dobell (1907), pp. 59-63. Forey, pp. 211-16.

ff. 47v-8r

• MoG 41: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e late King’.

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. 49r

• StW 1345: William Strode, On Jealousy (‘There is a thing that nothing is’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon Jealousy’.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 49. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

f. 49v

• HoJ 305: John Hoskyns, An Anima sit ex traduce (‘What is the soule of man? or where created’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘Hoskins’.

Ascribed to Hoskyns in one MS source.

ff. 49v-50r

• CoR 126: Richard Corbett, An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower (‘Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth’)

Copy, headed ‘D.C. on S^r Tho: Ouerbury’.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.

f. 50v

• KiH 205: Henry King, An Elegy Upon S.W.R. (‘I will not weep. For 'twere as great a Sinne’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon the death of S^r Walter Rawleigh who was beheaded Anno Dⁱ 1619’

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 66.

f. 51r

• DnJ 2359: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’

Copy, headed ‘Vppon one whom J.D. taught to loue and complement’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

ff. 51v-2v

• DnJ 2582: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross. Facsimile of f. 52v in McLeod, ‘Obliterature’, EMS 12 (2005), 84.

First published, as ‘Elegie IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 84-6 (as ‘Elegie IV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 7-9. Shawcross, No. 10. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 72-3.

ff. 52v-3r

• DnJ 3214.5: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, untitled, heavily inked over.

Facsimile of these two pages, and of a portion of f. 53r in infrared photography, in McLeod, ‘Obliterature’, EMS 12 (2005), 84-5, 96-7, with full transcription on pp. 98-100.

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.

ff. 53v-5r

• HrG 323: George Herbert, Lucus, XXXII. Triumphus Mortis (‘O mea suspicienda manus, ventérque perennis!’)

Copy of a version headed ‘Inventa Bellica’ and beginning ‘O mortis longaeua fames, verterque perennis’, subscribed ‘G: Herbert’.

First published in The Works of George Herbert, ed. William Pickering, I (London, 1836). Hutchinson, pp. 418-21. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 108-17.

pp. 55v-6r

• StW 457: William Strode, On a good legge and foote (‘If Hercules tall Stature might be guest’)

Copy.

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

pp. 56r-7r

• StW 1240: William Strode, Westwell Elme (‘Prethe stand still a while, and view this Tree’)

Copy, headed ‘On a great hollow Tree’, inscribed at the side ‘W. S’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 21-4. Forey, pp. 1-5.

f. 57r

• StW 314: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)

Copy, inscribed at the side ‘W.S’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.

f. 57r-v

• StW 701: William Strode, A Register for a Bible (‘I am the faithfull deputy’)

Copy.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 52-3. Forey, p. 52.

f. 57v

• StW 671: William Strode, Poses for Braceletts (‘This keepes my hande’)

Copy of the second stanza.

Third stanza (beginning ‘Voutchsafe my Pris'ner thus to be’) and fourth stanza (beginning ‘When you putt on this little bande’) first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Published complete in Dobell (1907), pp. 43-4. Forey, p. 34.

f. 57v

• StW 258: William Strode, A Necklace (‘These Vaines are Natures Nett’)

Copy.

First stanza first published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 386. Second stanza (‘Loe on my necke…’) first published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 100. Complete in Dobell, p. 45. Forey, p. 35.

f. 57v

• StW 151: William Strode, A Girdle (‘When ere the wast makes too much hast’)

Copy.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.

f. 57v

• StW 1227: William Strode, A watchstring (‘Tymes picture here invites your eyes’)

Copy.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 44. Forey, p. 210.

f. 58r

• StW 684: William Strode, A pursestringe (‘Wee hugg, imprison, hang and save’)

Copy.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 44-5. Forey, p. 210.

f. 58r

• StW 1062: William Strode, Thankes for a welcome (‘For your good Lookes, and for your Clarett’)

Copy, inscribed at the side ‘W. S’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, p. 102. Forey, p. 30.

f. 58r-v

• StW 1050: William Strode, A Superscription on Sir Philip Sidneys Arcadia sent for a Token (‘Whatever in Philoclea the Faire’)

Copy, inscribed at the side ‘W. S’.

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

ff. 58v-9v

• StW 492: William Strode, On Faireford windores (‘I know noe paint of Poetry’)

Copy, inscribed at the side ‘W. S’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 25-7. Forey, pp. 7-10.

f. 61r

• StW 1260: William Strode, Jack on both Sides (‘I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes’)

Copy, headed ‘A Roman Catholick demanding of his friend what he should report his Religion to be, he answereth thus’, in double columns, the page turned to oblong format.

First published, as ‘The Church Papist’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as ‘The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed’ by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, ‘The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

ff. 61v-3r

• ClJ 33: John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath (‘Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze’)

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue of Zealotts concerning the Oathe’ and here beginning ‘S^r Roger fro in peice of Zealous Freeze’, subscribed ‘Cleveland of S^t Iohns in Cam s^d.’

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.

ff. 63v-4r

• ClJ 207: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Earle of Strafford’ and here beginning ‘Here rests wise & valiant dust’.

First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as ‘Internally unlike his manner’. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among ‘Poems probably by Cleveland’. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).

f. 64r-6v

• ClJ 91: John Cleveland, The Rebell Scot (‘How? Providence? and yet a Scottish crew?’)

Copy, subscribed ‘P Iohn Cleueland Advocat G[?] Newack[?]’.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 29-32.

f. 64v

• MrJ 72: John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII (‘Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree’)

Copy of the Latin only.

MS 239/23

A quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat secretary hand, 204 pages, in old calf. Including ten poems by Carew (and two of doubtful authorship) and 24 poems by Randolph. c.1630s.

Thomas Thorpe, ‘Catalogue of upwards of fourteen hundred manuscripts’ (1836), item 1030. Later in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9282. Subsequently in the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, and art and book collector, of Providence, Rhode Island. American Art Association, New York, 11-12 March 1936 (Perry sale). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 188.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Rosenbach MS I’: CwT Δ 31 and RnT Δ 10. The complete volume edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) (Rosenbach Library Mic 59-4669).

pp. 4-9

• RnT 141: Thomas Randolph, In Anguem, qui Lycorin dormientem amplexus est. Englished thus παραψρ (‘The Spring was come, and all the fields growne fine’)

Copy, headed ‘Englished thus’, subscribed Tho: Rand:, following (pp. 3-4) the Latin version.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 28-34, following a Latin version beginning ‘Ver erat, & flores per apertum libera campum’.

pp. 9-10

• CwT 164: Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned (‘Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘She that loves a Rosie cheek’.

First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

p. 11

• HeR 216: Robert Herrick, To a Gentlewoman, objecting to him his gray haires (‘Am I despis'd because you say’)

Copy, untitled.

Edited from this MS (erroneously cited as ‘MS 239/22’) in Patrick.

First published, among verse ‘By other Gentlemen’, in Poems written by Wil. Shake-speare. Gent. (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 63. Patrick, pp. 91-2. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

pp. 11-12

• CwT 255: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘Of a Flye flyeinge into his M^rs. Eye’.

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. 13

• RnT 63: Thomas Randolph, De Sene Veronensi. Ex Claudiano (‘Happy the man that all his dayes hath spent’)

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 48-9.

p. 14

• RnT 144: Thomas Randolph, In Archimedis Sphaeram ex Claudiano (‘Jove saw the Heavens fram'd in a little glasse’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Tho. R’.

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

p. 14

• RnT 410: Thomas Randolph, ‘When Jove sawe Archimedes world of glasse’

Copy, subscribed ‘Th: R:’.

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

pp. 15-16

• RnT 174: Thomas Randolph, A Maske for Lydia (‘Sweet Lydia take this maske, and shroud’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Th: R:’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 126-7.

pp. 16-17

• ShJ 26: James Shirley, Friendship, Or Verses sent to a Lover, in Answer of a Copie which he had writ in praise of His Mistris (‘O how I blush, to have ador'd the face’)

Copy of a version headed ‘To a Gentleman (that magnified his Mistresse) The praise of a M^r.’ and beginning ‘I have no humour to adore y^e face’, subscribed ‘T.R.’.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 16.

pp. 17-18

• ShJ 53: James Shirley, A Lover that durst not speak to his Mistris (‘I can no longer hold, my body growes’)

Copy, headed ‘Of one that lou'd a great Mistresse and durst not discouer it’.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 4.

pp. 18-21

• RnT 54: Thomas Randolph, De Magnete. Ex Claudiano (‘Who in the world with busy reason pryes’)

Copy, subscribed ‘T: R.’

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 46-8.

p. 21

• ShJ 7: James Shirley, Another (‘Harke, harke how in euery groue’)

Copy, headed ‘The Curtizan’.

First published, adapted as stanzas 3 and 4 of ‘Cupid's Call’ (‘Ho! Cupid calls, come Lovers, come’), in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 89.

pp. 24-9

• MsP 13: Philip Massinger, The Virgins Character (‘Such as doe Trophies striue to raise’)

Copy, subscribed ‘P: M:’.

First published in A.K. McIlwraith, ‘The Virgins Character: A New Poem by Philip Massinger’, RES, 4 (1928), 64-8. Edwards & Gibson, IV, 409-13.

pp. 30-1

• JnB 335: Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue (‘Come, with our Voyces, let us warre’)

Copy, headed ‘Dialogue in Songe Betweene a Nymphe & a Shepheard’.

First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.

p. 33

• JnB 727: Ben Jonson, The Sad Shepherd, I, v, 65-80. Song (‘Though I am young, and cannot tell’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Workes (London, 1641). Herford & Simpson, VII, 1-49.

pp. 34-5

• JnB 360: Ben Jonson, My Picture left in Scotland (‘I now thinke, Love is rather deafe, then blind’)

Copy, untitled.

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

pp. 35-6

• JnB 43: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 7. Begging another, on colour of mending the former (‘For Loves-sake, kisse me once againe’)

Copy, untitled.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 139.

pp. 37-8

• HeR 395: Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris (‘Whither are all her false oathes blowne’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS (erroneously cited as ‘MS 239/22’) collated in Patrick.

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

pp. 38-9

• GrJ 75.5: John Grange, ‘Since every man I come among’

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Poems (1660), pp. 53-4. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as by John Grange.

p. 40

• JnB 619: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Lady Purbeck's fortune (‘Helpe me wonder, here's a booke’)

Copy of Lady Purbeck's fortune, untitled.

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

p. 43

• DnJ 208: 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. 44

• HeR 96: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)

Copy, untitled.

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. 44-5

• CwT 215: Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence (‘You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay’)

Copy.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.

p. 45

• FeO 35: Owen Felltham, A Farewell (‘When by sad fate from hence I summon'd am’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 18.

pp. 47-8

• HrE 50: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, The Thought (‘If you do love, as well as I’)

Copy.

First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 43-4.

pp. 48-55

• HeR 135: 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 ‘His old Age to M^r. Weekes’.

This MS (erroneously cited as ‘MS 239/22’) collated in Patrick.

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

p. 56

• RnT 285: Thomas Randolph, A Pastoral Ode (‘Coy Coelia dost thou see’)

Copy, headed ‘A Madrigall’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 86-7.

pp. 56-7

• RnT 326: Thomas Randolph, To Time (‘Why should we not accuse thee of a crime’)

Copy, headed ‘Against Tyme’.

First published in Moore Smith (1925), pp. 254-5. Thorn-Drury, p. 163.

pp. 57-8

• ShJ 132: James Shirley, ‘Would you know what's soft?’

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

pp. 59-60

• ShJ 46: James Shirley, Love for Enjoying (‘Fair Lady, what's your face to me?’)

Copy of a version headed ‘To his M^rs. whome hee lou'd to enioye’ and beginning ‘Ladye what's your face to me’.

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 7.

pp. 60-2

• RnT 163: Thomas Randolph, In Lesbiam, & Histrionem (‘I wonder what should Madam Lesbia meane’)

Copy, headed ‘In Lesbiam’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 42-4.

pp. 63-6

• RnT 182: Thomas Randolph, An Ode to Mr. Anthony Stafford to hasten him into the Country (‘Come spurre away’)

Copy, headed ‘An Ode, or an Incitation to the Countrie’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 79-82.

pp. 67-70

• RnT 70: Thomas Randolph, A Dialogue. Thirsis. Lalage (‘My Lalage when I behold’)

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 84-5.

p. 72

• CwT 1253: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy, untitled.

pp. 72-4

• CwT 1036: Thomas Carew, To Celia, upon Love's Vbiquity (‘As one that strives, being sick, and sick to death’)

Copy, untitled.

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

pp. 74-5

• FeO 42: Owen Felltham, On a Jewel given at parting (‘When cruel time enforced me’)

Copy, untitled.

A sixteen-line version first published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 11.

pp. 78-9

• CwT 355: Thomas Carew, In praise of his Mistris (‘You, that will a wonder know’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1651). Dunlap, p. 122.

pp. 80-2

• JnB 185: 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 of the Body’.

pp. 82-5

• JnB 222: 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 y^e Minde’.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 277-81.

pp. 85-90

• FlJ 14: John Fletcher, Upon An Honest Man's Fortune (‘You that can look through heaven, and tell the stars’)

Copy, untitled.

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

p. 90

• RnT 166: Thomas Randolph, In Natalem Augustissimi Principis Caroli. [Englished] (‘Thy first birth Mary was unto a tombe’)

Copy, following the Latin version which is headed ‘In Natalem Principis ad Mariam Reginam’.

First published, following a Latin version beginning ‘Prima tibi periit soboles (dilecta Maria)’, in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 78-9.

p. 91

• HoJ 303: John Hoskyns, Vpon the birth of the Prince (‘Cum Rex Paulinas accessit gratus ad aras’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Dum Rex Paulinas...’, subscribed ‘S: H’.

The Latin poem followed by the English version, beginning ‘While at the Alter of S^t Pauls y^e King’. Osborn, No. XLVII (p. 214).

p. 91

• RnT 154: Thomas Randolph, In Diem Baptizationis Principis Caroli. Englished (‘Why att thy Christ'ening did it rayne deare Prince’)

Copy, following (pp. 90-1) the Latin version.

First published, following a Latin version beginning ‘Inviditne tibi Tellus tua gaudia caelum’, in Day (1932), p. 35.

p. 91

• RnT 406: Thomas Randolph, ‘When gratefull Charles went to Paules hollowed shrine’

Copy, following a text of Hoskins's Latin verses.

First published in Day (1932), pp. 33-4.

p. 91

• HoJ 302: John Hoskyns, Vpon the birth of the Prince (‘Cum Rex Paulinas accessit gratus ad aras’)

Copy.

The Latin poem followed by the English version, beginning ‘While at the Alter of S^t Pauls y^e King’. Osborn, No. XLVII (p. 214).

pp. 93-6

• HeR 206: Robert Herrick, A Pastorall upon the birth of Prince Charles, Presented to the King, and Set by Master Nicholas Laniere (‘Good day, Mirtillo. And to you no lesse’)

Copy, headed ‘In Nat: Prin: &c.’.

Edited from this MS in Patrick, pp. 122-3.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 85-7. Patrick, pp. 120-1.

p. 96

• RnT 305: Thomas Randolph, The Song of Discord (‘Let Linus and Amphions lute’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Th: R:’.

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

p. 97

• RnT 434: Thomas Randolph, The Muses' Looking-Glass, Act I, scene iv. Song (‘Say in a dance how shall we go’)

Copy, headed ‘The Masque of Vices’, subscribed ‘Th: R:’.

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

pp. 97-8

• RnT 374: Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger (‘Arithmetique nine digits, and no more’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the losse of a Finger’, with a Latin subscription (‘Quam miser est…’) added in a different ink, subscribed ‘Th: R:’.

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

pp. 98-106

• RnT 45: Thomas Randolph, A complaint against Cupid that he never made him in Love (‘How many of thy Captives (Love) complaine’)

Copy, headed ‘His Complaint on Cupid that hee neuer yett made him enamoured’, subscribed ‘Th: R:’.

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

pp. 106-13

• RnT 244: Thomas Randolph, On the Inestimable Content He Injoyes in the Muses, To those of his Friends that dehort him from Poetry (‘Goe sordid earth, and hope not to bewitch’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Th: R:’.

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

pp. 113-14

• RnT 59: Thomas Randolph, De Moderatione Animi in vtraque fortuna (‘Is thy poore Barke becalm'd, and forc'd to staye’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Th: R.’.

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

pp. 114-16

• GrJ 64: John Grange, ‘Not that I wish my Mistris’

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Wits Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. V7^v. 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. 118-19

• RnT 151: Thomas Randolph, In corydonem & Corinnam. Paraphras'd (‘Ah wretch in thy Corinna's love unblest!’)

Copy, headed ‘Paraphras'd’, following (p. 118) the Latin version, both subscribed ‘T. R.’

First published, following a Latin version beginning ‘Ah miser, & nullo felix in amore! Corinnam’, in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 98-9.

pp. 120-3

• RnT 335: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet (‘I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare’)

Copy.

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

p. 123

• RnT 159: Thomas Randolph, In Eandem Dystichon. Englished (‘By thy lookes Hecuba, Helen by thy songe’)

Copy, subscribed ‘T: R.’, following the Latin version.

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

pp. 130-3

• CmT 175: Thomas Campion, ‘Young and simple though I am’

Copy, headed ‘A maydes Deliberation’, with four additional strophes.

This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 565-7.

First published in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Campion, The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London [1617]), Book IV, No. ix. Davis, p. 177. Doughtie, p. 295.

pp. 133-4

• HeR 20: Robert Herrick, The admonition (‘Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares’)

Copy, headed ‘Of a proud Ladie that had her haire drest & stucke with Iewells’.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.

p. 134-5

• CwT 127: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Copy.

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

pp. 135-6

• CwT 406: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes (‘In Celia's face a question did arise’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.

pp. 151-3

• KiH 419: Henry King, Madam Gabrina, Or the Ill-favourd Choice (‘I have oft wondred, why thou didst elect’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Freind that was enamour'd on a Deformed woeman’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 144-5.

p. 154

• CwT 1003: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)

Copy of lines 37-48, untitled and here beginning ‘Those curious locks soe twin'd’

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

p. 155

• CwT 62: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy of an eight-line version, untitled and here beginning ‘Ladie your tresses are not threads of gold’.

First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.

p. 156

• HeR 396: Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris (‘Whither are all her false oathes blowne’)

Second copy, headed ‘To his false Mistresse’.

This MS (erroneously cited as ‘MS 239/22’) collated in Patrick.

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

p. 165

• FeO 13: Owen Felltham, The Appeal (‘Tyrant Cupid! I'le appeale’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, p. 8.

p. 166

• WoH 194: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)

Copy, headed ‘Epitaph’ and here beginning ‘The man dy'd first, shee livd a while & try'd’.

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.

p. 169

• StW 84: William Strode, An Earestring (‘'Tis vaine to adde a ring or Gemme’)

Copy of the second couplet.

First published in Poems…by William Earl of Pembroke…[and] S^r Benjamin Ruddier, [ed. John Donne the Younger] (London, 1660), p. 101. Dobell, p. 44. Forey, pp. 34-5.

p. 169

• StW 155: William Strode, A Girdle (‘When ere the wast makes too much hast’)

Copy of the last four couplets, here beginning ‘I here stand keeper’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.

p. 169

• StW 262: William Strode, A Necklace (‘These Vaines are Natures Nett’)

Copy of the seconde stanza, here beginning ‘Loe on my necke’.

pp. 171-3

• GrJ 89: 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.

p. 173

• CwT 888: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

pp. 174-5

• KiH 83: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘His Answeare’.

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. 175-7

• RnT 522: Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale (‘When shall we meet again and have a taste’)

Copy, ascribed to Sir Thomas Jay.

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

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

p. 181

• StW 1333: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

p. 182

• RaW 280: 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. 183

• FlJ 6: John Fletcher, ‘Hither we come into this world of woe’

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on a Child’.

First published (anonymously) in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Ascribed to J. Fletcher in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). English Madrigal Verse, ed. E.H. Fellowes, et al., 3rd edition (Oxford, 1967), p. 644.

p. 184

• StW 1289.5: William Strode, Jack on both Sides (‘I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’, subscribed ‘W. Strode’.

p. 185

• CoR 469: Richard Corbett, On Henry Bowling (‘If gentlenesse could tame the fates, or wit’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbett on Henr Booling’.

First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.

p. 186

• CoR 419: Richard Corbett, On Francis Beaumont's death (‘He that hath Youth, and Friends, and so much Wit’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^r Francis Beaumonts death’.

First published in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 23.

p. 187

• StW 334: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)

Copy.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.

p. 188

• StW 663: William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy (‘Returne my joyes, and hither bring’)

Copy.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.

pp. 193-4

• RnT 293: Thomas Randolph, A Song (‘Musick thou Queene of soules, get up and string’)

Copy, untitled.

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

pp. 194-8

• KiH 799: Henry King, The Woes of Esay (‘Woe to the worldly men, whose covetous’)

Copy, headed ‘Esaihs woes by D^r. Hen: Kinge’.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 136-9.

pp. 201-2

• JnB 310: Ben Jonson, The humble Petition of poore Ben. To th' best of Monarchs, Masters, Men, King Charles (‘That whereas your royall Father’)

Copy, headed ‘Mr Ben: Johnsons Petition to the Kings most Excell^t Ma^tie the humble Petition of yo^r Poet to your Ma^tie doth shewe it’ and here beginning ‘Whereas late your Royall Father’.

First published in The Vnder-wood (lxxvi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 259-60.

pp. 202-3

• WoH 214: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour (‘Dazzled thus with the height of place’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Thus dazelled with height of place’, subscribed ‘S^r Hen: Wootton’.

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Sir Henry Wotton's “Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place” and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.

p. 203

• CwT 1242: Thomas Carew, A Health to a Mistris (‘To her whose beautie doth excell’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dunlap. p. 192. Possibly by Richard Clerke.

MS 239/27

An octavo verse miscellany, in a single small mixed hand throughout; 425 pages (plus an eight-page index), in contemporary calf. Including 45 poems (and a second copy of one) by Carew, 11 poems (plus one of doubtful authorship) by Corbett, and 25 poems (plus two of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1634.

The initials ‘T. C.’ stamped on the front cover. Sold by Thomas Thorpe (1836). Afterwards in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9536, and by Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), of Providence, Rhode Island, industrialist, banker, and art and books collector. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 189.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Rosenbach MS II’: CwT Δ 32, CoR Δ 12, and StW Δ 24. Discussed in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 193-5).

pp. 11-13

• CoR 348: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)

Copy, untitled.

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

pp. 14-17

• EaJ 40.5: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, In Cladem Rhenensem (‘Thus sick men feare their Cure, and startle move’)

Copy of a version.

Edited from this MS in online Early Stuart Libels.

Unpublished. Discussed, and Earles's authorship rejected, in James Doelman, ‘John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs’, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 496-7).

pp. 17-24

• JnB 245: Ben Jonson, An Execration upon Vulcan (‘Any why to me this, thou lame Lord of fire’)

Copy.

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.

p. 27

• HoJ 140: John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart (‘Reader I was born and cried’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Parliament fart’.

p. 28

• CwT 735: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’)

Copy.

First published in a five-stanza version beginning ‘Aske me no more where Iove bestowes’ in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. ‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’).

For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, ‘Manuscript Evidence and the Author of “Aske me no more”: William Strode, not Thomas Carew’, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, ‘“Aske me no more” and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany’, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.

p. 29

• KiH 84: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘His answer’.

p. 31

• StW 1301: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, headed ‘On womens beawtie’.

First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

p. 32

• PoW 63: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘On M^ris Poole by D^r Corbett’.

This MS collated in Wolf (as MS B).

p. 34

• CwT 1004: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)

Copy, headed ‘To his coy mistresse’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

p. 35

• CwT 63: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy, headed ‘To his mistresse’.

First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.

p. 39

• CwT 216: Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence (‘You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay’)

Copy, headed ‘A gentleman constrainde from his m^ris’ and here beginning ‘You will ask perhaps…’.

First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.

p. 39

• CmT 129: Thomas Campion, ‘Though you are yoong and I am olde’

Copy, headed ‘An old man to a maide’.

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

p. 41

• CwT 1267.2: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy.

p. 42

• WoH 121: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Lady Elizabeth’.

First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, ‘“You Meaner Beauties of the Night” A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification’, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

pp. 43-4

• CwT 693: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, headed ‘The gentlemans reply vpon her consent and scruple of his secrecy’ and here beginning ‘Think not…’.

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

See also DnJ 428.

p. 52

• BaR 3.5: Richard Barnfield, A Comparison of the Life of Man (‘Man's life is well compared to a feast’)

Copy.

First published in Poems: In Divers Humors (London, 1598). Grosart, p. 194. Arber, p. 124.

p. 52

• GrF 44: Fulke Greville, Mustapha, IV, iv, 116-117 (‘Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘On Treason’ and here beginning ‘Treason is like a Basiliske his eye’.

Bullough, II, 118.

p. 52

• RnT 11: Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicam (‘Sweet, doe not thy beauty wrong’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a maide which still replyed she was too yonge’ and here beginning ‘Deare do not your faire beauty wronge’.

First published, in a version beginning ‘Deare, doe not your fair beauty wrong’, in Thomas May, The Old Couple (London, 1658), p. 25. Attributed to Randolph in Parry (1917), p. 224. Thorn-Drury, p. 168.

p. 53

• CwT 407: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes (‘In Celia's face a question did arise’)

Copy, headed ‘On Caelia’.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.

p. 54

• StW 387: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)

Copy, headed ‘On a faire gentlewoman y^t sunge well’.

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

p. 55

• StW 935: William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment (‘Preferment, like a Game at bowles’)

Copy, headed ‘On praferment’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.

p. 57 bis

• MrJ 88: John Marston, Upon the Dukes Goeing into Fraunce (‘And wilt thou goe, great duke, and leave us heere’)

Copy.

pp. 58bis-60

• DrW 117.45: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Copy, headed ‘On the fiue senses’.

Edited from this MS in Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford, 2009), pp. 198-200.

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

pp. 60-2

• JnB 666: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge’)

Copy, headed ‘Another to K: James’.

Edited from this MS in Joshua Eckhardt, Manuscript Verse Collectors and the Politics of Anti-Courtly Love Poetry (Oxford, 2009), pp. 200-2.

Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.

For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

pp. 72-4

• StW 951: William Strode, A Song of Capps (‘The witt hath long beholding bin’)

Copy.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.

pp. 84-6

• JnB 647: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest’)

Copy.

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

pp. 93-4

• HoJ 334: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet w^thstood’)

Copy, headed ‘A flout for his mistresse’.

Osborn, p. 301.

p. 100

• PeW 60: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘Muse get thee to a Cell; and wont to sing’

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), p. 28, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 29, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’.

p. 111

• PeW 208: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, On Venus and Adonis (‘Venus that fair loving Queen’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 99-100, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’.

p. 112

• StW 849: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘M^ris keepe one your maske’.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653). Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 3-4. Forey, pp. 88-9.

pp. 113-14

• LoT 9: Thomas Lodge, An Ode (‘Now I find thy lookes were fained’)

Copy, headed ‘A songe’ and here beginning ‘Now I see thy lookes were fained’.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Phillis: Honoured with Pastorall Sonnets, Elegies, and amorous delights (London, 1593). Gosse, II, (p. 58). The song-version beginning ‘Now I see thy looks were feigned’ first published in Thomas Ford, Musicke of Sundrie Kindes (London, 1607).

pp. 114-15

• PeW 271: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Song (‘Come saddest thoughts possess my heart’)

Copy, headed ‘A louers ditty in dispaire to the tune of Barlowe’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

Poems (1660), pp. 102-3, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’.

p. 119

• PeW 195: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)

Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman not marriageable’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 202. Poems (1660), p. 76, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by Walton Poole.

pp. 119-20

• CwT 773: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye’)

Copy, here beginning ‘In your faire cheekes two pitts doe lye’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.

pp. 121-2

• HeR 97: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)

Copy, preceded by a fourteen-line ‘songe’ beginning ‘Lowe in a vale and here sate a sheaperdesse’.

This MS collated (and the preceding lines printed) in Patrick, p. 70.

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).

p. 126

• B&F 26: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Bloody Brother, V, ii, 21-32. Song (‘Take o take those lipps away’)

Copy.

Dyce, X, 459. Jump, p. 67. Bowers, X, 237. The first stanza first published in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure (First Folio, 1623), IV, i. Authorship discussed in Jump, pp. 105-6 (first stanza probably by Shakespeare, second by Fletcher).

pp. 136-42

• CoR 636: Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North (‘My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbetts verses on the guard to the Lord Mordant’.

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

pp. 142-3

• CoR 323: Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 (‘My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine’)

Copy.

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

pp. 145-6

• CoR 430: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)

Copy.

First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, ‘Great Tom of Oxford’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing ‘(from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent’).

pp. 148-51

• CoR 211: Richard Corbett, An Exhortation to Mr. John Hammon minister in the parish of Bewdly, for the battering downe of the Vanityes of the Gentiles, which are comprehended in a May-pole… (‘The mighty Zeale which thou hast new put on’)

Copy, headed ‘A godly exhortation...’.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 52-6.

An exemplum of Poëtica Stromata at Christ Church, Oxford, has against this poem the MS marginal note ‘None of D^r Corbets’ and an attribution to John Harris of Christ Church.

p. 152

• CwT 889: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)

Copy, headed ‘On murtheringe bewty’.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

p. 157

• PeW 254: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)

Copy of the short version, headed ‘A maide denyall’ and here beginning ‘nay pish, nay phue, nay faith but will you, fy’.

Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed ‘P.’. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as ‘A Paradox of a Painted Face’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’. Also ascribed to James Shirley.

A shorter version, beginning ‘Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie’, was first published, as ‘A Maids Denyall’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].

p. 157

• StW 315: William Strode, On a Butcher marrying a Tanners daughter (‘A fitter Match hath never bin’)

Copy, headed ‘On a butchers daughter marryed to a Tanner’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Dobell, p. 119. Forey, p. 18.

p. 159

• HrJ 156: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in ‘Epigrammes’ appended to J[ohn] C[lapham], Alcilia, Philoparthens Louing Folly (London, 1613). McClure No. 404, p. 312. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 57, p. 231.

p. 161

• B&F 148: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy, headed ‘On Melancholly’.

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.

p. 163

• RaW 476.3: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Say not you love, unless you do’

Copy, headed ‘A gentlewoman to her loue’.

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

p. 165

• HrJ 235: Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches (‘Six of the weakest sex and purest sect’)

Copy, headed ‘The conference of 6 Puritan wenches’.

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.

p. 166

• ShW 34: William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (‘Even as the sun with purple-coloured face’)

Copy of lines 529-34, headed ‘Another’ [i.e. on Night] and here beginning ‘Now the worlds comforter with weary gate’.

These lines published as a separate poem in Englands Parnassus (London, 1600).

First published in London, 1593.

pp. 167-8

• StW 545: William Strode, On the Bible (‘Behold this little Volume here inrold’)

Copy.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 51-2. Forey, pp. 46-7.

pp. 168-9

• BcF 44: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, headed ‘The Lord Verulams' verses’ and here beginning at line 8 (‘The rural parts are turned into a den’).

p. 170

• HrJ 71: Sir John Harington, The Hermaphrodite (‘When first my mother bore me in her wombe’)

Copy, headed ‘The Hermophrodite translated’.

A version (a translation of a Latin poem by Pulix) first published in Timothy Kendall, Flowers of Epigrammes (London, 1577). 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 37. McClure No. 238, pp. 246-7. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 32, p. 221.

pp. 170-1

• HrJ 180: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler (‘A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling’)

Copy.

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

p. 173

• CoR 755: Richard Corbett, On the Proctors Plotts (‘When plotts are Proctors vertues, and the gift’)

Copy, headed ‘To the intricate example of plotting...[etc]’.

This MS (Rosenbach 189) recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 166.

First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 100.

p. 175-7

• RaW 171: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘S^r W.R.’.

This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 130-1.

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

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

pp. 177-9

• BrW 67: William Browne of Tavistock, Lydford Journey (‘I oft have heard of Lydford law’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in John Phillips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656).Goodwin, II, 305-9.

p. 182

• DaJ 54: Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion (‘Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘The rusticke gallants wooinge’ and here beginning ‘ffare wench I cannot court thy spritelike eyes’; c. 1634.

First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (‘Middleborugh’ [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.

pp. 183-4

• CoR 134: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox (‘Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true’)

Copy of the last 42 lines, headed ‘On the smallpox’.

p. 186

• StW 1006: William Strode, A Sonnet (‘My Love and I for kisses played’)

Copy, headed ‘On two louers playinge for kisses’.

p. 186

• StW 1122: William Strode, To a Valentine (‘Fayre Valentine, since once your welcome hand’)

Copy, headed ‘On a knife giuen to his Valentine’.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 42. Forey, p. 193.

p. 187

• HrJ 286: Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues (‘You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Learned wife’ and here beginning ‘One proferd mee a wife, rich, faire & yonge’.

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

p. 187

• RaW 281: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, headed ‘On the shortnesse of mans life’.

This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.

pp. 187-8

• CwT 1231: Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) (‘Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus’)

Copy, headed ‘On his M^rs sicke of a Calenture’.

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

pp. 188-9

• StW 235: William Strode, Loves Ætna. Song (‘In your sterne beauty I can see’)

Copy, headed ‘Cruell bewty’.

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

pp. 190-1

• CwT 960: Thomas Carew, Song. To one that desired to know my Mistris (‘Seeke not to know my love, for shee’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon one that desired to conceale his M^rs’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 39-40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

p. 191

• StW 420: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox (‘A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine’)

Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman mard with y^e small pox’.

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

pp. 191-2

• StW 1097: William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde (‘Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘To a gentleman for a freind’.

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

pp. 193-4

• RnT 567: Thomas Randolph, Upon the Burning of a School (‘What heat of learning kindled your desire’)

Copy, headed ‘On the burninge of a schoole att Battles’.

p. 194

• DaJ 13: Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 8. In Katam (‘Kate being pleasde, wisht that her pleasure coulde’)

Copy, headed ‘On Kate’.

Krueger, p. 132.

pp. 195

• CwT 128: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Copy, headed ‘On an vnkind Lady’ and here beginning ‘We read of gods…’.

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

pp. 195-6

• CwT 814: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘Harke how my Celia, with the choyce’)

Copy, headed ‘On his mistresse singinge to y^e Lute in a Gallery’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.

pp. 196-201

• RnT 49: Thomas Randolph, A complaint against Cupid that he never made him in Love (‘How many of thy Captives (Love) complaine’)

Copy, headed ‘A complaint ag^t Cupid that he neuer made him enamoured. by T. Randolfe’.

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

p. 202

• HrJ 119: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek (‘Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke’)

Copy, headed ‘On a painted Lady’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.

p. 206

• HrJ 205: Sir John Harington, Of a pregnant pure sister (‘I learned a tale more fitt to be forgotten’)

Copy of a ten-line version, headed ‘On a Puritan’ and here beginning ‘A holy made, by one of her society’.

First published (13-line version) in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926), but see HrJ 197. McClure (1930), No. 413, p. 315. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 80, p. 239.

p. 206

• DaJ 65: Sir John Davies, No Muskie Courtier (‘Sweet wench I love thee, yet I wil not sue’)

Copy, headed ‘On a downright suitor’ and here beginning ‘Faith wench I loue thee, but I cannot sue’.

This MS recorded in Krueger.

First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (‘Middleborugh’ [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, pp. 180-1.

pp. 215-18

• RnT 199: Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes (‘Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell’)

Copy, headed ‘Randolfes petitio to his Creditors’.

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

pp. 220-1

• StW 458: William Strode, On a good legge and foote (‘If Hercules tall Stature might be guest’)

Copy.

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

p. 225

• CoR 516: Richard Corbett, On the Birth of the Young Prince Charles (‘When private men get sonnes they gette a spoone’)

Copy.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 86.

p. 225

• JnB 72: Ben Jonson, An Epigram on the Princes birth (‘And art thou borne, brave Babe? Blest be thy birth’)

Copy.

First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (lxv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 237-8.

p. 225

• RnT 169: Thomas Randolph, In Natalem Augustissimi Principis Caroli. [Englished] (‘Thy first birth Mary was unto a tombe’)

Copy, headed ‘To the queene. T. R.’.

First published, following a Latin version beginning ‘Prima tibi periit soboles (dilecta Maria)’, in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 78-9.

pp. 226-39

• CoR 288: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)

Copy.

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

p. 239

• CwT 506: Thomas Carew, On Mistris N. to the greene sicknesse (‘Stay coward blood, and doe not yield’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Greene sickness’.

First published in Poems (1642). Dunlap, p. 113.

p. 240

• CwT 1078.5: Thomas Carew, To M^ris Katherine Nevill on her greene sicknesse (‘White innocence that now lies spread’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Musarum Deliciae (London, 1655). Dunlap. p. 129.

pp. 241-2

• RnT 134: Thomas Randolph, A gratulatory to Mr. Ben. Johnson for his adopting of him to be his Son (‘I was not borne to Helicon, nor dare’)

Copy, headed ‘A Gratulatory to my ffather Johnson for his voluntary adoptio of mee to bee his sonne’.

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

pp. 250-1

• HeR 207: Robert Herrick, A Pastorall upon the birth of Prince Charles, Presented to the King, and Set by Master Nicholas Laniere (‘Good day, Mirtillo. And to you no lesse’)

Copy, headed ‘A dialogue on Prince Charles his birth betwene 4 sheaphards...’.

Printed from this MS in Martin, pp. 460-1.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 85-7. Patrick, pp. 120-1.

pp. 263-4

• CwT 183: Thomas Carew, A divine Mistris (‘In natures peeces still I see’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 6-7.

p. 264

• CwT 565: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)

Second copy, headed ‘On a sigh’.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.

pp. 264-5

• CwT 974: Thomas Carew, The Spring (‘Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost’)

Copy.

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

p. 265

• CwT 796: Thomas Carew, Song. A beautifull Mistris (‘If when the Sun at noone displayes’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 7. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

pp. 265-7

• CwT 470: Thomas Carew, My mistris commanding me to returne her letters (‘So grieves th'adventrous Merchant, when he throwes’)

Copy.

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

p. 268

• CwT 1100: Thomas Carew, To my Mistris sitting by a Rivers side. An Eddy (‘Marke how yond Eddy steales away’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 14.

pp. 268-9

• CwT 849: Thomas Carew, Song. Conquest by flight (‘Ladyes, flye from Love's smooth tale’)

Copy.

First published (complete) in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 15. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1653). The second stanza alone published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (London, 1639), and a musical setting of it by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

p. 269

• CwT 938: Thomas Carew, Song. To my inconstant Mistris (‘When thou, poore excommunicate’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 15-16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

pp. 269-70

• CwT 909: Thomas Carew, Song. Perswasions to enjoy (‘If the quick spirits in your eye’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

p. 270

• CwT 153: Thomas Carew, A deposition from Love (‘I was foretold, your rebell sex’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 16-17. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

p. 271

• CwT 379: Thomas Carew, Ingratefull beauty threatned (‘Know Celia, (since thou art so proud,)’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 17-18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).

pp. 271-2

• CwT 165: Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned (‘Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke’)

Copy.

p. 272

• CwT 1092: Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence (‘Though I must live here, and by force’)

Copy.

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

p. 273

• CwT 862: Thomas Carew, Song. Eternitie of love protested (‘How ill doth he deserve a lovers name’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 23-4.

p. 273

• CwT 1049: Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship (‘Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate’)

Copy, headed ‘Another’.

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

p. 274

• CwT 323: Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid (‘When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.

pp. 274-5

• CwT 34: Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon (‘Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.

p. 275

• CwT 1142: Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse (‘Fayre copie of my Celia's face’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.

pp. 276-7

• CwT 1119: Thomas Carew, To Saxham (‘Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘Of Saxham house’.

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

pp. 277-8

• CwT 1198: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband (‘This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.

p. 278

• CwT 945: Thomas Carew, Song. To my Mistris, I burning in love (‘I burne, and cruell you, in vaine’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 34.

pp. 278-9

• CwT 926: Thomas Carew, Song. To her againe, she burning in a Feaver (‘Now she burnes as well as I’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 34-5.

p. 279

• CwT 815: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘Harke how my Celia, with the choyce’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.

p. 279

• CwT 838: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘You that thinke Love can convey’)

Copy, headed ‘Another on y^e same’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 39. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

p. 280

• CwT 363: Thomas Carew, In the person of a Lady to her inconstant servant (‘When on the Altar of my hand’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

p. 281

• CwT 19: Thomas Carew, Boldnesse in love (‘Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine’)

Copy, headed ‘To a bashfull Lover’.

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

p. 281

• CwT 1109: Thomas Carew, To my Rivall (‘Hence vaine intruder, hast away’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.

p. 281

• CwT 1177: Thomas Carew, Truce in Love entreated (‘No more, blind God, for see my heart’)

Copy, headed ‘A distressed Lover’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.

pp. 281-3

• CwT 539: Thomas Carew, A Pastorall Dialogue (‘As Celia rested in the shade’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 42-4.

p. 287

• StW 279: William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe (‘Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill’)

Copy.

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

pp. 297-302

• RnT 87: Thomas Randolph, An Eglogue to Mr Johnson (‘Under this Beech why sit'st thou here so sad’)

Copy, headed ‘A dialogue…’.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 104-9.

p. 304

• StW 172: William Strode, In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)

Copy.

pp. 304-5

• CwT 103.5: Thomas Carew, The Complement (‘O my deerest I shall grieve thee’)

Copy of the last two stanzas, headed ‘To his M^ris’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.

pp. 305-6

• StW 1368: William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie (‘Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke’)

Copy, headed ‘A blush’ and here beginning ‘Stay hasty blood…’.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

pp. 308-9

• DnJ 1514: John Donne, His parting from her (‘Since she must go, and I must mourn, come Night’)

Copy of a 42-line version, headed ‘Att his M^rs departure’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

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

pp. 310-12

• HeR 411: Robert Herrick, Upon a Cherrystone sent to the tip of the Lady Jemmonia Walgraves eare (‘Lady I intreate yow weare’)

Copy, headed ‘One a cherry stone haueinge a deaths head one the one side, & a gentle woman on the other’.

This MS collated in Patrick.

First published in Delattre (1912), 519-21. Martin, pp. 417-18. Patrick, pp. 547-8.

p. 315

• DaS 51: Samuel Daniel, Hymens Triumph. I, v, 446-61. Song (‘Loue is a sicknesse full of woes’)

Copy, headed ‘One Loue’; c. 1634.

Grosart, III, 349-50.

pp. 316-18

• KiH 318: Henry King, An Essay on Death and a Prison (‘A Prison is in all things like a Grave’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 139-42.

pp. 321-2

• CoR 99: Richard Corbett, An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne (‘Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you’)

Copy.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 65-7.

p. 325

• DkT 33: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)

Copy, headed ‘Another’ [i.e. on Queen Elizabeth].

pp. 325-6

• KiH 182: Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death (‘Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure’)

Copy, headed ‘On Prince Henryes death’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.

pp. 328-30

• BmF 52: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Death of the Virtuous Lady, Elizabeth Countess of Rutland (‘I may forget to eat, to drink, to sleep’)

Copy.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 11th impression (London, 1622). Dyce, XI, 507-11.

pp. 331-2

• StW 509: William Strode, On Mr James Van Otten's death. March 1° (‘The first day of this month the last hath bin’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of M^r. James Van Otten an expert Chirurgion, who dyed att Oxford: March: 1. 1622’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 85-6. Forey, pp. 218-19.

p. 333

• StW 629: William Strode, On Twins divided by death (‘Where are you now, Astrologers, that looke’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of a twinne’.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 66. Forey, pp. 115-16.

pp. 341-2

• CoR 135: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox (‘Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegy on the Lady Hayes death by D^r Corbett’.

pp. 343-4

• RnT 402: Thomas Randolph, Upon the report of the King of Swedens Death (‘I'le not believe 't. if fate should be so crosse’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 94-5.

pp. 344-5

• EaJ 55: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, On the Earle of Pembroke's Death (‘Did not my sorrows sighd into a verse’)

Copy.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 40-2. Extract in Bliss, pp. 227-8. Possibly written by Jasper Mayne (1604-72).

pp. 349-50, 189-90, 350-1

• StW 520: William Strode, On Mistress Mary Prideaux dying younge (‘Sleepe pretty one, oh sleepe while I’)

Copy of the sequence.

pp. 351-2

• MoG 42: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed ‘On the death of Kinge James’.

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.

pp. 352-3

• StW 571: William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Leigh (‘You that affright with lamentable Notes’)

Copy.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 71-3. Forey, pp. 118-21.

p. 353

• BrW 221: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy.

pp. 353-4

• StW 585: William Strode, On the death of Sir Thomas Pelham (‘Meerely for death to greive and mourne’)

Copy.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 64-5. Forey, pp. 114-15.

p. 355

• DaJ 210: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘Another’ [i.e. on a young child] and here beginning ‘As carefull mothers in there beds doe lay’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

p. 356

• BrW 50: William Browne of Tavistock, An Epitaph on Mr. John Smyth, Chaplain to the Right Honourable the Earl of Pembroke. 1624 (‘Know thou, that tread'st on learned Smyth inurn'd’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon M^r Smith’.

First published in Brydges (1815), p. 68.

p. 356

• CoR 480: Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 (‘Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke’)

Copy.

First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.

p. 357

• JnB 133: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. (‘Would'st thou heare, what man can say’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’.

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

p. 360

• KiH 459: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)

Copy, headed ‘On the shortness of mans life’.

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

p. 361

• StW 534: William Strode, On Sir Thomas Savil dying of the smal Pox (‘Take, greedy Death, a Body here intoomd’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon one dyinge of the pox’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 86-7. Forey, p. 124.

pp. 364-8

• KiH 239: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus (‘Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death’)

Copy, headed ‘An Elegy made by D^r Kinge on y^e k: of Sweden. a:d: 1637’.

First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.

pp. 368-9

• BrW 174: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Drowned in the Snow (‘Within a fleece of silent waters drown'd’)

Copy.

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

pp. 381-4

• EaJ 30: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree (‘Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear’)

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 12-16. Extract in Bliss, pp. 225-6. Edited in James Doelman, ‘John Earle's Funeral Elegy on Sir John Burroughs’, English Literary Renaissance, 41/3 (Autumn 2011), 485-502 (pp. 499-502).

p. 387

• KiH 299: Henry King, An Epitaph on his most honour'd Freind Richard Earle of Dorset (‘Let no profane ignoble foot tread neere’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Earle of Dorsetts death’.

First published, in an abridged version, in Certain Elegant Poems by Dr. Corbet (London, 1647). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 67-8.

pp. 388-9

• CwT 486: Thomas Carew, Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay (‘I heard the Virgins sigh, I saw the sleeke’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Earle of Carleles daughter’.

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

pp. 396-8

• EaJ 7: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie upon Master Francis Beaumont (‘Beaumont lies here, and where now shall wee have’)

Copy.

First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640), sig. Kl^r-K2^r. Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Bliss, pp. 229-32.

pp. 400-4

• CwT 640: Thomas Carew, A Rapture (‘I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come’)

Copy, headed ‘A Louers rapture’.

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

pp. 404-5

• KiH 131: Henry King, The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)

Copy, headed ‘A Louer to one that misjudg'd his mistresse’.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.

pp. 405-6

• StW 133: William Strode, For a Gentleman who kissing his frinde, at his departure out of England, left a Signe of blood upon her (‘What Mystery was this, that I should finde’)

Copy, headed ‘A Gentleman to his freind who kissinge her att his departure left a signe of blood vpon her’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.

pp. 406-8

• RnT 356: Thomas Randolph, Upon a very deformed Gentlewoman, but of a voice incomparably sweet (‘I chanc'd sweet Lesbia's voice to heare’)

Copy, headed ‘On a very deformed Gentlewoman havinge a voyce incomparable sweet’.

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

pp. 412-13

• StW 217: William Strode, A Letter impos'd (‘Goe, happy paper, by commande’)

Copy, headed ‘A Letter sent to his M^ris in her praise.’

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 100-1. The Poems and Amyntas of Thomas Randolph, ed. John Jay Parry (New Haven & London, 1917), pp. 219-20. Forey, pp. 32-3.

pp. 408-9

• StW 41: William Strode, The commendation of gray Eies (‘Looke how the russet Morne exceedes the Night’)

Copy.

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

pp. 413-15

• HeR 125: Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack (‘Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Hericks farewell to sack’.

This MS collated in Patrick.

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

pp. 415-17

• HeR 282: Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack (‘So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles’)

Copy, headed ‘The time beinge expired Hericks wellcome to sacke’.

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

p. 421

• StW 652: William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy (‘Returne my joyes, and hither bring’)

Copy, headed ‘An answer to Melancholly’.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.

p. 422

• RnT 395: Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger (‘Arithmetique nine digits, and no more’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Randolph one the losse of his little finger cutt off’.

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

pp. 0000

• DnJ 2222.5: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy of lines 29-32, 33-46, on separated pages.

This MS recorded 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.

[framed item]

The original letters patent by Charles II, authorizing Davenant to form two companies of actors, on vellum, illuminated. 15 January 1661/2.

DaW 149: Sir William Davenant, Document(s)

The charter is illustrated in Clive E. Driver, A Selection from our Shelves: Books, manuscripts and drawings from the Philip H. & A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation Museum (Philadelphia, 1973), No. 44; a highly reduced facsimile also appeared in The Sunday Times (5 December 1982).