1003/28
An exemplum. This work is bound in the middle of a composite volume of printed pamphlets. 1575.
HvG 163: 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])
Owned and annotated by Spenser's friend Gabriel Harvey and the title-page bears Harvey's inscription, ‘Ex dono Edmundi Spenserij, Episcopi Roffensis Secretarij, 1578’.
1007/17
A printed exemplum, evidently a presentation volume from the author, although they do not bear any trace of his own hand. It bears the signature on the title-page of Bernard Hyde, who in fact was the ‘truly Noble’ dedicatee of Shirley's edition. 1646.
ShJ 214: James Shirley, Shirley, James. Poems (London, 1646)
MS 1083/15
A quarto verse miscellany, 180 pages, in three secretary hands, in contemporary limp vellum. Probably compiled by a member of an Inn of Court. c.1630.
Bookplate of William Horatio Crawford, of Lakelands, Cork, book collector. Formerly Rosenbach 186.
p. 3
• PeW 255: 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 shorter version, untitled, here beginning ‘Nay pish; nay pue, nay faith [but] will you fie’.
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].
pp. 4-17, 39, 44
• DaJ 9: Sir John Davies, Epigrammes
Copy of 47 epigrams (Nos. 1-19, 21-35, 37-46, 49, 61-2).
Epigrams 61 and 62 first published (from this MS) in James L. Sanderson, ‘Unpublished Epigrams of Sir John Davies’, RES, NS 12 (1961), 281-2. This MS collated in Krueger and described, pp. 378, 443-4, and in RES, NS 13 (1962), 120.
58 Epigrammes first published in ‘Middleborugh’ [i.e. London?], [1595-6?]. Krueger, pp. 127-51. Fourteen additional Epigrammes printed from MSS in Krueger, pp. 153-9.
pp. 18-22
• NaT 5: Thomas Nashe, The choise of valentines (‘It was the merie moneth of Februarie’)
Copy of an abbreviated and untitled 162-line version, beginning ‘ffaire was the morne & brightsome was the day’, with the dedicatory sonnet.
This MS discussed in James L. Sanderson, ‘An Unnoted Text of Nashe's “The Choise of Valentines”’, ELN, 1 (1964), 252-3.
Lines 1-17 first published in The Complete Works of Thomas Nashe, ed. A.B. Grosart (London, 1883-4), I, lx-lxi. The complete text published in London, 1899, ed. John S. Farmer (privately printed), and in McKerrow, III, 397-416.
p. 23
• DaJ 150: Sir John Davies, An Epitaph (‘Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a bellowes maker’, here beginning ‘Here lies Iohn Godderd 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.
p. 23
• DaJ 78: Sir John Davies, On Ben Jonson (‘Put off thy Buskins, Sophocles the great’)
Copy, headed ‘Of on that makinge a play stole much out of Seneca his Tragedies’, subscribed ‘I D’.
Edied from this MS in Krueger. Recorded in Osborn, p. 300.
First published in Henry Parrot, Laquei ridiculosi: Or springes for woodcocks (London, 1613), No. 163. Krueger, p. 181.
p. 24
• DaJ 105: Sir John Davies, To his Mistress (‘Sweet, what doth he deserve that loves you soe?’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 182.
p. 24
• DaJ 151: Sir John Davies, An Epitaph (‘Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph vpon Iohn Craker’ and here beginning ‘Heere lies the bones of gentle Iohn Craker’.
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.
p. 26
• DaJ 153: Sir John Davies, In Hircum (‘Hircus incountring with hott Mistres Franke’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 304.
p. 26
• DaJ 154: Sir John Davies, In Macerum (‘Macer doth hould that all our womenkind’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 304.
p. 27
• DaJ 155: Sir John Davies, In Marcum (‘Marcus, a student at the lawe’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 305.
pp. 28, 40-3, 55, 100-1
• HyJ 2: John Heywood, Epigrams
Copy of 34 epigrams (First Hundred, Nos 20, 21, 35, 53, 59, 62, 68, 72, 79, 83; Three Hundred, Nos 59, 169; Fifth Hundred, Nos 12, 21, 33, 36, 44, 49, 57, 60, 62, 68, 72, 74, 87, 99, 108, 114, 186, 192, 212, 226, 236, and 272), not in sequence.
First published London, 1550-60. First collected in Woorkes (London, 1562). Milligan, pp. 103-224.
pp. 32-4
• RaW 172: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)
Copy, headed ‘Sir Walter Wrayly his lye’.
Formerly Rosenbach 186, and once owned by John Payne Collier; printed from this MS in Tannenbaum, pp. 811-13; recorded in Latham, p. 129.
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.
p. 34
• EsR 42: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Courte's skorne, state's disgracinge’
Copy, headed in the margin ‘Resp’.
Edited from this MS in Samuel L. Tannenbaum, PMLA, 45 (1930), 814. and in May, Courtier Poets. Collated in May, Poems.
As ‘The Answer to the Lie’ in The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt., 8 vols (Oxford, 1829), VIII, 735. May, Poems, No. I, p. 60. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 264-5. EV 5008.
p. 34
• EsR 47: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Go Eccho of the minde, a careles troth protest’
Copy.
Edited from this MS in May, Courtier Poets.
May, Poems, No. II, pp. 60-1.
p. 39
• DaJ 157: Sir John Davies, In Neream (‘Sweet Mistress Nerea, let it not thee greive’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 305.
p. 39
• DaJ 156: Sir John Davies, In Meieam (‘Meiea being angry that I would not stay’)
Copy, headed ‘Celia being angry’.
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 305.
p. 40
• EsR 26: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, The Right Honourable Robert, earle of Essex: Earle Marshall of England (‘Change thy minde since she doth change’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in May, pp. 123-4.
First published, with a musical setting, in Robert Dowland, A Musicall Banquet (London, 1610). May, Poems, No. 4, pp. 45-6. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 252-3. EV 4594.
p. 43
• MrC 8: Christopher Marlowe, Ovid's Elegies. I, v (‘In summers heate, and midtime of the day’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘In somers heat at midtyme of the day’.
Ten of Marlowe's Elegies (including I, v and II, iv) first published ‘Middleburg’ [i.e. London], [c.1595-6]. Bowers, II, 307-421 (p. 321). Tucker Brooke, pp. 553-627 (pp. 564-5). Gill et al., I, 13-83 (pp. 18-19).
p. 44
• DaJ 38: Sir John Davies, A Lady with Two Suitors (‘A Lady faire two suiters had’)
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘A Lady faire two Suters had’, subscribed ‘J D’.
Edited from this MS in Krueger.
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 181.
p. 45
• HoJ 335: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet wthstood’)
Copy, headed ‘Beast his Sonnet’.
Osborn, p. 301.
pp. 48-55
• RuB 1: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Epigrames p[er] B. R.
Copy of the 31 epigrams, headed ‘Epigrames p B. R.’
A series of 31 epigrams, possibly by Rudyerd, attributed to him in James L. Sanderson, ‘Epigrames p[er] B[enjamin] R[udyerd] and Some More “Stolen Feathers” of Henry Parrot’, RES, NS 17 (1966), 241-55. Three of the epigrams first published in Henry Parrot, Laquei ridiculosi, or Springes to Catch Woodcocks (London, 1613). Sixteen of the epigrams published in The Dr. Farmer Chetham MS, ed. Alexander B. Grosart, Chetham Society, vols 89 and 90 (Manchester, 1873). These and the rest published in Sanderson.
p. 57
• MrC 17: Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love (‘Come live with mee, and be my love’)
Copy of a four-stanza version, untitled and here beginning ‘If thou wilt liue and by my loue’.
Printed from this MS in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, ‘Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems’, PMLA, 45 (1930), 809-21 (pp. 815-16); collated in Bowers.
First published in a four-stanza version in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). Printed in a six-stanza version in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Bowers, II, 536-7. Tucker Brooke, pp. 550-1. Gill et al., I, 215. For Ralegh's ‘Answer’ see RaW 189-99.
pp. 57-8
• RaW 198: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Nimphs reply to the Sheepheard (‘If all the world and loue were young’)
Copy, headed ‘Her Answeare’ and here beginning ‘If that the world & Loue weare young’.
Formerly Rosenbach 186, printed from this MS in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, ‘Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems’, PMLA, 45 (1930), 809-21 (pp. 816-17); recorded in Latham, p. 112.
One stanza published in The Passionate Pilgrime (London, 1599). First published complete in Englands Helicon (London, 1600). Latham, pp. 16-17. Rudick, Nos 45A and 45B, pp. 117, 119-20 (two versions, as ‘Her answer’ to Marlowe's poem on p. 116 and as ‘The Milk maids mothers answer’) respectively. For the companion poem by Marlowe, which accompanies most of the texts of Ralegh's ‘reply’, see MrC 10-19.
p. 58
• CmT 16: Thomas Campion, Canto Tertio (‘My Love bound me with a kisse’)
Copy, untitled.
First published (first strophe) among ‘sundry other rare Sonnets of diuerse Noble men and Gentlemen’ appended to Sir Philip Sidney, Astrophel and Stella (London, 1591). Robert Jones, Second Booke of Songs and Ayres (London, 1601). Davis, p. 9. Doughtie, p. 151.
p. 58
• HrJ 243: Sir John Harington, Of Galla's goodly Periwigge (‘You see the goodly hayre that Galla weares’)
Copy of four-line version, untitled and here beginning ‘The goodly heare Gella doth weare’.
First published in Orlando Furioso (London, 1591), in notes at the end of Book XXXII. 1618, Book II, No. 66. McClure No. 162, p. 211. Kilroy, Book III, No. 3, p. 168.
pp. 61-4
• EsR 88: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, A Poem made on the Earle of Essex (being in disgrace with Queene Eliz): by mr henry Cuffe his Secretary (‘It was a time when sillie Bees could speake’)
Copy of the fifteen-stanza version, headed ‘honi soit qui mal y pense’, subscribed ‘R Diuereux. Essex’.
This MS text collated in May, pp. 128-32.
First published, in a musical setting by John Dowland, in his The Third and Last Booke of Songs or Aires (London, 1603). May, Poems, No. IV, pp. 62-4. May, Courtier Poets, pp. 266-9. EV 12846.
pp. 76-7
• DaJ 86: Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Mary Baker to Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London (‘The pride of Prelacy, which now longe since’)
Copy of a series of five poems, headed ‘Byshope Fletcher & my lady Baker’.
Edted from this MS in Tannenbaum and in Krueger.
First published in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, ‘Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems’, PMLA, 45.ii (1930), 809-21 (pp. 818-19). Krueger, pp. 177-9.
p. 77
• HrJ 294: Sir John Harington, Of writing with double pointing (‘Dames are indude with vertues excellent?’)
Copy of a four-line version beginning ‘Weomen are godely wyse & excellent’.
First published in 1618, Book I, Nos. 33 and 35. McClure Nos. 34 and 36, pp. 161-2. Kilroy, Book I, No. 65, pp. 116-17.
pp. 79-80
• DaJ 84: Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Elizabeth Hatton to Edward Coke (‘Caecus the pleader hath a lady wedd’)
Copy of poems 1-6.
This MS recorded in Krueger, pp. 395, 443-4.
First published in Krueger (1975), p. 171-6.
pp. 98-100
• RaW 437: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Now what is Loue, I praie thee tell’
Copy of a version in 15 stanzas, untitled.
Extracts from this MS printed in John Payne Collier, An Old Man's Diary (London, 1871), Part i, pp. 39-40. Formerly Rosenbach 186, this MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 504-10; recorded in Latham.
First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). The first and last stanzas were a song in Thomas Heywood, The Rape of Lucrece (London, 1608). Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 171. Edited in Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 156-7. Ralegh's possible authorship also discussed and largely supported in Walter Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960), p. 161; in Lefranc (1968), pp. 78-9, 83; and in Michael West, ‘Raleigh's disputed Authorship of “A Description of Loue”’, ELN, 10 (1972-3), 92-9.
p. 101
• RaW 426: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘I cannot bend the bow’
Copy, headed ‘A Rose to his mrs’ and here beginning ‘ffaine would I bend ye bowe wherein to shoote I sue’.
First published in Rudick (1999), No. 37, p. 105. Listed but not printed, in Latham, pp. 173-4 (as an ‘indecorous trifle’).
p. 103
• HrJ 236: Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches (‘Six of the weakest sex and purest sect’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Sixe of the weakest sort & purest sect’.
First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.
pp. 109-13
• HoJ 80: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)
Copy, untitled.
Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of ‘Doubtful Verses’ in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
p. 113
• HoJ 141: John Hoskyns, Epitaph of the parliament fart (‘Reader I was born and cried’)
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph’.
pp. 128-37
• OvT 24: Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife (‘Each woman is a brief of woman kind’)
Copy, headed ‘Sr Tho: Overbery wyfe’.
First published, as A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury, in London, 1614. Rimbault, pp. 33-45. Beecher, pp. 190-8.
p. 137
• DyE 92: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall’
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘The smallest trees haue topps ye Ant her gall’.
First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.
p. 139
• DnJ 1771: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘I can nor stand nor sitt nor goe the beggr cryes’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Zoppo’) and 10.
p. 140
• RaW 409: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘ICUR, good Mounser Carr’
Copy, untitled.
First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as ‘Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr’).
p. 141
• FoJ 11: John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy, III, ii. Song (‘They that will learn to drink a health in hell’)
Copy, beginning ‘He yt would learne to pledge a health in hell’.
Dyce, I, 66. Bang, p. 67 (lines 1629-33).
pp. 144-6
• JnB 648: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest’)
Copy, subscribed ‘B. J.’
Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.
p. 153
• DaJ 32: Sir John Davies, In Curionem (‘The great archpapist learned Curio’)
Copy, headed ‘Lo. H. Howard’.
This MS collated in Krueger.
First published in Krueger (1975), pp. 182-3.
pp. 154-9
• CoR 50.5: Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge (‘It is not yet a fortnight, since’)
Copy.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.
Some texts accompanied by an ‘Answer’ (‘A ballad late was made’).
p. 164
• B&F 34: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Captain, II, ii, 160-80. Song (‘Tell me dearest what is Love?’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Bowers.
First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, III, 217-328 (pp. 258-9). Bowers, I, 550-650, ed. L. A. Beaurline (pp. 583-4). A version of this song appears in The Knight of the Burning Pestle, III, 29-42 (London, 1613).
p. 172
• JnB 402: Ben Jonson, On Gut (‘Gvt eates all day, and lechers all the night’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Epigrammes (cxviii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 76.
pp. 172-3
• HrJ 54: Sir John Harington, The Author to his wife (‘Mall, once in pleasant company by chance’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 45. McClure No. 299, pp. 268-9. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 85, pp. 240-1, as ‘To his wife a rule for Church house and bed’ beginning ‘Of late in pleasant company by chaunce’.
pp. 177-8
• MoG 44: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbet Epitaph: vppon King Jeames’ and here beginning ‘All who haue eyes awake & weepe’.
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.
p. 180
• MrJ 73: John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII (‘Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree’)
Copy of the Latin only.
MS 1083/16
A quarto verse miscellany, including fifteen poems by Donne, with a title-page ‘Miscellanies Or A Collection of Diuers Witty and pleasant Epigrams, Adages, poems Epitaphes &c for the recreation of ye ouertravelled sences: 1630 Robert Bishop’, in a single mixed hand, probably associated with the University of Oxford, 306 pages, in old calf. c.1630.
Owned and probably compiled by Robert Bishop. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 9549. A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue, English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 187.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) as the ‘Bishop MS’: DnJ Δ 59. Edited in David Coleman Redding, Robert Bishop's Commonplace-Book: An Edition of a Seventeenth Century Miscellany (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1960) [Mic 60-3608].
p. 5
• RaW 283: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)
Copy, headed ‘On Mans Life’.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 144.
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.
pp. 9-11
• HoJ 81: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)
Copy, headed ‘On a ffart lett in the Parliament house’, here beginning “Down came graue Ancient Sergeant Cooke”.
Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of ‘Doubtful Verses’ in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.
p. 16
• HrJ 96: Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man (‘There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher’)
Copy, headed ‘A Certaine Woman’ and here beginning ‘It was not certaine when a certaine Preacher’. The text followed by ‘The reply’ (here beginning ‘That noe man yet could in the Bible find’).
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.
p. 17
• HrJ 237: Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches (‘Six of the weakest sex and purest sect’)
Copy, headed ‘Six Puritane 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. 19
• HrJ 158: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)
Copy, headed ‘A Lady’.
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. 20
• HrJ 287: Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues (‘You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young’)
Copy, headed ‘Learned Wife’.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.
p. 22
• CoR 387: Richard Corbett, Little Lute (‘Little lute, when I am gone’)
Copy, headed ‘Dr C. to Mrs. Os. Lute’.
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 8.
Some texts followed by an answer beginning ‘Little booke, when I am gone’.
p. 22
• SiP 162: Sir Philip Sidney, Old Arcadia. Book III, No. 62 (‘What toong can her perfections tell’)
Copy of lines 75-6, headed ‘A Mayden’ and here beginning ‘A pretty seale of Virgin wax’.
Ringler, pp. 85-90. Robertson, pp. 238-42.
pp. 24-7
• PeW 256: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)
Copy, headed ‘In praise of a Painted Woman’, here beginning ‘Not kisse? by Joue I must, & make impression’.
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].
pp. 27-8
• CwT 92: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)
Copy, headed ‘On his Mistresse’.
First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
p. 28
• PeW 197: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)
Copy, headed ‘A gentlewoman not marriadgable’.
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.
p. 29
• HrJ 208: 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 with 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.
pp. 29-30
• PoW 64: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’
Copy, headed ‘On Mrs Poole my L. Shandoyes sister who dispayred because of her black hayre and eyes’.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS F).
First published, as ‘In praise of black Women; by T.R.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), p. 15 [unique exemplum in Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990)]; in Abraham Wright, Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), pp. 75-7, as ‘On a black Gentlewoman’. Poems (1660), pp. 61-2, as ‘On black Hair and Eyes’ and superscribed ‘R’; in The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 460-1, as ‘on Black Hayre and Eyes’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’; and in The Poems of William Herbert, Third Earl of Pembroke, ed. Robert Krueger (B.Litt. thesis, Oxford, 1961: Bodleian, MS B. Litt. d. 871), p. 61.
pp. 31-2
• HoJ 336: John Hoskyns, John Hoskins to the Lady Jacob (‘Oh loue whose powre & might non euer yet wthstood’)
Copy, headed ‘Mr Poldens delight of New Coll: Oxon’, here beginning ‘O loue whose force & might’, with a verse-for-verse reply in a second column on each page.
Osborn, p. 301.
p. 32
• RaW 476.8: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Say not you love, unless you do’
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Love or doe not say you doe’.
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. 33
• HrJ 220: Sir John Harington, Of bagge and baggage (‘A man appointed, vpon losse of life’)
Copy, headed ‘Bagg and baggage’.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 42. McClure no. 296, p. 267. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 35, p. 223.
p. 33
• PeW 163: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, In praise of his Mistris Ironice (‘My Mistris hath a precious Eye’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 110-11, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’.
p. 35
• CwT 1208: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband (‘This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme’)
Copy, headed ‘On a Ribbon sent from his Mrs:’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.
p. 42
• PeW 139: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Amintas (‘Cloris sate, and sitting slept’)
Copy, headed ‘Cloris’.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 170. Poems (1660), p. 104, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’.
pp. 47-8
• DaJ 57: Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion (‘Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’)
Copy, headed ‘A wooer’ and here beginning ‘ffayre wench I can not court thy sprightly eyes’.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (‘Middleborugh’ [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.
pp. 49-50
• RaW 540: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’
Copy, headed ‘Sonnett: to his Dearest’.
This MS recorded in Latham, p. 116; recorded (but not seen) in Gullans.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by ‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’ (see RaW 320-38) and headed ‘To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh’. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).
This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).
pp. 51-2
• DnJ 3019: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)
Copy, headed ‘Another’ [i.e. Sonnet].
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.
p. 53
• JnB 711: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song (‘If I freely may discouer’)
Copy, untitled.
pp. 53-4
• JnB 548: Ben Jonson, To the Same (‘Kisse me, sweet: The warie louer’)
Copy, untitled.
Lines 19-22 first published in Volpone, III, vii, 236-9 (London, 1607). Published complete in The Forrest (vi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 103.
pp. 55-6
• JnB 442: Ben Jonson, Song. That Women are bvt Mens shaddowes (‘Follow a shaddow, it still flies you’)
Copy, headed ‘Women mens shadowes’.
First published in The Forrest (vii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 104.
p. 56
• JnB 465: Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia (‘Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes’)
Copy, headed ‘A health to his M:ris’.
First published in The Forrest (ix) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 106.
p. 59
• HrJ 120: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek (‘Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke’)
Copy, headed ‘A painted creature Kist’.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.
p. 61
• HyJ 4: John Heywood, Epigrams
Copy of one epigram (First Hundred, No. 79).
First published London, 1550-60. First collected in Woorkes (London, 1562). Milligan, pp. 103-224.
pp. 84-7
• DrW 117.46: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)
Copy, headed ‘The 5 sences prsented to K. James’.
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.
p. 88
• DaJ 19: Sir John Davies, Epigrammes, 35. In Septimum (‘Septimus lives, and is like Garlicke seene’)
Copy.
Krueger, p. 143.
Krueger, p. 143.
p. 89
• BcF 54.112: Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox (‘Are all diseases dead? or will death say’)
Copy.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.
p. 90
• RaW 373: Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury (‘Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere’)
Copy of a version headed ‘A Sarisbury Sheaphard’ and here beginning ‘Heare lies our sheaphard a while, soe deare’.
First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.
Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.
p. 91
• DaJ 152: Sir John Davies, An Epitaph (‘Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes’)
Copy, headed ‘A bellowsmaker’ and here beginning ‘Heere lies John Crinker a maker of bellows’.
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.
p. 94
• DaJ 211: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)
Copy, headed ‘On an infant’ and here beginning ‘As caefull mothers in their beds doe lay’.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
p. 95
• CoR 497: 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. 105
• HrE 27: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Epitaph of a stinking Poet (‘Here stinks a Poet, I confess’)
Copy, headed ‘On a stinking breath’ and here beginning ‘Haere lies one stinks I must confesse’.
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, p. 29.
pp. 108-9
• BrW 175: 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.
p. 109
• RaW 93: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleighs epitaph: by himselfe made’.
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).
See also RaW 302 and RaW 304.
pp. 110-12
• BmF 80: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy vppon ye Lady, M.B.’
First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.
p. 114
• DrW 177.98: William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table (‘Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre’)
Copy of a version headed ‘On the late Lord Treasurer’ and beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’.
First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
p. 117
• DnJ 1748: John Donne, A lame begger (‘I am unable, yonder begger cries’)
Copy, headed ‘The Beggar’ and here beginning ‘I cannot stand or goe the Beggar cries’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Thomas Deloney, Strange Histories (London, 1607), sig. E6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 76. Milgate, Satires, p. 51. Shawcross, No. 88. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 7 (as ‘Zoppo’) and 10.
p. 119
• HrJ 47: Sir John Harington, Against Swearing (‘In elder times an ancient custome was’)
Copy, headed ‘Swearing’.
First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.
pp. 121-3
• HeR 126: Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack (‘Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare’)
Copy.
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. 123-6
• HeR 283: Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack (‘So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles’)
Copy, headed ‘A Welcome to Sack’.
This MS collated in part in Patrick.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.
p. 146
• GrF 45: Fulke Greville, Mustapha, IV, iv, 116-117 (‘Mischiefe is like the Cockatrices eyes’)
Copy, headed ‘On Treason’ and here beginning ‘Treason is like a Basiliscus eye’.
Bullough, II, 118.
p. 146
• HrJ 269: Sir John Harington, Of Treason (‘Treason doth neuer prosper, what's the reason?’)
Copy, headed ‘Or thus:’, following GrF 45.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 5. McClure No. 259, p. 255. This epigram also quoted in a letter to Prince Henry, 1609 (McClure, p. 136). Kilroy, Book III, No. 43, p. 185.
p. 149
• BcF 46: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’
Copy, headed ‘Mans life’.
First published in Thomas Farnaby, Florilegium epigrammatum Graecorum (London, 1629). Poems by Sir Henry Wotton, Sir Walter Raleigh and others, ed. John Hannah (London, 1845), pp. 76-80. Spedding, VII, 271-2. H.J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to certain other Poems’, Modern Language Review, 6 (1911), 145-56.
p. 157
• CoR 757: Richard Corbett, On the Proctors Plotts (‘When plotts are Proctors vertues, and the gift’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Bennett & Trevor-Roper (1955), p. 100.
pp. 162-7
• CoR 50: Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge (‘It is not yet a fortnight, since’)
Copy, headed in the margin ‘The K: entertainmt in Cam:’.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.
Some texts accompanied by an ‘Answer’ (‘A ballad late was made’).
p. 172
• RaW 410: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘ICUR, good Mounser Carr’
Copy, headed ‘On the late Earle of Somersett’.
First published in Love-Poems and Humourous Ones, ed. Frederick J. Furnivall, The Ballad Society (Hertford, 1874; reprinted in New York, 1977), p. 20. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 174. Rudick, No. 48, p. 121 (as ‘Sir Walter Raleigh to the Lord Carr’).
pp. 172-5
• StW 962: William Strode, A Song of Capps (‘The witt hath long beholding bin’)
Copy, headed ‘On the Capps’.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.
p. 175
• ShW 35: William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (‘Even as the sun with purple-coloured face’)
Copy of lines 529-34, headed ‘Goodnight to you’ and here beginning ‘Now the worlds Comforter wt weary gate’.
First published in London, 1593.
p. 176
• StW 156: William Strode, A Girdle (‘When ere the wast makes too much hast’)
Copy.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 45-6. Forey, p. 193.
p. 176
• HrJ 212: Sir John Harington, Of a sawcy Cator (‘A Cator had of late some wild-fowle bought’)
Copy, headed ‘A sawcy Catour’.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 22. McClure No. 276, p. 261. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 82, p. 239.
p. 177
• HrJ 246: Sir John Harington, Of inclosing a Common (‘A Lord, that purpos'd for his more auaile’)
Copy, headed ‘On A Lord who would haue inclosed a Commons’.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 68. McClure No. 322, p. 275. Authorship uncertain.
pp. 178-9
• HrJ 250: Sir John Harington, Of sixe sorts of Fasters (‘Sixe sorts of folkes I find vse fasting dayes’)
Copy.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 30. McClure No. 284, p. 264. Authorship uncertain.
pp. 178-9
• JnB 649: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest’)
Copy, headed ‘The reason why it was called the Deuills Arse in the Peake’.
Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.
pp. 181-2
• JnB 264: Ben Jonson, A Grace by Ben: Johnson. extempore. before King James (‘Our King and Queen the Lord-God blesse’)
Copy of a version headed ‘An Extemporary Grace by Ben. Iohnson before the kings’ and beginning ‘God blesse the King the Quene noe lesse’.
First published (?) in John Aubrey, Brief Lives, ed. Andrew Clark (Oxford, 1898), II, 14. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 418-19.
pp. 186-7
• HrJ 181: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler (‘A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling’)
Copy, headed ‘A Taylor’, here beginning ‘A Taylor, a man of vpright dealling’.
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.
pp. 187-8
• HrJ 299: Sir John Harington, A Tale of a Bayliffe distraining for rent. To my Ladie Rogers (‘I heard a pleasant tale at Cammington’)
Copy of a shortened version beginning ‘I hard the Tale once of an arrant Baily’.
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 91. McClure No. 93, pp. 183-5. Kilroy, Book II, No. 2, pp. 130-1.
pp. 189-90
• PeW 153: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Apollo's Oath (‘When Phebus first did Daphne love’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published, in a two-stanza version in a musical setting, in John Dowland, Third Booke of Aires (London, 1603), No. vi. A three-stanza version in John Philips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656), p. 31. A four-stanza version in Poems (1660), p. 115, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as probably by Charles Rives (of New College, Oxford). It is possible, however, that the poem grew by accretions in different hands, Rives perhaps being responsible for the fourth stanza.
pp. 192-4
• StW 1152: William Strode, To Mr Rives heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon. (‘Welcome abroad, o welcome from your bedd!’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Surgery done by Bernard Wright’.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 95-7. Forey, pp. 11-14.
pp. 194-5
• DyE 93: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall’
Copy, headed ‘Loue’, here beginning ‘The lowest shrubs haue tops, ye Ant her gall’.
First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.
p. 195
• RaW 354: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty’
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawleigh of H. Noell Courtier’, with ‘His reply’.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 138.
First published, as ‘The Answer’ to ‘A Riddle’ (‘Th'offence of the stomach, with the word of disgrace’), in Works (1829), VIII, 736. Latham, pp. 47-8. Rudick, Nos 19A, 19B and 19C (three versions, pp. 28-9).
pp. 198-99
• CmT 233: Thomas Campion, ‘What if a day, or a month, or a yeare’
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnett’.
This MS collated in Bühler, p. 705.
Possibly first published as a late 16th-century broadside. Philotus (Edinburgh, 1603). Richard Alison, An Howres Recreation in Musicke (London, 1606). Davis, p. 473. The different versions and attributions discussed in A.E.H. Swaen, ‘The Authorship of “What if a Day”, and its Various Versions’, MP, 4 (1906-7), 397-422, and in David Greer, ‘“What if a Day” — An Examination of the Words and Music’, M&L, 43 (1962), 304-19.
See also CmT 239-41.
pp. 199-200
• DnJ 2021: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.
pp. 200-1
• DnJ 2059: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
pp. 201-2
• DnJ 1981: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)
Copy, headed ‘Loves Mine’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.
pp. 202-3
• DnJ 1466: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
pp. 203-4
• DnJ 2253: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse (‘If yet I have not all thy love’)
Copy, headed ‘Canzon:’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.
pp. 204-5
• DnJ 1852: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)
Copy, headed ‘Another [i.e. Canzon:]’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.
pp. 205-6
• DnJ 513: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)
Copy, headed ‘Another’ [i.e. Canzon].
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.
pp. 210-26
• CoR 310: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)
Copy, headed ‘Dr Corbetts Iter Boreale’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.
pp. 227-35
• CoR 645: Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North (‘My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes’)
Copy, headed ‘Dr. Corbet on the Guard to my Lo: Mordant’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.
pp. 241-2
• DnJ 2520: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)
Copy of lines 1-18, 25-6, 47-56, headed ‘On Loue’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as ‘Elegie XVI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.
p. 245
• HrJ 301: Sir John Harington, To Mr. Bastard, the minister that writes the pleasant Epigrams (‘Had yow been known to me ear yow wear maryd’)
Copy, headed ‘In Thom: Bastard Theolog:’ and here beginning ‘Bastard had I knowne ere thou hadst bene married’.
First published in The Epigrams of Sir John Harington, ed. N.E. McClure (Philadelphia, 1926). McClure (1930), No. 358, p. 293. Kilroy, Book III, No. 10, p. 171.
pp. 251, 255
• ChG 4: George Chapman, Hero and Leander
Copy of three couplets, i.e. (i) Sestiad III, lines 231-2, headed ‘Loue’ and here beginning ‘Loue is a golden bubble full of dreames’; (ii) Sestiad IV, lines 68-9, headed ‘Loue’ and here beginning ‘Trifling attempts, noe serious acts advance’; and (iii) Sestiad III, lines 395-6, headed ‘Beauty’ and here beginning ‘Beauty is heauen & earth this grace doth win’.
Chapman's continuation of Marlowe's poem (Sestiads III-VI). First published in London, 1598. Bartlett, pp. 132-70.
p. 255
• PeW 29: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, I left you, and now the gain of you is to me a double Gain (‘Dear, when I think upon my first sad fall’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), p. 25, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 28, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’.
p. 256
• ShW 26: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 106 (‘When in the chronicle of wasted time’)
Copy, headed ‘On his Mris Beauty’ and here beginning ‘When in the Annales of all-wasting time’, with 18 additional lines.
This MS recorded in Tucker Brooke, p. 67.
pp. 256-7
• PeW 127: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘When mine eyes, first admiring your rare beauty’
Copy, untitled, run on directly after ShW 26.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 54, where it is divided by a rule from B.R. his Ballet (GrJ 70-76) and is untitled and unattributed.
No MSS recorded.
p. 261
• GrJ 13.9: John Grange, ‘Be not proud, 'cause fair and trim’
Copy.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published, in a musical setting, in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (1655), p. 10, ascribed to John Grange. Poems (1660), pp. 59-60, where the stanzas by ‘Man’ are superscribed ‘P.’ and those by ‘Woman’ superscribed ‘R.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as probably by John Grange.
pp. 262-3
• OxE 34: Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford, ‘Wing'de with desyre, I seeke to mount on hyghe’
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in May.
May, Poems, No. 12 (pp. 34-5). May, Courtier Poets, pp. 278-9. EV 31543.
p. 271
• MiT 5: Thomas Middleton, On the death of that great master in his art and quality, painting and playing, R[ichard] Burbage (‘Astronomers and star-gazers this year’)
Copy, subscribed ‘Tho: Middleton’.
Edited from this MS in Collier, and in Oxford Middleton, with a facsimile, p. 1889.
First published in John Payne Collier, New Facts regarding the Life of Shakespeare (London, 1835), p. 26. Bullen, VII, 413. Oxford Middleton, p. 1889.
p. 274
• JnB 121: Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] (‘Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such’)
Copy, headed ‘On the death of Mrs Boulstred’.
First published in John A. Harper, ‘Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.
p. 275
• JnB 134: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. (‘Would'st thou heare, what man can say’)
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph: on El: F:’ and here beginning ‘Wilt thou heare what man can say?’
First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.
pp. 275-6
• BmF 129: Francis Beaumont, On Madam Fowler desiring a sonnet to be writ on her (‘Good Madam Fowler, do not trouble me’)
Copy, headed ‘Madam Fowler’.
First published in Alexander B. Grosart, ‘Literary Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere’, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (p. 8).
p. 279
• ShW 31: William Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis (‘Even as the sun with purple-coloured face’)
Copy of lines 17-18 (beginning ‘Here come and sit, where never serpent hisses’) in a four-line version headed ‘Kessing: a song’ and beginning ‘Come sweet sit heere where neuer serpent hisses’.
First published in London, 1593.
pp. 279-80
• HrE 37: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Kissing (‘Come hither Womankind, and all their worth’)
Copy of a version headed ‘More deiuersity of kissing’ and beginning at line 5 (here ‘The sweetly melting kisse that doth consume’).
First published in Occasional Verses (1665). Moore Smith, pp. 30-1.
p. 280
• PeW 67: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘No praise it is that him who Python slew’
Copy of lines 21-64.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), pp. 7-11, superscribed ‘R.’. Krueger, pp. 5-9, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.
p. 282
• JnB 487: Ben Jonson, To Foole, or Knave (‘Thy praise, or dispraise is to me alike’)
Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘ffooles praise or dispraise is to me alike’, subscribed ‘Ben: Johnson’.
First published in Epigrammes (lxi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 46.
p. 290
• PeW 125: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, To his Mistris on his Death (‘Oh let me groan one word into thine ear’)
Copy, headed ‘To his Mris at his death’.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 233. Poems (1660), p. 52, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 47, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’.
p. 291
• JnB 301: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)
Copy, headed ‘On the sand running in an Houre glasse’.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
pp. 293-4
• GrJ 6: John Grange, ‘A Lover once I did espy’
Copy, headed ‘Another sonnett’ and here beginning ‘A restles louer I espide’.
First published, in a musical setting, in Playford, Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (1652), I, 12. Poems (1660), pp. 86-7, beginning ‘A Restless Lover I espy'd’, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’, and in Krueger's Appendix II list of poems by John Grange.
p. 303
• DnJ 2273: John Donne, Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus (‘Like Esops fellow-slaves, O Mercury’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 96. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.
p. 303
• DnJ 1287: John Donne, Farewell to love (‘Whilst yet to prove’)
Copy of lines 35-40, headed ‘Beauty’ and here beginning ‘And when I come where moouing beauties bee’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 70-1. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 82-3. Shawcross, No. 79.
pp. 303-4
• DnJ 2572: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)
Copy of lines 53-62, headed ‘One proving false:’ and here beginning ‘Only, my bitter sweet whom I had layd’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
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.
pp. 304-5
• DnJ 990: John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 (‘Unseasonable man, statue of ice’)
Copy of lines 1-12, 116-26, 171-92.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as ‘Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset’). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.
MS 1083/17
An octavo verse miscellany, in a single predominantly italic hand, 152 leaves (paginated 1-34, thereafter foliated 35-169), plus index, in modern red leather. Including 85 poems (and second copies of two) by Thomas Carew. c.1638-42.
Inscriptions including ‘Horatio Carey 1642 te deus pardamus’ [viz. Horatio Carey (1619-ante 1677), eldest son of Sir Richard Carey (1583-1630) and great-grandson of Sir Henry Carey (1524?-96), first Baron Hunsdon ], ‘Thomas Arding’, ‘Thomas Arden’, ‘William Harrington’, ‘Thomas John’, ‘John Anthehope’ and ‘Clement Poxall’. Later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872), manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 8270. Bookplates of John William Cole and of the Shakespearian Library of Marsden J. Perry (1850-1935), industrialist, banker, 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 194.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Carey MS’: CwT Δ 34. Briefly discussed in Gary Taylor, ‘Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, 68 (1985), 210-46 (pp. 220-4). Discussed, with facsimile pages, in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (pp. 188, 191-2).
pp. 1-3
• EaJ 8: 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. Klr-K2r. Beaumont and Fletcher, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Bliss, pp. 229-32.
p. 4
• B&F 186: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, V, ii, 13-22. Song (‘Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon prince Henry being in a slumber a little before his death’.
Dyce, V, 297. Bullen, IV, 302. Bowers, IV, 360-1.
p. 5
• CoR 420: Richard Corbett, On Francis Beaumont's death (‘He that hath Youth, and Friends, and so much Wit’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Fras: Beamont’ and here beginning ‘He yt hath such acutenes & such witt’.
First published in Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 23.
p. 5
• DaJ 212: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)
Copy, headed ‘On a young man’ and here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses in their bedds doe lay’.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.
p. 5
• CoR 470: Richard Corbett, On Henry Bowling (‘If gentlenesse could tame the fates, or wit’)
Copy.
First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.
p. 6
• CoR 548: 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.
p. 6
• HrJ 313.5: Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram (‘When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon ye death of ye Queen of Scots’ and here beginning ‘When doome of death by iudgmt. foreappointed’.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).
p. 7
• CoR 750.5: Richard Corbett, [On Henry Bowling] (‘'Tis so hee's dead, and if to speak't again’)
Headed ‘Epitaphiu. Mr. Bowlinge Dr. Corbett’.
Unpublished? Usually ascribed in MS sources to Brian Duppa.
pp. 8-11
• CoR 159: 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, with the last 42 lines sub-headed ‘Aliter’.
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.
pp. 11-13
• CwT 1232: Thomas Carew, Vpon the sicknesse of (E.S.) (‘Mvst she then languish, and we sorrow thus’)
Copy, headed ‘On his beloued Mrs. being sick’.
Facsimile of p. 12 in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (p. 192).
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 31-2.
p. 15
• CwT 975: Thomas Carew, The Spring (‘Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.
p. 15
• JnB 302: Ben Jonson, The Houre-glasse (‘Doe but consider this small dust’)
Copy, headed ‘On a faire Ladie working by an hower glasse’.
First published in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in The Vnder-wood (viii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 148-9.
pp. 16-18
• CwT 1006: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.
p. 19
• CwT 408: 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. 19-20
• CwT 184: Thomas Carew, A divine Mistris (‘In natures peeces still I see’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 6-7.
p. 20
• CwT 797: 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).
p. 21
• CwT 129: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
p. 22
• CwT 890: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
pp. 22-5
• CwT 471: 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. 23
• PeW 154: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Apollo's Oath (‘When Phebus first did Daphne love’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published, in a two-stanza version in a musical setting, in John Dowland, Third Booke of Aires (London, 1603), No. vi. A three-stanza version in John Philips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656), p. 31. A four-stanza version in Poems (1660), p. 115, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as probably by Charles Rives (of New College, Oxford). It is possible, however, that the poem grew by accretions in different hands, Rives perhaps being responsible for the fourth stanza.
p. 26
• CwT 695: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)
Copy.
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 Introduction.
pp. 27-8
• CwT 567: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)
First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.
p. 28
• CwT 456: Thomas Carew, Mediocritie in love rejected. Song (‘Give me more love, or more disdaine’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 12-13. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
p. 29
• CwT 330: Thomas Carew, Good counsel to a young Maid. Song (‘Gaze not on thy beauties pride’)
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 13.
p. 29
• DrW 177.99: William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table (‘Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre’)
Copy of a version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’.
First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.
pp. 30-1
• CwT 1101: 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.
p. 31
• CwT 850: 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. 32
• CwT 939: 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. 32-3
• CwT 910: 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).
pp. 33-4
• CwT 154: 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).
pp. 34-5
• CwT 380: 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).
f. 35r-v
• CwT 166: Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned (‘Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke’)
Copy.
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).
ff. 35v-6r
• CwT 425: Thomas Carew, A Looking-Glasse (‘That flattring Glasse, whose smooth face weares’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 19.
f. 36r
• CwT 324: Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid (‘When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.
f. 36v
• CwT 35: Thomas Carew, Celia bleeding, to the Surgeon (‘Fond man, that canst beleeve her blood’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 26.
f. 37r
• CwT 966: Thomas Carew, Song. To one who when I prais'd my Mistris beautie, said I was blind (‘Wonder not though I am blind’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 33.
f. 37v
• CwT 947: 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.
f. 38r
• CwT 928: 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.
f. 38v
• CwT 839: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘You that thinke Love can convey’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 39. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
f. 39r
• CwT 1110: Thomas Carew, To my Rivall (‘Hence vaine intruder, hast away’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.
f. 39v
• CwT 1082: Thomas Carew, To my Cousin (C.R.) marrying my Lady (A.) (‘Happy Youth, that shalt possesse’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 47.
f. 39v
• PeW 140: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Amintas (‘Cloris sate, and sitting slept’)
Copy, headed ‘A Song’.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published in [John Gough], Academy of Complements (London, 1646), p. 170. Poems (1660), p. 104, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’.
f. 40r
• CwT 661: Thomas Carew, Red, and white Roses (‘Reade in these Roses, the sad story’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 46-7.
f. 40v
• CwT 533: Thomas Carew, Parting, Celia weepes (‘Weepe not (my deare) for I shall goe’)
Copy.
Facsimile in Scott Nixon, ‘The Manuscript Sources of Thomas Carew's Poetry’, EMS, 8 (2000), 186-224 (p. 191).
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 48-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
f. 41r
• CwT 1050: Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship (‘Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate’)
Copy, headed ‘To my Mrs. in absence, A Shipp’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.
f. 41v
• CwT 863: 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.
f. 42r-v
• CwT 1199: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband (‘This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.
ff. 42v-3r
• CwT 483: Thomas Carew, A New-yeares Sacrifice. To Lucinda (‘Those that can give, open their hands this day’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 32-3.
f. 43r-v
• CwT 258: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
f. 43v
• CwT 217: Thomas Carew, An Excuse of absence (‘You'le aske perhaps wherefore I stay’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon absence’ and here beginning ‘Perhaps you wonder…’.
First published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 28. Dunlap. p. 131.
f. 44r
• CwT 816: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘Harke how my Celia, with the choyce’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
f. 44v
• CwT 364: 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).
f. 45r
• CwT 961: Thomas Carew, Song. To one that desired to know my Mistris (‘Seeke not to know my love, for shee’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 39-40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
f. 45v
• CwT 1178: Thomas Carew, Truce in Love entreated (‘No more, blind God, for see my heart’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.
ff. 45v-6r
• CwT 20: Thomas Carew, Boldnesse in love (‘Marke how the bashfull morne, in vaine’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 42.
ff. 46r-8r
• CwT 985: Thomas Carew, To A.D. unreasonable distrustfull of her owne beauty (‘Fayre Doris breake thy Glasse, it hath perplext’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 84-6.
ff. 48r-9r
• CwT 509: Thomas Carew, On the Mariage of T.K. and C.C. the morning stormie (‘Svch should this day be, so the Sun should hide’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 79-80.
f. 49r
• CwT 304: Thomas Carew, For a Picture where a Queen Laments over the Tombe of a slaine Knight (‘Brave Youth. to whom Fate in one hower’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 81.
ff. 49v-53r
• CwT 641: Thomas Carew, A Rapture (‘I will enjoy thee now my Celia, come’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 49-53.
f. 53v
• CwT 341: Thomas Carew, Griefe ingrost (‘Wherefore doe thy sad numbers flow’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 44-5. The eight-lline version first published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 7, and reprinted in Dunlap. p. 234.
f. 54r
• CwT 200: Thomas Carew, Epitaph on the Lady Mary Villers (‘The Lady Mary Villers lyes’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 53-4.
f. 54r-v
• CwT 7: Thomas Carew, An other (‘The purest Soule that e're was sent’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 54.
ff. 54v-5r
• CwT 10: Thomas Carew, An other (‘This little Vault, this narrow roome’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 54.
f. 55r-v
• CwT 447: Thomas Carew, Maria Wentworth, Thomae Comitis Cleveland, filia praemortua prima Virgineam animam exhalauit (‘And here the previous dust is layd’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 56. Inscribed on the tomb of Maria Wentworth in the Church of St George, Toddington, Bedfordshire (1633): see Dunlap. pp. 242-3.
ff. 55v-7r
• CwT 487: Thomas Carew, Obsequies to the Lady Anne Hay (‘I heard the Virgins sigh, I saw the sleeke’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 67-8.
ff. 57v-9v
• CwT 195: Thomas Carew, An Elegie upon the death of the Deane of Pauls, Dr. Iohn Donne (‘Can we not force from widdowed Poetry’)
Copy.
First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1633). Carew, Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 71-4.
ff. 59v-61r
• CwT 193: Thomas Carew, An Elegie on the La: Pen: sent to my Mistresse out of France (‘Let him, who from his tyrant Mistresse, did’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 19-21.
f. 61r
• CwT 922: Thomas Carew, Song. To a Lady not yet enjoy'd by her Husband (‘Come Celia, fixe thine eyes on mine’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 36.
f. 62r
• CwT 918: Thomas Carew, Song. The willing Prisoner to his Mistris (‘Let fooles great Cupids yoake disdaine’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 37.
f. 62v
• CwT 443: Thomas Carew, A Lover upon an Accident necessitating his departure, consults with Reason (‘Weepe not, nor backward turne your beames’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 48.
ff. 63r-4v
• CwT 1157: Thomas Carew, To the Countesse of Anglesie upon the immoderatly-by-her-lamented death of her Husband (‘Madam, men say you keepe with dropping eyes’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 69-71.
f. 65r-v
• CwT 529: Thomas Carew, On the Duke of Buckingham (‘When in the brazen leaves of Fame’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 57.
ff. 65v-6r
• CwT 3: Thomas Carew, An other (‘Reader, when these dumbe stones have t’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 58-9.
f. 66v
• CwT 1218: Thomas Carew, Vpon some alterations in my Mistresse, after my departure into France (‘Oh gentle Love, doe not forsake the guide’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 24-5.
ff. 67r-8r
• CwT 1029: Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (‘'Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.
f. 68r-v
• CwT 1093: Thomas Carew, To my Mistresse in absence (‘Though I must live here, and by force’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 22.
f. 69r-v
• CwT 1144: 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.
ff. 69v-70v
• CwT 1120: Thomas Carew, To Saxham (‘Though frost, and snow, lockt from mine eyes’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 27-9.
ff. 70v-1v
• CwT 1161: Thomas Carew, To the King at his entrance into Saxham, by Master Io. Crofts (‘Sir, Ere you passe this threshold, stay’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 30-1.
f. 72r-v
• CwT 1223: Thomas Carew, Vpon the Kings sicknesse (‘Sicknesse, the minister of death, doth lay’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 35-6.
f. 72v
• BrW 139: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor (‘Nature in this small volume was about’)
Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on a Child’.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.
ff. 73r-4r
• CwT 540: Thomas Carew, A Pastorall Dialogue (‘As Celia rested in the shade’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 42-4.
ff. 74v-5r
• CwT 543: Thomas Carew, A Pastorall Dialogue (‘This mossie bank they prest. That aged Oak’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 45-6.
ff. 75v-6r
• CwT 1213: Thomas Carew, Vpon Master W. Mountague his returne from travell (‘Leade the black Bull to slaughter, with the Bore’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 77-8.
f. 76r-v
• CwT 1068: Thomas Carew, To Master W. Mountague (‘Sir, I arest you at your Countreyes suit’)
Copy, headed ‘Another’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 78-9.
f. 76v
• StW 430: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox (‘A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine’)
Copy, headed ‘On a faire Lady yt had ye smal pox’.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.
ff. 77r-8v
• CwT 352: Thomas Carew, In answer of an Elegiacall Letter upon the death of the King of Sweden from Aurelian Townsend, inviting me to write on that subject (‘Why dost thou sound, my deare Aurelian’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 74-7.
f. 79r-v
• CwT 1022: Thomas Carew, To a Lady that desired I would love her (‘Now you have freely given me leave to love’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 81-2.
ff. 79v-80r
• CwT 348: Thomas Carew, An Hymeneall Dialogue (‘Tell me (my love) since Hymen ty'de’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 66.
f. 80r-v
• CwT 1215: Thomas Carew, Vpon my Lord Chiefe Iustice his election of my Lady A.W. for his Mistresse (‘Heare this, and tremble all’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 83-4.
f. 80v
• RaW 284: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)
Copy, headed ‘On mans life’ and here beginning ‘Mans life is but a play of passion’.
This MS recorded in Latham, f. 144.
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.
ff. 81r-3r
• CwT 307: Thomas Carew, Foure Songs by way of Chorus to a play, at an entertainment of the King and Queene, by my Lord Chamberlaine (‘From whence was first this furie hurld’)
Copy of the four songs.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 59-62.
f. 83v
• CwT 439: Thomas Carew, A Lover in the disguise of an Amazon, is dearly beloved of his Mistresse (‘Cease thou afflicted soule to mourne’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 63.
f. 84r
• CwT 14: Thomas Carew, Another. A Lady rescued from death by a Knight who in the instant leaves her, complaines thus (‘Oh whither is my fayre Sun fled’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 63-4.
ff. 84v-5r
• WaE 303: Edmund Waller, Of the Misreport of her being Painted (‘As when a sort of wolves infest the night’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 50.
f. 85r-v.
• KiH 87: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)
Copy, headed ‘His Answere’.
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).
ff. 86r-7r
• PoW 65: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’
Copy, headed ‘On Mrs. Poole who dispair'd because of her blacke haire & Eyes’.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS A).
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.
f. 87r-v
• MoG 100: George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt (‘Well fare those three that where there was a dearth’)
Copy, headed ‘On a Crowne of a hatt yt was drunke in for want of a Cupp’.
ff. 90r-v
• BmF 150.5: Francis Beaumont, A Charm (‘Sleep, old man, let silence charm thee’)
Copy.
Rejected from the canon in Dyce, XI, 442, and attributed to Henry Harrington.
ff. 90v-1r
• CoR 582: Richard Corbett, To his sonne Vincent Corbett (‘What I shall leave thee none can tell’)
Copy, headed ‘Dr. Corbett to Vincent on his birthday ye third yeare of his age’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 88.
ff. 91v-2r
• JnB 450: Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia (‘Come my Celia let vs proue’)
Copy, headed ‘Another’ and here beginning ‘Come sweet Mrs lett us proue’.
This MS collated in Doughtie, ff. 563-4.
First published in Volpone, III, vii, 166-83 (London, 1607). The Forrest (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 102. Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 294.
f. 94v
• PeW 209: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Opportunity neglected (‘Yet was her Beauty as the blushing Rose’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), p. 84, unattributed. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’.
ff. 95r-6v
• HeR 127: Robert Herrick, The fare-well to Sack (‘Farewell thou Thing, time-past so knowne, so deare’)
Copy, headed ‘Mr Herricks farewell to Sacke’.
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.
ff. 96v-8v
• HeR 284: Robert Herrick, The Welcome to Sack (‘So soft streams meet, so springs with gladder smiles’)
Copy, headed ‘His Returne’.
This MS collated in part in Patrick.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 77-9. Patrick, pp. 110-12.
ff. 98v-9r
• DaJ 58: Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion (‘Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’)
Copy, headed ‘The Rustick Gallants woinge’ and here beginning ‘faire Wench I cannot court thy sprightly Eyes’.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (‘Middleborugh’ [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.
f. 99r
• DaJ 67: Sir John Davies, No Muskie Courtier (‘Sweet wench I love thee, yet I wil not sue’)
Copy, headed ‘Another’ [Rustick Gallants woinge] and here beginning ‘faire wence 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.
ff. 103r-4r
• DnJ 1241: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as ‘Elegie XV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.
f. 108r
• JnB 466: Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia (‘Drinke to me, onely, with thine eyes’)
Copy, headed ‘A health to a Louer’.
First published in The Forrest (ix) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 106.
ff. 108v-9r
• KiH 132: Henry King, The Defence (‘Why slightest thou what I approve?’)
Copy, headed ‘An Answere to a diswasiue freind’.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 145-6.
f. 109r-v
• CoR 624: Richard Corbett, To the Ladyes of the New Dresse (‘Ladyes that weare black cypresse vailes’)
Copy.
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.
ff. 109v-10r
• JnB 336: Ben Jonson, The Musicall strife. In a Pastorall Dialogue (‘Come, with our Voyces, let us warre’)
Copy, headed ‘Two sheapheards inuiting each other to singe’.
First published in The Vnder-wood (iii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 143-4.
f. 113r-v
• CwT 774: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.
f. 115v
• CmT 116: Thomas Campion, ‘Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white’
Copy, headed ‘A scor'nd Bewty’.
First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xii. Davis, pp. 34-5.
ff. 115v-16r
• HeR 397: Robert Herrick, To his false Mistris (‘Whither are all her false oathes blowne’)
Copy, headed ‘Of his periur'd Mrs’.
This MS collated in Patrick.
First published in Martin (1956), p. 420. Patrick, pp. 68-9.
f. 116r
• CwT 1267.5: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon his Mrs who dyed a little befor he should haue maryed her’, here beginning ‘Was shee not wondrous faire? oh but I see’.
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.
f. 116r-v
• CwT 64: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)
Copy, headed ‘Bewtyes Character’.
First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
ff. 118v-19r
• CwT 667: Thomas Carew, The second Rapture (‘No worldling, no, tis not thy gold’)
Copy, headed ‘A Paradox Noe Pleasure but in Venery’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 103-4.
f. 119v
• CwT 167: Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned (‘Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke’)
Second copy, headed ‘A Songe, write befor. page 18’.
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).
f. 120v
• HeR 99: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)
Copy, headed ‘A forsaken Lady yt dyed for loue’.
This MS (erroneously cited as ‘MS 239/22’) collated in Patrick.
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).
f. 121r-v
• JnB 712: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song (‘If I freely may discouer’)
Copy, headed ‘A sonnett’.
ff. 131v-2r
• CwT 518: Thomas Carew, On sight of a Gentlewomans face in the water (‘Stand still you floods, doe not deface’)
Copy, headed ‘To the fflouds’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 102.
ff. 132v-3r
• ShW 16: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2 (‘When forty winters shall besiege thy brow’)
Copy, headed ‘The Benefitt of Mariage’ and here beginning ‘When forty yeares shall beseig thy browe’.
Edited and most manuscript copies collated in Gary Taylor, ‘Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 68/1 (Autumn 1985), 210-46.
f. 134r-v
• StW 825: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnet’.
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).
ff. 133v-4r
• BrW 44: William Browne of Tavistock, An Epistle Thrown into a River in a Ball of Wax (‘Go, gentle paper. happy, happier far’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epistle to his unconstant Mrs throwne into a Riuer where shee usually walked’.
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 93-4.
f. 134v.
• KiH 583: Henry King, Sonnet (‘I prethee turne that face away’)
Copy, headed ‘A sad Louer to his Mrs’.
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1641). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.
Musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (Oxford, 1659).
f. 135r
• DnJ 467: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)
Copy, immediately following on from ‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’ (DnJ 2981).
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
f. 135 r-v
• DnJ 2981: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)
Copy, headed ‘loath to part’.
This MS collated in Doughtie, ff. 610-11. See also DnJ 467.
First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her ‘Dubia’). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.
See also DnJ 428.
f. 136r-v
• WoH 124: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)
Copy, headed ‘An Ode upon ye 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.
ff. 136v-8r
• DnJ 2583: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs.’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
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. 139r-40v
• StW 1205: William Strode, A Translation of the Nightingale out of Strada (‘Now the declining Sun gan downward bende’)
Copy, headed ‘A Translacon out of Catullus of the Nightingirle’.
First published in Dobell (1907), p. 16-18. Forey, pp. 72-5.
ff. 141v-2v
• CmT 176: Thomas Campion, ‘Young and simple though I am’
Copy of a 48 line version headed ‘A Maydes deliberate Resolucon’ and here beginning ‘Although I'me younge, yet not so ignorant am I…’.
This MS recorded in Doughtie, f. 565.
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.
f. 150r
• CwT 496: Thomas Carew, On his Mistres lookeinge in a glasse (‘This flatteringe glasse whose smooth face weares’)
Copy.
First published in Hazlitt (1870), pp. 23-4. Dunlap. p. 132.
ff. 152v-3v
• StW 468: 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.
ff. 153v-4r
• StW 57: 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.
f. 154r-v
• StW 298: William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe (‘Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill’)
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewomans blistred Lipe.’
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.
f. 155v
• StW 1384: William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie (‘Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke’)
Copy, headed ‘A Blush’.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
ff. 155v-6r
• KiH 622: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move’)
Copy, headed ‘To the scornfull Mrs.’
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.
f. 164v
• BrW 222: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)
Copy.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, ‘Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha’, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.
ff. 168v-9r
• GrJ 43: John Grange, ‘Come you swarms of thoughts and bring’
Copy, headed ‘An Allegoricall allusion of melancholy thoughts to Bees’.
First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shakespeare. Gent. (London, 1640), as ‘An Allegoricall allusion of melancholy thoughts to Bees’, subscribed ‘I. G.’ Listed in Krueger.