MS 240/2
An octavo verse miscellany, in several hands, 89 leaves, in old calf gilt. Partly compiled (pp. 75-99) by one Robert Berkeley, who has inscribed the first page ‘Rob Berkeley his booke Ano. 1640’. c.1640s.
Formerly owned by Henry Huth (1815-78). Formerly Rosenbach 195.
p. 5
• RaW 538: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’
Copy, prefixed by ‘Passions are most like to shades and dreames’ (see RaW 337).
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. 5, 7
• RaW 337: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen (‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’)
Copy, headed ‘Sr Walter Rawly: to the Queene’, here beginning ‘Passions are most like to shades and dreames’, and prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 538).
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 116.
First published, prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 500-42) and headed ‘To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh’, in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Edited in this form in Latham, p. 18. Rudick, No 39A, p. 106.
For a discussion of the authorship and different texts of this poem, see Charles B. Gullans, ‘Raleigh and Ayton: the disputed authorship of “Wrong not sweete empresse of my heart”’, SB, 13 (1960), 191-8, reprinted in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 318-26.
pp. 13, 15
• PeW 49: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘If her disdain least change in you can move’
Copy, headed ‘To his Freind beeng disdained by his mrs By sr. hen: Wotten’.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 2, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.
pp. 15, 17
• PeW 117: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘'Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain’
Copy, headed ‘The Answere by Dor: Donne’.
Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed ‘R’. Krueger, p. 3, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.
pp. 19, 21, 23
• RnT 233: Thomas Randolph, On the Fall of the Mitre Tavern in Cambridge (‘Lament, lament, ye Scholars all’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Myter tauerne, at Cambridge’.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 653.
First published in Wit & Drollery (London, 1656), p. 68. Thorn-Drury, pp. 160-2.
p. 23
• CwT 328: Thomas Carew, Good counsell to a young Maid (‘When you the Sun-burnt Pilgrim see’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Hazlitt, pp. 31-2.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 25.
pp. 35, 37
• RaW 448: Sir Walter Ralegh, The passionate mans Pilgrimage (‘Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet’)
Copy, headed ‘Verses that Sr Wal: Rawly made a little beefore hee was beeheaded, his Farewell to the world’.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 141-2.
First published with Daiphantvs or The Passions of Loue (London, 1604). Latham, pp. 49-51. Rudick, Nos 54A, 54B and 54C (three versions, pp. 126-33).
This poem rejected from the canon and attributed to an anonymous Catholic poet in Philip Edwards, ‘Who Wrote The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage?’, ELR, 4 (1974), 83-97.
p. 39
• RaW 476.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Say not you love, unless you do’
Copy, headed ‘An epigram. T: S:’.
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. 45
• SuH 22.5: Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, ‘If care do cause men cry, why do not I complaine?’
Copy, headed ‘An Absent Louer hath noe comfort but in hope’.
First published in Songes and Sonettes (London, 1557). Padelford, No. 28, pp. 80-2. Jones, pp. 14-16.
pp. 49, 51
• CwT 113: Thomas Carew, The Complement (‘O my deerest I shall grieve thee’)
Copy, untitled.
This volume recorded in Hazlitt.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.
pp. 57-65
• RnT 279: Thomas Randolph, A Pastorall Courtship (‘Behold these woods, and mark my Sweet’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Hazlitt, p. 611.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 109-15. Davis, pp. 77-91.
p. 67
• SuJ 108: John Suckling, The guiltless Inconstant (‘My first Love whom all beauty did adorn’)
Copy, here beginning ‘My first Love burnt my hart to tynder’.
This MS collated in Clayton; also collated (as ‘Mr. Huth's “Berkeley” MS. 1640’) in Thomas Carew, Poems, ed. W.C. Hazlitt (London, 1870), p. 119.
First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 90-1.
Probably written by Walton Poole.
p. 75
• BrW 252: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Ye merry birds, leave of to sing’
Copy, headed ‘Love forssaken’.
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 32-4.
p. 77
• RnT 12: Thomas Randolph, Ad Amicam (‘Sweet, doe not thy beauty wrong’)
Copy, headed ‘Loues Invitation’ and here beginning ‘Deare doe 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.
pp. 81, 83
• CmT 39.5: Thomas Campion, ‘Fire, fire, fire, fire!’
Copy, with two other poems run on together, headed ‘Sr R.B.’.
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xx. Davis, p. 156-8. English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), No. 2.
pp. 81-3
• CwT 889.5: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)
Copy, with two other poems run on together.
First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.
p. 83
• JnB 44: 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 of lines 1-12, with two other poems run on together.
Herford & Simpson, VIII, 139.
pp. 85, 87
• WoH 252: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)
Copy, headed ‘To the world Dr: Dunne’.
First published, as ‘a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by Dr. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will’, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.
p. 91
• BcF 45: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’
Copy of a fourteen-line parodied version beginning ‘What is ye Life of man a uerry bubble’.
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.
pp. 127, 129, 131
• EsR 89: 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 fourteen-stanza version, untitled.
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.
p. 143
• PoW 66: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS C).
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. 147
• HrJ 206: 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 holy 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.
MS 240/7
A quarto verse miscellany, in three hands (A: pp. 1-56; B: pp. 57-60, 75-122; C: pp. 61-74, 125-7), 127 pages, in contemporary limp vellum. Including 23 poems (and a second copy of one) by Randolph. c.1635.
Mostyn MS 196: from the library originally founded by Sir Thomas Mostyn (1535-1617) at Mostyn Hall, near Holywell, Flintshire, Wales, the MS possibly acquired by Sir Roger Mostyn (1567-1642) or by his son Sir Roger Mostyn, first Baronet (1625?-90). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 191.
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Mostyn MS’: RnT Δ 11. Recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 356. Edited in Howard H. Thompson, An Edition of Two Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Poetical Miscellanies (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Pennsylvania, 1959) [Mic 59-4669].
pp. 3-4
• RnT 71: Thomas Randolph, A Dialogue. Thirsis. Lalage (‘My Lalage when I behold’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 84-5.
pp. 5-10
• RnT 270: Thomas Randolph, A Pastorall Courtship (‘Behold these woods, and mark my Sweet’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 109-15. Davis, pp. 77-91.
pp. 11-16
• RnT 83: Thomas Randolph, An Eglogue to Mr Johnson (‘Under this Beech why sit'st thou here so sad’)
Copy, headed ‘An Eglogue to his worthy father Mr Ben Jonson by T. Rand.’
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 104-9.
p. 17
• DaJ 55: Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion (‘Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’)
Copy, headed ‘A Rustick Gallants wooing’ and here beginning ‘Faire wench, I cannot court thy sprightlike eye’.
First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (‘Middleborugh’ [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.
p. 18
• KiH 85: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)
Copy, headed ‘The answer of the Fayre Boy to the black Maide’.
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).
p. 19
• KiH 183: Henry King, An Elegy Upon Prince Henryes Death (‘Keep station Nature, and rest Heaven sure’)
Copy, headed ‘On prince Henries death’.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 65.
pp. 20-4
• RnT 183: Thomas Randolph, An Ode to Mr. Anthony Stafford to hasten him into the Country (‘Come spurre away’)
Copy, headed ‘T. Randolphs Ode to Captaine Stafford, to hasten him into the Country’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 79-82.
p. 24
• DrM 30: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)
Copy.
First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.
pp. 25-6
• RnT 93: Thomas Randolph, An Elegie (‘Love, give me leave to serve thee, and be wise’)
Copy, headed ‘To his chast Mistresse. T. R.’
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 66-7.
pp. 26-7
• RnT 89: Thomas Randolph, An Elegie (‘Heav'n knowes my Love to thee, fed on desires’)
Copy, headed ‘To his faire Mistresse incens'd vpon a mistake. T. Rand.’
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 95-6.
pp. 27-9
• RnT 104: Thomas Randolph, An Elegie upon the Lady Venetia Digby (‘Death, who'ld not change prerogatives with thee’)
Copy, headed ‘An Elegy. On the incomparable beauteous ladye Mada Venetia Digbie. by T.R.’
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 52-3.
pp. 29-31
• ShJ 115: 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 ‘Faire fare ye Muses which in well-chim'd verse’.
First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, pp. 7-8.
pp. 31-2
• CoR 496: Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 (‘Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke’)
Copy, here ascribed to ‘W. Stroud’.
First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.
pp. 33-4
• WoH 122: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)
Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘Sr H. Wotton on ye L. Elizabeth when she was first crown'd Q: of Bohemia’ and here beginning ‘Yee glorious trifles of ye East’.
The text followed on pp. 34-5 by a Latin version.
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.
p. 35
• StW 408: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)
Copy, headed ‘On a gentlewoman that sung exquisitly’.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.
p. 36
• WoH 195: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on a Gentlewoman who died for greife within a few daies after her husband’.
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.
pp. 36-7
• StW 297: William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe (‘Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill’)
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewomans blistred lipp’.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.
pp. 37-8
• StW 536: William Strode, On Sir Thomas Savil dying of the smal Pox (‘Take, greedy Death, a Body here intoomd’)
Copy.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 86-7. Forey, p. 124.
pp. 38-9
• RnT 375: Thomas Randolph, Upon the losse of his little finger (‘Arithmetique nine digits, and no more’)
Copy, headed ‘T. Randolph vpon the loss of his little finger that was cut of’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 56-7.
pp. 39-40
• CwT 294: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)
Copy, headed ‘The Flye’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).
p. 41
• StW 111: William Strode, An Epitaph on Mistress Mary Nedham (‘As Sin makes grosse the Soule and thickens it’)
Copy, headed ‘On Mrs Mary Neadham’.
First published in E. V. Lucas, [unspecified publication cited in Dobell, printing from an untraced ‘MS book of poems of Catherine Anwill’]. Dobell (1907), p. 57. Forey, pp. 128-9.
pp. 41-3
• StW 501: William Strode, On Faireford windores (‘I know noe paint of Poetry’)
Copy.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 25-7. Forey, pp. 7-10.
pp. 43-4
• CoR 708: Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes (‘Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse’)
Copy, headed ‘On the same [i.e. Fairford Windows] by Ric. Corbett’.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.
p. 44
• StW 429: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman who escapd the marks of the Pox (‘A Beauty smoother then an Ivory plaine’)
Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that had ye small poxe’.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 272. Dobell, p. 49. Forey, p. 15.
pp. 44-5
• StW 140: 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 ‘On a Gentleman who kissing his Mrs at his departure from England left blood upon her’.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.
p. 45
• KiH 460: Henry King, My Midd-night Meditation (‘Ill busy'd Man! why should'st thou take such care’)
Copy, headed ‘Of Mans misery’ and here ascribed to ‘Dr John King’.
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.
pp. 45-6
• MoG 43: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)
Copy, headed ‘On the death of King James’, subscribed ‘Geo. Morley’.
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.
pp. 46-7
• CwT 91: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)
Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs Amatoria’ and here ascribed to J. Donne.
First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.
pp. 47-8
• CwT 590: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)
Copy, headed ‘A sigh’.
First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.
p. 48
• CwT 833: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘Harke how my Celia, with the choyce’)
Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs singing in a Gallery at Yorke house’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 38.
pp. 50-3
• CwT 1018: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.
pp. 53-4
• PoW 67: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’
Copy, headed ‘To Mrs Beate Poole daughter to ye L. Chaundois in defence of her black haire’.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS G).
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. 54-6
• StW 590: 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.
pp. 57-60
• KiH 240: Henry King, An Elegy Upon the most victorious King of Sweden Gustavus Adolphus (‘Like a cold Fatall Sweat which ushers Death’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on Gustavus Adolphus Kinge of Sweden’.
First published in The Swedish Intelligencer, Third Part (London, 1633). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 77-81.
p. 61
• RnT 214: Thomas Randolph, On the Death of a Nightingale (‘Goe solitary wood, and henceforth be’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 93.
pp. 61-2
• RnT 119: Thomas Randolph, An Epitaph upon Mrs. I.T. (‘Reader if thou hast a teare’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epitath upon Mrs JT’.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 53.
p. 62
• RnT 115: Thomas Randolph, An Epitaph upon his honour'd freind Mr. Warre (‘Here lyes the knowing head, the honest heart’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 56.
p. 63
• RnT 64: Thomas Randolph, A Dialogue betwixt a Nymph and a Shepheard (‘Why sigh you swain? this passion is not comon’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 85-6.
p. 64
• RnT 203: Thomas Randolph, On Sr Robert Cotton the Antiquary (‘Posterity hath many fates bemoan'd’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 95.
p. 64
• RnT 286: Thomas Randolph, A Pastoral Ode (‘Coy Coelia dost thou see’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 86-7.
p. 65
• RnT 294: Thomas Randolph, A Song (‘Musick thou Queene of soules, get up and string’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 87.
p. 65
• RnT 306: Thomas Randolph, The Song of Discord (‘Let Linus and Amphions lute’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 87.
p. 66
• DrM 47: Michael Drayton, ‘Since to obtaine thee, nothing me will sted’
Copy, headed ‘Drayton his remedie for Loue’.
First published, as sonnet 15 of Idea, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 318 (sonnet 15).
pp. 67-9
• RnT 25: Thomas Randolph, An answer to Mr Ben Johnson's Ode to perswade him not to leave the stage (‘Ben doe not leave the stage’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 82-4. Davis, pp. 63-76.
For the poem by Ben Jonson, which appears with Randolph's ‘answer’ in many of the MSS, see JnB 367-81.
p. 70
• RnT 112: Thomas Randolph, Epigram 47: ex decimo Libro Martialis (‘These are things that being possest’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 88.
p. 70
• RnT 318: Thomas Randolph, To one Overhearing his private discourse (‘I wonder not my Laeda farre can see’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 88.
p. 71
• RnT 204: Thomas Randolph, On Sr Robert Cotton the Antiquary (‘Posterity hath many fates bemoan'd’)
Second copy.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 95.
p. 71
• RnT 321: Thomas Randolph, To the Vertuous and noble Lady, the Lady Cotton (‘Tis not to force more teares from your sad eye’)
Copy.
First published in Parentalia spectatissimo Rolando Cottono (London, 1635), sig. E2. Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 89.
p. 72
• RnT 309: Thomas Randolph, The Song of Orpheus (‘Haile sacred Deserts, whom kind nature made’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 125.
pp. 72-4
• RnT 263: Thomas Randolph, A parley with his empty Purse (‘Purse, who'l not know you have a Poets been’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 127-8.
p. 75
• CwT 672: Thomas Carew, The second Rapture (‘No worldling, no, tis not thy gold’)
Copy, headed ‘Summu bonu Petronianu’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 103-4.
p. 76
• KiH 86: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)
Second copy, headed ‘The 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).
p. 77
• BrW 147: William Browne of Tavistock, On One Born Blind, and so Dead (‘Who (but some one like thee) could ever say’)
Copy, headed ‘On one yt was borne blind and died blind’.
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 148.
p. 77
• CwT 295: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)
Second copy, headed ‘The flye’ and here beginning ‘While this flye livd…’.
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. 78
• DnJ 2939: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)
Copy of a version of lines 1-6, headed ‘Another’, here beginning ‘Catch me but a fallege starre’, and ascribed to ‘Cherbery’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
p. 78
• BrW 138: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor (‘Nature in this small volume was about’)
Copy, headed ‘On a Gent womans death’.
First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.
pp. 81-2
• PoW 68: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’
Copy, headed ‘On A Blacke Mres’.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS H).
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. 84
• CwT 1267: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)
Copy, headed ‘To A Chaste Mres’.
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. 86
• StW 1383: 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.
p. 88
• CwT 591: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)
Second copy, also headed ‘A Sigh’.
First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.
p. 90
• JnB 28: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph (‘See the Chariot at hand here of Love’)
Copy of lines 21-30, headed ‘A Songe’ and here beginning ‘Haue you seene the white Lillye Growe’.
First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning ‘Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light’) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).
pp. 93-4
• CoR 684: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him (‘Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold’)
Copy, headed ‘On Mres Mallett’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.
pp. 97-8
• StW 224: William Strode, A Letter impos'd (‘Goe, happy paper, by commande’)
Copy.
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. 101-16
• CoR 309: 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.
pp. 120-1
• CoR 276: Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem (‘Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on’)
Copy, headed ‘Dr: Corbett to Dr: Pryce touchinge his Anniversaryes’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 8-9.
The poem is usually followed in MSS by Dr Daniel Price's ‘Answer’ (‘So to dead Hector boyes may doe disgrace’), and see also CoR 227-46.
p. 122
• CoR 244: Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum (‘Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory’)
Copy of lines 17-30, headed ‘The Replye’ and here beginning ‘But for a Cobler to goe burne his Cappe’.
First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.
For related poems see CoR 247-78.
pp. 125-7
• RnT 175: Thomas Randolph, A Maske for Lydia (‘Sweet Lydia take this maske, and shroud’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 126-7.
MS 243/4
An oblong quarto verse miscellany, in a single neat hand, written with the volume tilted with the spine to the top, 167 pages (plus blanks), in elaborately tooled green morocco gilt. Including ten poems by Carew and twelve poems by Strode (and two poems of doubtful authorship). c.1634.
The initials ‘M W’ stamped on each cover: i.e. M[aidstone] and W[inchilsea]. Evidently compiled by or for Sir Thomas Finch, Viscount Maidstone and Earl of Winchilsea (who succeeded to the peerage in 1633 and died in 1634). A.S.W. Rosenbach's sale catalogue English Poetry to 1700 (1941), item 190.
The MS came to Rosenbach with a printed exemplum of William Wishcart, An Exposition of the Lord's Prayer (London, 1633), and the two clearly share the same provenance. The printed volume is similarly bound, with the initials ‘M W’; it is inscribed ‘Lord Winchilsea for Mr Locker 1634’; it bears the late 17th-century signatures of Stephen Locker and Alexander Campbell, and the bookplates of Captain William Locker (1731-1800) and Edward Hawke Locker (1777-1849).
Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Winchelsea MS’: CwT Δ 33 and StW Δ 25.
p. 1
• DaJ 56: Sir John Davies, A Lover out of Fashion (‘Faith (wench) I cannot court thy sprightly eyes’)
Copy, headed ‘To a Mistresse, from a Captaine’ and here beginning ‘Faire Sweete, I cannot coorte thy sprightly eyes’.
This MS partly collated in Krueger.
First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (‘Middleborugh’ [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, p. 180.
p. 1
• DaJ 66: Sir John Davies, No Muskie Courtier (‘Sweet wench I love thee, yet I wil not sue’)
Copy, headed ‘A Liftennant to his Mistresse’ and here beginning ‘In faith I loue thee, but I cannot sue’.
This MS collated in Krueger.
First published in Epigrammes and Elegies (‘Middleborugh’ [i.e. London?] [1595-6?]). Krueger, pp. 180-1.
p. 3
• PeW 196: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)
Copy, headed ‘On his Mistres beeing to yonge’, subscribed ‘Walton Poole’.
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. 3
• HrJ 89: Sir John Harington, In Romam (‘Hate, and debate, Rome through the world hath spread’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epigram of Rome’.
First published in 1618, Book IV, No. 92. McClure No. 346, p. 286. Authorship uncertain.
p. 4
• CmT 81: Thomas Campion, ‘Silly boy, 'tis ful Moone yet, thy night as day shines clearely’
Copy, headed ‘An aduice to a yonge louer’.
First published in The Third and Fourth Booke of Ayres (London, [c.1617]), Book III, No. xxvi. Davis, p. 162.
p. 7
• FoJ 10: John Ford, The Lover's Melancholy, III, ii. Song (‘They that will learn to drink a health in hell’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epigram of Tobackoe’ and here beginning ‘Hee that will learne to drink a helth in hell’.
Dyce, I, 66. Bang, p. 67 (lines 1629-33).
p. 7
• RaW 539: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’
Copy, headed ‘A Songe’.
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).
p. 9
• JnB 29: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph (‘See the Chariot at hand here of Love’)
Copy of lines 21-30, headed ‘On thy Lady Percy’ and here beginning ‘Haue you seene the bright-Lilly growe’.
First published (all ten poems) in The Vnder-wood (ii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 131-42 (pp. 134-5). Lines 11-30 of poem 4 (beginning ‘Doe but looke on her eyes, they do light’) first published in The Devil is an Ass, II, vi, 94-113 (London, 1631).
p. 13
• BmF 128: Francis Beaumont, On Madam Fowler desiring a sonnet to be writ on her (‘Good Madam Fowler, do not trouble me’)
Copy, headed ‘An Eppigram of an vgly creature, that desired to haue a Sonnett wright of her’ and ascribed to ‘Francis Beaumont’.
First published in Alexander B. Grosart, ‘Literary Finds in Trinity College, Dublin, and Elsewhere’, ES, 26 (1899), 1-19 (p. 8).
p. 15
• HrJ 207: 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 Purytan Maide’ and here beginning ‘A vertuous 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. 16-17
• CmT 190.5: Thomas Campion, A Ballad (‘Dido was the Carthage Queene’)
Copy, headed ‘Counsell, not for men to bee constant, a Songe’.
First published in George Mason & John Earsden, The Ayres That Were Sung and Played, at Brougham Castle in Westmerland, in the Kings Entertainment (London, 1618). Davis, p. 467.
p. 17
• HrJ 157: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that left open her Cabbinett (‘A vertuose Lady sitting in a muse’)
Copy, headed ‘A Knight to his Lady beeing in a muse’.
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. 19
• BrW 26: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Deep are the wounds which strike a virtuous name’
Copy, headed ‘On his Mrs disdaine’ and here ascribed to ‘John Donne’.
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 24.
p. 19
• BrW 56: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Give me three kisses, Phillis. if not three’
Copy.
First published in Brydges (1815), p. 131.
p. 20
• CwT 433: Thomas Carew, Loves Courtship (‘Kisse lovely Celia and be kind’)
Copy, headed ‘A perswasion to a Maide’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 107-8.
p. 21
• DnJ 2940: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)
Copy, headed ‘On faire Creatures’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
p. 24
• DrM 31: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)
Copy, headed ‘A louers inquest after his heart’ and here beginning ‘Some good folke for loue, or hire’.
First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.
pp. 26-7
• HeR 327.2: Robert Herrick, ‘Hide not thy love and mine shall be’
Copy, headed ‘To his loue’.
First published in Aurelian Townshend's poems and Masks, ed. E. K. Chambers (Oxford, 1912), pp. 28-32. The Poems and Masques of Aurelian Townshend, ed. Cedric R. Brown (Reading, 1983), pp. 34-41 (Version One, First Part, pp. 35-7; Second Part pp. 35-7; Version Two, pp. 38-41). Ascribed to Herrick in several MSS.
p. 27
• HeR 301: Robert Herrick, Advice to a Maid (‘Love in thy youth fayre Mayde bee wise’)
Copy, headed ‘To his loue’.
First published, in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Airs (London, 1632). Martin, p. 443 (in his section ‘Not attributed to Herrick hitherto’). Not included in Patrick.
pp. 38-9
• SuJ 109: John Suckling, The guiltless Inconstant (‘My first Love whom all beauty did adorn’)
Copy, headed ‘The answer to it’, subscribed ‘Walton Poole’.
This MS collated in Clayton.
First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 90-1.
Probably written by Walton Poole.
p. 39
• B&F 185: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Valentinian, V, ii, 13-22. Song (‘Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes’)
Copy, headed ‘A wish to his discontented freinde’.
Dyce, V, 297. Bullen, IV, 302. Bowers, IV, 360-1.
p. 42
• DnJ 1380: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
p. 43
• DnJ 1549: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)
Copy, headed ‘(Beeing forced to trauell) hee gaue his loue his Picture, and these lines’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published as ‘Elegie V’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as ‘Elegie V’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.
p. 45
• DnJ 209: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)
Copy, headed ‘His Aparition (after death) to his scornefull loue’.
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. 46
• StW 1302: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)
Copy, headed ‘A Sonnett’.
First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
p. 47
• DnJ 323: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)
Copy, headed ‘To his Mres on fishing’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612). Grierson, I, 46-7. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 27.
p. 48
• WoH 123: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Queene of Bohemya’, here beginning ‘Ye twinckling Starrrs, that in the night’ and ascribed to ‘Sr John Harrington’.
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.
p. 49
• RaW 282: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)
Copy, headed ‘On life’ and here ascribed to ‘John Donne’.
This MS recorded in Latham, pp. 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.
p. 54
• PeW 118: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘'Tis Love breeds Love in me, and cold Disdain’
Copy, headed ‘To his coye loue’ and here beginning ‘Twas loue bred loue in mee, and colde disdaine’.
Poems (1660), pp. 4-5, superscribed ‘R’. Krueger, p. 3, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.
p. 55
• PeW 50: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘If her disdain least change in you can move’
Copy, headed ‘His rivalls answer’.
First published in 1635. Poems (1660), pp. 3-5, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, p. 2, among ‘Poems by Pembroke and Rudyerd’.
p. 55
• B&F 69: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, Love's Cure, III, ii, 118-225. Song (‘Turn, turn thy beauteous face away’)
Copy, headed ‘To his loue’.
This MS collated in Williams, p. 108.
First published in Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1647). Dyce, IX, 105-95 (p. 149). Bowers, III, 12-93, ed. George Walton Williams (p. 48). This setting first published in John Wilson, Cheerfull Ayres (Oxford, 1659).
p. 58
• CwT 1005: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)
Copy, headed ‘To his Mrs, nice in the busines’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.
pp. 59-61
• CwT 103: Thomas Carew, The Complement (‘O my deerest I shall grieve thee’)
Copy, headed ‘Hee tolde his Mrs what hee loued her for’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 99-101.
p. 63
• CwT 1060: Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris (‘Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)’)
Copy, headed ‘His answer to his Mrs lines’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 110.
p. 68
• CwT 1005.5: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)
Copy of lines 37-48, headed ‘To his Mrs in a more careless fation’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.
p. 69
• CwT 927: Thomas Carew, Song. To her againe, she burning in a Feaver (‘Now she burnes as well as I’)
Copy, headed ‘Shee yeeldes, and hee seemes conscious’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 34-5.
p. 69
• CwT 946: Thomas Carew, Song. To my Mistris, I burning in love (‘I burne, and cruell you, in vaine’)
Copy, headed ‘Hee beeing resolute his Mrs grewe kinde againe; and then gaue her these lines’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 34.
pp. 70-1
• KiH 368: Henry King, The Farwell (‘Farwell fond Love, under whose childish whipp’)
Copy, headed ‘Her farewell to loue’.
First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 150.
See also B&F 121-2.
p. 71
• StW 895: William Strode, A song (‘Thoughts doe not vexe me while I sleepe’)
Copy.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Forey, p. 209.
p. 72
• DnJ 2320: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)
Copy, headed ‘Shee continuing in her disdainefull behauior, hee desiers to bee released’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
p. 73
• DnJ 466: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)
Copy, headed ‘At last they enioye one the other, but his business enforseth him to make an early hast, Her lines vpon it’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
p. 73
• DnJ 2980: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)
Copy, headed ‘At the next enioyment shee quits his rizing with an erlyer. His lines’.
This MS collated in Doughtie, pp. 610-11.
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.
p. 80
• PoW 69: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’
Copy, headed ‘In Comendation of black-eyes’ and subscribed ‘Wallton Poole’.
This MS collated in Wolf (as MS D).
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. 82-3
• StW 1098: William Strode, To a Gentlewoman with Black Eyes, for a Frinde (‘Noe marvaile, if the Suns bright Eye’)
Copy, headed ‘In commendations of black-eyes’.
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.
p. 85
• CoR 709: Richard Corbett, Upon Faireford Windowes (‘Tell mee, you Anti-Saintes, why glasse’)
Copy.
First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 87.
p. 86
• StW 493: William Strode, On Faireford windores (‘I know noe paint of Poetry’)
Copy.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 25-7. Forey, pp. 7-10.
p. 89
• CwT 1267.8: 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. 94
• ToA 36: Aurelian Townshend, A Paradox (‘There is no Lover, hee or shee’)
Copy, headed ‘Loues immutability’.
First published in Chambers (1912), pp. 33-5. Brown, pp. 30-1.
p. 96
• BrW 21.5: William Browne of Tavistock, Britannia's Pastorals, Book III, Song 1, lines 463-92 (‘Love! when I met her first whose slave I am’)
Copy, headed ‘To the God of loue’.
p. 100
• MoG 76: George Morley, On the Nightingale (‘My limbs were weary and my head oppressed’)
Copy, headed ‘Of a Nightingall’, subscribed ‘George Marckham’.
p. 101
• MoG 99: George Morley, Upon the drinking in a Crown of a Hatt (‘Well fare those three that where there was a dearth’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon three that dranke in the croune of a Hatt, for want of a Cupp’, subscribed ‘George Morly’.
p. 104
• BrW 71.5: William Browne of Tavistock, On a faire Lady, that songe admirably (‘Hee that to the voyce is neere’)
Copy, subscribed ‘Willyam Browne’.
Unpublished. Authorship uncertain.
p. 105
• StW 388: William Strode, On a Gentlewoman that sung, and playd upon a Lute (‘Bee silent, you still Musicke of the sphears’)
Copy, headed ‘On the same’.
First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.
p. 105
• StW 850: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)
Copy, headed ‘On the same’.
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. 110-11
• CwT 566: Thomas Carew, A prayer to the Wind (‘Goe thou gentle whispering wind’)
Copy, headed ‘An others fancy of the same’ and here beginning ‘Goe thou gentle whistling wind’.
First published in Poems (1640) and in Poems: written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 11-12.
pp. 112-13
• WoH 172: Sir Henry Wotton, To J: D: from Mr H: W: (‘'Tis not a coate of gray or Shepherds life’)
Copy, headed ‘To his freind on solitarines’.
First published in Herbert J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to Certain other Poems’, MLR, 6 (1911), 145-56 (p. 155).
p. 113
• PeW 81: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of Friendship (‘Friendship on Earth we may as easily find’)
Copy, headed ‘On friendeship’.
This MS recorded in Krueger.
Poems (1660), p. 48, but without attribution. Krueger, pp. 41-2, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’.
pp. 114-16
• StW 353: William Strode, On a Dissembler (‘Could any shew where Pliny's people dwell’)
Copy, here beginning ‘Can any shewe…’.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 33-4. Forey pp. 42-3.
p. 116
• StW 1369: William Strode, Upon the blush of a faire Ladie (‘Stay, lustie bloud, where canst thou seeke’)
Copy, headed ‘To a Mistres. a Songe’.
First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, pp. 39-40. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.
p. 119
• CwT 694: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)
Copy, headed ‘To his Mistres’ and here beginning ‘Thinke not sweete loue yt Ile reveal’.
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. 120-2
• BrW 233.8: William Browne of Tavistock, One that was iealous that an other loued his Mistres (‘Hee that woulde my Mistres knowe’)
Copy, subscribed ‘Mr Willyam Browne’.
Unpublished. Authorship uncertain.
p. 122
• BrW 237: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Poor silly fool! thou striv'st in vain to know’
Copy, headed ‘The answer to the ialous man’, here ascribed to ‘Willyam Stroude’.
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 26-7.
p. 123
• StW 372: William Strode, On a freind's absence (‘Come, come, I faint: thy heavy stay’)
Copy, headed ‘The ialous mans replye’.
First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1650). Dobell, p. 13. Forey, pp. 95-6.
pp. 124-5
• JnB 186: 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 ‘A Picture’.
First published (Nos. 3 and 4) in John Benson's 4to edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and (all poems) in The Vnder-wood (lxxxiv) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 272-89 (pp. 275-7).
p. 128
• CwT 257: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)
Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on a Flye, drounde in Caelias 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. 129
• CwT 1143: Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse (‘Fayre copie of my Celia's face’)
Copy, headed ‘On Caeleas like-beauty’.
First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.
pp. 130-1
• DnJ 3762: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)
Copy, headed ‘A louer intending to travell’.
This MS recorded in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
p. 133
• StW 765: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)
Copy, headed ‘It snow'd as Cloris walked’.
First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Dobell, p. 41. Forey, pp. 76-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (pp. 445-6), and see Mary Hobbs, ‘Early Seventeenth-Century Verse Miscellanies and Their Value for Textual Editors’, EMS, 1 (1989), 182-210 (pp. 199, 209).
p. 134
• StW 173: William Strode, In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)
Copy.
First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 2-3. Four Poems by William Strode (Flansham, Bognor Regis, 1934), pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 196-7. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
p. 135
• StW 916: William Strode, Song (‘When Orpheus sweetly did complaine’)
Copy, headed ‘On the same subiect’.
First published in Poems: Written by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640). Dobell, pp. 1-2. Forey, pp. 79-80. The poem also discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Notes on some Poems attributed to William Strode’, PQ, 34 (1955), 444-8 (p. 445).
pp. 136-9
• StW 1241: William Strode, Westwell Elme (‘Prethe stand still a while, and view this Tree’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon Westwell greate-Elme, standing at good-man Berryesgate, at the Farme; within two miles of Burforde in Oxforde-shire; beeing the drinking-Tree at Whitsontide’.
First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 21-4. Forey, pp. 1-5.
pp. 140-1
• CwT 355.5: Thomas Carew, In praise of his Mistris (‘You, that will a wonder know’)
Copy, headed ‘The description of his loue’, here ascribed to ‘Henry Hammon’.
First published in Poems (1651). Dunlap, p. 122.
pp. 142-4
• GrJ 42: John Grange, ‘Come you swarms of thoughts and bring’
Copy, headed ‘A discontented louer’, subscribed ‘John Done’.
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.
p. 145
• FeO 63: Owen Felltham, This ensuing Copy the late Printer hath been pleased to honour, by mistaking it among those of the most ingenious and too early lost, Sir John Suckling (‘When, dearest, I but think on thee’)
Copy, headed ‘To his loue’, here beginning ‘When (deare) I doe but thinke on thie’, subscribed ‘John Done’.
Fitst published in The Last Remains of Sr John Suckling (London, 1659), pp. 32-3. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 48-9.
pp. 150-2
• HeR 188: Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast (‘A Little mushroome table spred’)
Copy, headed ‘The Pharyes Supper’ and without the preliminary lines.
First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning ‘Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State’, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled ‘A Description of his Dyet’, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.
pp. 152-4
• HeR 352: Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing (‘When the monethly horned Queene’)
Copy, headed ‘The Pharyes clothing’ and here ascribed to ‘Sr Simion Steward’.
This MS collated in Farmer.
First published, as ‘A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes’ and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr., ‘Robert Herrick and “King Oberon's Clothing”: New Evidence for Attribution’, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, ‘Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward’, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.
p. 155
• HeR 98: Robert Herrick, The Curse. A Song (‘Goe perjur'd man. and if thou ere return’)
Copy, headed ‘A curse to a falce loue’.
This MS 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).
p. 156
• HeR 21: Robert Herrick, The admonition (‘Seest thou those Diamonds which she weares’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpon a scornefull Ladyes dres of haire (with Jewells) written by waye of aduice to a puny louer’ and here beginning ‘Seest thou those Rubyes...’.
First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 130-1. Patrick, p. 177.
p. 157
• StW 280: 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.
p. 159
• BrW 24: William Browne of Tavistock, Caelia. Sonnets, Sonnet 14 (‘Divinest Caelia, send no more to ask’)
Copy, headed ‘One that was sick, to a lady that sent to see howe hee did’.
Unpublished?
p. 161
• RnT 523: Thomas Randolph, On the Goodwife's Ale (‘When shall we meet again and have a taste’)
Copy, subscribed ‘Sr Thomas Jaye’.
First published, anonymously, in Witts Recreations Augmented (London, 1641), sig. Y5v. Francis Beaumont, Poems (London, 1653), sig. M8v. 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.
pp. 166-7
• BrW 253: William Browne of Tavistock, ‘Ye merry birds, leave of to sing’
Copy, headed ‘His sorrowe in beeing forsaken’.
First published in Brydges (1815), pp. 32-4.
MS 243/8
Quarto MS volume originally used by Butler comprising his autograph English-French dictionary and transcripts of a large amount of miscellaneous verse and prose from Butler's autograph MSS. 4°, 184 leaves; MS volume originally used by Butler, the first 81 leaves (after preliminaries: i.e. ff. [iv-lxxxiv]) comprising his autograph English-French dictionary, arranged alphabetically from A to L in double columns; the volume bequeathed to William Longueville (1639-1721) and the remaining blank leaves subsequently used by him as a commonplace book, incorporating, together with notes and extracts from other works, his selective transcripts of a large amount of miscellaneous verse and prose from Butler's autograph MSS; transcribed partly from BuS 5 (about 250 passages of prose and some verse), partly from ‘lost’ MSS (about 180 passages of prose and some verse); consisting of approximately 430 prose passages (including a few Characters), together with a number of verse passages, under the following headings: ‘France and the French’, ‘Creacon’, ‘Antiquity & Antiquary’, ‘Vnderstanding’, ‘Wisdome’, ‘Assent’, ‘Writing’, ‘Learning’, ‘ye Soule’, ‘Poetry’, ‘Sin’, ‘Content’, ‘Anger’, ‘Cheating’, ‘Flattery’, ‘Misfortunes’, ‘Confidence’, ‘Lawyer’, ‘Law’, ‘Dueller’, ‘Thoughts’, ‘Life & Death’, ‘Death’, ‘Charity’, ‘Nature’, ‘Censure’, ‘Schoolmaster’, ‘ye People’, ‘ye King’, ‘Incongruous & Inconsistent Opinions’, ‘Marriage & women,’‘Obstinacy’, ‘ffaith’, ‘Drunkennesse’, ‘Idolatry’, ‘Reputation’, ‘Honour’, ‘Gratitude’, ‘Patria’, ‘Pleasure’, ‘Punishmt’, ‘Parents’, ‘Power’, ‘Pope’, ‘God’, ‘Popery’, ‘Priests’, ‘Preaching’, ‘Oppressor’, ‘Virtue and vice’, ‘Example’, ‘Ingenuity & Witt’, ‘Tragedy of Nero’ [i.e. extracts from the anonymous tragedy published in 1624], ‘History’, ‘Madnesse’, ‘Words’, ‘Governmt disorderd’, ‘Warr’, ‘Princes’, ‘Riches’, ‘ye World’, ‘Conversation’, ‘Patience’, ‘Pride’, ‘Lying’, ‘Love’, ‘Honesty’, ‘Truth’, ‘Talke’, ‘Prophesy’, ‘Religion’, ‘Christian Religion’, ‘Jews’, ‘Reformation’, ‘Atheist’, ‘Man’, ‘Immoderate desire of Knowledge’, ‘Passion’, ‘Reason’, ‘Conscientia’ and ‘Conscience’. c.1640s [-18th century].
*BuS 7: Samuel Butler, Remains
This volume bequeathed to William Longueville (1639-1721); later owned by Treadway Russell Nash (1725-1811), whose inscription of provenance is inside the upper cover; by his son-in-law John Somers Cocks, first Earl Somers (1760-1841); by P.J. and A.E. Dobell (in 1930); and by A.S.W. Rosenbach (item 135 in his catalogue [45] English Poetry to 1700 (1941); re-offered as item 130 in his catalogue [37] of 1947.
This MS is presumably that once (erroneously) described by Rosenbach as ‘Hudibras. The Original Manuscript. An early version’ in his [54] Catalogue of an Exhibition of Manuscripts and Rare Books January — February 1931, p. 15). This MS (once mistakenly believed to be in Butler's hand throughout) discussed and some passages edited by Norma E. Bentley in ‘Another Butler Manuscript’, MP, 46 (1948-9), 132-5, and in ‘“Hudibras” Butler Abroad’, MLN, 60 (1945), 254-9, and by De Quehen in Prose (esp. pp. lv-lx); also described in Nash (1793), I, xvi-xvii. Selected passages edited from this MS in Daves, pp. 329-30, and in De Quehen, Prose, pp. 247-303.
Facsimiles of ff. [94v-5r] (ff. 9v-10 of second foliation) 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. 45; of f. [1r] in De Quehen, Prose (frontispiece); and of f. 2r in DLB, 126 (1993), p. 36. Facsimile of two lines of verse [by Thomas Otway] also in Nash, I, xxxix.
MS 444/27
A quarto volume of verse and prose by or relating to Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex, iv + 39 leaves, in limp vellum. Chiefly in a single professional secretary hand, some verse written on the front and rear endpapers in a different hand. Early 17th century.
Bookplate of James W. Ellsworth.
ff. [12r-13r]
• EsR 90: 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 a fourteen-stanza version, untitled, subscribed ‘finis Essex’.
This MS 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.
ff. [20r-42r]
• EsR 144: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Apology
Copy, headed ‘To Mr Anthonie Bacon An Appollogie of the Earle of Essex againste those wch falselie & malitiously take him to be the onlie hindraunce of the peace & quiett of his countrye’, on leaves numbered 1-23.
First published, addressed to Anthony Bacon, as An Apologie of the Earle of Essex, against those which jealously and maliciously tax him to be the hinderer of the peace and quiet (London, [1600]), but immediately suppressed. Reprinted in 1603.
MS 810/25, [item 1]
Milton's counterpart of a mortgage deed between himself and Thomas Maundy for a lease to Milton of land in Kensington for the sum of £500, signed on Milton's behalf by Jeremie Picard, who also signed the verso as witness, 14 January 1657/8. 1658.
MnJ 105: John Milton, Document(s)
Discussed, with facsimiles of the ‘signature’, in James Holly Hanford, ‘The Rosenbach Milton Documents’, PMLA, 38 (1923), 290-6 [Plate 1]. Edited in LR, IV, 200-7.
MS 810/25, [item 2]
Tripartite indenture assigning the mortgage of 14 January 1657/8 to Jeremy Hamey in trust for Baldwin Hamey for the sum of £500, signed on Milton's behalf, 7 June 1665. 1665.
MnJ 110: John Milton, Document(s)
Discussed, with a facsimile of the ‘signature’, in Hanford, PMLA, 38 (1923), 290-6 [Plate 5]. Recorded in Columbia, XVIII, 626. Edited in LR, IV, 402-15.