Cod. Holm. A.781
Autograph calligraphic MS, iv + 8 leaves + 308 pages, in contemporary white silk over millboard embroidered. A presentation MS to Prince Henry, with a Dedication to him, in a small Roman script, with colour and gold decoration, a miniature, and a self-portrait. 15 September 1612.
*InE 40: Esther Inglis, [Psalms] Les Pseaumes de David. Escrit par Esther Inglis le xv de Sept: 1612
Later owned by Sophia Dorothea of Brandenburg, great-granddaughter of Prince Henry's sister, Elizabeth of Bohemia; then by Sophia Dorothea's daughter, Louisa Ulrica, who married Adolf Fredrik of Sweden in 1751.
Scott-Elliot & Yeo, No. 39 (pp. 69-70).
A French translation of the Psalms, the headings in Latin, with verses in French to Esther Inglis by ‘Velde’.
MS Vu. 69
A formal quarto miscellany, of poems on affairs of state, including 29 poems by Rochester, as well as apocryphal items, in three professional hands (A, pp. 1-278; B, pp. 279-84; C, pp. 285-314), 314 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary red morocco. c.1680.
Once owned by Count Carl Edward Gyldenstolpe (1770-1852) and perhaps originally acquired by Count Nils Gyldenstolpe (1642-1709), Swedish Ambassador at The Hague (in 1679-87).
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the Gyldenstolpe MS: RoJ Δ 14. A complete facsimile edition in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe (1967).
pp. 5-19
• RoJ 146: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (‘Chloe, In verse by your command I write’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.
pp. 21-34
• RoJ 295: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)
Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published (lines 1-173) as a broadside, A Satyr against Mankind [London, 1679]. Complete, with supplementary lines 174-221 (beginning ‘All this with indignation have I hurled’) in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 94-101. Walker, pp. 91-7, as ‘Satyr’. Love, pp. 57-63.
The text also briefly discussed in Kristoffer F. Paulson, ‘A Question of Copy-Text: Rochester's “A Satyr against Reason and Mankind”’, N&Q, 217 (May 1972), 177-8. Some texts followed by one or other of three different ‘Answer’ poems (two sometimes ascribed to Edward Pococke or Mr Griffith and Thomas Lessey: see Vieth, Attribution, pp. 178-9).
p. 35
• DoC 318: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Debauchee (‘I rise at eleven, I dine about two’)
Copy, headed ‘Regime d'viver’.
This MS collated in Walker, pp. 221-2.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). Vieth, Attribution, pp. 169-70. The Poems of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Keith Walker (Oxford, 1984), p. 130 (as ‘Regime d'viver’ among ‘Poems possibly by Rochester’). Discussed in Harris, pp. 186-7.
pp. 37-46
• RoJ 479: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Timon (‘What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach’)
Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘Text of “Timon”’.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as ‘Satyr. [Timon]’. Harold Love, ‘The Text of “Timon. A Satyr”’, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.
pp. 47-50
• RoJ 55: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee (‘As some brave admiral, in former war’)
Copy, headed ‘The Maim'd Drunkard’.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.
pp. 51-2
• RoJ 518: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's ‘Troades’, Act II, Chorus (‘After death nothing is, and nothing, death’)
Copy, headed ‘Seneca Troas’.
This MS collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as ‘Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour’.
pp. 53-7
• RoJ 109: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Imperfect Enjoyment (‘Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms’)
Copy, headed ‘The Disappointment’.
Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 37-40. Walker, pp. 30-2. Love, pp. 13-15.
pp. 61-2
• RoJ 559: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Leaving His Mistress (‘Tis not that I am weary grown’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 81. Walker, p. 37. Love, pp. 17-18.
pp. 63-9
• DoC 82: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel of the Crabs (‘In Milford Lane near to St. Clement's steeple’)
Copy, headed ‘A Duell Between Two Monsters upon my Lady Be-ts C-t’.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published, ascribed to Henry Savile, in The Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694 (London, 1694). Harris, pp. 118-23.
pp. 71-6
• RoJ 83: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems (‘Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound’)
Copy, headed ‘From E:R: to E:M.’.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.
pp. 77-86
• RoJ 280: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James's Park (‘Much wine had passed, with grave discourse’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.
pp. 87-8
• RoJ 550: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Drinking a Bowl (‘Vulcan, contrive me such a cup’)
Copy, headed ‘Nestor’.
Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 52-3. Walker, pp. 37-8. Love, pp. 41-2, as Nestor.
pp. 89-96
• BeA 6: Aphra Behn, The Disappointment (‘One day the Amorous Lysander’)
Copy, headed ‘The Imperfect Enjoyment’.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, by the Right Honourable, the E[arl] of R[ochester] (‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], 1680). Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 178-82. Todd, I, No. 28, pp. 65-9.
Discussed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 448-50.
pp. 97-101
• DoC 113: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Letter from the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. George Etherege (‘Dreaming last night on Mrs. Farley’)
Copy, under the general heading ‘Familliar Letters’.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). The Poems of Sir George Etherege, ed. James Thorpe (Princeton, 1963), pp. 35-7. Harris, pp. 105-8.
For other poems in this series see DoC 18-22, EtG 34-8, and EtG 39-43.
pp. 102-5
• EtG 37: Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to A Letter from Lord Buckhurst] (‘As crafty harlots use to shrink’)
Copy.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 38-9.
For other poems in this series, see EtG 39-43, DoC 18-22, and DoC 110-13.
pp. 107-12
• DoC 22: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Another Letter by the Lord Buckhurst to Mr. Etherege (‘If I can guess the Devil choke me’)
Copy, headed ‘Second Letter’.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). The Poems of Sir George Etherege, ed. James Thorpe (Princeton, 1963), pp. 40-2. Harris, pp. 112-14.
For other poems in this series see DoC 110-13, EtG 34-8, and EtG 39-43.
pp. 113-18
• EtG 42: Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to Another Letter from Lord Buckhurst] (‘So soft and amorously you write’)
Copy.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 43-5.
For other poems in this series, see EtG 34-8, DoC 18-22, and DoC 110-13.
pp. 119-22
• EtG 11: Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet (‘How far are they deceived who hope in vain’)
Copy.
First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.
pp. 123-6
• RoJ 612: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia (‘Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.
pp. 127-8
• RoJ 211: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Poet Ninny (‘Crushed by that just contempt his follies bring’)
Copy, headed ‘Poet Ninny’.
This MS collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 141-2. Walker, pp. 115-16. Love, pp. 107-8.
pp. 129-30
• RoJ 195: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, My Lord All-Pride (‘Bursting with pride, the loathed impostume swells’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published, as ‘Epigram upon my Lord All-pride’, in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 142-3. Walker, pp. 116-17. Love, pp. 93-4.
p. 132
• RoJ 189: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Mock Song (‘I swive as well as others do’)
Copy, headed ‘Answer’ and here beginning ‘I ffuck no more then others doe’.
Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 136-7. Walker, p. 110. Love, p. 102, as ‘Answer’ beginning ‘I Fuck no more then others doe’.
Texts usually accompanied by Sir Carr Scroope's song ‘I cannot change as others do’ (Love, pp. 101-2) of which Rochester's poem is a burlesque.
pp. 141-3
• RoJ 249: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr (‘To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's ‘Answer’ (‘Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me’: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).
pp. 145-52
• RoJ 18: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book (‘Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.
pp. 153-6
• RoJ 572: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)
Copy, headed ‘On Nothing’.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.
First published, as a broadside, [in London, 1679]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 118-20. Walker, pp. 62-4. Harold Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’, Centre for Bibliographical and Textual Studies, Monash University, Occasional Papers 1 (1985). Love, pp. 46-8.
pp. 157-8
• RoJ 205: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Mrs. Willis (‘Against the charms our ballocks have’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Vieth, in Walker, and in part in Love.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 137-8. Walker, pp. 44-5. Love, p. 37.
pp. 159-62
• RoJ 490: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To Love (‘O Love! how cold and slow to take my part’)
Copy, headed ‘Ovid...To Love’.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.
pp. 163-4
• RoJ 628: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Woman's Honor (‘Love bade me hope, and I obeyed’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 14. Walker, pp. 22-3. Love, p. 21.
pp. 165-6
• RoJ 467: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Submission (‘To this moment a rebel, I throw down my arms’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 15. Walker, pp. 18-19. Love, p. 22, as Song.
p. 167
• RoJ 389: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Give me leave to rail at you’)
Copy, headed ‘To Thirsis’, followed (p. 168) by Lady Rochester's ‘answer’.
This MS collated in Walker.
First published (first stanza only) in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Both stanzas in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). The second stanza only (beginning ‘Kindness has resistless Charms’) also in Valentinian (London, 1685). Vieth, pp. 10-11. Walker, pp. 20-1. Love, p. 18.
Some texts accompanied by Lady Rochester's ‘Answer’ to the poem (beginning ‘Nothing adds to love's fond fire’), her autograph of which is in University of Nottingham, Pw V 31, f. 15r. It is edited in Vieth, p. 10; in Walker, pp. 21-2, 154; in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (London, 1988), pp. 230-2; and in Love, pp. 18-19.
pp. 169-71
• RoJ 381: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 27-8. Walker, pp. 33-4. Love, pp. 39-40.
p. 173
• RoJ 175: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life (‘All my past life is mine no more’)
Copy.
Edited from this MS in Vieth and in part in Love. Collated in Walker.
First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.
p. 174
• RoJ 444: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘What cruel pains Corinna takes’)
Copy of stanzas 1, 2 and 4, headed ‘To Corinna’.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 31. Walker, p. 20, as ‘To Corinna. A Song’. Love, p. 20, as To Corinna.
p. 175
• RoJ 97: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Fall (‘How blest was the created state’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker. Facsimile in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 86. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 26.
p. 176
• RoJ 420: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Phyllis, be gentler, I advise’)
Copy, headed ‘Phillis’.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.
p. 177
• RoJ 454: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘While on those lovely looks I gaze’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 12-13. Walker, pp. 43-4. Love, pp. 26-7.
pp. 179-81
• SeC 104: Sir Charles Sedley, Song (‘In the Fields of Lincolns Inn’)
Copy.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], 1680). Possibly by Sedley: see David M. Vieth, Attribution in Restoration Poetry (New Haven & London, 1963), pp. 172-4, 404-5.
p. 182
• RoJ 412: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Love a woman? You're an ass!’)
Copy, headed ‘Love to a Woman’.
Edited in part from this MS in Love. Recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 51. Walker, p. 25. Love, p. 38, as ‘Love to a Woman’.
pp. 189-201
• DrJ 99: John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe (‘All humane things are subject to decay’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Vieth.
First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond, I, 313-36.
The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision’, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, ‘Dryden's Mac Flecknoe’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, ‘Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, ‘The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe’ in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.
pp. 237-44
• DoC 58: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Harris.
First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.
pp. 245-60
• DrJ 43.98: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)
Copy.
A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.
First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.
The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, ‘Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire’, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that ‘Mulgrave had by far the major hand’. Recorded in Hammond, V, 684, in an ‘Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition’.
pp. 285-94
• DoC 356.2: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)
Copy.
First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being ‘probably by the Ld Dorset’ in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.
pp. 295-8
• BeA 14: Aphra Behn, On the death of Mr. Grinhil, the Famous Painter (‘What doleful crys are these that fright my sence’)
Copy.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions, by the Right Honourable, the E[arl] of R[ochester] (‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], 1680). Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 151-3. Todd, I, No. 15, pp. 42-4.
Discussed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 451-2.