MS 38F22.01
A folio volume of four sermons preached in 1588, in a neat predominantly secretary hand, 67 leaves, in vellum. c.1588.
Bookplate of the Earl of Westmoreland, 1856.
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• AndL 6.8: Lancelot Andrewes, A sermon preached at the spittle by M Andrewes the wednesday in Easter weeke. April. 10. 1588
Copy.
Edited from this MS in McCullough, pp. 243-64.
First published, as ‘A Sermon Preached at Saint Maries Hospital, on the X. of April, being Wednesday in Easter-weeke, A.D. MDLXXXVIII’, in XCVI Sermons (London, 1629). Lancelot Andrewes, Selected Sermons and Lectures, ed. Peter McCullough (Oxford, 2005), pp. 40-81, 243-64.
MS 49. B. 43
A quarto volume of 99 poems by Donne, in a single hand, transcribed from the Dowden MS (Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 99), 165 leaves. c.1620-33.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the St Paul's MS: DnJ Δ 6.
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• DnJ 2728: John Donne, Satyre I (‘Away thou fondling motley humorist’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.
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• DnJ 2757: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.
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• DnJ 2790: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.
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• DnJ 2819: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.
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• DnJ 2853: John Donne, Satyre V (‘Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.
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• DnJ 361: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published, as ‘Eleg. XII. The Bracelet’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as ‘Elegie XI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.
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• DnJ 3159: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie 2d’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as ‘Elegie XIX. Going to Bed’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.
The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, ‘Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's “To his mistress going to bed”’, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.
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• DnJ 1672: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie. 3’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as ‘Elegie I’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.
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• DnJ 35: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie. 4’.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published as ‘Elegie II’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as ‘Elegie II’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
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• DnJ 611: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie 5’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as ‘Elegie III’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.
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• DnJ 2541: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie. 6’.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
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.
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• DnJ 1521: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie. 7’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and 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.
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• DnJ 1032: John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. (‘Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as ‘A Funeral Elegy’). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as ‘Elegia’.
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• DnJ 2435: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’
Copy, headed ‘Elegie 9’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as ‘Elegie VI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.
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• DnJ 2188: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie. 10’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in F. G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as ‘Elegie XX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.
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• DnJ 2492: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie 11’.
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.
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• DnJ 2326: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as ‘Elegie VII’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.
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• DnJ 2127: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.
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• DnJ 1055: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.
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• DnJ 999: John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.
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• DnJ 3333: John Donne, To Mr T.W. (‘At once, from hence, my lines and I depart’)
Copy, headed ‘An odd Letter’.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.
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• DnJ 3478: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.
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• DnJ 3051: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.
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• DnJ 538: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.
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• DnJ 3275: John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.
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• DnJ 3446: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.
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• DnJ 3426: John Donne, To Sr Henry Goodyere (‘Who makes the Past, a patterne for next yeare’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 183-4. Milgate, Satires, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 130.
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• DnJ 3394: John Donne, To Sr Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.
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• DnJ 3520: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘Reason is our Soules left hand, Faith her right’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 189-90. Milgate, Satires, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 134.
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• DnJ 3548: John Donne, To the Countesse of Bedford (‘You have refin'd mee, and to worthyest things’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 191-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 91-4. Shawcross, No. 137.
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• DnJ 1863: John Donne, A Letter to the Lady Carey, and Mrs Essex Riche, From Amyens (‘Here where by All All Saints invoked are’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 221-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 105-7. Shawcross, No. 142.
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• DnJ 3579: John Donne, To the Countesse of Salisbury. August. 1614 (‘Faire, great, and good, since seeing you, wee see’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 224-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 107-10. Shawcross, No. 145.
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• DnJ 760: John Donne, La Corona (‘Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise’)
Copy of the sequence of seven sonnets.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 318-21. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 1-5. Shawcross, No. 160.
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• DnJ 213: John Donne, ‘As due by many titles I resigne’
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 322 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. I’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 6. Shawcross, No. 162. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 5, 11, 21, 103 (in four sequences).
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• DnJ 2475: John Donne, ‘Oh, my blacke Soule! now thou art summoned’
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. II’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 323 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. IV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 163. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 21, 104 (in three sequences).
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• DnJ 3133: John Donne, ‘This is my playes last scene, here heavens appoint’
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 324 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 7. Shawcross, No. 164. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 7, 22, 105 (in three sequences).
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• DnJ 228: John Donne, ‘At the round earths imagin'd corners, blow’
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. IV’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 325 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. VII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 165. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 8, 14, 22, 106 (in four sequences).
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• DnJ 1614: John Donne, ‘If poysonous mineralls, and if that tree’
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. V’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. IX’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 8. Shawcross, No. 166. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 9, 15, 23, 107 (in four sequences).
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• DnJ 878: John Donne, ‘Death be not proud, though some have called thee’
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 326 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. X’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 167. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 10, 16, 23, 107 (in four sequences).
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• DnJ 3038: John Donne, ‘Spit in my face you Jewes, and pierce my side’
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 9. Shawcross, No. 168.
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• DnJ 3876: John Donne, ‘Why are wee by all creatures waited on?’
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 327 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 169.
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• DnJ 3865: John Donne, ‘What if this present were the worlds last night?’
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. IX’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XIII’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 10. Shawcross, No. 170.
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• DnJ 327: John Donne, ‘Batter my heart, three person'd God. for, you’
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. X’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 328 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XIV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 171. Variorum, 7, Pt 1 (2005), pp. 18, 25.
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• DnJ 3934: John Donne, ‘Wilt thou love God, as he thee! then digest’
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. XI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XV’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 11. Shawcross, No. 172.
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• DnJ 1291: John Donne, ‘Father, part of his double interest’
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Holy Sonnets. XII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 329 (as ‘Holy Sonnets. XVI’). Gardner, Divine Poems, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 173. Variorum, 7 Pt 1 (2005), pp. 6, 12, 26, 110 (in four sequences).
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• DnJ 779: John Donne, The Crosse (‘Since Christ embrac'd the Crosse it selfe, dare I’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 331-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 26-8. Shawcross, No. 181.
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• DnJ 131: John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion (‘Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 334-6. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 29-30 (as ‘Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608’). Shawcross, No. 183.
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• DnJ 1925: John Donne, The Litanie (‘Father of Heaven, and him, by whom’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.
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• DnJ 1412: John Donne, Goodfriday, 1613. Riding Westward (‘Let mans Soule be a spheare, and then, in this’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 336-7. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 185.
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• DnJ 2278: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)
Copy, headed ‘Songe’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
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• DnJ 290: John Donne, The Baite (‘Come live with mee, and bee my love’)
Copy, untitled.
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.
ff. 77r
• DnJ 172: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 47-8. Gardner, Elegies, p. 43. Shawcross, No. 28.
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• DnJ 477: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)
Copy, headed ‘Songe’.
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.
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• DnJ 1789: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.
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• DnJ 3715: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
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• DnJ 1437: 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.
f. 80r-v
• DnJ 2902: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)
Copy.
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.
f. 80v
• DnJ 3974: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.
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• DnJ 948: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as ‘Elegie X’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.
ff. 81v-2r
• DnJ 3092: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)
Copy, headed ‘Ad Solem’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.
f. 82r-v
• DnJ 1633: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)
Copy, headed ‘Songe’.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.
ff. 82v-3r
• DnJ 2164: John Donne, Loves Usury (‘For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.
f. 84r-v
• DnJ 3608: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)
Copy, headed ‘Songe’.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.
f. 85r-v
• DnJ 2232: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse (‘If yet I have not all thy love’)
Copy, untitled.
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.
ff. 85v-6r
• DnJ 2989: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)
Copy.
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.
f. 86r-v
• DnJ 1821: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.
ff. 83r-4r
• DnJ 577: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.
ff. 86v-7v
• DnJ 1310: John Donne, A Feaver (‘Oh doe not die, for I shall hate’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 21. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 61-2. Shawcross, No. 44.
ff. 87v-8r
• DnJ 8: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.
ff. 88r-v
• DnJ 419: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)
Copy, untitled.
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.
ff. 88v-9r
• DnJ 2624: John Donne, The Prohibition (‘Take heed of loving mee’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 67-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 39-40. Shawcross, No. 47.
ff. 89r-v
• DnJ 105: John Donne, The Anniversarie (‘All Kings, and all their favorites’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 24-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 71-2. Shawcross, No. 48.
ff. 89v-91r
• DnJ 3769: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.
ff. 91r-2r
• DnJ 245: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published, as ‘Elegie. The Autumnall’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as ‘Elegie IX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.
f. 92r-v
• DnJ 3644: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
f. 93r-v
• DnJ 1127: John Donne, Epitaph on Himselfe. To the Countesse of Bedford (‘That I might make your Cabinet my tombe’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (London, 1635). Grierson, I, 291-2. Milgate, Satires, p. 103. Shawcross, No. 147.
ff. 93v-5r
• DnJ 3800: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Gardner.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.
f. 95r-v
• DnJ 651: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.
ff. 95v-6r
• DnJ 2097: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)
Copy, headed ‘Springe’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.
ff. 96r-7r
• DnJ 2075: John Donne, Loves exchange (‘Love, any devill else but you’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 34-5. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 46-7. Shawcross, No. 55.
f. 97r-v
• DnJ 735: John Donne, Confined Love (‘Some man unworthy to be possessor’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 36. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 34-5. Shawcross, No. 56.
ff. 97v-8r
• DnJ 918: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Deare love, for nothing lesse then thee’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 37-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 79-80. Shawcross, No. 57.
f. 98r-v
• DnJ 3828: John Donne, A Valediction: of weeping (‘Let me powre forth’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 38-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 58.
ff. 98v-9r
• DnJ 1952: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)
Copy, headed ‘Mummie’.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.
ff. 99r-100r
• DnJ 1345: 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.
f. 100r-v
• DnJ 811: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.
ff. 100v-2v
• DnJ 1248: John Donne, The Extasie (‘Where, like a pillow on a bed’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 51-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 59-61. Shawcross, No. 62.
ff. 102v-3r
• DnJ 3690: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)
Copy, untitled.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.
f. 103r-v
• DnJ 1990: 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.
ff. 103v-4v
• DnJ 2028: 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.
ff. 104v-5v
• DnJ 3890: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)
Copy of a five-stanza version.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
ff. 105r-6r
• DnJ 1387: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner. Collated in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.
ff. 106r-7r
• DnJ 339: John Donne, The Blossoms (‘Little think'st thou, poore flower’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 59-60. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 87-8. Shawcross, No. 68.
f. 107r-v
• DnJ 2605: John Donne, The Primrose (‘Upon this Primrose hill’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 61-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 88-9. Shawcross, No. 69.
ff. 107v-8v
• DnJ 2682: John Donne, The Relique (‘When my grave is broke up againe’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 62-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 89-90. Shawcross, No. 70.
ff. 108v-9r
• DnJ 851: John Donne, The Dampe (‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.
ff. 109r-11v
• DnJ 1164: John Donne, An Epithalamion, Or mariage Song on the Lady Elizabeth, and Count Palatine being married on St. Valentines day (‘Haile Bishop Valentine, whose day this is’)
Copy.
This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 127-31. Shawcross, No. 107. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 6-10. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 108-10.
ff. 111v-17v
• DnJ 977: John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 (‘Unseasonable man, statue of ice’)
Copy.
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.
ff. 117v-23r
• DnJ 2412: John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford (‘Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee’)
Copy.
This MS collated in Shawcross. Recorded in Milgate.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.
MS 52. D. 14
A quarto volume, in two hands. 274 leaves, unnumbered. 1626-96.
Comprising:
[Part I, ff. 12r-168r], five sermons, the first four by Donne, in the hand of Knightley Chetwode, son of Richard Chetwode, of Chetwode, Buckinghamshire, and Oakley, Staffordshire. 1625/6.
[Part II, ff. 1r-78r rev.], a verse miscellany, produced when the original blank pages were later filled from the reverse end, probably by one Katherine Butler. 1696.
The volume inscribed as having been given to Katherine Butler by her father in May 1693.
Described in Potter & Simpson, I, 41-2.
Part I, ff. [3r-32r]
• DnJ 4027: John Donne, Sermon preached at Whitehall, April 30, 1620, on Psalms 144.15
Copy.
This MS collated in Potter & Simpson.
First published in LXXX Sermons (London, 1640), No. 74. Potter & Simpson, III, No. 2, pp. 73-90.
Part I, ff. [32v-60r]
• DnJ 4031: John Donne, Sermon preached before the King at Whitehall, February 16, 1620/21, on I Timothy 3.16
Copy.
This MS collated in Potter & Simpson.
First published in XXVI Sermons (London, 1661), No. 4. Potter & Simpson, III, No. 9, pp. 206-24.
Part I, ff. [80r-105r]
• DnJ 4034: John Donne, Sermon preached at the marriage of Mistress Margaret Washington, May 30, 1621, on Hosea 2.19
Copy.
This MS collated in Potter & Simpson.
First published in Six Sermons (Cambridge, 1634). Fifty Sermons (London, 1649), No. 3. Potter & Simpson, III, No. 11, pp. 241-55.
Part I, ff. [106r-77r]
• DnJ 4043: John Donne, Sermon preached at the Spittle, upon Easter Monday, 1622, on II Corinthians 4.6
Copy.
This MS collated in Potter & Simpson.
First published in XXVI Sermons (London, 1661), No. 25. Potter & Simpson, IV, No. 3, pp. 89-131.
Part II, [unnumbered pages]
• PsK 16: Katherine Philips, Against Pleasure. set by Dr Coleman (‘There's no such thing as pleasure here’)
Copy, headed ‘How slight, & trifling ye Pleasures of ye world’, docketed ‘Mrs Phillips. pag. 66. 67.’.
First published in Poems (1664), pp. 135-7. Poems (1667), pp. 66-8. Saintsbury, pp. 546-7. Thomas, I, 137-8, poem 47.
Part II, [unnumbered pages]
• PsK 97: Katherine Philips, A Friend (‘Love, nature's plot, this great Creation's soule’)
Copy of stanzas 2, 6, 7, 9, 11-15, headed ‘On Friendship’, here beginning ‘Friendship's an Abstract of yt nobler Flame’, and docketed ‘Mrs Philips Pag: ye 94, & 95. 96. 97 in her Poem see more at large’.
First published in Poems (1664), pp. 189-95. Poems (1667), pp. 94-7. Saintsbury, pp. 561-3. Thomas, I, 165-8, poem 64.
Part II, [unnumbered pages]
• WeJ 5: John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi
Copy of Bosola's couplet beginning ‘Glories (like glowe-wormes) afarre off, shine bright’ (IV, ii, 141-2), headed ‘of Glories’.
Lucas, II, 97.
First published in London, 1623. Lucas, II, 1-210. Cambridge edition, I, 467-575.
Part II, [unnumbered pages]
• BcF 300: Francis Bacon, In felicem memoriam Elizabethae, Angliae Reginae
Copy of an English translation, headed ‘The carracter of Queen Elizabeth. Written by way of Essay, by ye Ld Verulam’, on 21 pages
An English translation of this work first published in The Felicity of Queen Elizabeth: And Her Times (London, 1651).
First published in Opuscula varia, ed. William Rawley (London, 1658). Spedding, VI, 281-303. His translation pp. 305-18.
For the English translation by Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, see HrE 142.
Part II, [unnumbered pages]
• JnB 269: Ben Jonson, Horace his Art of Poetry (‘If to a Womans head a Painter would’)
Copy of lines 229-36, headed ‘In a Translation of Hor: The Young Gentlemans Life’ and beginning ‘Th unbearded Youth, his Guardian once being gone’.
First published in John Benson's 12mo edition of Jonson's poems (1640) and in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 297-355.
Part II, [unnumbered pages]
• SuJ 135: John Suckling, To Mr. W.M. Against Absence (‘Pedlar in love, that with the common Art’)
Copy, headed ‘Against Absence’.
First published in Sir William Davenant, Works (London, 1673). Clayton, p. 94. Sir William Davenant, The Shorter Poems and Songs from the Plays and Masques, ed. A.M. Gibbs (Oxford, 1972), pp. 133-4. Possibly written by Davenant.
Part II, f. [180r-v]
• DnJ 97: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)
Copy of lines 27-42, headed ‘Elegy II. That a Man ought not to chuse a Wife only upon ye account of Beauty’ and beginning ‘Love built on beauty, soone as beauty, dies’.
First published as ‘Elegie II’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as ‘Elegie II’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
Part II, f. [188v]
• DnJ 3571: John Donne, To the Countesse of Huntingdon (‘Man to Gods image. Eve, to mans was made’)
Copy of lines 49-52, headed ‘Dr Donne says after Complementing Lady Huntingdon’ and beginning ‘If you can thinke these flatteries, they are’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 201-3. Milgate, Satires, pp. 85-8. Shawcross, No. 141.
Part II, passim
• CoA 296: Abraham Cowley, Extracts
Extract(s) from work(s) by Cowley.
Part II, passim
• DaW 161: Sir William Davenant, Extracts
Part II, passim
• DeJ 145: Sir John Denham, Extracts
Extracts from works by Denham.
Part II, passim
• DrJ 396: John Dryden, Extracts
passim
• RoJ 674: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Extracts
passim
• SeC 148: Sir Charles Sedley, Extracts
Verse extracts.
passim
• SuJ 195: John Suckling, Extracts
Extracts from various poems by Suckling, including Against Fruition (I), the Song‘No, no, faire Heretique’, and To my Lady E. C. at her going out of England.
passim
• WaE 917: Edmund Waller, Extracts
Vol. A, f. 117r
The will of Margaret Cox (John Redford's sister) signed by John Heywood as a witness, 30 September 1556. 1556.
HyJ 24: John Heywood, Document(s)
Possibly now transferred to London Metropolitan Archives.
Discussed in Arthur Brown, ‘Two Notes on John Redford’, MLR, 43 (1948), 508-10.