Southwest Collection, Rare Books PR2235.A1
Printed exemplum of Donne's Poems (London, 1633), bearing about fifteen minor textual emendations and additions in twelve poems, largely filling lacunae, adding alternative titles and recording variants. 1703.
DnJ 4161: John Donne, Poems
Owned in 1703 by St John Broderick of the Middle Temple. Sotheby's, 22 July 1985, lot 19, to E.M. Lawson.
Recorded (as the ‘Broderick Volume’) in Peter Beal, ‘More Donne Manuscripts’, John Donne Journal, 6/2 (1987), 213-18 (pp. 214-15).
PR 1171 D14
A folio verse miscellany, containing 89 poems, including 43 by Donne, in several hands (ff. 21r-62r in a single accomplished secretary hand), 69 leaves, in paper wrappers. The text of the poems by Donne derived from the same source as the Lansdowne MS (British Library, Lansdowne MS 740) and related in part to the Haslewood-Kingsborough MS II (Huntington, HM 198, Part II). c.1620-5.
Formerly among the muniments of the Earl of Dalhousie (descendant of the Maule and Ramsay families), of Brechin Castle, on deposit in the Scottish Record Office [now National Archives of Scotland] (GD45/26/95/1). Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 490.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the the ‘Dalhousie MS I’: DnJ Δ 11. Complete reduced facsimile and transcription in The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: Poems and Prose by John Donne and Others: A Facsimile Edition, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Columbia, 1988). Also discussed by Ernest W. Sullivan, II in ‘Donne Manuscripts: Dalhousie I’, John Donne Journal, 3/2 (1984), 204-19; in ‘“And, having done that, Thou hast done”: Locating, Acquiring, and Studying the Dalhousie Manuscripts’, in The Donne Dalhousie Discovery: Proceedings of a Symposium on the Acquisition and Study of the John Donne and Joseph Conrad Collections at Texas Tech University, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan II and David J. Murrah (Lubbock, TX, 1987), pp. 1-10; and in ‘The Renaissance Manuscript Verse Miscellany: Private Party, Private Text’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, ed. W. Speed Hill (Binghamton, 1993), pp. 289-97.
Facsimiles of f. 15v in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), p. 13, and of f. 42r in Sotheby's sale catalogue and in Peter Beal, A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450-2000 (Oxford, 2008), p. 431, Illus. 91. A complete microfilm of the MS is in the National Archives of Scotland.
Sullivan suggests that the miscellany derives from sources preserved by members of the Earl of Essex's circle, their most likely ‘conduit’ to the Dalhousie family being John Ramsay (1580-1626), Viscount Haddington and Earl of Holderness.
f. 9r-v
• DyE 59: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘My mynde to me a kyngdome is’
Copy, untitled.
First published, as two poems (one comprising stanzas 1-4, 6 and 8. the other stanzas 9-12) in a musical setting, in William Byrd, Psalmes, Sonets & Songs (London, 1588). Sargent, No. XIV, pp. 200-1. The uncertain authorship of this poem and its textual history are discussed in Steven W. May, ‘The Authorship of “My mind to me a kingdom is”’, RES, NS 26 (1975), 385-94. EV 15376.
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• DaJ 3.5: Sir John Davies, Elegies of Love, 3 (‘Unto that sparkling wit, that spirit of fire’)
Copy, untitled.
Krueger, pp. 194-5.
f. 11r
• WoH 46: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).
f. 16r-v
• DnJ 40: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)
Copy, untitled.
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.
• DnJ 816: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.
f. 18r
• HrJ 121: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek (‘Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Yst for a fauor, or for some dislike’.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.
ff. 21r-2r
• DnJ 2793: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.
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• DnJ 2822: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.
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• DnJ 2856: John Donne, Satyre V (‘Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they’)
Copy, headed ‘A Satire 3’.
First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.
ff. 25v-6v
• DnJ 2760: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.
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• DnJ 365: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)
Copy, headed ‘Eligia. 1.’.
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.
f. 28r-v
• PeW 258: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)
Copy, headed ‘A Paradoxe in praise of a painted face’.
Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed ‘P.’. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as ‘A Paradox of a Painted Face’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’. Also ascribed to James Shirley.
A shorter version, beginning ‘Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie’, was first published, as ‘A Maids Denyall’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].
f. 29r
• OvT 32: Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters: A Very Woman
Copy.
First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbaud, pp. 48-50. Beecher, pp. 201-2.
f. 29v
• OvT 35: Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters: Her next part
Copy.
First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbaud, pp. 50-1. Beecher, pp. 202-3.
f. 30r
• OvT 29: Sir Thomas Overbury, Characters: A Good Woman
Copy.
First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbaud, pp. 47-8. Beecher, pp. 200-1.
f. 30r
• OvT 6: Sir Thomas Overbury, The Authours Epitaph (‘The span of my daies measur'd, here I rest’)
Copy.
First published in A Wife now the Widdow of Sir T. Ouerbury (London, 1614). Rimbault, p. 46.
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• DnJ 683: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)
Copy, headed ‘Eligia 2’.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as ‘Elegie VIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.
f. 31r-v
• DnJ 2546: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia 3’.
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.
f. 32r
• DnJ 616: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)
Copie, headed ‘Eligia 4’.
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.
f. 32v
• DnJ 2193: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)
Copy, headed ‘Eligia 5’ and here beginning ‘When I haue peace with thee warr other men’.
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.
f. 33r
• DnJ 3163: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia 6’.
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.
f. 33v
• DnJ 250: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)
Copy, headed ‘Widdowe Her JD’.
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. 37r
• DaJ 98: Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Mary Baker to Richard Fletcher, Bishop of London (‘The pride of Prelacy, which now longe since’)
Copy of poems 5 and 4, untitled.
First published in Samuel A. Tannenbaum, ‘Unfamiliar Versions of Some Elizabethan Poems’, PMLA, 45.ii (1930), 809-21 (pp. 818-19). Krueger, pp. 177-9.
f. 38r-v
• DnJ 3055: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)
Copy.
First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.
f. 39r-v
• DnJ 542: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.
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• DnJ 3280: John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.
f. 40r
• DnJ 3451: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.
f. 44r
• DnJ 1826: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie JD’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.
f. 44v
• DnJ 482: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)
Copy, headed ‘Eligie’.
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.
f. 45r
• HoJ 36: John Hoskyns, Absence (‘Absence heare my protestation’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), pp. 428-9. Osborn, No. XXIV (pp. 192-3).
f. 45r-v
• DnJ 3649: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.
f. 45v
• DnJ 1442: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
f. 46r
• DnJ 424: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
f. 46r
• DnJ 1957: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)
Copy, headed ‘Mummy’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.
f. 46v
• DnJ 3097: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.
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• DnJ 1794: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)
Copy, untitled.
First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.
f. 47r
• DnJ 3613: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.
f. 47v
• DnJ 953: John Donne, The Dreame (‘Image of her whom I love’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 95 (as ‘Elegie X’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 58. Shawcross, No. 35.
ff. 47v-8r
• DnJ 2033: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
f. 48r-v
• DnJ 3720: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
ff. 48v-9r
• DnJ 1060: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.
f. 49v
• DnJ 3589: John Donne, To the Lady Bedford (‘You that are she and you, that's double shee’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 227-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 94-5. Shawcross, No. 148.
f. 50r-v
• DnJ 1004: John Donne, Elegie on Mris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.
f. 51r-v
• DnJ 1094: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)
Copy.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as ‘Elegie. Death’). Shawcross, No. 151 (as ‘Elegie: Death’). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.
ff. 51v-2
• DnJ 2440: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.
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.
f. 52r-v
• DnJ 3895: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)
Copy, headed ‘Loues Legacie’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
ff. 52v-3r
• BmF 24: Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae (‘Madam, so may my verses pleasing be’)
Copy.
First published, as ‘An Elegie by F. B.’, in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.
ff. 53v-4r
• DnJ 1218: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as ‘Elegie XV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.
f. 54r
• DnJ 2907: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
f. 54v
• DnJ 1995: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.
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• DnJ 1392: John Donne, The Funerall (‘Who ever comes to shroud me, do not harme’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 58-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 90-1. Shawcross, No. 67.
f. 55r
• DnJ 2166.5: John Donne, Loves Usury (‘For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.
f. 55v
• DnJ 1350: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
f. 55v-6r
• DnJ 656: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.
f. 56r
• DnJ 3979: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.
f. 56v
• HrJ 255: Sir John Harington, Of the commodities that men haue by their Marriage (‘A fine yong Clerke, of kinne to Fryer Frappert’)
Copy, here beginning ‘A fine yong Priest of kin to frier ffrapper’.
First published in 1618, Book II, No. 70. McClure No. 166, pp. 213-14. Kilroy, Book III, No. 7, pp. 169-70.
f. 57r
• HrJ 183: Sir John Harington, Of a Precise Tayler (‘A Taylor, thought a man of vpright dealling’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in 1618, Book I, No. 20. McClure No. 21, pp. 156-7. Kilroy, Book I, No. 40, pp. 107-8.
f. 57r
• HrJ 288: Sir John Harington, Of Women learned in the tongues (‘You wisht me to a wife, faire, rich and young’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 7. McClure No. 261, pp. 255-6. Kilroy, Book I, No. 7, p. 96.
f. 57r
• DnJ 1302: John Donne, ‘Faustus keepes his sister and a whore’
Copy.
First published, and attributed to Donne, in John T. Shawcross, ‘John Donne and Drummond's Manuscripts’, AN&Q (March 1967), 104-5. Reprinted in Shawcross (1968), No. 102. Variorum, 8 (1995), p. 12.
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• RaW 174: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.
This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, ‘Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine’, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's ‘answer’ to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.
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• OvT 12: Sir Thomas Overbury, The Remedy of Love (‘When Love did reade the Title of my booke’)
Copy.
A verse translation from Ovid's Remedia amoris. First published as The First and Last Part of The Remedy of Loue: Written by Sir Thomas Overbvry Knight (London, 1620). Rimbault, pp. 205-19.
f. 62v
• CmT 191: Thomas Campion, A Ballad (‘Dido was the Carthage Queene’)
Copy.
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.
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• CoR 76: Richard Corbett, An Elegie on the late Lord William Haward Baron of Effingham, dead the tenth of December. 1615 (‘I did not know thee, Lord, nor do I striue’)
Copy.
First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 20-3.
PR 1171 S4
A folio verse miscellany comprising 56 poems, including 29 by Donne, in several hands (two predominating), 34 leaves, mounted on guards, in modern cloth. Much of the volume (including 24 poems by Donne on ff. 15r-31v) evidently transcribed from the Dalhousie MS I (Texas Tech University, PR 1171 D14) and the text of some poems (including ff. 9r-11r) corrected from that MS. c.1622-9.
Inscribed (f. 1r) with the date 28 September 1622 and, in possibly a child's hand (f. 1v), ‘Andrew Ramsey’. Formerly among the muniments of the Earl of Dalhousie (descendant of the Maule and Ramsay families), of Brechin Castle, on deposit in the Scottish Record Office (GD45/26/95/2). Sotheby's, 20 July 1981, lot 491, and 12 December1982, lot 49.
Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Dalhousie MS II’: DnJ Δ 12. Complete reduced facsimile and transcription in The First and Second Dalhousie Manuscripts: Poems and Prose by John Donne and Others: A Facsimile Edition, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Columbia, 1988). Also discussed in The Donne Dalhousie Discovery, ed. Ernest W. Sullivan, II and David J. Murrah (Lubbock, TX, 1987), and in ‘The Renaissance Manuscript Verse Miscellany: Private Party, Private Text’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, ed. W. Speed Hill (Binghamton, 1993), pp. 289-97.
Facsimiles of f. 10v in Sotheby's sale catalogue, and of ff. 20v and 26r in DLB, vol. 121, Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1992), pp. 320-1. Complete microfilms of the MS are in the National Archives of Scotland and in the Brirish Library, RP 2441.
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• DnJ 2130: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)
Copy, untitled.
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 366: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)
Copy, untitled.
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.
f. 10r
• DaJ 3.8: Sir John Davies, Elegies of Love, 3 (‘Unto that sparkling wit, that spirit of fire’)
Copy, untitled.
Krueger, pp. 194-5.
f. 11r
• DnJ 817: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)
Copy, with corrections.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.
f. 11v
• DnJ 2282: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.
f. 12r-v
• PeW 259: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, A Paradox in praise of a painted Woman (‘Not kiss? by Love I must, and make impression’)
Copy, untitled.
Poems (1660), pp. 93-5, superscribed ‘P.’. First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 97. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as possibly by William Baker. The Poems of John Donne, ed Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 456-9, as ‘A Paradox of a Painted Face’, among ‘Poems attributed to Donne in MSS’. Also ascribed to James Shirley.
A shorter version, beginning ‘Nay pish, nay pew, nay faith, and will you, fie’, was first published, as ‘A Maids Denyall’, in Richard Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654) [apparently unique exemplum in the Huntington, edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan, II (Aldershot, 1990), pp. 49-50].
f. 13r
• HrJ 122: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek (‘Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke’)
Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Yst for a fauour, or for some dislike’, probably transcribed from HrJ 121.
First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.
f. 15r-v
• DnJ 2547: John Donne, The Perfume (‘Once, and but once found in thy company’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia. 3’.
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.
f. 16r
• DnJ 617: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)
Copy, headed ‘Eligia. 4’.
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.
f. 16v
• DnJ 2194: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)
Copy, headed ‘Eligia 5’ and here beginning ‘When I have peace wth thee warr other men’.
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.
f. 17r
• DnJ 3164: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegia: 6’.
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.
f. 17v
• DnJ 251: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)
Copy, headed ‘Widdowe Her JD’.
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. 18r-v
• DnJ 3056: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)
Copy.
First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.
f. 19r
• DnJ 543: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.
f. 19v
• DnJ 3280.5: John Donne, To Mr Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.
f. 20r
• DnJ 3452: John Donne, To Sr Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)
Copy, headed ‘J D’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.
f. 22r
• BcF 48: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’
Copy, with corrections.
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.
f. 22v
• DnJ 1827: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.
f. 23r
• DnJ 483: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.
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.
f. 23v
• DnJ 425: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.
f. 23v
• DnJ 1443: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.
f. 24r
• DnJ 3614: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.
f. 24r-v
• DnJ 2034: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.
ff. 24v-5r
• DnJ 3721: John Donne, A Valediction: forbidding mourning (‘As virtuous men passe mildly away’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 49-51. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 62-4. Shawcross, No. 31.
f. 25r-v
• DnJ 2441: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.
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.
ff. 25v-6r
• DnJ 3896: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)
Copy, headed ‘Loues Legacie’.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.
ff. 26r-7r
• BmF 25: Francis Beaumont, Ad Comitissam Rutlandiae (‘Madam, so may my verses pleasing be’)
Copy, probably transcribed from BmF 24.
Facsimile of f. 26r also in Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, First Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester, DLB, 121 (Detroit, 1992), p. 320.
First published, as ‘An Elegie by F. B.’, in Certain Elegies, Done by Sundrie Excellent Wits (London, 1618). Dyce XI, 505-7.
f. 27r-v
• DnJ 1219: John Donne, The Expostulation (‘To make the doubt cleare, that no woman's true’)
Copy, headed ‘Elegie’.
First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 108-10 (as ‘Elegie XV’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 94-6 (among her ‘Dubia’). Shawcross, No. 22. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 369-70.
f. 28r
• DnJ 2908: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.
f. 28v
• DnJ 1996: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)
Copy.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.
f. 29r
• DnJ 1351: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.
f. 29r-v
• DnJ 657: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.
f. 29v
• DnJ 3980: John Donne, Womans constancy (‘Now thou hast lov'd me one whole day’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 42-3. Shawcross, No. 34.
f. 30r-v
• RaW 175: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)
Copy, untitled, probably transcribed from RaW 174.
First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.
This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, ‘Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine’, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's ‘answer’ to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.
f. 31r-v
• DnJ 41: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)
Copy, untitled.
First published as ‘Elegie II’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 80-2 (as ‘Elegie II’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 21-2. Shawcross, No. 17. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 217-18.
f. 32v
• PeW 24: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, ‘Had she a glass and feared the fire’
Copy, untitled.
Krueger, p. 55, among ‘Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts’.
f. 34r
• MoG 45: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)
Copy, untitled.
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.