CELM: University of Nottingham

Bd 27-117

A collection of papers of the editor Richard Warwick Bond (1857-1943), including numerous notebooks, papers and collections relating to his edition of John Lyly. 1794-1953.

LyJ 65: John Lyly, Editorial papers

Cl C 24

Autograph letter signed by Beaumont, to Sir Gervase Clifton, on a pair of conjugate folio leaves, from Grace Dieu, 18 November 1625. 1625.

*BeJ 58: Sir John Beaumont, Letter(s)

Recorded in HMC, Various Collections, Vol. VII (1914), p. 291.

Cl C 198

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Gervase clifton, from Loughborough, 23 November/3 December 1632. 1632.

*HbT 102: Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)

Substantially edited in HMC, 55, Various Collections, VII (1914), p. 401. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 18, Letter 9.

Cl C 199

Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Sir Gervase Clifton, from London, 27 March[/6 April] 1634. 1634.

*HbT 104: Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)

Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 21, Letter 11.

Cl C 330-334

Five autograph letters signed by More, to Frances Finch (afterwards wife of Clifford Clifton), all undated but before 1650. c.1640s?

*MoH 5: Henry More, Letter(s)

Recorded in HMC, 55, Various Collections, VII (1914), p. 428.

Cl C 560

Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Sir Gervase Clifton, from Geneva, 10/20 May 1630. 1630.

*HbT 98: Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)

Edited in de Beer, pp. 202-3. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 13, Letter 5.

Cl C 561

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Gervase Clifton, 19/29 April 1630. 1630.

*HbT 97: Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)

Edited in de Beer, pp. 200-1. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 10-11, Letter 4.

Cl C 562

Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Robert Leeke, from Orléans, 30 June/10 July 1630. 1630.

*HbT 99: Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)

Edited in de Beer, pp. 203-4. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 15, Letter 6.

Cl C 563

Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Robert Leeke, from Orléans, 25 July/4 August 1630. 1630.

*HbT 100: Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)

Edited in de Beer, pp. 204-5. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 16, Letter 7.

Cl C 564

Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Sir Gervase Clifton, from Paris, 20/30 January 1634/5. 1635.

*HbT 106: Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)

Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 25, Letter 13.

Cl C 565

Autograph letter signed, to Sir Gervase Clifton, from Paris, 21 April/1 May 1635. 1635.

*HbT 107: Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)

Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 26, Letter 14.

Cl C 566

Autograph letter signed by Hobbes, to Sir Gervase Clifton, from Hardwick, 2/12 November 1630. 1630.

*HbT 101: Thomas Hobbes, Letter(s)

Edited in de Beer, p. 205. Malcolm, Correspondence, I, 17, Letter 8.

Cl C 567

Autograph letter signed by Marston, to Sir Gervase Clifton, [1607]. 1607.

*MrJ 11: John Marston, Letter(s)

Edited and discussed in W.H. Grattan Flood, ‘A John Marston Letter’, RES, 4 (1928), 86-7; in Robert E. Brettle, ‘The “Poet Marston” Letter to Sir Gervase Clifton, 1607’, RES, 4 (1928), 212-14; in Brettle, ‘Notes on John Marston’, RES, NS 13 (1962), 390-3; and in Albert H. Tricomi, ‘Identifying Sir Gervase Clifton, the Addressee of Marston's Letter, 1607’, N & Q, 222 (May-June 1977), 202-3. Facsimiles of the letter in Albert H. Tricomi, ‘The Provenance of John Marston's Letter to Lord Kimbolton’, PBSA, 72 (1978), 213-19 (Plate 2); in IELM, I.ii (1980), Facsimile XXVI (p. 331), and in James Knowles, ‘Marston, Skipwith and The Entertainment at Ashby’, EMS, 3 (1992), 137-92 (p. 179).

Cl LM 5/1

Copy of four Essays, namely Of Adversity, Of Revenge, Of Delays, and Of Innovations, in a cursive predominantly secretary hand, on all four pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th century.

BcF 208: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral

Among papers of the Clifton family, of Clifton Hall, Nottinghamshire.

Ten Essayes first published in London, 1597. 38 Essaies published in London, 1612. 58 Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall published in London, 1625. Spedding, VI, 365-591. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. XV (Oxford, 2000).

Cl LM 5/2

Copy of four Essays, namely (Of Adversity, Of Revenge, Of Delays, and Of Innovations, in a secretary hand, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.

BcF 209: Francis Bacon, Essays or Counsels Civil and Moral

Cl LM 19

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, on one side of a single quarto leaf, endorsed ‘Verses of the civill Vprores in Fraunc’, on a single leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.

RaW 495: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The state of Fraunce as nowe it standes’

First published in A Catalogue of the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum (London, 1808), III, 78. Listed but not printed in Latham, p. 172. Rudick, No. 30, p. 71. EV 24294.

Cl LM 22

Copy, in an italic hand, subscribed in an expansive cursive style ‘J Hoskins’, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Verses to k James by J Hoskins’, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.

HoJ 285: John Hoskyns, Jacobo Magnæ Britanniæ Regi Maximo, Clementissimo (‘Jam mihi bis centum fluxere in carcere noctes’)

Osborn, No. XXXII (pp. 203-4).

Cl LM 24

Copy of two poems on Sir Robert Cecil, in a neat secretary hand, on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1612.

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• PeW 16: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Epitaph on Robert, Earl of Salisbury (‘You that read in passing by’)

Copy, headed ‘The Earle of Penbrockes Memoriall for the earle of Salsebury deceased’.

Edited from this MS in John Pitcher, Samuel Daniel: The Brotherton Manuscript (Leeds, 1981), p. 173, and in online Early Stuart Libels.

Krueger, p. 57, among ‘Poems Attributed to Pembroke in Manuscripts’. Also in online Early Stuart Libels.

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• DaS 16: Samuel Daniel, ‘If greatnes, wisedome pollicie of state’

Copy, headed ‘By another his freind’.

Edited from this MS in Pitcher, Brotherton MS.

First published in Grosart, The Dr. Farmer MS (1873), II, 189.

Cl LM 29

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘An elegie on the death of the late Lo: Howard Baron of Effingham deceased the .10. of Decemb:’, on the first two pages of two unbound conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1615-20s.

CoR 75: 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’)

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 20-3.

Cl LM 30

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘The Parlament farte’, on two pages (the second inverted) of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.

HoJ 84: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)

Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of ‘Doubtful Verses’ in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.

Cl LM 33

Copy, in a small secretary hand, in double columns, on the first two pages (the third containing Latin verses) of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620s.

CoR 49: Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge (‘It is not yet a fortnight, since’)

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.

Some texts accompanied by an ‘Answer’ (‘A ballad late was made’).

Cl LM 43

Copy, in a predominantly secretary hand, untitled, on one page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620s.

JnB 663: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge’)

Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.

For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

Cl LM 44

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, on the first page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, slightly imperfect. c.1620s.

KiH 82: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

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).

Cl LM 50

Copy of Psalm 137, in a neat italic hand, as ‘translated by Mary Countesse of Pembrook’, here beginning ‘Nigh-seated where the riuer floes’, on the first two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.

SiP 88.7: Sir Philip Sidney, The Psalms of David

Psalms 1-43 translated by Sidney. Psalms 44-150 translated by his sister, the Countess of Pembroke. First published complete in London, 1823, ed. S.W. Singer. Psalms 1-43, without the Countess of Pembroke's revisions, edited in Ringler, pp. 265-337. Psalms 1-150 in her revised form edited in The Psalms of Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke, ed. J.C.A. Rathmell (New York, 1963). Psalms 44-150 also edited in The Collected Works of Mary Sidney Herbert Countess of Pembroke (1988), Vol. II.

Cl LM 59

A single half-folio leaf with verse on one side, in a predominantly italic hand. The MS is accompanied by a transcript of the verse and a translation into English made by Rosslyn Bruce, 18 June 1905. Mid 17th century.

item 1

• HrG 309: George Herbert, Dum petit Infantem (‘Dvm petit Infantem Princeps, Grantámque Iacobus’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in True Copies Of all the Latine Orations, made on the 25. and 27. of Februarie 1622 (London, 1623). Hutchinson, pp. 437-8. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 172-3.

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• HrG 316: George Herbert, Lucus, X. Papae titulus Nec Deus Nec Homo (‘Qvisnam Antichristus cessemus quarere. Papa’)

Copy, headed ‘In adulatorium Papæ titulam ‘“Nec deus est nec homo”’’, subscribed ‘M^r Geo: Herbert’.

Hutchinson, p. 412. McCloskey & Murphy, with a translation, pp. 88-9.

Cl LM 85/1

Copy of a letter by Sir Edward Denny, to Lady Mary Wroth, in a neat secretary hand, 26 February 1621/2. c.1622.

WrM 25: Lady Mary Wroth, Letter(s)

This MS recorded in Roberts, Poems, p. 238.

Cl LM 85/2

Copy of a letter by Wroth to Sir Edward Denny, in a neat secretary hand, 15 February [1621/2]. c.1622.

WrM 22: Lady Mary Wroth, Letter(s)

This MS recorded in Roberts, Poems, p. 237.

Cl LM 85/3 (i)

Copy of Denny's poem attacking Wroth's Urania,chiefly in a mixed hand, the last two lines possibly squeezed in in another hand, in a pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse. c.1622.

WrM 37: Lady Mary Wroth, To Pamphilla from the father-in-law of Seralius (‘Hermophradite in show, in deed a monster’)

Edited from this MS in Roberts, N&Q, 222 (1977), 533-4.

Twenty-six lines of verse by Lord Denny fiercely attacking Wroth's published romance and prompting her verse retaliation (WrM 4). First published in Josephine A. Roberts, ‘An Unpublished Literary Quarrel concerning the Suppression of Mary Wroth's “Urania” (1621)’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 532-5.

Cl LM 85/3 (ii)

Copy of Wroth's verse response to Denny's poem, in a mixed hand, in a pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse. c.1622.

WrM 5: Lady Mary Wroth, Railing Rimes Returned upon the Author by Mistress Mary Wrothe (‘Hirmophradite in sense in Art a monster’)

Edited from this MS in Roberts, N&Q, 222 (1977), 534.

Twenty-six lines of verse, answering line-for-line Lord Denny's verse attack (WrM 36). First published in Josephine A. Roberts, ‘An Unpublished Literary Quarrel concerning the Suppression of Mary Wroth's “Urania” (1621)’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 532-5.

Cl LM 85/4

Copy of a letter by Wroth to Sir Edward Denny, in a mixed hand, here dated 21 February 1621/2. c.1622.

WrM 23: Lady Mary Wroth, Letter(s)

This MS recorded in Roberts, Poems, p. 240.

Cl LM 85/5

Copy of a letter by Sir Edward Denny to Lady Mary Wroth, in a mixed hand, [February-March 1621/2]. c.1622.

WrM 31: Lady Mary Wroth, Letter(s)

This MS recorded in Roberts, Poems, p. 241.

Cl LM 86

Copy of a letter by Bacon, to Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, in a professional secretary hand, on the first page (the second a letter by Howard) of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620s-30s.

BcF 648: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Cl LP 2/1

A folio booklet of texts relating to Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, in two secretary hands, eleven leaves, in a paper wrapper. Early 17th century.

ff. [1r-10r]

• EsR 251: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's Arraignment, 19 February 1600/1

Copy.

f. [11r-v]

• EsR 314: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, Essex's speech at his execution

Copy, headed ‘The manner and end of the Earle of Essex in the Tower of London the xxv^th of ffebruarie 1600’.

Generally incorporated in accounts of Essex's execution and sometimes also of his behaviour the night before.

Cl LP 2/6

Copy, in a small secretary hand, headed ‘The Earle of Essex to y^e Earle of Rutlande before his travell...’, on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves. Early 17th century.

EsR 179: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, First Letter of Advice to the Earl of Rutland

The letter, dated from Greenwich, 4 January [1596], beginning ‘My Lord, I hold it for a principle in the course of intelligence of state...’.

First published, as ‘The Late E. of E. his aduice to the E. of R. in his trauels’, in Profitable Instructions; Describing what speciall Obseruations are to be taken by Trauellers in all Nations, States and Countries (London, 1633), pp. 27-73. Francis Bacon, Resuscitatio (London, 1657), pp. 106-10. Spedding, IX, 6-15. W.B. Devereux, Lives and Letters of the Devereux, Earls of Essex (1853), I, No. xciii.

Essex's three letters to Rutland discussed by Paul E.J. Hammer in ‘The Earl of Essex, Fulke Greville, and the Employment of Scholars’, SP. 91/2 (Spring, 1994), 167-80, and in ‘Letters of Travel Advice from the Earl of Essex to the Earl of Rutland: Some Comments’, PQ, 74/3 (Summer 1995), 317-22. It is likely that the first letter was written substantially by Francis Bacon.

Cl LP 2/7

Copy of a letter, in a cursive secretary hand, on an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, headed ‘A lr forged by S^r F. B. to y^e erle of E. in the name of his brothr M^r A. B and y^e Earle his answer w^ch was likwise forged by him’.

BcF 649: Francis Bacon, Letter(s)

Cl LP 5/1

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Sir Walter Raleigh his Apologie’, eleven + ii folio leaves, in a paper wrapper. c.1620s.

RaW 562: Sir Walter Ralegh, Apology for his Voyage to Guiana

A tract beginning ‘If the ill success of this enterprise of mine had been without example...’. First published in Judicious and Select Essays and Observations (London, 1650). Works (1829), VIII, 477-507. Edited by V. T. Harlow in Ralegh's Last Voyage (London, 1932), pp. 316-34.

Cl LP 5/2

Copy of part of the tract, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Out of the Dialogue betweene a Counsello^r & a Justice of Peace’, as by ‘S^r: walter Rawley’, thirteen folio pages, in a paper wrapper. c.1620s.

RaW 595: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Dialogue between a Counsellor of State and a Justice of the Peace

A treatise, with a dedicatory epistle to James I beginning ‘Those that are suppressed and hopeless are commonly silent ...’, the dialogue beginning ‘Now, sir, what think you of Mr. St. John's trial in the Star-chamber?...’. First published as The Prerogative of Parliaments in England (‘Midelburge’ and ‘Hamburg’ [i.e. London], 1628). Works (1829), VIII, 151-221.

Cl LP 5/3

Copy of the 1603 arraignment, in a professional cursive secretary hand, on fifteen pages of eight folio leaves. Early 17th century.

RaW 728.28: Sir Walter Ralegh, Ralegh's Arraignment(s)

Accounts of the arraignments of Ralegh at Winchester Castle, 17 November 1603, and before the Privy Council on 22 October 1618. The arraignment of 1603 published in London, 1648. For documentary evidence about this arraignment, see Rosalind Davies, ‘“The Great Day of Mart”: Returning to Texts at the Trial of Sir Walter Ralegh in 1603’, Renaissance Forum, 4/1 (1999), 1-12.

Cl LP 5/4

Copy of a letter by Ralegh, to his wife, in a small neat secretary hand, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620.

RaW 991: Sir Walter Ralegh, Letter(s)

Cl LP 5/5

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Octob: 28. 1618’, inscribed in the margin (p. 1) ‘The ffirst sheete / His bringeinge to the Barre’ and (p. 2) ‘The execucon Octob: 29^th: 1618’, on five pages of two unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620.

RaW 795: Sir Walter Ralegh, Speech on the Scaffold (29 October 1618)

This MS recorded in HMC, 55, Various Collections, VII (1914), p. 269.

Transcripts of Ralegh's speech have been printed in his Remains (London, 1657). Works (1829), I, 558-64, 691-6. VIII, 775-80, and elsewhere. Copies range from verbatim transcripts to summaries of the speech, they usually form part of an account of Ralegh's execution, they have various headings, and the texts differ considerably. For a relevant discussion, see Anna Beer, ‘Textual Politics: The Execution of Sir Walter Ralegh’, MP, 94/1 (August 1996), 19-38.

Cl LP 5/6

Copy of a nine-stanza version, in a cursive secretary hand, inscribed in another hand ‘S^r Walter Rawley’, untitled, here beginning ‘There was a tyme when sillie bees could speake’, on both sides of a single folio leaf. Early 17th century.

EsR 91: 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’)

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.

Cl LP 6/1-2

Copy of Bacon's submission of 22 April 1621, in an italic hand, on three pages of two unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1621-30.

BcF 522: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

The Humble Submissions and Supplications Bacon sent to the House of Lords, on 19 March 1620/1 (beginning ‘I humbly pray your Lordships all to make a favourable and true construction of my absence...’); 22 April 1621 (beginning ‘It may please your Lordships, I shall humbly crave at your Lordships' hands a benign interpretation...’); and 30 April 1621 (beginning ‘Upon advised consideration of the charge, descending into mine own conscience...’), written at the time of his indictment for corruption. Spedding, XIV, 215-16, 242-5, 252-62.

Cl LP 6/3

Copy of Bacon's submission on 30 April 1621, in a small secretary hand, on five pages of two unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves. c.1621-30.

BcF 523: Francis Bacon, Bacon's Humble Submissions and Supplications

Cl LP 15/1

Copy of a speech by Bacon, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘The Lord Chancelor his speeche’, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves (the last one imperfect). c.1620.

BcF 424: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Cl LP 16

Copy of a speech by ‘The lo: Chanc. Bacon’, in a professional secretary hand, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

BcF 425: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Cl LP 18

Copy of ‘The Lo: Keepers speech at the meetinge of the Lordes & other Comissioners for the Subsidies of London at Guyldhall. July 30^th. 1621’, in a professional secretary hand, on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1621-30.

BcF 426: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Cl LP 32

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled, subscribed ‘Your M^ts most locall and true harted Subiect John Keymer’, on fifteen pages of eight folio leaves, endorsed (p. 16) ‘A book concerning merchandizing to K: James’. c.1620.

RaW 1100: Sir Walter Ralegh, Observations touching Trade and Commerce with the Hollander

A tract addressed to the monarch and beginning ‘According to my duty, I am emboldened to put your majesty in mind, that about fourteen or fifteen years past...’. First published, as by Sir Walter Ralegh, in London, 1653. Works (1829), VIII, 351-76.

Written by John Keymer (fl.1584-1622). See Adolf Buff, ‘Who is the author of the tract intitled “Some observations touching trade with the Hollander”?’, ES, 1 (1877), 187-212, and Lefranc (1968), p. 64.

Cl LP 45

Copy of an early version, in a small secretary hand, headed ‘The Character of the late Erle of Salisbury’, subscribed ‘Jerill Turner’, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. With two letters about the MS, one of them by Allardyce Nicoll to Mrs Clifton, 22 June 1929. c.1612-20s.

ToC 4.5: Cyril Tourneur, The Character of Robert Earl of Salisbury

Among papers of the Clifton family, of Clifton Hall, Nottinghamshire.

This MS recorded in HMC, 4th Report (1873), Appendix, p. 361, and HMC 55, Various Collections, Vol. VII (1914), p. 265. Edited in Nicoll, pp. 297-8.

A character, beginning ‘He came of a parent, that counselled the state into piety, honour and power...’, and dedicated to Lady Theodosia Cecil. First published in Logan Pearsall Smith, The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton (Oxford, 1907), II, 487-9. Nicoll, pp. 259-63.

Ga 12712

Copy, in two professional secretary hands (the second on ff. [18r-19v]), with two leaves (ff. [2r-v, 4r-v]) in a much later hand to supply missing text, 50 leaves, the first leaf imperfect, in old calf. c.1630s.

NaR 36: Sir Robert Naunton, Fragmenta Regalia

Bookplate of the Hon. James Brydges, of Wilton Castle, Herefordshire. Among papers of the Galway family, Viscounts Galway, of Serlby Hall.

Fragmenta Regalia (or, Observations on the late Q. Elizabeth, her Times and Favorites), first published in London, 1641. Edited by John S. Cerovski (Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, D.C., etc., 1985).

Me L 2

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, untitled and unascribed, i + seventeen folio leaves, in a paper wrapper, the front one inscribed ‘The case & proceedings against the Queen of Scotts / Phelips’. Late 16th century.

PtG 4.8: George Puttenham, An Apology or True Defence of Her Majesty's Honourable and Good Renown

Among papers of the Mellish family, of Hodsock, Nottinghamshire.

A treatise on the execution of Mary Queen of Scots, beginning ‘There hath not happened since the memorie of man…’. First published, as ‘A Justification of Queene Elizabeth in relation to the Affaire of Mary Queene of Scottes’, in Accounts and Papers relating to Mary Queen of Scots, ed. Allan J. Crosby and John Bruce, Camden Society, 93 (1867), pp. 67-134.

Me L 4

A folio volume of legal and antiquarian tracts, in several professional mixed hands, unfoliated, in contemporary vellum. Early 17th century.

[unnumbered pages]

• CmW 72.5: William Camden, Of the Antiquity of Parliaments in England

Copy, headed ‘of the Antiquitie of Parliaments’, on three pages, subscribed ‘William Camden’.

A tract beginning ‘That there were such like assemblies as parliaments now are, before the Romans arrival here...’. First published in Sir John Doddridge et al., The Several Opinions of Sundry Learned Antiquaries...touching...the High Court of Parliament in England (London, 1658). Hearne (1771), I, 303-6.

Me L 5

Copy, in a professional secretary hand, headed ‘Considerations for the repressing of the encrease of Preists Jesuits and Recusants w^thout drawinge of blood written by S^r. Robert Cotton Knight and Barronett’, 27 + ii folio leaves, unbound, imperfect, two leaves gnawed by rodents. c.1620s-30s.

CtR 519: Sir Robert Cotton, Twenty-four Argvments, Whether it be more expedient to suppress Popish Practises against the due Allegeance of His Majesty, by the Strict Execution touching Jesuits and Seminary Preists? Or, to restraine them to Close Prisons, during life, if no Reformation follow?

Tract beginning ‘I am not ignorant, that this latter age hath brought forth a swarm of busie heads...’, dated 11 August 1613. First published in two editions, as respectively Seriovs Considerations for Repressing of the Increase of Iesvites and A Treatise against Recusants (both London, 1641). Cottoni posthuma (1651), pp. [109]-159.

Me LM 3

Copy, in a single neat hand, 347 pages (on rectos only, plus blanks), in a stiff paper wrapper, inscribed on the front ‘Extracts from Leland's Collectanea’. Entirely in the hand of Charles Mellish, MP (1737-97), politician and antiquary, of Badsworth Hall and Blyth, Yorkshire. Mid-late 18th century.

LeJ 49.5: John Leland, Collectanea [Other transcripts and extracts]

Mi LM 26

Volume I of Cassandra Willoughby's autograph family history, in her italic hand, including her copies of early family documents at Wollaton from the 12th century onwards, entitled ‘An Account of the Willoughby's Of Wollaton taken out of the Pedigree, Old Letters & old Books of Accounts, in my Brother S^r Thomas Willoughby's Study Dec^r A: D: 1702 By Cass: Willoughby’, ii + 198 quarto pages (plus a number of blanks), in contemporary calf. 1702.

*WiC 7: Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, Family History

Among the papers of the Willoughby family, Barons Middleton, of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, of Middleton, Warwickshire, and of Birdsall, Yorkshire. Inscribed (inside the front cover) ‘Miss Kearney’ and (p. i) ‘H[?] Fn[?] Kearney 1785’ and ‘43 Somerset Street. Portman Square’.

Edited from this MS in HMC, Lord Middleton (1911).

Cassandra Willoughby's An Account of the Willughby's of Wollaton, in two volumes, unfinished and unpublished in full. The greater part of Vol. I edited in HMC, Lord Middleton, Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire (1911), pp. 504-608. Volume II edited as The Continuation of the History of the Willoughby Family by Cassandra Duchess of Chandos, ed. A.C. Wood (Eton, Windsor, 1958).

Mi LM 27

Volume II of Cassandra Willoughby's autograph family history, in her italic hand, including her copies of family documents at Wollaton up to 1690, entitled ‘The Continuation of the Account of the Willoughby's of Willoughby & Eresby in Lincolnshire And of the Willughby's of Willughby & Wollaton in Nottinghamshire Taken out of the Pedigrees, old Letters, Books of Accounts, & other Manuscripts, w^ch still remain in the Library at Wollaton, by Cassandra Dutches of Chandos, & Sister to the Right Hon^ble Thomas Willoughby Lord Middleton’, finished, 156 quarto pages (plus numerous blanks), in dark green morocco with the Chandos arms in gilt. c.1730.

*WiC 8: Cassandra Willoughby, Duchess of Chandos, Family History

Originally among the papers of the Willoughby family, Barons Middleton, of Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, of Middleton, Warwickshire, and of Birdsall, Yorkshire, and restored to that collection in the 1920s. Bookplate of ‘Augusta Anne Brydges 1766’. Later inscribed (on a flyleaf) ‘Willoughby Gardner’. Item 3 in an unidentified sale catalogue, November 1922. A tipped-in letter by D. Webster, rare book dealer of Tunbridge Wells, to Willoughby Gardner, 9 March 1926, saying that this MS, which Gardner had purchased from Webster in Leeds, came from the Stowe Library: i.e. that of Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (1776-1839), first Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham. Donated in 1956 by Mrs Isabel Gardner.

Edited from this MS by Wood.

Molyneux Papers, Vol. II

A folio composite volume of over thirty verse manuscripts, in various hands, including that of Sir John Molyneux, third Baronet (1623-91).

Among the papers of the Molyneux family of Teversall, Nottinghamshire. Donated in 1977 by the eighth Lord Carnarvon.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Paul Davis, ‘An Unrecorded Collection of Restoration Scribal Verse Including Three New Rochester Manuscripts’, EMS 18 (2013), 139-172.

MOL 221

• WoH 255.5: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, in an unidentified hand, of a somewhat garbled version, headed ‘Poem by Sir Kelham Digby, 1686’. Late 17th century.

First published, as ‘a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. 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.

MOL 224a

• RoJ 570.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

Copy, in a professional hand, folded as a letter and addressed to the poet Thomas Shipman (1632-80). Late 17th century.

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.

MOL 224b

• RoJ 570.8: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

Copy, in the hand of Sir John Molyneux, third Baronet. Late 17th century.

MOL 229

• MaA 414.5: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)

Copy, in an unidentified hand. Late 17th century.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 140-6, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 33-5, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

MOL 237

• RoJ 82.5: 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 of lines 1-45, on one side of a folio leaf, lacking the rest, in the hand of Sir John Molyneux, third Baronet, headed ‘An Epistolary Essay’. Late 17th century.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 144-7. Walker, pp. 107-9. Love, pp. 98-101.

MS 98

A formal copy, with a frontispiece sketch, a title-page, an imprimatur, and a dedicatory epistle to Lady Ann Baynton, followed by Rochester's mock-advertisement, ‘The Noble Mountebank's ingenious Bill’, subscribed ‘Transcribed at Mallets=Court in Shierhampton Dec^r. the 13^th: 1687. by Me Tho^s. Alcock’, 53 octavo leaves (on rectos only), in black leather gilt. Made by Thomas Alcock, a former servant of Rochester's, for presentation as a New Year's gift to Rochester's daughter Ann (1667-1703) and her husband Henry Baynton (1664-91). 13 December 1687.

RoJ 632: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Famous Pathologist or the Noble Mountebank

The MS later owned by Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 17730). Formerly Misc. MS 1489.

Edited from this MS in Sola Pinto's edition. See also [? Gerald P. Mander], ‘Rochester and Dr Bendo’, TLS (13 June 1942), p. 300. Facsimile examples in Sola Pinto and in Greene, p. 107.

An account of Rochester's prank in 1676 when he disguised himself as an Italian mountebank, Dr Alexander Bendo, and set up practice on Tower Hill. First published in this form, as a work by Rochester (‘Doct^r. Alexand^r. Bendo’) and Thomas Alcock, in an edition by Vivian de Sola Pinto (Nottingham, 1961). Rochester's mock-bill, ‘Alexander Bendo's Bill’, apparently printed and circulated by him as an advertisement in 1676 (no exemplum known). A version published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691), pp. 138-54. Reprinted in Collected Works of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926), pp. 153-60. Love, pp. 112-17.

MS 116/1-5

MSS.

HuL 11: Lucy Hutchinson, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson

Editorial papers on the Memoirs, 1906-55.

First published, edited by Julius Hutchinson, London, 1806. Edited by James Sutherland (London, New York & Toronto, 1973). See also David Norbrook, ‘“But a Copie”: Textual Authority and Gender in Editions of “The Life of John Hutchinson”’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004). pp. 109-30.

Pw 1 248

Autograph letter signed by Shadwell, to Henry Cavendish, second Duke of Newcastle, from London, 31 January 1687[/8].

*SdT 47: Thomas Shadwell, Letter(s)

Edited in Francis Needham, ‘A Letter of Shadwell's’, TLS, 23 October 1930, p. 866.

Pw 2 571

Autograph copy by Vanbrugh of an agreement by 29 subscribers to the Queen's Theatre, Haymarket, [1703]. 1703.

*VaJ 390: Sir John Vanbrugh, Document(s)

Register, No. 1720.

Pw 2 Hy 1515

Autograph letter signed by Vanbrugh, to Lord Wharton, 7 December 1714. 1714.

*VaJ 195: Sir John Vanbrugh, Letter(s)

Recorded in Downes, p. 521.

Pw V 2

A quarto volume of transcripts of correspondence of John Holles (1587-1637), first Earl of Clare, and his son John (1595-1666), second Earl of Clare, with other tracts and verse, almost entirely in a single predominantly italic hand, 228 leaves (paginated 1-3, 14-238), in modern boards. Mid-17th century.

Among papers of the Cavendish-Bentinck family, Dukes of Portland, of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire, incorporating papers of the related Holles, Harley and Cavendish families, and purchases made by J.A.C.J. Cavendish-Bentinck (1857-1943), sixth Duke of Portland.

pp. 33-9

• HoJ 85: John Hoskyns, The Censure of a Parliament Fart (‘Downe came graue auncient Sr John Crooke’)

Copy, headed ‘The lybell of y^e fart so supposed by M^r Ludlo in y^e Parlem house’.

Attributed to Hoskyns by John Aubrey. Cited, but unprinted, as No. III of ‘Doubtful Verses’ in Osborn, p. 300. Early Stuart Libels website.

pp. 39-43

• HoH 6: Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, My Lord of Northamptons funerall verses touching the Princes death (‘Oh how much happier had my fortune been’)

Copy, headed ‘My Lord of Northamptons funerall verses touching the Princes death. / Vppon the death of y^e late noble Prince Henry’.

pp. 57-9

• HoJ 112: John Hoskyns, A Dreame (‘Me thought I walked in a dreame’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses of M^r Hoskins in the Tower’.

Osborn, No. XXXIV (pp. 206-8). Whitlock, pp. 480-2.

A shortened version of the poem, of lines 43-68, beginning ‘the worst is tolld, the best is hidd’ and ending ‘he errd but once, once king forgiue’, was widely circulated.

pp. 88-9

• BcF 427: Francis Bacon, Speech(es)

Copy of a speech by Bacon in Parliament concerning the union.

p. 142

• DaJ 25.5: Sir John Davies, Gullinge Sonnets (‘The Lover under burthen of his Mistress love’)

Copy, headed ‘Of my Lord of Northampton’.

First published in Grosart, The Dr. Farmer MS (1873), I, 76-81. Krueger, pp. 161-7.

p. 145

• RaW 372: Sir Walter Ralegh, Epitaph on the Earl of Salisbury (‘Here lies Hobinall, our Pastor while ere’)

Copy, under a general heading ‘Epitaphes and verses of my Lord Tresorer Cicill’, here beginning ‘Heere Hobbinole lyeth o^r sheppard whyle eere’.

First published in Francis Osborne, Traditionall Memoyres on the raigne of King Iames (London, 1658). Works (1829), VIII, 735-6. Latham, p. 53.

Of doubtful authorship according to Latham, p. 146, and Lefranc (1968), p. 84.

Pw V 6

A small quarto composite volume of miscellaneous works, in five hands, including Memorials of the Holles family in the hand of Gervase Holles (1607-75), leaves (a few excised), in 19th-century calf gilt. Early-mid-17th century.

Discussed, with facsimile examples, in Timothy Raylor, ‘The “Lost” Essex House Masque (1621): A Manuscript Text Discovered’, EMS, 7 (1998), 86-130 (esp. pp. 95-110).

ff. 115r-16v

• DnJ 2752.8: John Donne, Satyre I (‘Away thou fondling motley humorist’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr 1: The Humerist’. c.1620s-30s.

Facsimile of f. 115r in Raylor, p. 108, and see pp. 101, 109.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 145-9. Milgate, Satires, pp. 3-6. Shawcross, No. 1.

ff. 117r-18v

• DnJ 2785.8: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr 2. the lawyer’. c.1620s-30s.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 149-54. Milgate, Satires, pp. 7-10. Shawcross, No. 2.

f. 119r-v

• DnJ 2814.8: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)

Copy of lines 1-54 only, headed ‘Satyr: 3’, imperfect. c.1620s-30s.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 154-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 10-14. Shawcross, No. 3.

f. 120r

• HeR 194.5: Robert Herrick, Oberons Palace (‘Full as a Bee with Thyme, and Red’)

Copy of lines 1-26, without the eight introductory lines, incomplete. c.1620s-30s.

Facsimile of this MS in Raylor, p. 106.

First published, with eight preliminary lines beginning ‘After the Feast (my Shapcot) see’, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 165-8. Patrick, pp. 222-5.

Pw V 20

Copy, in a cursive and somewhat flourished mixed hand, entitled on the front paper wrapper ‘Hengist King of Kent or the Maior of Quinburrugh’, subscribed (f. 43r) ‘Finis / Hengist King of Kent’, with (f. 1r) a ‘Chorus’ (Dramatis Personæ) and (f. 44v) an epilogue, 43 folio leaves, in a paper wrapper within modern quarter-morocco. Among the collections of the Duke of Portland, of Welbeck Abbey, Nottinghamshire. c.1640s-50s.

MiT 23: Thomas Middleton, The Mayor of Queenborough

This MS collated in Bald (with two pages of facsimiles), where it is incorrectly stated that this MS and MiT 22 are in the same hand. Edited by Grace Ioppolo, as Hengist, King of Kent, or The Mayor of Queenborough, Malone Society Reprints, 167 (Oxford, 2003). Collated in Oxford Companion, pp. 1033-61.

First published in London, 1661. Bullen, II, 1-115. Oxford Middleton, pp. 1451-87. Generally known as Hengist, King of Kent, or The Mayor of Queenborough.

Pw V 23

A folio composite volume, comprising principally (ff. 4r-12r) a formal copy of The Kings Entertainment, a masque by William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, the main text in a stylish italic hand, that of Cavendish's secretary John Rolleston (1587?-1681), of Sokeholme, Nottinghamshire, with some autograph corrections by Newcastle, with three songs (two of them by and in the hand of the composer Matthew Locke) tipped-in at the beginning, 15 leaves, in later half-calf.

Bookplate of William J.A.C.J. Cavendish-Bentinck (1857-1943), sixth Duke of Portland.

The Kings Entertainment, without The Lotterie, discussed and edited from this MS, with facsimile examples, in Lynn Hulse, ‘“The King's Entertainment” by the Duke of Newcastle’, Viator, 26 (1995), 355-405.

ff. 13r-15v

• CvM 2: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, The Lotterie

Copy, in John Rolleston's hand, on a separate stock of paper. c.1660-2.

Edited from this MS in Fitzmaurice, ‘“The Lotterie”’.

First published, and discussed and attributed to Margaret Cavendish, in James Fitzmaurice, ‘“The Lotterie”: A Transcription of a Manuscript Play Probably by Margaret Cavendish’, HLQ, 66 (2003), 155-67.

Pw V 30

A quarto miscellany of poems and plays by Corbet Owen (1645/6-71) and others, a ‘Catalogus Librorum’ at the reverse end, in probably several cursive predominantly italic hands, possibly associated with Oxford University, 166 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.1671.

Owned in 1671 by one ‘J. H.’. P.J. Dobell's sale catalogue The Literature of the Restoration (1918), item 1253. Purchased from Dobell in 1935.

f. 1r

• WaE 727: Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same (‘We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim’)

Copy of lines 15-34, here beginning ‘As his last Legacy to Brittain Left’, imperfect, lines 1-14 excised.

The text followed (ff. 1v-2v) by ‘The Construction of M^r Wallers Poem. By M^r Godolphin of Ch: Ch: Oxon’.

First published as a broadside (London, [1658]). Three Poems upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector (London, 1659). As ‘Upon the late Storm, and Death of the late Usurper O. C.’ in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 34-5.

For the ‘answer or construction’ by William Godolphin, see the Introduction.

ff. 3r-7r

• WaE 393: Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation (‘While with a strong and yet a gentle hand’)

Copy, headed ‘A Panegyrick to y^e L^d Protector by M^r Waller One that loves y^e peace, vnion & prosperity of y^e English Nation 1655’.

First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.

ff. 7v-8r

• SeC 59: Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia (‘As in those Nations, where they yet adore’)

Copy, headed ‘To a faire, but cruell Mistris M.K.’, subscribed ‘Charles Sidley’.

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1671). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 62-3. Sola Pinto, I, 22.

ff. 8r-9v

• DoC 30: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Ballad by the Lord Dorset when at Sea (‘To all you ladies now at land’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song’, subscribed ‘Charles Sidley’.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published as a broadsheet [1664? no exemplum extant]. Songs [1707?]. Old Songs [1707?]. Harris, pp. 65-8.

ff. 10r-11r

• DrJ 218: John Dryden, To the Lady Castlemain, Upon Her incouraging his first Play (‘As Sea-men shipwrackt on some happy shore’)

Copy, headed ‘A Poem written by M^r Dryden to my Lady Castlemaine, who got his play Edited’.

This MS collated in Hammond.

First published in A New Collection of Poems and Songs…Collected by John Bulteel (London, 1674). Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, I, 154-6. California, I, 45-6. Hammond, I, 81-3. Also in Paul Hammond, ‘Dryden's Revision of To the Lady Castlemain’, PBSA, 78 (1984), 81-90.

ff. 69r-125r

• OrR 23: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, Henry the Fifth

Copy, entitled ‘King Henry y^e Fifth written by y^e Earle of Orrery’.

First performed on the London stage 13 August 1664. First published London, 1668. Clark, I, 165-224.

ff. 152v-3r

• DoC 168: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess Dowager of Manchester (‘Courage, dear Moll, and drive away despair’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon y^e Countess of Manchester suppos'd to be written by her Husband. Mr. Montagu. 94 - To Mrs D-P.’ and here beginning ‘Courage Dr. Doll & drive away despair’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.

f. 155r

• RoJ 460.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Spoken Extempore to a Country Clerk after Having Heard Him Sing Psalms (‘Sternhold and Hopkins had great qualms’)

Copy.

First published in The Miscellaneous Works of the Right Honourable the Late Earls of Rochester and Roscommon, 3rd edition (London, 1709). Vieth, p. 22. Walker, p. 122. Love, p. 301, as ‘Lord Rochester upon hearing the singing in a Country Church’.

f. 156r

• JnB 132.5: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. (‘Would'st thou heare, what man can say’)

Copy of line 3 et seq, headed ‘Ben Johnson upon His Mistress’ and here beginning ‘Reader, under this stone does lye’.

First published in Epigrammes (cxxiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 79.

Pw V 31

A folio composite volume of papers of Rochester and his immediate circle, on various paper sizes, 25 leaves, all mounted on guards, in modern black leather gilt. Small collection of nineteen undated leaves of poetical drafts by Rochester and his immediate circle, on single sheets and scraps of paper of various size (folio, quarto, octavo), now inserted in a modern album, comprising: i: ff. 1-11v, autograph drafts of nine poems and a fragment of a prose comedy by Rochester. ii: ff. 12-14, 15-19v, eight autograph poetical drafts (including two versions of the same poem by the poet's wife, Elizabeth (née Mallet), Countess of Rochester (d.1698)). iii: f. 14v, a brief lyric (‘Your glory Phillis is in being lov'd’) in an unidentified hand. c.1660s-80.

Formerly in the library of Edward Harley, second Earl of Oxford (1689-1741), and quite possibly inherited from his father, the statesman Robert Harley, first Earl of Oxford (1661-1724).

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Portland MS’. First recorded by Francis Needham in 1934 (see RoJ 71, RoJ 435); recorded and printed in part in various of Vivian de Sola Pinto's publications (1935-62); discussed and analysed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 204-30; the poems by Rochester edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker (and see also RoJ 633). Facsimile examples in Greene, pp. 71 and 128 (see RoJ 396, RoJ 406); Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 57-8 (see RoJ 396); Peter Beal, Index of English Literary Manuscripts, Vol. II, part 2 (1993), Facsimile IX.

f. 1r-v

• *RoJ 396: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘How happy, Chloris, were they free’)

Autograph draft of an untitled 32-line version beginning ‘How [happy deleted] perfect Cloris, & how free’, on the first of two conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

Edited from this MS and discussed (as text B1) in Vieth, art. cit. Edited in Walker, pp. 40-1, and in Love. Facsimile in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 57-8. Facsimile example in Greene, p. 71.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 83-4. Walker, pp. 39-40, and the version ‘How perfect Cloris, and how free’ on pp. 40-1, and in Love, pp. 23-4. See also David Vieth, ‘A Textual Paradox: Rochester's “To a Lady in a Letter”’, PBSA, 54 (1960), 147-62 (and sequel in Vol. 55 (1961), 130-3).

For the even later version of this lyric, see RoJ 482.

f. 3r-v

• *RoJ 435: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘'Twas a dispute 'twixt heaven and earth’)

Autograph, with revisions, untitled, on two pages of two conjugate octavo leaves, once folded as a letter or packet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 51. Vieth, p. 3. Walker, p. 27. Love, p. 31, as ‘[Love poem]’.

f. 5r

• *RoJ 372: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘At last you'll force me to confess’)

Autograph, with minor revisions, on one side of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

First published, as an additional stanza to the Song ‘While on those lovely looks I gaze’, in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Vieth, p. 13. Walker, p. 22. Love, p. 32. An eight-line version beginning ‘Too late, alas! I must confess’ published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693), in Vieth, p. 174, and in Walker, p. 22.

f. 6r

• *RoJ 406: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Leave this gaudy gilded stage’)

Autograph, untitled, on one side of a single octavo leaf.

Edited from this MS by all editors. Facsimile in Greene, p. 128.

First published in Vivian de Sola Pinto, Rochester: Portrait of a Restoration Poet (London, 1935), p. 120. Vieth, pp. 85-6. Walker, p. 25. Love, p. 32.

f. 7r

• *RoJ 103: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, ‘Great Mother of Aeneas, and of Love’

Autograph draft, with revisions, untitled, on one side of a single folio leaf.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

First published in Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1953), p. 50. Vieth, pp. 34-5. Walker, p. 50. Love, p. 109, as ‘[Translation of Lucretius, De rerum natura, i. 1-4]’.

f. 8r

• *RoJ 285: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Sab: Lost (‘She yields, she yields! Pale Envy said amen’)

Autograph draft, on one side of a single quarto leaf.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

First published in Vivian de Sola Pinto, Rochester: Portrait of a Restoration Poet (London, 1935), p. 49. Vieth, p. 34. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 123.

f. 9r-v

• *RoJ 71: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Epistle (‘Could I but make my wishes insolent’)

Autograph draft, with revisions, untitled, on two pages of two conjugate sextodecimo leaves.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 52. Vieth, p. 33. Walker, pp. 17-18. Love, p. 11, as ‘[Draft of a love poem]’.

f. 11r

• *RoJ 70: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Epigram on Thomas Otway (‘To form a plot’)

Autograph, untitled, on one side of part of a folio leaf, the verso with an address panel to ‘the Earle’, once folded as a letter.

Edited from this MS by all editors.

First published in Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1953), p. 118. Vieth, p. 148. Walker, p. 123, untitled. Love, p. 91, as ‘[Lines]’.

f. 12r-v

• *RoJ 101: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, <Fragment> (‘What vain, unnecessary things are men!’)

Autograph draft with revisions, untitled, on three pages of a pair of conjugate octavo leaves.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

First published in Poems by John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Vivian de Sola Pinto (London, 1953), p. 118. Vieth, pp. 102-3. Walker, p. 90-1, as ‘[Fragment of a Satire on Men]’. Love, pp. 74-6, as [Satire].

f. 14r-v

• *RoJ 633: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Scaene 1^st. M^r. Daynty's chamber

Autograph draft, with revisions, of part of the first scene of an untitled prose comedy, beginning ‘Scaene 1^st. M^r. Daynty's chamber — Enter Daynty in his Night gown singing…’, on both sides of a single quarto leaf.

Edited from this MS in Sola Pinto. Facsimile of the first page in IELM, II.ii, Facsimile IX.

First published in Vivian de Sola Pinto, Rochester: Portrait of a Restoration Poet (London, 1935), pp. 125-6. The revised edition, Enthusiast in Wit: A Portrait of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester 1647-1680 (London, 1962), pp. 111-12. Love, pp. 123-4.

Pw V 32

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Suplement to some of my Lord Rochesters Poems, in two neat rounded hands, 47 pages, in modern quarter-morocco. Late 17th century.

pp. 3-7

• DoC 78: 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 Bennets C-t with change of Governm^t: from Monarchicall to Democraticall’.

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. 24-31

• DoC 53: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)

Copy in two hands, headed ‘Satyr’.

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. 31-45

• DrJ 43.941: 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. 45-7

• RoJ 329.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy of the epilogue (lines 174-201), headed ‘The Appology’, here beginning ‘All this with Indignation have I hurld’.

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).

Pw V 33

Copy, in a professional hand, as ‘by Thomas Shadwell 1670’, with a few autograph revisions and additions, including a several-line insertion on p. 15, 87 folio pages, in modern half-morocco. c.1670.

*SdT 26: Thomas Shadwell, The Humorists

Edited in part from this MS in Perkin.

First published in London, 1671. Summers, I, 175-255. Edited by Richard Perkin (Dublin, 1975).

Pw V 34

Copy, in a professional hand, with occasional autograph revisions and additions by Shadwell and inscribed by him on the title-page ‘ffor His Grace the Duke of Newcastle’, including a Prologue (‘How popular are poets now adayes’) and Dramatis Personae, on 42 large folio leaves (83 pages), the last leaf imperfect and lacking the ending, in modern quarter-morocco. c.1668.

*SdT 33: Thomas Shadwell, The Sullen Lovers: or, The Impertinents

This MS recorded in Summers, I, lviii (where it is erroneously described as ‘a holograph script’). Discussed, with facsimiles of pp. 42-4, in Richard Perkin, ‘Shadwell's Poet Ninny: Additional Material in a Manuscript of The Sullen Lovers’, The Library, 5th Ser. 27 (1972), 244-51.

First published in London, 1668. Summers, I, 1-92.

Pw V 37

A small quarto verse anthology, in a single minute hand (but for p. 206), arranged under genre headings (‘Epitaphs’, ‘Satyricall’, ‘Love Sonnets’, etc.), probably associated with Oxford University, possibly Christ Church, 382 pages (including numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Including 13 poems by Donne and 14 (plus one of uncertain authorship) by Corbett; the scribe is that mainly responsible also for the ‘Thomas Smyth MS’ (DnJ Δ 48). c.1630s.

Later owned and used extensively as a notebook by Dr William Balam (1651-1726), of Ely, Cambridgeshire, who also annotated Cambridge University Library MS Add. 5778 and Harvard fMS Eng 966.4. Bookplate of N. Micklethwait. Owned in 1931 by the Rev. F.W. Glass, of Taverham Hall, near Norwich (seat in the 17th century of the Sotherton family and later of the Branthwayt and Micklethwait families).

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980) and II.i (1987), as the ‘Welbeck MS’: DnJ Δ 57 and CoR Δ 11. Discussed in H. Harvey Wood, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others’, Essays & Studies, 16 (1931), 179-90. For Taverham Hall, see Thomas B. Norgate, A History of Taverham from Early Times to 1969 (Aylsham, 1969).

p. 1

• DkT 30: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)

Copy, headed ‘On the remooveall of her body from Richmond to White-Hall’.

First published in The Wonderfull yeare (London, 1603). Reprinted in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1614), and in Thomas Heywood, The Life and Death of Queene Elizabeth (London, 1639). Grosart, I, 93-4. Tentatively (but probably wrongly) attributed to Camden in George Burke Johnston, ‘Poems by William Camden’, SP, 72 (December 1975), 112.

p. 2

• HrJ 313: Sir John Harington, A Tragicall Epigram (‘When doome of Peeres & Iudges fore-appointed’)

Copy, headed ‘On the beheading of Mary Queene of Scots’ and here beginning ‘When doome of death by judgment foreappointed’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 82. McClure No. 336, pp. 280-1. Kilroy, Book III, No. 44, p. 185. This epigram is also quoted in the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5).

p. 3

• CoR 532: Richard Corbett, On the Lady Arabella (‘How doe I thanke thee, Death, & blesse thy power’)

Copy, as by ‘D^r Corb:’.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 18.

p. 4

• DaJ 205: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘On a yong man’, and here beginning ‘As carefull Nurses in their beds do lay’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

p. 6

• CoR 172: Richard Corbett, An Elegie written upon the death of Dr. Ravis Bishop of London (‘When I past Paules, and travell'd in that walke’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r. Corbett. / On D^r Ravis Bishop of London’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 3-4.

p. 7

• CoR 460: Richard Corbett, On Henry Bowling (‘If gentlenesse could tame the fates, or wit’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbett / On M^r Henry Boling his Death’.

First published in Witts Recreations (London, 1640). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 74.

pp. 21-2

• BmF 78: Francis Beaumont, An Elegy on the Lady Markham (‘As unthrifts groan in straw for their pawn'd beds’)

Copy, headed ‘Fr. Beaumont / On y^e Death of y^e L. M.’

First published in Poems (London, 1640). Dyce, XI, 503-5.

pp. 23-4

• DnJ 1081: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Donne, / Upon y^e Lady Markham’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and 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.

pp. 24-5

• DnJ 1024: John Donne, Elegie on M^ris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r. Donne / On M^ris Bulstrode’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 282-4. Shawcross, No. 150. Milgate, Epithalamions, p. 59-61. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 129-30.

pp. 26-7

• CoR 98: Richard Corbett, An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne (‘Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Death of Q. Anne’.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 66.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 65-7.

p. 27

• MoG 47: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed ‘On K. James who died March 27. 1625.’

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. 28-9

• PoW 98: Walton Poole, On the death of King James (‘Can Christendoms great champion sink away’)

Copy, headed ‘In Obitum Jacobi Regis’.

First published in Oxford Drollery (1671), p. 170. A version of lines 1-18, on the death of Gustavus Adolphus, was published in The Swedish Intelligencer, 3rd Part (1633). Also ascribed to William Strode.

pp. 29-31

• KiH 347: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)

Copy, inscribed at the side ‘M^r Henry King’.

This MS collated in Crum.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 68-72.

p. 37

• DrW 177.991: William Drummond of Hawthornden, On a noble man who died at a counsel table (‘Vntymlie Death that neither wouldst conferre’)

Copy, headed ‘On the same’ [i.e. the L^rd Treasurer Buckhurst], here beginning ‘Immodest Death, that wouldst not once conferre’.

First published in Kastner (1931), II, 285. Often found in a version beginning ‘Immodest death, that wouldst not once conferre’. Of doubtful authorship: see MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 116.

p. 42

• DaJ 148: Sir John Davies, An Epitaph (‘Here lieth Kitt Craker, the kinge of good fellowes’)

Copy, headed ‘C. R. / On John Croker a Bellows maker of Oxford’, here beginning ‘Here lieth John Croker a maker of Bellows’.

A version, ascribed to John Hoskyns, first published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1605). Krueger, p. 303. Edited in The Life, Letters, and Writings of John Hoskyns 1566-1638, ed. Louise Brown Osborn (New Haven & London, 1937), p. 170.

p. 43

• CoR 479: Richard Corbett, On John Dawson, Butler at Christ-Church. 1622 (‘Dawson the Butler's dead. although I thinke’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Strowd / On John Dawson the Butler his death’.

First published (omitting lines 7-10) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 72-3.

p. 59

• RaW 122: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r W. R. / A Lover on his Mistresse’.

First published in The Phoenix Nest (London, 1593). Latham, p. 10. Rudick, Nos 9A and 9B (two versions, pp. 9-10).

p. 60

• RaW 304: Sir Walter Ralegh, A Poem of Sir Walter Rawleighs (‘Nature that washt her hands in milke’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r W. R. / On his Mistresse Serena’, concluding with the final couplet of “Euen such is tyme” (here beginning ‘But from this Earth, and Grave, and Dust’), with the marginal note, ‘This last staffe was said to bee made by S^r W.R. a little before his death, w^th the addition of these two Verses’.

This MS recorded (as MS Taverham) in Latham, pp. 119-20.

First published in A.H. Bullen, Speculum Amantis (London, 1889), pp. 76-7. Latham, pp. 21-2. Rudick, Nos 43A and 43B (two versions, pp. 112-14).

p. 61

• RaW 335: Sir Walter Ralegh, Sir Walter Ralegh to the Queen (‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r. W. R. / To the sole Governes of his affections’, here beginning ‘Passions are likened best to Flouds and Streames’, and prefixed to “Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart” (see RaW 535).

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.

p. 61

• RaW 535: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy, prefixed by ‘Passions are likened best to Flouds and Streames’ (see RaW 335).

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. 62

• RaW 358: Sir Walter Ralegh, To his Love when hee had obtained Her (‘Now Serena bee not coy’)

Copy, inscribed at the side ‘S^r W. R.’

Edited from this MS in Harvey Wood. Recorded (as MS Taverham) in Latham, pp. 118-19.

First published in H. Harvey Wood, ‘A Seventeenth-Century Manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others’, E&S, 16 (1930), 179-90 (pp. 181-2). Latham, p. 20. Rudick, No. 44, p. 115 (as ‘Sir W. Ra: To his Love When hee had obtained Her’).

p. 64

• JnB 27: 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 Lover on his Mistresse’ and here beginning ‘Have you seene the white Lilly grow’.

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. 64

• DnJ 3118: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Sunne that rise too earely to call Him and His love from bed’, subscribed ‘M^r Dunne’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 11-12. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 72-3. Shawcross, No. 36.

p. 65

• DnJ 196: John Donne, The Apparition (‘When by thy scorne, O murdresse, I am dead’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Dunne / To the Same’ [i.e. his Scornefull Mistresse].

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. 66

• DnJ 3018: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Dunne / To his Loving Mistres when hee travaild’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 18-19. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 31-2. Shawcross, No. 42.

p. 69

• ShW 15: William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2 (‘When forty winters shall besiege thy brow’)

Copy, headed ‘W. S. / A Lover to his Mistres’.

Edited from this MS in Harvey Wood, p. 180.

Edited and most manuscript copies collated in Gary Taylor, ‘Some Manuscripts of Shakespeare's Sonnets’, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, 68/1 (Autumn 1985), 210-46.

p. 69

• PeW 199: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)

Copy, headed ‘One to his Friend who was a Lover and impatient to stay till his spouse were of age’.

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. 70

• CwT 90: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy, headed ‘A Lover to his Mistresse’.

First published in Poems (1640), and lines 1-10 also in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, pp. 98-9.

p. 71

• DrM 29: 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.

p. 73

• DnJ 3675: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Donne / A Lover in a Garden’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 28-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 83-4. Shawcross, No. 51.

pp. 75-6

• DnJ 2519: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Donne / A Deprecatory, To his M^rs. (after Wife) who would have accompanied Him in y^e disguise of a Page, when Hee went to travaile’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 111-13 (as ‘Elegie XVI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 23-4. Shawcross, No. 18. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 246-7.

p. 76

• DnJ 449: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Donne / To his Love, who was too hasty to rise from him in y^e Morning’.

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. 78

• DnJ 2308: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, headed ‘A Lover to his M^rs’.

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. 78

• StW 891: William Strode, Song (‘O when will Cupid shew such Art’)

Copy, headed ‘A Sonnett’.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 6. Forey, p. 76.

p. 107

• PlG 21: George Peele, A Sonet (‘His Golden lockes, Time hath to Silver turn'd’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Henry Lea his Farewell to the Court’.

First published as an appendix to Polyhymnia (London, 1590). Edited by D.H. Horne in Prouty, I, 244. The sonnet probably written by Sir Henry Lee: see Horne, pp. 169-70, and Thomas Clayton, ‘“Sir Henry Lee's Farewel to the Court”: The Texts and Authorship of “His Golden Locks Time Hath to Silver Turned”’, ELR, 4 (1974), 268-75.

p. 107

• B&F 147: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy, headed ‘The praise of melancholy’.

Bowers, VII, 468-9. This song first published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Thomas Middleton, The Collected Works, general editors Gary Taylor and John Lavagnino (Oxford, 2007), pp. 1698-9.

For William Strode's answer to this song (which has sometimes led to both songs being attributed to Strode) see StW 641-663.

p. 108

• PoW 72: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy, headed ‘Walton Poole. / A comendation of black haire in a Gentlewoman’.

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. 109

• StW 407: 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 excellently’.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, p. 278. Dobell, p. 39. Forey, p. 208.

p. 110

• WoH 119: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy of a six-stanza version, headed ‘S^r H. Wotton / On the Lady Elizabeth, when shee was first crowned Queene of Bohemia’, here beginning ‘Yee glorious trifles of the East’.

The text followed on p. 111 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.

pp. 112-13

• DnJ 68: John Donne, The Anagram (‘Marry, and love thy Flavia, for, shee’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Dunne / The praise of an old Woman’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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.

pp. 115-16

• DnJ 641: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Donne / A Paradox In y^e Praise of Change in a Lover’.

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.

pp. 116-17

• DnJ 275: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Donne / The Elogy of an Autumnall Face’.

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.

p. 117

• StW 1151: William Strode, To Mr Rives heal'd by a strange cure by Barnard Wright Chirurgion in Oxon. (‘Welcome abroad, o welcome from your bedd!’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Strowd / To Mr Paine of CC. upon y^e strange cure of his thigh by Venotto, and Barnard Wright; Or, The chirurgians Elogie’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 95-7. Forey, pp. 11-14.

pp. 138-9

• RaW 168: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyre volans. Or a flying Satyre made by D^r Latewarr of S^t Johns.’

This MS recorded (as MS Taverham) in Latham, p. 129, and in Höltgen, p. 435.

First published in Francis Davison, A Poetical Rapsodie (London 1611). Latham, pp. 45-7. Rudick, Nos 20A, 20B and 20C (three versions), with answers, pp. 30-45.

This poem is attributed to Richard Latworth (or Latewar) in Lefranc (1968), pp. 85-94, but see Stephen J. Greenblatt, Sir Walter Ralegh (New Haven & London, 1973), pp. 171-6. See also Karl Josef Höltgen, ‘Richard Latewar Elizabethan Poet and Divine’, Anglia, 89 (1971), 417-38 (p. 430). Latewar's ‘answer’ to this poem is printed in Höltgen, pp. 435-8. Some texts are accompanied by other answers.

p. 139

• EsR 48: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Go Eccho of the minde, a careles troth protest’

Copy, headed ‘A Reply to the flying Satyr’.

May, Poems, No. II, pp. 60-1.

p. 140

• RaW 353: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘The word of deniall, and the letter of fifty’

Copy, headed ‘S^r. W. R / On D^r Noell’, together with ‘D^r Noel On S^r W. Rawley’.

First published, as ‘The Answer’ to ‘A Riddle’ (‘Th'offence of the stomach, with the word of disgrace’), in Works (1829), VIII, 736. Latham, pp. 47-8. Rudick, Nos 19A, 19B and 19C (three versions, pp. 28-9).

pp. 140-1

• JnB 646: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben: Johnson / Cooke Lawrell’.

Herford & Simpson, lines 1061-1125. Greg, Burley version, lines 821-84. Windsor version, lines 876-939.

p. 144

• CoR 254: Richard Corbett, In Quendam Anniversariorum Scriptorem (‘Even soe dead Hector thrice was triumph'd on’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbet Against D^r Price’.

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.

pp. 144-5

• CoR 234: Richard Corbett, In Poetam Exauctoratum et Emeritum (‘Nor is it griev'd (graue youth) the memory’)

Copy, headed ‘Ad Poetam exauctoratum et emeritum’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 10-11.

For related poems see CoR 247-78.

p. 149

• CoR 587: Richard Corbett, To the Ghost of Robert Wisdome (‘Thou, once a Body, now, but Aire’)

Copy, headed ‘That Authors Invocation on y^e Ghost of Robert Wisdome’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 75.

pp. 149-50

• CoR 660: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him (‘Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbett / On M^rs Mallett; an ill-favour'd Creature, yt would needs bee in love with the Author’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 6-7.

p. 152

• HoJ 229: John Hoskyns, S^r Fra: Bacon. L: Verulam. Vicount S^t Albons (‘Lord Verulam is very lame, the gout of go-out feeling’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e fall of S^r Francis Bacon L. Chancellour, and of his Followers’, here beginning ‘Great Verulam is very lame, the Gout of Goe-out feeling’.

Osborn, No. XXXIX (p. 210). Whitlock, pp. 558-9.

p. 169

• WoH 42: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Henry Wotton / A contented life’.

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).

p. 169

• RaW 278: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy of lines 1-8, headed ‘On Man’ subscribed ‘Be: Stone’.

This MS recorded (as MS Taverham) in Latham, p. 144.

First published, in a musical setting, in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Latham, pp. 51-2. Rudick, Nos 29A, 29B and 29C (three versions, pp. 69-70). MS texts also discussed in Michael Rudick, ‘The Text of Ralegh's Lyric “What is our life?”’, SP, 83 (1986), 76-87.

p. 170

• HoJ 249: John Hoskyns, To his Son Benedict Hoskins (‘Sweet Benedict whilst thou art younge’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Hoskins in the Tower to his Sonne’, here beginning ‘My little Ben whilst thou art yong’.

Osborn, No. XXXI (p. 203).

p. 170

• RaW 222: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice (‘Beefore the sixt day of the next new year’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r W. R. / An old and true Prophesy’.

Edited from this MS in H. Harvey Wood, ‘A Seventeenth-Century manuscript of Poems by Donne and Others’, E&S, 16 (1930), 179-90 (p. 182). Recorded (as MS Taverham) in Latham, p. 139.

First published as ‘A Prognostication upon Cards and Dice’ in Poems of Lord Pembroke and Sir Benjamin Ruddier (London, 1660). Latham, p. 48. Rudick, Nos 50A and 50B, pp. 123-4 (two versions, as ‘Sir Walter Rawleighs prophecy of cards, and Dice at Christmas’ and ‘On the Cardes and dice’ respectively).

p. 171

• HoJ 271: John Hoskyns, De quodam Nephritico (‘Occidis exesos renes torrente lapillo’)

Copy, as by ‘J. Hoskins’.

Unpublished.

p. 171

• HoJ 90: John Hoskyns, De quodam Nephritico. Translated thus (‘Thou diedst, y^e stone broiling thy consum'd reines’)

Copy.

Unpublished.

p. 172

• HrJ 95: Sir John Harington, Of a certaine Man (‘There was (not certain when) a certaine preacher’)

Copy, headed ‘Erat quidam Homo. Or An invective against Women’ and here beginning ‘It is not certaine when, a certaine Preacher’. The text followed by ‘Erat quaedam Mulier. Or The Womans Reply’ (here beginning ‘That no man yet could in the scripture find’).

First published in 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 23. McClure No. 277, p. 262. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 105, p. 250.

p. 174

• HrJ 83: Sir John Harington, How England may be reformed (‘Men say that England late is bankrout grown’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon England’ and here beginning ‘England men say of late is Bankrupt growne.’

Not published before the 19th century (?). Quoted at the end of the Tract on the Succession to the Crown (see HrJ 333-5). McClure No. 375, p. 301. Kilroy, Book I, No. 1, p. 186.

p. 175

• HoJ 286: John Hoskyns, Jacobo Magnæ Britanniæ Regi Maximo, Clementissimo (‘Jam mihi bis centum fluxere in carcere noctes’)

Copy, headed ‘J. Hoskins incarceratus / Jacobo M. Britanniæ Regi Opt: Max:’.

Osborn, No. XXXII (pp. 203-4).

p. 176

• HoJ 258: John Hoskyns, Ad chutum & sharpum (‘Chute meæ infoelix consors et Acute ruinæ’)

Copy, headed ‘J. Hoskins incarceratus. M^ro Chute et D^ri Sharpe concarceratis’.

Osborn, No. XXX (pp. 202-3)

p. 177

• CoR 763: Richard Corbett, To the Bell-Founder of Great Tom of Christ-Church in Oxford (‘Thou that by ruine doest repaire’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbett. / On the casting of great Tom. 1621. To Brontes the Bell = Founder’.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 165.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 98-100.

p. 180

• JnB 421: Ben Jonson, On the Vnion (‘When was there contract better driuen by Fate?’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Vnion of great Britaine’, here beginning ‘Never was Vnion better driven by fate’.

First published in Epigrammes (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 28.

p. 187

• JnB 600: Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song (‘Still to be neat, still to be drest’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman that used to in a verse trick upp her selfe over-curiously’.

First published in London, 1616. Herford & Simpson, V, 139-272.

pp. 191-2

• RaW 447: Sir Walter Ralegh, The passionate mans Pilgrimage (‘Giue me my Scallop shell of quiet’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Walter Raleigh his Pilgrimage; Or A Preparative made by Himselfe, the Night before hee was beheaded’.

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. 193

• StW 983: William Strode, Song of Death and the Resurrection (‘Like to the casting of an Eye’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Strowd. / Mortality and Resurrection’.

First published in Poems and Psalms by Henry King, ed. John Hannah (Oxford & London, 1843), p. cxxii. Dobell, pp. 50-1. Forey, pp. 107-8.

MS texts usually begin ‘Like to the rolling of an eye’.

p. 195

• StW 942: William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment (‘Preferment, like a Game at bowles’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Strowd / Preferment likened to a Game at Bowles’.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.

p. 195

• CwT 292: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Fly that gott into a Gentlewomans eie’.

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. 196

• BcF 42: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, headed ‘S^r Fr: Bacon. / On y^e Vanity of y^e Life of Man’.

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. 197-8

• JnB 664: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘ffrom a Gypsie in the morninge’)

Copy, headed ‘B. Johnson / The five Senses’.

Herford & Simpson, lines 1329-89. Greg, Windsor version, lines 1129-89.

For a parody of this song, see DrW 117.1.

pp. 198-200

• DrW 117.51: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Copy, headed ‘The five sences. Per incertum Authorem’.

Often headed in MSS ‘The [Five] Senses’, a parody of Patrico's blessing of the King's senses in Jonson's Gypsies Metamorphosed (JnB 654-70). A MS copy owned by Drummond: see The Library of Drummond of Hawthornden, ed. Robert H. Macdonald (Edinburgh, 1971), No. 1357. Kastner printed the poem among his ‘Poems of Doubtful Authenticity’ (II, 296-9), but its sentiments are alien to those of Drummond: see C.F. Main, ‘Ben Jonson and an Unknown Poet on the King's Senses’, MLN, 74 (1959), 389-93, and MacDonald, SSL, 7 (1969), 118. Discussed also in Allan H. Gilbert, ‘Jonson and Drummond or Gil on the King's Senses’, MLN, 62 (January 1947), 35-7. Sometimes also ascribed to James Johnson.

pp. 201-2

• GoT 6: Thomas Goffe, A Songe vpon y^e loss of an Actors voyce, beeing to play a cheife part in y^e Vniversitie (‘Voyce, emptie ayre, soone perisht sounde’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Gough of CC. Upon y^e hoarsnes of his Voice when Hee was to act in a Tragedy un publique, w^ch Himselfe was y^e author of’.

Unpublished.

p. 204

• HrE 78.5: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Inconstancy (‘Inconstancy's the greatest of synns’)

Copy, the first stanza headed ‘Of Inconstancy’, the second headed ‘The Aunswere, in praise of itt’.

First published in Moore Smith (1923), p. 119.

p. 205

• DaJ 85: Sir John Davies, On the Marriage of Lady Elizabeth Hatton to Edward Coke (‘Caecus the pleader hath a lady wedd’)

Copy of poem 1, headed ‘On S^r Edward Cooke his Marriage w^th y^e Lady Hatton’ and here beginning ‘Coquius the Lawyer hath a Lady wedd’.

First published in Krueger (1975), p. 171-6.

p. 206

• WaE 501: Edmund Waller, To a Lady in a Garden (‘Sees not my love how time resumes’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Waller / On his Mistres in a garden she refusing to loue to preserve her Beauty’.

First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 113.

pp. 225-7

• EsR 92: 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 fifteen-stanza version, headed ‘The Earle of Essex his Bee’, here beginning ‘There was a Time when silly bees coulde speake’.

Edited from this MS in Wood article, pp. 188-90. Collated from that article 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. 227

• EsR 17: Robert Devereux, second Earl of Essex, ‘Ingenium, studium, nummos, spem, tempus, amicos’

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in May, p. 125.

May, No. 9, p. 47.

pp. 231-2

• DnJ 3371: John Donne, To Mr. Tilman after he had taken orders (‘Thou, whose diviner soule hath caus'd thee now’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Dunne / To M^r Tilman after his taking of Orders’.

This MS collated in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 351-2. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 32-3. Shawcross, No. 189.

pp. 232-6

• JnB 101: Ben Jonson, An Epistle to Sir Edward Sacvile, now Earle of Dorset (‘If, Sackvile, all that have the power to doe’)

Copy, headed ‘B. Johnson / A Poeme by the way of thankfull acknowledgment sent and dedicated to S^r Edward Sackvile’.

First published in The Vnder-wood (xiii) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 153-8.

pp. 307-12

• CoR 635: Richard Corbett, To the Lord Mordant upon his returne from the North (‘My Lord, I doe confesse, at the first newes’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbett. / Verses against the Guard; Or, A Satyricall Relation (by way of Letter to the Lord Mordant) concerning the ill entertainment the Guard gave him at his being att Winsore’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 23-31.

pp. 312-13

• CoR 322: Richard Corbett, A letter sent from Doctor Corbet to Master Ailesbury, Decem. 9. 1618 (‘My Brother and much more had'st thou bin mine’)

Copy, as by ‘D^r Corbett’.

This MS recorded in Bennett & Trevor-Roper, p. 65.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 63-5.

pp. 317-19

• CoR 347: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbett. / To the Duke of Buckingham in Spaine’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 76-9.

p. 323

• CoR 287: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)

Copy of lines 1-46, headed ‘D^r Corbett. / The description of a Northerne Journey’.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 31-49.

pp. 364-5

• CoR 19: Richard Corbett, A Certaine Poeme As it was presented in Latine by Divines and Others, before his Maiestye in Cambridge (‘It is not yet a fortnight, since’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbett against Cambridge’.

First published in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 12-18.

Some texts accompanied by an ‘Answer’ (‘A ballad late was made’).

Pw V 38

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional rounded hand, including (pp. 269-71) an ‘Index’, iv + 271 pages (including blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt. c.1690s.

pp. 9-20

• DrJ 97: John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe (‘All humane things are subject to decay’)

Copy.

This MS collated (as ‘MS Portland 109’) in California and 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. 21-35

• DrJ 43.942: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)

Copy.

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

pp. 75-82

• DoC 54: 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. 83-94

• DoC 353: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Fill'd with the noisome folly of the Age’.

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 L^d 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. 105-6

• HrJ 234.6: Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches (‘Six of the weakest sex and purest sect’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Six holy Sisters that mett att a Conventicle to alter the Popish word of Preaching’, here beginning ‘Six of the female Sex and purest Sect’.

First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.

Pw V 39

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, probably in a single rounded hand, 140 pages (including blanks), in old half-calf on marbled boards. Late 17th century.

Later used by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor, with his loosely inserted index. Sold in April 1934 by Dobell.

pp. 90-2

• DoC 234: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen (‘Clarendon had law and sense’)

Copy, headed ‘The Chess’.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

pp. 134-5

• DoC 134: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion (‘After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.

Pw V 40

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in several hands, one professional stylish hand predominating, with (ff. 1r, 2r) a ‘Table’ of contents, 213 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf. Including 29 poems by Rochester (plus a second copy of one) and Sodom, as well as apocryphal items. c.1680s.

Once owned by Thomas Fermor (1698-1753), first Earl of Pomfret, of Easton Neston, Northamptonshire. Also used by one James Parks.

Recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, and selectively collated in Walker.

ff. 4r-15r

• RoJ 636: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Sodom and Gomorah

Copy, lacking a title-page, a prologue and an epilogue, here ending after scene 5.

This MS discussed in Edwards, BC (1976) and PBSA (1977).

First published (?) at ‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], (?)1684. The only known extant early printed exemplum is a probably early 18th-century octavo entitled Sodom, or the Gentleman Instructed. A Comedy. By the E. of R., sold at Sotheby's 16 December 2004, lot 54 (with facsimile pages in the sale catalogue), now in private ownership.

Edited from MS copies as Rochester's Sodom, ed. L.S.A.M. von Römer (Paris, 1904), and as Sodom (Olympia Press, Paris, [1957]). Love, pp. 302-33.

Of uncertain authorship. For discussions of authorship and texts, see notably Rodney M. Blaine, ‘Rochester or Fishbourne: A Question of Authorship’, RES, 22 (1946), 201-6; J. Thorpe, ‘New Manuscripts of Sodom’, PULC, 13 (1951-2), 40-1; A.S.G. Edwards, ‘Libertine Literature in Restoration England: Princeton MS AM 14401’, BC, 25 (Autumn 1976), 354-68, and ‘The Authorship of Sodom’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 208-12; Larry Carver, ‘The Texts and The Text of Sodom’, PBSA, 73 (1979), 19-40; John D. Patterson, ‘Does Otway ascribe Sodom to Rochester?’, N&Q, 225 (August 1980), 349-51; and J.W. Johnson, ‘Did Lord Rochester Write Sodom?’, PBSA, 81 (1987), 101-53.

ff. 16r-17v

• RoJ 81: 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.

ff. 18r-20v

• RoJ 279: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James's Park (‘Much wine had passed, with grave discourse’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘A Ramble in y^e Parke’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 40-6. Walker, pp. 64-8. Love, pp. 76-80.

ff. 21v-2r

• RoJ 549: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Drinking a Bowl (‘Vulcan, contrive me such a cup’)

Copy, headed ‘Nestor’.

This MS 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.

ff. 25r-6v

• DoC 112: 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 ‘ffamiliar Lett^rs’.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 112-13) and 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.

ff. 26v-7v

• EtG 36: Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to A Letter from Lord Buckhurst] (‘As crafty harlots use to shrink’)

Copy, headed ‘Answer’.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated, p. 113.

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.

ff. 28r-9v

• DoC 21: 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’.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe (and collated pp. 113-14) and in Harris.

For other poems in this series see DoC 110-13, EtG 34-8, and EtG 39-43.

ff. 30v-1r

• DoC 307: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Actus Primus, Scena Prima (‘For standing tarses we kind nature thank’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Harris.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). Discussed in Harris, p. 185, and in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 437-8.

ff. 32r-3r

• EtG 41: Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to Another Letter from Lord Buckhurst] (‘So soft and amorously you write’)

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated p. 114.

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.

ff. 33v-4r

• EtG 9: Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet (‘How far are they deceived who hope in vain’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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.

ff. 34v-5r

• RoJ 611: 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’)

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.

ff. 35v-6v

• RoJ 210: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Poet Ninny (‘Crushed by that just contempt his follies bring’)

Copy, headed ‘Poet Ninny’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 141-2. Walker, pp. 115-16. Love, pp. 107-8.

f. 36r-v

• RoJ 194: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, My Lord All-Pride (‘Bursting with pride, the loathed impostume swells’)

Copy, headed in the margin ‘L^d al Pride’.

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.

f. 37r

• RoJ 188: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Mock Song (‘I swive as well as others do’)

Copy, headed ‘Answar’ and here beginning ‘I ffuck no more then others do’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; 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.

ff. 37v-9v

• RoJ 17: 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, headed ‘An Allusion to Horace’.

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.

f. 41v

• RoJ 247: 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, subscribed ‘Rochester’.

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).

f. 42v

• RoJ 204: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Mrs. Willis (‘Against the charms our ballocks have’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 137-8. Walker, pp. 44-5. Love, p. 37.

ff. 43r-4r

• RoJ 570: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

Copy, headed ‘Nothing’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, ‘The Text of Rochester's “Upon Nothing”’.

ff. 44r-5r

• RoJ 489: 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.

f. 45v

• RoJ 443: 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.

ff. 45v-6r

• RoJ 626: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Woman's Honor (‘Love bade me hope, and I obeyed’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 14. Walker, pp. 22-3. Love, p. 21.

f. 46r-v

• RoJ 465: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Submission (‘To this moment a rebel, I throw down my arms’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 15. Walker, pp. 18-19. Love, p. 22, as Song.

ff. 46v-7v

• MaA 243: Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market (‘As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield’)

Copy, headed ‘Stocks Markett Statute’ and here beginning ‘As Cittisens that to theire first Conquerours yeald’.

This MS collated in POAS, I.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

f. 47r-v

• RoJ 388: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Give me leave to rail at you’)

Copy, headed ‘To Thirsis’; the text followed (pp. 59-60) by Lady Rochester's ‘answer’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; 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.

ff. 47v-8v

• RoJ 380: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 27-8. Walker, pp. 33-4. Love, pp. 39-40.

ff. 48v-9r

• RoJ 418: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Phyllis, be gentler, I advise’)

Copy, headed ‘To 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.

f. 49r

• RoJ 174: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life (‘All my past life is mine no more’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

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.

f. 49v

• RoJ 453: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘While on those lovely looks I gaze’)

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.

ff. 49v-50r

• RoJ 96: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Fall (‘How blest was the created state’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 86. Walker, p. 26. Love, p. 26.

f. 50v

• RoJ 411: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Love a woman? You're an ass!’)

Copy, headed ‘Love to a Woman’.

This MS 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’.

ff. 50v-1v

• SeC 103: Sir Charles Sedley, Song (‘In the Fields of Lincolns Inn’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, p. 339.

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.

ff. 53r-7v

• DrJ 98: John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe (‘All humane things are subject to decay’)

Copy.

This MS collated (as ‘MS Portland (unnumbered)’) in California and in Vieth.

First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 265-71. California, II, 53-60. Hammond, I, 313-36.

ff. 70v-3r

• DoC 55: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). POAS, II (1965), 167-75. Harris, pp. 124-35.

f. 78v

• RoJ 40.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Dialogue (‘When to the King I bid good morrow’)

Copy.

First published in Vieth, pp. 129-30. Walker, pp. 102-3. Love, p. 91, as ‘Dialogue L: R.’

ff. 79v-80r

• WaE 728: Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same (‘We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim’)

Copy, headed ‘The storme’.

The text followed (ff. 80r-1r) by Godolphin's The Answer to y^e Storme (anon)a

For the ‘answer or construction’ by William Godolphin, see the Introduction.

ff. 91r-2v

• MaA 519.3: Andrew Marvell, His Majesty's Most Gracious Speech to both Houses of Parliament, 13 April 1675

Copy, headed ‘The Speech’.

A mock speech, beginning ‘I told you last meeting the winter was the fittest time for business...’. First published, and ascribed to Marvell, in Poems on Affairs of State, Vol. III (London, 1704). Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 36-43. Grosart, II, 431-3. Augustine Birrell, Andrew Marvell (London, 1905), pp. 200-2. Discussed in Legouis, p. 470, and in Kelliher, pp. 111-12.

ff. 93r-4v

• MaA 139.96: Andrew Marvell, A Country Clowne call'd Hodge Went to view the Pyramid, pray mark what did ensue (‘When Hodge had number'd up how many score’)

Copy, headed ‘Hodg / A Country Clown call'd Hodg went up to view the Piramid’.

First published, as ‘Hodge a Countryman went up to the Piramid, His Vision’, in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), p. 5. Sometimes called Hodge's Vision from the Monument, [December, 1675]. Cooke, II, Carmina Miscellanea, pp. 81-8. Thompson, III, 359-65. Grosart, I, 435-40. Poems on Affairs of State: Augustan Satirical Verse, 1660-1714, Volume II: 1678-1681, ed. Elias F. Mengel, Jr (New Haven & London, 1965), pp. 146-53.

First attributed to Marvell in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697), but probably written in 1679, after Marvell's death.

ff. 98v-9r

• DoC 280: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called ‘The British Princes’ (‘Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^r E- H- upon his B- P-’.

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). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.

ff. 100r-3r

• WaE 394: Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation (‘While with a strong and yet a gentle hand’)

Copy, headed ‘Panegyrick by E:W’.

First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.

f. 103r-v

• MaA 206: Andrew Marvell, Nostradamus's Prophecy (‘The Blood of the Just London's firm Doome shall fix’)

Copy of a version headed ‘Nostradamus's Prophecy’ and beginning ‘Her faults and follys Londons doom shall fix’.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 178-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 185-9 (first part only as possibly by John Ayloffe). Rejected from the canon by Lord.

f. 104r-v

• MaA 227: Andrew Marvell, The Statue at Charing Cross (‘What can be the Mistery why Charing Cross’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon the Statue at Charing Cross Charles the first’.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Margoliouth, I, 199-201. POAS, I, 270-3. Lord, pp. 201-4. Smith, pp. 418-19.

ff. 105t-7r

• MaA 412: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)

Copy, headed ‘Advice to a Painter’.

ff. 107r-10r

• MaA 119: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy.

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 194-9, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, I, 228-36, attributed to John Ayloffe. See also George deF. Lord, ‘Satire and Sedition: The Life and Work of John Ayloffe’, HLQ, 29 (1965-6), 255-73 (p. 258).

ff. 110v-12v

• MaA 462: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy, headed ‘Advice to a Painter’.

First published [in London], 1679. A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689), as by ‘A-M-l, Esq’. Thompson III, 399-403. Margoliouth, I, 214-18, as by Henry Savile. POAS, I, 213-19, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 40-2, as by Henry Savile.

ff. 113r-15v

• RoJ 104.56: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids (‘Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second’)

Copy, headed ‘The Chronicle’.

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

ff. 116r-18v

• DrJ 60: John Dryden, Heroique Stanza's, Consecrated to the Glorious Memory of his most Serene and Renowned Highnesse Oliver Late Lord Protector of this Common-Wealth, &c. (‘And now 'tis time. for their Officious haste’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Death of O: C by JD’.

This MS collated in Dearing et al., loc. cit.

First published in Three Poems Upon the Death of his late Highnesse Oliver Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland (London, 1659). Kinsley, I, 6-12. California, I, 11-16. Hammond, I, 18-29.

ff. 119r-20r

• RoJ 108: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Imperfect Enjoyment (‘Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 37-40. Walker, pp. 30-2. Love, pp. 13-15.

f. 123r-v

• RoJ 53: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee (‘As some brave admiral, in former war’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 116-17. Walker, pp. 97-9. Love, pp. 44-5.

f. 124r-v

• RoJ 248: 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, Gyldenstolpe.

ff. 124v-5r

• RoJ 516: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's ‘Troades’, Act II, Chorus (‘After death nothing is, and nothing, death’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

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’.

f. 125r-v

• DoC 317: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Debauchee (‘I rise at eleven, I dine about two’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe, p. 323.

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.

ff. 125v-6r

• DoC 154: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mr. Edward Howard upon his ‘New Utopia’ (‘Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^r E: H- upon his New Vt-’.

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). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.

ff. 128v-9v

• BeA 13: Aphra Behn, On the death of Mr. Grinhil, the Famous Painter (‘What doleful crys are these that fright my sence’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe.

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.

ff. 130r-1v, 137r-8r

• RoJ 478: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Timon (‘What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; collated 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.

ff. 134r-6v

• DrJ 43.943: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)

Copy.

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

f. 141r

• RoJ 218: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)

Copy.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

ff. 141v-5r

• RoJ 293: 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, Gyldenstolpe.

ff. 145r-9r

• RoJ 143: 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, Gyldenstolpe.

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.

f. 212v

• CoA 200: Abraham Cowley, The well wish of A: C: to his Soueraigne King Charles (‘Greate King whose pen y^e Angells guide, whose minde’)

Copy, untitled.

Of doubtful authorship.

f. 212v

• CoA 183: Abraham Cowley, ‘The Chartreux wants the warning of a Bell’

Copy, untitled.

First published in The Visions and Prophecies concerning England, Scotland, and Ireland, of Ezekiel Grebner (London, 1661 [i.e. 1660]). Waller, II, 365.

f. 212v

• CoA 1: Abraham Cowley, ‘A vail of thickned Air around them cast’

First published, in the essay ‘Of Obscurity’, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 298.

f. 212v

• CoA 35: Abraham Cowley, ‘Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise’

Copy, untitled.

First published, in the epistolary essay ‘The danger of Procrastination’, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 454.

f. 213r

• RoJ 433.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Quoth the Duchess of Cleveland to counselor Knight’)

Copy.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 48. Walker, p. 61. Love, p. 90.

f. 213v

• CoA 29: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. V. Age (‘Oft am I by the Women told’)

Copy, headed ‘Age’.

First published, among Miscellanies, in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 53. Sparrow, pp. 52-3.

f. 213v

• CoA 87: Abraham Cowley, ‘For the few Houres of Life allotted me’

Copy, untitled.

First published, at the end of the essay ‘Of Liberty’, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 386.

f. 225r

• RoJ 70.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Epilogue to Circe (‘Some few from Wit have this true Maxime got’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘By the Earl of Rochester’, in Charles D'Avenant, Circe, a Tragedy (London, 1677). Vieth, p. 140. Walker, p. 58. Love, p. 122.

[unnumbered page]

• RoJ 376.8: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘By all love's soft, yet mighty powers’)

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 139. Walker, pp. 45-6. Love, pp. 37-8.

Pw V 42

A large folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &c^a Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in University of Nottingham, Pw V 43 and University of Nottingham, Pw V 44), 461 pages plus an eight-page ‘Table’ of contents, in contemporary blind-stamped calf. c.1705.

pp. 4-13

• BuS 33: Samuel Butler, Dildoides (‘Such a sad Tale prepare to hear’)

Copy.

Dated in some sources 1672 but not published until 1706.

pp. 13-20

• RoJ 365: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Signior Dildo (‘You ladies all of merry England’)

Copy, as ‘By Lord Dorset & M^r: [Fleetwood] Shepperd’, the poem dated in the margin ‘1673’.

This MS recorded in Vieth and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 54-9. Walker, pp. 75-8.

The poem discussed, texts collated, and the attribution to Rochester questioned, in Harold Love, ‘A Restoration Lampoon in Transmission and Revision: Rochester's(?) “Signior Dildo”’, SB, 46 (1993), 250-62. Love (two versions and added stanzas), pp. 248-9, 250-2, 252-3, 253-7, among Disputed Works.

pp. 20-1

• RoJ 507: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To the Postboy (‘Son of a whore, God damn you! can you tell’)

Copy, headed ‘the Earle of Rochesters Conference with the Post Boy’ and the poem dated ‘1674’.

This MS recorded in Patterson, loc. cit.; collated in Walker.

First published, in shortened form, in Johannes Prinz, Rochesteriana (Leipzig, 1926), p. 56. Vieth, pp. 130-1. Walker, p. 103. Love, pp. 42-3.

pp. 23-34

• MaA 75: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn (‘I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene’)

Copy, without ‘The Answer’, headed ‘1673 The Chequer Inn. Tune I tell the Dick. By M^r: H Savel’

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

pp. 170-5

• EtG 105: Sir George Etherege, Mrs. Nelly's Complaint (‘If Sylla's ghost made bloody Catiline start’)

Copy, the poem dated in the margin ‘1682’.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…Buckingham, Vol. I (London, 1704). Thorpe, pp. 62-4.

pp. 335-62

• DoC 96: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Faithful Catalogue of our Most Eminent Ninnies (‘Curs'd be those dull, unpointed, doggerel rhymes’)

Copy, the poem dated in the margin ‘1687’.

This MS colated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset (London, 1707). POAS, IV (1968), 189-214. Harris, pp. 136-67.

Pw V 43

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &c^a Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in University of Nottingham, Pw V 42 and University of Nottingham, Pw V 44), 463 pages plus a twelve-page index, in contemporary blind-stamped calf. c.1705.

pp. 39-40

• SeC 60: Sir Charles Sedley, To Celia (‘As in those Nations, where they yet adore’)

Copy, headed ‘To a Scornfull Beauty’.

pp. 73-4

• DoC 326.94: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Dorsetts Lamentation for Moll Howards Absence (‘Dorset no gentle Nimph can find’)

Copy.

Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as ‘obviously not by Dorset’.

pp. 74-6

• DoC 135: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion (‘After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory’)

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.

pp. 133-5

• EtG 77: Sir George Etherege, A Song on Basset (‘Let equipage and dress despair’)

Copy, the poem dated in the margin ‘1685’.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published (lines 1-16 only) in Choice Ayres and Songs, Fourth Book (London, 1683). Published complete in Lycidas (London, 1688). Thorpe, pp. 11-12.

pp. 195-8

• DoC 68: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel (‘Of Clineas' and Dametas' sharper fight’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Of Chineas & Dameta's sharper Fight’.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 21-4. This poem is part of a series by William Wharton and Robert Wolseley.

pp. 215-18

• EtG 118: Sir George Etherege, Upon Love: In Imitation of Cowley (‘Whether we mortals love or no’)

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Thorpe, pp. 55-68.

p. 378

• RoJ 183: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life (‘All my past life is mine no more’)

Copy, headed ‘To Phillis’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Gyldenstolpe; 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.

pp. 410-19

• MaA 169: Andrew Marvell, An Historical Poem (‘Of a tall Stature and of sable hue’)

Copy, the poem here dated ‘1679’.

First published in The Fourth (and Last) Collection of Poems, Satyrs, Songs, &c. (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 218-23, as of doubtful authorship. POAS, II, 154-63, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

Pw V 44

A folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems and Lampoons &c^a Not yet Edited, in a single professional rounded hand (the same as in University of Nottingham, Pw V 42 and University of Nottingham, Pw V 43), 444 pages (plus blanks and an eleven-page index), in contemporary calf. c.1705.

pp. 28-30

• DoC 298: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd ‘The Female Nine’ (‘When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines’)

Copy, headed ‘An Excellent New Ballad Giving a True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem Call'd The Female Nine’, following (on pp. 21-7) a copy of that poem.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.

pp. 94-102

• HaG 40: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Maxims of the Great Almansor

Copy of 33 maxims, headed ‘Almanzor's Maxims’, the text followed (on pp. 102-5) by fourteen supplementary maxims by Charles Montagu headed ‘The Second Part’.

This MS collated in Brown, I, 398-401.

First published, anonymously, under the heading The following Maxims were found amongst the Papers of the Great Almanzor…[&c] (London, 1693). Foxcroft, II, 447-53. Brown, I, 292-5.

p. 121

• DoC 181: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (II) (‘Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Lady Dorchester. By the Earl of Dorset’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.

p. 122

• DoC 194: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (III) (‘Proud with the spoils of royal cully’)

Copy, untitled, run on directly from DoC 181.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384-5. Harris, pp. 43-4. In most texts the poem runs directly on from the previous poem on the Countess of Dorchester (DoC 173-85).

pp. 122-3

• DoC 207: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) (‘Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay’)

Copy, headed ‘Another By the same hand’, the poem dated in the margin ‘1694’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.

pp. 158-9

• CgW 18: William Congreve, A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret (‘Fair Amoret is gone astray’)

Copy, as ‘By M^r: Congreve’, the poem dated in the margin ‘1696/7’.

First published, in a musical setting by John Eccles and attributed to Congreve, in a broadsheet (1698). Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 74. Dobrée, p. 284 (as ‘Amoret’). McKenzie, II, 369.

Also attributed to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset: see The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York and London, 1979), pp. 182-3.

pp. 250-3

• SeC 96: Sir Charles Sedley, On the Happy Corydon and Phillis (‘Young Coridon and Phillis’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song By a Lady of Quality’, the poem dated in the margin ‘1699’.

First published in Poetical Works (London, 1707). Sola Pinto, II, 151-2.

pp. 253-5

• VaJ 11: Sir John Vanbrugh, To a Lady More Cruel than Fair (‘Why d'ye with such Disdain refuse’)

Copy, as ‘By M^r: Vanbrook’, the poem dated in the margin ‘1699’.

First published, ascribed to ‘Mr Vanbrook’, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704), pp. 245-6.

pp. 302-4

• VaJ 2.8: Sir John Vanbrugh, The Rival (‘Of all the Torments, all the Cares’)

Copy, headed ‘The Rivall. By M^r: Walsh’ [ie. William Walsh (1662-1708), poet], the poem dated in the margin ‘1699’.

This MS text formerly recorded in IELM as Sir George Etherege EtG 113. Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated pp. 138-9.

First published in A Collection of New Songs, Second Book (London, 1699). Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704), p. 317. Possibly by William Walsh (but not included in his Works (London, 1736)). Also attributed (less likely) to Sir George Etherege. Thorpe, p. 61.

pp. 344-52

• DoC 323: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Deist: A Satyr on the Parsons (‘Religion's a politic law’)

Copy, headed ‘The Deist’.

This MS recorded in Harris.

Unpublished. Discussed in Harris, pp. 189-90.

Pw V 45

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, 82 pages (plus numerous blanks), in vellum boards. c.1680s.

pp. 7-8

• DoC 136: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, My Opinion (‘After thinking this fortnight of Whig and of Tory’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Miscellaneous Works, Written by…George, late Duke of Buckingham (London, 1704-5). POAS, II (1965), 391-2. Harris, pp. 55-6.

pp. 9-10

• DoC 326.95: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Dorsetts Lamentation for Moll Howards Absence (‘Dorset no gentle Nimph can find’)

Copy.

Recorded in Harris, p. 55, as ‘obviously not by Dorset’.

p. 21

• DoC 334: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Absence (‘When Portsmouth did from England fly’)

Copy.

First published (in part) in The Roxburghe Ballads, ed. J. Woodfall Ebsworth, IV (Hertford, 1883), 286. Discussed in Harris, p. 194.

pp. 51-60

• SdT 18: Thomas Shadwell, Satyr to his Muse (‘Hear me dull Prostitute, worse than my Wife’)

Copy.

First published in London, 1682. Summers, V, 263-72.

Pw V 46

A large folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, probably in several hands, one professional hand predominating, with (ff. 1r-2r) a ‘Table’ of contents, 200 leaves, in contemporary blind-stamped calf. c.1695.

Bookplate of William, Earl of Craven (1608-97), soldier and Privy Counsellor, of Hampstead Marshall, Berkshire.

ff. 4r-6r

• SdT 4: Thomas Shadwell, A Letter from Mr. Shadwell to Mr. Wicherley (‘Inspir'd with high and mighty Ale’)

Copy, subscribed ‘T. S.’

First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Summers, V, 227-9.

For Wycherley's ‘Answer’, see WyW 1-4.

ff. 6r-7v

• WyW 2: William Wycherley, The Answer [to Mr. Shadwell] (‘That I have only answer'd Mum’)

First published in Poems on Affairs of State...Part III (London, 1698). Summers, II, 245-7. For Shadwell's accompanying ‘Letter…to Mr. Wicherley’, see SdT 2-6.

ff. 8r-9v

• RoJ 164: 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 of lines 171-260, headed ‘Satyr: On The Country Squire (by L Rochester)’ and here beginning ‘You smile to me (whom the world perchance’.

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.

ff. 13r-14r

• MaA 184: Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes (‘When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb’)

Copy, headed ‘Royall Resolutions’.

First published as A Prophetick Lampoon, Made Anno 1659. By his Grace George Duke of Buckingham: Relating to what would happen to the Government under King Charles II [London, 1688/9]. Margoliouth, I, 173-5. POAS, I, 159-62. Lord, pp. 186-8, as ‘The Vows’. Discussed in Chernaik, pp. 212-14, where it is argued that it is of ‘unknown’ authorship, ‘possibly Marvell's’, and that the poem grew by accretions by different authors.

ff. 15v-18r

• DoC 79: 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 Bennets C-t with their change of Government from Monarchicall to Democraticall. The Duell’, ‘By M^r. Hen: Savile’ added in different ink.

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.

ff. 41r-52r

• DoC 97: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Faithful Catalogue of our Most Eminent Ninnies (‘Curs'd be those dull, unpointed, doggerel rhymes’)

Copy, the poem dated ‘1687’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in The Works of the Earls of Rochester, Roscommon, and Dorset (London, 1707). POAS, IV (1968), 189-214. Harris, pp. 136-67.

f. 72v

• DrJ 237: John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee (‘O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain’)

Copy, as ‘By M^r. Dryden’, the poem dated ‘1689’.

This MS collated in California.

First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond, III, 219.

ff. 82v-3r

• DoC 12: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Advice to Lovers (‘Damon, if thou wilt believe me’)

Copy, headed ‘Answer By L^d. Dors-t’.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Banquet of Musick…The Fifth Book (London, 1691). Harris, pp. 83-4. Some texts are preceded by John Howe's song ‘Dy wretched Damon, Dy quickly to ease her’.

ff. 89r-90r

• DoC 299: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd ‘The Female Nine’ (‘When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines’)

Copy, headed ‘An Excellent new Ballad Giveing a true account of the Birth and Conception of a late Famous Poem call'd the Female Nine’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris. Transcript by G. Thorn-Drury (1860-1931) in Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 49, pp. 78-80.

First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.

ff. 103r-4r

• DrJ 146: John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton (‘What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess’)

Copy, as ‘By M^r Dryden’.

This MS collated in California.

First published in Thomas Betterton, The Prophetess: or, The History of Dioclesian (London, 1690). Poems on Affairs of State, Part III (London, 1698). Kinsley, II, 556-7. California, III, 255-6. Hammond, III, 231-4.

f. 130r-v

• DoC 119: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Madam Maintenon's Advice to the French King. Paraphrase on the French (‘In gray-hair'd Celia's wither'd arms’)

Copy, headed ‘On the French K. By L^d. Dorset 1692’.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Harris, pp. 171-5.

ff. 132v-3v

• DoC 169: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess Dowager of Manchester (‘Courage, dear Moll, and drive away despair’)

Copy, headed ‘A Madame Madame. B. Beaute Sexagenaire. Lady Manchester. By Lord Dorset. 1693’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.

f. 199r

• SeC 97: Sir Charles Sedley, On the Happy Corydon and Phillis (‘Young Coridon and Phillis’)

Copy, headed ‘By a Person of Quality of the Female Sex’.

First published in Poetical Works (London, 1707). Sola Pinto, II, 151-2.

Pw V 47

A large folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled A Collection of Poems, Lampoons, Songs and Satyrs from the beginning of the Revolucon in 1688 to 1695, in a single professional hand, with (ff. 2r-4r) a ‘Table’ of contents, 183 leaves, in contemporary calf. c.late 1690s.

Bookplates of Sir John Hynde Cotton, Bt (d.1752), of Lanwade and Maddingley Hall, Cambridgeshire, and of ‘Phil^ia Cotton’.

f. 25v

• DrJ 238: John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee (‘O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain’)

Copy, headed ‘On Dundee (1689) (By Dryden)’.

First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond, III, 219.

f. 53r

• DoC 13: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Advice to Lovers (‘Damon, if thou wilt believe me’)

Copy, headed ‘Answer. By L: Dorset’.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Banquet of Musick…The Fifth Book (London, 1691). Harris, pp. 83-4. Some texts are preceded by John Howe's song ‘Dy wretched Damon, Dy quickly to ease her’.

ff. 60r-1r

• DoC 300: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd ‘The Female Nine’ (‘When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines’)

Copy, headed ‘An Excellent New Ballad Giveing. a true Account of the Birth and Conception of a late Famous Poem Call'd The Female Nine’, following (on pp. 56v-9r) a copy of that poem which is dated ‘1690’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.

f. 68v

• SeC 33: Sir Charles Sedley, Prologue to the Stroulers (‘Beauty and Wit so barely you requite’)

Copy, headed ‘Prologue By S^r Cha: Sidley. To the Strowlers. 1690’.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1698). Sola Pinto, I, 49.

ff. 73v-4v

• DrJ 147: John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton (‘What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess’)

Copy, inscribed ‘By M^r: Dryden. Not Suffer'd to be Spoke’.

This MS colalted in California.

ff. 102v-3r

• DoC 120: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Madam Maintenon's Advice to the French King. Paraphrase on the French (‘In gray-hair'd Celia's wither'd arms’)

Copy, headed ‘On the French King. by E. Dorset’.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Harris, pp. 171-5.

f. 118r-v

• DoC 170: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess Dowager of Manchester (‘Courage, dear Moll, and drive away despair’)

Copy, headed ‘A Madame Madame L^d Beaute Sexagenair. (by L^d Dorset) La: Manch-tr.’

Edited from this MS in POAS. Collated in Harris.

First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.

f. 137r

• DoC 182: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (II) (‘Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes’)

Copy.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.

f. 137r-v

• DoC 195: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (III) (‘Proud with the spoils of royal cully’)

Copy, untitled, run on directly from DoC 182.

This MS collated in Harris.

Pw V 48

A tall folio miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in probably a single professional rounded hand, with (ff. 3r-5r) a ‘Table’ of contents, 152 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. c.early 1700s.

Bookplate of Sir William Augustus Fraser, Bt (1826-98), of Ledeclune and Morar.

[unspecified page number]

• DoC 326.998: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Death of the Duke of Gloucester (‘For Gloucester's death, which sadly we deplore’)

Copy.

Recorded in Harris.

First published in Tom Browne, Remains (London, 1720), p. 143. Edited and discussed in Harris, pp. 184-5. Possibly by another Lord Dorset.

f. 20v

• DrJ 239: John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee (‘O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain’)

Copy, headed ‘On Dundee. 1689 By m^r Dryden’.

This MS collated in California.

First published in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1777. California, III, 222. Hammond, III, 219.

ff. 52r-3r

• DoC 301: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd ‘The Female Nine’ (‘When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines’)

Copy, headed ‘An Excellent new Ballad Giving a true Account of the Birth and Conception of a late famous Poem Call'd The Female Nine’, following (on ff 49r-51v) a copy of that poem.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.

f. 83v

• DoC 183: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (II) (‘Dorinda's sparkling wit and eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Countesse of Dorch-tr 1694’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 384. Harris, pp. 43-4.

f. 84r

• DoC 196: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (III) (‘Proud with the spoils of royal cully’)

Copy, untitled, run on directly as stanzas 3 and 4 of DoC 183.

This MS collated in Harris.

f. 84r-v

• DoC 208: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess of Dorchester (IV) (‘Tell me, Dorinda, why so gay’)

Copy, headed ‘Another on the same Lady. by E. Dors-t’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

First published in A Collection of Miscellany Poems, by Mr. Brown (London, 1699). POAS, V (1971), 385. Harris, pp. 45-6.

f. 93v

• CgW 19: William Congreve, A Hue and Cry after Fair Amoret (‘Fair Amoret is gone astray’)

Copy, as ‘By the E. of Dorset’, the poem dated ‘1696’.

This MS recorded in Haris; transcript by G. Thorn-Drury in Bodleian, MS Eng. poet. e. 50, p. 75.

First published, in a musical setting by John Eccles and attributed to Congreve, in a broadsheet (1698). Works (London, 1710). Summers, IV, 74. Dobrée, p. 284 (as ‘Amoret’). McKenzie, II, 369.

Also attributed to Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset: see The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York and London, 1979), pp. 182-3.

f. 124r-v

• VaJ 3: Sir John Vanbrugh, The Rival (‘Of all the Torments, all the Cares’)

Copy, headed ‘The Rival 1698 By m^r: Vanbrook’.

This MS text formerly recorded in IELM as Sir George Etherege EtG 114. Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated pp. 138-9. A transcript of this MS by George Thorn-Drury (1860-1932) is in the Bodleian (MS Eng. poet. e. 50, p. 117).

ff. 124v-5r

• VaJ 12: Sir John Vanbrugh, To a Lady More Cruel than Fair (‘Why d'ye with such Disdain refuse’)

Copy, the poem dated ‘1698’.

A transcript of this MS by George Thorn-Drury (1860-1932) is in the Bodleian (MS Eng. poet. e. 50, pp. 118-19).

First published, ascribed to ‘Mr Vanbrook’, in Poetical Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704), pp. 245-6.

ff. 125r-6r

• SeC 98: Sir Charles Sedley, On the Happy Corydon and Phillis (‘Young Coridon and Phillis’)

Copy, headed ‘Song By a Lady. 1688’.

First published in Poetical Works (London, 1707). Sola Pinto, II, 151-2.

Pw V 159

Copy, in a neat italic hand, headed ‘Desire / A Pindaric’, in a booklet of eight quarto leaves (on rectos only), plus blanks, in a paper wrapper. Late 17th century.

BeA 9: Aphra Behn, On Desire, A Pindarick (‘What Art thou, oh! thou new-found pain?’)

First published in Lycidas: or the Lover in Fashion…together with a Miscellany of New Poems by Several Hands (London, 1688). Summers, VI, 356-60. Todd, I, No. 77, pp. 281-4.

Pw V 168

Autograph, headed ‘To the Lords in Councill asembled the Pindarique Petition of Thomas Browne’, on a single folio leaf, endorsed by Jacob Tonson (1656?-1736), publisher, ‘This is the handwriting of Charles, Earle of Dorset. Ja: Tonson’. c.1700.

*DoC 241: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Pindaric Petition to the Lords in Council (‘Humbly Sheweth / Should you order Tom Brown’)

Edited from this MS in Harris, with a facsimile on p. 98.

First published in Flying Post (23-25 November 1697). Harris, pp. 99-100.

Pw V 177

Copy, in a mixed hand, on all four sides of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1640s-50s.

ClJ 92: John Cleveland, The Rebell Scot (‘How? Providence? and yet a Scottish crew?’)

This MS discussed and collated with other MSS, with a stemma, in Helen Duffy and P.S. Wilson, ‘Two Manuscripts of John Cleveland’, N&Q, 230 (June 1985), 162-6.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 29-32.

Pw V 178

Copy, in a cursive mixed hand, headed ‘A Dialogue’, on pages 1 and 3 of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1640.

ClJ 35: John Cleveland, A Dialogue between two Zealots, upon the &c. in the Oath (‘Sir Roger, from a zealous piece of Freeze’)

Endorsed in a different hand ‘These Verses were given to me by my cosen John Bennett the 1^th of Nouember. 1640’.

This MS discussed and collated in Helen Duffy and P.S. Wilson, ‘Two Manuscripts of John Cleveland’, N&Q, 230 (June 1985), 162-6.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 4-5.

Pw V 180

Copy, in a neat hand, on seven pages in a quarto booklet of six leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1703.

CgW 45: William Congreve, The Tears of Amaryllis for Amyntas. A Pastoral (‘'Twas at the Time, when new returning Light’)

First published in London, 1703. Summers, IV, 67-71. Dobrée, pp. 276-81. McKenzie, II, 361-6.

Pw V 181

Copy, in a neat rounded hand, in double columns, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Mid-17th century.

CoR 555: Richard Corbett, A Proper New Ballad intituled The Faeryes Farewell: Or God-a-Mercy Will (‘Farewell, Rewards & Faeries’)

First published (omitting lines 57-64) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Published complete in Poëtica Stromata ([no place], 1648). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 49-52.

Pw V 191

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘Satyra’, on seven pages of two unbound pairs of conjugate quarto leaves, endorsed ‘The Satyre of the courte by M^r dune’ and ‘Satyre of the court by Dunn’. Early 17th century.

DnJ 2849: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.

Pw V 197

Copy, in a secretary hand, headed ‘The 5 senses’, on both sides of a single long narrow ledger-size leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Early 17th century.

DrW 117.52: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Pw V 198

Copy, in a secretary hand, in double columns, the heading cropped, on one side (the verso containing prose) of a half-folio leaf. Early 17th century.

DrW 117.53: William Drummond of Hawthornden, For the Kinge (‘From such a face quois excellence’)

Pw V 199

Copy, in probably a professional hand, on eleven pages of three unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

DrJ 43.994: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

Pw V 200

Copy, in a professional hand, on folio leaves. Late 17th century.

DrJ 43.995: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

Pw V 201

Copy, in a professional hand, on folio leaves. Late 17th century.

DrJ 43.996: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)

First published in London, 1689. POAS, I (1963), pp. 396-413.

Pw V 202

Copy, in a neat hand, on four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves. c.1700.

DrJ 4: John Dryden, Alexander's Feast. Or The Power of Musique. An Ode, In Honour of St. Cecilia's Day (‘'Twas at the Royal Feast, for Persia won’)

First published in London, 1697. Fables Ancient and Modern (London, 1700). Kinsley, III, 1428-33. California, VII, 3-9. Hammond, V, 3-18.

Pw V 203

Copy, in a probably professional hand, on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

DrJ 37: John Dryden, Epilogue to The Man of Mode (‘Most Modern Wits, such monstrous Fools have shown’)

First published in Sir George Etherege, The Man of Mode: or, S^r Fopling Flutter (London, 1676). Kinsley, I, 158-9. California, I, 154-5. Vinton A. Dearing, A Manual of Textual Analysis (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1959), pp. 69-72. Danchin, II, 705 et seq. Hammond, I, 301-3.

Pw V 204

Copy, in a rounded hand, on both sides of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

DrJ 148: John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton (‘What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess’)

Pw V 206

Copy of the last 36 lines (lines 287-322), untitled and here beginning ‘Without a Vision Poets can fore shew’, on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

DrJ 102: John Dryden, The Medall: A Satyre Against Sedition (‘Of all our Antick Sights, and Pageantry’)

First published in London, 1682. Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Kinsley, I, 250-61. California, II, 37-52. Hammond, II. 8-32.

Pw V 299

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, the poem dated ‘London. September the 4^th 1667’, with printer's marks, in a quarto booklet of 22 leaves, in a marbled wrapper. Late 17th century.

MaA 503: Andrew Marvell, The last Instructions to a Painter (‘After two sittings, now our Lady State’)

This MS identified as printer's copy for the 1689 edition by Hilton Kelliher. Discussed and collated by him, with facsimiles of ff. 7r and 9v, in ‘Marvell's The Last Instructions to a Painter: From Manuscript to Print’, EMS, 13 (2006), 296-343.

First published in The Third Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 147-72. POAS, I, 97-139. Lord, pp. 151-86. Smith, pp. 369-96. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 36-7.

Pw V 300

Copy, the poem dated ‘1673’, on all four sides of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.

MaA 463: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Pw V 301

Copy, in a cursive hand, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.

MaA 489: Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter (‘Painter once more thy Pencell reassume’)

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1697). Margoliouth, I, 176-7. POAS, I, 163-7. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 38-9. Rejected from the canon by Lord and the authorship considered doubtful by Chernaik, pp. 211-12.

Pw V 302

Copy, on both sides of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

MaA 490: Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter (‘Painter once more thy Pencell reassume’)

Pw V 303

Copy, in a cursive hand, untitled, on the first two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves (the second partly excised). Late 17th century.

MaA 491: Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter (‘Painter once more thy Pencell reassume’)

Pw V 310

A single folio leaf of verse, on both sides, in two hands. Mid-17th century.

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• CwT 759: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in a five-stanza version beginning ‘Aske me no more where Iove bestowes’ in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. ‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’).

For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, ‘Manuscript Evidence and the Author of “Aske me no more”: William Strode, not Thomas Carew’, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, ‘“Aske me no more” and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany’, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.

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• CwT 365: Thomas Carew, In the person of a Lady to her inconstant servant (‘When on the Altar of my hand’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 40. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

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• LoR 44: Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song (‘When Love with unconfined wings’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded by C.H. Wilkinson in TLS (14 August 1937), p. 592.

First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, ‘Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of “To Althea, from Prison”’, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).

Pw V 311

Copy, headed ‘M^rs Molesworth, to her Husband, Capt Molesworth’, on a single leaf.

MkM 15: Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London (‘Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ’)

Twenty-two lines, first published, introduced ‘The following verses were wrote by her (as I am inform'd) on her death-bed at Bath, to her husband in London’, in George Ballard, Memoirs of Several Ladies of Great Britain (Oxford, 1752), pp. 418-22.

Pw V 312

Copy.

MkM 16: Mary Monck, Verses Wrote on her Death-Bed at Bath, to her Husband, in London (‘Thou, who dost all my worldly thoughts employ’)

Pw V 337

Copy, in double columns, on one side of a single folio leaf of verse. Late 17th century.

PsK 47: Katherine Philips, A Countrey life (‘How sacred and how innocent’)

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 177-82. Poems (1667), pp. 88-91. Saintsbury, pp. 588. Thomas, I, 159-62, poem 61. Anonymous musical setting published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1691).

Pw V 338

Copy, subscribed ‘Kath: Philips’, on the first page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed ‘On the Queens Recovery by M^s Philips’. Late 17th century.

PsK 489: Katherine Philips, To the Queen's Majesty, on her late Sickness and Recovery (‘The publick Gladness that's to us restor'd’)

This MS collated in Thomas and in Hageman.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 234-6. Poems (1667), pp. 121-2. Saintsbury, pp. 574-5. Thomas, I, 191-2, poem 76.

Pw V 359

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, untitled, on one side of a half-folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1620s.

RaW 82: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

Pw V 360

Copy, in a neat secretary hand, headed ‘Ecloga. Sacra’, subscribed ‘ffinis Th: Ran:’, on pages 1-3 of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, the rest of pp. 3-4 used for autograph draft verse by William Cavendish (1593-1676), Duke of Newcastle. c.1630s.

RnT 79: Thomas Randolph, An Eglogue occasion'd by two Doctors disputing upon predestination (‘Ho jolly Thirsis whither in such hast?’)

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 101-4.

Pw V 361

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, headed ‘In Sphæram Archimedis…Excellently translated by T. Randolph’, on one side of a single quarto leaf. c.1630s.

RnT 146: Thomas Randolph, In Archimedis Sphaeram ex Claudiano (‘Jove saw the Heavens fram'd in a little glasse’)

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 46.

Pw V 363

Autograph draft of the complete ten-line poem, on one page of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet, endorsed by Jacob Tonson (1656?-1736), publisher, ‘Dorset on Tyburn’. [1686].

*DoC 210: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Statue in the Privy Garden (‘When Israel first provoked the living Lord’)

Edited from this MS in Harris, with a facsimile on p. 58.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 57-60.

Pw V 364

Autograph draft of a six-line version, headed ‘Vnder the statue in the Privy Garden’, on a single oblong quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet, imperfect. [1686].

*DoC 211: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Statue in the Privy Garden (‘When Israel first provoked the living Lord’)

This MS collated in Harris, with a facsimile on p. 59.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). Harris, pp. 57-60.

Pw V 368

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘A pastoral Dialogue’, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.

SeC 30: Sir Charles Sedley, A Pastoral Dialogue between Thirsis and Strephon (‘Strephon, O Strephon, once the jolliest Lad’)

First published, in an abbreviated version, in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 3-6.

Pw V 370

Autograph fair copy, on the first page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1690.

*SdT 14: Thomas Shadwell, Prologue or Epilogue to ‘The Country Captain’ (‘A Good Play cannot properly be sed’)

Edited from this MS in Needham and in Danchin.

First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 50. Danchin, IV, 739-40.

Pw V 371

Autograph, untitled, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1682.

*SdT 15: Thomas Shadwell, Prologue to John Banks's ‘Vertue Betrayd: or, Anna Bullen’ (‘Our Poet's ill aduis'd perhaps you'l say’)

Edited from this MS in Needham.

First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), pp. 48-9.

Pw V 373

Copy, in a cursive hand, headed ‘A Madame, Madame Black-stair sexagenaire’ and here beginning ‘Courage Dear Doll, & drive away Dispaire’, on one page of the unbound remains of a pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.

DoC 171: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Countess Dowager of Manchester (‘Courage, dear Moll, and drive away despair’)

This MS collated in Harris.

First published (among poems of Charles Montagu, Earl of Halifax) in Poems on Affairs of State…Part III (London, 1698). POAS, V (1971), 378-81. Harris, pp. 37-40.

Pw V 375

Copy of an intermediate 46-line version, in a neat roman hand, beginning ‘Listen Gallants to my wordes’, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, among papers probably associated with William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle. c.1643-4.

ShJ 12: James Shirley, The Common-wealth of Birds (‘Let other Poets write of dogs’)

First published in Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 9.

Pw V 397

An unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, occupied by eight autograph poems by Strode, written in fair copy in his stylish italic hand, two poems to each page, some marginal scribbling on the second page in another hand. c.1620s-30s.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Portland MS’: StW Δ 3, with a facsimile example as Facsimile XIII, after p. xxi. Recorded and two poems edited from the MS in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), pp. 40-1, where, however, it is not identified as autograph.

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• *StW 1211: William Strode, A wassal (‘This Jolly Boule with broided Curlings wrought’)

Autograph fair copy.

Edited from this MS in Needham.

First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), p. 41. Forey, pp. 105-6.

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• *StW 241: William Strode, A Musical Contemplation (‘O lett me learne to be a Saint on earth’)

Autograph fair copy, headed ‘The Commendation of a good voyce’.

Edited from this MS in Needham.

First published in Welbeck Miscellany No. 2: A Collection of Poems by Several Hands, never before published, ed. Francis Needham (Bungay, Suffolk, 1934), pp. 40-1. Forey, pp. 109-10.

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• *StW 269: William Strode, On a blisterd Lippe (‘Chide not thy sprowting lippe, nor kill’)

Autograph fair copy.

Facsimile of this page in IELM, II.ii, Facsimile XIII.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 28-9. Forey, pp. 92-3.

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• *StW 642: William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy (‘Returne my joyes, and hither bring’)

Autograph fair copy.

Facsimile of this page in IELM, II.ii, Facsimile XIII.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.

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• *StW 836: William Strode, Song (‘Keepe on your maske, yea hide your Eye’)

Autograph fair copy, untitled.

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.

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• *StW 925: William Strode, Song A Parallel betwixt bowling and preferment (‘Preferment, like a Game at bowles’)

Autograph fair copy.

First published in Dobell (1907), pp. 103-4. Forey, pp. 94-5.

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• *StW 869: William Strode, Song (‘O sing a new song to the Lord’)

Autograph fair copy, headed ‘An Anthem’.

First published in Dobell (1907), p. 54. Forey, p. 108.

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• *StW 158: William Strode, In commendation of Musique (‘When whispering straines do softly steale’)

Autograph fair copy, headed ‘The Commendation of Musick’.

Edited from this MS in Needham, p. 40.

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).

Pw V 398

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘I saw far Cloe walk alone’, on a small slip of paper. c.1700.

StW 822: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

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).

Pw V 399

A pair of conjugate folio leaves, comprising two poems relating to Suckling, in a single secretary hand. c.1640.

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• SuJ 210: John Suckling, Upon Sir John Suckling's hundred horse (‘I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses made to S^r John Sucklin aboute the settinge forth his 100. horse for his Ma^ts. seruice in Scottland’.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.

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• SuJ 229: John Suckling, Sir John Suckling's Answer (‘I tell thee foole who'ere thou be’)

Copy.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.

Pw V 400

A pair of conjugate folio leaves, comprising two poems relating to Suckling, in a single hand, imperfect. c.1640.

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• SuJ 211: John Suckling, Upon Sir John Suckling's hundred horse (‘I tell thee Jack thou'st given the King’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 204-5.

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• SuJ 230: John Suckling, Sir John Suckling's Answer (‘I tell thee foole who'ere thou be’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Clayton, pp. 205-6. Sometimes erroneously attributed to Suckling himself.

Pw V 429

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Cloris farwell I needs must goe’, on one side of a single quarto leaf of verse, once folded as a letter. Mid-17th century.

WaE 437: Edmund Waller, Song (‘Chloris! farewell. I now must go’)

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). Poems, ‘Eighth’ edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 110-11.

Pw V 430

Copy, in a mixed hand, as ‘by Edmond Waller Esq^r’, on all four pages of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves. Mid-late 17th century.

WaE 395: Edmund Waller, A Panegyric to my Lord Protector, of the present Greatness, and joint Interest of His Highness, and this Nation (‘While with a strong and yet a gentle hand’)

First published London, 1655. The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 10-17.

Pw V 431

Autograph fair copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Me thinks hir bewty should reuiue his quill’, on one page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, possibly once folded as a letter or packet. [1665].

*WaE 758: Edmund Waller, On the Marriage of Sir John Denham (‘Methinks her beauty should revive his quill’)

Later owned by George Thorn-Drury, KC (1860-1931), literary scholar and editor. Sotheby's, 22 February 1932 (Thorn-Drury Sale, 4th portion), lot 2419, to Dobell.

First recorded by George Thorn-Drury in N&Q, 11th Ser. 5 (20 April 1912), p. 305. Edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury, A Little Ark.

First published in G. Thorn-Drury, A Little Ark (London, 1921), p. 33.

Pw V 505

Copy, in a cursive hand, subscribed ‘Rochester’, on one side of a single folio leaf, inscribed ‘ffor Ho^d: Cor: Robert H: Esqr.’, once folded as a letter. Late 17th century.

RoJ 235: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 161-2. Walker, pp. 127-8, among ‘Poems Possibly by Rochester’. Love, p. 247, among Disputed Works.

Pw V 506

Copy, in a mixed hand, in double columns, on pages 1 and 3 of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.

RoJ 104.58: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The History of Insipids (‘Chaste, pious, prudent, Charles the Second’)

Facsimile page in Greene, p. 84.

See Vivian de Sola Pinto in ‘“The History of Insipids”: Rochester, Freke, and Marvell’, MLR, 65 (1970), 11-15 (and see also Walker, p. xvii). Rejected by Vieth, by Walker, and by Love.

Pw V 508

Copy, in a mixed hand, in double columns, untitled, here beginning ‘Filld w^th y^e noysome ffolly of y^e age’, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

DoC 354: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)

Pw V 509

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘On the supposed Author of the Defence of Satyre’, on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

RoJ 257: 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’)

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

Pw V 510

Copy, in a bold italic hand, untitled, on both sides of a single quarto leaf, imperfect. Late 17th century.

RoJ 102: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, <Fragment> (‘What vain, unnecessary things are men!’)

Pw V 511

Copy, in a bold italic hand, untitled, on pp. 1-2 of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves. Late 17th century.

RoJ 73: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Epistle (‘Could I but make my wishes insolent’)

Edited from this MS in Love.

Pw V 512

An unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse, in a neat italic hand. Late 17th century.

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• RoJ 401: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘How happy, Chloris, were they free’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘How perfect Cloris, and how free’.

For the even later version of this lyric, see RoJ 482.

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• RoJ 437: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘'Twas a dispute 'twixt heaven and earth’)

Copy, untitlrd.

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• RoJ 374: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘At last you'll force me to confess’)

Copy.

Pw V 513

Copy, in an accomplished italic hand, on one side of a single folio leaf. c.1700.

RoJ 199: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, My Lord All-Pride (‘Bursting with pride, the loathed impostume swells’)

This MS recorded in Vieth. Collated in Walker.

Pw V 514

Copy of an untitled version. Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘now is come our merrie time’, in a secretary hand, in double columns, subscribed ‘John foster’, on one side of a single folio leaf. Early-mid-17th century.

WiG 14: George Wither, A Christmas Carroll (‘So, now is come our ioyfulst Feast’)

First published in ‘A Miscelany of Epigrams [&c.]’ appended to Faire-Virtue, the Mistresse of Phil'Arete, generally bound with Juvenilia (London, 1622). Spenser Society No. 11 (1871), pp. 915-19. Sidgwick, II, 178-81.

Pw V 518

Copy, in a neat italic hand, untitled and here beginning ‘Dazled with the height of Place’, with an alternating version in Latin verse, on the first page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves. Early-mid-17th century.

WoH 213: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Sudden Restraint of the Earl of Somerset then falling from favour (‘Dazzled thus with the height of place’)

First published in Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 522. Hannah (1845), pp. 25-7. Some texts of this poem discussed in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘Sir Henry Wotton's “Dazel'd Thus, with Height of Place” and the Appropriation of Political Poetry in the Earlier Seventeenth Century’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 151-69.

Pw V 571

Copy, in a secretary hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Six of the female sex & purest Sect’, on one side of a single quarto leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Mid-late 17th century.

HrJ 234.8: Sir John Harington, Of certain puritan wenches (‘Six of the weakest sex and purest sect’)

First published (anonymously) in Rump: or An Exact Collection of the Choycest Poems and Songs (London, 1662), II, 158-9. McClure No. 356, p. 292. Kilroy, Book II, No. 94, p. 164.

Pw V 596b

Copy.

MrJ 74: John Marston, Georg IVs DVX BVCkIngaMIae MDCXVVVIII (‘Thy numerous name with this yeare doth agree’)

Pw V 603

Copy, without ‘The Answer’, headed ‘The Checquer Inne’, written in double columns on a single folio leaf (now split in two); imperfect. See Introduction. Late 17th century.

MaA 76: Andrew Marvell, A Ballad call'd the Chequer Inn (‘I'll tell thee Dick where I have beene’)

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Margoliouth, I, 201-8. POAS, I, 252-62. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

Pw V 608

Copy, in a mixed hand, headed ‘The prophesy of Nostradam written in ffrench And now done into English’, on pp. 1-2 of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.

MaA 207: Andrew Marvell, Nostradamus's Prophecy (‘The Blood of the Just London's firm Doome shall fix’)

Pw V 609

Copy of a version, in a roman hand, headed ‘Nostredamus Prophesie by A.M’ and beginning ‘Her faults and follies Londons Doome shall fix’, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.

MaA 208: Andrew Marvell, Nostradamus's Prophecy (‘The Blood of the Just London's firm Doome shall fix’)

Pw V 617

Copy, in a rounded hand, headed ‘Song / Translated out of French / Upon the French Kings returne out of Flandres to France’, on one side of a single folio leaf of verse, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.

DoC 121: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Madam Maintenon's Advice to the French King. Paraphrase on the French (‘In gray-hair'd Celia's wither'd arms’)

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Harris, pp. 171-5.

Pw V 635

Copy, in a cursive hand, untitled, here beginning ‘Clarendon had some Lawe & sense’, in a single column, with other verse on one side of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.

DoC 235: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen (‘Clarendon had law and sense’)

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in A Third Collection of…Poems, Satyrs, Songs (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 339-41. Harris, pp. 50-4.

Pw V 650

Copy, in an italic hand, headed ‘The Jesuits Double-fac'd Creed’, on one side of a single oblong quarto-size leaf. c.1700.

StW 1287: William Strode, Jack on both Sides (‘I holde as fayth What Englandes Church Allowes’)

First published, as ‘The Church Papist’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Reprinted as ‘The Jesuit's Double-faced Creed’ by Henry Care in The Popish Courant (16 May 1679): see August A. Imholtz, Jr, ‘The Jesuits' Double-Faced Creed: A Seventeenth-Century Cross-Reading’, N&Q, 222 (December 1977), 553-4. Dobell, p. 111. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

PW V 866

Copy, in a cursive italic hand, headed ‘Translated by y^e fam^d Orinda’, following a copy of the original French ‘Epigramme’ beginning ‘Tu me contestes vainement’, on the first of ten unbound quarto pages of French, English and Latin verse. Late 17th century.

PsK 160.5: Katherine Philips, ‘In vain (Dear Thirsis) thou wouldst claime’

A translation of a French six-line epigram. Unpublished.

Pw V 945

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on the first page of an unbound pair of quarto conjugate leaves. c.1700s.

CoA 25: Abraham Cowley, Anacreontiques. II. Drinking (‘The thirsty Earth soaks up the Rain’)

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Among Miscellanies in Poems (London, 1656). Waller, I, 51. Sparrow, p. 50.

Musical setting by Silas Taylor published in Catch that Catch Can: or the Musical Companion (London, 1667). Setting by Roger Hill published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

Pw V 978

Copy of Book III of the Georgics, lines 375-450, headed ‘The Force of Love / In M^r Dridens Virgil’ and here beginning ‘Thus euery Creature and of every kind’, followed by an extract from an anonymous translation of Virgil, on the first three pages of three unbound pairs of conjugate quarto leaves. c.1700.

DrJ 244.5: John Dryden, The Works of Virgil [Aeneis, Georgics, Pastorals] (‘Arms, and the Man I sing, who forc'd by Fate’)

This MS discussed in Scott C. Pope, ‘A New Manuscript Transcription of John Dryden's Translation of Virgil's Third Georgic’, Analytical & Enumerative Bibliography, 7/2-3 (1993), 65-8.

First published in London, 1697. Kinsley, III, 1003-1427 (Aeneis), and II, 867-1001 (Pastorals and Georgics). California, IV, 436-61 (‘Third Book of the Georgics’ only, first published in Annual Miscellany: for the year 1694).

Pw V 989

Copy, in a neat roman hand, on one side of a single small quarto leaf. Late 17th-early 18th century.

PsK 554: Katherine Philips, The Virgin (‘The things that make a Virgin please’)

First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.

Pw V 1066

A quarto verse miscellany. Compiled by Lady Henrietta Harley. Mid-18th century.

ff. 30v rev., 29v rev., 28v rev., 27v rev., 26v rev.

• BeA 9.5: Aphra Behn, On Desire, A Pindarick (‘What Art thou, oh! thou new-found pain?’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon Desire’.

First published in Lycidas: or the Lover in Fashion…together with a Miscellany of New Poems by Several Hands (London, 1688). Summers, VI, 356-60. Todd, I, No. 77, pp. 281-4.

pp. [34, 32 rev.]

• DrJ 192.5: John Dryden, Song To A Fair, Young Lady, Going out of the Town In the Spring (‘Ask not the cause, why sullen Spring’)

Copy, headed ‘A song by Mr Dryden’.

First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 840. California, IV, 421-2.

ff. 35v, 34v rev.

• DoC 15: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Advice to Lovers (‘Damon, if thou wilt believe me’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘Damon if you will believe me’.

First published in Banquet of Musick…The Fifth Book (London, 1691). Harris, pp. 83-4. Some texts are preceded by John Howe's song ‘Dy wretched Damon, Dy quickly to ease her’.

f. 36v rev.

• RoJ 374.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘At last you'll force me to confess’)

Copy of an untitled version beginning ‘Too late alas I must confess’.

ff. 38v, 37v rev.

• DoC 14: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Advice to Lovers (‘Damon, if thou wilt believe me’)

Copy, headed ‘By my L^d Dorsett’, deleted.

This MS (or DoC 15) collated in Harris.

First published in Banquet of Musick…The Fifth Book (London, 1691). Harris, pp. 83-4. Some texts are preceded by John Howe's song ‘Dy wretched Damon, Dy quickly to ease her’.

ff. 39v, 38v rev.

• RoJ 405: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Song (‘Insulting beauty, you misspend’)

Copy, headed ‘By My Lord Rochester’.

First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Vieth, p. 11. Walker, pp. 27-8. Love, pp. 33-4. See also David Vieth, ‘Two Rochester Songs’, N&Q, 201 (1956), 338-9.

f. 44r

• DoC 246: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A Song (‘May the ambitious ever find’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in Choice Ayres and Songs (London, [1684]). Harris, pp. 79-80.

Pw V 1132

Copy, in a cursive italic hand, headed ‘An excellent New Ballad giveing a true account of the birth & conception of a late famous Poem call'd The Female nine’, with some omitted lines added in a different hand, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate quarto leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th-early 18th century.

DoC 302: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd ‘The Female Nine’ (‘When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines’)

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in POAS, V (1971), 211-13. Harris, pp. 25-7.

Pw V 1144

Copy, headed ‘Upon S^r Robert Viner's setting up the King's Statue’, with glosses and subscribed ‘By the Author of the second Advise to a painter’, on the first page of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

MaA 244: Andrew Marvell, The Statue in Stocks-Market (‘As cities that to the fierce conquerors yield’)

First published in A Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 188-90. POAS, I, 266-9. Lord, pp. 193-6. Smith, pp. 416-17.

Pw V 1198

A composite verse miscellany. Early 18th century.

p. 1

• DaJ 205.5: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Child’ and here beginning ‘As careful Nurses on their Beds do lay’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 411. Krueger, p. 303.

p. 3

• BcF 42.5: Francis Bacon, ‘The world's a bubble, and the life of man’

Copy, headed in a different ink ‘Of the World’, on a single quarto leaf.

Pw V 1203

Copy, in a professional cursive hand, headed ‘A Prophetick Lampoon, or Prince Prettyman's resolutions whenever he comes to England again. To the Tune of Which no body can deny’, on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves, once folded as a letter or packet. c.1700.

MaA 185: Andrew Marvell, The Kings Vowes (‘When the Plate was at pawne, and the fobb att low Ebb’)

Pw V 1223

Copy, in a largely italic hand, headed ‘On M^r. Bayes. supposd by the E of Middx’, on both sides of a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.

DoC 262: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Bays (‘Thou mercenary renegade, thou slave’)

Edited from this MS in Harris.

First published in J.R., Religio Laici, or A Layman's Faith ([London, 1688]). POAS, IV (1968), 79-80. Harris, pp. 18-20.

Pw V 1227

A single quarto leaf relating to ‘The Story of y^e two Reynolds’, in an italic hand, the leaf once folded as a letter or packet. c.1700?.

f. [1r]

• AlW 167: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘Bella inter geminos plusquam civilia fratres’)

Copy of the ‘Epigram’ as by ‘D^r. Alabaster’.

First published in J.J. Smith, The Cambridge Portfolio (London, 1840), pp. 183-6. Sutton, p. 12-13 (No. XVI).

f. [1r-v]

• AlW 184: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘In poyntes of faith some undermyning jarres / betwixt two brothers kindled rebell warrs’)

Copy, headed ‘Which Excellent Epigram tho not w^thout great disadvantage to y^e. Latine Originall, may be thus translated’.

A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Peter Heylyn, first published in his Cosmographie (1652), p. 257.

Pw V 1232

Copy, in an italic hand, untitled, on two pages of an unbound pair of conjugate long narrow ledger-size leaves. c.1700.

BrW 65.5: William Browne of Tavistock, Lydford Journey (‘I oft have heard of Lydford law’)

First published in John Phillips, Sportive Wit (London, 1656).Goodwin, II, 305-9.

Pw V 1236

Copy, in the left column of double columns, the right column, and the left on the second page, bearing Godolphin's ‘Answeare to Wallers Tempesteous Verses’, on the first of two unbound conjugate large folio leaves. Late 17th century.

WaE 729: Edmund Waller, Upon the late Storm, and of the Death of His Highness ensuing the same (‘We must resign! Heaven his great soul does claim’)

For the ‘answer or construction’ by William Godolphin, see the Introduction.

Pw 2 V 4

An unbound pair of conjugate large folio leaves of verse, in a professional hand, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.

ff. [1r-2r]

• MaA 413: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)

Copy, headed ‘New Instructions to a Painter’.

f. [2v]

• MaA 414: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)

Copy, headed ‘New Instructions to a Painter’.

Pw 2 V 5 (i)

Copy, in a cursive hand, on twelve quarto leaves (ff. 17r-29r), part of a verse compilation foliated in pencil 17-31, the first sixteen leaves having been excised leaving only stubs, written across the width of each page with the spine uppermost, on rectos only, imperfect, financial accounts in a different hand on ff. 30v-31r dated 1661. c.1660s.

MaA 345: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

The case for Marvell's authorship supported in George deF. Lord, ‘Two New Poems by Marvell?’, BNYPL, 62 (1958), 551-70, but see also discussion by Lord and Ephim Fogel in Vol. 63 (1959), 223-36, 292-308, 355-66. Marvell's authorship supported in Annabel Patterson, ‘The Second and Third Advices-to-the-Painter’, PBSA, 71 (1977), 473-86. Discussed also in Margoliouth, I, 348-50, and in Chernaik, p. 211, where Marvell's authorship is considered doubtful. A case for Sir John Denham's authorship is made in Brendan O Hehir, Harmony from Discords: A Life of Sir John Denham (Berkeley & Los Angeles, 1968), pp. 212-28.

Pw 2 V 5 (ii)

Copy, in a predominantly italic hand, on three unbound folio leaves folded into nine narrow columns. Late 17th century.

MaA 346: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

Pw 2 V 5 (iii)

Copy, in a stylish professional hand, untitled, on i + eight folio leaves, unbound. Late 17th century.

MaA 347: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

Pw 2 V 5 (iv)

An unbound folio booklet of verse, in two hands, i + eighteen folio leaves. Late 17th century.

ff. 1r-8v

• MaA 348: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)

Copy, in a rounded hand.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 34-53. Lord, pp. 117-30. Smith, pp. 332-43. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 28-32, as anonymous.

ff. 9r-17r, 18r

• MaA 380: Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter (‘Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love’)

Copy, in a mixed hand.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.

See discussions of the disputed authorship of this poem, as well as of the ‘Second Advice’, cited before MaA 314.

Pw 2 V 6

Copy, on five pages of two unbound pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

MaA 381: Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter (‘Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love’)

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.

See discussions of the disputed authorship of this poem, as well as of the ‘Second Advice’, cited before MaA 314.

Pw 2 V 7

A large quarto miscellany of poems chiefly on affairs of state, in a single neat italic hand, 81 leaves (including blanks), unbound. Mid-late 18th century.

f. 44r

• WoH 192.5: Sir Henry Wotton, Upon the Death of Sir Albert Morton's Wife (‘He first deceased. she for a little tried’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon two Lovers that died before they were married. 1600’ and here beginning ‘She first deceas'd, he for a little try'd’.

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.

ff. 64v-5v

• RoJ 618: 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, headed ‘An Epistle in Answer of Ephelia’.

ff. 66r-7r

• EtG 10: Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet (‘How far are they deceived who hope in vain’)

Copy, headed ‘Ephelia's letter to her Love’.

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.

Pw 2 V 62

A guardbook of verse and other manuscripts.

Formerly ‘Box No. 8’.

[unspecified item]

• DoC 286: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Phyllis (‘Phyllis, though your powerful charms’)

Copy, headed ‘My L^d Buckhurst's’ and here beginning ‘Though Phyllis y^r prevailing charmes’, with other poems on a single folio leaf, once folded as a letter or packet. Late 17th century.

This MS collated in Harris.

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Harris, pp. 69-71. Authorship of George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, suggested in Arthur Mizener, ‘“Though, Phyllis, Your Prevailing Charms”’, MLN, 56 (1941), 529-30. Not, however, included in Plays, Poems, and Miscellaneous Writings associated with George Villiers, Second Duke of Buckingham, ed. Robert D. Hume and Harold Love, 2 vols (Oxford, 2007).

[unspecified item]

• OrR 4: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, ‘Reproach me not how heretofore’

Copy, followed by an ‘Answer’. Late 17th century.

36 lines, unpublished.

Pw 2 V 128

Copy. 1687.

BeA 27: Aphra Behn, The Epilogue to Mrs Behn's play The Lucky Chance (‘Long have we turn'd the point of our just Rage’)

Published as ‘Written by a Person of Quality’ and as ‘Spoken by Mr. Betterton’. Summers, III, 278-9.

Pw 2 V 154

A pair of conjugate folio leaves of verse, in a neat italic hand, mounted in a guardbook. Mid-late 18th century.

pp. [1-3]

• JnB 254: Ben Jonson, An Expostulacon w^th Inigo Iones (‘Mr Suruey^r, you y^t first begann’)

Copy, transcribed from an earlier MS source.

First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, 7 vols, ed. Peter Whalley (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 402-6.

pp. [3-4]

• JnB 495: Ben Jonson, To Inigo Marquess Would be A Corollary (‘But cause thou hearst y^e mighty k. of Spaine’)

Copy, transcribed from an earlier MS source.

First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 406-7.

p. [4]

• JnB 481: Ben Jonson, To a ffreind an Epigram Of him (‘S^r Inigo doth feare it as I heare’)

Copy, transcribed from an earlier MS source, subscribed ‘Ben Jonson’.

First published in The Works of Ben Jonson, ed. Peter Whalley, 7 vols (London, 1756). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 407-8.

Pw 2 V 183

Copy of 33 maxims, in a professional italic hand (the same as that in HaG 42), on three pages of an unbound pair of conjugate folio leaves. c.1700.

HaG 41: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Maxims of the Great Almansor

Edited from this MS in Brown.

First published, anonymously, under the heading The following Maxims were found amongst the Papers of the Great Almanzor…[&c] (London, 1693). Foxcroft, II, 447-53. Brown, I, 292-5.

Pw 2 V 184

Copy of 33 maxims, in a professional hand (the same as that in HaG 41) on two conjugate folio leaves. c.1700.

HaG 42: George Savile, First Marquess of Halifax, Maxims of the Great Almansor

This MS collated in Brown, I, 398-401.

First published, anonymously, under the heading The following Maxims were found amongst the Papers of the Great Almanzor…[&c] (London, 1693). Foxcroft, II, 447-53. Brown, I, 292-5.