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A quarto volume of poems to the memory of Edmund Waller, in the hand of the Quaker writer Thomas Ellwood (1639-1713), transcribed from the edition of 1688. c.1688f [6].
Among papers of the Waller family.
ff. [7v-9r]
• BeA 11: Aphra Behn, On the Death of E. Waller, Esq (‘How, to thy Sacred Memory, shall I bring’)
Copy.
First published in Poems to the Memory of that Incomparable Poet Edmund Waller, Esquire (London, 1688). Summers, VI, 405-7.
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An unbound folio booklet of verse. c.1680s-90s.
Among papers of the Waller family.
f. [14r-v]
• MaA 54: Andrew Marvell, The Picture of little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers (‘See with what simplicity’)
Copy, in the hand of one of the daughters of the poet Edmund Waller, headed ‘The Picture of my little neece Hardey in a Prospect of Flowers’.
First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 40-1. Lord, pp. 37-8. smith, pp. 114-15.
f. [14r-v]
• MaA 159: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses (‘Wee read in profane and Sacred records’)
Copy, in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters.
First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as ‘probably Marvell's’. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.
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A sheaf of sixteen folio leaves of verse, in a single hand, disbound.
Among the papers of the Waller family.
ff. [2v-3r]
• WaE 279: Edmund Waller, Of the last Verses in the Book (‘When we for age could neither read nor write’)
Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘The last verses my Dear ffather made’.
This MS recorded in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Poems, ‘Fifth’ edition (London, 1686). Thorn-Drury, II, 144.
f. [3r]
• WaE 761: Edmund Waller, ‘That shortly they shall fflourish and wax green’
Copy of four lines, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘The ffoollowing line my ffather write in a letter to my Lady Ranalagh after saying he had not much joy in walking in his woods at Hallbarn where he found the trees as bare & withered as himselfe but with this diferance’.
First published in Thorn-Drury (1893). Thorn-Drury (1904), I, lxviii.
f. [3r]
• WaE 764: Edmund Waller, ‘The' advantage man ore Beasts in Reason getts’
Copy of an eight-line version, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
Apparently unpublished.
f. [6r]
• WaE 662: Edmund Waller, Translated out of French (‘Fade, flowers! fade, Nature will have it so’)
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled, ascribed in another hand to ‘Waller’.
First published in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Poems, ‘Seventh’ edition (London, 1705). Thorn-Drury, II, 112.
ff. [6v-7r]
• WhA 56: Anne Wharton, To Mr. Waller (‘Now I shall live indeed, not by my skill’)
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘To my ffather by Mrs Wharton’.
This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.
First published, in a 52-line version, in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685), pp. 222-5. A 62-line version in The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 85, pt. i (June 1815), p. 493, and in Greer & Hastings, No. 19, pp. 182-3.
ff. [7r-8r]
• WhA 5: Anne Wharton, The Despair. To D. Burnet by Mrs Wharton (‘The use of Knowledge is to find it poor’)
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘The Despair of Knowledge by Mrs Wharton’.
First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 18, pp. 180-1.
ff. [9v-10r]
• RoJ 331: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)
Copy of lines 1-73, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Rochester’.
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).
f. [12r]
• WaE 663: Edmund Waller, Translated out of French (‘Fade, flowers! fade, Nature will have it so’)
Copy in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
First published in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Poems, ‘Seventh’ edition (London, 1705). Thorn-Drury, II, 112.
f. [14r]
• CoA 88: 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. [14r-v]
• CoA 105: Abraham Cowley, Martial. Lib. 2. Vota tui breviter, &c. (‘Well then, Sir, you shall know how far extend’)
Copy, untitled.
First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 386-7.
f. [14v]
• CoA 103: Abraham Cowley, Martial. L. 2. Vis fieri Liber? &c. (‘Would you be Free? 'Tis your chief wish, you say’)
Copy, untitled.
First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 387.
f. [15v]
• RoJ 600: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)
Copy of stanzas 13-17, beginning ‘But Nothing, why does something still permit’, in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters, lacking the first twelve stanzas.
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.
f. [16r]
• RoJ 447: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘What cruel pains Corinna takes’)
Copy, in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters.
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.
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• WhA 12: Anne Wharton, Elegie on John Earle of Rochester (‘Deep Waters silent roul, so greifs like mine’)
Copy of a 33-line version, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.
First published in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685). Greer & Hastings, No. 7, pp. 140-2.
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• WhA 49: Anne Wharton, To Doc: Burnett upon his retirement (‘If darkest Shades could cloud so bright a Mind’)
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.
First published, as ‘Upon the D. of Buckingham's Retirement: By Madame Wharton, Jan. 1683’, in Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692), pp. Greer & Hastings, No. 17, pp. 177-9.
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Copy of the complete poem, in the hand of an amanuensis, with autograph revisions and two lines (75-6, on p. [3]) in the poet's hand, the last four lines added in yet another hand, on eleven pages of four pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Headed ‘Instructions to a Painter for the drawing of the Posture & Progresse of his Maties forces at Sea under the Command of His H: R: together with [a description of deleted] the Battel & victory obteynde ouer the Dutch 3 June 1665’, followed by thirteen lines in French beginning ‘Je suis vaincu du temps’, subscribed ‘Malherbe au Roy Henry le Grand’. c.1665.
*WaE 104: Edmund Waller, Instructions to a Painter (‘First draw the sea, that portion which between’)
Among papers of the Waller family.
First published as a broadside (London, 1665). Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 48-59. See also Mary Tom Osborne, Advice-to-a-Painter Poems (Austin, Texas, 1949), pp. 26-7.
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A draft of 29 lines (including repetitions), in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with one or two autograph revisions by Waller (notably in line 15 here [= Canto II, line 61 in the printed text]) and some passages deleted with crosses, headed ‘Upon Mrs: Whartons translation Of the 53d of Esay in vers’ and here beginning ‘Esaiah She, to speak our tonge, has taught’, on a single folio leaf, imperfect at the bottom. Late 17th century.
*WaE 162: Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos (‘Poets we prize, when in their verse we find’)
Among papers of the Waller family.
Facsimile in IELM, II.ii (1993), Facsimile XXb.
First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.
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A draft of 93 lines (including repetitions, half-lines and deletions), with revisions, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with two lines on the third page (lines 65-6 here [= Canto II, lines 67-8 in the printed text]) in Waller's hand, headed ‘Upon Mrs: Whartons translation Of the 53d of Isaiah, and of Divine Poesy’, on two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
*WaE 163: Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos (‘Poets we prize, when in their verse we find’)
Among papers of the Waller family.
First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.
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A draft fragment of eighteen lines in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Upon Mrs: Whartons translation Of the 53d of Esay in vers’, and here beginning ‘This Lady shares in the great prophets glory’, followed (inverted on the fourth page) by 23 lines beginning ‘As Ivy lives wch on the oak takes hold’, with a few autograph revisions and insertions by Waller in both sections, on two pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
*WaE 164: Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos (‘Poets we prize, when in their verse we find’)
Among papers of the Waller family.
First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.
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A fair copy of 91 lines, with some revisions and lines in draft, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, with one or two autograph revisions and insertions by Waller (notably in line 28 here [= Canto I, line 50 in the printed text]), headed ‘Upon Mrs Whartons translation of the 53d of Isaiah, and of Divine Poesy’, on two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
*WaE 165: Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos (‘Poets we prize, when in their verse we find’)
Among papers of the Waller family.
First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.
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A draft of 68 lines, including revisions, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Upon Mrs Whartons translation of the 53d of Isaiah, and of Divine Poesy’, on two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.
WaE 166: Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos (‘Poets we prize, when in their verse we find’)
Among papers of the Waller family.
First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.
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A draft of two separate sets of verse, the first being four lines beginning ‘No verse produced by so divine a rage’ [= a version of Canto II, lines 4-5], the second being six lines beginning ‘The truth she told in a sublimer strain’ [= Canto II, lines 53-60], in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled, on a single folio leaf. Among papers of the Waller family. Late 17th century.
WaE 167: Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos (‘Poets we prize, when in their verse we find’)
First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.
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Copy, in the hand of Thomas Ellwood (1639-1713), headed ‘Of the ffear of god in 2 Cantos’, on two conjugate folio leaves. c.1680s.
WaE 348: Edmund Waller, On the Fear of God. In Two Cantos (‘The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace’)
Among papers of the Waller family.
First published in Poems, ‘Eighth’ edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 139-43.
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Printed edition of Malherbe.
The volume as a whole
• *WaE 888: Edmund Waller, Malherbe, François de. Les oeuvres (Paris, 1659)
A printed exemplum, with signature ‘Edm Waller’ on the title-page, the text marked with various MS crosses. c.1660s.
Malherbe is mentioned in Waller's letter to Mrs Myddelton, 12 May 1678 (WaE 828),and see also the copy of a poem by Malherbe appended to WaE 104. Lot 153 in the Waller sale of 1832 includes ‘Poesies de Malherbe and 2 others, Paris, 1666’, and another exemplum of the edition of 1666 is lot 329.
Flyleaf
• *WaE 779: Edmund Waller, ‘Venus came from the sea & sits by him that governs it’
Autograph draft of six largely unrelated lines jotted on the flyleaf.
Unpublished.
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A folio booklet of four leaves. c.1700.
f. [3r]
• WhA 22: Anne Wharton, On the Storm between Gravesend and Dieppe; Made at that Time (‘When the Tempestuous Sea did foam and roar’)
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Mrs Wharton’.
This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.
First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 240-1. Greer & Hastings, No. 9, p. 144.
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• WhA 50: Anne Wharton, To Doc: Burnett upon his retirement (‘If darkest Shades could cloud so bright a Mind’)
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.
First published, as ‘Upon the D. of Buckingham's Retirement: By Madame Wharton, Jan. 1683’, in Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692), pp. Greer & Hastings, No. 17, pp. 177-9.
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• WhA 57: Anne Wharton, To Mr. Waller (‘Now I shall live indeed, not by my skill’)
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.
First published, in a 52-line version, in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685), pp. 222-5. A 62-line version in The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 85, pt. i (June 1815), p. 493, and in Greer & Hastings, No. 19, pp. 182-3.
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• WhA 6: Anne Wharton, The Despair. To D. Burnet by Mrs Wharton (‘The use of Knowledge is to find it poor’)
This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.
First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 18, pp. 180-1.
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A folio volume of 51 poems by Edmund Waller, in a probably professional hand, with alterations in another hand (possibly collations with one of the editions of 1645), 149 pages, imperfect (pp. 49-50, 55-6, 61-2 and most of pp. 57-8 excised), in calf. On pp. 1-3, in the hand of the main scribe, is a prose dedication ‘To the Queene [Henrietta Maria]’ and, on pp. 147-9, another ‘To my Lady Sophia’ [‘Bartie—ye earle of Linseys Daughter’ added in another hand], and four poems by other writers added in yet another hand on pp. 122-46. c.1640s.
The volume purchased by a later member of the Waller family, in 1868, from the London bookseller F.S. Ellis, who notes in an enclosed letter (dated 20 August 1868) that he bought it from William Carew Hazlitt (1834-1813), bibliographer and writer, who had bought it in ‘a miscellaneous sale of books & furniture at Robinson's Rooms in Bond St. some eight or ten years since’. In another enclosed letter (dated 3 August 1868) Ellis expresses the wholly erroneous view that ‘some of the corrections are his [Waller's]… and …the whole was written under his eye — the writing is certainly identical with that of the dedication in the volume of his poems in the British Museum, addressed to the Duchess of York’ [WaE 610, WaE 688]. The volume was owned in 1893 by Mr Waller, of Farmington Lodge, Northleach.
Cited in IELM, II.ii, as the Hazlitt MS: WaE Δ 4. Recorded in Thorn-Drury and the dedication ‘To the Queene’ printed (I, vi-vii).
pp. 5-11
• WaE 261: Edmund Waller, Of the Danger His Majesty (being Prince) escaped in the Road at Saint Andrews (‘Now had his Highness bid farewell to Spain’)
Copy, with alterations in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 1-7.
pp. 13-14
• WaE 200: Edmund Waller, Of His Majesty's Receiving the News of the Duke of Buckingham's Death (‘So earnest with thy God! can no new care’)
Copy, with alterations in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 11-12.
pp. 15-16
• WaE 614: Edmund Waller, To the King, on his Navy (‘Wher'er thy navy spreads her canvas wings’)
Copy, with an alteration in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 15-16.
See also WaE 765.
pp. 17-19
• WaE 682: Edmund Waller, Upon His Majesty's Repairing of Paul's (‘That shipwrecked vessel which the Apostle bore’)
Copy, with alterations in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 16-18.
pp. 21-2
• WaE 250: Edmund Waller, Of Salle (‘Of Jason, Theseus, and such worthies old’)
Copy, headed ‘Of the taking of Sallye’, with alterations and an inserted line in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 13-14.
pp. 24-6
• WaE 640: Edmund Waller, To the Queen, Occasioned upon Sight of Her Majesty's Picture (‘Well fare the hand! which to our humble sight’)
Copy, with alterations in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 8-10.
pp. 27-8
• WaE 15: Edmund Waller, The Apology of Sleep (‘My charge it is those breaches to repair’)
Copy, headed ‘The Apology of Sleepe for not approaching the Lady who can doe any thing butt sleepe when shee pleaseth’, with alterations in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 80-1.
pp. 29-30
• WaE 55: Edmund Waller, The Country to My Lady of Carlisle (‘Madam, of all the sacred Muse inspired’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 21.
pp. 30-2
• WaE 48: Edmund Waller, The Countess of Carlisle in Mourning (‘When from black clouds no part of sky is clear’)
Copy, with alterations in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 22-3.
p. 33
• WaE 98: Edmund Waller, In Answer to One who Writ against a Fair Lady (‘What fury has provoked thy wit to dare’)
Copy, untitled.
First published, in a four-stanza version headed ‘In Answer to a libell against her, &c’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 24-5.
p. 34
• WaE 332: Edmund Waller, On My Lady Dorothy Sidney's Picture (‘Such was Philoclea, such Musidorus' flame!’)
Copy, with alterations in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 43.
pp. 35-7
• WaE 654: Edmund Waller, To Vandyck (‘Rare Artisan, whose pencil moves’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 44-5.
pp. 38-40
• WaE 26: Edmund Waller, At Penshurst (‘While in the park I sing, the listening deer’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 64-5.
pp. 40-1
• WaE 21: Edmund Waller, At Penshurst (‘Had Sacharissa lived when mortals made’)
Copy, with an alteration in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 46-7.
pp. 42-3
• WaE 580: Edmund Waller, To My Lord of Leicester (‘Not that thy trees at Penshurst groan’)
Copy, with alterations in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 47-8.
pp. 43-4
• WaE 515: Edmund Waller, To a very young Lady (‘Why came I so untimely forth’)
Copy, headed ‘To my young Lady Lucy Sidney’.
First published, as ‘To my young Lady Lucy Sidney’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 57.
p. 45
• WaE 270: Edmund Waller, Of the Lady who can Sleep when she Pleases (‘No wonder sleep from careful lovers flies’)
Copy, with alterations in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 49.
p. 46
• WaE 296: Edmund Waller, Of the Misreport of her being Painted (‘As when a sort of wolves infest the night’)
Copy, with alterations in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 50.
pp. 47-8
• WaE 189: Edmund Waller, Of her Passing through a Crowd of People (‘As in old chaos (heaven with earth confused)’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 51.
pp. 51-3
• WaE 526: Edmund Waller, To Amoret (‘Fair! that you may truly know’)
Copy with alterations in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 58-60.
p. 54
• WaE 461: Edmund Waller, The Story of Phoebus and Daphne, Applied (‘Thyrsis, a youth of the inspired train’)
Copy, with an alteration in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 52.
p. 57
• WaE 341: Edmund Waller, On the Discovery of a Lady's Painting (‘Pygmalion's fate reversed is mine’)
Copy of the last stanza (lines 19-24, here beginning ‘A reall beautie though to neare’), imperfect, the first eighteen lines excised.
First published, as ‘On a patch'd up Madam’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 99.
p. 58
• WaE 482: Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received a Silver Pen (‘Madam! intending to have tried’)
Copy of lines 11-17 (here beginning ‘Immortall praise forwhat I wrought’), imperfect, the rest excised.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 109.
p. 59
• WaE 315: Edmund Waller, On a Brede of Divers Colours, Woven by Four Ladies (‘Twice twenty slender virgin-fingers twine’)
Copy.
First published in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 121.
pp. 59-60
• WaE 362: Edmund Waller, On the Head of a Stag (‘So we some antique hero's strength’)
Copy, with alterations in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 110.
pp. 64-5
• WaE 119: Edmund Waller, The Miser's Speech. In a Masque (‘Balls of this metal slacked At'lanta's pace’)
Copy, with a line inserted in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 111.
pp. 65-7
• WaE 566: Edmund Waller, To My Lord Northumberland, upon the Death of his Lady (‘To this great loss a sea of tears is due’)
Copy, with alterations in another hand and a gloss on ‘Lady’ in the title (‘my lord of Sallisbery's Daughter’).
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 31-2.
pp. 68-70
• WaE 560: Edmund Waller, To my Lord Admiral, of his late Sickness and Recovery (‘With joy like ours, the Thracian youth invades’)
Copy.
First published in Thomas Carew, Poems, 2nd edition (London, 1642). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 33-5. The Poems of Thomas Carew, ed. Rhodes Dunlap (Oxford, 1949), pp. 200-1.
pp. 71-2
• WaE 354: Edmund Waller, On the friendship betwixt two Ladies (‘Tell me, lovely, loving pair!’)
Copy, headed ‘On the freendship betuixt Sacharissa and Amoret’, with a note in another hand ‘Lady Dor. Sidnei & Lady Anne Caudish. wife to my Lord Rich’.
This MS cited in Thorn-Drury.
First published, as ‘On the Friendship betwixt Sacharissa and Amoret’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 60-1.
pp. 72-3
• WaE 86: Edmund Waller, ‘Go, lovely Rose’
Copy.
First published, as ‘On the Rose’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 128. Setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1655).
pp. 73-5
• WaE 471: Edmund Waller, Thyrsis, Galatea (‘As lately I on silver Thames did ride’)
Copy, with alterations and a line inserted in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 40-2.
pp. 76-85
• WaE 32: Edmund Waller, The Battle of the Summer Islands (‘Aid me, Bellona! while the dreadful fight’)
Copy, with alterations and a line inserted in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 66-74.
pp. 85-7
• WaE 79: Edmund Waller, For Drinking of Healths (‘And is antiquity of no more force!’)
Copy of the 34-line version, headed ‘Ane answeare to on that write against Healths’, with alterations in another hand.
Edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury.
First published, in an 18-line version beginning at line 7, ‘Let Bruits, and Vegetals that cannot think’, in Workes (1645). A 34-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), pp. 89-90. Thorn-Drury (1904), I, 89-90.
pp. 87-91
• WaE 693: Edmund Waller, Upon the Death of my Lady Rich (‘May those already cursed Essexian plains’)
Copy, with two words inserted in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 37-40.
pp. 92-3
• WaE 634: Edmund Waller, To the Queen Mother of France, upon her Landing (‘Great Queen of Europe! where thy offspring wears’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 35-6.
p. 94
• WaE 442: Edmund Waller, Song (‘Peace, babbling Muse!’)
Copy, headed ‘Banist if he made Loue’.
This MS cited in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 124.
pp. 95-7
• WaE 208: Edmund Waller, Of Love (‘Anger in hasty words or blows’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 87-8.
pp. 97-100
• WaE 627: Edmund Waller, To the Mutable Fair (‘Here Celia! for thy sake I part’)
Copy, with an insertion in another hand.
The text corrected from this MS in Thorn-Drury.
First published, as ‘The Reply’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 106-8.
pp. 102-3
• WaE 675: Edmund Waller, Upon Ben Jonson (‘Mirror of poets! mirror of our age!’)
Copy, headed ‘Vpone Ben: Johnsone the most excellent of Comick Poets’.
First published in Jonsonus Virbius (London, 1638). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 29-30.
p. 104
• WaE 129: Edmund Waller, Of a Lady who writ in Praise of Mira (‘While she pretends to make the graces known’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 2.
p. 104
• WaE 586: Edmund Waller, To one Married to an old Man (‘Since thou wouldst needs (bewitched with some ill charms!)’)
Copy.
First published, as ‘To the wife being marryed to that old man’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, II, 2.
pp. 106-8
• WaE 648: Edmund Waller, To the Servant of a Fair Lady (‘Fair fellow-servant! may your gentle ear’)
Copy, with an alteration in another hand, headed ‘To Mirs: Braughton’.
First published, as ‘To Mistris Braughton’, in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 55-6.
pp. 108-9
• WaE 415: Edmund Waller, Puerperium (‘You gods that have the power’)
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 82.
pp. 110-11
• WaE 594: Edmund Waller, To Phyllis (‘Phyllis! 'twas love that injured you’)
Copy, with one word inserted in another hand.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 27-8.
p. 112
• WaE 738: Edmund Waller, ‘While I listen to thy voice’
Copy, headed ‘Song’.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 127. A musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).
p. 113
• WaE 453: Edmund Waller, Song (‘Stay, Phoebus! stay’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 123.
p. 114
• WaE 520: Edmund Waller, To Amoret (‘Amoret! the Milky Way’)
Copy, here beginning ‘Amidst the milky way’.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 83.
pp. 115-6
• WaE 572: Edmund Waller, To my Lord of Falkland (‘Brave Holland leads, and with him Falkland goes’)
Copy.
First published in Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 75-6.
See also WaE 765.
pp. 117-8
• WaE 43: Edmund Waller, Chloris and Hylas (‘Hylas, oh Hylas! why sit we mute’)
Copy, with alterations in another hand.
First published, as ‘On the approaching Spring’, in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 114-15.
p. 119
• WaE 545: Edmund Waller, To Mr. George Sandys, on his Translation of some parts of the Bible (‘How bold a work attempts that pen’)
Copy, with alterations in another hand, headed ‘To his worthy freend Mr: George Sandys—on his sacrad Poems’.
First published in George Sandys, Paraphrase upon the Divine Poems (London, 1638). Workes (1645). Thorn-Drury, I, 28-9.
p. 120
• WaE 668: Edmund Waller, Under a Lady's Picture (‘Some ages hence, for it must not decay’)
Copy of lines 3-8, beginning ‘Such Helen was…’.
First published, in a six-line version headed ‘To be ingraven under the Queen's Picture’ and beginning at line 3 (‘Such Helen was! and who can blame the boy’), in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). An eight-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), p. 129. Thorn-Drury (1904), II, 1.
pp. 125-6
• DaW 85: Sir William Davenant, The Law against Lovers, III, i. Song (‘Wake all the dead! what hoa! what hoa!’)
Copy, untitled.
First published in Works (London, 1673). Dramatic Works, V, 109-211 (pp. 152-3). Gibbs, p. 260.
[no shelfmark]
A quarto miscellany of chiefly verse, with some prose and French exercises, including at least seventeen poems by or attributed to Waller, as well as a complete transcript of The Maid's Tragedy Altered, in more than one hand, the predominant hand that of one of Waller's daughters, written from both ends, some of the ascriptions to ‘Mr Waller’ added later in a different hand, 100 unnumbered leaves (including stubs of some extracted leaves [ff. 9-13v, 7r-v rev., 27r-v rev., 35-6v rev.]), in calf. Including such association texts as ‘An Epistle to my father Ox: Sep: ye 17: 1667’ (f. [2v]), ‘On ye Wallers arms’ (f. [15v]), a letter [by Waller] to ‘my Dearest Neece’ (ff. [20-1]) followed by a letter to her ‘Honrd Uncle’ ascribed in another hand to ‘Lady Speake’ (f. 21r-v), and ‘The ffollowing line my ffather write…’ dated from ‘Hallbarn Aprill ye 11 1685’ (f. [33v]). c.1680s [-1700s].
Scribbling inside the covers and on the flyleaves including (several times) the name ‘Edmond Waller’ and ‘Edmund Waller his Bookes’: i.e. very probably the poet's son, Edmund Waller the Younger (1651-99). Pinned inside the cover is a receipt dated 29 September 1645 for money received from Anne Waller, the poet's mother (d. 1653), signed by Anne Darell and witnessed by John Ford and John Pepys.
Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the Younger Waller MS: WaE Δ 7. Briefly recorded in Thorn-Drury and in Wikelund (1970), pp. 77-8.
f. [1v]
• WaE 145: Edmund Waller, Of a War with Spain, and a Fight at Sea (‘Now, for some ages, has the pride of Spain’)
Copy of a version of lines 95-6, here ‘How frail is man how quickly changed are / Our wraugh & fury to a frindly care’, among jottings in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
These lines recorded in Wikelund (1970), pp. 77-8. They also correspond to two lines spoken by Melantius in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (on p. 206 in Poems, ‘Eighth’ edition (London, 1711)).
First published as a broadside (London, 1658). Revised version in Samuel Carrington, History of the Life and Death of Oliver, Late Lord Protector (London, 1659). Poems (London, 1664). Thorn-Drury, II, 23-7.
See also WaE 765.
f.[2r]
• WaE 763: Edmund Waller, ‘The' advantage man ore Beasts in Reason getts’
Copy of a twelve-line version, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, ascribed in another hand to ‘Mr Waller’.
Apparently unpublished.
f. [6v]
• WaE 751: Edmund Waller, ‘Hide for adresses pays as many grotes’
Copy of four lines of verse, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, ascribed in another hand to ‘Waller’.
Apparently unpublished.
f. [8r]
• WaE 157: Edmund Waller, Of an Elegy made by Mrs. Wharton on the Earl of Rochester (‘Thus mourn the Muses! on the hearse’)
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Of A Ladyes Elegy upon ye Earl of Rochester’, ascribed in another hand to ‘Mr Waller’.
First published in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn Drury, II, 89.
ff. [10r-11r, 12v-14r]
• DrJ 6: 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’)
Copy c.1700s.
First published in London, 1697. Fables Ancient and Modern (London, 1700). Kinsley, III, 1428-33. California, VII, 3-9. Hammond, V, 3-18.
ff. [14r-15r]
• WaE 346: Edmund Waller, On the Duke of Monmouth's Expedition into Scotland in the Summer Solstice, 1679 (‘Swift as Jove's messenger, the winged god’)
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Of the Duke of Monmouths expedition to Scotland in the summer solstis 1678’, ascribed in another hand to ‘Waller’.
The last four lines (46-9) edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury.
First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 84-5.
f. [15r-v]
• WaE 752: Edmund Waller, Of Mrs Dunch (‘This haughty cariage in my Mrs shows’)
Copy of ten lines of verse, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, subscribed ‘these are imperfectly remember'd’, ascribed in another hand to ‘Waller’.
Apparently unpublished.
f. [16r]
• WaE 411: Edmund Waller, Prologue for the Lady-Actors: Spoken before King Charles II (‘Amaze us not with that majestic frown’)
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Prologue for the Lady actors &c.’.
First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 95.
ff. [17r-18v]
• RoJ 332: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)
Copy of lines 1-73, in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters, headed ‘Satyre’.
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).
f. [20r]
• WaE 786: Edmund Waller, Written in my Lady Speke's Singing-Book (‘Her fair eyes, if they could see’)
Copy of a nine-line poem, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, ascribed in another hand to ‘Waller’.
First published in Thorn-Drury (1893), p. 129. Thorn Drury (1904), II, 1.
f. [20r]
• WaE 670: Edmund Waller, Under a Lady's Picture (‘Some ages hence, for it must not decay’)
Copy of lines 1-3, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘This was writen under my Lady Spekes Picture’.
First published, in a six-line version headed ‘To be ingraven under the Queen's Picture’ and beginning at line 3 (‘Such Helen was! and who can blame the boy’), in Wits Recreations (London, 1645). Workes (1645). An eight-line version first published in Thorn-Drury (1893), p. 129. Thorn-Drury (1904), II, 1.
f. [27r-v]
• RoJ 35: 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, in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters.
First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.
f. [28r-v]
• WaE 701: 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, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘on ye death of Oliver Cromwell’.
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.
f. [31v]
• WaE 373: Edmund Waller, On the Statue of King Charles I. at Charing Cross (‘That the First Charles does here in triumph ride’)
Copy, in an unidentified hand, headed Mr Waller on ye statue of King Charles ye 1st at Charing-crosse erected by ye D: of Leeds.
First published in The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 75.
f. [33v]
• WaE 760: Edmund Waller, ‘That shortly they shall fflourish and wax green’
Copy, probably in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, headed ‘Hallbarn Aprill ye 11 1685 The ffollowing line my ffather write in a letter to my Lady Ranalagh after saying he had not much joy in walking in his woods where he found ye trees as bare & withered as himselfe But wth this diferance’.
Edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury.
First published in Thorn-Drury (1893). Thorn-Drury (1904), I, lxviii.
f. [6r-v rev.]
• WaE 412: Edmund Waller, Prologue to the ‘Maid's Tragedy’ (‘Scarce should we have the boldness to pretend’)
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 96-7.
ff. [8r-23r rev.], [25ret seq. rev.], f. [2r]
• WaE 798: Edmund Waller, The Maid's Tragedy Altered
Copy of all Waller's adaptation on ff. [8r-23r rev.], with additional passages on f. [25r et seq. rev.], also (on f. [2r]) a sixteen-line passage beginning ‘Under what Tyranny are Women born’ [a version of Evadne's lines near the beginning of the play, line 9 et seq.], in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
Recorded in IELM, II.ii (1993), as WaE 787.
First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (1690).
See also WaE 145, WaE 765.
f. [24r-v rev.]
• WaE 59: Edmund Waller, Epilogue to the ‘Maid's Tragedy’. Spoken by the King (‘The fierce Melantius was content, you see’)
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters.
First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 98.
ff. [27r-28v rev.]
• RoJ 166: 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 in the hand of one of Edmund Waller's daughters, imperfect, lacking lines 1-61 and here beginning ‘To an exact perfection they have wrought’.
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. [30r-v rev.]
• WaE 666: Edmund Waller, The Triple Combat (‘When through the world fair Mazarin had run’)
Copy, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, ascribed in another hand to ‘Mr Waller’.
First published in The Second Part of Mr. Waller's Poems (London, 1690). The Maid's Tragedy Altered (London, 1690). Thorn-Drury, II, 77-8.
ff. [31r-34r rev.]
• WaE 375: 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, in the hand of one of Waller's daughters, untitled and incomplete.
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.
[unnumbered loosely inserted leaf]
• WaE 133: Edmund Waller, Of a Tree cut in Paper (‘Fair hand! that can on virgin paper write’)
Copy of a 22-line version, headed ‘On the Lady Isabella [Thynne's] cutting Trees in Paper’ and subscribed ‘I had these Verses from my Lady Long in 1656. Her Lap: had several other Copies of Mr Wallers Verses. (of which Mr Waller had not duplicats) which she lent to the Dutches of Beaufort, and were never return'd. Their friendship is now broken; but I hope her Grace will be so kind as to grant Transcripts of them upon the reprinting of ye Book’, on a single quarto leaf, a note on the verso referring to ‘Mr Aubery’.
Lines 15-20 edited from this MS in Thorn-Drury.
First published, in a fourteen-line version, in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). A 22-line version in Thorn-Drury, II, 68.
[no shelfmark]
Edmund the younger's miscellany.
f. 8v
• DrJ 247.93: John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe
Extracts.
First published in London, 1676. California, XIII (1994), pp. 147-250.
[no shelfmark]
Unnumbered bundle of verses.
f. [12r]
• DrJ 247.95: John Dryden, Aureng-Zebe
Extracts.
First published in London, 1676. California, XIII (1994), pp. 147-250.
[no shelfmark]
Folio booklet of verse, sixteen leaves, unbound, predominantly in the hand of one of Waller's daughters. Contents include poems by Marvell, Lord Cutts, Dryden, Rochester, Mrs Higgons, and others.
[no shelfmark]
Waller Family MS No. iii. Some sixteen unbound, or possibly disbound, folio leaves of verse. All in the hand of one of Waller's daughters. Contents include poems by Cowley, Thomas Flatman, Rochester, Dryden, at least four by Waller himself (‘The last Verses my Dear ffather made’, ‘The ffoollowing line my ffather write in a letter to my Lady Ranalagh…’, etc.), and one addressed to Waller by Mrs Wharton.
[no shelfmark]
Sheaf of unbound letters (some of a later date) and a few copies of verse.
passim
• WaE 348.5: Edmund Waller, On the Fear of God. In Two Cantos (‘The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace’)
A contemporary copy on a separate folio leaf. October 1687.
First published in Poems, ‘Eighth’ edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 139-43.
passim
• DrJ 244.8: John Dryden, The Works of Virgil [Aeneis, Georgics, Pastorals] (‘Arms, and the Man I sing, who forc'd by Fate’)
Extracts from Dryden's Aeneid, beginning in Book 9, line 579 (‘Down fell the beautiful Youth, the yawning wound’).
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).
passim
• RoJ 647: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Valentinian, or Lucina's Rape
A twelve-line extract, from Act IV, scene iv, beginning ‘At this she fell - choakt with a thousand sighs’. Late 17th century.
The first recorded performance was at Court, 11 February 1683/4. First published in London, 1685. Collected Works of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926), pp. 161-238. Love, pp. 133-231, as Lucina's Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian, with (pp. 232-40) [A Mask for the Tragedy of Valentinian] [by Sir Francis Fane].
[no shelfmark]
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to his wife, from London, 14 February [no year, but before 1677]. c.1676.
*WaE 826: Edmund Waller, Letter(s)
[no shelfmark]
Autograph letter signed by Waller, to his wife, from London, ‘Thursday 2 [or 9] a clock att night’ [no year, but before 1677]. [c.1676].
*WaE 826.5: Edmund Waller, Letter(s)
Facsimile of the second page in Wikelund (1970), before p. 73.
[no shelfmark]
Waller's last will and testament, dated 12 September 1681, with a codicil dated 9 January 1681[/2], on vellum and signed by the poet. 1681-2.
*WaE 858: Edmund Waller, Will