CELM: Worcester College, Oxford

MS 58

A large folio verse miscellany, including (on pp. 1-88) 73 poems by Katherine Philips, dating as late as 1662, written in a single, neat non-professional hand, the remainder of the volume filled with other poems in several hands, viii + 140 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt, ‘A S’ in a gilt lozenge on each cover. The later additions partly compiled by George Clarke (1661-1736), politician and virtuoso (whose bookplate is inside the cover and whose family coat of arms is on f. [iv]), son of Sir William Clarke (1623?-66), Secretary of War to the Commonwealth and Charles II. c.1662[-1730s].

Inside the front cover inscribed ‘E[?] Barrow’, evidently a member of the family of Samuel Barrow (1625-82), Royal Physician and friend of John Milton, Barrow being the second husband of Sir William Clarke's widow, Dorothy (d.1695). Formerly MSS 6. 13.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Clarke MS’: PsK Δ 5. See also Elizabeth H. Hageman, ‘Treacherous Accidents, and the Abominable Printing of Katherine Philips's 1664 Poems’, in New Ways of Looking at Old Texts, III, ed. W. Speed Hill (Tempe, AZ, 2004), pp. 85-95.

pp. 1-3

• CoA 126: Abraham Cowley, On Orinda's Poems. Ode (‘We allow'd You Beauty, and we did submit’)

Copy, headed ‘To the most Exelently Accomplist M^rs Katherine Phillips vpon her Poems’, subscribed ‘Abraham Cowley’, preceding a collection of poems by Katherine Philips.

First published in Poems, by Several Persons (Dublin, 1663). Verses, Lately Written upon several Occasions (London, 1663). Waller, I, 404-6.

pp. 4-5

• PsK 124: Katherine Philips, Happyness (‘Nature courts happiness, although it be’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 228-31. Poems (1667), pp. 118-19. Saintsbury, pp. 573-4. Thomas, I, 188-90, poem 74.

p. 5

• PsK 52: Katherine Philips, Death (‘How weak a Star doth rule mankind’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 232-4. Poems (1667), pp. 119-20. Saintsbury, p. 574. Thomas, I, 190-1, poem 75.

pp. 6-7

• PsK 566: Katherine Philips, The World (‘Wee falsly think it due unto our friends’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 217-22. Poems (1667), pp. 111-13. Saintsbury, pp. 569-71. Thomas, I, 182-5, poem 72.

pp. 8-9

• PsK 339: Katherine Philips, The Soule (‘How vaine a thing is man, whose noblest part’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 222-8. Poems (1667), pp. 114-17. Saintsbury, pp. 571-3. Thomas, I, 185-8, poem 73.

pp. 10-12

• PsK 201: Katherine Philips, L'accord du bien (‘Order, by which all things were made’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 195-203. Poems (1667), pp. 98-103. Saintsbury, pp. 563-4. Thomas, I, 169-73, poem 65.

pp. 12-13

• PsK 169: Katherine Philips, Invitation to the Countrey (‘Be kind, my deare Rosania, though 'tis true’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 203-6. Poems (1667), pp. 103-4. Saintsbury, pp. 564-5. Thomas, I, 173-5, poem 66.

pp. 13-14

• PsK 149: Katherine Philips, In Memory of Mrs. E. Hering (‘As some choice Plant, cherish'd by sun and aire’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 206-9. Poems (1667), pp. 104-6. Saintsbury, pp. 565-6. Thomas, I, 175-6, poem 67.

p. 15

• PsK 278: Katherine Philips, On the 3d September 1651 (‘As when the Glorious Magazine of Light’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 27-9. Poems (1667), pp. 13-14. Saintsbury, p. 515. Hageman (1987), pp. 585-6. Thomas, I, 82-3, poem 11.

pp. 15-17

• PsK 93: Katherine Philips, A Friend (‘Love, nature's plot, this great Creation's soule’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 189-95. Poems (1667), pp. 94-7. Saintsbury, pp. 561-3. Thomas, I, 165-8, poem 64.

pp. 18-19

• PsK 347: Katherine Philips, Submission (‘'Tis so. and humbly I my will resign’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 209-13. Poems (1667), pp. 108-10. Saintsbury, pp. 567-9. Thomas, I, 178-81, poem 70.

pp. 19-20

• PsK 528: Katherine Philips, 2 Corinth. 5. 19. v. God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself. 8^to Aprilis 1653 (‘When God, contracted to humanity’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 214-16. Poems (1667), pp. 110-11. Saintsbury, p. 569. Thomas, I, 181-2, poem 71.

pp. 20-1

• PsK 401: Katherine Philips, To M^rs Wogan, my honour'd friend, on the Death of her husband (‘Dry up your teares, there's ennow shed by you’)

Copy, headed ‘To M^rs Wogan my hould freind on the death of her husband’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 182-4. Poems (1667), pp. 91-2. Saintsbury, p. 559. Thomas, I, 162-3, poem 62.

pp. 22-3

• PsK 179: Katherine Philips, La Grandeur d'esprit (‘A chosen privacy, a cheap content’)

Copy, headed ‘La Grandeur d'esprit’.

First published, as ‘La Grandeur d'esprit’, in Poems (1664), pp. 171-6. in Poems (1667), pp. 86-8, as ‘A Resvery’. Saintsbury, pp. 556-8. Thomas, I, 157-9, poem 60.

pp. 24-5

• PsK 39: Katherine Philips, A Countrey life (‘How sacred and how innocent’)

Copy.

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).

pp. 26-7

• PsK 159: Katherine Philips, In memory of the most Justly honour'd M^rs Owen of Orielton (‘As when the ancient world by reason Liv'd’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 185-8. Poems (1667), pp. 92-4. Saintsbury, pp. 559-61. Thomas, I, 163-5, poem 63.

pp. 27-8

• PsK 101: Katherine Philips, Friendship (‘Let the dull brutish world that know not love’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 158-61. Poems (1667), pp. 78-9. Saintsbury, pp. 552-3. Thomas, I, 150-1, poem 57.

pp. 28-9

• PsK 414: Katherine Philips, To my dearest Antenor on his parting (‘Though it be Just to grieve when I must part’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 155-7. Poems (1667), pp. 76-7. Saintsbury, pp. 551-2. Hageman (1987), pp. 596-7. Thomas, I, 148-9, poem 54.

p. 29

• PsK 69: Katherine Philips, Engraved on Mr. John Collyer's Tombstone at Beddington (‘Here what remaines of him does ly’)

Copy, headed ‘Engraven on M^r Jn^o Collires Tombestone at Bedington’.

First published, with the place in the title given as ‘Bedlington’, in Poems (1664), p. 157. Poems (1667), p. 77. Saintsbury, p. 552. Thomas, I, 149, poem 55.

p. 29

• PsK 236: Katherine Philips, On Little Regina Collyer, on the same tombstone (‘Vertue's blossom, beauty's bud’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), p. 158. Poems (1667), p. 78. Saintsbury, p. 552. Thomas, I, 149, poem 56.

pp. 29-30

• PsK 144: Katherine Philips, In Memory of M^r Cartwright (‘Stay, prince of Fancy, stay, we are not fit’)

Copy, headed ‘In memory of M^r Cartwright’.

First published, as ‘To the Memory of the most Ingenious and Vertuous Gentleman Mr. Wil: Cartwright, my much valued Friend’, in William Cartwright, Comedies, Tragi-Comedies with other Poems (London, 1651). Poems (1664), pp. 145-6. Poems (1667), p. 71. Saintsbury, p. 549. Thomas, I, 143, poem 51.

pp. 30-1

• PsK 241: Katherine Philips, On Mr Francis Finch (the excellent Palemon) (‘This is confest presumption. for had I’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^r ffrancis ffinch the Exelent Palaemon’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 146-50. Poems (1667), pp. 72-3. Saintsbury, pp. 549-50. Thomas, I, 143-5, poem 52.

p. 31

• PsK 208: Katherine Philips, L'amitié: To Mrs. M. Awbrey. 6^t Aprill 1651 (‘Soule of my soule! my Joy, my crown, my friend!’)

Copy, headed ‘L'Amitié To M^rs Mary Awbery’.

First published in Poems (1664), p. 144. Poems (1667), pp. 70-1. Saintsbury, pp. 548-9. Thomas, I, 142, poem 50.

p. 32

• PsK 386: Katherine Philips, To Mrs. M.A. upon absence (set by M^r Henry Law's) 12. Decemb 1650 (‘'Tis now since I began to dy’)

Copy, headed ‘To M^rs M: A: vpon absence Set by M^r Hen: Lawes’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 142-4. Poems (1667), pp. 69-70. Saintsbury, p. 548. Thomas, I, 141-2, poem 49.

pp. 32-3

• PsK 391: Katherine Philips, To Mrs. Mary Awbrey at parting (‘I have examin'd, and do find’)

Copy, headed ‘To M^rs M: A: at Parting’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 150-4. Poems (1667), pp. 74-6. Saintsbury, pp. 550-1. Thomas, I, 145-7, poem 53.

pp. 33-5

• PsK 317: Katherine Philips, Rosania shaddow'd whilest M^rs M. Awbrey. 19. Septemb. 1651 (‘If any could my dear Rosania hate’)

Copy, headed ‘Rosania shaddowed whilest M^rs M Awbery’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 94-9. Poems (1667), pp. 48-50. Saintsbury, pp. 535-7. Thomas, I, 117-20, poem 34.

pp. 35-6

• PsK 324: Katherine Philips, Rosania's privage marriage (‘It was a wise and kind design of fagte’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 106-8. Poems (1667), pp. 52-3. Saintsbury, p. 538. Thomas, I, 122-3, poem 37.

pp. 36-7

• PsK 454: Katherine Philips, To Rosania (now Mrs Mountague) being with her, 25^th September. 1652 (‘As men that are with visions grac'd’)

Copy, the poem here dated ‘25 Sept 1652’.

First published, with the date ‘Septemb. 25. 1652’, in Poems (1664), pp. 115-18. Poems (1667), pp. 56-8. Saintsbury, pp. 540-1. Thomas, I, 127-8, poem 42.

pp. 37-8

• PsK 164: Katherine Philips, Injuria amici (‘Lovely apostate! what was my offence?’)

Copy, headed ‘Injuria Amicitias’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 109-12. Poems (1667), pp. 53-5. Saintsbury, pp. 538-9. Thomas, I, 123-5, poem 38.

pp. 38-9

• PsK 88: Katherine Philips, For Regina (‘Triumphant Queen of scorne, how ill doth sit’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘To Regina Collier, on her Cruelty to Philaster’, in Poems (1664), pp. 112-13. Poems (1667), p. 55. Saintsbury, pp. 539-40. Hageman (1987), p. 594. Thomas, I, 125, poem 39.

p. 39

• PsK 370: Katherine Philips, To J.J. esq: upon his melancholly for Regina (‘Give over now thy teares, thou vain’)

Copy, headed ‘To Philaster on his Melancholy for Regina’.

First published, as ‘To Philaster, on his Melancholy for Regina’, in Poems (1664), p. 113. Poems (1667), p. 55. Saintsbury, p. 540. Hageman (1987), p. 595. Thomas, I, 126, poem 40.

p. 39

• PsK 300: Katherine Philips, Philoclea's parting. M^rs M. Stedman. Feb: 25. 1650 (‘Kinder then a condemned man's reprieve’)

Copy, headed ‘philocleas parting ffebr: 25 1650’.

First published, with the date ‘Feb. 25. 1650’, in Poems (1664), p. 114. Poems (1667), p. 56. Saintsbury, p. 540. Thomas, I, 126, poem 41.

pp. 39-40

• PsK 476: Katherine Philips, To the Queen of inconstancie, Regina, in Antwerp (‘Unworthy, since thou hast decreed’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 100-1. Poems (1667), pp. 50-1. Saintsbury, p. 537. Thomas, I, 120-1, poem 35.

pp. 40-1

• PsK 357: Katherine Philips, To Antenor, on a paper of mine w^ch J. Jones threatens to publish to his prejudice (‘Must then my crimes become thy scandall too?’)

Copy, headed ‘To Antenor on a paper of mine w^ch J: Jones threatens to publish to p^rjudice him’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 91-2. Poems (1667), p. 47. Saintsbury, p. 535. Thomas, I, 116-17, poem 33.

p. 41

• PsK 510: Katherine Philips, To the truly noble, and obleiging Mrs: Anne Owen (on my first approaches) (‘As in a triumph conquerours admit’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 93-4. Poems (1667), pp. 33-4. Saintsbury, pp. 526-7. Thomas, I, 102-3, poem 26.

pp. 41-2

• PsK 463: Katherine Philips, To the excellent M^rs. A.O. upon her receiving the name of Lucasia, and adoption into our society 29 Decemb 1651 (‘We are compleat. and faith hath now’)

Copy, the date in the title here given as ‘23 Decem: 1651’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 102-3. Poems (1667), pp. 32-3. Saintsbury, p. 526. Thomas, I, 101-2, poem 25.

pp. 42-3

• PsK 505: Katherine Philips, To (the truly competent Judge of Honour) Lucasia, upon a scandalous libell made by J. Jones (‘Honour, which differs man from man much more’)

Copy, the name in the title here given as ‘J. Jones’.

First published, with ‘J. Jones’ in the title, in Poems (1664), pp. 87-91. With ‘J.J.’ in the title, in Poems (1667), pp. 45-6. Saintsbury, pp. 533-5. Thomas, I, 114-16, poem 32.

p. 44

• PsK 421: Katherine Philips, To my excellent Lucasia, on our friendship. 17th. July 1651 (‘I did not live untill this time’)

Copy, the poem here dated ‘17 July 1651’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 104-5. Poems (1667), pp. 51-2. Saintsbury, p. 537. Hageman (1987), pp. 593-4. Thomas, I, 121-2, poem 36 (dating the poem ‘1651’).

pp. 44-5

• PsK 396: Katherine Philips, To M^rs M. Karne, when J. Jeffreys Esq^re courted her (‘As some great Conquerour, who knows no bounds’)

Copy, headed ‘To M^rs Mary Carne when Phlaster Courted her’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 59-61. Poems (1667), pp. 30-1. Saintsbury, pp. 524-5. Thomas, I, 99-100, poem 23.

pp. 45-6

• PsK 375: Katherine Philips, To Mr. Henry Vaughan, Silurist, on his Poems (‘Had I ador'd the multitude, and thence’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 54-6. Poems (1667), pp. 27-8. Saintsbury, p. 523. Thomas, I, 96-7, poem 21.

pp. 46-7

• PsK 310: Katherine Philips, A Retir'd friendship, to Ardelia. 23d Augo 1651 (‘Come, my Ardelia, to this bowre’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 56-9. Poems (1667), pp. 28-9. Saintsbury, p. 524. Hageman (1987), pp. 592-3. Thomas, I, 97-8, poem 22.

pp. 47-8

• PsK 520: Katherine Philips, To the truly noble Sir Ed: Dering (the worthy Silvander) on his dream, and navy (‘Sir, to be noble, when 'twas voted down’)

Copy, with the preamble, headed ‘To S^r Edw^d Deering (y^e Noble Silvand^r) on his dreame of Navy personating Orindae's p^rserving Rosania before Solomons Trafique to Ophir’.

First published, as ‘To Sir Edward Deering (the noble Silvander) on his Dream and Navy, personating Orinda's preferring Rosania before Solomon's Traffick to Ophir’, in Poems (1664), pp. 34-6. Poems (1667), pp. 17-18. Saintsbury, pp. 517-18. Thomas, I, 86-7, poem 14.

pp. 48-9

• PsK 535: Katherine Philips, Upon the double murther of K. Charles, in answer to a libellous rime made by V.P. (‘I thinke not on the state, nor am concern'd’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon y^e double Murther of K: Ch: in answeare to a libellous Coppy of Rhimes made by Vavasor Powell’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 1-3. Poems (1667), pp. 1-2. Saintsbury, p. 507. Hageman (1987), pp. 584-5. Thomas, I, 69-70, poem 1.

p. 49

• PsK 494: Katherine Philips, To the Right Hono^bl. Alice, Countess of Carberry, at her enriching Wales with her presence (‘Madam, / As when the first day dawn'd, man's greedy ey’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Right Honorable Alice Countesse of Carbury on her enriching Wales with her p^rsence’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 31-3. Poems (1667), pp. 16-17. Saintsbury, pp. 516-17. Thomas, I, 84-5, poem 13.

pp. 49-50

• PsK 380: Katherine Philips, To Mr. J.B. the noble Cratander, upon a composition of his, which he was not willing to own publiquely (‘As when some Injur'd Prince assumes disguise’)

Copy, headed ‘To M^r John Berkenhead (the Noble Cratander) Vpon a Composicon of his w^ch he was not willing to own publiquely’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 62-4. Poems (1667), pp. 31-2. Saintsbury, pp. 525-6. Thomas, I, 100-1, poem 24.

pp. 50-2

• PsK 213: Katherine Philips, Lucasia (‘Not to obleige Lucasia by my voice’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 64-8. Poems (1667), pp. 34-5. Saintsbury, pp. 527-8. Thomas, I, 103-5, poem 27.

pp. 52-3

• PsK 113: Katherine Philips, Friendship's Mysterys, to my dearest Lucasia. (set by Mr. H. Lawes.) (‘Come, my Lucasia, since we see’)

Copy, headed ‘Freindships Mistery To my dearest Lucasia (set my M^r Henry Laws)’.

First published in Henry Lawes, The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). Poems (1664), pp. 43-5. Poems (1667), pp. 21-2. Saintsbury, p. 520. Hageman (1987), pp. 588-9. Thomas, I, 90-1, poem 17.

pp. 53-4

• PsK 31: Katherine Philips, Content, to my dearest Lucasia (‘Content, the false world's best disguise’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 45-50. Poems (1667), pp. 22-5. Saintsbury, pp. 520-2. Thomas, I, 91-4, poem 18.

p. 55

• PsK 60: Katherine Philips, A Dialogue between Lucasia and Orinda (‘Say, my Orinda, why so sad?’)

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue of Absence 'twixt Lucasia & Orinda set by M^r H: Lawes’.

First published, as ‘A Dialogue of Absence 'twixt Lucasia and Orinda. Set by Mr. Hen. Lawes’, in Poems (1664), pp. 50-2. Poems (1667), pp. 25-6. Saintsbury, p. 522. Hageman (1987), pp. 589-90. Thomas, I, 94-5, poem 19.

pp. 55-6

• PsK 329: Katherine Philips, A sea voyage from tenby to Bristoll, 5 of September 1652. Sent to Lucasia 8th September 1652 (‘Hoise up the saile, cry'd they who understand’)

Copy, headed ‘A Sea Voyage from Tenby to Bristoll begun y^e 5^th of Sept 1652 sent from Bristoll to Lucasia the 8^th of Sept 1652’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 39-42. Poems (1667), pp. 19-21. Saintsbury, pp. 519-20. Thomas, I, 88-90, poem 16.

p. 57

• PsK 408: Katherine Philips, To my dear Sister Mrs. C.P. on her nuptialls (‘We will not like those men our offerings pay’)

Copy, headed ‘To my deare Sist^r M^rs CP on her Nuptiall’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 52-4. Poems (1667), pp. 26-7. Saintsbury, pp. 522-3. Hageman (1987), p. 590-1. Thomas, I, 95-6, poem 20.

pp. 57-8

• PsK 515: Katherine Philips, To the truly noble Mr Henry Lawes (‘Nature, which is the vast creation's soule’)

Copy, headed ‘To ye truly Noble M^r Hen: Lawes’.

First published, as ‘To the much honoured Mr. Henry Lawes, On his Excellent Compositions in Musick’, in Henry Lawes, Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655). As ‘To Mr. Henry Lawes’ in Poems (1664), pp. 37-9. Poems (1667), pp. 18-19. Saintsbury, pp. 518-19. Hageman (1987), pp. 587-8. Thomas, I, 87-8, poem 15.

pp. 58-9

• PsK 471: Katherine Philips, To the noble Palaemon on his incomparable discourse of Friendship (‘We had been still undone, wrapt in disguise’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 29-31. Poems (1667), pp. 14-15. Saintsbury, pp. 515-16. Hageman (1987), pp. 586-7. Thomas, I, 83-4, poem 12.

p. 59

• PsK 560: Katherine Philips, Wiston=Vault (‘And why this Vault and Tomb? alike we must’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 68-70. Poems (1667), p. 36. Saintsbury, p. 528. Thomas, I, 105-6, poem 28.

pp. 60-1

• PsK 108: Katherine Philips, Friendship in Emblem, or the Seale, to my dearest Lucasia (‘The hearts thus intermixed speak’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 70-5. Poems (1667), pp. 36-9. Saintsbury, p. 529. Thomas, I, 106-8, poem 29.

pp. 61-2

• PsK 442: Katherine Philips, To my Lucasia (‘Let dull Philosophers enquire no more’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 118-20. Poems (1667), pp. 58-9. Saintsbury, p. 541. Thomas, I, 128-9, poem 43.

pp. 62-4

• PsK 447: Katherine Philips, To my Lucasia, in defence of declared friendship (‘O! my Lucasia, let us speak our Love’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 165-71. Poems (1667), pp. 82-5. Saintsbury, pp. 554-6. Thomas, I, 153-6, poem 59.

pp. 64-5

• PsK 73: Katherine Philips, The Enquiry (‘If we no old historian's name’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 162-5. Poems (1667), pp. 80-1. Saintsbury, pp. 553-4. Thomas, I, 151-3, poem 58.

p. 66

• PsK 272: Katherine Philips, On the numerous accesse of the English to waite upon the King in Holland (‘Hasten (great prince) unto thy British Isles’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Numerous Accesse of the English to wait upon the King in fflanders’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 3-4. Poems (1667), p. 2. Saintsbury, pp. 507-8. Thomas, I, 70-1, poem 2.

pp. 66-7

• PsK 484: Katherine Philips, To the Queen's majesty, Jan. 1. 1660/1 (‘You justly may forsake a land which you’)

Copy, headed ‘To the Queen moth^rs Ma^ty Jan: 1^st. 1660/61’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 13-16. Poems (1667), pp. 7-8. Saintsbury, pp. 510-11. Thomas, I, 75-7, poem 6.

pp. 67-9

• PsK 24: Katherine Philips, Arion on a Dolphin to his Majestie in his passadge into England (‘Whom doth this stately navy bring?’)

Copy, headed ‘Arion to a Dolphin to his Ma^ty in his Passadge into England’.

First published, as ‘Arion to a Dolphin, On his Majesty's passage into England’, in Poems (1664), pp. 5-9. Poems (1667), pp. 3-5. Saintsbury, pp. 508-9. Thomas, I, 71-3, poem 3.

pp. 69-70

• PsK 304: Katherine Philips, The Princess royall's Returne into England (‘Welcome sure pledge of reconciled powers’)

Copy, headed ‘The Princesse Royall her Returne into Englande’.

First published, as ‘Upon the Princess Royal her Return into England’, in Poems (1664), pp. 16-18. Poems (1667), pp. 8-9. Saintsbury, pp. 511-12. Thomas, I, 77-8, poem 7.

pp. 70-1

• PsK 254: Katherine Philips, On the death of the Duke of Gloucester (‘Great Gloucester's dead, and yet in this we must’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e death of y^e Illustrious Duke of Gloucester’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 18-22. Poems (1667), pp. 9-11. Saintsbury, pp. 512-13. Thomas, I, 78-9, poem 8.

pp. 71-2

• PsK 264: Katherine Philips, On the faire weather at the Coronacon (‘So clear a season, and so snatch'd from storms’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e faire weather just at Coronation’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 9-10. Poems (1667), p. 5. Saintsbury, p. 509. Hageman (1987), p. 585. Thomas, I, 73, poem 4.

p. 72

• PsK 362: Katherine Philips, To her royall highnesse, the Dutchesse of Yorke, on her command to send her some things I had wrote (‘To you, whose dignitie strikes us with awe’)

Copy, headed ‘To her Highnes the Dutches of Yorke on her Comanding me to send her some things that I had written’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 22-4. Poems (1667), pp. 11-12. Saintsbury, pp. 513-14. Thomas, I, 80, poem 9.

p. 73

• PsK 258: Katherine Philips, On the death of the Queen of Bohemia (‘Although the most do with officious heat’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 24-7. Poems (1667), pp. 12-13. Saintsbury, pp. 514-15. Thomas, I, 81-2, poem 10.

pp. 74-5

• PsK 480: Katherine Philips, To the Queen on her arrivall at Portsmouth. May. 1662 (‘Now that the seas and winds so kind are growne’)

Copy, the date in the title given as ‘May 1662’.

First published as a broadside (London, 1662). Poems (1664), pp. 10-13. Poems (1667), pp. 5-7. Saintsbury, pp. 509-10. Thomas, I, 74-5, poem 5.

Two known exempla of the broadside at Harvard (*pEB65 A100 662t) and at Worcester College, Oxford. Discussed, with a facsimile of the Harvard exemplum, in Elizabeth H. Hageman, ‘The “false printed” Broadside of Katherine Philips's “To the Queens Majesty on her Happy Arrival”’, The Library, 6th Ser. 17/4 (December 1995), 321-6. The Worcester College exemplum is illustrated in Peter Beal, In Praise of Scribes (1998), p. 158.

pp. 75-7

• PsK 134: Katherine Philips, In memory of F.P. who dyed at Acton 24 May.1660 — 13th of her age (‘If I could ever write a lasting verse’)

Copy, headed ‘In memory of FP who dyed at Acton y^e 24 May 1660 at 12 & ½ of age’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 75-80. Poems (1667), pp. 39-42. Saintsbury, pp. 530-1. Thomas, I, 109-11, poem 30.

pp. 77-9

• PsK 154: Katherine Philips, In memory of that excellent person Mrs. Mary Lloyd of Bodidrist in Denbighshire, who dy'd the 13th of November 1656, soon after she came thither from Pembrokeshire (‘I cannot hold, for though to write be rude’)

Copy, the place name in the title given as ‘Bodidscist’.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 81-7. Poems (1667), pp. 42-4. Saintsbury, pp. 531-3. Thomas, I, 111-14, poem 31.

pp. 79-80

• PsK 292: Katherine Philips, Parting with Lucasia 13^th Janu^ry 1657/8 A song (‘Well! we will doe that rigid thing’)

Copy, headed ‘Parting with Lucasia 13 January 1657 A Song’.

First published, with the date ‘Jan 13. 1657’, in Poems (1664), pp. 133-5. Poems (1667), pp. 65-6. Saintsbury, p. 546. Hageman (1987), pp. 595-6. Thomas, I, 136-7, poem 46.

pp. 80-1

• PsK 10: Katherine Philips, Against Pleasure. set by D^r Coleman (‘There's no such thing as pleasure here’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 135-7. Poems (1667), pp. 66-8. Saintsbury, pp. 546-7. Thomas, I, 137-8, poem 47.

pp. 81-3

• PsK 118: Katherine Philips, God (‘Eternal reason! glorious majestie!’)

Copy, headed ‘Out of M^r Mores cap: Con^st’ and with preliminary verses by Henry More (Cupid's Conflict).

First published, untitled (but with quotation from Henry More), in Poems (1664), pp. 137-42. Poems (1667), pp. 68-9, as ‘A Prayer’. Saintsbury, pp. 547-8. Thomas, I, 138-41, poem 48.

pp. 83-4

• PsK 228: Katherine Philips, On Controversies in Religion (‘Religion, which true policy befriends’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 120-4. Poems (1667), pp. 59-61. Saintsbury, pp. 542-3. Thomas, I, 130-2, poem 44.

pp. 85-8

• PsK 500: Katherine Philips, To the R^t Hono: the Lady E.C. (‘Madam / I do not write to you that men may know’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Hon^ble Lady E:C:’, followed (p. 88) by a poem ‘Written vpon this last Copy by M^r Jff’ (beginning ‘Madam y^e praises of yo^r freind shall live’).

First published, as ‘To the Honoured Lady E.C.’, in Poems (1664), pp. 124-33. Poems (1667), pp. 61-5. Saintsbury, pp. 543-6. Thomas, I, 132-6, poem 45.

pp. 90-3

• DoC 357: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Filld w^th the noisome folly of the age’, subscribed ‘L^d Dorset’.

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.

p. 95

• DoC 335: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Duchess of Portsmouth's Absence (‘When Portsmouth did from England fly’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Harris.

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

p. 95

• RoJ 563: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Leaving His Mistress (‘Tis not that I am weary grown’)

Copy, headed ‘My L^d Rochester to his mistresse, when he put her away’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 81. Walker, p. 37. Love, pp. 17-18.

p. 96

• SeC 41: Sir Charles Sedley, Song (‘Not Celia that I juster am’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’, here beginning ‘Not Cloris, that I juster am’ and subcribed ‘Dorset’.

This MS recorded in The Poems of Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, ed. Brice Harris (New York & London, 1979), p. 187.

First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 6-7.

pp. 101-4

• WaE 399: 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 on Oliver Cromwell by Edmund Waller Esq.’, dated at the end ‘Jan: 4 1682’.

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.

p. 112

• MaA 37: Andrew Marvell, In eandem Reginae Sueciae transmissam (‘Bellipotens Virgo, septem Regina Trionum’)

Copy, headed ‘Effigies Cromwelli alloquiter Reginam Suvionem’, subscribed ‘Andreas Marvellus’.

First published in Miscellaneous Poems (London, 1681). Margoliouth, I, 108. Lord, p. 247. Smith, p. 315, with English translation.

pp. 229-37

• DeJ 18: Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill (‘Sure there are Poets which did never dream’)

Copy of two versions, written out in parallel columns, headed respectively ‘A Copy of Coopers Hill taken in the year 1643’ and ‘A Copy of Coopers Hill after the 3^d. Impression in y^e Year 1684.’

First published in London, 1642. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 62-89. O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks.

p. 237

• GrF 33: Fulke Greville, Mustapha, Chorus Sacerdotum (‘Oh wearisome condition of Humanity’)

Copy of the Chorus Sacerdotvm at the end, headed ‘A Chorus of Turkish Priests in Mustapha. by Lord Brooks’ and here beginning ‘O wearisome condition of humanity!’.

Bullough, II, 136-7.

Wilkes, I, 297.

p. 237

• ToA 70: Aurelian Townshend, To the Countess of Salisbury (‘Victorious beauty, though your eyes’)

Copy, as ‘by Aurelian Townsend’.

This MS recorded in Brown.

First published, in a musical setting by William Webb, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 22. Chambers, pp. 4-5. Brown, pp. 19-21.

pp. 275-6

• HeR 137: Robert Herrick, His Meditation upon Death (‘Be those few hours, which I have yet to spend’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Herricks Age, dedicated to his peculiar friend M^r John Wicks, under the name of Posthumus. pag: 152’.

This MS collated in Martin.

First published in Noble Numbers (London, 1647) appended to Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, p. 392. Patrick, pp. 520-1.

p. 5 rev.

• JnB 511: Ben Jonson, To Sir Henrie Savile (‘If, my religion safe, I durst embrace’)

Copy, headed ‘To S^r Hen: sau: 95’.

First published in Epigrammes (xcv) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 61-2.

MS 58 Adjunct

A small unbound octavo booklet of verse, in English and Latin, in a secretary hand, written from both ends, 16 pages, formerly loosely inserted in Worcester College, Oxford, MS 58. Early-mid-17th century.

p. [9]

• JnB 517: Ben Jonson, To Sir Thomas Roe (‘Thou hast begun well, Roe, which stand well too’)

Copy.

First published in Epigrammes (xcviii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 63.

p. [10]

• JnB 400: Ben Jonson, On Groyne (‘Groyne, come of age, his state sold out of hand’)

Copy.

First published in Epigrammes (cxvii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 75.

p. [10]

• JnB 403: Ben Jonson, On Gut (‘Gvt eates all day, and lechers all the night’)

Copy.

First published in Epigrammes (cxviii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 76.

p. [10]

• JnB 515: Ben Jonson, To Sir Robert Wroth (‘How blest art thou, canst loue the countrey, Wroth’)

Copy of a version of lines 75-6, 79-80, here beginning ‘An vniust Lawyer / Changes possessions oftner w^th his breath’ and subscribed ‘Ben: Johns: fforest. 3. med to S^r Rob: Wroth.’, followed by lines 85-90, headed ‘wicked courtiers’ and subscribed ‘Ib.’

First published in The Forrest (iii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 96-100.

pp. [11-12]

• JnB 149: Ben Jonson, Epode (‘Not to know vice at all, and keepe true state’)

Copy of lines 37-51, here beginning ‘The thing, they here call loue, is blind Desire’ and subscribed ‘Ben: Jo: fforrest. Epod. II.’, followed by lines 72-4, 76-82, 87-90, 113-16, 17-18.

First published in Diuerse Poeticall Essaies appended to Robert Chester, Loues Martyr (London, 1601). The Forrest (xi) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 109-13.

p. [12.]

• JnB 96: Ben Jonson, Epistle To Elizabeth Covntesse of Rvtland (‘Whil'st that, for which, all vertue now is sold’)

Copy of lines 2-4, here beginning ‘Allmighty gold’ and subscribed ‘fforrest to Eliz. Coun: of Rutland’, followed by lines 41-7, 72, 80-90.

First published in The Forrest (xii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 113-16.

p. [13]

• JnB 98: Ben Jonson, Epistle. To Katherine, Lady Avbigny (‘'Tis growne almost a danger to speake true’)

Copy of lines 49-50, untitled, here beginning ‘Great title, birth, but virtue most’ and subscribed ‘fforrest to Kath: La. Aubigny’, followed by lines 68-70, 85-6.

First published in The Forrest (xiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 116-20.

p. [13]

• JnB 387: Ben Jonson, Ode. To Sir William Sydney, on his Birth-Day (‘Now that the harth is crown'd with smiling fire’)

Copy of lines 39-40, here beginning ‘They y^t swell’ and subscribed ‘fforrest to S' Wil. Sydney’.

First published in The Forrest (xiiii) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 120-1.

pp. [13-14]

• JnB 678: Ben Jonson, The King's Entertainment in passing to his Coronation

Extracts, untitled.

First published in London, 1604. Herford & Simpson, VII, 81-109.

p. [15]

• JnB 772: Ben Jonson, Extracts

Extracts from The Alchemist.

p. [16]

• MrT 33.5: Sir Thomas More, Historia Richardi Tertii

Extracts from the English version.

An unfinished work. The English version first published in The chronicle of Ihon Hardyng (London, 1543). The Latin version first published in Thomae Mori...omnia...latina opera (Louvain, 1565). Three versions in Yale, Vol. 2, pp. 1-93, 94-149, and Vol. 15, pp. 313-485, with English translations.

MS 111

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings, 1640-1, many items in the hand of John Rushworth (c.1612-90), historian and politician, 158 leaves. c.1640s.

Formerly Worcester College, MSS 5.16.

f. 71r-2v

• RuB 185: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, 29 December 1640

Copy, headed ‘Sir Benjamin Rudyard his second speech in Parliament 29^th December 1640’.

Speech beginning ‘The principal part of this business is money...’. Manning, pp. 166-7.

MS 122

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches and proceedings, 1640-1, some items in the hand of John Rushworth (c.1612-90), historian and politician. c.1640s.

Formerly Worcester College, MSS 5.20.

ff. 18v-19r

• RuB 135: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?15-25 April 1640

Copy, untitled.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 297.

Speech beginning ‘There is a great dore now opened unto us of doing good...’. Variant version in Manning, pp. 148-51.

MS 123 (II)

A fragment of a quarto verse miscellany, in a single italic hand, seven leaves, the second item in a quarto composite volume also containing (item 1) a MS translation of the Song of Solomon written on nine leaves in 1622 by one Robert Eliot, and (item 3) Greek verse, on thirteen leaves subscribed ‘J: Malet’, in modern cloth. c.1630s.

Formerly MSS 4. 29.

ff. 1v, 7r

• BrW 141: William Browne of Tavistock, On Mrs. Anne Prideaux, Daughter of Mr. Doctor Prideaux, Regius Professor (‘Nature in this small volume was about’)

Copy, headed ‘On D^r Prideaus daughter dying very younge’.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1636). Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Facetiæ (London, 1655). Osborn, No. XLIV (p. 213), ascribed to John Hoskyns.

f. 3v

• KiH 91: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘The boyes replye’.

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).

f. 4r

• CoR 748: Richard Corbett, Nonsence (‘Like to the thund'ring tone of unspoke speeches’)

Copy, headed ‘Nonsence’ and here beginning ‘Like to the silent tones of vnspoke speeches’.

First published in Witts' Recreations Augmented (London, 1641). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 95-6.

f. 5r

• HrJ 124: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek (‘Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke’)

Copy, headed ‘Another’ and here beginning ‘I'st for a fau^r or for some dislike’.

First published in 1615. 1618, Book III, No. 3. McClure No. 201, p. 230. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 84, p. 201.

f. 6v

• DaJ 216: Sir John Davies, On the Deputy of Ireland his child (‘As carefull mothers doe to sleeping lay’)

Copy, headed ‘on the death of a child’ and here beginning ‘as carefull mothers in their beds doe laye’.

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

f. 7r

• StW 1337: William Strode, A Lover to his Mistress (‘Ile tell you how the Rose did first grow redde’)

Copy, headed ‘Another’.

First published, in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dobell, p. 48. Listed, without text, in Forey, p. 339.

f. 7r

• CwT 790: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘In her faire cheekes two pits doe lye’)

Copy, headed ‘Another’ and here beginning ‘In your fayre cheekes 2 pitts ther lyes’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 105.

f. 7r-v

• StW 832: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘on M^rs: Allice Hutton’.

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).

f. 7v

• DnJ 2982: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

Copy of a two-stanza version, headed ‘Another’ and here beginning ‘Sweete stay a while, why will you rise’.

First published (in a two-stanza version) in John Dowland, A Pilgrim's Solace (London, 1612) and in Orlando Gibbons, The First Set of Madrigals and Mottets (London, 1612). Printed as the first stanza of Breake of day in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 432 (attributing it to Dowland). Gardner, Elegies, p. 108 (in her ‘Dubia’). Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, pp. 402-3. Not in Shawcross.

MS 216

A small pocket book of jokes and anecdotes, in verse and prose, in a single hand, written from both ends, ii + 92 leaves (plus eleven blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1667-70.

Containing a note by Bertram Dobell. Formerly MSS 2. 23.

f. [8r-v]

• ShJ 168: James Shirley, The Contention of Ajax and Ulysses for the Armour of Achilles, Act III, Song (‘The glories of our blood and state’)

Copy of the dirge, headed ‘A Song’.

Gifford & Dyce, VI, 396-7. Armstrong, p. 54. Musical setting by Edward Coleman published in John Playford, The Musical Companion (London, 1667).

ff. [83r]

• MrT 13: Sir Thomas More, Epigrammata. 278. Tetrastichon ab ipso conscriptum triennio antequam mortem oppeteret (‘Moraris, si sit spes hic tibi longa morandi’)

The epigram quoted in one of two brief anecdotes about More.

More's verses punning on his own name. First published in Doctissima D. Thomæ Mori...Epistola (Louvain, 1568). Yale, Vol. 3, Part II, pp. 302-3, with English translation.

MS 236

A folio composite volume, comprising 76 items of printed and manuscript verse and some prose, in contemporary calf gilt. Probably assembled by Sir Francis Leycester, Bt, of Tabley House, Cheshire. Late 17th century.

Formerly MSS TC. 20. 11: shelfmark MSS 6.21

item 5

• MaA 355: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)

Copy, on all eight sides of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves.

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.

item 6

• MaA 467: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy, in a professional hand, on three pages of a pair of conjugate folio leaves.

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.

MS 237

A folio guard book of 51 miscellaneous MSS, chiefly verse, in various hands and paper sizes. Late 17th century.

Formerly MSS. 6. 16: shelfmark MSS 5.27.

item 3

• ClJ 210: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)

Copy, headed ‘Epitaph on y^e Earl of Strafford Beheaded on Tower-Hill May. 12. 1641’, here beginning ‘Here rests wise & valiant Dust’, on one side of a single quarto leaf. Mid-late 17th century.

First published in Character (1647). Edited in CSPD, 1640-1641 (1882), p. 574. Berdan, p. 184, as ‘Internally unlike his manner’. Morris & Withington, p. 66, among ‘Poems probably by Cleveland’. The attribution to Cleveland is dubious. The epitaph is also attributed to Clement Paman: see Poetry and Revolution: An Anthology of British and Irish Verse 1625-1660, ed. Peter Davidson (Oxford, 1998), notes to No. 275 (p. 363).

item 13

• DeJ 93: Sir John Denham, A Speech against Peace at the Close Committee (‘But will you now to Peace incline’)

Copy, in double columns, untitled, on the first page of two conjugate folio leaves, endorsed ‘Libell aga^t. the parl./am^t.’.

First published as a broadside entitled Mr. Hampdens speech occasioned upon the Londoners Petition for Peace [Lonon, 1643]. Poems and Translations (London, 1668). Banks, pp. 122-7.

item 17

• MaA 122: Andrew Marvell, Britannia and Rawleigh (‘Ah! Rawleigh, when thy Breath thou didst resign’)

Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘A Dialogue between Brittania and S^r. W: Rawleigh’ on seven pages of two pairs of conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

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).

item 18

• MaA 466: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy, in a professional hand, on three pages of two conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

item 19

• MaA 496: Andrew Marvell, Further Advice to a Painter (‘Painter once more thy Pencell reassume’)

Copy, in a professional hand, on both sides of a single folio leaf. Late 17th century.

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.

item 27

• SeC 25: Sir Charles Sedley, Ovid's Amores, Book I, Elegy the Eighth. He Curses a Bawd, for going about to debauch his Mistress (‘There is a Bawd renown'd in Venus Wars’)

Copy, in a professional hand, headed ‘He Curses a Bawd for going about to debauch his M^rs Elegy the 8^th. Ovids Amorum Lib: 1°’, on all four sides of a pair of conjugate folio leaves. Late 17th century.

First published in Miscellany Poems (London, 1684). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 92-5.

passim

• SeC 149: Sir Charles Sedley, Extracts

Extracts.

MS 267/II

A collection of songs and poems, unbound, in folders. Among papers of the Clarke family, of Littlecote.

Fasc. 2, Doc. No. 31 [f. 58r]

• DoC 239.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On the Young Statesmen (‘Clarendon had law and sense’)

Copy, headed ‘The Game att Chesse’, on one side of a single folio leaf. Late 17th-early 18th century.

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

Fasc. 3, Doc. No. 38 [f. 71r]

• BrW 228.5: William Browne of Tavistock, On the Countess Dowager of Pembroke (‘Underneath this sable herse’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph’, on the first page of two pairs of conjugate quarto leaves of verse. Mid-17th century.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1623), p. 340. Brydges (1815), p. 5. Goodwin, II, 294. Browne's authorship supported in C.F. Main, ‘Two Items in the Jonson Apocrypha’, N&Q, 199 (June 1954), 243-5.

MS 268

Document signed by Killigrew, concerning his tallies in the Exchequer. 1675.

*KiW 49: Sir William Killigrew, Document(s)

Formerly MSS 7.16(4).

MS 346

Copy, headed ‘On sixe Cambridge lasses Bathinge themselfes by queenes colledge on the 25^th of Iune at night and espied by a scholer’, subscribed ‘T: Randolph’, on the first two pages of a pair of conjugate quarto leaves. c.1629.

RnT 211: Thomas Randolph, On six maids bathing themselves in a River (‘When bashfull day-light now was gone’)

Formerly MSS 3.19. Acquired in May 1964.

Edited from this MS in Davis. Facsimiles in Croft, Autograph Poetry, I, 43-4, where it is doubtfully argued that the MS is in Randolph's own hand; and in DLB 126: Seventeenth-Century British Nondramatic Poets, Second Series, ed. M. Thomas Hester (Detroit, 1993), pp. 242-3. The second page also reproduced in Manuscripts, 26, No. 2 (Spring 1974), inside the cover.

First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 138-40. Davis, pp. 56-62.

Plays 2.1 (1)

An exemplum of the second printed edition (1622) with the text of the missing leaf (sig. K4) supplied in MS. 17th century.

MiT 12: Thomas Middleton, A Fair Quarrel

First published, as written by Middleton and William Rowley, in London, 1617. Bullen, IV, 153-276. Edited by R.V. Holdsworth (London, 1974). Edited by George R. Price (London, 1977). Oxford Middleton, pp. 1212-49.

Plays 2.1 (2)

An exemplum of the printed edition of 1608 with the text of the various missing leaves (title-page, address to the reader, prologue, parts of A3 and A4, I3 and the epilogue on I4) supplied in MS. 17th century.

MiT 13: Thomas Middleton, The Family of Love

First published in London, 1608. Bullen, III, 1-120. This play is not now generally attributed to Middleton.

Plays 2.5

An exemplum of the printed edition of 1611 with the text of missing leaves supplied in MS. In the secretary hand of a professional scribe, associated with the playhouse, also responsible for HyT 5, MiT 6, and the verse miscellany British Library Add. MS 33998. c.1630s.

ChG 12.5: George Chapman, May Day

This MS discussed, with a facsimile example of the MS pages, in Akihiro Yamada, ‘The Seventeenth-Century Manuscript Leaves of Chapman's May Day, 1611’, The Library, 6th Ser. 2 (1980), 61-9.

First published in London, 1611. Edited by Robert F. Welsh in Urbana edition, Comedies, pp. 311-96.

Plays 9. 11

Thomas Killigrew's own folio exemplum of his Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664) with his autograph annotations, in old calf. Including, on flyleaf, Killigrew's autograph instructions to Miss Hancock for the copying out of plays and parts. c.1664-8.

Discussed in W. Van Lennep, ‘Thomas Killigrew prepares his plays for production’, in Joseph Quincy Adams Memorial Studies, ed. James G. McManaway, Giles E. Dawson, and Edwin E. Willoughby (Washington, DC, 1948). Facsimile of the autograph instructions in W.W. Greg, English Literary Autographs 1550-1650, Part I (Oxford, 1925), No. XXV(b).

pp. 69-154

• *KiT 7: Thomas Killigrew, The Parson's Wedding

Copious autograph cuts to the printed text, with Killigrew's notes on his cuts dated 2 May and 5 May 1664. 1664.

Facsimile of the autograph notes in W.W. Greg, English Literary Autographs 1550-1650, Part I (Oxford, 1925), No. XXV(c).

First published in Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 69-154.

pp. 155-214

• *KiT 8: Thomas Killigrew, The Pilgrim

Copious autograph cuts to the printed text, dated 25 May 1668. 1668.

First published in Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 155-214.

pp. 215-64

• *KiT 2: Thomas Killigrew, Cicilia and Clorinda, or, Love in arms, a tragi-comedy, Parts I and II

Killigrew's autograph note giving Miss Hancock instructions on the writing of the ‘partes of Cissillia and Clorinda’, dated 14 February 1666/7, the printed text otherwise untouched. 1667.

Facsimile of the autograph instructions in W.W. Greg, English Literary Autographs 1550-1650, Part I (Oxford, 1925), No. XXV(d).

First published in Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 215-309.

pp. 311-464

• *KiT 11: Thomas Killigrew, Thomaso, or the Wanderer, Parts I and II

Copious autograph cuts to the printed text, chiefly in Part II, with Killigrew's note dated November 1664 and his additions to the dramatis personæ. 1664.

First published in The Prisoners and Claracilla: Two Tragæ-Comedies (London, 1641). Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 311-464.

pp. 465-576

• *KiT 1: Thomas Killigrew, Bellamira her Dream, Parts I and II

Copious autograph cuts to the printed text, undated, with two notes by Killigrew about the cuts.

First published in Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 465-576.

pp. 1-45 (second series)

• *KiT 6: Thomas Killigrew, Claracilla

Autograph cuts to the printed text, with a note by Killigrew, undated.

The play edited from this text in Reich's edition.

First published in The Prisoners and Claracilla: Two Tragæ-Comedies (London, 1641). Thomas Killigrew, Comedies and Tragedies (London, 1664), pp. 1-45 (second series). Edited as Claricilla by Thomas Killigrew: A Critical Edition, ed. William T. Reich (New York & London, 1980).

Plays 9.19

Copy of the play, entitled ‘The Generall, A Tragi=Comedy’, in probably two professional hands (adopting two alternating styles of script), 33 leaves (plus three blanks), in modern half-calf boards. c.1660s.

OrR 10: Roger Boyle, Baron Broghill and Earl of Orrery, The Generall

Partly edited from this MS, with collations, in Clark.

Probably privately performed (as Altamira) in Ireland, c.1662. Staged in London 14 September 1664. First published, and attributed to James Shirley, in J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps, A Brief Description of the Ancient and Modern Manuscripts Preserved in the Public Library, Plymouth: To which are added, Some fragments of Early Literature Hitherto Unpublished (London, 1853), pp. 55-175. Clark, I, 101-64.

Plays 9. 21

Copy of an early version, in a predominantly italic calligraphic hand, with later revisions and additions in Shirley's hand and (ff. 29r-30r) an ‘Induction to y^e Court Secret’ in a third hand with Shirley's autograph corrections and endorsement, the whole bearing further pencil markings and minor alterations, on thirty folio leaves. The main scribe is probably John Rolleston (1597?-1681), of Sokeholme, Nottinghamshire, Sir William Cavendish's secretary, who is also chiefly responsible, inter alia, for the ‘Newcastle MS’ (British Library, Harley MS 4955). The later revisions were probably prepared for the production by the King's Company at the Bridges Street Theatre on 18 August 1664. c.1642-64.

*ShJ 175: James Shirley, The Court Secret

This MS discussed in R.G. Howarth, ‘A Manuscript of James Shirley's Court Secret’, RES, 7 (1931), 302-13, and 8 (1932), 203, and in W.W. Greg, Dramatic Documents from the Elizabethan Playhouses: Commentary (Oxford, 1931), pp. 346-52. See also Bentley, Jacobean & Caroline Stage, V, 1100-2. The ‘Induction’ edited from this MS in Danchin, Prologues & Epilogues, I, 196-8.

Facsimiles of f. 15r in James Shirley, The Cardinal, ed. E.M. Yearling (Manchester, 1986), frontispiece, and of part of f. 28r in Greg, English Literary Autographs, Plate XCV(d).

First published in Six New Playes (London, 1653). Gifford & Dyce, V, 425-514.

c.m.3(1)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 146: Gabriel Harvey, Ramus, Petrus. P. Rami, Regii Eloquentiae, et Philosophiae Professoris, Ciceronianus; ad Carolum Lotharingum Cardinalem (Paris, 1557)

Stern, p. 232.

c.m.3(2)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 83: Gabriel Harvey, Freigius, Johannes Thomas. Ciceronianus. Joan. Thomae Freigii...Libri Decem (Basle, [1575])

Stern, p. 214.

c.m.3(3)

Autograph annotations and marginalia.

*HvG 122: Gabriel Harvey, Livy, Titus. T. Livii Patavini Conciones cum argumentis et annotationibus Joachimi Perionii (Paris, 1532)

Stern, p. 225.

[no shelfmark]

An exemplum with Ralegh's signature, ‘W Ralegh’ (heavily deleted), at the foot of the title-page and his autograph motto, ‘Amore et virtute’, at the top. c.1583.

*RaW 1033: Sir Walter Ralegh, Patrizi, Francesco. La Militia Romana (Ferrara, 1583)

Facsimile of the title-page in Walter Oakeshott, The Queen and the Poet (London, 1960), facing p. 150.