CELM: Yale, Osborn MS b 100 through Osborn MS b 149

Osborn MS b 104

An octavo commonplace book, 209 pages, in 17th-century calf (rebacked). Owned and probably compiled (in part) by one John Hale. c.1650s-1725.

p. 6

• RnT 470: Thomas Randolph, The Combat of the Cocks (‘Go, you tame gallants, you that have the name’)

Copy.

(Sometimes called A terible true Tragicall relacon of a duell fought at Wisbich June the 17^th: 1637.) Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Hazlitt, I, xviii. II, 667-70. By Robert Wild.

p. 10 (last series)

• ClJ 221: John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector (‘What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing’)

Copy.

Published in J. Cleaveland Revived (London, 1660), pp. 78-9. The Works of Mr. John Cleveland (London, 1687), p. 343. Berdan, p. 185, as ‘probably not genuine’. Rejected ‘as probably not Cleveland's’ by Withington, pp. 321-2.

pp. [12-13] (last series)

• StW 69: William Strode, A Devonshire Song (‘Thou ne'er wutt riddle, neighbour Jan’)

Copy, headed ‘A Western humour’ and here beginning ‘Ridlea, Ridlea neighbour John with atale ha' bea?’

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), Part II, pp. 65-6. John Tuckett, ‘A Devonshire Song’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 462. Dobell, pp. 114-16. Forey, pp. 101-3.

p. 115

• JnB 44.5: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 7. Begging another, on colour of mending the former (‘For Loves-sake, kisse me once againe’)

Copy, headed ‘Clayminge anothe^r kiss on coullo^r of mending y^e former, by Ben: J:’.

Herford & Simpson, VIII, 139.

p. 116

• JnB 3: Ben Jonson, Another. In defence of their Inconstancie. A Song (‘Hang up those dull, and envious fooles’)

Copy, headed ‘In Defence of weomens inconstancy by Ben: I:’.

First published in The Vnder-wood (vi) in Workes (London, 1640). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 146.

Osborn MS b 105

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, entitled Songs & Verses - Upon severall occasions, 406 pages (but pp. 35-44, 63-6, 77-86, 115-32, 153-8, 161-84, and 195-212 excised). Including 30 poems by Rochester (and probably others by him on missing leaves); pp. 1-392 in a single professional hand (that also responsible for Princeton, RTCO1 No. 34); pp. 392-406 in a second hand. c.1680.

Inscribed on the title-page ‘Hansen’: i.e. very probably the diplomat Friedrich Adolphus Hansen, who visited England in September 1680 in the entourage of Charles, electoral Prince Palatine. Owned, in 1951 by Dr A.S.W. Rosenbach (1876-1952), Philadelphia book dealer, collector and scholar.

Cited in IELM, II as the Yale MS: RoJ Δ 16. The MS was identified by David M. Vieth as an independent scribal transcript of the copy-text used for the first edition of Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R— (‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], 1680): see Attribution, pp. 56-100, and ‘The Text of Rochester and the Editions of 1680’, PBSA, 50 (1956), 243-63. Discussed extensively, and Hansen identified, in Harold Love, ‘Scribal Texts and Literary Communities: The Rochester Circle and Osborn b. 105’, SB, 42 (1989), 219-35. Facsimile of p. 62 in Vieth (1968), frontispiece. Recorded and selectively collated in Vieth (1968) and in Walker.

pp. 1-7

• RoJ 84: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Epistolary Essay from M.G. to O.B. upon Their Mutual Poems (‘Dear friend, I hear this town does so abound’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epistolary Essay very delightfull and solid from y^e L^d: R: to y^e L^d: M: upon their mutuall Poems’.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker

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

pp. 8-22

• RoJ 296: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyr Against Man, By y^e E: of R:’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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).

p. 34

• RoJ 281: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Ramble in St. James's Park (‘Much wine had passed, with grave discourse’)

Copy of lines 1-13, headed ‘A Ramble in S^t James's Parke. By y^e E: of R:’, imperfect, lacking the remainder.

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

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

pp. 45-61

• RoJ 148: 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, headed ‘A Letter fancyd from Artemisa in y^e Towne to Cloe in y^e Countrey. By y^e E: of R:’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published, as a broadside, in London, 1679. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 104-12. Walker, pp. 83-90. Love, pp. 63-70.

p. 62

• RoJ 110: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Imperfect Enjoyment (‘Naked she lay, clasped in my longing arms’)

Copy, of lines 1-12, ascribed to ‘y^e E: of R:’, imperfect, lacking the remainder.

This MS recorded in Vieth, with a facsimile as frontispiece; collated in Walker.

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

pp. 67-71

• RoJ 491: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To Love (‘O Love! how cold and slow to take my part’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘y^e E: of R.’

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 35-7. Walker, pp. 49-50. Love, pp. 12-13.

pp. 71-5

• RoJ 56: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Disabled Debauchee (‘As some brave admiral, in former war’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon his lyeing in & cou'd not drinke By y^e E: of R:’.

Edited from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

pp. 87-94

• RoJ 19: 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 of lines 5-124, here beginning ‘What e're you write; that w^th a flowing Tyde’, imperfect, lacking the opening.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 120-6. Walker, pp. 99-102. Love, pp. 71-4.

pp. 102-4

• RoJ 250: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Supposed Author of a Late Poem in Defence of Satyr (‘To rack and torture thy unmeaning brain’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 132-3. Walker, pp. 114-15. Love, pp. 106-7. Texts are often followed by Sir Car Scroope's ‘Answer’ (‘Raile on poor feeble Scribbler, speake of me’: Walker, p. 115. Love, p. 107).

pp. 106-7

• RoJ 519: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Translation from Seneca's ‘Troades’, Act II, Chorus (‘After death nothing is, and nothing, death’)

Copy, headed ‘Seneca Troas Act 2^d Chor:’.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 150-1. Walker, p. 51. Love, pp. 45-5, as ‘Senec. Troas. Act. 2. Chor. Thus English'd by a Person of Honour’.

pp. 108-12

• RoJ 573: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

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

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.

pp. 113-14

• RoJ 560: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Leaving His Mistress (‘Tis not that I am weary grown’)

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

pp. 133-5

• RoJ 382: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Fair Chloris in a pigsty lay’)

Copy, headed ‘Song to Cloris’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

pp. 136-7

• RoJ 391: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Give me leave to rail at you’)

The text followed (pp. 137-8) by followed (pp. 137-8) by Elizabeth Wilmot's ‘The Answer’ (‘Nothing adds to your fond fire’).

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

First published (first stanza only) in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Both stanzas in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). The second stanza only (beginning ‘Kindness has resistless Charms’) also in Valentinian (London, 1685). Vieth, pp. 10-11. Walker, pp. 20-1. Love, p. 18.

Some texts accompanied by Lady Rochester's ‘Answer’ to the poem (beginning ‘Nothing adds to love's fond fire’), her autograph of which is in University of Nottingham, Pw V 31, f. 15r. It is edited in Vieth, p. 10; in Walker, pp. 21-2, 154; in Kissing the Rod, ed. Germaine Greer et al. (London, 1988), pp. 230-2; and in Love, pp. 18-19.

pp. 139-40

• RoJ 422: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Phyllis, be gentler, I advise’)

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth and in Love. Collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 32. Walker, p. 36. Love, pp. 19-20.

pp. 140-1

• RoJ 445: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘What cruel pains Corinna takes’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

Edited in part from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 31. Walker, p. 20, as ‘To Corinna. A Song’. Love, p. 20, as To Corinna.

pp. 142-3

• RoJ 630: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Woman's Honor (‘Love bade me hope, and I obeyed’)

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

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

pp. 144-5

• RoJ 469: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Submission (‘To this moment a rebel, I throw down my arms’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

pp. 146-7

• RoJ 398: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘How happy, Chloris, were they free’)

Printed from this MS (as text A1) in Vieth, art. cit., pp. 149-50; edited in Walker, pp. 39-40.

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

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

pp. 148-9

• RoJ 176: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life (‘All my past life is mine no more’)

Copy, headed ‘Love & Life a Song’.

Edited from this MS in Walker; recorded in Vieth.

First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

pp. 149-50

• RoJ 98: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Fall (‘How blest was the created state’)

Copy, headed ‘The Fall a Song’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker.

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

pp. 151-2

• RoJ 455: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘While on those lovely looks I gaze’)

Edited from this MS in Vieth; collated in Walker.

First published in A New Collection of the Choicest Songs (London, 1676). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 12-13. Walker, pp. 43-4. Love, pp. 26-7.

p. 152

• RoJ 206: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Mrs. Willis (‘Against the charms our ballocks have’)

Copy of lines 1-4 only, headed ‘Song’, imperfect, lacking the remainder.

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

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

p. 160

• RoJ 190: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Mock Song (‘I swive as well as others do’)

Copy of lines 1-4, imperfect, lacking the remainder.

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

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 136-7. Walker, p. 110. Love, p. 102, as ‘Answer’ beginning ‘I Fuck no more then others doe’.

Texts usually accompanied by Sir Carr Scroope's song ‘I cannot change as others do’ (Love, pp. 101-2) of which Rochester's poem is a burlesque.

p. 185

• EtG 43: Sir George Etherege, Mr. Etherege's Answer [to Another Letter from Lord Buckhurst] (‘So soft and amorously you write’)

Copy of the last six lines, here beginning ‘In whom there dwell Diviner Charmes’, imperfect, lacking all the previous portion.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). Thorpe, pp. 43-5.

For other poems in this series, see EtG 34-8, DoC 18-22, and DoC 110-13.

pp. 186-8

• DoC 282: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, To Mr. Edward Howard, on his Incomparable, Incomprehensible Poem Called ‘The British Princes’ (‘Come on, ye critics! Find one fault who dare’)

Copy, headed ‘On M^r Edw: Howard upon his Brittish Princesse By y^e L^d B:’.

Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 338-9. Harris, pp. 7-9.

pp. 189-91

• DoC 156: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mr. Edward Howard upon his ‘New Utopia’ (‘Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!’)

Copy, here ascribed to ‘M^r Hen: Savill’.

Edited from this MS in POAS and in Harris.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, By the Right Honourable, the E. of R[ochester] (‘Antwerpen’ [i.e. London], 1680). POAS, I (1963), 340-1. Harris, pp. 15-17.

p. 213

• BeA 7: Aphra Behn, The Disappointment (‘One day the Amorous Lysander’)

Copy of the last ten lines, here beginning ‘The Nymphs Resentments, none but I’, imperfect, lacking the rest.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions, by the Right Honourable, the E[arl] of R[ochester] (‘Antwerp’ [i.e. London], 1680). Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1684). Summers, VI, 178-82. Todd, I, No. 28, pp. 65-9.

Discussed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 448-50.

pp. 214-20

• BeA 8: Aphra Behn, On a Juniper-Tree, cut down to make Busks (‘Whilst happy I Triumphant stood’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Giniper Tree now cut downe to make Busks. By M^rs Behn’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

Discussed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 450-1.

pp. 221-6

• BeA 15: Aphra Behn, On the death of Mr. Grinhil, the Famous Painter (‘What doleful crys are these that fright my sence’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e Death of that most Excellent Painter, M^r Greenhill. By M^rs Behn’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

Discussed in Vieth, Attribution, pp. 451-2.

pp. 227-38

• RoJ 480: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Timon (‘What, Timon! does old age begin t'approach’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr. By S^r Char: Sidley’.

This MS recorded in Vieth; collated in Walker and in Love, ‘Text of “Timon”’.

First published in Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 65-72. Walker, pp. 78-82, as ‘Satyr. [Timon]’. Harold Love, ‘The Text of “Timon. A Satyr”’, Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand Bulletin, 6 (1982), 113-40. Love, pp. 258-63, as Satyr. [Timon], among Disputed Works.

pp. 251-63

• RoJ 530: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells (‘At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head’)

Copy, headed ‘Tunbridge Wells A Satyr’.

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.

pp. 314-27

• DrJ 100: John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe (‘All humane things are subject to decay’)

Copy, headed ‘Mac Flecknoe A Satyr. By M^r Dryden’.

This MS collated in Vieth.

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

The text also discussed extensively in G. Blakemore Evans, ‘The Text of Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case for Authorial Revision’, Studies in Bibliography, 7 (1955), 85-102; in David M. Vieth, ‘Dryden's Mac Flecknoe’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 7 (1953), 32-54; and in Vinton A. Dearing, ‘Dryden's Mac Flecknoe: The Case Against Editorial Confusion’, Harvard Library Bulletin, 24 (1976), 204-45. See also David M. Vieth, ‘The Discovery of the Date of MacFlecknoe’ in Evidence in Literary Scholarship: Essays in Memory of James Marshall Osborn, ed. René Wellek and Alvaro Ribeiro (Oxford, 1979), pp. 71-86.

pp. 328-39

• SdT 23.2: Thomas Shadwell, Upon a late fall'n Poet (‘A sad mischance I sing alas’)

Copy, as ‘suppos'd to be Written by M^r Shadwell’.

This MS recorded in David Vieth, Attribution in Restoration Poetry (1963), p. 486, as ‘otherwise unrecorded’.

pp. 340-3

• EtG 13: Sir George Etherege, Ephelia to Bajazet (‘How far are they deceived who hope in vain’)

Edited in part from this MS in Thorpe and collated, pp. 84-5.

First published in Female Poems On several Occasions: Written by Ephelia (London, 1679). Thorpe, pp. 9-10. Harold Love's edition of Rochester (1999), pp. 94-5.

pp. 344-7

• RoJ 613: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Very Heroical Epistle in Answer to Ephelia (‘Madam. / If you're deceived, it is not by my cheat’)

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

First published in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 113-15. Walker, pp. 112-14. Love, pp. 95-7.

pp. 348-9

• RoJ 212: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Poet Ninny (‘Crushed by that just contempt his follies bring’)

Edited from this MS in Walker and in part in Love, Recorded in Vieth, Attribution.

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

pp. 350-2

• RoJ 196: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, My Lord All-Pride (‘Bursting with pride, the loathed impostume swells’)

Edited from this MS in Vieth and in Walker.

First published, as ‘Epigram upon my Lord All-pride’, in the broadside A Very Heroical Epistle from My Lord All-Pride to Dol-Common (London, 1679). Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, pp. 142-3. Walker, pp. 116-17. Love, pp. 93-4.

pp. 382-91

• DoC 61: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Colon (‘As Colon drove his sheep along’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

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

p. 396

• RoJ 41: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Dialogue (‘When to the King I bid good morrow’)

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

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

Osborn MS b 107

Copy, in a neat non-professional roman hand, comprising an address ‘To the Reader’ and four chapers numbered VI-IX, 259 small folio pages, in contemporary calf. c.1650.

SiP 168.9: Sir Philip Sidney, The Historie of Arcadia: or an Addition to: and a Continuance Of Sir Phillip Sydney's Arcadia

Variously owned or inscribed by Elizabeth Holt, of Warwickshire; John Bryars, rector of Diss, Norfolk; Thomas Martin (1697-1771), of Palgrave, Suffolk, antiquary and collector; Ann Bridge (1755); Martin Joseph Routh (1755-1854); Captain Kenelm Somerville, R.N.; Noel Digby, of Magdalen College, Oxford, rector of Brinton; given by him to J. Wight, 22 March 1830; and Lady Biddulph. Sotheby's, 22 June 1953, to Dobell.

An unpublished ‘allegorical account of the Grand Rebellion begun 1640. By one of the Lord Digby's Family’, the ‘account’ covering English history from before the reign of Queen Elizabeth to 1649.

Osborn MS b 108

A quarto verse miscellany, entitled ‘A True coppy of Severall Verses made by John Hobart Esq.; Who Died Anno 1683. Obtayned By y^e favour of Madam Astley. August the11^th 1683’, written in the hand of Robert Doughty (d.1670). Late 17th century.

Inscribed this for my well beloved friend J. C. When sturdy to his Lo. friend. My very good friend Mr. R. Shixton.

f. 16r

• ClJ 222: John Cleveland, The Definition of a Protector (‘What's a Protector? Tis a stately Thing’)

Copy.

Osborn MS b 111

A quarto miscellany of largely Jacobite poems on affairs of state entitled A Collection of Loyal Poems Satyrs and Lampoons, in one or two small hands, 596 numbered pages (lacking pp. 367-8, plus ‘Alphabeticall Table’ and blanks), gilt-edged, in contemporary red morocco gilt stamped with the initial ‘R.’ c.late 1690s.

Once owned by Sir Thomas Strange, brother-in-law of Andrew Lumisden, Secretary to Prince Charles Edward, the Young Pretender.

p. 80

• DrJ 78: John Dryden, The Lady's Song (‘A Quire of bright Beauties in Spring did appear’)

Copy, headed ‘May Day’.

A typescript of this MS made by Sir Charles Harding Firth (1857-1936), when the MS was owned by C. Fowkes, is in the Bodleian, MS Firth d. 13, f. 44.

First published in Poeticall Miscellanies: The Fifth Part (London, 1704). Kinsley, IV, 1774. California, III, 223. Hammond, III, 247-8.

p. 483

• DrJ 120: John Dryden, Prologue to Amboyna (‘As needy Gallants in the Scriv'ners hands’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘M^r Dryden’.

First published in Amboyna (London, 1673). Kinsley, I, 150-1. Danchin, II, 471 et seq. Hammond, I, 270-3.

p. 484

• DrJ 19: John Dryden, Epilogue [to Amboyna] (‘A Poet once the Spartans led to fight’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘M^r Dryden’.

First published in Amboyna (London, 1673). Kinsley, I, 152. Danchin, II (1981), 474. Hammond, I, 273-4.

pp. 485-6

• DrJ 149: John Dryden, Prologue To The Prophetess. Spoken by Mr. Betterton (‘What Nostradame, with all his Art can guess’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘M^r Dryden’.

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

pp. 548-50

• DoC 303: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, A True Account of the Birth and Conception of a Late Famous Poem call'd ‘The Female Nine’ (‘When Monmouth the chaste read those impudent lines’)

Copy, headed ‘An Account of the Female Nine’.

This MS collated in POAS and in Harris.

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

Osborn MS b 113

A quarto miscellany of poems on affairs of state, in a single professional hand, with some rubrication and decoration, 358 pages (including over 60 blanks), with a table of contents, in contemporary black morocco gilt bearing a coronet. c.1680s.

Formerly Phillipps MS 7740 and ‘Osborn MS. Box XXII, Number 3’.

pp. 17-28

• RoJ 542: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Tunbridge Wells (‘At five this morn, when Phoebus raised his head’)

Copy, headed ‘Observations on Tunbridge Wells’.

This MS recorded in Vieth, collated in Walker.

First published in Richard Head, Proteus Redivivus: or the Art of Wheedling (London, 1675). Vieth, pp. 73-80. Walker, pp. 69-74. Love, pp. 49-54.

pp. 29-30

• RoJ 184: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life (‘All my past life is mine no more’)

Copy, headed ‘To Phillis’.

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

First published in Songs for i 2 & 3 Voyces Composed by Henry Bowman [London, 1677]. Poems on Several Occasions (‘Antwerp’, 1680). Vieth, p. 90. Walker, p. 44. Love, pp. 25-6.

pp. 35-41

• EtG 110: Sir George Etherege, Mrs. Nelly's Complaint (‘If Sylla's ghost made bloody Catiline start’)

Formerly ‘Osborn Box 22, No. 3’.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

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

pp. 59-77

• DrJ 43.997: John Dryden, An Essay upon Satire (‘How dull and how insensible a beast’)

Copy.

A satire written in 1675 by John Sheffield, Earl of Mulgrave, but it was widely believed by contemporaries (including later Alexander Pope, who had access to Mulgrave's papers) that Dryden had a hand in it, a belief which led to the notorious assault on him in Rose Alley on 18 December 1679, at the reputed instigation of the Earl of Rochester and/or the Duchess of Portsmouth.

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

The authorship discussed in Macdonald, pp. 217-19, and see John Burrows, ‘Mulgrave, Dryden, and An Essay upon Satire’, in Superior in His Profession: Essays in Memory of Harold Love, ed. Meredith Sherlock, Brian McMullin and Wallace Kirsop, Script & Print, 33 (2009), pp. 76-91, where is it concluded, from stylistic analysis, that ‘Mulgrave had by far the major hand’. Recorded in Hammond, V, 684, in an ‘Index of Poems Excluded from this Edition’.

pp. 79-93

• DoC 359: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)

See DoC 358.

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.

Osborn MS b 114

A small oblong-octavo volume of 60 poems by Donne plus six of his Problems, together with a few poems by others, in a single hand, 336 pages (but numbering skipping pp. 49-51, 182-90, 241-9, 322, with 332 twice, and the last leaf missing), in contemporary vellum, remains of green silk ties. c.1620-33.

Possibly associated with the Inns of Court (see use of Law French on p. 238). Hodgson's, 27 April 1950, lot 257. Raphael King, sale catalogue No. 51 (1950), item 73. Formerly Chest II/68.

Cited in IELM, I as the ‘King MS’: DnJ Δ 29. Complete microfilm in the British Library (M/569).

pp. 1-9

• DnJ 2744: John Donne, Satyre I (‘Away thou fondling motley humorist’)

Copy, headed ‘Satira prima’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 9-16

• DnJ 2774: John Donne, Satyre II (‘Sir. though (I thank God for it) I do hate’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyra Secunda’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 17-25

• DnJ 2806: John Donne, Satyre III (‘Kinde pitty chokes my spleene. brave scorn forbids’)

Copy, headed ‘Satira Tertia’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 25-42

• DnJ 2836: John Donne, Satyre IV (‘Well. I may now receive, and die. My sinne’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyra Quarta’ and here beginning ‘Well now I may reciue & die my sinne’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 158-68. Milgate, Satires, pp. 14-22. Shawcross, No. 4.

pp. 43-50

• DnJ 2868: John Donne, Satyre V (‘Thou shalt not laugh in this leafe, Muse, nor they’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyra quinta’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 168-71. Milgate, Satires, pp. 22-5. Shawcross, No. 5.

pp. 64-7

• DnJ 3410: John Donne, To S^r Edward Herbert, at Julyers (‘Man is a lumpe, where all beasts kneaded bee’)

Copy, headed ‘Satira octava’ and subscribed ‘E’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 193-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 80-1. Shawcross, No. 140.

p. 68

• DnJ 2269: John Donne, Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus (‘Like Esops fellow-slaves, O Mercury’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 78. Milgate, Satires, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 96. Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 5, 8 and 11.

pp. 69-71

• DnJ 3180: John Donne, To his Mistris Going to Bed (‘Come, Madam, come, all rest my powers defie’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia prima’ under a general heading ‘The Eligies’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (London, 1669). Grierson, I, 119-21 (as ‘Elegie XIX. Going to Bed’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 14-16. Shawcross, No. 15. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 163-4.

The various texts of this poem discussed in Randall McLeod, ‘Obliterature: Reading a Censored Text of Donne's “To his mistress going to bed”’, EMS, 12: Scribes and Transmission in English Manuscripts 1400-1700 (2005), 83-138.

pp. 72-4

• DnJ 1690: John Donne, Jealosie (‘Fond woman, which would'st have thy husband die’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia 2^da’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie I’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 79-80 (as ‘Elegie I’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 9-10. Shawcross, No. 11.

pp. 75-8

• DnJ 633: John Donne, Change (‘Although thy hand and faith, and good workes too’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia Tercia’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie III’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 82-3 (as ‘Elegie III’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 19-20. Shawcross, No. 16. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 198.

pp. 79-82

• DnJ 2211: John Donne, Loves Warre (‘Till I have peace with thee, warr other men’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia 4^ta’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in F. G. Waldron, A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry (London, 1802), pp. 1-2. Grierson, I, 122-3 (as ‘Elegie XX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 13-14. Shawcross, No. 14. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 142-3.

pp. 83-4

• DnJ 1539: John Donne, His Picture (‘Here take my picture. though I bid farewell’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia quinta’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published as ‘Elegie V’ in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 86-7 (as ‘Elegie V’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 25. Shawcross, No. 19. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 264.

pp. 85-6

• DnJ 1044: John Donne, Elegie on the L.C. (‘Sorrow, who to this house scarce knew the way’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia Sexta’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VI’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 287. Gardner, Elegies, p. 26 (as ‘A Funeral Elegy’). Variorum, 6 (1995), p. 103, as ‘Elegia’.

pp. 87-90

• DnJ 2456: John Donne, ‘Oh, let mee not serve so, as those men serve’

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 87-9 (as ‘Elegie VI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 10-11. Shawcross, No. 12. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 110-11.

pp. 90-3

• DnJ 2345: John Donne, ‘Natures lay Ideot, I taught thee to love’

Copy, headed ‘Elegia octaua’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie VIII’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 89-90 (as ‘Elegie VII’). Gardner, Elegies, p. 12. Shawcross, No. 13. Variorum, 2 (2000), p. 127.

pp. 93-7

• DnJ 2510: John Donne, On his Mistris (‘By our first strange and fatall interview’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia nona’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 98-105

• DnJ 382: John Donne, The Bracelet (‘Not that in colour it was like thy haire’)

Copy, headed ‘Supra vna catena Elegia Decima’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Eleg. XII. The Bracelet’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 96-100 (as ‘Elegie XI’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 1-4. Shawcross, No. 8. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 5-7.

pp. 106-13

• DnJ 2143: John Donne, Loves Progress (‘Who ever loves, if he do not propose’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia vndecima’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1661). Poems (London, 1669) (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Grierson, I, 116-19. (as ‘Elegie XVIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 16-19. Shawcross, No. 20. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 301-3.

pp. 113-17

• DnJ 698: John Donne, The Comparison (‘As the sweet sweat of Roses in a Still’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia Duodecima’ and subscribed ‘H’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 90-2 (as ‘Elegie VIII’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 5-6. Shawcross, No. 9. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 51-2.

pp. 129-34

• DnJ 1073: John Donne, Elegie on the Lady Marckham (‘Man is the World, and death th' Ocean’)

Copy, headed Elegia 17^ta. A Funerall Elegie vpon y^e Ladie Marcham.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 279-81. Shawcross, No. 149. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 55-9. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 112-13.

pp. 134-9

• DnJ 1016: John Donne, Elegie on M^ris Boulstred (‘Death I recant, and say, unsaid by mee’)

Copy, headed ‘Elegia i8^ua A funerall Elegie on M^ris Boulstrede’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

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

pp. 140-4

• DnJ 1105: John Donne, Elegie upon the Death of Mistress Boulstred (‘Language thou art too narrow, and too weake’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘The End of y^e Elegies’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published, as ‘Elegie’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 284-6 (as ‘Elegie. Death’). Shawcross, No. 151 (as ‘Elegie: Death’). Milgate, Epithalmions, pp. 61-3. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 146-7.

pp. 149-52

• DnJ 143: John Donne, The Annuntiation and Passion (‘Tamely, fraile body, 'abstaine to day. to day’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 334-6. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 29-30 (as ‘Upon the Annunciation and Passion falling upon one day. 1608’). Shawcross, No. 183.

pp. 152-61

• DnJ 773: John Donne, La Corona (‘Deigne at my hands this crown of prayer and praise’)

Copy of the sequence of seven sonnets.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 318-21. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 1-5. Shawcross, No. 160.

p. 161

• CoH 110: Henry Constable, To our blessed Lady (‘In that (O Queene of queenes) thy byrth was free’)

Copy, headed ‘A sonnet on the blessed Virgin Mary’.

First published in John Donne, Poems (London, 1635). Heliconia (1815), II, Spirituall Sonnettes, p. 5. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J. C. Grierson (2 vols, Oxford, 1912), I, 427. Grundy, p. 185.

pp. 163-99

• DnJ 1940: John Donne, The Litanie (‘Father of Heaven, and him, by whom’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 338-48. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 16-26. Shawcross, No. 184.

pp. 200-5

• DnJ 3911: John Donne, The Will (‘Before I sigh my last gaspe, let me breath’)

Copy of a five-stanza version, headed ‘His last will & Testam^t’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 56-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 54-5. Shawcross, No. 66.

pp. 206-12

• DnJ 4078: John Donne, Paradoxes and Problems

Copy of five Problems.

Eleven Paradoxes and ten Problems first published in Juvenilia: or Certaine Paradoxes and Problemes (London, 1633). Twelve Paradoxes and seventeen Problems published in Paradoxes, Problems, Essayes (London, 1652). Two more Problems published in 1899 and 1927 (see DnJ 4073, DnJ 4089). Twelve Paradoxes and eighteen Problems reprinted in Paradoxes and Problemes by John Donne (London, 1923). Twelve Paradoxes (Nos XI and XII relegated to ‘Dubia’) and nineteen Problems (No. XI by Edward Herbert) edited in Peters.

pp. 213-15

• DnJ 3324: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘All haile sweet Poët, more full of more strong fire’)

Copy, headed ‘A Sonnett to m^r F. W:’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 203-5. Milgate, Satires, pp. 59-60. Shawcross, No. 114.

pp. 215-17

• DnJ 3467: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wootton (‘Here's no more newes then vertue, I may as well’)

Copy, headed ‘From y^e Court’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 187-8. Milgate, Satires, pp. 73-4. Shawcross, No. 111.

pp. 217-20

• DnJ 3294: John Donne, To M^r Rowland Woodward (‘Like one who'in her third widdowhood doth professe’)

Copy, untitled, with running heading ‘Dalla Corte’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 185-6. Milgate, Satires, pp. 69-70. Shawcross, No. 113.

pp. 221-6

• DnJ 3070: John Donne, The Storme (‘Thou which art I, ('tis nothing to be soe)’)

Copy, headed ‘A Storme. To S^r Basill Brooke’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published (in full) in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 175-7. Milgate, Satires, pp. 55-7. Shawcross, No. 109.

pp. 226-30

• DnJ 556: John Donne, The Calme (‘Our storme is past, and that storms tyrannous rage’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 178-80. Milgate, Satires, pp. 57-9. Shawcross, No. 110.

pp. 233-8

• DnJ 3497: John Donne, To S^r Henry Wotton (‘Sir, more then kisses, letters mingle Soules’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Donne’.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 180-2. Milgate, Satires, pp. 71-3. Shawcross, No. 112.

pp. 238-51

• DnJ 265: John Donne, The Autumnall (‘No Spring, nor Summer Beauty hath such grace’)

Copy, untitled, under a general heading ‘Canzoni. Amourenses p le mesne Author’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Elegie. The Autumnall’, in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 92-4 (as ‘Elegie IX’). Gardner, Elegies, pp. 27-8. Shawcross, No. 50. Variorum, 2 (2000), pp. 277-8.

pp. 251-2

• DnJ 727: John Donne, The Computation (‘For the first twenty yeares, since yesterday’)

Copy, headed ‘Cansonetts’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 69. Gardner, Elegies, p. 36. Shawcross, No. 76.

pp. 252-4

• DnJ 1649: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 12-13. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 41-2. Shawcross, No. 37.

pp. 254-5

• DnJ 672: John Donne, Communitie (‘Good wee must love, and must hate ill’)

Copy of lines 1-6, 13-24, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 32-3. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 33-4. Shawcross, No. 53.

pp. 255-7, 290-3

• DnJ 3818: John Donne, A Valediction: of the booke (‘I'll tell thee now (deare Love) what thou shalt doe’)

Copy of lines 1-27, untitled, the remainder (on pp. 290-3) headed ‘Canzone’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 29-32. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 67-9. Shawcross, No. 52.

pp. 258-9

• DnJ 3664: John Donne, Twicknam garden (‘Blasted with sighs, and surrounded with teares’)

Copy, headed ‘Of: Twicknam Garden’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 259-61

• DnJ 2177: John Donne, Loves Usury (‘For every houre that thou wilt spare mee now’)

Copy, untitled, running straight on from Twicknam garden (DnJ 3664).

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 13-14. Gardner, Elegies, p. 44. Shawcross, No. 38.

pp. 262-3

• DnJ 2011: John Donne, Loves Deitie (‘I long to talke with some old lovers ghost’)

Copy, headed ‘Loues Dietie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 54. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 47-8. Shawcross, No. 64.

p. 264

• DnJ 2047: John Donne, Loves diet (‘To what a combersome unwieldinesse’)

Copy of lines 1-12, headed ‘Loues Dietie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 55-6. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 45-6. Shawcross, No. 65.

pp. 267-8

• DnJ 1973: John Donne, Loves Alchymie (‘Some that have deeper digg'd loves Myne then I’)

Copy, headed ‘Monie’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 39-40. Gardner, Elegies, p. 81. Shawcross, No. 59.

pp. 269-73

• DnJ 3706: John Donne, The undertaking (‘I have done one braver thing’)

Copy, headed ‘Canzone’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 10. Gardner, Elegies, p. 57. Shawcross, No. 63.

pp. 273-5

• DnJ 25: John Donne, Aire and Angels (‘Twice or thrice had I loved thee’)

Copy, untitled, but with running head ‘Angels & Aire’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 22. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 75-6. Shawcross, No. 45.

pp. 276-7

• DnJ 1457: John Donne, The good-morrow (‘I wonder by my troth, what thou, and I’)

Copy, headed ‘Canzone’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 7-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 70-1. Shawcross, No. 32.

pp. 277-9

• DnJ 832: John Donne, The Curse (‘Who ever guesses, thinks, or dreames he knowes’)

Copy. headed ‘A Curse’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 41-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 40-1. Shawcross, No. 61.

pp. 280-1

• DnJ 2245: John Donne, Lovers infinitenesse (‘If yet I have not all thy love’)

Copy of lines 1-22, headed ‘Canzone’ and here beginning ‘Yet if I haue not all thy love’.

This MS recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 17-18. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 77-8. Shawcross, No. 41.

pp. 282-4

• DnJ 1364: John Donne, The Flea (‘Marke but this flea, and marke in this’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 40-1. Gardner, Elegies, p. 53. Shawcross, No. 60.

pp. 285-7

• DnJ 1840: John Donne, The Legacie (‘When I dyed last, and, Deare, I dye’)

Copy, headed ‘Canzone’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 20. Gardner, Elegies, p. 50. Shawcross, No. 43.

pp. 287-90

• DnJ 1809: John Donne, A Lecture upon the Shadow (‘Stand still, and I will read to thee’)

Copy, headed ‘Shaddowe’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, as ‘Song’, in Poems (1635). Grierson, I, 71-2. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 78-9. Shawcross, No. 30.

pp. 293-5

• DnJ 2114: John Donne, Loves growth (‘I scarce beleeve my love to be so pure’)

Copy, headed ‘Spring’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 33-4. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 76-7. Shawcross, No. 54.

pp. 296-9

• DnJ 3788: John Donne, A Valediction: of my name, in the window (‘My name engrav'd herein’)

Copy, headed ‘Diamond in glass’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 25-8. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 64-6. Shawcross, No. 49.

pp. 299-302

• DnJ 595: John Donne, The Canonization (‘For Godsake hold your tongue, and let me love’)

Copy, headed ‘Canzone’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 14-15. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 73-5. Shawcross, No. 39.

pp. 303-5

• DnJ 498: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy, headed ‘Canzone’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

Lines 1-16 first published in A Helpe to Memory and Discourse (London, 1630), pp. 45-6. Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 48-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 51-2. Shawcross, No. 29.

pp. 305-7

• DnJ 3628: John Donne, The triple Foole (‘I am two fooles, I know’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 16. Gardner, Elegies, p. 52. Shawcross, No. 40.

pp. 307-9

• DnJ 3007: John Donne, Song (‘Sweetest love, I do not goe’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Sweete loue I dare not goe’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 310-11

• JnB 713: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song (‘If I freely may discouer’)

Copy, headed ‘Canzone’.

pp. 311-12

• DnJ 1204: John Donne, The Expiration (‘So, so, breake off this last lamenting kisse’)

Copy, headed ‘Valedictio Amoris’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published, in a musical setting, in Alfonso Ferrabosco, Ayres (London, 1609). Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 68. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 36-7. Shawcross, No. 75.

pp. 312-14

• DnJ 3112: John Donne, The Sunne Rising (‘Busie old fools, unruly Sunne’)

Copy, headed ‘Ad Solem. A Song’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

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

pp. 314-16

• DnJ 2298: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 43. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 30-1. Shawcross, No. 25.

pp. 318-36

• DnJ 2426: John Donne, Obsequies to the Lord Harrington, brother to the Lady Lucy, Countesse of Bedford (‘Faire soule, which wast, not onely, as all soules bee’)

Copy; with the prose letter to Lady Bedford (pp. 316-17), the poem incomplete, lacking the last ten lines.

This MS recorded in Shawcross and in Milgate.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 271-9. Shawcross, No. 153. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 66-74. Variorum, 6 (1995), pp. 177-82.

Osborn MS b 118

An octavo miscellany of largely moral or religious verse and prose, chiefly in a small stylish cursive hand, with additions in margins and borders in a second even smaller hand, 316 pages (plus four pages of religious notes), in contemporary red morocco gilt. Including 24 poems by Abraham Cowley (pp. 1-40) and 18 poems by Katherine Philips (pp. 41-81) transcribed from a printed source. Late-17th century.

Arms of the Trevor family and the initials ‘I D’ stamped on the cover. Inscribed names of Francis Stephens (‘Liber Donum Francisci Stephens’) and, later, of E.H. Baker (on the front pastedown). Later owned by Thomas Philip (1781-1859), Earl de Grey, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire. then in the library of Sir Thomas Phillipps, Bt (1792-1872) manuscript and book collector: Phillipps MS 18637.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993), as the ‘Trevor MS’: PsK Δ 10.

p. 19

• CoA 54.4: Abraham Cowley, The Country Life. Lib. 4. Plantarum (‘Blest be the man (and blest he is) whome're’)

Copy.

First published, among Several Discourses by way of Essays, in Verse and Prose, in Works (London, 1668). Waller, II, 419-20.

p. 37

• CoA 100.6: Abraham Cowley, Life and Fame (‘Oh Life, thou Nothings younger Brother!’)

Copy.

First published, among Pindarique Odes, in Poems (London, 1656).

pp. 41-2

• PsK 280: Katherine Philips, On the 3d September 1651 (‘As when the Glorious Magazine of Light’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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.

p. 42

• PsK 269: Katherine Philips, On the 1. January 1657 (‘Th' Eternal Centre of my life and me’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 141-2. Saintsbury, p. 587. Thomas, I, 213, poem 94.

pp. 43-4

• PsK 56: Katherine Philips, Death (‘How weak a Star doth rule mankind’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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

pp. 45-6

• PsK 531: 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, headed ‘2 Cor: 5. 19’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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

pp. 47-52

• PsK 204: Katherine Philips, L'accord du bien (‘Order, by which all things were made’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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

pp. 53-4

• PsK 284: Katherine Philips, On the Welch Language (‘If honour to an ancient name be due’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e British Language by K. Phil:^ps’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 131-2. Saintsbury, pp. 580-1. Thomas, I, 202-3, poem 86.

p. 55

• PsK 548: Katherine Philips, The Virgin (‘The things that make a Virgin please’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 136. Saintsbury, p. 583. Thomas, I, 207-8, poem 90.

p. 56

• PsK 286: Katherine Philips, Orinda to Lucasia (‘Observe the weary birds e're night be done’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Friend's Absence’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1667), pp. 153-4. Saintsbury, pp. 593-4. Thomas, I, 226, poem 106.

pp. 57-8

• PsK 171: Katherine Philips, Invitation to the Countrey (‘Be kind, my deare Rosania, though 'tis true’)

Copy of a version of lines 11-50, here beginning ‘A safe Retirement from y^e noise of towns’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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

pp. 59-61

• PsK 351: Katherine Philips, Submission (‘'Tis so. and humbly I my will resign’)

Copy, headed ‘Out of M^rs Phillip's her Poems / On Submission’ and beginning at line 5 (here ‘As in y^e great Creation of this All’).

This MS collated in Thomas.

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

pp. 62-7

• PsK 34: Katherine Philips, Content, to my dearest Lucasia (‘Content, the false world's best disguise’)

Copy, headed ‘Content’, written sideways up the length of the page.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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

pp. 68-70

• PsK 129: Katherine Philips, Happyness (‘Nature courts happiness, although it be’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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

pp. 70-3

• PsK 183: Katherine Philips, La Grandeur d'esprit (‘A chosen privacy, a cheap content’)

Copy, headed ‘A Recovery’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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. 73-4

• PsK 15: Katherine Philips, Against Pleasure. set by D^r Coleman (‘There's no such thing as pleasure here’)

Copy, headed ‘Against Pleasure’.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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

pp. 75-8

• PsK 43: Katherine Philips, A Countrey life (‘How sacred and how innocent’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1664), pp. 177-82. Poems (1667), pp. 88-91. Saintsbury, pp. 588. Thomas, I, 159-62, poem 61. Anonymous musical setting published in The Banquet of Musick (London, 1691).

pp. 78-80

• PsK 172: Katherine Philips, Invitation to the Countrey (‘Be kind, my deare Rosania, though 'tis true’)

Copy, complete.

This MS collated in Thomas.

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

pp. 80-1

• PsK 5: Katherine Philips, Against Love (‘Hence, Cupid! with your cheating Toies’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Thomas.

First published in Poems (1667), p. 143. Saintsbury, pp. 587-8. Thomas, I, 214, poem 96.

p. 81

• PsK 436: Katherine Philips, To my Lord Biron's tune of — Adieu Phillis (‘Tis true, our life is but a long disease’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Thomas.

First published, as ‘Song to the Tune of Adieu Phillis’, in Poems (1667), p. 127. Saintsbury, p. 578. Thomas, I, 198, poem 81.

Osborn MS b 135

An octavo miscellany of verse and prose, principally extracts from Sir Thomas Pope Blount's De re poetica (1694), in a non-professional cursive hand, 220 pages, in contemporary calf. c.late 1690s.

f. 76r et seq.

• DrJ 297.2: John Dryden, A Discourse concerning Satire

Extracts.

First published as a preface to The Satires of Aulus Persius Flaccus together with The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (London, ‘1693’ [i.e. 1692]). California, IV, 3-90. Hammond, III, 310-450.

Osborn MS b 136

A quarto volume of principally Advice to Painter poems, in a neat rounded hand up to p. 48, then in other hands, with a title-page, 59 pages, in contemporary marbled boards. Entitled ‘Directions to a Painter for Describing our navall Businesse In imitation of M^r Waller. Being The Last works of S^r John Denham...Printed in the year 1667’. Late 17th century.

pp. 2-16

• MaA 357: Andrew Marvell, The Second Advice to a Painter (‘Nay, Painter, if thou dar'st design that fight’)

Copy, headed ‘Directions to a Painter. By Sir John Denham’.

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.

pp. 17-33

• MaA 386: Andrew Marvell, The Third Advice to a Painter (‘Sandwich in Spain now, and the Duke in love’)

Copy, headed ‘Directions to a Painter. By S^r John Denham’.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 67-87. Lord, pp. 130-44. Smith, pp. 346-56. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 32-3, as anonymous.

See discussions of the disputed authorship of this poem, as well as of the ‘Second Advice’, cited before MaA 314.

pp. 33-8

• MaA 419: Andrew Marvell, The Fourth Advice to a Painter (‘Draw England ruin'd by what was giv'n before’)

Copy, untitled.

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

pp. 38-43

• MaA 432: Andrew Marvell, The Fifth Advice to a Painter (‘Painter, where was't thy former work did cease?’)

Copy, headed ‘Directions to a Painter by S^r John Denham’.

Copy, here ascribed to Denham.

First published in Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). POAS, I, 146-52, as anonymous. Recorded in Osborne, pp. 35-6, as anonymous. Regarded as anonymous in Margoliouth, I, 348-50.

pp. 43-7

• MaA 139: Andrew Marvell, Clarindon's House-Warming (‘When Clarindon had discern'd beforehand’)

Copy.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir John Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 143-6. POAS, I, 88-96. Lord, pp. 144-51. Smith, pp. 358-61.

pp. 47-8

• MaA 300: Andrew Marvell, Upon his House (‘Here lies the sacred Bones’)

Copy.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 146-7. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

p. 48

• MaA 288.5: Andrew Marvell, Upon his Grand-Children (‘Kendal is dead, and Cambridge riding post’)

Copy.

First published with Directions to a Painter…Of Sir Iohn Denham ([London], 1667). Margoliouth, I, 147. Rejected from the canon by Lord and also by Chernaik, p. 211.

p. 48

• MaA 469: Andrew Marvell, Advice to a Painter to draw the Duke by (‘Spread a large canvass, Painter, to containe’)

Copy, headed ‘Advice to a Painter Printed in a folio sheet’, incomplete.

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.

pp. 57-9

• MaA 536: Andrew Marvell, Letter(s)

Copy of a letter by Marvell, to Sir John Trott, [1667].

The original letter printed in Miscellany Poems (1681). Reprinted in Margoliouth, II, 311-13.

Osborn MS b 137

A quarto miscellany of principally religious verse, in several hands, 213 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.

Inscribed (f. i) ‘Anthony Search his most excellent booke Jan^ry 6^th Anno Dom: 1695’.

p. 2

• FuT 4: Thomas Fuller, On my Worthy Friend Dr Sparke, His Learned Book (‘A Brood of legendary saints of old’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r ffuller on D^r Sparkes Booke’, preceding a copy of Sparke's ‘Learned and pious poems vpon the Holy ffeasts & ffasts off the Church’.

First published in Edward Sparke, Scintillula Altaris (London, 1652). Grosart, pp. 108-10.

p. 46

• JnB 4.3: Ben Jonson, An Answer to Alexander Gil (‘Shall the prosperity of a Pardon still’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben Johnson's Answer to y^e said verses [by Alexander Gill]’.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 410-11.

pp. 76-84

• HrG 56: George Herbert, The Church-porch (‘Thou, whose sweet youth and early hopes inhance’)

Copy, untitled, under a general heading ‘The Quadraines of Pibracke, or Pious exortations ffor youth out of Du bartas & Herberts Poems’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 6-24.

p. 84

• HrG 38: George Herbert, Charms and Knots (‘Who reade a chapter when they rise’)

Copy, headed ‘Divine & Charmes Knotts’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 96-7.

p. 176

• RoJ 217.8: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On Rome's pardons (‘If Rome can pardon sins, as Romans hold’)

Extracts.

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

p. 198

• HlJ 3.7: Joseph Hall, On his Majestyes Death & his Incomparable Booke (‘Soe falls that stately Coedar, while it stood’)

Copy, ascribed to ‘J: Hall. Bp Norwich:’.

First published, as ‘An Epitaph upon King Charles 1st’, in Eikon Basilike (1649), p. 312.

p. 200

• ClJ 211: John Cleveland, Epitaph on the Earl of Strafford (‘Here lies Wise and Valiant Dust’)

Copy.

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).

pp. 200-1

• ClJ 79: John Cleveland, On the Archbishop of Canterbury (‘I need no Muse to give my passion vent’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on D^rLawd Arch-Bishopp of Canterbury’.

First published in Character (1647). Morris & Withington, pp. 38-9.

p. 201

• HrG 15: George Herbert, Ana-{MARY/ARMY} gram (‘How well her name an Army doth present’)

Copy, headed ‘An Anagram on the Blessed Virgin’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 77.

Osborn MS b 139

Copy, on 40 quarto pages. Late 17th century.

CnC 5: Charles Cotton, The battail of Yvry (‘High are his thoughts, whose Buskin'd Mistress sings’)

First published in Poems (1689), pp. 657-729.

Osborn MS b 145

A folio volume of extracts from English historical works, in three hands, one secretary hand predominating, c.240 pages, in contemporary calf gilt. c.1630.

f. [174r]

• BcF 215.135: Francis Bacon, The History of the Reign of King Henry VII

Extracts, headed ‘Collecons out of my l. of St Albans H. 7’.

First published in London, 1622. Spedding, VI, 23-245. Edited by Michael Kiernan, The Oxford Francis Bacon, Vol. VIII (Oxford, 2012), pp. 3-169.

ff. [180r-213r]

• DaS 42.5: Samuel Daniel, The Collection of the History of England

Extracts, headed ‘Collections out of the Historian M^r Samuel Daniel’.

First part first published in London, 1612. First published complete in London, [1618?]. Grosart, IV, 69-299. V, 1-291.

Osborn MS b 146

A quarto miscellany of three works, 46 leaves, in modern wrappers. Mid-17th century.

ff. [1r-40r]

• FuT 5.24: Thomas Fuller, The History of the Holy War

A précis of the work, in an unidentified hand.

First published in Cambridge, 1639.

Osborn MS b 148

An octavo volume of poems and some prose, including 96 poems by Donne plus his Paradoxes and Problems (many ascribed to ‘J. D’), in a single neat secretary hand, 150 pages, in 17th-century calf gilt. c.1622-33.

Later owned by Major J.B. Whitmore. Hodgson's, 20-21 November 1958, lot 571, with a facsimile page in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, I.i (1980), as the ‘Osborn MS’: DnJ Δ 30. For a facsimile page see DnJ 728, DnJ 1205. Complete microfilm in British Library (M/569).

p. 1

• WoH 173: Sir Henry Wotton, To J: D: from Mr H: W: (‘'Tis not a coate of gray or Shepherds life’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Herbert J.C. Grierson, ‘Bacon's Poem, “The World”: Its Date and Relation to Certain other Poems’, MLR, 6 (1911), 145-56 (p. 155).

p. 2

• DnJ 1560: John Donne, A Hymne to Christ, at the Authors last going into Germany (‘In what torne ship soever I embarke’)

Copy, headed ‘When he went w:^th y^e Lord Doncaster’.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 352-3. Gardner, Divine Poems, pp. 48-9. Shawcross, No. 190.

pp. 2-3

• DnJ 867: John Donne, The Dampe (‘When I am dead, and Doctors know not why’)

Copy.

This MS recorded in Gardner and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 63-4. Gardner, Elegies, p. 49. Shawcross, No. 71.

p. 3

• HrJ 218: Sir John Harington, Of a word in welch mistaken in English (‘An English lad long Woode a lasse of wales’)

Copy, headed ‘Nil refert loqui dum vbi liceat’.

Kilroy, Book IV, No. 38, p. 224.

p. 4

• JnB 714: Ben Jonson, The Poetaster, II, ii, 163 et seq. Song (‘If I freely may discouer’)

Copy.

pp. 4-5

• DnJ 3347: John Donne, To M^r T.W. (‘At once, from hence, my lines and I depart’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Milgate and in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 206-7. Milgate, Satires, p. 62. Shawcross, No. 117.

p. 5

• DnJ 2948: John Donne, Song (‘Stay, O sweet, and do not rise’)

Copy, untitled, subscribed ‘J: D: finis’.

This MS recorded in Gardner.

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.