CELM: Yale, Osborn MS b 200 through end

Osborn MS b 200

A quarto verse miscellany, in several hands (one predominating up to p. 167), probably associated with Oxford, 436 pages (pp. 198-9 and 269-70 skipped in the pagination, and including many blanks and an index) and numerous further blank leaves at the end, in modern black morocco gilt. Including 14 poems by Carew, 13 poems by Corbett and 25 poems (plus one poem of doubtful authorship) by Strode. c.1650.

Scribbling on the first page including the words ‘Peyton Chester…’.

Cited in IELM, II.i-ii (1987-93), as the ‘Osborn MS I’: CwT Δ 38; CoR Δ 14; StW Δ 29.

p. 7

• KiH 93: Henry King, The Boy's answere to the Blackmore (‘Black Mayd, complayne not that I fly’)

Copy, headed ‘The fayre boyes aunswere’ and here beginning ‘Black Gyrle, complayne not y^t I fly’.

First published in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 151. The text almost invariably preceded, in both printed and MS versions, by (variously headed) ‘A Blackmore Mayd wooing a faire Boy: sent to the Author by Mr. Hen. Rainolds’ (‘Stay, lovely Boy, why fly'st thou mee’). Musical settings by John Wilson in Henry Lawes, Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1669).

p. 12

• StW 767: William Strode, Song (‘I saw faire Cloris walke alone’)

Copy, headed ‘On A Gentle woman walking in y^e Snow’.

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).

p. 15

• ToA 86: Aurelian Townshend, Mr. Townsends Verses to Ben Johnsons, in Answer to an Abusive Copie, Crying Down his Magnetick Lady (‘It cannon move thy friend (firm Ben) that he’)

Copy, incomplete, headed ‘Incertus author to Ben Jonson’.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656), p. 18. Chambers, p. 49. Almost certainly written by Zouch Townley.

p. 15

• JnB 4.5: Ben Jonson, An Answer to Alexander Gil (‘Shall the prosperity of a Pardon still’)

Copy, headed ‘Ben: Johnsons reply’ and here beginning ‘Doeth y^e prosperity of A pardon, still’.

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

pp. 16-18

• CoR 432: Richard Corbett, On Great Tom of Christ-Church (‘Bee dum, you infant chimes. thump not the mettle’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e casting of great Tom of x^t Church’ and subscribed ‘Jer: Jerrent’ [i.e. Jeramiel Terrant].

First published (omitting lines 25-48) in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 79-82. Ithuriel, ‘Great Tom of Oxford’, N&Q, 2nd Ser. 10 (15 December 1860), 465-6 (printing ‘(from a MS collection) which bears the signature of Jerom Terrent’).

p. 18

• HrJ 124.5: Sir John Harington, Of a Lady that giues the cheek (‘Is't for a grace, or is't for some disleeke’)

Copy, headed ‘On a Gentlewoman, who paynted her face’.

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

pp. 23-4

• HrJ 50: Sir John Harington, Against Swearing (‘In elder times an ancient custome was’)

Copy, headed ‘On Swearing’.

First published in Henry Fitzsimon, S.J., The Justification and Exposition of the Divine Sacrifice of the Masse (Douai, 1611). 1615. 1618, Book IV, No. 9. McClure No. 263, p. 256. Kilroy, Book IV, No. 30, p. 220.

pp. 24-7

• CoR 350: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbet to Marques Buckingham 1618’.

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

pp. 37-40

• RnT 201: Thomas Randolph, On Importunate Dunnes (‘Poxe take you all, from you my sorrowes swell’)

Copy, headed ‘Randolph of Cambridge to his Credito^rs: 1633’.

First published in Poems, 2nd edition (1640). Thorn-Drury, pp. 131-4.

p. 46

• B&F 151: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e prayse of Melancholly’.

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

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

p. 47

• CwT 1269.5: Thomas Carew, A Louers passion (‘Is shee not wondrous fayre? but oh I see’)

Copy, headed ‘The Lovers passion’.

First published, as ‘The Rapture, by J.D.’, in Robert Chamberlain, The Harmony of the Muses (London, 1654), pp. 3-4 [unique exemplum in the Huntington edited in facsimile by Ernest W. Sullivan (Aldershot, 1990)]. Cupids Master-Piece (London, [?1656]). Dunlap, p. 192.

p. 48

• StW 654: William Strode, An Opposite to Melancholy (‘Returne my joyes, and hither bring’)

Copy.

First published in Wit Restor'd (London, 1658). Dobell, p. 15. Forey, pp. 103-5.

p. 50

• MrJ 53: John Marston, The Duke Return'd Againe. 1627 (‘And art returned again with all thy faults’)

Copy.

p. 55

• CaE 31: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham (‘Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am’)

Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’, headed ‘In laude eiusdem’ [on Buckingham].

A six-line (epitaph) version is ascribed to ‘the Countesse of Faukland’ in two MS copies. In some sources it is followed by a further 44 lines (elegy) beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’. The latter also appears, anonymously, as a separate poem in a number of other sources. The authorship remains uncertain. For an argument for Lady Falkland's authorship of all 50 lines, see Akkerman.

Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.

p. 78

• DaJ 33.8: Sir John Davies, In Curionem (‘The great archpapist learned Curio’)

Copy, headed ‘Religion ensnared by Preferment’.

First published in Krueger (1975), pp. 182-3.

pp. 78-9

• RaW 542: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Wrong not, deare Empresse of my Heart’

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistresse’.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655), printed twice, the first version prefixed by ‘Our Passions are most like to Floods and streames’ (see RaW 320-38) and headed ‘To his Mistresse by Sir Walter Raleigh’. Edited with the prefixed stanza in Latham, pp. 18-19. Edited in The English and Latin Poems of Sir Robert Ayton, ed. Charles B. Gullans, STS, 4th Ser. 1 (Edinburgh & London, 1963), pp. 197-8. Rudick, Nos 39A and 39B (two versions, pp. 106-9).

This poem was probably written by Sir Robert Ayton. For a discussion of the authorship and the different texts see Gullans, pp. 318-26 (also printed in SB, 13 (1960), 191-8).

p. 80

• DyE 94: Sir Edward Dyer, ‘The lowest trees haue topps, the ante her gall’

Copy, headed ‘The Generality of Love’ and here beginning ‘The smallest Trees have tops y^e Ante her gall’.

First published in A Poetical Rapsody (London, 1602). Sargent, No. XII, p. 197. May, Courtier Poets, p. 307. EV 23336.

pp. 82-4

• LyJ 36: John Lyly, A petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth

Copy.

Beginning ‘Most Gratious and dread Soveraigne: I dare not pester yo^r Highnes w^th many wordes...’. Written probably in 1598. Bond, I, 64-5. Feuillerat, pp. 556-7.

pp. 82-4

• LyJ 59: John Lyly, A second petitionary letter to Queen Elizabeth

Copy.

Beginning ‘Most gratious and dread Soveraigne: Tyme cannott worke my peticons, nor my peticons the tyme...’. Written probably in 1601. Bond, I, 70-1. Feuillerat, pp. 561-2.

p. 92

• DnJ 2941: John Donne, Song (‘Goe, and catche a falling starre’)

Copy, headed ‘Woman's Inconstancy’.

This MS (?) recorded in Shawcross.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 8-9. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 29-30. Shawcross, No. 33.

p. 100

• HoJ 114: John Hoskyns, A Dreame (‘Me thought I walked in a dreame’)

Copy of a version of lines 43-68, headed ‘M^rs Hoskins to his M^ty for her Husband’ and beginning ‘The worst is tolde, y^e best is hidde’.

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

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

p. 100

• JnB 136.2: Ben Jonson, Epitaph on Elizabeth, L.H. (‘Would'st thou heare, what man can say’)

Copy, headed ‘On y^e death of the Lady Eliz: Hobby’ and here beginning ‘Wilt thou heare wt man can say?’.

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

p. 110

• CwT 737: Thomas Carew, A Song (‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song on y^e prayse of his M^rs:’ and here beginning ‘Aske me noe more whither doe stray’.

First published in a five-stanza version beginning ‘Aske me no more where Iove bestowes’ in Poems (1640) and in Poems: by Wil. Shake-speare, Gent. (London, 1640), and edited in this version in Dunlap, pp. 102-3. Musical setting by John Wilson published in Cheerful Ayres or Ballads (Oxford, 1659). All MS versions recorded in CELM, except where otherwise stated, begin with the second stanza of the published version (viz. ‘Aske me no more whether doth stray’).

For a plausible argument that this poem was actually written by William Strode, see Margaret Forey, ‘Manuscript Evidence and the Author of “Aske me no more”: William Strode, not Thomas Carew’, EMS, 12 (2005), 180-200. See also Scott Nixon, ‘“Aske me no more” and the Manuscript Verse Miscellany’, ELR, 29/1 (Winter 1999), 97-130, which edits and discusses MSS of this poem and also suggests that it may have been written by Strode.

pp. 110-12

• WoH 257: Sir Henry Wotton, A Farewell to the Vanities of the World (‘Farewell, ye gilded follies, pleasing troubles!’)

Copy, headed ‘On an Hermite in A grove w^th A prayer booke in his hand’.

First published, as ‘a farewell to the vanities of the world, and some say written by D^r. D[onne], but let them bee writ by whom they will’, in Izaak Walton, The Complete Angler (London, 1653), pp. 243-5. Hannah (1845), pp. 109-13. The Poems of John Donne, ed. Herbert J.C. Grierson, 2 vols (Oxford, 1912), I, 465-7.

pp. 112-13

• RaW 291: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy, headed ‘On mans life’.

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

p. 113

• CwT 977: Thomas Carew, The Spring (‘Now that the winter's gone, the earth hath lost’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 3.

pp. 113-14

• CwT 411: Thomas Carew, Lips and Eyes (‘In Celia's face a question did arise’)

Copy, headed ‘A contention betweene Lipps, & Eyes’.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 6.

p. 114

• CwT 131: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

pp. 114-15

• CwT 697: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^rs Secrecy protested’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

Osborn MS b 201

An octavo miscellany, principally in two hands, written from both ends, 177 pages, in contemporary calf. Compiled by Samuel Estwick (c.1657-1739), minor canon at St Paul's and sacrist and rector of St Helen's, Bishopsgate, London. Inscribed on p. 101 ‘Rob: Fysher Decemb: 30^th 1713’. c.1700-1714.

pp. 127-30

• CgW 34: William Congreve, Priam's Lamentation and Petition to Achilles, for the Body of his Son Hector (‘So spake the God, and Heav'nward took his Flight’)

Copy.

First published in Examen Poeticum…The Third Part of Miscellany Poems [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 25-7. Dobrée, pp. 225-8. McKenzie, II, 303-6.

pp. 131-8

• CgW 23: William Congreve, The Lamentations of Hecuba, Andromache, and Helen, over the dead Body of Hector (‘Now did the Saffron Morn her beams display’)

Copy.

First published in Examen Poeticum…The Third Part of Miscellany Poems [by John Dryden et al.] (London, 1693). Summers, IV, 28-32. Dobrée, pp. 228-33. McKenzie, II, 307-12.

pp. 138-40

• DrJ 243: John Dryden, Veni Creator Spiritus, Translated in Paraphrase (‘Creator Spirit, by whose aid’)

Copy.

First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 843-4. California, IV, 422-3. Hammond, IV, 308-10.

pp. 141-2

• WaE 785.5: Edmund Waller, Written before a Lady's Waller (‘The lovely Owner of this book’)

Copy, headed ‘Written in a lady's Waller’.

Apparently unpublished. An elaborate compliment to a lady, suggesting that ‘y^e Old Bard would have celebrated her instead of Sacharissa had he been younger’. Its authorship is uncertain.

pp. 144-5

• DoC 122: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Madam Maintenon's Advice to the French King. Paraphrase on the French (‘In gray-hair'd Celia's wither'd arms’)

Copy, headed ‘A paraphrase on y^e French’.

This MS collated in Harris.

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

pp. 148-56

• DrJ 79: John Dryden, The Last parting Of Hector and Andromache. From the Sixth Book of Homer's Iliads (‘Thus having said, brave Hector went to see’)

Copy.

First published in Examen Poeticum (London, 1693). Kinsley, II, 846-51. California, IV, 425-31. Hammond, IV, 315-25.

pp. 172-7

• DrJ 10: John Dryden, The Character of a Good Parson. Imitated from Chaucer, And Inlarg'd (‘A parish-priest, was of the Pilgrim-Train’)

Copy.

First published in Fables Ancient and Modern (London, 1700). Kinsley, IV, 1736-40. Hammond, V, 559-66.

Osborn MS b 202

A miscellany of hymns and poems, 67 pages. Inscribed at the end ‘Miss Mary Webber: Her Book Anno Domini 1694’, evidently the compiler. Inscribed on a flyleaf with the names Robert Britton and ‘Miss Sopia Delight’. c.1694.

p. 97

• HrG 149: George Herbert, Jesu (‘Jesu is in my heart, his sacred name’)

Copy.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 112.

Osborn MS b 204

A quarto verse miscellany in English, Latin and French, in two or more hands, 154 pages (plus blanks), in a vellum deed. Early 18th century.

Formerly ‘Box 12, No. 13’.

p. 82

• DoC 17: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Advice to Lovers (‘Damon, if thou wilt believe me’)

Copy, headed ‘The Answer by L^d Dorset’ [i.e. to ‘A Song by M^r Wolsly’ on pp. 81-2].

This MS collated in Harris.

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

p. 134

• DrJ 240: John Dryden, Upon the Death of the Viscount Dundee (‘O Last and best of Scots! who didst maintain’)

Copy, headed ‘Translated by Dryden’; the text follows a Latin version [by ‘D^r. Elliot’].

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

Osborn MS b 205

A sextodecimo verse miscellany, written from both ends in several hands (two principal ones on ff. 6r-40r, 41r et seq. respectively), 102 leaves (plus blanks), in contemporary calf, with remains of metal clasps. Including 45 poems by Strode and three poems of doubtful authorship. c.1630s.

Formerly Box 22, item II.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Osborn MS II’: StW Δ 30.

f. 23v

• PeW 202: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon a Virgin not marriageable’ and here beginning ‘Why doth thy passion leade thee blind’.

f. 24r

• PoW 77: Walton Poole, ‘If shadows be a picture's excellence’

Copy.

f. 25r

• DnJ 469: John Donne, Breake of day (‘'Tis true, 'tis day. what though it be?’)

Copy.

First published in William Corkine, Second Book of Ayres (London, 1612), sig. B1v. Grierson, I, 23. Gardner, Elegies, pp. 35-6. Shawcross, No. 46.

ff. 25r-6r

• DnJ 992.5: John Donne, Ecclogue. 1613. December 26 (‘Unseasonable man, statue of ice’)

Copy of poems ix, x, and viii of the ‘Epithalamion’.

First published in Poems (1633). Grierson, I, 131-44. Shawcross, No. 108. Milgate, Epithalamions, pp. 10-19 (as ‘Epithalamion at the Marriage of the Earl of Somerset’). Variorum, 8 (1995), pp. 133-9.

f. 26r-v

• DnJ 520: John Donne, The broken heart (‘He is starke mad, who ever sayes’)

Copy.

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

f. 27r

• DnJ 1658: John Donne, The Indifferent (‘I can love both faire and browne’)

Copy.

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

f. 27r-v

• CwT 721: Thomas Carew, Secresie protested (‘Feare not (deare Love) that I'le reveale’)

Copy, headed ‘To his m^ris’ and here beginning ‘Thinke not deare loue y^t ile reveale’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 11. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Second Book of Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1655).

Osborn MS b 206

A duodecimo commonplace book of verse and prose, in a single hand. c.1680-90.

Inscribed, possibly by the compiler, ‘James Rhodes, 1680’. Later inscriptions by William Hamper (1776-1831), and ‘Lydia Anna Dobson Hamper. 1838. The gift of her dear father’.

p. 118

• AlW 185: William Alabaster, Upon a Conference in Religion between John Reynolds then a Papist, and his Brother William Reynolds then a Protestant (‘In poyntes of faith some undermyning jarres / betwixt two brothers kindled rebell warrs’)

Copy of Peter Heylyn's translation.

A translation of Alabaster's Latin poem by Peter Heylyn, first published in his Cosmographie (1652), p. 257.

p. 150

• RnT 179.8: Thomas Randolph, Necessary observations (‘First worship God, he that forgets to pray’)

A version of the nineteenth precept.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, pp. 57-66.

Osborn MS b 207

A quarto verse miscellany, in English and Latin, in several hands, 46 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1665.

Bookplate of Thomas Philip (1781-1859), Earl de Grey, of Wrest Park, Bedfordshire.

pp. 13-14

• MrT 9.8: Sir Thomas More, Epigrammata. 160. Altervm de Eodem [Abyngdon, the Singer] (‘Hic iacet Henricus, semper pietatis amicus’)

Copy, with lengthy heading ‘An Epitaph Written by S^r Thomas More vpon y^edeath of Henry Abingdon one of y^e gentlemen of y^e chappel: wh^ch devise y^e authour was fayne to put in meeter...the suppliant was exceeding satisfyed as if y^e authour had hit y^e nail on y^e head’, followed by a translation (‘The same though not verbatim Construed...’) beginning ‘Here lyeth old Henry, no friend to mischevos envy’.

Yale, Volume 3, Part II, pp. 202-3, with English translation.

pp. 17-19

• PsK 27: Katherine Philips, Arion on a Dolphin to his Majestie in his passadge into England (‘Whom doth this stately navy bring?’)

Copy, headed ‘Vppon his sacred Maiesties Charles the seconds happy passage to England May 29^th 1960: by M^rs Phillips’.

This MS collated in Thomas, and also in Mambretti's 1979 dissertation.

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.

p. 28

• WaE 493: Edmund Waller, To a Lady, from whom he received the foregoing copy which for many years had been lost (‘Nothing lies hid from radiant eyes’)

Copy, headed ‘A Song’

First published in Poems, ‘Third’ edition (London, 1668). Thorn-Drury, II, 69.

pp. 45-6

• SeC 106.5: Sir Charles Sedley, A Song (‘Prithee tell me, faithless Swain’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Tell me prethee faithless swain’.

First published, in a version beginning ‘Tell me prethee faithless swain’, in Windsor Drollery (London, 1671). Oxford Drollery (London, 1671). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 3. Sola Pinto, II, 153.

Osborn MS b 208

A quarto commonplace book of miscellaneous extracts, largely in one small hand, with a few additions in three other hands, 257 pages, in contemporary vellum. c.1620s.

pp. 37-56

• CmW 102.13: William Camden, Remaines of a Greater Worke concerning Britaine

Extracts.

First published, dedicated to Sir Robert Cotton, in London, 1605. 2nd edition (with additions) London, 1614. 3rd edition (with a few further additions) London, 1623. Edited by R.D. Dunn (Toronto, Buffalo & London, 1984).

For individual essays in Remaines, see under separate titles.

p. 57

• DkT 36: Thomas Dekker, Vpon her bringing by water to White Hall (‘The Queene was brought by water to White Hall’)

Copy.

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

p. 59

• RaW 293: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Life of Man (‘What is our life? a play of passion’)

Copy.

pp. 252-5

• CoR 371: Richard Corbett, A letter To the Duke of Buckingham, being with the Prince of Spaine (‘I've read of Ilands floating, and remov'd’)

Copy, headed ‘D:C: To D of B’.

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

Osborn MS b 209

A quarto miscellany of verse and some prose, in English and Latin, in various hands, 136 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. c.1660.

Inscribed at front and back with the name ‘Edw: Rawstorne’.

p. 79

• ClJ 129: John Cleveland, To the State of Love, or, The Senses Festival (‘I saw a Vision yesternight’)

Copy.

First published in Poems, by J. C. With Additions (1651). Morris & Withington, pp. 47-9.

pp. 85-6

• CoA 6: Abraham Cowley, Against Hope (‘Hope, whose weak Being ruin'd is’)

Copy of Cowley's poem only.

A pair of poems comprising Against Hope by Cowley and the answer For Hope (‘Dear hope! earth's dowry, & heaun's debt!’) by Richard Crashaw, both first published as ‘On Hope, By way of Question and Answer, betweene A. Cowley, and R. Crashaw’ in Crashaw, Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Published separately as ‘Hope’ and ‘M. Crashaws Answer For Hope’ in Crashaw, Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). The Poems…of Richard Crashaw, ed. L. C. Martin, 2nd edition (Oxford, 1957), pp. 143-5 and 344-6.

Cowley's poem only also published separately in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 109-10. Sparrow, pp. 107-8. Collected Works, II, No. 3, pp. 23-5. See also Clarence H. Miller, ‘The Order of Stanzas in Cowley and Crashaw's “On Hope”’, SP, 61 (1964), 64-73.

pp. 87-8

• CoA 85: Abraham Cowley, For Hope (‘Hope, of all Ills that men endure’)

Copy.

First published in The Mistresse (London, 1647). Waller, I, 110-11. Sparrow, pp. 108-10. Collected Works, II, No. 43, pp. 72-3.

Osborn MS b 210

A quarto miscellany of verse and prose, in Latin and English, in several hands, in contemporary vellum. Apparently compiled by members of the English College at Douai. Late 17th century.

pp. 285-99

• DeJ 19.8: Sir John Denham, Cooper's Hill (Latin translation)

Copy of a Latin translation by Moses Pengry.

A Latin translation of Cooper's Hill by Moses Pengry, Chaplain to the Earl of Devonshire (beginning ‘Si fuerint Vates, Parnassi nulla bicollis’), prepared for Lord William Cavendish and printed at Oxford in 1676. The text is reprinted in O Hehir, Hieroglyphicks, pp. 257-75.

Osborn MS b 213

A duodecimo verse miscellany, in several hands, showing communal use, 161 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.

Formerly Chest II, No. 21.

p. 1

• CwT 919: Thomas Carew, Song. The willing Prisoner to his Mistris (‘Let fooles great Cupids yoake disdaine’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 37.

pp. 1-2

• CwT 852: Thomas Carew, Song. Conquest by flight (‘Ladyes, flye from Love's smooth tale’)

Copy, untitled.

First published (complete) in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 15. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1653). The second stanza alone published in Samuel Pick, Festum Voluptatis (London, 1639), and a musical setting of it by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

p. 2

• CwT 841: Thomas Carew, Song. Celia singing (‘You that thinke Love can convey’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 39. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

p. 2

• ShJ 133: James Shirley, ‘Would you know what's soft?’

Copy.

First published, as a ‘Song’, in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Shirley, Poems (London, 1646). Armstrong, p. 3.

p. 4

• CwT 176: Thomas Carew, Disdaine returned (‘Hee that loves a Rosie cheeke’)

Copy, untitled.

First published (stanzas 1-2), in a musical setting, in Walter Porter, Madrigales and Ayres (London, 1632). Complete in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 18. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1653).

p. 5

• SuJ 41: John Suckling, Loves Offence (‘If when Don Cupids dart’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 52-3.

p. 7

• JnB 601: Ben Jonson, Epicoene I, i, 92-102. Song (‘Still to be neat, still to be drest’)

Copy.

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

p. 7

• GrJ 10: John Grange, ‘A Lover once I did espy’

Copy, here beginning ‘A Restless Lover I espy'd’.

First published, in a musical setting, in Playford, Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (1652), I, 12. Poems (1660), pp. 86-7, beginning ‘A Restless Lover I espy'd’, superscribed ‘P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’, and in Krueger's Appendix II list of poems by John Grange.

p. 8

• SuJ 67: John Suckling, Song (‘Why so pale and wan fond Lover?’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Aglaura (London, 1638), Act IV, scene ii, lines 14-28. Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646). Beaurline, Plays, p. 72. Clayton, p. 64.

pp. 10-11

• DrM 36: Michael Drayton, The Cryer (‘Good Folke, for Gold or Hyre’)

Copy.

First published, among Odes with Other Lyrick Poesies, in Poems (London, 1619). Hebel, II, 371.

pp. 12-13

• WaE 438.8: Edmund Waller, Song (‘Chloris! farewell. I now must go’)

Copy, untitled.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1652). Poems, ‘Eighth’ edition (London, 1711). Thorn-Drury, II, 110-11.

pp. 14-15

• ToA 23: Aurelian Townshend, ‘Let not thy beauty make thee proud’

Copy.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes, in John Playford, Select Musical Ayres (London, 1652), p. 34. Chambers, p. 3. Brown, pp. 66-7.

p. 16

• HeR 161: Robert Herrick, Mistresse Elizabeth Wheeler, under the name of the lost Shepardesse (‘Among the Mirtles, as I walkt’)

Copy, untitled and here beginning ‘Amongst the mirtles as I walkt’.

First published in Thomas Carew, Poems (London, 1640). Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 106-7. Patrick, p. 147. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

p. 17

• CmT 118: Thomas Campion, ‘Thou art not faire, for all thy red and white’

Copy.

First published in A Booke of Ayres (London, 1601), No. xii. Davis, pp. 34-5.

pp. 18-19

• SuJ 74: John Suckling, Sonnet I (‘Do'st see how unregarded now’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published in Fragmenta Aurea (London, 1646)and in The Academy of Complements (London, 1646). Clayton, pp. 47-8.

p. 21

• CwT 1065: Thomas Carew, To his jealous Mistris (‘Admit (thou darling of mine eyes)’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 110.

pp. 28-9

• WoH 133: Sir Henry Wotton, On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia (‘You meaner beauties of the night’)

Copy, untitled.

First published (in a musical setting) in Michael East, Sixt Set of Bookes (London, 1624). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), p. 518. Hannah (1845), pp. 12-15. Some texts of this poem discussed in J.B. Leishman, ‘“You Meaner Beauties of the Night” A Study in Transmission and Transmogrification’, The Library, 4th Ser. 26 (1945-6), 99-121. Some musical versions edited in English Songs 1625-1660, ed. Ian Spink, Musica Britannica XXXIII (London, 1971), Nos. 66, 122.

pp. 34-7

• RaW 7: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘As you came from the holy land’

Copy.

First published in Thomas Deloney, The Garland of Good-Will (London, 1596? first extant edition 1628). Latham, pp. 22-3. Rudick, No. 13, pp. 16-17.

pp. 46-7

• GrJ 37.9: John Grange, ‘Blind beauty! If it be a loss’

Copy.

First published in Poems (1660), pp. 67-9, headed ‘Sonnet. P.’. Listed in Krueger's Appendix I: ‘Spurious Poems in the 1660 Edition’ as probably by John Grange.

p. 49

• B&F 153: Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, The Nice Valour, III, iii, 36-4. Song (‘Hence, all you vain delights’)

Copy.

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

p. 54

• SuJ 34: John Suckling, The constant Lover (‘Out upon it, I have lov'd’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS collated in Clayton.

First published, untitled, in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 55-6.

p. 55

• SuJ 15: John Suckling, The Answer (‘Say, but did you love so long?’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Clayton.

See SuJ 11-15.

pp. 58-9

• LoR 46: Richard Lovelace, To Althea, From Prison. Song (‘When Love with unconfined wings’)

Copy, untitled, here beginning ‘When Loue wth unconfined wrinkls’.

First published in Lucasta (London, 1649). Wilkinson (1925), II, 70-1. (1930), pp. 78-9. Thomas Clayton, ‘Some Versions, Texts, and Readings of “To Althea, from Prison”’, PBSA, 68 (1974), 225-35. A musical setting by John Wilson published in Select Ayres and Dialogues (London, 1659).

p. 63

• KiH 525: Henry King, Sic Vita (‘Like to the Falling of a Starr’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems by Francis Beaumont (London, 1640). Poems (1657). Crum, pp. 148-9.

p. 63

• CwT 1181: Thomas Carew, Truce in Love entreated (‘No more, blind God, for see my heart’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 41.

p. 65

• RaW 186.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, Like to a Hermite poore (‘Like to a Hermite poore in place obscure’)

Copy.

First published in Brittons Bowre of Delights (London, 1591). Latham, pp. 11-12. Rudick, Nos 57A and 57B (two versions, pp. 135-6).

p. 65b [i.e. 65 bis]

• JnB 33: Ben Jonson, A Celebration of Charis in ten Lyrick Peeces. 4. Her Triumph (‘See the Chariot at hand here of Love’)

Copy of lines 21-30, here beginning ‘Have you seen y^e white lilly grow’.

p. 66

• CwT 903: Thomas Carew, Song. Murdring beautie (‘Ile gaze no more on her bewitching face’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1640) and in Wits Recreations (London, 1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

p. 66

• KiH 600: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee no more how faire shee is’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1657). Crum, p. 158.

p. 67

• StW 964: William Strode, A Song of Capps (‘The witt hath long beholding bin’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Wits Interpreter (London, 1655). Dobell, pp. 104-7. Forey, pp. 47-51.

pp. 75a^r-6r

• JnB 653.2: Ben Jonson, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Song (‘Cock-Lorell would needes haue the Diuell his guest’)

Copy, untitled.

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

pp. 89-91

• StW 1188: William Strode, The Townes new teacher (‘With Face and Fashion to bee knowne’)

Copy, headed ‘To y^e tune of y^e old Country and the queen’.

First published in Wit and Drollery (London, 1656). Forey, pp. 167-9.

p. 104

• SuJ 133: John Suckling, Song (‘I prethee send me back my heart’)

Copy, untitled.

This MS recorded in Clayton.

First published, in a musical setting by Henry Lawes (1592-1662), in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues in Three Bookes (London, 1653). Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 89-90.

Probably written by Henry Hughes.

p. 105

• FeO 64: Owen Felltham, This ensuing Copy the late Printer hath been pleased to honour, by mistaking it among those of the most ingenious and too early lost, Sir John Suckling (‘When, dearest, I but think on thee’)

Copy, untitled.

Fitst published in The Last Remains of S^r John Suckling (London, 1659), pp. 32-3. Lusoria (London, 1661). Pebworth & Summers, pp. 48-9.

pp. 106-7

• HrE 6: Edward, Lord Herbert of Cherbury, Ditty (‘If you refuse me once, and think again’)

Copy, transcribed from The Last Remains of S^r John Suckling (1659).

This MS recorded in The Works of Sir John Suckling: The Non-Dramatic Works, ed. Thomas Clayton (Oxford, 1971), p. 98.

Stanzas 1-3 first published (prefixed to verses by Sir Robert Ayton) in The Last Remains of S^r John Suckling (London, 1659). First published complete in Occasional Verses (1666). Moore Smith, pp. 31-2.

p. 125

• RnT 299: Thomas Randolph, A Song (‘Musick thou Queene of soules, get up and string’)

Copy, untitled.

First published in Poems (1638). Thorn-Drury, p. 87.

p. 128

• DaW 106.8: Sir William Davenant, The Rivals, V. Song (‘My lodging it is on the Cold ground’)

Copy.

Dramatic Works, V, 282. Gibbs, p. 267.

p. 138

• SeC 17.5: Sir Charles Sedley, The Indifference (‘Thanks, fair Vrania. to your Scorn’)

Copy.

First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). The Works of the Honourable Sir Charles Sedley, Ba^t (2 vols, London, 1722), I, 69-70. Sola Pinto, I, 29-30.

pp. 141-2

• SeC 72: Sir Charles Sedley, To Cloris (‘Cloris, I cannot say your Eyes’)

Copy of an untitled version, here beginning ‘Chloris I dare not say yr eyes’ and with two additional stanzas.

First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 8.

pp. 144-5

• SeC 106.8: Sir Charles Sedley, A Song (‘Prithee tell me, faithless Swain’)

Copy, headed ‘A Pastorall dialogue’ and here beginning ‘Tell me prithee faithles swain’.

p. 148

• ShJ 170: 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, untitled.

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

p. 152

• DrJ 261.5: John Dryden, An Evening's Love: or The Mock Astrologer, Act II, scene i, lines 499-514. Song (‘After the pangs of a desperate Lover’)

Copy of the song, untitled.

First published in London, 1671. California, X (1970), pp. 195-314 (p. 245). Kinsley, I, 125. Hammond, I, 221-2. This song first published in Merry Drollery, Complete (London, 1670).

pp. 153-4

• DrJ 264: John Dryden, An Evening's Love: or The Mock Astrologer, Act IV, scene i, lines 47-70. Song (‘Calm was the Even, and cleer was the Skie’)

Copy.

California, X, 270-1. Kinsley, I, 126. Hammond, I, 222-3.

pp. 154-5

• DrJ 267.3: John Dryden, An Evening's Love: or The Mock Astrologer, Act V, scene i, lines 504-33. Song (‘Celimena, of my heart’)

Copy, headed ‘Dialoug’.

California, X, 310-11. Kinsley, I, 126-7. Hammond, I, 223-4.

Osborn MS b 218

A quarto verse miscellany, in a stylish professional hand, with some rubricated headings, 58 pages, in contemporary calf, now disbound. c.1690s.

Formerly ‘Chest II, No. 36’.

p. 17

• SeC 9: Sir Charles Sedley, Constancy (‘Fear not, my Dear, a Flame can never dye’)

Copy, with an additional four lines.

First published in A Collection of Poems (London, 1672). Miscellaneous Works (London, 1702). Sola Pinto, I, 11.

p. 21

• EtG 88: Sir George Etherege, To a Lady Who Fled the Sight of Him (‘If I my Celia could persuade’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, p. 5.

p. 23

• EtG 91: Sir George Etherege, To a Very Young Lady (‘Sweetest bud of beauty, may’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in The New Academy of Complements (London, 1669). Thorpe, p. 1.

pp. 42-3

• EtG 20: Sir George Etherege, The Imperfect Enjoyment (‘After a pretty amorous discourse’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Thorpe.

First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions (London, 1672). Thorpe, pp. 7-8.

pp. 53-5

• WhA 18: Anne Wharton, The Lamentations of Jeremiah (‘How doth the Mournfull Widow'd City bow?’)

Copy.

This MS collated in Greer & Hastings.

First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 224-33. Greer & Hastings, No. 10, pp. 145-62.

Osborn MS b 219

A quarto miscellany of familiar epistles and poems on affairs of state, in a professional hand, 36 pages, in light brown wrappers. Late 17th century.

Formerly Chest II, No. 51.

pp. 33-6

• DoC 71: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, The Duel (‘Of Clineas' and Dametas' sharper fight’)

Copy, headed ‘The Quarrell’.

This MS collated in Harris.

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

Osborn MS b 220

Copy in two hands, untitled, on 108 quarto pages (less excised leaves), in 19th-century brown calf gilt. In two hands, partly in double columns, probably transcribed from the first edition (with some differences of arrangement) but conceivably a copy of an earlier MS version. [After 1676].

FuT 6.8: Thomas Fuller, The Holy State

Owned (before 1891) by Frederick Buckle, with his interleaved notes and cuttings throughout.

This MS recorded in Bailey, pp. 229-30 (however, it does not date from c.1642-8 or derive from the Little Gidding community, as Bailey implies). This MS probably that referred to (mistakenly) as a MS of Fuller's Worthies in a note by ‘F.B.’ in Long Ago: A Monthly Journal of Popular Antiquities, No. 1 (January 1873), p. 19.

First published in London, 1642. Edited by M.G. Walten, 2 vols (New York, 1938).

Osborn MS b 225

A quarto notebook of verse and prose, in English and Latin, written from both ends, 192 pages (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf. Owned and probably compiled by Jonathan Rashleighe (d.1702) of Oxford. c.1660.

p. 130

• CwT 853: Thomas Carew, Song. Conquest by flight (‘Ladyes, flye from Love's smooth tale’)

Copy, headed ‘Conquest by flight. m^r Carew p: 23’.

p. 130

• CwT 1053: Thomas Carew, To her in absence. A Ship (‘Tost in a troubled sea of griefes, I floate’)

Copy, headed ‘To his Mistris in Absence. pag. 37 A Ship’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 23.

p. 131

• CwT 1219: Thomas Carew, Vpon some alterations in my Mistresse, after my departure into France (‘Oh gentle Love, doe not forsake the guide’)

Copy, with a reference to ‘pag: 39’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 24-5.

p. 131

• CwT 1154: Thomas Carew, To T.H. a Lady resembling my Mistresse (‘Fayre copie of my Celia's face’)

Copy, headed ‘To A Lady resembling his mistris. pag: 43’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 26-7.

p. 132

• CwT 1210: Thomas Carew, Vpon a Ribband (‘This silken wreath, which circles in mine arme’)

Copy, with a reference to ‘pag: 48’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 29.

p. 132

• CwT 428: Thomas Carew, A Looking-Glasse (‘That flattring Glasse, whose smooth face weares’)

Copy, with a reference to ‘pa: 30’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 19.

p. 133

• CwT 302: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

p. 133

• CwT 344: Thomas Carew, Griefe ingrost (‘Wherefore doe thy sad numbers flow’)

Copy, with a reference to ‘pag: 76’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 44-5. The eight-lline version first published in Hazlitt (1870), p. 7, and reprinted in Dunlap. p. 234.

p. 134

• CwT 95: Thomas Carew, The Comparison (‘Dearest thy tresses are not threads of gold’)

Copy, with a reference to ‘pag: 168’.

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

Osborn MS b 229

A folio volume of parliamentary speeches for 1640-1, with related materials, in professional hands, 162 leaves (including a few blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1641.

Title-page inscribed ‘Vni Amcotts’ and the motto ‘Litera scripta manent’.

pp. [50-72]

• RuB 177: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640

Copy.

Speech (variously dated 4, 7, 9 and 10 November 1640) beginning ‘We are here assembled to do God's business and the King's...’. First published in The Speeches of S^r. Benjamin Rudyer in the high Court of Parliament (London, 1641), pp. 1-10. Manning, pp. 159-65.

Osborn MS b 233

A folio volume of poems and a dramatic work by Jane and Elizabeth Cavendish (chiefly the former), a formal anthology in the stylish italic hand of Sir William Cavendish's secretary John Rolleston (1587?-1681), of Sokeholme, Nottinghamshire, with a few alterations, 77 pages (plus blanks), in contemporary black morocco gilt. With a dedication to her father, Sir William Cavendish, Marquess of Newcastle, subscribed ‘Your Lo^pps most obliged obedient Daughter Jane Cauendysshe’ and (p. 77) an anonymous ten-line commendatory poem, headed ‘Vpon the right honourable the Lady Jane Cauendish her booke of uerses’ (beginning ‘Madame at first I scarsely could beleiue’) added later. c.1640s.

Inscribed (p. 1) ‘Tho Hogg’. Emily Driscoll, sale catalogue No. 13 (1951).

Facsimile of p. 1 (Jane Cavendish's epistle to her father) and of p. 77 (the commendatory poem to Jane Cavendish) in Travitsky, Subordination, pp. 57 and 59.

p. 3

• C&E 23: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The Greate Example / To my Lord my ffather the Marquess of Newcastle (‘My Lord / You are the Academy of all truth’)

p. 3

• C&E 154: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Passions L^re to my Lord my Father (‘My Lord, it is your absence makes each see’)

Copy.

p. 4

• C&E 122: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete brother Charles (‘Brother / Your face the quintecence of modestie’)

Copy.

p. 4

• C&E 124: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete brother Henry (‘Brother / your selfe the onely peece of natures pride’)

Copy.

p. 4

• C&E 110: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Lord my ffather the Marquess of Newcastle (‘My Lord / Your face is a sweete molde for modestie’)

Copy.

p. 5

• C&E 114: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Noble Vncle S^r Charles Cauendish Knight (‘Vncle / Your life's the true Example of a Saint’)

Copy.

p. 5

• C&E 146: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Passions Contemplation (‘Ther's nothing more afflicts my greiued soule’)

Copy.

p. 6

• C&E 148: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Passions Contemplation (‘The torments I receaue is thought of mind’)

Copy.

p. 6

• C&E 183: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The trueth of Pensell (‘My Lord your Picture speakes you this to bee’)

Copy.

p. 7

• C&E 176: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A Songe in answeare to yo^r Lo^ps: Sayter (‘Sayter I thanke you for your declaration’)

Copy.

p. 8

• C&E 75: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On an Acquaintance (‘When looke on you then each should truely name’)

Copy.

p. 8

• C&E 65: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a Noble Lady (‘Thy selfe a sacred Church, soe each should look’)

Copy.

p. 8

• C&E 13: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The Cure (‘I'll tell thee what's the cure of Jealousy’)

Copy.

p. 9

• C&E 63: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a Noble Lady (‘Thou sent a message Late’)

Copy.

p. 9

• C&E 150: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Passions delate (‘Greife sadnes sounds what shall thee take’)

Copy.

p. 9

• C&E 89: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On his Highnes the Prince of Wales (‘Sir your lookes a Conqueror doth presage’)

Copy.

p. 10

• C&E 164: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The reuiue (‘Greifes passion Child, this night had dyed’)

Copy.

p. 10

• C&E 55: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a false reporte of y^r Lo^ps: landinge (‘Fye false Scout doe you growe madd’)

Copy.

p. 11

• C&E 94: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On his most sacred Mat^ie: (‘Most sacred S^r and best of humane race’)

Copy.

p. 11

• C&E 87: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On hir most sacred Ma^tie: (‘When Mary's named, what life it giues’)

Copy.

p. 11

• C&E 90: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On his Highnes the Prince of Wales (‘Sir your lookes a Conqueror doth presage’)

Copy.

p. 12

• C&E 174: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A Songe (‘Our Eyes fix'd lookeing on thee’)

Copy.

p. 12

• C&E 126: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete Nephew Henry Harpur (‘The lookes sweete boy as if thou wouldest bee’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Thou lookes sweet boy, as if thou wouldest bee’.

p. 13

• C&E 128: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete Sister Brackley (‘Sister / Thour't quinticence of beauty, goodnes, truth’)

Copy.

p. 13

• C&E 132: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete Sister Fraunces (‘Sister / Among'st our Sex sweete Pursland pure you are’)

Copy.

p. 13

• C&E 156: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The Peart one, or otherwise, my Sister Brackley (‘Sister / Thou art soe pritty, younge, and witty’)

Copy.

p. 14

• C&E 92: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On hir sacred Ma^tie: (‘Madam / Your lookes are courage mixt w^th such sweetnes’)

Copy.

p. 14

• C&E 36: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Loues Torture (‘Ther's noe such Hell as is a torter'd mind’)

Copy.

p. 14

• C&E 160: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The quinticence of Cordiall (‘Sister/ Wer't not for you I knew not how to liue’)

Copy.

p. 15

• C&E 172: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A Songe (‘Mayde, wife, or widow w^ch beares the graue stile’)

Copy.

p. 16

• C&E 5: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, An answeare to the verses M^r Carey made to the La: Carlile (‘What doe your thoughts begin in loue to stray’)

Copy.

p. 16

• C&E 140: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, on the least finger of hir hand (‘When on thy little Finger looke’)

Copy, here beginning ‘On thy litle Finger looke’.

p. 17

• C&E 179: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Thankes Lre (‘My Lord / Your present to mee was soe iustly kind’)

Copy.

p. 17

• C&E 152: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Passions inuitation (‘For Gods sake come away & land’)

Copy.

p. 18

• C&E 3: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, An answeare to my Lady Alice Edgertons Songe Of I prithy send mee back my Hart (‘I cannot send you back my hart’)

Copy.

p. 18

• C&E 51: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a Chamber=mayde (‘Thou louely Bess, that art soe plumpe & young’)

Copy, here beginning ‘The louely Bess that art soe plumpe and young’.

p. 19

• C&E 77: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On an Acquaintance (‘You did appeare as if that Black’)

Copy.

p. 19

• C&E 69: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On an Acquaintance (‘Each in your face this truely now doe see’)

Copy.

p. 19

• C&E 73: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On an Acquaintance (‘Thou were the prittest thinge that e'r I saw’)

Copy.

p. 19

• C&E 71: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On an Acquaintance (‘Thou art a free good soule of Innocence’)

Copy.

p. 20

• C&E 59: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, on a Noble Lady (‘Madam, I pray 'giue leaue in this’)

Copy.

last word?

p. 20

• C&E 61: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a Noble Lady (‘Madam you are soe truely noble & soe good’)

Copy.

p. 20

• C&E 57: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a Noble Lady (‘Madam, and friend, for trueth must call you soe’)

Copy.

p. 21

• C&E 142: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On the Lord Viscount Brackley (‘My Lord / You are a Husband iust as one would wishe’)

Copy.

p. 21

• C&E 130: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete Sister Brackley (‘Sister / Thy natures onely fitt for Cæsars wife’)

Copy.

p. 22

• C&E 38: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Loues Vniuerse (‘The vniuers mee thinkes I see’)

Copy.

p. 22

• C&E 7: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The captiue Buriall (‘My captiue soule, it selfe bemones’)

Copy.

p. 23

• C&E 168: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A Songe (‘I doe desire to liue’)

Copy.

p. 23

• C&E 19: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Faireings Munckey (‘The Faireinge shewed thy selfe to bee’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Thy Fareing showed thy selfe to bee’.

p. 24

• C&E 116: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Sister Brackleys Picture (‘Looke on this Picture where you'l see’)

Copy.

p. 24

• C&E 120: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Sister Fraunces Picture (‘Nature bids you on this Picture veiw’)

Copy.

p. 24

• C&E 67: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a worthy freind (‘Those that would chuse a patterne for a wife’)

Copy.

p. 25

• C&E 9: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The Carecter (‘Your seruants now them selues to saue’)

Copy.

p. 26

• C&E 170: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A Songe (‘I would loues language tell but soe’)

Copy.

p. 26

• C&E 187: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, ‘Your truely full of seruice this is true’

Copy.

p. 27

• C&E 33: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Lifes weather Glass (‘The Deuill take mee if I can tell what’)

Copy.

p. 27

• C&E 11: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The cautious man, or wits wonder (‘I wonder as those people that doe thinke’)

Copy.

p. 28

• C&E 118: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Sister Brackley (‘May all new yeares and happines, bee soe’)

Copy.

p. 28

• C&E 79: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On an Honourable Lady (‘Madam giue leaue to prayse you though you are’)

Copy.

p. 28

• C&E 53: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On a Chambermayde (‘Thy presence Mary, I with trueth confess’)

Copy.

p. 29

• C&E 162: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A recruted ioj vpon a Lre from your Lo^pp: (‘This happy Tuesday since that now I see’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Thou happy Tuesday since that now I see’.

p. 30

• C&E 112: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Noble Grandfather S^r Charles Cauendysh (‘Sir / Your memory a Cronacle would make’)

Copy.

p. 30

• C&E 138: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, on the Lady Ogle my deare Grandmother (‘My Grandmother the onely peece of good’)

Copy.

p. 31

• C&E 96: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my deare mother the Countess of Newcastle (‘I had a mother which to speake was such’)

Copy.

p. 31

• C&E 21: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, ‘Foure Brthers & a Sister such I had’

Copy.

p. 32

• C&E 134: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my sweete Sister the Lady Harpur (‘A sister once I had which alwayes saw’)

Copy.

p. 32

• C&E 104: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Grandmother the Lady Corbett (‘When looke on you your face did teach one wealth’)

Copy.

p. 32

• C&E 98: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my good & true freind M^r Henry Ogle (‘Seruant, noe, freind thou wert & truely soe’)

Copy.

p. 33

• C&E 83: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, on Gilbert Earle of Shrewsbury (‘Thou wert the onely peece of noble trueth’)

Copy.

p. 33

• C&E 106: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my hon^ble: Aunt Mary Countes of Shrewsbury (‘Madam / Your Courage, witt, & judgment this is true’)

Copy.

p. 34

• C&E 100: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my good Aunt Jane Countes of Shrewsbury (‘Madam / Your blessed selfe was euen pure vertues fame’)

Copy.

p. 34

• C&E 102: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Grandfather M^r Basset (‘Sir / A gallant man you were & Courtier true’)

Copy.

p. 35

• C&E 108: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On my Hon^ble: Grandmother Elizabeth Countes of Shrewsbury (‘Madam / You were the very Magazine of rich’)

Copy.

p. 36

• C&E 181: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, To Heauen or a confession to God (‘I doe confess great God my sinns are great’)

Copy.

p. 37

• C&E 81: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On Christmas day to God (‘This day a happy day for all on earth’)

Copy.

p. 37

• C&E 85: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On good Fryday (‘The remembring of this day appeareth soe’)

Copy.

p. 38

• C&E 144: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, On the .30^th. of June to God (‘This day I will my thankes sure now decline’)

Copy, here beginning ‘This day I will my thankes sure now declare’.

p. 39

• C&E 41: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, The minds Saluation (‘This day I did in perspectiue one veiw’)

Copy.

p. 39

• C&E 26: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Hopes preparation (‘Now I'm prepared against my Lord doth come’)

Copy.

p. 40

• C&E 49: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, ‘Now Lord I begg of thee before I pray’

Copy.

p. 40

• C&E 185: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, ‘When I in prayer, pray God looke on mee’

Copy.

p. 41

• C&E 31: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, ‘I haue now receiu'd thy Sacrament, soe fynd’

Copy.

p. 41

• C&E 29: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, ‘I cannot speake, nor looke, nor nothing say’

Copy.

p. 43

• C&E 43: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, ‘My Lord / After the deuty of a Verse’

Copy, subscribed ‘Your Lo^pps: most affectionate, and obedient Daughter Jane Cauendyshe’.

p. 44

• C&E 46: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, ‘My Lord / This Pastorall could not owne weake’

Copy, subscribed ‘Your Lo^pps: most affectionate & obliged Daughter Elizabeth Brackley’.

pp. 46-76

• C&E 195: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, A Pastorall

Copy.

A series of antemasques, songs and speaches. Unpublished.

p. 76

• C&E 39: Jane Cheyne and Elizabeth Egerton, Loues Vniuerse (‘The vniuers mee thinkes I see’)

Copy, untitled.

Osborn MS b 245

An octavo volume of sermons by Stephen Machin, with some verses at the end, in a single small hand (Machin's?), 380 pages, in contemporary calf. Late 17th century.

Inscribed inside the front cover ‘John Machin 1708. Son to the Revd. M^r Stephen Machin late Rector of Margate in Kent, Author of these sermons & of volums more: who dyed Novem: 12. 1708’.

last page

• HrG 228: George Herbert, The Rose (‘Presse me not to take more pleasure’)

Copy of a version of the second stanza, here beginning ‘Sure there is no pleasure here’, subscribed ‘Herb^t Rose’.

This MS not recorded in Hutchinson.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 177-8.

inside back cover

• HrG 251: George Herbert, Submission (‘But that thou art my wisdome, Lord’)

Copy of lines 1-4, 13-16, subscribed ‘Herberts Submission’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 95.

inside back cover

• HrG 34: George Herbert, The Call (‘Come, my Way, my Truth, my Life’)

Copy of lines 1-4, 9-12, subscribed ‘Call’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, p. 156.

inside back cover

• HrG 72: George Herbert, The Crosse (‘What is this strange and uncouth thing?’)

Copy of lines 19-24, here beginning ‘Alas things sort not to my will’, subscribed ‘Cross’.

First published in The Temple (1633). Hutchinson, pp. 164-5.

Osborne MS b 256

A small quarto commonplace book, of verse and prose, c.120 pages. Late 17th-early 18th century.

pp. [250-1]

• BcF 54.115: Francis Bacon, Upon the Death of the Duke of Richmond and Lennox (‘Are all diseases dead? or will death say’)

Copy.

First published in William Camden, Remaines (London, 1637), p. 400. For a contemporary attribution to Bacon see BcF 54.117.

Osborn MS b 259

A quarto volume of devotional works, 145 pages. c.1679.

p. 82

• CrR 229: Richard Crashaw, A Song (‘Lord, when the sense of thy sweet grace’)

Copy.

First published in Steps to the Temple, 2nd edition (London, 1648). Carmen Deo Nostro (Paris, 1652). Martin, p. 327.

Osborn MS b 274

A MS abridgement, predominantly in a single hand, with additions in a subsequent hand, dated 23-30 March 1668, on 42 folio leaves (rectos only), in later boards. Headed ‘a Short epitomy of the first Booke of Martyrs’, with references to ‘Halsted in Kent’ and, on the last page, to an incident in Oxford. March 1668.

FxJ 1.17: John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).

Osborn MS b 297

A quarto miscellany of political material, principally of parliamentary speeches and letters for 1640-1, neatly written in a rounded hand, 310 pages, in 17th-century calf. Mid-17th century.

Formerly Osborn Collection, Box 45, 19.

item 5

• SuJ 153.2: John Suckling, An Answer to a Gentleman in Norfolk that sent to enquire after the Scotish business

Copy, subscribed ‘A. C.’, on two pages.

First published in Last Remains (London, 1659). Clayton, pp. 142-4.

item 7

• CoR 768.5: Richard Corbett, A speech made by Doctor Corbet Bpp of Norwich to the Clergie of his Diocesse about theire Benevolence for the repayre of S^t Paules Church London [29 April] Anno domini 1634

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbett B^p. of Norwich his speech for Paules’ and subscribed ‘Deliuer'd att Norwich to the Clergye at a Synode theie held Apr: i9^th. 1634’, on four pages.

Sermon, beginning ‘My worthy freinds & brethren of the Clergy, I did not send for you before, though I had a commission...’, first published in James Peller Malcolm, Londinium Redivivum, 4 vols (London, 1802-7), II (1803), 77-80. Edited (with omissions) in Gilchrist, pp. xli-xlviii.

item 27

• RuB 176: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 November 1640

Copy, on four pages.

item 60

• RuB 199: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?June 1641

Copy, headed ‘S^r Beniamin Rudyerds Speach concerning Bisho^ps Deanes & Chapters, att a Comittee of the whole House’, undated, on three pages.

Speech beginning ‘We are now upon a very great business, so great indeed as it requires our soundest and saddest consideration...’. Manning, pp. 188-92.

item 94

• WaE 796.5: Edmund Waller, Speech in the House of Commons, 22 April 1640

Copy, headed ‘M^r Wallers Speech in the Comons house of Parl^t shewing that Parl^ts best aduance y^e kinges affaires, & property & freedome of y^e Subiect, support Religion, and obedience to the King’.

Recorded in Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), p. 307.

A speech beginning ‘I will use no preface, as they do who prepare men to something to which they would persuade them...’ First published in two variant editions, as A Worthy Speech Made in the house of commons this present Parliament 1641 and as An Honorable and Learned Speech made by Mr Waller in Parliament respectively (both London, 1641). In Proceedings of the Short Parliament of 1640 (1977), pp. 306-8. It is doubted whether Waller actually delivered this speech in Parliament, though ‘He may have prepared and circulated the speech in manuscript to impress contemporaries’.

item 96

• RuB 200: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, July 1641

Copy, headed ‘S^r Ben: Rudyards first speech concerning the Palatinate’, undated, on one page.

Speech beginning ‘This great affair of the Palatinate concerns this kingdom in nature, in honour, in reason of state, in religion...’. Manning, pp. 208-10.

item 97

• RuB 201: Sir Benjamin Rudyerd, Speech in the House of Commons, ?7 July 1641

Copy, headed ‘S^r Ben: Rudyards second Speech of the Palatinate at a Comittee of the whole house’, undated, on one page.

Speech beginning ‘If we may do the Prince Elector good, by our good word, I hope we shall not stick to afford it him...’. Manning, pp. 210-11.

item 98

• WaE 797.7: Edmund Waller, Speech in Parliament, at a Conference of both Houses in the Painted Chamber, July 6, 1641, upon delivering the Impeachment against Mr. Justice Crawley

Copy, headed ‘M^r Wallers Speech in Parl^t at a conference of both Houses in the painted Chamber 6. Julj. i641’.

Speech beginning ‘My Lords, I am commanded by the House of Commons to present you with these articles against Mr Justice Crawley...’. First published in London.1641. The Works of Edmund Waller, Esqr (London, 1772), p. 208 et seq..

Osborn MS b 302

Autograph letter signed by Dryden, to William Walsh, [1691?]. 1691.

*DrJ 316: John Dryden, Letter(s)

Sotheby's, 17 December 1963, lot 466, to Dobell.

Ward, Letter 17, edited from a text in The Poetical Works of John Dryden, ed. Robert Bell (London, 1854), I, 68. Also privately printed in Letter of John Dryden to William Walsh from the original at Canons Ashby; presented to the Rev. Sir Henry Dryden, by Samuel Butler, Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry (1833), various exempla of which now accompany the original letter (see Osborn, p. 287) and are also in the Northamptonshire Record Office, ZA 488.

Osborn MS b 308

8°, 270 pages (in present imperfect state); volume of prose meditations (376) and poems (14) by Thomas Traherne, in numbered sections (‘centuries’ of ‘meditations’), in fair copy in the italic hand of an unidentified amanuensis, with occasional autograph passages and insertions by Traherne himself (notably in Century II, meditations 31 [whole meditation], 92, and 93; Century III, meditations 9, 13, 38 and 50); the volume very imperfect; originally comprising apparently 468 meditations, but now beginning with the end of meditation 81 through to most of meditation 95 and then the end of meditation 100 in the first ‘century’ (pp. [45-61] [ff. 1-7]), followed by ‘Select Meditatins [sic] The Second Century’ (pp. 61-98 [ff. 7-25v]) and ‘Select Meditations The Third Century’ (pp. 99-176 [ff. 26-62v]), all three centuries with missing and mutilated portions, and then ‘Select Meditations The fforth Century’, meditations 1-68 only (pp., 177-220 [ff. 26-62v]); pp. 220 bis-8 blank; pp. 229-30 containing ‘A Prayer for Ash Wednesday’ and pp. 231-2 ‘A Meditation’, both anonymous and added later in another, unidentified, cursive hand (also responsible for an addition on p. 166); pp. 233-45 blank; pp. 246-64 occupied by an untitled discussion of the nature of ‘y^e soul’ addressed to an unnamed person, and pp. 266-70 by an untitled disquisition on ‘Loue to God & man’, both in the hand of the original amanuensis; the pages originally numbered [45] to 219 (some now missing), then continued up to 270 probably in the second unidentified hand. c.1660-5.

There is no evidence that this MS is dedicated to a lady (Osborn misread ‘Know ledg’, in Century I, meditation 94, as ‘know lady’). See also TrT Δ 3 and further above.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as ‘Select Meditations’, TrT Δ 8. Select passages published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, ‘Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings’, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20. Discussed in James M. Osborn, ‘A New Traherne Manuscript’, TLS (8 October 1964), p. 928; in Louis L. Martz, The Paradise Within: Studies in Vaughan, Traherne and Milton (New Haven 1964), Appendix, pp. 207-11; and in Sharon Seelig, ‘The Origins of Ecstasy: Traherne's Select Meditations’, ELR, 9 (1979), 419-31. Edited in full, as Select Meditations, by Julia Smith (Manchester, 1997), with a facsimile page as frontispiece.

p. 51 [f. 4]

• TrT 155: Thomas Traherne, ‘If after all Endeavors made’

Century I, meditation 89.

First published in Julia Smith and Anne Ridler, ‘Thomas Traherne (1637?-1674) Some Extracts from the Unpublished Writings’, P.N. Review, 18, No. 5 (May/June 1992), 15-20 (p. 18).

pp. 51-3 [ff. 4-5]

• TrT 129: Thomas Traherne, ‘Drie Barren Arguments whereby we strive’

Century I, meditation 90.

Unpublished.

p. 54 [f. 5v]

• TrT 182: Thomas Traherne, ‘Nor haue I any leasure’

Century I, meditation 92.

Unpublished.

p. 61 [f. 7]

• TrT 230: Thomas Traherne, ‘Words are but feeble Barren Things’

Copy of four lines at the end of the First Century [meditation 100], probably lacking the beginning on preceding leaves now excised from the MS.

Unpublished.

pp. 64-6 [ff. 8v-9v]

• TrT 222: Thomas Traherne, Thy Turtle Doues O Lord to Dragons turn!

Century II, meditation 17.

Unpublished.

p. 101 [f. 27]

• TrT 150: Thomas Traherne, ‘He Apprehends it not with any Pleasure’

Century III, meditation 6.

Unpublished.

p. 118 [f. 35v]

• TrT 181: Thomas Traherne, ‘No Tongue can Tell w^t Treasure[s] are in Store’

Century III, meditation 27.

Unpublished.

pp. 145-6 [f. 47r-v]

• TrT 53: Thomas Traherne, ‘And now my Soul Enjoy thy Rest’

Century III, meditation 58.

Unpublished.

pp. 174-5 [ff. 61v-2]

• TrT 175: Thomas Traherne, ‘My Growth is strange! at First, I onely knew’

Century III, meditation 99.

Unpublished.

p. 187 [f. 68]

• TrT 183: Thomas Traherne, ‘O Sing, o Soar, o faint, o pant & Breath!’

Century IV, meditation 15.

Unpublished.

p. 213 [f. 81]

• TrT 38: Thomas Traherne, ‘All Musick, Sawces, Feasts, Delights and Pleasures’

Century IV, meditation 60.

First published in Christian Ethicks (London, 1675). Margoliouth II, 186.

p. 216 [f. 82v]

• TrT 144: Thomas Traherne, ‘ffarewell ye Rarities!’

Century IV, meditation 65.

Unpublished.

pp. 219-20 [ff. 84r-v]

• TrT 216: Thomas Traherne, ‘The Living waters y^t revive’

Century IV, meditation 68.

Unpublished.

p. 220 [f. 84v]

• TrT 57: Thomas Traherne, Another (‘Humility! O Radiant Queen’)

Copy, imperfect, Century IV, meditation 68.

Unpublished.

Osborn MS b 327

An octavo verse miscellany, in a non-professional hand, with subsequent index, 34 leaves (plus numerous blanks), in contemporary calf gilt. Late 17th century.

Bookplates of The Rt. Hon. John, Lord Brownlowe, Baron Charleville and Viscount Tyrconnel and of Belton House, Lincolnshire (seat of the Earls Brownlow). and possibly once owned by Sir John Brownlow, third Baronet (1659-97). Myers sale catalogue No. 348 (1947), item 344.

Set of photocopies in British Library, RP 5106.

ff. 5r-9r

• DrJ 43.998: 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’.

ff. 9v-10r

• RoJ 604: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

Copy, subscribed ‘Rotchester’.

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.

ff. 11v-13r

• RoJ 270: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, On the Women about Town (‘Too long the wise Commons have been in debate’)

Copy, headed ‘A Satyr on women about Towne’.

First published in Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1704). Vieth, pp. 46-7. Walker, pp. 68-9, as ‘Lampoone’. Love, p. 42, as ‘Lampoone by the Earle of Rochester’.

ff. 29r-31r

• MaA 159.5: Andrew Marvell, A Dialogue between the Two Horses (‘Wee read in profane and Sacred records’)

Copy, headed ‘A Dialogue Betweene the 2 Statues’.

First published in The Second Part of the Collection of Poems on Affairs of State (London, 1689). Margoliouth, I, 208-13, as ‘probably Marvell's’. POAS, I, 274-83, as anonymous. Rejected from the canon by Lord.

Osborn MS b 331

A quarto volume of political material, including correspondence between Henry Bennett and the Duke of Ormonde in 1663, chiefly in one hand, notes dated 1677 in another hand, 344 pages (including blanks), in contemporary vellum. c.1677.

pp. 1-304

• ClE 40.8: Edward Hyde, First Earl of Clarendon, A shorte view of the State and condicon of the kingdome of Ireland from the year 1640 to this tyme

Copy.

First published in Dublin, 1719-20. Published in London, 1720. Incorporated into the 1816, 1826 and 1849 editions of The History of the Rebellion. Reprinted as Vol. II of A Collection of Several Valuable Pieces of Clarendon (2 vols, London, 1727).

Osborn MS b 334

A quarto volume of works almost exclusively by Rochester, in a single professional hand up to p. 208, a second, less accomplished, hand taking over (after stubs of two extracted leaves) on pp. 209-31; with a title-page (p. 13), ‘Poem's / By The. Right Honourable/John Earle / of/Rochester’, 219 pages (plus 12 preliminary blank pages and 99 blank pages at the end), in half-russia over marbled boards. c.mid-1680s.

Bookplate of ‘The Reverend Sir George Lee. Baronet/Hartwell’. Inscribed ‘This Manuscript was found at Hartwell. March. 1829. J. Lee’ and another, ‘Bound M^r. Wilson. March 1829’ [i.e. the MS was in the library of the Rev. Sir George Lee, Bt (1767-1827), rector of Hartwell, etc., and of Dr John Lee, F.R.S. (1783-1866), at Hartwell House, near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire]. Later sold by Charles Sawyer (No. 1467 in a sale catalogue). The MS might possibly once have been owned by Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1635-91) of Hartwell, who was, incidentally, related by marriage to Sir John Suckling. His son was Sir Thomas Lee, Bt, M.P. (1661-1702). The MS was later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 18 December 1995 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 114, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

Cited in IELM, II.ii (1993) as the ‘Hartwell MS’: RoJ Δ 17. This MS on exhibition at the Bodleian, 16-28 June 1930, and recorded in Proceedings and Papers of the Oxford Bibliographical Society, 2 (1927-30), p. 213. Subsequently discussed, and parts printed, by Harold Love and Stephen Parks in ‘A reasonable satyr’, TLS, 1 August 1997, p. 13; in Harold Love, ‘A Tale of Two Manuscripts’, Yale University Library Gazette, 72 (1999), 41-53; and in his pamphlet A Newly Discovered Burlesque by John Wilmot Earl of Rochester (New Haven, 1997).

A complete microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7982.

pp. 15-146

• RoJ 644: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Valentinian, or Lucina's Rape

Copy of the complete play, entitled ‘Lucinas Rape Or The Tragedy of Valentinian’. A text of the masque introduced by Sir Francis Fane in Act III, headed ‘A Masque Representing Lucina's dream in the third Act of the Tragedie of Valentinian’ (beginning ‘Haile sacred Cynthia mutable and chast’), is on pp. 219-31.

This masque was published as ‘A Mask. Made at the Request of the late Earl of Rochester, for the Tragedy of Valentinian’, in Nahum Tate, Poems by Several Hands, and on Several Occasions (London, 1685), pp. 17-32.

The first recorded performance was at Court, 11 February 1683/4. First published in London, 1685. Collected Works of John Wilmot Earl of Rochester, ed. John Hayward (London, 1926), pp. 161-238. Love, pp. 133-231, as Lucina's Rape Or The Tragedy of Vallentinian, with (pp. 232-40) [A Mask for the Tragedy of Valentinian] [by Sir Francis Fane].

pp. 147-52

• RoJ 632.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To the Reader

Copy.

Edited from this MS in Love.

Love (1999), pp. 54-7.

p. 148

• RoJ 11.93: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion (‘The freeborn English Generous and wise’)

Copy of the 21-line version, cited in ‘To the Reader’.

Edited from this MS in Love, p. 55.

First published in The Genius of True English-men (London, 1680). Love, p. 55 (21-line version) and pp. 257-8 (30-line version). Also attributed to Robert Wolseley.

pp. 153-62

• RoJ 297: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr’.

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).

pp. 163-7

• RoJ 85: 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 Sollid from M:G: to O:B: Vpon their mutuall Poems’ and here beginning ‘Dear friend / It seemes this Towne does soe abound’.

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

pp. 167-9

• RoJ 251: 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, headed ‘A Poet who writ in the praise of Satyr’ and here beginning ‘To vex and torture thy Vnmeaning Braine’.

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. 169-72

• RoJ 492: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, To Love (‘O Love! how cold and slow to take my part’)

Copy, headed ‘Ovid: Amor: LiOsborn MS b =2^dus= Eleg: 9^m: O nunquam prome Satis indignate Cupido To Love’.

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

pp. 172-4

• RoJ 2: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Advice (‘All things submit themselves to your command’)

Copy.

Edited in part from this MS in Love.

First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions, By several Persons (London, 1672). Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 18-19. Walker, pp. 16-17. Love, pp. 8-9.

pp. 174-5

• RoJ 69: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Discovery (‘Celia, the faithful servant you disown’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Caelia that faithfull Servant you disowne’

First published in A Collection of Poems, Written upon several Occasions, By several Persons (London, 1672). Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 17-18. Walker, pp. 15-16. Love, pp. 10-11.

pp. 176-7

• RoJ 404: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Injurious charmer of my vanquished heart’)

Copy, headed ‘Dialogue / Nimph Sheppard’.

Edited in paer from this MS in Love.

First published, in a truncated version headed ‘The Expostulation’, in Female Poems On Several Occasions. Written by Ephelia, 2nd edition (London, 1682). Valentinian (London, 1685), Act IV, scene ii, p. 42. Vieth, p. 160. Walker, p. 28. Love, p. 16.

p. 177

• RoJ 104: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Grecian Kindness (‘The utmost grace the Greeks could show’)

Copy, untitled but numbered ‘(1)’.

Edited in part from this MS in Love.

First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, p. 53. Walker, p. 19. Love, p. 17.

pp. 178-82

• RoJ 45: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Dialogue between Strephon and Daphne (‘Prithee now, fond fool, give o'er’)

Copy, headed ‘Song / Strephon. Daphny’, set out as eighteen four-line stanzas and numbered in darker ink ‘1’.

Edited from this MS in Love.

First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 7-9. Walker, pp. 12-14. Love (two versions), pp. 300-1, as ‘[Epigram on Samuel Pordage]’, among ‘Impromptus’.

pp. 182-3

• RoJ 561: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon His Leaving His Mistress (‘Tis not that I am weary grown’)

Copy, headed ‘To Caelia for Inconstancy / Song’, numbered in a darker ink ‘2’.

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

p. 183

• RoJ 392: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Give me leave to rail at you’)

Copy of the second stanza only, headed ‘Song’ and here beginning ‘Kindnesse has resistlesse charmes’, numbered in a darker ink ‘3’.

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.

p. 184

• RoJ 423: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘Phyllis, be gentler, I advise’)

Copy, numbered in darker ink ‘4’.

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

p. 185

• RoJ 446: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘What cruel pains Corinna takes’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’, numbered in a darker ink ‘5’.

Edited in part from this MS in Love.

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. 186-7

• RoJ 631: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Woman's Honor (‘Love bade me hope, and I obeyed’)

Copy, headed ‘Womans Honour Song’, numbered in darker ink ‘6’.

Edited in part from this MS in Love.

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

pp. 187-8

• RoJ 470: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Submission (‘To this moment a rebel, I throw down my arms’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’, numbered in a darker ink ‘7’.

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

pp. 188-9

• RoJ 399: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘How happy, Chloris, were they free’)

Copy, numbered in a darker ink ‘8’.

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. 189-90

• RoJ 177: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Love and Life (‘All my past life is mine no more’)

Copy, headed ‘Song. Love and life’, numbered in darker ink ‘9’.

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. 190-1

• RoJ 99: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Fall (‘How blest was the created state’)

Copy, headed ‘Song. The Fall’, numbered in a darker ink ‘10’.

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

pp. 191-2

• RoJ 456: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Song (‘While on those lovely looks I gaze’)

Copy, here set out as four quatrains, numbered in a darker ink ‘11’.

Edited in part from this MS in Love.

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.

pp. 192-4

• RoJ 186: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, The Mistress (‘An age in her embraces passed’)

Copy, headed ‘Song’, numbered in a darker ink ‘12’.

First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 87-8. Walker, pp. 29-30. Love, pp. 27-9, as Song.

pp. 194-5

• RoJ 369: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Song (‘Absent from thee, I languish still’)

Copy, numbered in darker ink ‘13’.

First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 88-9. Walker, pp. 38-9. Love, p. 29.

pp. 195-6

• RoJ 458: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Song of a Young Lady to Her Ancient Lover (‘Ancient person, for whom I’)

Copy, headed ‘Song A Young Lady to her Antient Lover’, here set out as four stanzas of 6, 8, 6 and 6 lines respectively, and numbered afterwards, in a darker ink, ‘14’.

Edited in part from this MS in Love.

First published in Poems, &c. on Several Occasions (London, 1691). Vieth, pp. 89-90. Walker, pp. 32-3. Love, p. 30.

pp. 196-208

• RoJ 149: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Letter from Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country (‘Chloe, In verse by your command I write’)

Copy of a 254-line version.

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.

pp. 209-15

• RoJ 20: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, An Allusion to Horace, the Tenth Satyr of the First Book (‘Well, sir, 'tis granted I said Dryden's rhymes’)

Copy, headed ‘Satyr, on the modern poets, An allusion to Horace, The 10^th. Satyr of the 1^st book. Nempe incomposito dixi pede &c.’.

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

pp. 215-16

• RoJ 271: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Pastoral Dialogue between Alexis and Stephan (‘There sighs not on the plain’)

Copy of a 35-line version, headed ‘Dialogue / Alexis & Strephon’ and here beginning ‘Strephon there sighs not on this plain’.

First published, as a broadside, in London, 1682. Vieth, pp. 4-6. Walker, pp. 9-11. Love, pp. 3-8.

Osborn MS b 340

Copy, in an italic hand, ii + 40 quarto leaves, in 19th-century cloth. c.1620s.

CtR 431: Sir Robert Cotton, A Short View of the Long Life and Reign of Henry the Third, King of England

Owned in April 1799 by Thomas Crane, antiquary, of Chester, who on the verso of the title-page incorrectly describes the MS as being in Cotton's own hand. Later owned by Robert Ashburton Milnes, afterwards Crewe-Milnes (1858-1945), first Marquess of Crewe, politician.

Treatise, written c.1614 and ‘Presented to King James’, beginning ‘Wearied with the lingering calamities of Civil Arms...’. First published in London, 1627. Cottoni posthuma (1651), at the end (i + pp. 1-27).

Osborn MS b 356

A small quarto verse miscellany, predominantly in one secretary hand, erratically paginated up to 333, 250 leaves, in 18th-century boards. c.late 1630s.

Inscribed (on p. [330]) ‘Robert Lord his book Anno Domini’; (on [p. 335]) ‘william Jacob his booke Amen’; and, among scribbling on the last leaf, ‘Hugh Gibgans of the same’ and ‘John Winter of Buckland Dursbane [or husbande?]’. Owned in 1788 by Alexander R. Popham. Bloomsbury Book Auction, 23 November 2000, lot 8.

A microfilm is in the British Library, RP 7698.

pp. 1-3

• HeR 352.5: Robert Herrick, King Oberon his Cloathing (‘When the monethly horned Queene’)

Copy, headed ‘Oberon His Clothing’.

First published, as ‘A Description of the King of Fayries Clothes’ and attributed to Sir Simeon Steward, in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Musarum Deliciae (London, 1656), p. 32. Attributed to Herrick in Hazlitt, II, 473-7, and in Norman K. Farmer, Jr., ‘Robert Herrick and “King Oberon's Clothing”: New Evidence for Attribution’, Yearbook of English Studies 1 (1971), 68-77. Not included in Martin or in Patrick. See also T.G.S. Cain, ‘Robert Herrick, Mildmay Fane, and Sir Simeon Steward’, ELR, 15 (1985), 312-17.

pp. 3-5

• HeR 188.5: Robert Herrick, Oberons Feast (‘A Little mushroome table spred’)

Copy, headed ‘Oberon his dyet’.

First published complete, with six preliminary lines beginning ‘Shapcot! To thee the Fairy State’, in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 119-20. Patrick, pp. 161-3. An earlier version, entitled ‘A Description of his Dyet’, published in A Description of the King and Queene of Fayries (London, 1634). Martin, pp. 454-5.

pp. 5-10

• HeR 137.5: Robert Herrick, His Meditation upon Death (‘Be those few hours, which I have yet to spend’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Herricke to M^r Weekes’.

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

pp. 10-13

• DaW 10.5: Sir William Davenant, An Elegy on the Duke of Buckingham's Death (‘No Poetts triviall rage, that must aspire’)

Copy.

First published in Gibbs (1972), pp. 272-4.

pp. 13-16

• CoR 162.5: Richard Corbett, An Elegie Upon the death of the Lady Haddington who dyed of the small Pox (‘Deare Losse, to tell the world I greiue were true’)

Copy.

First published in Certain Elegant Poems (London, 1647). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 59-62. The last 42 lines, beginning ‘O thou deformed unwomanlike disease’, in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656), p. 48.

pp. 17-21

• EaJ 37.5: John Earle, Bishop of Worcester and Salisbury, An Elegie, Upon the death of Sir John Burrowes, Slaine at the Isle of Ree (‘Oh wound us not with this sad tale, forbear’)

Copy.

pp. 27-9

• CoR 100.5: Richard Corbett, An Elegy Upon the death of Queene Anne (‘Noe. not a quatch, sad Poets. doubt you’)

Copy, headed ‘On Queene Anne’.

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

pp. 29-30

• CoR 126.5: Richard Corbett, An Elegie vpon the Death of Sir Thomas Ouerbury Knight poysoned in the Tower (‘Hadst thou, like other Sirs and Knights of worth’)

Copy, headed ‘On S^r Tho: Ouerbury’.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 9th impression (London, 1616). Bennett & Trevor-Roper, pp. 18-19.

p. 35

• RnT 480: Thomas Randolph, Hobson and Charon (‘Charon, come hither Charon. What art thou’)

Copy.

Published, and attributed to Randolph, in Moore Smith (1927), pp. 96-7.

pp. 40-2

• CoR 686.5: Richard Corbett, Upon An Unhandsome Gentlewoman, who made Love unto him (‘Have I renounc't my faith, or basely sold’)

Copy, headed ‘Doctor Corbett on m^rs Mallett’.

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

pp. 42-3

• HeR 331.5: Robert Herrick, His Mistris to him at his farwell (‘You may vow Ile not forgett’)

Copy, headed ‘M^r Herricke to his M^rs going a iourney’.

First published in Hazlitt (1869), II, 445. Martin, p. 414. Patrick, p. 46.

pp. 49-65

• CoR 314.5: Richard Corbett, Iter Boreale (‘Foure Clerkes of Oxford, Doctours two, and two’)

Copy, headed ‘Corbetts Iter Boreale’. with a side note ‘D^r Hutton and d^r Corbett’, imperfect, part of pp. 62-3 torn away.

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

p. 69

• CrR 263.5: Richard Crashaw, Vpon Ford's two Tragedyes Loves Sacrifice and The Broken Heart (‘Thou cheat'st us Ford, mak'st one seeme two by Art’)

Copy.

First published, among The Delights of the Muses, in Steps to the Temple (London, 1646). Martin, p. 181.

p. 71

• RaW 223.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, On the Cardes, and Dice (‘Beefore the sixt day of the next new year’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Walter Rawleighs prognostication’.

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

p. 74

• CwT 302.5: Thomas Carew, A flye that flew into my Mistris her eye (‘When this Flye liv'd, she us'd to play’)

Copy, headed ‘An Epitaph on a flye’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 37-9. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in The Treasury of Musick, Book 2 (London, 1669).

pp. 77-8

• CwT 186.8: Thomas Carew, An Elegie on the La: Pen: sent to my Mistresse out of France (‘Let him, who from his tyrant Mistresse, did’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 19-21.

pp. 78-9

• CwT 1154.8: Thomas Carew, To the Countesse of Anglesie upon the immoderatly-by-her-lamented death of her Husband (‘Madam, men say you keepe with dropping eyes’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 69-71.

pp. 79-80

• DaW 29.5: Sir William Davenant, For the Lady, Olivia Porter. A present, upon a New-yeares day (‘Goe! hunt the whiter Ermine! and present’)

Copy, headed ‘A poeticall Loue’.

First published in Madagascar (London, 1638). Gibbs, p. 43.

pp. 80-1

• CwT 144.3: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Copy, headed ‘To his disdainefull M^rs’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

pp. 81-2

• StW 140.5: William Strode, For a Gentleman who kissing his frinde, at his departure out of England, left a Signe of blood upon her (‘What Mystery was this, that I should finde’)

Copy, headed ‘On a kisse leauing blood on his M^rs lipps’.

First published in Parnassus Biceps (London, 1656). Dobell, pp. 32-3. Forey, pp. 22-3.

pp. 82-3

• CwT 903.8: Thomas Carew, Song. Perswasions to enjoy (‘If the quick spirits in your eye’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 16. Musical setting by Henry Lawes published in Select Musicall Ayres, and Dialogues (London, 1652).

p. 84

• PeW 203: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, Of a fair Gentlewoman scarce Marriageable (‘Why should Passion lead thee blind’)

Copy, headed ‘To his louesicke friend’ and here beginning ‘Why should passion strike thee blind’.

pp. 85-9

• CwT 1020.5: Thomas Carew, To A.L. Perswasions to love (‘Thinke not cause men flatt'ring say’)

Copy.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 4-6.

pp. 90-2

• PeW 122: William Herbert, third Earl of Pembroke, To his Mistress, of his Friend's Opinion of her, and his answer to his Friend's Objections, with his constancy towards her (‘One with admiration told me’)

Copy.

Poems (1660), pp. 50-2, superscribed ‘P.’. Krueger, pp. 44-6, among ‘Pembroke's Poems’.

p. 99

• JnB 121.5: Ben Jonson, Epitaph [on Cecilia Bulstrode] (‘Stay, view this stone: And, if thou beest not such’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon one M^rs Boulstred’.

First published in John A. Harper, ‘Ben Jonson and Mrs. Bulstrode’, N&Q, 3rd Ser. 4 (5 September 1863), 198-9. Herford & Simpson, VIII, 371-2.

p. 99

• CaE 32: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham (‘Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am’)

Copy of the 44-line elegy beginning ‘Yet were bidentalls sacred and the place’.

Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.

pp. 122-6

• CaW 6: William Cartwright, Ariadne deserted by Theseus, as She sits upon a Rock in the Island Naxos, thus complains (‘Theseus! O Theseus heark! but yet in vain’)

Copy, headed ‘Ariadne deserted by Theseus in y^e Iland Nepos sitting vpon a rock thus complaines’ and here beginning ‘O Theseus harke, but yet in vaine’.

First published in Works (1651), pp. 238-42. Evans, pp. 488-91.

pp. 126-30

• KiH 350.5: Henry King, An Exequy To his Matchlesse never to be forgotten Freind (‘Accept, thou Shrine of my Dead Saint!’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Henry King On his Wife’.

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

p. 132

• KiH 622.5: Henry King, Sonnet (‘Tell mee you Starrs that our affections move’)

Copy, headed ‘Upon his cruell M^rs’.

First published in Walter Porter, Madrigales & Ayres (London, 1632). Poems (1657). Crum, p. 149.

pp. 132-3

• RaW 123.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Excuse (‘Calling to minde mine eie long went about’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^rs’.

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

pp. 133-5

• RaW 177.3: Sir Walter Ralegh, The Lie (‘Goe soule the bodies guest’)

Copy, headed ‘S^r Walter Rawleigh to all y^e world’.

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

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

pp. 135-6

• WoH 48.5: Sir Henry Wotton, The Character of a Happy Life (‘How happy is he born and taught’)

Copy, headed ‘A Priuate contented Life’.

First published in Sir Thomas Overbury, A Wife, 5th impression (London, 1614). Reliquiae Wottonianae (London, 1651), pp. 522-3. Hannah (1845), pp. 28-31. Some texts of this poem discussed in C.F. Main, ‘Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 10 (1955), 270-4, and in Ted-Larry Pebworth, ‘New Light on Sir Henry Wotton's “The Character of a Happy Life”’, The Library, 5th Ser. 33 (1978), 223-6 (plus plates).

p. 142

• CoR 471.5: Richard Corbett, On Henry Bowling (‘If gentlenesse could tame the fates, or wit’)

Copy, headed ‘D^r Corbett vpon Henry Boline’.

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

p. 156

• DnJ 2321.5: John Donne, The Message (‘Send home my long strayd eyes to mee’)

Copy, headed ‘To his cruell M^rs’.

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

pp. 200-2

• CwT 1034.4: Thomas Carew, To Ben. Iohnson. Vpon occasion of his Ode of defiance annext to his Play of the new Inne (‘'Tis true (deare Ben:) thy just chastizing hand’)

Copy, headed ‘Carewes Answer to Ben Jhonsons ode’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, pp. 64-5.

pp. 202-4

• HeR 207.9: Robert Herrick, A Pastorall upon the birth of Prince Charles, Presented to the King, and Set by Master Nicholas Laniere (‘Good day, Mirtillo. And to you no lesse’)

Copy, headed ‘Vpon y^e birth of y^e Prince Eclogue’.

First published in Hesperides (London, 1648). Martin, pp. 85-7. Patrick, pp. 120-1.

pp. 221-4

• CwT 114.8: Thomas Carew, A cruel Mistris (‘Wee read of Kings and Gods that kindly tooke’)

Copy, headed ‘To his M^rs’.

First published in Poems (1640). Dunlap, p. 8.

p. 231

• JnB 450.5: Ben Jonson, Song. To Celia (‘Come my Celia let vs proue’)

Copy.

First published in Volpone, III, vii, 166-83 (London, 1607). The Forrest (v) in Workes (London, 1616). Herford & Simpson, VIII, 102. Doughtie, Lyrics from English Airs, p. 294.

pp. 231-3

• MoG 53: George Morley, An Epitaph upon King James (‘All that have eyes now wake and weep’)

Copy, headed ‘To y^e sacred Memory of y^e late deceased K. James’.

A version of lines 1-22, headed ‘Epitaph on King James’ and beginning ‘He that hath eyes now wake and weep’, published in William Camden's Remaines (London, 1637), p. 398.

pp. 233-4

• HlJ 0.5: Joseph Hall, Anthemes for the Cathedral of Exceter (‘Lord what am I? A worm, dust, vapor, nothing!’)

Copy, headed ‘An anthem made by D^r. Hall’.

First published in The Shaking of the Olive-Tree (London, 1660). Wynter, IX, 699. Davenport, p. 153.

p. 248

• CaE 33: Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland, An Epitaph upon the death of the Duke of Buckingham (‘Reader stand still and see, loe, how I am’)

Copy of a version beginning ‘Reader here underneath this place I am’.

Both sets of verse were first published, as separate but sequential poems, in Poems or Epigrams, Satyrs (London, 1658), pp. 101-2. All 50 lines are edited in Akkerman, pp. 195-6.

p. 250

• BrW 143.5: 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 a gentlewoman’.

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

p. 250

• RaW 97.5: Sir Walter Ralegh, ‘Euen such is tyme which takes in trust’

Copy, headed ‘On y^e same W R.’

First published in Richard Brathwayte, Remains after Death (London, 1618). Latham, p. 72 (as ‘These verses following were made by Sir Walter Rauleigh the night before he dyed and left att the Gate howse’). Rudick, Nos 35A, 35B, and part of 55 (three versions, pp. 80, 133).

This poem is ascribed to Ralegh in most MS copies and is often appended to copies of his speech on the scaffold (see RaW 739-822).

Osborn MS b 369

A quarto commonplace book, in three sections, each in a different non-professional hand, iii + 47 leaves, in 19th-century half-calf and marbled boards. c.1687.

A 19th-century title-page (f. ii^r) claims this is the ‘Manuscript Common-Place Book of Tho. Hunt. November 1687’ (possibly author of the first item, on numeration, dated 30 November 1687). Owned in 1869 by Frederick William Cosens (1819-89), and in 1881 by J. Eliot Hodgkin. FSA (1829-1912), of Hitchin, Hertfordshire, solicitor.

ff. 43r-6r

• RoJ 332.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, A Satyr against Reason and Mankind (‘Were I (who to my cost already am)’)

Copy, headed ‘Verses made by the Ld Rochester on Man: 1’.

f. 47r-v

• RoJ 604.5: John Wilmot, Second Earl of Rochester, Upon Nothing (‘Nothing! thou elder brother even to Shade’)

Copy, headed ‘On Nothing: by L^d Rochester’.

Osborn MS b 371

A quarto miscellany of poems, and some prose satires, upon affairs of state, in several hands, the predominant one probably professional, c.130 leaves (including 36 blanks), in contemporary mottled calf. c.1680s.

Inscription (on f. 1^r) ‘JH [or 14] Conduit St’. Bonham's, 13 March 2002, lot 918 (with facsimile of an opening in the sale catalogue).

ff. [54r-8v]

• DoC 359.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, Rochester's Farewell (‘Tir'd with the noisome follies of the age’)

Copy, here beginning ‘Fild with y^e noysome folly of y^e Age’.

First published in A Third Collection of the Newest and Most Ingenious Poems, Satyrs, Songs &c (London, 1689). POAS, II (1965), 217-27. Discussed and Dorset's authorship rejected in Harris, pp. 190-2. The poem is noted by Alexander Pope as being ‘probably by the L^d Dorset’ in Pope's exemplum of A New Collection of Poems Relating to State Affairs (London, 1705), British Library, C.28.e.15, p. 121.

f. [64r-v]

• DoC 156.5: Charles Sackville, Sixth Earl of Dorset, On Mr. Edward Howard upon his ‘New Utopia’ (‘Thou damn'd antipodes to common sense!’)

Copy, headed ‘On Ned Howard upon his late Comedy’.

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.

Osborn MS b 373

Copy of a 556-stanza version, on 61 quarto leaves, in contemporary calf gilt. Largely in a single professional italic hand, the last stanza completed in a second hand and additional verses (f. 61v) in a third hand. c.1620s.

HuF 20: Sir Francis Hubert, Edward II (‘It is thy sad disaster which I sing’)

Inscribed (front pastedown and flyleaf) ‘Ja^s. Porter Jun^r his Book 1720’ and (f. [iii^r]) ‘This manuscript was given me by my Cozen Sarah Attwood own Sister to y^e Author W^m. Attwood Esq^r. late of Broomfield Parsonage in y^e County of Essex’. Names on a flyleaf (f. [i^r]) include Thomas Garnett, James Garnet, William Lewis and John Johnsonne.

First published, in an unauthorised edition as The Deplorable Life and Death of Edward the Second. Together with the Downefall of the two Unfortunate Favorits, Gavestone and Spencer. Storied in an Excellent Pöem, London, 1628. First authorised edition, as The Historie of Edward the Second, Surnamed Carnarvan, one of our English Kings. Together with the Fatall down-fall of his two vnfortunate Favorites Gaveston and Spencer, London, 1629. An edition of a 576-stanza version in three cantos, entitled The Life of Edward II, was printed in London 1721 from an unidentified MS.

Mellor, pp. 4-169 (664-stanza version, headed ‘The Life and Death of Edward the Second’, including ‘The Authors Preface’ beginning ‘Rebellious thoughts why doe you tumult so’?).

Osborn MS b 387

An octavo commonplace book of extracts from religious texts under headings, in English and Latin, 91 leaves (including blanks), now disbound in folders. c.1630.

Inscribed (p. 1) ‘Ex do: p: G.C. By: 1630’: i.e. George Coke, rector of Bygrave (in 1608-36). The name ‘John Coke’ among scribbling on f. 91v, and ‘Ex libris Gab: Barrevi [? or Barron ?]. July 1964’ on front flyleaf.

ff. 75r-84v

• FxJ 1.175: John Foxe, Actes and Monuments

Extracts, headed ‘Book of Martyrs. Henry y^e 8th: 1509’.

First published (complete) in London, 1563. Edited by Josiah Pratt, 8 vols (London, 1853-70).

Osborn MS b 408

A quarto volume of twenty-four poems by Anne Wharton and one by Edmund Waller, 100 pages (including 13 blank pages, plus 58 blank pages at the end), in contemporary red morocco gilt. In a single neat possibly female hand, including headings or incipits only to seven further poems whose texts were not entered. Late 17th-early 18th century.

Sotheby's, 28 November 1933, lot 557. Later owned by John R.B. Brett-Smith (1917-2003), publisher and bookseller. Sotheby's, 27 May 2004 (Brett-Smith sale), lot 608, to Freeman.

Facsimile of p. 55 in the 2004 sale catalogue.

pp. 1-19

• WhA 19: Anne Wharton, The Lamentations of Jeremiah (‘How doth the Mournfull Widow'd City bow?’)

Copy.

First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 224-33. Greer & Hastings, No. 10, pp. 145-62.

pp. 21-3

• WhA 24: Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on y^e 47^th Chapter of Isaiah (‘Downe haughty Virgin down even to the earth’)

Copy.

pp. 25-6

• WhA 27: Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on the 53 of Isaiah (‘Who hath beleived on Earth what we report’)

Copy.

First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 14, pp. 169-71.

pp. 27-30

• WaE 167.8: Edmund Waller, Of Divine Poesy. Two Cantos (‘Poets we prize, when in their verse we find’)

Copy.

First published in Divine Poems (London, 1685). Thorn-Drury, II, 131-5.

pp. 31-2

• WhA 58: Anne Wharton, To Mr. Waller (‘Now I shall live indeed, not by my skill’)

Copy.

First published, in a 52-line version, in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685), pp. 222-5. A 62-line version in The Gentleman's Magazine, Vol. 85, pt. i (June 1815), p. 493, and in Greer & Hastings, No. 19, pp. 182-3.

pp. 33-5

• WhA 30: Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on the Lords prayer (‘Father of Men, and Angels, Heaven, and Earth’)

Copy.

Unpublished. Referred to in Greer & Hastings (p. 120) as ‘one known lost poem...which was imitated by Waller and possibly by Aphra Behn as well’.

p. 36

• WhA 31: Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on y^e 4 Psalm (‘To thee my prayers as heretofore ascend’)

Copy.

Unpublished.

pp. 37-8

• WhA 32: Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on y^e 36 Psalm (‘My boding heart discouers to my sight’)

Copy.

Unpublished.

pp. 39-42

• WhA 33: Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on y^e 37 Psalm (‘Wrach not thy peacfull heart with envious pain’)

Copy.

Unpublished.

pp. 43-5

• WhA 34: Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on y^e 45^th Psalm (‘With pregnant Thought my labouring breast is fyr'd’)

Unpublished.

pp. 46-8

• WhA 37: Anne Wharton, Mrs. Wharton's Paraphrase Upon the 103d Psalm (‘Advance my Soul, and all thy Pow'rs incline’)

Copy.

First published in The Idea of Christian Love (London, 1688), pp. xix-xxiii. Greer & Hastings, No. 15, pp. 172-4.

p. 49

• WhA 39: Anne Wharton, Part of y^e 4^th Chapter of Solomons Song (‘My Sister, ah! my Spouse my hearts 'ore come’)

Copy.

Unpublished.

pp. 49-50

• WhA 40: Anne Wharton, Part of the 5th Chapter of Solomon Song (‘My sister and my Spouse, I'm in y^e grove’)

Copy.

Unpublished.

pp. 53-4

• WhA 15: Anne Wharton, His Majesties Lamentation over King Charles y^e Second In Allusion To Davids over Jonathan 2 Sam: chap: 1^st: Verse y^e 19^th (‘The beauty of the blessed land is fled’)

Copy.

Unpublished.

pp. 55-8

• WhA 13: Anne Wharton, Elegie on John Earle of Rochester (‘Deep Waters silent roul, so greifs like mine’)

Copy.

First published in Poems by Several Hands (London, 1685). Greer & Hastings, No. 7, pp. 140-2.

p. 59

• WhA 9: Anne Wharton, Elegie on Charles Earle of Rochester (‘Insatiate graue yeild back thy mighty Treasure’)

Copy, headed ‘On the Earle of Rochester son to y^e former’.

First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 11, pp. 163-4.

p. 63

• WhA 20: Anne Wharton, My Fate (‘Raising my drooping Head, o'er charg'd with Thought’)

Copy of the title only, altered from ‘My Fall’.

First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 251-2. Greer & Hastings, No. 4, p. 131.

pp. 65-6

• WhA 53: Anne Wharton, To Melpomene against Complaint (‘In soft Complaints no longer ease I find’)

Copy.

First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 245-7. Greer & Hastings, No. 3, pp. 129-30.

p. 67

• WhA 44: Anne Wharton, Thoughts Occasioned by Solitude

Copy of the title only.

Unpublished.

pp. 71-3

• WhA 7: Anne Wharton, The Despair. To D. Burnet by M^rs Wharton (‘The use of Knowledge is to find it poor’)

Copy, headed ‘The Dispaire’.

First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 18, pp. 180-1.

p. 74

• WhA 23: Anne Wharton, On the Storm between Gravesend and Dieppe; Made at that Time (‘When the Tempestuous Sea did foam and roar’)

Copy.

First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 240-1. Greer & Hastings, No. 9, p. 144.

p. 75

• WhA 1: Anne Wharton, The Complaint

Copy of the title only.

Unpublished.

p. 76

• WhA 66: Anne Wharton, Vnchangeable (‘Preists preach & Poets teach us y^t all harmes’)

Copy.

Unpublished.

p. 77

• WhA 16: Anne Wharton, The inconstancy of Woman kind (‘Whilst on the shore Aminta Lay’)

Copy.

Unpublished.

p. 79

• WhA 64: Anne Wharton, To the Earle of Danby att Winchinden After his coming out of the Tower (‘So rose the morning drest with Joyfull light’)

Copy.

Unpublished.

p. 80

• WhA 62: Anne Wharton, To Mrs. A. Behn, On what she Writ of The Earl of Rochester (‘In pleasing Transport rap't, my Thoughts aspire’)

Copy.

First published in A Collection of Poems by Several Hands (London, 1693), pp. 242-4. Greer & Hastings, No. 8, p. 143.

pp. 81-3

• WhA 51: Anne Wharton, To Doc: Burnett upon his retirement (‘If darkest Shades could cloud so bright a Mind’)

Copy.

First published, as ‘Upon the D. of Buckingham's Retirement: By Madame Wharton, Jan. 1683’, in Miscellany Poems upon Several Occasions (London, 1692), pp. Greer & Hastings, No. 17, pp. 177-9.

p. 84

• WhA 52: Anne Wharton, To Lady Anne Cooke

Copy of the title only.

Unpublished.

p. 85

• WhA 61: Anne Wharton, To Mr. Wolesly (‘To you, this Generous Task belongs alone’)

Copy of the title only, here ‘To M^r Woolsey on his Præface To Valentinian’.

First published in Lycidus (London, 1688), pp. 95-6. Greer & Hastings, No. 23, p. 189.

p. 86

• WhA 63: Anne Wharton, To M^rs Frances Beaviunt

Copy of the title only.

Unpublished.

pp. 89-91

• WhA 29: Anne Wharton, A Paraphrase on the last speech of Dido in Virgil's Æneas (‘Now Dido trembles with amaze and rage’)

Copy.

First published in Greer & Hastings (1997), No. 6, pp. 138-9.

p. 92

• WhA 42: Anne Wharton, Sapho to Phaon Englished out of Boileau (‘Happy, who near you, sigh for you alone’)

Copy.

Unpublished.

pp. 93-100

• WhA 41: Anne Wharton, Penelope to Ulysses (‘Penelope this slow Epistle sends’)

Copy, headed ‘A Paraphrase on Ovids i^st Epistle Penelope to Ulises’.

First published in Ovid's Epistles translated by Several Hands (London, 1712), pp. 160-9. Greer & Hastings, No. 5, pp. 132-7.

Osborn MS b 421

An autograph volume of writings by Dorothy Calthorpe, in verse and prose, closely written in her large rounded hand, with amateurish decorative features, inscribed ‘Dorothy Calthorpe’ in gold ink on the front pastedown, her drawing of a chapel in red ink on the first page dated ‘Jun 20 1684’, and the last page inscribed ‘Dorothy Calthorpe I begane this booke Janewary the 20 in the yeare 1672’, 88 octavo leaves, in contemporary speckled calf. c.1672/3-84.

Inscribed on a flyleaf ‘Anne L'Estrange: Sa Livre Mars. 27 1738’. Later in the library of Lord de Saumarez, Shrubland Hall, Suffolk. Sotheby's, 13 July 2006, lot 94, with facsimile examples in the sale catalogue.

ff. [3r-4r]

• *CaD 4: Dorothy Calthorpe, Philismena to Philander (‘tis not Philander that I disallow’)

Autograph.

Forty lines in rhymed couplets. Unpublished.

ff. [4v-6r]

• *CaD 2: Dorothy Calthorpe, Philander to Philismena (‘oh glorious conquest infenetly aboue’)

Autograph

Facsimile of ff. [5v-6r] in Sotheby's sale catalogue, p. 71.

Sixty-two lines, in rhymed couplets. Unpublished.

ff. [6v-7v]

• *CaD 1: Dorothy Calthorpe, In commendations of a country Life it being so innocent (‘oh how I hate the tumults of a City’)

Autograph.

Thirty-two lines, in rhymed couplets. Unpublished.

ff. [7v-14r]

• *CaD 7: Dorothy Calthorpe, A Description of the Garden of Edden

Autograph.

Unpublished.

ff. [14v-62v]

• *CaD 8: Dorothy Calthorpe, A Short History of the Life and Death of S^r Ceasor Dappefer

Autograph, introduced ‘or els a pleasant histtory of Jewlious: and Dorindathe trouth of it was so Lately represented that some of those worthy persons are still liueing and ownes what: is here repated’, dated ‘1677’, followed by three pages of explanation about ‘the designe of this littel Memoise’, which was ‘only to giue a true relation of my owne famely...from my grandfather to my fathers death’.

Facsimile of ff. [14v-15r] in Sotheby's sale catalogue, p. 70.

Unpublished.

ff. [62v-86v]

• *CaD 6: Dorothy Calthorpe, A Castell in the aire or the pallace of the man in the moon

Autograph, imperfect, lacking the ending (on two excised leaves).

A religious meditation. Unpublished.

ff. [2r-3r rev.]

• *CaD 5: Dorothy Calthorpe, Philismena to Philander (‘tis not Philander that I disallow’)

Autograph, heavily deleted.

Forty lines in rhymed couplets. Unpublished.

f. [3r-v rev.]

• *CaD 3: Dorothy Calthorpe, Philander to Philismena (‘oh glorious conquest infenetly aboue’)

Autograph of the first part, heavily deleted, imperfect, lacking the last part.

Sixty-two lines, in rhymed couplets. Unpublished.

Osborn MS b 421 adjunct

Dorothy Calthorpe's exemplum of the octavo Bible published by Henry Hills and John Field (London, 1660), inscribed in her characteristic rounded hand with what is presumably her married name ‘Dorothy Harvey her Booke Giuen me by my uncell Nicholas Jun 15 1686’, in contemporary black morocco gilt. 1686.

*CaD 9: Dorothy Calthorpe, The Holy Bible

Later inscriptions including ‘Katharine Tracy’, ‘Thomas Potter’, ‘Given to Anne the Hon^ble L^y. Middleton by M^rs. Caroline Acton, Dec^r. 1836’, and ‘Jane Anne Broke from her Godmother Anne Hon^ble Lady Middleton July 28 1860’. Later in the library of Lord de Saumarez, Shrubland Hall, Suffolk. Sotheby's, 13 July 2006, in lot 94, with a facsimile of the MS title-page in the sale catalogue, p. 71.

Facsimile of the MS title-page in Sotheby's sale catalogue, p. 71.